They Bite

Chapter 26- EDH

Emma POV

October 10, 2030

10:56 PM

"Do you wanna go see a movie?" The voice on the other side of the phone asked as soon as I answered.

"Hell Yeah I do, it's the only place that thought to install backup generators and therefore the only entertainment in town," I reasoned to my best friend, Hannah.

"The midnight screening is on tonight will your Mum let you go?" she asked.

"Probably. Wait, Dylan won't be going will he? I don't really want to be a third wheel."

"Aww come on, I promise it won't be awkward. It's a horror movie after all."

"Fine, I'll meet you there soon," I said and hung up.

Surprisingly there wasn't many people at the cinemas that night. Only ten others, thirteen in total.

"That's weird," Hannah commented, "this was one of the most anticipated movies this year, but it's empty,"

"Don't question it, it's lucky for us, we don't have to line up for half an hour. And it's probably from all the outages going on, people might not know that this place is still running," I told her.

Half way through the movie Hannah grabbed my arm suddenly and gasped, like she had been scared, only the people on the screen were only talking, and the jump scare popped up a couple of seconds later.

"Sorry, I was just... daydreaming, I think." She apologised.

A couple minutes after she grabbed my arm she leant over close to my ear and whispered,

"I really don't feel good about this, I think we should go home." She sounded terrified.

"Okay, but you owe me for the tickets, this was expensive," I replied in a joking voice but underneath I was really creeped out by it.

We left the dark cinema, leaving the rest of the movie-goers to the horror film. When we stepped outside into the front area of the cinema it was empty. No one was there. No customers. No staff. No one.

"This is so weird," I spoke aloud what everyone was thinking.

"We need to go home. Like right now," Hannah said, her voice shaking, and she started running out the door.

"Hannah!" I called out and started running after her with Dylan running behind me.

"This... This is what I saw," she mumbled out as soon as I caught up to her in the car park. Her face was white and even in this unusually cold night she managed to be sweaty, it dripped from her pale forehead and upper lip onto her blue cardigan, her blonde wavy hair that she left out sticking to it when she whipped her head side to side looking for something.

"What are you talking about? Slow down," I panted, she ran a long way and we we're all out of breath.

"And then... And then they come around the corner," She continued, trying to talk clearly as she caught her breath.

Dylan, who was quite a bit behind me, turned up just then, as a strange gurgling groan came from the other side of the carpark.

"We have to go," She said and looked into my eyes before she ran off. The terror in her eyes had replaced all reasoning and she ran back to the cinemas, with me in pursuit.

"Come on! Are you serious?" Dylan yelled after us, he hadn't had any time to catch his breath, but ran after us grudgingly.

She led us back into the Cinemas, except now it was pitch black.

"What happened to the-" I tried to ask but Hannah cut me off.

"The same thing that happened to all the rest of it. It's gone. Forever," She said then realised that I hadn't finished my sentence and for a second the fear wasn't for what she was seeing, but for herself, for seeing it.

It didn't last long though, Dylan caught up again and brought with him the growling sounds from the carpark.

"RUN!" he screamed at us, running past us before our brains could register it.

We ran further into the cinemas, ending up in the same theatre we were watching the movie in, now infinitely darker and empty. We hadn't noticed before but the ten other people had walked out, to go to the bathroom or because it was too scary or to find their friends that hadn't, and never would, return. They we're most of the monsters chasing us.

We closed the doors behind us quickly and stuck a broom, used by the staff to sweep up left over popcorn at the end of the movie, through the handles to stop them.

"That won't hold," Hannah said simply, already coming to terms with whatever was happening to her right now, and they reached to door causing the old wooden handle to bend and creak.

I dug through my bag until I found my phone and turned on the torch.

"Of course there isn't any service..." I mumbled, then searched around for the exit.

"To your right," Hannah said after we had searched around for a while. And like she said, when I pointed my torch to the right there was the emergency exit sign.

We reached it just as the broom snapped in half.

We didn't need an invitation to open it and step out into the cold night.

OMG... that took longer than I expected.

I thought I could write this chapter the night after I wrote and published the last chapter...

But my brain had other plans, I was CONVINCED that at the start it wasn't good and I needed to start again so if it isn't up to usual standard (pretty low) then I was right and I have an excuse for not updating the night after,

But I kept it anyway... IDK, I'm tired again.

My original plan was to have this chapter up the night after and the next one (the last one :'( ) up the next night and I probably could have but... um... I didn't?

I need to stop, I have a headache and I am also tired (big surprise)

Ok, I actually need to stop

Pls stop – to me, from me

Oki bie

*Boop*

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