It was dark and cold inside the forest even though the sun was high above the ground. The trees were so close together that not a single ray of light passed through inside the dangerous looking forest. The scream heard there made the girls panick and they ran away towards where they had come from. Camille who was behind them rapidly hid by a bush watching the girls run past her except for Emily. Camille got up a little to see why she hadn't run with them when she saw her fallen on the ground. She had tripped and sprained her ankle and couldn't move. In pain she forgot for a moment that why they had ran away until there was another sound of cry. It sounded like someone moaning in pain with a sound of someone trying to kill her. Camille didn't meant to see what she saw with her two eyes in the direction from where the sounds were coming. There at a distance was a man holding a knife and he was stabbing a woman who was tied to a tree trunk. When the man got up and his face became a bit visible Camille noticed that it was Kevin, and the lady he had killed was the one whom he was walking with when she had seen him. She slapped her hand over her mouth and moved behind a tree trunk leaning her back to it. She glanced over Emily who was trying to move, she looked like she was about to cry but she hadn't yet noticed the murder beside her. It wasn't long until she looked in that direction and gasped fearfully. Kevin heard her gasp and moved his neck around to see where the sound was coming from. There were huge bushes and trees lined up in front of him so he didn't see Emily or Camille in the forest. But he walked towards where Emily was slowly, avoiding to step over the leaves and dry branches so that his hidden prey won't run away.
Emily crawled towards a bush hiding herself behind it, that's when she noticed her sister hiding by the tree. At first the expression on her face was of relief and then she lipsed to her telling her to save her and that she was scared but Camille didn't really feel frightened. It wasn't her first time witnessing a murder, she only felt shock that Kevin was killing a woman she thought he was cheating Diana with. It made her shiver with disgust. Looking at Emily's miserable face she hesitated for a while. It was weird if she actually went to her and got her out but she was her enemy. She was envious of her and had always wanted her gone and right now she could see it in front of her. She started to crept back slowly pretending she hadn't seen her pitiful face asking for help. As she was becoming farther away from Emily, she almost cried out loud but right at the moment there was a shadow in front of her. She glanced over her shoulder reluctantly and screamed at the face standing above. Kevin smiled evily.
"I never intended to hurt you or kill you because you weren't in my list of people." He stated, "but I guess you were just unlucky." He grabbed her arm and made her stand while she cried and tried to free her arm from his hold but it was no use.
Camille had ran away to the other direction of where they came from. At that time the other girls who had been running down the road bumped into Ethan who had lost sight of Camille while following her and had somehow managed to find out where she had headed.
"What was that? Were they running from the forest." He assumed looking at the sign of pine forest 6km ahead of the road. He walked up the road wondering if Camille had come here or was he wrong. He hesitated for a while thinking if he should go up there or just give up and return home. Of course he had heard the rumours about that forest too. 'What if Camille got into danger. Those girls were from our school too.' he sped up the road panting and stopping to bend down holding his knees to catch up his breath as the road was too uphill to keep running.
Camille could hear Emily's screams as she ran down. She stopped at a point thinking of going back and save Emily but then she couldn't turn around and so she went home trembling. Kevin dragged Emily inside a cabin and tied her hands and foot loosely making her sit on a chair. She was weeping horribly,
"Your sister was here too right?" He spoke, his deep voice poking into her heart, "Well, this sounds fun. I won't have to take the blame after killing you." He grinned curving the corner of his mouth uglily and glanced up at her. He patted her hair gently giving her a mockingly pitiful look and then went out of the cabin shutting the door close. Emily started to scream and cry, thinking anyone would come and save her. She turned red screaming with all her might making her throat sore.
"Stupid girl, who will save you here." Kevin said to himself clicking a lighter, "I wonder if it catches fire that way without gasoline." He held the lighter to the end of a tree branch and waited until it caught fire, after that he threw the branch inside the wooden cabin watching the floor catch fire and Emily who had lost her voice due to screaming still tried hard to shout and shout until someone would come.
When Kevin had seen Emily come home safely crying in her mother's arm he had thought to himself, 'Well you got lucky girl, way too lucky.' then he gave her an devilish glare as if threatening her. He felt insecure because of her and went to his room to think of a better plan to get rid of the two witnesses in his house.
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The Dead Crime (Draft)
غموض / إثارةA wrecked up family where the father is a murderer and the step mother loves her blood daughter more than Camille who is weakened by jealousy that ends up causing something that she regrets a lot. In this whole mess there's a young boy who starts li...
