Until Dawn (Josh x OC)

Chapter 4: Decisions.

I wanted to be as close to him as possible, as I loved the way he was holding onto me. Then I remembered who was here with us, as I quickly backed away a little, making Josh's hands fall from my waist.

"What's wrong?" I leant my forehead against the palm of my hand.
"Nothing.." Chris interrupted our conversation with a look of concern.
"Josh I need some help about this new video game.." Chris said as he started to mumble about a new video game which made me laugh.
"I will leave you two talking about your serious business." I said with a smirk as I decided to sit on the couch.

My mind was bursting with thoughts right now, and everything going back to the night when Hannah and Beth disappeared. Mike sat down next to me, as he saw that I was clearly upset.

"What's up?", I ended up crossing my legs up on the couch, so I could look at mike directly while I was speaking to him.

"Well..I just don't like coming back here. Everything from last time has just come flooding back." I didn't realise that a tear has just escaped my eye, following after another.
"I know..but think of it as a happy thing being back, to remember them." Mike muttered, which didn't reassure me at all. You could see nothing but regret on his face from out much he participated in the

"It's not though is it. I can still here their screams repeat in my head. I just..I just don't think I can handle it here, I think I need to leave." My tears began to sting as I felt a sudden burn feeling on my skin, as my eyes went red from the cold weather. I still felt so responsible for their deaths, I felt as if I had let them down as I didn't keep running after them.

"So you are willing to leave josh, his state is going to become worse Lauren. And we all know the only thing he thinks of to get him by is..is you." Mike said with a little bit of regret, as he knew that josh would be better off with me, at this moment. His words stuck in my head as I tried to remember that I was here for josh and that I just couldn't abandon him.

"Thank you for just listening, and p..please don't tell josh what I was talking to you about, it might make him more upset and I don't think it would be worth it." I wiped away the tears from my face, trying to control my emotions.

I looked back up at mike, as he had a large comforting smile on his face, which almost felt like he was saying not to worry and that everything will be alright.

I had to give him a hug for being so sweet and caring, I felt my opinions change on him, whilst I was hugging him. "I was wrong about you. I'm sorry I judged you..because you are an actual sweet guy."

That made him smile, and I could see that it meant a lot to him, almost as if no-one had told him that before.
"That was so sweet, you are so sweet."

"Now go speak with josh." Mike said with a wink. Apart from what everyone says, mike has a really big heart, and it was pretty obvious that most of the time he doesn't know how to show it. But today he had, and it enlightened me to a new side of mike. Or what mike actually stands for.

I looked back at josh who was still talking to chris, but his attention wasn't on him, it was on me and mike.
I could see him clenching his fist secretly, which sort of frightened me, but it was nice to see how much he cared for me, to think he was jealous by me hugging someone else. Although, it was somewhat worrying because I know josh never used to be violent.

As soon as I got up from beside mike, Jessica immediately took my place, she started shouting at him, screaming in his face, which angered me but this time I decided to not stoop down to her ignorant levels.

Josh was standing behind a door, which was next to a massive window. I saw a mans shadow until it quickly scuttled away.
"D-did you see that?" I questioned josh as I ran up to him.
"What? What was it?" He asked.
"A man, s-standing outside the lodge." I said as my voice clearly started to shake from fear.