If you were a 16-year-old girl and saw your boyfriend being attacked by a wolf, would you stay and help or run for cover? For one girl, the answer was simple: get the hell up out of there!

16 year-old Noah Graham and his lady friend were in his tent Saturday morning on Lake Winnibigoshish (isn’t that a mouthful?) in Michigan when a wolf quietly snuck up on Graham and chomped down on his head. As the horrific attack occurred, Graham’s girlfriend instinctually fled to her Jeep for safety, because c’mon, someone’s gotta live to tell the story, right?!

As Graham struggled with the wolf, his two friends who were staying in a nearby tent slept through his screams. How nice. Graham was clearly on his own on this one so he did what any kid who wanted desperately to live would do, proceeded to pry his head from the wild animal’s jaws, like a G.

“I had to reach behind me and jerk my head out of its mouth,” he said after being treated for non-life-threatening injuries at a Bemidji hospital. He then screamed and kicked at it until it ran away. Graham suffered puncture wounds on the sides of his face and a large gash to the head that required 17 staples, but he’s going to be okay…the same can’t be said for his relationship.

According to the Tribune wolf attacks on humans are a rare occurrence. Only two people have died from wolf attacks in the past decade so it appears Graham was just super unlucky yet lucky at the same damn time.