"Please I swear, I swear I'm innocent!"
He yells, his hand reaching for me to save him, hes holding on the edge of a frozen branch, teary eyed but terrorized from the voices in his head. I'm conflicted, he just tried to kill me, and everyone else, but we've been friends for so long, he didn't mean it. "SAM PLEASE!" he screams this time, the Wendigo getting closer.
I grab his arm and pull him up.
Why. You just put everyone in danger.
"RUN!" Mike screams, helping me and Josh up. "LEAVE ME ALONE" Josh screams, holding my hand tighter than before, his other on his head.
His sisters.
The snow is screaming under us as were running from the Wendigo, hoping not to get caught. Hoping not to be torn apart and eaten alive.
I trip.
I drop Josh.
Hes taken.
"Sam! Wake up!"
So it was a dream.
Above me, is a frantic Ashley shaking me awake. "What?" I reply groggily, rubbing my eyes and pretending not to know "what". "You were.." She trailed off and glances up at me nervously. "What?" I demanded, looking her in the eye. "You were yelling for Josh.." She slowly tells me. "How did you hear me?" I ask, seeing as Chris and Ashley's room was across the hall. "Well, you were more like, screaming" she nervously runs her hand over her arm slowly, she doesn't want to hurt me."Oh," I say nonchalantly, and get up from my bed to get an outfit together. Ashley looks over at me. "Are you sure you're okay, Sam?" She gets up from my bed and puts her hand on my shoulder. "Yeah." I sigh, taking out a red flannel and some jeans from my closet. "What time is it?" I ask, hoping not to be late for work. Ash opens her phone. "Around 5 am" she looks back up at me. "Ok, my alarm was about to go off anyway.." I pause and look at her, I give her a soft smile. "And, thanks, Ash." She smiles at me, I walk to the bathroom.
I shower, get dressed, tie my hair up, and gather my things to go to my part-time waitressing job. I didn't want to go, I mean who would?
I walk outside of our apartment and take in the fresh, cold morning air. It's freezing but it seems I've become immune. It's overcast, and a bit of snow has fallen, luckily not to the point that I have to shovel my car out.
I open my car door and get inside, turn on the ending and up the heater.
I drive my way to work.
~time skip~
I arrive at the Mexican restaurant I work at, Rosa Mexicano, and unlock the door, I'm the first one here I guess. I clock in and put my backpack in the break room. Time to start the day.
ASHLEY'S Pl
After Sam leaves, I go back to lay with Chris, hoping he's still asleep.
"Hey.." He says groggily
"Shit" I whisper
He's dressed and showered, so he must've been up for a while.
"Did Sam wake you?" I ask, sitting on the bed beside him. "No. What happened?" He asks, concerned.
"She had another nightmare." I sigh
"Fourth time this week, it's Friday, right?" He says and I confirm.
"I keep telling her to see a doctor about it. She says she's fine though." I tell him, "Jess even said she was willing to take Sam to her doctor, I hope she will." I frown, and Chris gives my hand a loving squeeze. "She'll be okay," he assures me. "But if she doesn't get help, will the same thing that happened to j-" I stop. Today's the anniversary, and Josh was Chris's best friend. I screwed up.
"Oh. No, Chris, I'm so sorry." He nods and weakly smiles at me. "It's okay, we all suffer from what happened that night." He hugs me.
I take a shower myself and get dressed. I silently look for the clothes I wore that night. Luckily, I remember where I put it, in a box under the bed. I get the small gray box out and run my fingers over it. Still faintly bloodstained, and ripped. A tear escapes my eye and drips off my chin. "I'm so so so so so so so so SO sorry, Josh." I burst into tears and regret remembering everything. Chris sits down and hugs me from behind. I cry into his chest. "I'm so so so so so so so so sorry." I weep, and hug him tightly. "No one meant to hurt us," Chris says shakily.
SAM
Everyone starts flocking into the building. A few of my coworkers say hello, and I politely reply. I start the day by going around to waiting tables, plastering a fake smile on my face. Today is the day, and today really fucked me up. After work, my friends and I planned to "drink the day away". They think that drinking will make us forget what happened. In all honesty, I would do anything to forget.
-skip-
A bit later in the day I get a text. It's from Josh's old number. "What kind of sick joke is this?" I say as I unlock my phone. "Hi Sammy" the text says. I unknowingly start crying. I reply with asking who this was. "Don't you have my number?" They say. "Answer my question." I type furiously. Standing in the middle of the busy restaurant. Whoever was doing this was trying to hurt me. "Turn around Sam" they say. I hesitantly do as told.
CHRIS
After getting dressed and having breakfast, Ash and I spent the day together. We tried ignoring everything that happened. We had a nice breakfast and invited Mike and Jess over. They happily accepted the invitation and came over. In the mean time, Ash and I played some video games. Don't tell her, but Ash sucked.
MIKE
"Hey Jess?" I yelled to her direction. "Yeah babe?" She replied "Chris is asking if we want to go over to their place! What do you say?" Jess comes out drying her hair in a towel. "Yeah, sure." She smiles. We go and get in the car. Jess In the passenger seat and I'm driving. "Hey mike?" Jess says nervously. "Yeah?" I say, backing out. "I love you. Thank you. For caring."
"I love you too."
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After Dawn
Random(I apologize to all my friend this is just my trash because I'm obsessed) ------------------------------ After the events at the old Washington lodge, the victims stay close together. Each mentally and physically damaged. But everyone emotionally da...
