Into The Woods

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                       WARNING

This book contains disturbing words and depictions of violence and bullying. 

       Waking up to a bzzzzzzzz from my phone. Ugh, what the hell. Still half-asleep, I search around on my nightstand for my phone. "Ugh, who the fuck is texting me at three in the damn morning?" Looking at the text he sees it's Antonio. "Hey, are you there? It's Antonio. I messed up dude, bad. I'm so sorry,"  Antonio wrote which had me freaked out. "Antonio? It's been a while. Are you ok bro? What happened?" I asked waking up a little. "I went back into the woods. I had to be sure, I had to prove that it was all in my head. But it isn't, Isaac, it's all real. He is real." What the hell was he talking about he is real. "Antonio, are you drunk or something bro?"  He took a second before he texted back.

     "I heard him whispering,  just like he did when we were kids." Why is he bringing up the past? "Stop it, Tony. We made all that shit up. Mr. Redye was just a dumb kid's game that got out of control. He doesn't exist he never did man, let it go." I said getting a little scared. "He does, he is here with me now." Why now? I thought why after eight years."Wait, Antonio, where are you?" I asked him concerned and worried. "I can hear him in the trees. I hear him whispering,"  Antonio texted me making me feel horrified.

       I went to text back when I heard a harsh tap tap tap from my window. I jumped and dropped my phone. "Aah!" I saw a dark shape looming outside my window. My heart started beating hard in my chest. I fumbled for my light switch, as the light brightened up my room. Streaming out the window to reveal Antonio with an eerie look on his face. "What are you doing here?" I asked him while still trying to slow down my heart from beating so hard in my chest. "Isaac, can I come in?"  Antonio asked scared and cold. "I, I guess so. Hang on," I said as I opened the window and moved to the side so Antonio could climb inside."You have got some explaining to do. First, how did you get up to my window? Cause we are definitely on the second floor right now." I  asked suspiciously looking at him sideways. "I climbed." I looked at him as though he was crazy. "So you're Spiderman now. You sounded freaked out in your texts, bro." Antonio just faked a smile as he walked towards my dresser and Lead on it. "It's nothing. Seriously I'm fine. Come on we need to go get the others." What the hell was he talking about others? Did he not realize it was three in the morning?

        "What others?" I asked him. "Our friends! Natasha, Miley, Ethan, Lee, Mya, and Andrew. I have got something to show you but we need to bring everyone." I feel sad I haven't talked to them in forever. I don't even know if they remembered me. "Toni, I hardly talked to any of them since we were ten years old. After what happened to Samantha," I told him then put my head down. "But they have to come, Isaac. Everyone has to be there that's part of the rule." My phone buzzed again rattling against the floorboards. Sighing I picked my phone up.

     "Antonio, I want to help you but to be honest you are kind of freaking me out right now. We have got our first day of school in six hours. We can talk about this then, ok bro?" My phone buzzes again. Another notification popped up on my screen.  I looked down to read my messages. It was from Antonio. "Are you still there? I think I'm lost. Isaac? My battery is dying. Please help me!"  Wait if Antonio is still in the woods then who is this in my room? "We have to go back to the woods, Isaac." The lights in my room started flickering as a cold chill swept through my spine as I looked at my opened window.

       My hands started trembling as I slowly looked up from my phone screen. "Antonio?" A smile spreads across Antonio's shadowed face. Stretching wider than it should. "Isaac," Antonio said as I backed away. But Antonio's hand clamps around my wrist. I tried to pull free but he clings to me with an inhuman strength. "Hey! What are you doing?" Panic ran through my body and I could only struggle mindlessly against Antonio's hold. With me thinking over and over I have to get free. Antonio throws me to the floor pinning my back against the rough boards. "We all have to go back. Don't you remember?" Antonio said in a horrific voice. "Get off me!" I screamed as I clawed at Antonio and his flesh crumbled beneath my fingernails.

     Antonio leans in with his cold breath stinking of moldy dirt and blood. "EVERYBODY plays together ISAAC." As Antonio's skin starts pilling off his face and body. Revealing a creature as his hands tightened around my throat. My vision begins to blur, shadows seeming to writhe and bleed in the dark room. "Hrrnnnngggg," I have no more breath in me to scream. I sink paralyzed by terror, into a cold black nothingness.