The Terrible Night With My Friends

Chapter 6

8:01 pm
   "I don't think I can do this much longer" pants goo soaked Claire with her hands on her knees.
   "Well... you're gonna have to" replies Harper, also out of breath and soaked in blue green ooze.
"What's next.." says Claire as she packs her crafted wooden cross into her grungy dark brown backpack.
Harper lowers herself to the ground, and sits on the wooden planks, still soaked into blue green goo.
"I think we should try to find holy water" says Harper contently, staring at her feet as she sits.
"Do you even have holy water?" asks Claire, still slightly out of breath.
"Yes" replies Harper, contently "Ive gotten a lot of stuff from bible school back in the day"
Claire offers her goo covered hand to Harper. Harper takes it and groans as she lifts herself up.
"Should I have stabbed her?" says Harper in a indifferent tone, as she dusts herself off.
"probably not" says Claire as she exits the shed.
"Why does it look so much farther from the far house?" asks Claire, staring out into the night sky and at the farmhouse.
Harper walks out of the shed, next to Claire. "She did this, to tire us out, I know it" Says Harper almost completely sure of her theory.
"This might take a few hours" says Claire, almost fearful of the journey ahead of her.
"Lets start walking" says Harper sarcastically as she takes off into the night. Claire follows behind her.
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8:43 pm
The girls have been walking for about 40 minutes now, their feet aching and their shoulder muscles sore from the heavy weight backpacks pulling down on their shoulders.
Suddenly, the crunch of the leaves is reduced by 50%. Claire stopped walking.
She stares out in front one her, fear in her eyes, her body shaking, chills running up her body, and suddenly, all she could hear was her own soft breaths. Harper keeps walking, and is even more ahead of Claire
"Come on Claire!" Harper yells out, turning around towards her "We are never gonna make it by just standing around" She gestures towards the lit farm house, miles away.
"Do you see that?" Claire whispers softly while slowly lifting her pointer finger up towards her.
In confusion Harper says "What" softly and shakily.
Directly in front of Claire is 10 naked old men and women, maybe mid-70's, holding hands and chanting.
"DONT SHOW FEAR" yells Harper from afar "THIS IS HOW SHE TAKES YOU".
Claire takes a deep breath and slowly walks through them, her body like jelly the entire time, one foot after another.
After finishing the scariest steps of her life, she runs to Harper and hugs her.
As they hug Harper whispers in her ear "be careful of what she shows you, she wants to scare you, to make you vulnerable, don't fall for it, because you have your cross and your shotgun".
Claire pulls back from the hug and nods.
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8:51 pm
Claire and Harper continue to walk, more cautious this time, more alert, every step, closer to the holy water, closer to home.
Everything seems fine, and the field is starting to feel more and more peaceful every step.
It wasn't going to be like that for long.
Claire stops walking and turns around due to the crunching she heard behind her. When she turns around, its gone.
She starts walking again, and to her surprise, the crunch starts up again. She looks behind her and sees nothing, no one, and hears no crunch. She turns back around, facing forward, and takes a deep breath.
She starts walking again
The crunch follow behind her, more aggressively and faster.
Claire turns around frantically and quickly, she sees long demon Paisley, red tinted skin, missing eye, you know the drill
Demon Paisley grabs her throat, and in the blink of an eye, she's gone
Harper turns around slowly, due to the echoing sound of Claires screams.
Nothing.
"Claire!" she yells out, concerned and scared "CLAIRE?!"
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Claire wakes up and she's in a dark void, full of nothingness.
All the way north of the void she sees Paisley eating dinner with her parents. Claire slowly starts to approach the happy family, her black docker boots clacks echoing through the void.
She can see Paisley laughing, having fun, her pale skin glowing, her long brown hair shiny, and her hazel eyes glowing. She smiles at happy Paisley. She misses her greatly.
She sees Paisley stop laughing suddenly, her parents confused and in awe, then, two men, in full white suits, snap the necks of her parents. Their parents bodies fall to the ground, and Claire backs away from the image.
"Do it" Paisley says as she continues sipping her sweet tea out of her cup.
Two more women in white dresses walk into the image, with knifes and gold chalices, the men hold her parents still while the women slit her parents throats, lets the blood rush into the chalices.
"The blood of the innocent is ours" says Paisley as she sips her iced tea one more time, the ice her her glass shaking.
Thats when Claire starts to run, she runs the other way, like there is no tomorrow, she runs into the void like she has nothing left, and she does that til she is lost in her head
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9:03 pm
"Claire!" Harper yells out the last time, then she realizes.
"Holy shit" she stops walking and whispers to herself.
She walks to the house faster, speed walking, because she knows that Paisley has Claire, and it won't be long til she's dead.