I turned to face them as the group ran to me.
"What's going on?!"Beth asked in a frantic tone.
"J-JASON IS OUT THERE! LOOK! LOOK!" I shrieked, pointing to where he.. was?
I was dumbfounded.
He had disappeared again!
Where the hell did he go?
"He was right there! I swear! You guys have to believe me." I pleaded desperately.
I got looks of confusion and insanity.
"Why don't you sit down for a little while OK? Maybe go outside and get some air." Annie advised, speaking very slowly as if instructing a mental patient or small child.
Silencing myself at risk of sounding even crazier, I just went to look for Danny, who hadn't just seen what happened. Thank God.
I walked up to our room; empty.
The bathroom? Empty.
I even asked Claire if she'd seen him.
"No, not since this morning. Sorry" She replied sullenly.
Finally, I worked up the courage to force myself outside to the barn.
Approaching the huge red doors, I called;
"Danny? You in here? It's me, Tracey."
I got no response.
I winced at the deafening creak the door let out upon opening it.
I walked two steps inside, and got hit with a cold draft.
Shivering, I walked further in.
It was a very spacious barn, and very stereotypical at that.
It was old, very old. And had red, chipping walls. There were two long, white beams on the huge doors that looked like X's.
It appeared to have a loft, so I looked for a way up.
Shuffling through the dust and hey on the ground, I found a ladder to the second floor.
Just as I grabbed the first rusted rung I heard a rustling noise.
I immediately put my back to the ladder and frantically looked around.
"Who-who's there?" I called, foolishly expecting a response.
After a few more seconds of looking around, a rabbit emerged from a pile of dusty, dirty hey.
I chuckled at my own nerves as I watched it scamper away.
If this was a horror movie, this would be where the big plot twist is. Thank god it's not.
I thought to myself, giggling again.
Shaking my head I slowly climbed the ladder.
Upon reaching the top I screamed. Loud.
I heard the barn door had slammed shut.
Getting really nervous now I grabbed a pitch-fork from a hey bail and crawled into a corner of the loft.
I sat there for a minute, pointing the sharp spikes directly in front of me.
"Trace?! You in here babe?"
Before I recognized Danny's voice I twitched my weapon out straight.
When I knew who it was a much needed wave of relief shot through me.
I stabbed the pitch fork back into its hey bail and ran to the ladder, frantically threw myself down it and into Danny's arms.
"Whoa. You OK Tracy?" He asked as he wrapped his arms around me.
"Yeah.. Just a little shaken up about the whole "death curse" I guess. I'll be OK though." I smiled.
"It's just a rumor. Don't worry, would I ever let anything happen to you?" He said kissing me on the forehead. "Now I figure I should make up for being such a dick yesterday shouldn't I?"
"But I thought you did that last night?" I asked with a jovial tone.
"Well, yes, that was quite fun. But I have something else planned for us." He replied, chuckling and getting behind me and putting his hands over my eyes.
I shrieked. "What are you doing? Get off!" I laughed.
"Hey! No peeking or else no treat for Tracy." He joked.
"Ugh fine." I said, putting my hands on his over my eyes.
After a few minutes of walking he said;
"OK, open 'em!"
I ripped his hands away from my eyes to find a beautiful scene.
We were secluded in the woods, there was a pretty white table with two chairs and a beautiful arch. Sitting on the table was a bottle of champagne and two glasses. The sun shone at its highest and brightest because it was about noon.
Taken aback I murmured "Oh my god it's beautiful!"
"Not as beautiful as you." He smiled as he pulled out a chair for me and pushed it in when I sat.
"I'm sorry I'm so under-dressed for the occasion." I confessed, looking down at my Green Day tank-top and blue jean shorts. I was wearing just the usual eyeliner and mascara and my long copper and maroon hair fell at my shoulders.
"Oh don't say that! You look perfect! This is actually when you're at your most beautiful. And by the way you're eyes shine bright like diamonds in this light." He smiled warmly as he poured the champagne in the glasses and handed one to me.
Immediately my face flushed red; oh God how I hated to blush.
"Awe ha-ha you're too sweet." I smiled, taking a glass.
"Cheers! To you hopefully forgiving me for being a complete ass?" He questioned.
"Cheers!" I grinned.
He stood up and connected his Ipod to a cordless speaker.
I looked at him inquisitively as "Last Night On Earth" by Green day started to play.
"May I have this dance?" He asked, out stretching his hand.
"But I don't know how." I replied, blushing even more.
"It's easy, here I'll show you!" He smirked, pulling me up into his arms.
He wrapped his left arm around my lower back and his right fingers intertwined with mine at about my shoulder height.
We moved in rhythm to the song for a few minutes until he stopped.
He just looked into my eyes for a minute.
Then he took his hand from mine and put it on my neck.
All I could summon was a smile.
Then he kissed me with such indescribable passion.
I wrapped my arms around his neck as he moved his hands to my back.
He pulled away to say;
"I love you, more than anything Tracy. Promise me you'll still love me tomorrow, and the next day. I want your forever."
"I love you too. And I promise you my heart, forever. You can have my forever if I can have your eternity."
He leaned to kiss me again when we heard a blood curdling scream coming from camp.
