Trapped

SNAP!! I screamed in pain. Not knowing what just bit my foot, I dropped to the ground. The pain was unbearable. I couldn’t stop screaming. Finally I looked at my foot. I had stepped into a bear trap. I saw blood pouring out of my foot, as the trap dug deep into my skin, through my boots.

I tried to use my hands to open the trap, but no luck. “Fuck! If a bear can’t get out of one of these! What the fuck am I supposed to do!!” My heart was pounding in my throat. “The one fucking time! The one time I decide I needed some alone time!! FUCK” I kept screaming and yelling. Hoping anyone on the path could hear me. But no one came.

And hour had gone by. My throat was raw. from screaming. I had taken my jacket and wrapped up my foot to stop the bleeding. I was light headed and losing a lot of blood didn’t help. Another hour went by. I had been blacking in and out due to pain. My foot, from what I could see, had turned purple from blood loss. I attempted everything I could, but this bear trap wasn’t opening for anything. 3 more hours had pasted. The sun began to set. “I’m basically a sitting duck” I thought as I grabbed any branch around me. “I have to start a fire, now.” I knew that a fire would not only keep me warm, but it would also scare animals away. I found two small rocks and began making a fire. What felt hours later, a small spark caught some leaves on fire and then the wood. I sighed in relief. “Thank God.” I thought as I slid closer to the beautiful flame.

I’m not sure at what point I had fallen asleep. But I woke to the sun, beaming on my face. The fire had been out for awhile, there wasn’t even smoke anymore. I sat up and looked at my foot. I could no longer feel it. “Probably lost all of its blood.” I thought. I began to yell some more. Holding onto the hope someone would come, someone would save me, but no one did. Hours went by. My stomach was now having sharp pains from hunger. The spit I produced wasn’t enough for me to stay hydrated. My eyes were filling with black spots from the pain. I blacked out again.

I woke this time to something nudging me. My eyes took a minute to adjust. When I finally saw what it was, I froze. A huge black bear stood in front of me. Curious about what I was doing. It was a beautiful creature. I took a big gulp, and stayed frozen. The bear finally started to walk away. The bear got around 10 yards away, But just then I had a shooting pain go up my leg. I let out a yell. The bear turned back around at the sound of my voice. I froze again, but it was to late. It was coming back alarmingly fast. I was now in survivor mood. I tried to get the bear trap open again. It wouldn’t budge. I decided the best option would be to just lose the foot and not my life. Grabbing a knife out of my backpack, I became to saw my leg, right above the ankle. Howling in pain I continued and the bear kept its course coming directly at me.

SNAP!! My foot was now detached from my leg. I kept screaming. The amount of blood pouring out of the stump where my foot should have been, was pouring an alarming amount. I began to army crawl. Just then I couldn’t move. I kept trying to crawl, but my body wasn’t moving forward. I was sobbing. Looking back, the bear had my other foot in its mouth. CRUNCH. I was shrieking at this point. The bear had bit into my other foot. I kept trying to crawl away, but I was making to traction. The bear dropped my foot out. Finally, I felt hope again. But the bear took its huge paw and placed it on my chest. I lay there, bleeding out, mauled, and now blacking back out. The bear and I were staring into each other’s eyes. He knew exactly what he was doing. He applied his whole body weight to my chest. It felt as if weights were being shoved through my body. I heard my bones crack, my blood spraying out, and organs popping, under the pressure. I wasn’t sure how long it took, but within minutes the bear had pushed through my whole body. Laying there motionless, missing feet, a hole going through my chest, my soul left my body. I was dead.

But who is the real animal here? The one who used the trap or the one who got caught?