The Quarry 2.0

Part 2. Pool House aftermath

Abi brought a shakey hand to her head. It was throbbing harder than she knew was possible. She was surprised she hadn't passed out on impact with the force Nick had thrown her with. Was he really that strong? She didn't think it was possible. Kaitlyn rushed over to her as soon as Nick, or whatever Nick turned into, ran off into the woods.

"What the fuck!" Dylan yelled, sounding really scared and more serious than any of them had ever heard him sound. Dylan was back down to earth at this point. Maybe the shock was starting to wear off at this point.

"Fuck, what the fuck was that! Was that what took my hand!? Is he one of those things!?" He continued, quickly getting louder and more freaked out as he slid to the end of the bench he was sat on as to be as far from the window as possible.
With Dylan freaking out and Abi sobbing and in pain, Ryan was starting to get extremely overwhelmed. He couldn't hear himself think well enough to make a plan. Not to mention, he just saw Kaylee Hacketts corpse floating in the pool. His friend. Someone he knew well was dead one wall away, and he had no idea why.

"Dylan, dude, you gotta calm down." He said, walking towards the taller boy. He put his hand on his shoulder and sat next to him, setting the shotgun he was wielding next to him on the bench. He kept his left hand on the Boys shoulder and put his right on his leg.

"Listen, we can't freak out now. I know it's hard, but if we survive, we'll have the rest of our lives to freak out." Ryan said calmly. Dylan couldn't help but look at Ryan's hand on his leg. Ryan's hand was on his leg. Really, Ryan knew that's all he had to do to calm Dylan down, but the words were for himself too. He needed to hear it, too.
Dylan, quieting down, made it easy to hear Abi now. She was sobbing pretty hard, and something told Ryan that it wasn't the pain she was crying about.

"I killed him. I did it. I killed him." She said, looking down at the gun she had dropped on the floor.

"Abi, I don't think dead people get up and jump out windows. And they definitely don't... explode and become flesh monsters." Kaitlyn insisted, tapping a towel on Abigail's forehead.

"Right..." Abi replied, still looking down.

Suddenly, a knocking sound hit their ears. It was the pool house door. Who was knocking? It wasn't even locked anyway, Ryan knew that it couldn't lock from 3 years of working at the camp, and many more attending.

"Who's there?" He shouted, slowly getting up from the bench and lifting his gun.

"Laura. Laura Kearney. Can you just let me in?" A woman's voice replied from the other side.

"Wait... Laura Kearney? Isn't that the missing counselor?" Dylan questioned.

"Holy shit. Yeah! That was her name. Her and... and -" Kaitlyn trailed off, trying to remember the other name.

"Max Brinley." Dylan interjected. Kaitlyn looked up at Ryan, gun fixed on the door.

"Ryan... I'm gonna open it." She whispered from the floor, rushing to the door before he had time to disagree. Suddenly, a skinny young girl with an eyepatch and gun shoved her way through the door and closed it as fast as possible, shoving Kaitlyn to the floor, next to her discarded weapon Abi had dropped. She grabbed it quickly and pointed it at the stranger.

"Hey! watch it bitch." Kaitlyn warned, lifting herself off the ground without keeping an eye, or a weapon, off of Laura for a second.

"Where's Chris Hackett?" Laura yelled, pointing her gun around the room, but quickly lowered it, seeing that there were only 4 people there, and they were all her age. Definitely not who she was looking for.

"How are you here? Chris told us you bailed last minute." Dylan asked the girl. Laura turned to him and snickered like she was laughing at him for being so gullible. But she knew none of them knew better.