Maddie quickly collected her things and several soft pillows and blankets in her small backpack, while a scorching cold rain was pouring outside the window, this was the last evening in the house with her parents before a trip with her friends to a village in the middle of the forest, only they will be right in the forest at barbecues.
The girl specifically chose such a place for the unusual and eerie atmosphere, and of course, to make it more interesting to shoot videos for her blog on YouTube, yes, she was a more or less famous blogger!
With thoughts about the trip and what a cool video might come out there, she put the camera in her favorite small bag, this was the last action before lying on the bed and relaxing with peace of mind, knowing that she had not forgotten anything.
Finally, the brunette with long hair was able to lie down on a soft and gentle bed to rest, but the girl decided not to immediately go into the world of dreams, so, out of habit, she took her phone and almost immediately went into the group with her friends, just to check on them and just chat a little .
- Good evening, how are you??? Is everyone ready?)
*a message came from a girl, which was immediately viewed by several users of this group.*
- Yes, I’ll go to bed now
*It was one of her friends, her name was Casey, but in general circles they called her just Kay, the girl was a green-eyed blonde who very often wore ponytails and dark, baggy clothes.*
- I also want to lie down now! This sound of rain is the best feeling.. Phew
- *Maddie’s message came almost instantly, but one friend, whose name was Mike, immediately got into their conversation*
- But we’ll all be there tomorrow at 05:50? Please remind me, otherwise I forgot
- *Kay responded to Mike’s message*
- Yes, I hope no one forgot anything important, for example... Madd, did you take a blanket and pillows to the tents?
- - Yes, sure!! I also took a camera, hehe, let’s shoot something suddenly)) or will we call on the spirits?)
- Well, no! We won’t call anyone, I’m already scared to go with you!
- *this message was from Kyle, it was Casey’s boyfriend, he really wanted to go to this place least of all, knowing that Madd and possibly Mike would start telling some old and creepy legends about those places.
- Coward *Maddy replied mockingly in the message*
- That’s why I have self-preservation instincts!
- *at the same second Kai answered and left the network, so Maddie and the others simply ignored his message, continuing to discuss the trip and check who took what, if they took it at all, when a couple of seconds later Maddie’s last message arrived:
- Okay, good night everyone, I’m off to bed XP.
sent it last and left the network, turning off her phone, which had already warmed up slightly, quickly put it on charge next to the bed and put it under her pillow, turning off the pleasant night light, her head finally plopped down on a soft pillow, which, due to the impact, managed to bend under her head , closing her eyes, she was haunted by strange thoughts and feelings, this premonition had been haunting her for like a week, before this trip it just intensified and it was annoying, but Madd didn’t pay attention and just tried to sleep, to the sound of raindrops falling with a loud sound, he at least and calmed her down, but for another couple of minutes or even hours she could not fall asleep.
Finally morning, the loud, annoying sound of the alarm clock and a slight vibration under the pillow made her open her eyes, quickly starting to look for this stupid phone and turn off this melody! Maddie quickly turned it off and the long-awaited silence came, she sat on the edge of the bed, waking up a little, although it was difficult because the room was so warm.. the blanket that covered her legs beckoned her to lie back and the darkness outside the window and in the room enhanced this effect , but suddenly! Suddenly the door of her room swung open and a figure walked in halfway; it was Maddie Hughes' mother.
-Well? Are you awake yet?
Maddie flinched slightly when her mother unexpectedly entered, but then exhaled and, smiling at the corners of her lips, answered her:
- yes mom... I’ll get dressed now.
She muttered very quietly and immediately asked the question that interested her again:
- Why aren’t you sleeping so early?
The woman, in turn, chuckled:
- accompany you and prepare a meal so that you definitely have time for everything!
- ah.. well then it’s clear.
The girl said this and got out of bed, slowly walking towards the closet to turn on the light in the room and, in general, to choose clothes for the trip.
- You get ready, and I’ll go and prepare you something to eat.
- OK, thank you.
Madd answered quietly and turned on the light, which blinded her for a couple of seconds, opened the closet and began to get ready for the meeting more cheerfully, the light made her fully wake up and the girl finally behaved energetically and more cheerfully!
Only 15 minutes passed, and the young lady was already packed, grabbed her backpack with all the necessary things and quickly left the room to the kitchen; as soon as she entered her nose, the smell of just cooked pancakes immediately hit her! It seems also with jam... salivation immediately began to flow from her mouth and she immediately sat down at the table, threw her backpack next to the table so that it rested on the table leg, and finally her Mom put a plate of food in front of her.
- Let's! Eat quickly and you'll be running to the meeting!
*as soon as she said this, Maddie began to eat delicious, freshly cooked and tender pancakes! For one moment she glanced at her mother and realized that she was worried about something, perhaps she wanted to add something but did not dare? Madd immediately thought that this was quite strange for her mother, because she had always been self-confident, persistent and even strict.
- Listen... I read a little about that village, are you going to the forest?
The woman said and Maddie, with her mouth stuffed with food, began to answer further questions.
- mm.. yes, did something happen?
