Condemned

Chapter 10: Dante

Its blurry i find myself laying on the ground and my head is throbbing, I look around the room and see the broken legs and shattered wood from the stool that was used on my head. I'm frustrated and heated, I want to hurt him, bad, I slowly rise up from the ground and enter the next room in the cabin and I walk into everyone grieving and sobbing, I assume everyone is still pretty wrecked about the death of Celeste, I don't blame them I'm still pretty sad about it myself, though my anger and the back if my head being swollen bothers me at the moment.

"Where's justin ?" I ask, in a very aggressive tone, with blood dripping from my swollen head and my fist clenched to beat Justin's face in after all of the bullshit he just pulled and my jaw clenched because I'm just so pissed off and infuriated.

Jax looks at me with a blank stare, but it's not so blank, I can tell that something just happened but because I was unconscious I'm not sure, but clearly something bad happened, bad enough that Jax is giving me this mixed stare of blankness and eyes that have just witnessed a travesty.

"WHERE THE FUCK IS JUSTIN ?!" I yell again widening my eyes and my voice echoing throughout the silence if the cabin as I look around at my colleagues looking into their crestfallen faces. I then walk into the next room of the cabin, the door is cracked open just a little bit I see what I believe to be blood and the silhouette of a body. The body is slender and there's  knife lodged into its torso, I walk closer to the body, my heart is beating out of my damn chest, I can feel the sweat pumping out from the pores of my skin and my legs trembling as I get closer to the body, I look at the face of the lifeless body and low and behold, it's Justin's dead body. Justin's chest is drenched in his own blood and with a knife in his chest, I fall down to my knees, my eyes can't believe what they're seeing. My arms start to shake, I find myself speechless at the sight of Justin's dead body and tears start to come fill my eyes.

It hurts, it really hurts. I walk away from the body and back into the room where all of my colleagues are and I look at them, I see something broken in all of them. Something so broken it can never be fixed, not even the hands of time could fix the sorrow in their hearts. I was looking at a broken family, so much has happened through what was supposed to be a vacation before we would go to college, yet I can't help but feel like it's my fault had I never suggested for us to go somewhere so damn dangerous this would have never happened.

I raise my head, "Wha-what...happened to us?" I ask, with sorrow and pain in my voice, it's hard for me to get the words out as I'm on the brink of shedding tears again.

Jasper looks at me, I can see it in his eyes as well, pain. The pain of knowing he's lost his beloved, " What do you mean ?" He asks in an inquisitive tone with Celeste's blood smeared across his chest and on his hands.

" I mean why did all of this happened, how did things get so fucking bad ?! Celeste is dead, Justin is dead..." I said. My head dives down reminiscing to when times were better. Before the deaths of two close friends, before we even came to this god forsaken cabin.

" Well what should we do now ? Clearly we can't just stay here with two dead bodies and we're miles away from any cities or towns." Andrea said.

" We could drive around and try to find a town and get the hell out of here if we have enough gas that is."  I said.

" Speaking of cars and all, did anyone else catch what happened during the crash ?" Damian said.

" Just what are you trying to get at Dame?" Andrew said.

" There was no one in the driver's seat of the truck." Dame said.

Jasper's eyebrows raised and he squinted his eyes at Damien as if he wasn't sure if he was playing in such a serious time.

"What the hell do you mean that there was no one in the car?" Jasper voice gained some volume.

"There's no other way to say it Jas, when I got out the car there was no driver in that truck." Damien replied.

"Jas, he's right. We looked too" Aviana blurted.

"That truck was coming at me at full speed. There is no possible way that whoever was in that car got out within seconds within seconds because everyone would've seen him. There's no way." Jasper proclaimed.

"Well yeah guys come on, I saw that truck coming at us fast as fuck. Jasper wouldn't just crash into a truck on a sharp turn I've seen the guy drive before ." I finally interrupted.

"No one was in that truck D." Andrea replied with a serious face.

"What we need to do is get the fuck out of this fucked up cabin before I end up going crazy."
Jax yelled from the kitchen.

I immediately turned towards the window and saw the only way out of this nightmare, the rental car.

"Guys, Jax is right. We need to get the fuck out of here now. Everyone get in the rental car now." I announced. Pointing out the window with my hand.

"What about Celeste and Justin?" Andrea asked.

"We could just--" I started but was interrupted.

"There is no way that all 8 of us are getting in a 4 passenger car." Skylar finally spoke out through all of this.

"We have to lap. We have no other choice. Just put them in the trunk."

I sounded so apathetic and cold. But there's nothing else we can do with them. I grabbed the keys and marched out to the car. At this moment I was mute, couldn't understand nor did I want to understand what the hell was happening at this place. I was hoping on having a vacation with these guys and it's turning into a bloodbath. I can't lose anymore of them so I have to take charge and get us back to the states. I open the door, and you can still smell the burning rubber from the car's tires. I get in and immediately put the key in the ignition. I twist the key and... Nothing. I do it again and I get nothing.

"What the fuck!" I exclaim.

I pop the hood and there looks to be no problem but the car won't make a sound when I turn the key. I decide to look under the car and I turn my phone flashlight on. I smell fluid and it reeks, I see a broken pipe and.. The fucking engine is missing. There's no engine under this rental car. I aggressively push myself from under the car and charge toward the cabin where everyone is and there's a silence in the cabin.

"SOMEONE FUCKING TOOK THE ENGINE OUT OF THE FUCKING CAR!" I shouted.

"D, calm down. What the hell are you talking about? Andrew responded.

I could've slapped him right then and there. But I forced myself back.

"The engine, is not, under the car, you fucking dumbass." "What do I mean.." I taunted.

I felt like slapping him in the mouth again. There is no way someone is doing all that while we are in this house. It's a noisy process. We are stuck in this damn house. All of us decided to walk out to the car to check out what's going on even though i just told them. At this point we are beaten. Whoever is trying to kill us just do it already, i've never been afraid of death and i'm not going to start today. I notice Jasper didn't come out with us, I couldn't imagine what that kid is going through right now. I walk back to the cabin to see where he was. When I open the door I see him outside of the room Celeste is inhabiting, sitting with a bottle of vodka in his hand. He didn't notice me until the door creaked open.

"This is all my fault." Jasper's voice broke the silence between us.

"No it's not dude. None of this is your fault, the world is a cruel place. I don't know how to comfort you right now because I've never really dated a girl as serious as you and her were. I wouldn't know how it would feel to lose some-"

"Stop" Jasper interrupted.

"I'm tired of people trying to comfort me. You can't. No one can so don't waste your breath."

I didn't know what to say. Everyone else walked in after another 5 minutes of silence, watching my best friend drink his life away.