A shortcut isn't a shortcut! My New Year's Eve adventure.

"Hey, Lin! Look, another shortcut!" called out Aigerim, baring her teeth at me in a cheeky grin. Standing no more than twenty metres from her and breathing heavily in the quiet, almost serial killer like forest, I glared at her. The words, when they left my mouth, were completely justified.

"F*%k you and your shortcuts!" Ten minutes earlier we had just scaled an impossibly vertical hill whereby we both resembled horrible mutations of goats crossed with spiders. Meaning we had been pressed to t...