Trapped

Chapter 4

I woke up to sounds coming from the outside of the tent. It sounded like something or someone was scavenging around and through our stuff. I lay there still, just listening, staring at the front of the tent, at the door.
I tried to wake up my dad but he's a deep sleeper so it didn't work.

The noises started to get louder and closer. I tried to hide under my blanket but I kept my eyes on the door. I kept telling myself,

'It's just a bunch of animals'.

I kept repeating it over and over again in my head but it didn't seem to work, I was still terrified.
As I lay there I heard a scraping noise coming from the door, someone was trying to come in.
Crash! There was a loud crash like someone had kicked over a pot or a pan. Whatever was trying to get in left running like it was afraid of something. I closed my eyes hoping it was just a dream.

I woke in the morning and ran straight outside to see what happened. The pots and pans had been moved and were thrown on the floor, this could mean only one thing, something did kick them!

"You're awake already?" My dad came out of the tent scratching the top of his head trying to open his eyes. The bright sun light was enough to blind you.

"Err... Yeah" I said as I was still looking around the tent, trying to figure out what exactly was here last night.

"Did you do this?"

"No, something was here. It was looking through all our stuff, I tried waking you up but you wouldn't wake up. Then something hit those pans and whatever it was ran away."

"Oh sorry."

"It's ok" I picked up the pots and pans and put them back where they were. We got dressed and ate breakfast. My dad got dressed in the tent first then I got dressed after. My dad made breakfast and we sat and ate it. He was asking me more questions about last night.

"If anything like that happens again just shake me till I wake up, okay?"

After breakfast I went out to look for some fire wood ready for tonight.

"Dad I'm going to head out."

"To go where?"

"To get fire wood."

"Okay, do you need help?"

"No I'll be back soon."

I turned and left deeper in to the forest. I feeling that someone was watching me, it felt deeper inside of my stomach. It felt like they were coming closer. I looked in a different area than before, in hope that there would be better wood. I was walking for more than 15 minutes when I saw the perfect pile, of perfect firewood.

I ran and picked up as many as I could hold, Suddenly a voice called out to me.

"Bethany, you've come back."

It was soft but deep. It was definitely a man, but I didn't recognise the voice, I've never heard it before. I turned slowly. The man's voice made my skin crawl.

I turned to see a man wearing a green t-shirt and just a normal pair of cream jeans. His shirt would have been good for camouflage he could blend right in.

My guess would be that he went hunting because he had two dead rabbits in his hand. He was holding them by the leg and their lifeless bodies were just hanging. I loved animals and couldn't stand the sight of them being hurt.

I wanted to run back to my dad but he also had a gun in his belt. The gun had a silencer on the front, so that could be why we never heard anything.

I slowly put the fire wood down, and he reached out to touch my face. I walked backward falling on some of the fire wood.

"Bethany be careful" he said actually sounding concerned. I got up and started walking to the side that way I could just run and take cover behind trees, if he started to shoot.

"I'm not Bethany". I said hoping he would realise and leave me alone.

"Bethany don't be silly now let's go inside" he gave me his hand so I could follow him.

I just stood there not knowing what to do. He put his hand down and said

"Come on"

He started walking and I followed. He was watching me and he kept looking back. I followed him a few steps, then I turned around and ran. I kept going and going not looking back once, I didn't stop.

"BETHANY!" He shouted, running after me.

Tears started to form in my eyes, I was so scared. The tears started to blur my vision, Suddenly a shooting pain went up my leg and I gave out a deadly scream as I dropped to the floor. The pain was consuming my body. I wiped away tears and saw blood, lots of it. My leg had been caught in a bear trap. My eyes started to shut and I blanked out.
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