Chapter 15: Lilith

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I awoke the next morning to birds chirping and sunlight streaming through the windows of Cabin 22.
It was a beautiful morning, what could possibly go wrong?
I got ready in a daze, listening to Fearless off my phone.
"There's something 'bout the way the street looks when it's just rained..." Taylor sang.
I went outside pirouetting around, on my way to breakfast.
Raven was just getting up.
I stopped pirouetting.
"Hey," I said, unsure what else to say.
"Hey," She replied, unenthusiastically.
She left, so I went to order my breakfast.

As I was eating I heard another scream, then it was silent.
I ran towards where the scream came from, and felt dizzy and faint.

Raven was on the ground, dead, the body was so mutilated it would be too gruesome for me to describe.
I screamed for help.

The burial was similar to Luna's.

The day passed just as quickly as the day before, but felt just as dark and hollow.
Soon, it was nighttime again, even Melanie and I didn't have the heart to listen to our respective favorite singers.
I fell asleep almost as soon as my head touched the pillow.
I saw all the campers, dead on the ground, i was standing there, holding a bloody knife.
Was I the killer?
Am I really insane?
If not, why was I standing over their dead bodies, holding a knife stained with their blood?
I started putting together the pieces of this bloody and unfortunate puzzle.
I wasn't the killer, I was eating my food when Raven was killed, Luna was killed before I was up. It was muddy that morning. There were no muddy footprints.
If I wasn't the killer, who could it be?
I started narrowing it down: not Melanie, she isn't the most friendly person, but she  would never kill someone. Especially someone she knew, even not very well.
Not Dawn, she's way too nice, and she was the first one out the Raven screamed announcing Luna's death.
I almost guessed Raven herself, maybe she and Luna got into a fight and Raven killed her, then she felt bad and killed herself?
But that night they seemed happy, and no matter what, Raven would never kill Luna, I could tell that about her. Luna was her best friend, her only real family.
Besides, how could she mutilate herself like that while she was severely bleeding out?
I only knew one other kid 'well'.
Bruxia. She was a year younger than me but she was already in Cabin 19.
I didn't know much about her but I don't believe that she would kill someone, and for no reason? Nope, definitely not her.
I remember almost figuring out who it could be.


Then I woke up to more screaming.

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