Broken Together // J. Washington

Resolution

Josh and I were deep within a kiss when we heard loud footsteps coming from down the hall and we were interrupted by Emily's familiar high-pitched scream.

"What was that?" Josh asks me, looking around us for any sigh of them coming back. It had been over an hour. Josh and I easily passed the time simply by just talking and well...kissing.

"More like who was it?" I add, looking around the corner and seeing Ashley, Chris, and Emily running away from something. Running away from...

"WENDIGO! RUN!" Emily yells at us, and speeds by us. I feel Josh grip my hand tightly and we both pick up the pace and race up the stairs to the living room.

I see Sam run behind us and close the door that the Wendigos were chasing us through in the movie room. All of us kept our viciously fast pace and were stopped abruptly in the living room.

We were stopped instantly when we saw a Wendigo just hanging on the chandelier as if that was just a casual occurrence.

"Don't fucking move. Don't fucking move a muscle..." I hear Mike whisper to Sam, who is the closest to the Wendigos. She still had her headlight on, and it's a wonder that the Wendigos didn't pick up such a bright object with their vision.

The Wendigo screams and twitches in its own movement. The scream pierced my ear and nearly made me sick. The Wendigos skin was very white and it looked as if their skin was thick and stretched across their bones tightly.

The teeth looked sharp, almost like a great white shark. Their eyes were very sunken and the light in them had vanished completely. I could tell they were once human, as they still shared some human characteristics. But, they were very inhuman. They were monsters.

Two more Wendigos enter the room from a lower floor and come towards the main Wendigo hanging from the chandelier. The moved quickly, and would have very fragile but deadly motions. The two more Wendigos locked eyes with the main Wendigo and looked as if they wanted to fight it.

One of the two began fighting the other and jumped at each other, only for one of them to be smashed into the staircase, hard. Not hard, harder. Like being smashed by a massive semi.

One of the Wendigos was then thrown entirely across the room. Landing in the fireplace, breaking one of the gas pipes. The gas pipe then began to leak gas into the air fast.

I see Mike glance between the gas pipe, the lightbulb setup, and the light switch right by the front door. Sam also notices Mike's plan and nods at us both. Now, we had to find a way to somehow perfectly execute the plan. Or...we're all going to do die.

One of the Wendigos had gotten onto the railing of the top floor and hurled towards the other Wendigo. They spun around the several times, but the main Wendigo had a very robust grip on the other, and decapitated the other. I held my breath for a moment. These fuckers are strong.

Sam begins to walk backwards towards the door, but the floor of the lodge had other plans. It squeaked beneath her feet and the Wendigo immediately took note. It got down from the chandelier and walked right towards her, screaming directly in her face.

As Sam was being stalked, I look over at Mike and he's already made his way to the light bulb setup and had began to break the lightbulb, letting the filament be open.

I look behind me, and see Chris run outside of the lodge, making it to safety. But, the Wendigo heard Mike break the light bulb and began to slowly walk towards him.

"HEY!" Sam yells, trying to save Mike's life. The Wendigo yells and marches towards Sam leaving Mike to start to walk backwards and quietly and as quickly as he can. Emily then makes her way out of the lodge, joining with Chris.

Sam stays completely frozen as the Wendigo hovers over her. I'm sure she must have been internally screaming to get away. But, she stayed silent and still. Just like the flamethrower guy had said in his journal. If you're still, they can't see you.

The Wendigo walks away from Sam and heads towards Josh and I. I feel my heartbeat in my fingertips, and it's ringing in my ears. I try to breathe more quietly and I do so successfully.

Sam again saves our lives and yells to the Wendigo and she hides behind the wall of the lodge. Making the Wendigo scream right in her face again. Ashley slips outside of the lodge to join the others.

In the distance, I could hear a helicopter coming for us. I had all my hope restored in surviving. We just had to burn the house down with the Wendigo inside.

Sam continues to hide in another location, allowing for Mike, myself and Josh to run outside of the lodge. All she had to do was get to that switch. We were all so close to surviving. I could taste it.

After a couple seconds of silence, I hear Sam's footsteps get closer and closer and then she flips the switch. The entire lodge lights on fire, killing the Wendigos simultaneously and ejecting Sam from the porch, causing her to land on the snow.

I ran over to her to help her up, "Are you okay?" I checked her out to make sure she didn't have any injuries and she just laughs. Why the fuck is she laughing?

"Okay? I'm more than okay. I'm alive! We all are!" Sam says cheering, and pulling everybody into a hug. We had all survived...other than Jessica and Matt. If only I had done something more to save them. If only I had done something to save Hannah and Beth that night. If only...

Fire still leaked from all the windows and doors. I could feel the heat from the fire from over twenty feet away. But, the burn was good.

It felt good to see the light of day again. The sun had began to rise and you could see the horizon over the snow covered hills. I had never been more thankful for a sunrise in my entire life.

Today was going to be a good one. I was going to make sure of it.