Short Stories

Rustling

The sun was setting when we first heard the rustle of the leafs . That was at 9 o'clock. It's now 1 in the morning, the sound of the rustling leafs is getting closer and closer by the hour. Everyone's scared. No one knows what the sound is. We're each taking turns watching the camp, changing every hour. No one dares to go to sleep. They're all to scared to sleep. We're all to scared to even move. We're slowly running out of wood for the fire, it's slowly dimming. Once it's out we wont have anymore light. The fire will be out soon. There is still 5 hours till dawn. We want to run to the car, but it's a mile away. Whatever's in the bushes would have caught us before we even got near it. The two small children that we brought with us haven't stopped crying since we first heard the noise. All we wanted was to do was have a nice weekend away from all the drama. It's the first time since Sam's death that we've gone camping or at least done something fun. We were all shocked to find her dead the last time we went camping. An animal attacked her, leaving her recognizable. That was two and a half years ago. That's one of the reason why no one is asleep . We're all afraid that whatever's in the bush is the same thing that killed Sam. The rustling of the leaves has stopped. Or at least that’s what we thought. Little did we know that whatever was making the noise moved behind us and that the place that we were currently camping at is the same place that we were at two and a half years ago. After an hour of no rustling we thought it was done. We decided to go to sleep in hopes nothing was going to happen while we slept. When we woke the next morning it was like Sam's death all over again but instead we did know who this was. The person now dead wasn't one of the people camping with us. And this is the only clearing for miles. Three of us go to the car to call the police while the rest of us check on the children and other adults. After everyone's awake we go to the car and wait for the police to arrive. When they arrive we show them where the body is but its gone. No body, no blood and no signs of there ever being a dead body there. One question we're all wondering is who was this person? 

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