The Cabin

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A few weeks after my best friend Kenzie and I graduated we went on a road trip to Montana. We would be gone for 2 weeks and our phones were shut off but we made sure they were charged just in case something bad happened. The first night we ended up at a camping sight in Nebraska. Though we didn't have a tint so we just ended up sleeping in the car.
Tap,Tap,Tap. I screamed as I saw an old lady standing outside of the car. “What happened? Why did you scre- Oh My Gosh!” Kenzie yelled out tiredly.

“Who are you? And what are you doing outside my car at 2 in the morning?” I say rolling down my window just enough to hear the lady.

“Don't go to the cabin.” the old woman explained. “It's going to ruin your life! You're going to die! I'm warning you not to go, I died there!” She yelled out. I looked over at Kenzie after awhile but it wasn't her, it was the old lady.
 Suddenly I'm in the car with the sun shining in my face as I'm breathing heavily. I looked over to the driver seat where I saw my best friend looking at me with a confused look on her face with a book in her hand.

“Are you ok? You are breathing really heavily.” she asked.
“It was a dream?” I mumble
“What do you mean?” she questioned . “Nothing, I just… had a weird dream. Anyway, should we go get breakfast? I'm hungry.”
  “uhm yea I guess?” she says as she puts the book down and drives to a coffee shop near the campsite.
After we ate, I decided to drive while Kenzie was reading next to me. It was pretty chill. We played music and had the windows down and before we knew it, It was already 12:00 as we drove through this small town. So we decided to eat lunch and go to a grocery store to get dinner for later and some more food even though we had a ton of food already. We would rather have more food and bring some home then not have enough because once we got to the cabin it would take about an hour to get to the closest town. After picking up more food Kenzie wanted to drive again and we were on the road for 7 hours before we got to the cabin. 
It was about 8 o'clock when we got there and it was getting dark so we quickly brought everything in because the cabin was in the middle of the woods and it looked quite creepy. We had finally got everything inside and we finally had time to look around and unpack. It was a nice sized cabin, as soon as we walked in the door there was the kitchen to the right and in front of us was the dining room with a big brown rectangular table with 6 matching chairs. As we walked into the dining room there was a room on each side of us, on the left there was a king sized bed with a bathroom connected to it. The room to the right was also a bedroom but it had two bunk beds, it had a dresser in between the bunk beds and to the right there was a sliding door that led to the bathroom. We ended up deciding to both sleep in the room with the bunk beds. I started unpacking my pillow and my clothes on the left bottom bed, While she did the same on the right bottom bunk.
There was a window on the left, where I was sleeping. I noticed a flash outside of the widow and a couple seconds later heard thunder. “I didn't think it was supposed to rain tonight.” Kenzie said sitting on the bed as she had just finished putting all her things away. We then went into the kitchen and heated up the dinner we had bought in the small town we had passed through earlier that day. After we ate and cleaned up I went around lighting candles because the cabin had a kind of rotten smell to it. I lit one in the kitchen,  the dining room, two in the bedroom we were sleeping in because it was quite big and one in the bathroom. I didn't want to light any in the other bedroom or bathroom because I didn't want to forget about them since we were not going in there at all. We stayed up for about an hour or two just talking to each other then decided to blow out all of the candles and go to bed. It was a bit chilly during the night since it was winter and decided to snow that night.
I woke up to the smell of bacon. I got up and went to the kitchen to see kenzie cooking bacon while there was a pile of pancakes, sausage and eggs on their own plates.
“Good morning sleepyhead”  she said as I gave a slight giggle.
“ You look like shit. But the food smells AMAZING!” I say grabbing the plate with pancakes and the other with the sausages and put them on the table then setting it up so we can start eating right after she finished cooking the bacon. After we ate we put together a few puzzles and then we turned on the radio that was at the cabin when we got there and just sang songs and danced like we were having our own little concert. Other than that we really just read and just chilled around the house not doing really anything all day, still tired from all the traveling we had done to get there. 

The next day we found an ice skating rink about 30 minutes away and spent about 2 to 3 hours there. After we went home we had sandwiches and some chips. We played some board games, after about the 3rd game we heard some thunder. So I decided to light all the candles (at least the ones I had lit the days before.) As I did that Kenzie turned on the radio in the bedroom and a light that made the whole room flash different colors. When I entered the bedroom I got smacked with a pillow. “What the hell!” I say as I pick up the pillow. “Pillow fight!!” She yells as she hits me with the pillow she is holding. “Screw you!” I say as I hit her with the pillow that had hit me as I walked in the room. As we were hitting each other with the pillows it suddenly went dark with a small flicker of the candle then, we heard thunder that even shook the ground a little. The only thing we could hear was the rain hitting the roof because the music that was once playing on the radio had stopped due to the power going out. 

For some reason tonight felt different then the last two nights. “I have a weird feeling. Did you lock the door?” she asked kind of concerned and a little worried. “No I never did, but come with me to lock it  and then we can come in here and lock the bedroom door too.” I say as we both walk out to lock the door. Boom!  We jump as we hear more thunder as we head back to our room. I turn around as Kenzie locks the door behind her. She then goes to the first drawer of her side of the dresser and pulls out her phone then turns it on. “What are you doing?”  I say walking over to her. “ Turning my phone on I have a bad feeling. And I always trust my gut just in case.”  “Yeah, that makes sense. Just in case.”  I say feeling unsure about something but I'm still not sure what. 

We ended up falling asleep about an hour later but I woke up around 3:30. Though I don't know why I woke up. I look over and see that the door that we had locked earlier was wide open then I look over and see kenzie still asleep on the bottom bunk. I started to rub my eyes then suddenly from the corner of my eye I saw something move. I looked over and saw something moving on the top bunk. I quickly lay back down hoping whatever it was didnt see me, as I tried going back to sleep. What felt like an hour I had finally heard movement thinking it was the thing in the top bunk I didn't move.

 “Kooper? Are you awake? Why did you open the door? Koop-” she was cut off by herself screaming as I heard something that sounded like it was being dragged out. Then I heard the door slam shut. I stayed still not able to move in fear with tears in my eyes knowing that whatever was on the top bunk had taken and potentially killed my best friend.