Cabin Fever

Settling In

I turn right around to see my bestie in the doorway. I ran to her, "Oh Sandra I totally missed you." She gives me a big hug. "I missed you aswell. We shouldn't go our separate ways ever again." "Yeah totally, I was so worried about you." We hugged for what seemed like forever. "Oh jeez." Kirt says he usually hates things like hugging and kissing. "I'ma go hang with Douglass." He says annoyed, he pushes pasted us out the kitchen which was fine my me. Sandra then said: "Hey how about we get you settled in? You share rooms with me." She smiled. I shrug, "Sure why not?" She takes me by the hand and runs me upstairs.

I ended up tripping up on the top stair, I tripped but fortunately I didn't fall. We got into the room and surprisingly my  suitcase was there. "Douglas was probably in here eariler." I mummble. "Huh what was that?" Sandra asks me. "Oh nothing."
She just sat there smiling at me it was making me uncomfortable. She finally said: "You know I missed you right?"

"Duh, me too." I smile uneasily. Her creepy smile faded for a split second then it turned into some type of sympathy with a dash of concern. "Is everything alright San?" I asked nervously. She jolted as if someone turned on a part of her mind on. "Huh? No......I'm fine.......are you okay?" She said it as if I'm being delusional. You see Sandra's always been weird but this is creeping me the hell out. I stand up, "hey um I gotta go to the bathroom." I stand up awkwardly.

Sandra just noded. I got out as quickly as possible. I rand downstairs and bumped into Douglas. "Oh hey Doug." I sigh in relief. "Oh hey." He says. He sounded kinda laidback. "Oh hey um where's Emily?" "Oh she's with Kirt at the store." He says in matter-of-factly. "Oh um." I say a little uncomfortably. He looks a little concerned kinda like the look Sandra did. "Hey are you okay?" I change my attitude so he wouldn't notice how I'm creeped out.

"Oh it's nothing I'm just so tired." I fake a big yawn. Surprisingly he bought it. "Oh okay, you should get some rest then i know you probably drove for a long time and you know about this traffic today." "Oh yeah." I say softly.

I go back upstairs to my room and somehow Sandra was gone. But I didn't care, I lay on the bed close to the window. The room was very big. So big it could fit two Queen sized beds in here and still have enough room. I laid in the bed and fell asleep. I woke up and it was slightly dark. I heard talking downstairs, I kept hearing my name. I silently listened. "We shouldn't do anything tonight she just got here." Sounded like Emily. Her voice sounded a little off edge.

That's when i decided on getting up and going downstairs. As soon as I knew they heard me, everyone looked at me in unison. "Hey Natalie." Sandra said a little shaking. "So, who's ready for dinner?" Kirt says yelling out the kitchen. Everyone including me goes into the dining room. They all sit at the table I stay far behind and watches. Then Kirt comes in the dining room with a skillet of cheese rice, broccoli,and chicken. He sits down everyone gets a plate but doesn't get any food. They all patiently wait for me. I stand at the table seeing the only chair that's available: facing everyone. I still continue standing. "Well come on Natalie, sit down." Douglas says. I did.

I take a plate. Everyone just looked at me. I awkwardly take a scoop from the food from the skillet. When I put the giant spoon down, one by one everyone took a scoop. When I took a bite, everyone else did. I felt hella uncomfortable. Then Kirt said: "there's supposed to be a snow storm tomorrow night." Emily nodded. "Yeah I heard about that earlier." While  everyone was talking, I remained silent. "What's the matter?" Kirt asked me. I jumped "huh?" I asked stupidly. "Oh I'm fine." I mixed around my food on my plate a little. "You know I'm glad about what we're doing." Emily says. "Yeah me too, I can't remember the last time we hung out All togather." Sandra agreeded. Douglas and Kirt just nodded. "I remember it was when...when-"Emily trembels

"Luke." Kirt awnsers. "Y-yeah." She stammer back. Her eyes began to water. A little back story: Luke Used to be part of our crew and Emily's boyfriend but then he mysteriously disappeared. The police suggested that he ran away, but when the cops showed up with nothing but his jacket we all assumed he died. We all were devastated, but the person it hit the hardest was Emily, he was her boyfriend after all. She then began sobbing. "Its all my fault! If I haven't had pushed him so far th-then-" Sandra quickly grabbed her and took her upstairs. I gulped my water down. "Um so...." All was left was Douglas and Kirt. "Don't mind Emmy she's just delusional, she thinks she's responsible for Luke's er, dissaperenc." I just nodded. He went on. "No matter how hard I try to tell her, 'its not her fault', she never listens to me."

I started feeling light headed. Suddenly his voice faded away, I started having blurry vision. They both looked at me. Just then I fell to the floor