The night air was getting cold and the wind cut against the boys cheeks as the stood outside their tour bus, it was growing dark, too dark, it made Luke, Ashton, and Calum feel anxious and uncomfortable. The weight of what Calum had just said was still hanging in the air and the felt the pressure pushing down on them.
"Taken? I think you have been watching way to many horror movies, buddy," Ashton commmented sarcastically, trying to hide his real fear.
"I'm not joking, guys!" Calum shouted, "This is strange, and i don't have a good feeling about this."
"Maybe we should go check the woods, we could go into the bus and get flashlights so we can see better," Luke suggested.
"He's right, let's go." Ashton retorted.
The boys walked across the clearing until they reached the dark, dank edge of the forest. They all peered in nervously, all still praying that this was just a joke on Michael and Jim's part.
"Well...Ladys first," Ashton joked, motioning for Luke and Calum to go ahead of him.
"I don't really think it's a good time for that, Ashton." Luke scolded.
"Sorry..." Ashton replied, taking the first step into the woods "just trying to lighten the mood."
***
The boys had been walking thorugh the woods, checking there phones periodically to see if they got any news from Michael. The time seemed to be ticking by slowly as the forest became pitch black and the earth grew noisy with the sounds of crickets and bullfrogs.
Suddenly, a desperate pleading scream of 'HELP' came from somewhere deep in the woods.
"IT'S MICHAEL, COME ON!" Ashton screamed as the three boys took off at a dead sprint. They jumped through the woods ducking under branches, dodgeing trees, and jumping stumpsand fallen debris from the canopy of leaves and twigs above them. Somewhere along the way, Calum lost his footing and tripped rolling into a fat tree trunk. He felt his back smack into it with a loud thud and then he felt the nausea as he heard something in his shoulder pop.
"Calum, are you alright?" Luke asked in a paniced voice.
"I don't know," Calum said sitting up slowly, "my shoulder hurts pretty bad, but I think I'll survive."
Ashton stood around them waving his flash lights in all directions until something caught his eye on the tree that Calum has ran into.
"Oi, whats that?" Ashton said confused. Luke scrambled to his feet and looked at it too.
"It's a number," he replied, "it says 'if you need help contact this number.'"
"Well..." Calum started.
"Well what?" Luke snapped back.
"We need help...don't we?"
Ashton pulled out his phone and dialed the number carfully, punching in every key with purpose. The phone rang several times before the voicemail message came on, a gruff, deep voice came on reading the voice message.
"This is Dean's other phone, so you must know what to do already."
