The Cabin In The Woods

chapter two

Zachary shook Sawyer awake lightly with Lucy beside him tapping her foot impatiently. Sawyer groaned and turned on his side without waking.

"Let me do it." Lucy offers. Zachary backs off and Lucy grabs a pillow that lay on the ground of Sawyer's messy room. She lifted the pillow above her head and hit Sawyer with it screaming at him to get up until he finally opened his eyes.

"Can't you see I'm sleeping?" Sawyer groaned and dropped his face into the pillow under his head.

"Can't you see you need to wake up?" Lucy says. Sawyer groaned and sat up. He rubbed his eyes sleepily.

"It's nine o'clock, we need to go." Zachary says and tosses Sawyer a jacket.

"We're wasting time! Get your shoes on and let's go!" Lucy yells at the boys impatiently bouncing on her heels. 

"Do we even know where to look? I mean there's alot of forests in Eden." Sawyer asks as he put on his white converses and trying to wipe the tiredness from his eyes.

"I looked it up, it says the cabin is in WrentWorth Wood. It's about three miles north." Lucy says as she pulled her hair up into a ponytail.

Sawyer grabbed his pocket knife out of his nightstand drawer and the three set off with their bikes towards WrentWorth Wood.

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Lucy, Zachary, and Sawyer abandoned their bikes at the front of the forest and started walking through WrentWorth Wood trying to avoid mud or low tree branches as best as they could. Lucy would occasionally complain about her feet hurting but the boys just ignored her and continued on their journey. They all walked until they were all winded and were forced to take a break. The trees around them made the night seem darker than it normally would. Zachary carries a flashlight but that was the only source of light they had.

"Where is this stupid cabin? It shouldn't be this hard to find!" Zachary complained and sat on a fallen tree.

"Well the killer must've been smart enough to find a place like this anyways. I just wanna know how the police found it and how they knew this was where Catherine was." Sawyer says mostly to himself.

The three sat and rested against the fallen tree for a few minutes then began their search once again. The three walked through a patch of vines and low branches smacked them in the face as they reached a clearing. In front of them stood an old run down cabin. The wood was rotted on the sides and the windows were smashed. There was a single rocking chair on the porch that seemed so out of place form the rest of the cabin. The rocking chair didn't look nearly as old as the cabin itself.

"This is it. This is where Catherine was killed." Zachary says, his voice was mixed with excitement and fear.

"Alright boys, let's go." Lucy grinned and walkes ahead of Sawyer and Zachary with no trace of fear in her voice.

"She's not afraid of anything is she?" Sawyer thinks out loud.

"Apparently not." Zachary says and follows Lucy with Sawyer close behind.

Lucy slowly opens the cabin door, it creaks slightly before Lucy walks inside. The boys entered soon after and looked around shining Zachary's flashlight around the rooms. There was caution tape everywhere, a few upside down tables, and papers laying peacefully on the ground. Leaves had somehow made their way all over the rotten floor of the cabin. They could see an occasional nail sticking from the floor or wall. There were no creepy old pictures hanging as Sawyer had expected, there was no trace that anyone had ever lived here.

"This isn't as creepy as I expected it to be." Sawyer says and picks up one of the papers on the floor. He turned it over and saw a long list of names. He began reading and suddenly gasped under his breath.

"Guys, look at this." Sawyer says and Zachary and Lucy looked at the list over his shoulder. The list had been typed and it listed each of their names. It wasn't torn or dirty so they could only assume it had to have been made recently.

"Hey look, Catherine is listed." Lucy pointed out.

"She's number one, and she's dead." Zachary mumbled. "These are the people the killer wants to murder."

"Why is it just our group, Justin, and some other kid." Lucy asks snatching the paper from Sawyer's grasp.

"My sister is on this list. If this guy thinks he's getting anywhere near Jacelyn he's got another thing coming for him." Zachary mumbled and curled his hands into fists.

"Jacelyn isn't going to be killed and neither are we." Sawyer says just as the cabin door swung open and a way to familiar person ran inside. Justin Brown. He was wearing a muscle shirt covered in fresh blood that soaked into his jeans, he was holding large steak knife in his left hand. Zachary immediately pushed Sawyer and Lucy behind him.

"We have to go right now. Right now!" Justin yelled at them and took off running past the three. Zachary was obviously convinced that Justin was going to murder his sister so he ran after Justin. Sawyer and Lucy ran after Zachary. Zachary and Justin were much faster than Sawyer and Lucy so Zachary reached Justin before they could stop him. Zachary had Justin by his shirt pushed up against the wall. The knife was laying on the floor at Lucy's feet.

"Zachary what are you doing?" Sawyer asks as Lucy picks up the knife, holding in out for protection.

"It was you wasn't it? Jacelyn told me she thought it was you, now I believe her." Zachary says, ignoring Sawyer.

"I didn't do anything! Someone was trying to kill me!" Justin exclaimed "Look someone texted me from Catherine's number and said to meet here, I knew it wasn't her but I was curious."

"Prove it." Zachary growls

"Go and find the person who was chasing me then. Is that enough proof?" Justin asks through gritted teeth

Zachary let go of Justin's shirt and backed off him.

"Guys!" Lucy's voice yells from behind the others. They all turned toward her and saw that she was being held at the waist by a person wearing a long cloak with a white mask over their face. He looked like the main protagonist of a horror film. This guy was holding Justin's knife at Lucy's neck.

"See! I told you!" Justin yelled.

"Shut up." Zachary says and turns towards the person in the cloak. "Let her go."

The person in the cloak just shook his head and threw Lucy over his shoulder and ran off. Lucy screamed and she disappeared into darkness with the stranger.

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A/N; So, I like when people reading murder mysteries are trying to figure out the murderer while they're reading so I just wanted to say that you guys should feel free to comment whoever you think the killer is and keep reading to find out who's right/wrong!!! Happy Reading!