FINDING S A R A H

Chapter 4

The next morning,I wanted to know more about the hallucination I had, Sarah can't be alive she's dead. She mentioned "another world", I didn't understand any of it. I totally forgot Michael and Sam were elsewhere, did they have any dreams? I'm gonna go See where they went. I had so many questions about the voice, why me, why not Michael or Sam?

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  After pondering for about five minutes I go outside the tent to see Sam and Michael stand In Front of me, they look at me in utter fear of what they saw. I noticed they were holding a bag, we didn't bring an extra bag, if I recall.

  "What's in the bag?"

  "Well..it's Sarah's we found it."

  "The real question is, why is all her stuff still here. Wouldn't the police have taken it as evidence?"

"Well we found her diary, it's quite the spooky read to be fair, The girl sounds like a nutcase,Take a read Isaac."

    I grabbed the diary from Sam's hand, I as well never noticed Sam and Michael getting along. Wonder how that happened, I open up the diary and let me just tell you, it wasn't some girly girl diary about boys and gossip. It looked like some stalker writing love poems, and detailed grotesque drawings of someone being murdered, or a demon like figure. I read one of the poems called "His Blood"..

   His blood..
So fresh, and vile
I crave it so
But it's not mine
It is his
My darkest desire
Wants it
But I can't have it
His blood is my essence of life and death

    I felt a chill up my spine, and needles going through my chest. "His blood is my essence of life and death." Wonder who she's talking about, I turn the next page to see a detailed drawing. The drawing was of a detailed girl stabbing a man, she was covered in his blood, the girl wore a sadistic smile. Their was also a shadowy figure behind her hunched over her and the man, I grew a bit nervous on why the police wouldn't take this or even her body as evidence. I give the diary back to Sam, I couldn't read anymore. We all decided we should take a walk, further down the trail and talk about this.

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   It's been about 20 minutes and no one has talked yet, I sat there thinking about the poem I read, and the dark detailed drawing of a girl stabbing a man with a sinister smile. Michael decided to talk finally to break the uncomfortable silence.

"I have a theory, what if she killed the police?"

  "To be honest that's possible."

  "ARE YOU GUYS INSANE ?!"

  "What's the issue Sam, your the one who suggested on finding out what's in her bag."

  "I know that, but still she's a sweet girl, she probably has some family issues."

  "Killing police, going out on trails to hang yourself, doesn't mean you just have family issues, their is more to this."

"How would you know, did you ever speak to Sarah?"

"Not really she was to quiet."

"Now that I think about it, her diary I remember she mentioned something about rejection or feeling rejected by a boy. She wouldn't name him, but the last few pages were torn out. I bet those have something to do with who is she or her real motives."

"Michael she's dead, why should any of us care."

  "Why are you being such a tool right now, first of all you're the one who fought me cause I said something about Sarah, which I'm sorry for. But the girl seems like a psycho, kinda like this one girl in an anime I watched."

"Now you're gonna bring up your stupid anime obsession."

"No I'm onto something, the girl in the anime. Acts exactly like Sarah,Only Sarah, is actually dead and committed suicide. Sarah is also very very quiet, like in an uncomfortable way. I've never heard her talk, I've only seen her write in her diary at lunch when I walk with her sister."

   "Does Viola say anything about her?"

  "No not really, her and viola never got along well. But she did care and worry about her a lot, she's always tried to confront her, but she's to scared. Sarah tried to cut her with a box cutter once, so she just leaves Sarah alone."

  "How come no one reported her?"

  "She didn't show enough signs at school, or even much at home. Most of the violence is when Viola and Sarah are left home alone. And Viola was scared Sarah would kill her."

"I see, it's getting kind of dark. We should head back."

   We all walk back to camp, to our surprise. Viola was there, she was making a fire and had a look of guilt. Michael walks towards her, slightly pissed off she'd come here this late and for no good reason.

  "VIOLA, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?"

"I came to see if my sister was really dead, and it appears she isn't, look above you."

  Michael looks up where Viola was pointing, his eyes widen in fear, his face turns from tan to porcoline in seconds. The body was gone, we all looked at each other In terror and feeling perplexed on where did the body go?

  "Would anyone like to explain where the body went?"

  "I have no clue, Viola please tell me this isn't a sick joke?!"

"No I swear, once I got here it looked normal."

"I could've sworn there was a body up there in the tree above."

   All of us were starting to question our sanity, do they have the same issues I have? No way it can't be, can it ?

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    We sat down around the fire, paranoid and scared. There's no way she's walking around the trail, she's dead..right? Viola looked at Micheal in concern and apologized to us for coming to the site, when she shouldn't have.

   "It's okay, we forgive you. Just don't leave our side and you'll be safe."

"Okay, thank you Michael."

  "No problem, just don't get all mushy on me."

  "So you guys found her diary, well if you'd like to know more about the last pages I can tell you."

  "Okay spill."