- please take a knife or something for self-defense, well, you’ll also need a knife for the barbecue aahha.
When mom said this, Maddie was very surprised and immediately laughed with her mouth full and answered:
- for barbecue this is understandable! And for self-defense from whom?) Only old people live there! Plus we’ll be in the forest, what have you read there already?)
The woman herself realized how delusional it sounded and quietly let out a laugh, but then continued:
- yes.. I know it sounds stupid, I just read a little about how people disappeared, and their bodies were found, they said that there were some sectarians, but they were never caught!
- oh, okay! I read this too, it was 20 years ago, everything is fine there already!! People continue to live, but the sectarians would have all died! *Madd answered confidently and shrugged, continuing to eat food in the form of delicious pancakes*
- yes, but take it anyway.
*the mother said this and put the cleaver right in front of her, it wasn’t very big so it would fit in her bag for sure*
- Mom.. are you sure that this is what you should take? You can... at least an ordinary knife...?
- put it in your bag! It won't be too much!
The woman already said this sternly and confidently, she sat down opposite her... this was already more like Maddie’s mother, so she did not argue.
Time flew by quite quickly and she already had to run to the meeting place! Having put on her bag and taking a backpack with the necessary things, Madd took a cleaver from the table and put it in the same favorite bag with a strange sensation, this feeling was very unpleasant .. as if she she was afraid of something... but having forgotten about it once again, she went to the exit from the apartment, where her mother was waiting for her with her questions.
- so.. well, did you take everything? Keys, knife, backpack, bag, blankets?
- huh..
don’t you see? Yes, I took everything, even that cleaver, come on, everyone! Otherwise I'm in a hurry!
Having kissed her mother on the cheek, she hurriedly left, already at the entrance she heard the door closing inside her apartment.
As soon as she came out, she was greeted by not the best weather, fog, humidity... since it was still early in the morning, it was very cold for the way she was dressed, just some caprons, a denim dark green skirt and a black sleeveless top, although she had There were sleeves, but they were separate, but still the shoulders above the elbow were open, so it was cold! Very much! Just now Maddie thought that she needed to look out the window at least for a second and think about what to wear before getting out, she should quickly go and warm up on the bus!
It didn’t take her long to get to the meeting place; Madd lived right next to the station and for her this was a huge plus now!
Finally, at the meeting place, her friends were already waiting for her, who arrived much earlier than the girl, they talked about their own topics and as soon as they saw Madd, Mike immediately said, taking off his jacket:
- are you serious?!
It was immediately clear what he was talking about, Mike took off his jacket and handed it to her*
- get dressed, come on! All we needed was for you to get sick.
- yes.. sorry, haha, didn’t think
* she said this awkwardly and without any problems accepted the brunette’s jacket with one strand dyed green, the girl herself had the same! Black hair and one dyed strand, only it was dyed red, she and Mike had a pair of dyed hair, so to speak, it was their personal trick! It even connected somehow.
- thanks again.
In a short period of time, their little blue, small and a little shabby bus appeared around the corner; finally it drove up to the place and they could get on it.
In a couple of minutes they were already on their way; there weren’t many people on the bus, which made the guys happy.
While they were driving, it started to rain, Maddie was just looking out the window and listening to relaxing music while Mike, sitting next to him, was already having his 7th dream, in fact, she herself was getting sleepy, she just couldn’t fall asleep.
In front of them sat a sweet couple... Casey and Kai, they were chatting about something, but the music in Madd’s headphones drowned out their voices and only added to the atmosphere. The rain only intensified, and in just half an hour Maddie herself was already asleep, accidentally resting her head on the shoulder of her friend Mike, who was sitting next to her, who also continued to sleep without any problems.
After 3 hours they finally arrived and Kai began to wake everyone up, he woke up all his friends and his beloved girl and they could finally get up and start their journey from the village to the forest! Instantly, they all got off the bus with a crowd of unknown people, mostly children and some old people.
When they came out, Maddie immediately felt relief and moisture, starting to look around and finally found t at the very path from the village into the forest and, grabbing all the bags, the company walked along it when they passed the small village of Maddie and it seems Mike noticed that many houses were abandoned and there were practically no people in the village, so they raised this topic.
The whole village as a whole looked very ancient, as if it had already been abandoned, and not most of it as it might have seemed; the weather also added to its charm: there was heavy fog after the rain, and there were a lot of puddles and dirt on the asphalt.
-Is there really anyone else living here?
Mike was the first to speak during this whole time.
- Certainly! The bus goes here.
Maddie already said it*
- it’s just strange that no one even goes out after the rain, well, there, on their own business
After his own words, Mike shrugged and walked on with the company, and Casey began her explanation
- Many people sleep in this weather and don’t go outside at all! But there are still few people, so it’s not surprising.
- yes, yes, another plus: we’ve almost reached the forest, and there are fewer residential buildings here, well, that’s what I see.
Casey's words were confirmed by her boyfriend, her boyfriend Kai had brown hair and was a blue-eyed guy, Casey often got annoyed that his hair fell in his eyes, it was funny, now, when they were all walking in search of a small clearing in the forest, everything They were silent, sometimes they exchanged a couple of phrases but there was no more conversation, it was very strange, because usually they were noisy guys..
