Until Dawn ~ Another Path {Josh x OC}

Chapter 3

Within a half an hour, we arrived at the cable cars. We said our goodbyes to our mom and headed to the cable car station. When we got there, we were greeted by Sam.

"What up?" Chris hugged Sam.

"Hey! So happy your here! I don't think I could spend the weekend with just the two bird for brains, Em and Jess if it weren't for you and Ash." I went up to Sam, greeting her with a friendly hug.

"Weird being back, isn't it?" She looked around, viewing the mountain from were we were.

"I still feel like we're missing a part of us." I solemnly said, the smile wiping from my face, a blank stare looking into the ground.

Chris elbowed her gently and they immediately change the subject.

"Hey guys! Check out what I found. Boom." He lifted up that shot gun that he found on the other side of the station.

"Oh great, now we've got a cowboy on our hands." We both giggled.

"Come on, check out the range." He walked us over to a mini shooting range.

He placed the gun on his shoulder and took aim, hitting a empty bottle.

"Boom. Freshest shooter around." He gloated.

"Just a wild case of beginners luck." I challenged.

"Oh yeah? Check this." He shot yet another bottle.

"You just got sacckked." He did a little victory dance signing a tune.

"Alright cowboy, let's go. Our ride is here." Me and Sam started to walk to the cable car station.

We got in after Chris opened the lock, and we hopped in our ride.

Chris and Sam carried on a conversation, yet I didn't bother to listen. I was to busy with my thoughts, trying to get them straight. It's gonna be really depressing up here again. And I always remembered that eery feeling the mountain always gave me. I usually just shook it off, but that's hard for me to do now that their gone. I just have to fight the corrupted memories trying to leak back into my mind. Distracting myself, isn't that how I always handled things?

We stopped and left the station. I went to open the door but the ice capped door knob wouldn't budge. I started to pull at it, panting heavily. I got the feeling I had one year ago. I frantically looked around me, still trying to ram the door open.

"Hey, hey, Bella, your fine, you're with us. It's just locked." Chris put his arm around my shoulder and pulled my head into his chest.

My eyes still scanning the room, "Sor-Sorry. I didn't mean to-", He cut me off,  "It's fine."

He still held his tight grip on me as he tried to bring me back to reality.

Where are you now Bella? Why did you let us die?

I heard their voices in my head.

"No..not again. I didn't mean to..." I whimpered, closing my eyes and putting my hands on my ears.

Sam saw me freaking out, so she started to try to find a way to open the door.

"The voices again? Bella, have you been off you meds?" He knew that the meds were suppose to take care of it, but in truth, I only took the ones to help me sleep. I hated being on so many at once.

"Hey, Jess! Get us out of here!" Sam called out to Jess, who was on her phone.

She opened the door and I dashed out, taking a deep breath of the crisp air. It felt good to be out, but unsettling to where I was.

"You alright Bella?" Sam came up to me and rubbed my back.

I didn't want to be treated differently, but I was to out of it to refuse her jester.

"Uh, yeah..I'm just a little  claustrophobic after last year, I don't like being trapped up on this mountain..." I mumbled still staring into the dark forest.

"Don't worry, we're with you." Chris said coming up behind me.

"I know, I'm fine. Don't worry about me." I walked up to Jess, thanking her for opening the door and saying our hellos.

I hated Jess. She was such a fake bitch and she was a big part of that prank, yet she didn't give two shits about the twins running into the forest. The most I would say to her is "it's so nice to see you" with a fake hug. And I did nothing more then that.

Chris was teasing her about Mike or something, but I focused on the forest. Something...something was out there. It can't just be my mind playing tricks on me, can it? I'm not that crazy, right? My wide, blank stare was focusing on forest, my cold hands holding one in the other, and my face full of both confusion and worry.

Sam must've noticed this, and approached me, "What was that back there Bella?" She questioned about my little incident.

"Nothing really, just my head playing some tricks on me, that's all." I tried to make it seem like nothing.

"No, it wasn't nothing. Are you hearing them Bella?" She put her hand on my shoulder, I didn't want them to know.

"Hey, could we talk about this back at the lodge. I don't feel safe out here." Closing my eyes tight, I postponed my conversation, hoping she'll forget about it later.

"Fine, lets go." She gently pulled me along the path following Chris to the lodge, thank God Jess is staying behind.

~Relationship Status

Josh: 9/10

Chris: 10/10

Mike: 6/10

Matt: 6/10

Ashley: 9/10

Sam: 9/10

Emily: 2/10

Jessica: 2/10

~Traits

Brave: 6/10

Honest: 4/10

Charitable: 7/10

Funny: 5/10

Romance: 6/10

Curious:  4/10