My End Is My Beginning

Mysteries Don't Sleep

I wake up to find my car covered in snow and ice, making it difficult to open my door. "Fuck, my emergency kit is in the trunk." I say in frustration. I look around and remember that I can get to my trunk through the back seat. I turn and get out of my seat and make my way crawling to the back of my car. Hell yes! I found the blanket I left there! I thought as I fell and faced the plant into the seat. I get up with a struggle and finally sit down beside my middle seat, I grab the blanket and wrap it around myself. I find the small plastic panel housing the button; I open it and push; with this I fold down my middle seat. When I finish gaining access to my trunk, it's now time to get to the emergency kit. I pull my flashlight out from the pocket on the back of the passenger seat, I turn it on and start scanning the trunk and find my emergency kit and spot the glow in the dark release handle and pull, opening my trunk to the bright light of sun-stricken snow-covered forest. I look around and find that my surroundings are the same as they were before I blacked out. "What happened?" I question in confusion. After looking around my car, I find signs of someone or something pacing around my car, waiting for me to come out to meet my demise. I survey the forest that surrounded my car, I then glance down remembering that happened before I passed out. I start walking around my car to see if there was any damage; that's when I spot a note sticking out from under my windshield wiper. "The hell?" I question with concern.

I struggled with trying to gain access to the note, I didn't notice that the tall being was lurking in the tree line not far from my car. The high-pitched noise came back with a vengeance, my hands shot up to my ears to protect them; however, my attempt was futile. I turn around to pinpoint the source, as I turn around, I spot the being. I started to run towards the being, ignoring the pain in my head, that's when I noticed that the being moved further into the forest, and that's when I remember the note. I spun as if the forest was on fire and sprinted back to my car. I yanked up the windshield wiper and snatched the note. As I look at the note, I realize it wasn't a note, but a photo of me, at my house. What the hell is this? My mind screams, I notice the symbol in the corner of the photo, it was burned into my windowsill. It was a circle with a skull with the Greek letter and a raven sitting on the skull. As I stare at the photo, I notice that the noise stopped. I looked around to find that the environment was quiet, as if the gravest news was given to the surrounding areas. I took this as a sign to quickly get back into my car. As I do this, I try to start my car, but after a struggle it finally started. As my car roared to life, I quickly slammed the stick into reverse, I pushed the gas and turned the steering wheel sharply, sending the car into a spin. I quickly push the brake when the nose of my car is facing the way I came. I then slammed the stick into drive. I slammed my foot into the gas and sped away. "I need to get to a motel and figure this out." As I sped out of the forest, I didn't notice three figures chasing my car, quickly falling behind.

Afteran hour of driving, I realized that the sun was setting, I soon spotted a motelthat was open. I slowly got out of my car, looking around to see if I couldfind my stalkers. After not seeing a sign from them, I quickly slam my cardoor, and swiftly make my way into the motel lobby. Opening the door; carefulnot to slam fragile frame of the glass. "I'll be right with you Sugar!" I hearit in a thick southern accent. "Take your time!" I yelled back as I was not ina rush to get to my destination. I start to gaze around the small transparentroom, I take notice of a