Nev needed a change of scenery. There was nothing happening in his house. His foster parents were grocery shopping, and he was trying to get started on his free-topic English essay, but he couldn't think of something interesting enough to write about. He wanted this essay to be extraordinary.
He lifted his eyes from his laptop and looked out the living room window at the stretching treeline facing the house. A spontaneous idea occurred to him. The forest would be a great place to work. He used to go there all the time, and he loved the trees. He could climb one and watch the forest move around him. There was where he could think of something to write about.
Nev grabbed his backpack and house key. He put his laptop inside his backpack and wrote a note to his parents saying he was going out for a little in case they came home while he was gone. Then he left the house and headed for the trees.