No Longer.

8. Silence

Rule #6 - Everything is okay.

Day #18

Cody -

Holy shit. Everyone is fucking dying. I think its just hit me that we aren't getting out of this. This is real life, no one survives. I still haven't left Noah alone. I'm not worried, well I am for our safety from the killer, I mean I don't think I'm protecting him, I just don't want anything to happen to him. Noah's reading once again , but it doesn't seem he is paying attention since he hasn't turned the page in a while.

"Noah, are you okay?" I know it's a stupid question considering the situation, but I ask anyway. He doesn't reply. "Noah?" I say as I wave my hand in front of his face and the book. "Hm?" He finally replies. "Are you okay?" I ask for a second time. "Mhm.." He responds, absent mindedly. I do something quite risky, I take Noah's hand in mine. "Are you sure?". He turns and stares at me.

Noah -

Oh my god. Cody. is. holding. my. hand. Holy shit. No. Why? No. What? Why is he holding my hand? I'm staring at him. Fuck. I'm staring at him. "Yeah," I cough "I'm fine." What do I do here, I just sit, hoping he will start up some sort of conversation. "This might be sort of an intrusive question but, do you have anyone waiting for you off of the island, like back home? such as, I don't know, a girlfriend, parents, siblings etc." Cody asks. It's a weird question, but I'll answer it anyways. "Well, kind of? My parents and siblings obviously, but they barely notice when I'm there, let alone when I'm gone. I wouldn't be that surprised if they hadn't noticed I'd left." Cody looks at me, sort of wide-eyed, as if he's shocked with what I said, "They don't know you're here?" Cody asks, still wide-eyed. "I did tell them, I don't think they were listening, or they just didn't care. I don't have a girlfriend or anything waiting, if that answers your question." Cody just nods, "My folks don't really care either." He says. He lies down on the bed we are both sitting on. I do the same. "I don't know, maybe once we are off this island we can run away together or something." Cody says, he turns on his side so he is facing me, I follow suit. He's really close. We just kind of stare at each other for a while. "That sounded so fucking cheesy" I laugh. He just smiles at me again. I notice that we are a lot closer now and his face is just a few inches from mine. No, that won't happen. Right? He wouldn't kiss me would he?

All of a sudden, we hear one of the girls scream. We both bolt up right. I'm the first to stand up and go to the door of the cabin, Cody trailing behind me. The second we are out the cabin, we see everyone running, we look in the opposite direction from were everyone is running. Oh shit. The killer found our camp. We're fucked. Both me and Cody start running, I've never been a good runner, I'm going to die, I don't want to die. I'm the slowest one here. I don't even look back. I just run towards the woods and keep going. I didn't even notice that Cody isn't behind me anymore.

No one's POV -

After everyone split up, the killer was left chasing Tyler. No one knows why, Tyler was a good athlete, maybe the killer liked the chase, Who knows? He ran for a good while, passing tree after tree, lake after lake, it seemed to never end. Just as he felt as if the killer had given up, he looked back. That was his mistake. He fell, went flying, landing on his hands and knees. He scraped his knee pretty bad but that wasn't going to stop him. He was about to get up when a hand wrapped around the back of his neck. He yelled, killed, scratched, he tried everything he could to get out of the killers grasp, but to no avail. Tyler was dragged to a shed he knew all too well. The rack.

Tyler was placed on the wooden board and his limbs were attached to the pulling mechanism. He knew what was about to happen, and he wasnt dreading it. He had been wanting death since he had seen Lindsay's corpse all battered and bruised. He was happy this was happening. As the machine was pulled, you could here the bones in Tyler's body snapping, his muscles tensing, everything popping out of place. Even Tyler's jaw was ripped. We could only let out wails as he lost consciousness. That didn't even kill him. His body went into shock and he had a massive heart attack. His death was quick, but the torture was prolonged. Tyler didnt deserve this. But he can see lindsay again. That's all that matters to him.

Noah -

I had stopped running at this point. It had been roughly 30-40 minutes since the whole chase happened. I dont know were Cody is, I dont want to shout for him just in case. I hope hes okay. Please be okay. I start wandering around for a while, I walk past some trees and a couple lakes before coming across a shed. I dont remember this being here. I choose to hide in there until the next day, I dont feel safe returning to camp just yet. I approach the shed, opening the door as it gives out a large creak. As my eyes adjust to the dark room, I notice a wire leading from the back of the room to a.... Oh my god. I'm gonna be sick, I back out of the shed and throw up in a near by bush. Tyler. His limbs.. I dont want to think about it, his eyes were almost falling out of their sockets, fucking hell. I cant stay here, I dont want to stay here. I run, again for the second time. I run all the way back to camp, a lot of the group have already made their way back, including Cody. I must look high of my nut since everyone is looking at me.

"Yo, buddy, you okay?" Owen asks me.
"I- oh my god, Tyler. He..His limbs, I-" I can't even finish my sentence, I need to sit down, holy fuck. "Oh shit..." Trent says, his whole face going pale. Cody comes up to me and sits next to me on the ground, his hand is near mine. I see Izzy shoot me a glance, luckily shes smart enough to not comment on it at the moment.

...

A while later, I'm sitting in the cabin again, my knees to my chest. I didnt want to be near anyone at the moment, I couldnt. I still havent processed what happened today and I dont think I want to. I just want that image out of my head. Cody walks into the cabin, I dont look at him. "Noah," Cody starts. "I know this is the worst possible time I can say this but I want to get it off my chest as soon as possible. I dont know how long either of us will survive and I dont want to let this go un-noticed." He says. I'm really confused until he takes my hand in his. "Noah, I like you, a lot. I know the situation we are in sucks but I dont want to die knowing I never had the opportunity to tell you." Holy shit. He likes me. He likes me. Oh my god. I dont know what to say, so much has fucking happened today. I think he took my silence as a negative, since he retracts his hand from mine. "No, sorry. I just didnt know what to say," I start, grabbing his hand back. "I like you, Cody. I really do. A lot has happened today and I don't know how to process it all. I do really fucking like you." I turn my head towards him. He smiles so quickly and basically tackles me in a hug. I fall backwards onto the bed with his arms around me. I just want to stay like this and never leave.
I love him so much

GAY PEOPLE. I DONT WANT TO WRITE THE NEXT CHAPTER AAAAAAAA. I will cry.
Anyways, I hope this one didnt suck and omg I'm about to cry with these comments, thank you all so much. Have an awesome day/night.

Notice how I didn't add music to this, bc it's called silence? Smart innit.