While they were walking and looking for a suitable place, there were many such moments when they had to make their way further through the thorny branches! Because of this, at the first such obstacle, Maddie’s nylon tights were torn, very badly, that you just can’t hide, as it turned out, she was also injured, but no one noticed, perhaps sometime in the future.
They walked for quite a long time, after about 20 minutes the company finally chose a more or less clean and open place in the forest to settle down, the weather was still foggy and the sky was covered with low clouds, it seemed so dark, although it was only lunch, Maddie liked this atmosphere, but not this time, I had to help my friends, but everything was wet and dirty... uh, it was also dripping a little from the trees after the rain.
When they finally set up two tents in which two people would sleep, they decided that for now they would stay in one of the tents until everything was more or less dry, or when it got really cold and they would need to light a fire.
Maddie, in turn, quickly took a blanket and several small pillows from her backpack, for complete comfort, they put one of the blankets under themselves and the others could hide, they put the pillows next to them, they closed the tent and turned on several flashlights.
After a few seconds of silence, Casey began her first conversation*
- somehow I imagined it differently, I thought the weather wouldn’t be so bad..
- By the way, it even showed that it would be sunny.
Kai already said this, confirming Casey's words.
After Kaya’s words, the blonde took out her phone from her warm green sweater, she decided to check if this was true, but she couldn’t get a connection at all, it still wasn’t strange, so she quickly gave up her attempts.
- I still can’t get a connection, cool
Rolling her eyes, Casey said this, she leaned on Kaya’s arm and buttoned her sweater to the maximum.
- I think it's logical, huh.
Kai laughed and looked at Casey*
- Well then you can tell scary stories! Haha!
She said this to Maddie and a malicious smile immediately appeared on her face, and her eyes lit up in anticipation of approval.
- well, no! I was going to go to bed while you were there scaring each other!
when Kai said this it was not surprising, he was the type in the company who is afraid of everything, this blue-eyed one was against this trip, but since Casey agreed to go, he couldn’t leave.
- ok, what are your suggestions?
Madd continued and examined the guys.
- Well, you can just tell some stories.
Mike said this and before Madd could speak, he interrupted her!
- But not scary!
He poked his finger in her nose and she was slightly surprised by this reaction.
- haha!! Yes, that’s how I understood it!
The girl rolled her eyes and said it somehow offended, she didn’t like his gesture.
- so, who will sleep? Me with Kai and Maddie with Mike or Me with Maddie and Kai with Mike? I don’t even consider other options!
- well, most likely the second option.
- I also think it will be better this way
Mike responded to Maddie's words with a grin and turned his gaze to Casey.
- Fine!
Casey answered and looked at Kaya who simply nodded at their words and seemed to fall asleep.
Maddie, in turn, hugged her knees, it seemed cool... so she took the edge of another blanket and pulled it over herself, covering her legs.
Just now Casey noticed the small cuts that the girl managed to earn in this forest.
- God! Maddie! Look at your feet, they are bleeding! You've already injured yourself, horror!
- oh.. nothing, I’ll get some bandages out of my backpack now..
this was already said by Mike, who immediately began rummaging through his backpack
- Eh, I think I forgot them.. ahah..
After his words, Casey was initially silent for a couple of seconds and after the abrupt start
- Seriously?! Did you at least take something?
Casey answered with great dissatisfaction and complaint.
- no, I took bandages for example, but bandages are not quite suitable for such small wounds, because there are a lot of them, I think it will be enough if you just lightly rinse and treat.
- ph! And thanks for that!
*Casey answered, Kai lightly stroked Kay’s head and shoulders so that she wouldn’t get too angry*
- oh, okay, it’s okay, we’re not going to die here.
Kai said this awkwardly, continuing his actions
At this time, Mike took out cotton pads and peroxide to treat the girl’s legs so that she wouldn’t do anything nasty, nodded at Kay and Kaya’s words and supported her so that Casey wouldn’t get too angry
Casey responded to these words like this:
- okay, I need a distraction, Kai, open the tent slightly, fresh air won’t hurt me now.
*Kai nodded silently and opened the tent a little, closer to the middle, while Mike began to treat small wounds on the girl’s legs, Maddie squeezed her hands a little on the blanket, it still stung a little, but tolerable.
As soon as the tent opened halfway, you could immediately see trees and a gray sky nearby, somehow everything was like a horror movie, this was Casey’s first thought, she began to examine the area where they were staying, although the weather outside was already better, but still somehow not very relaxing, at the same moment she took her phone and turned it on, her eyes immediately widened, because a lot of time had passed, although the sensations were only a couple of minutes.
- wow guys... listen, I think it’s time to go out and look for branches for the fire, because a lot of time has passed, soon it will be evening.
- Seriously? Maximum 20 minutes passed
*Kai answered these words and then looked at the time, he was a little taken aback and answered his own words*
-Really, a lot of time has passed, okay. Mike, while you treat Madd's wounds, Kay and I will go and start working, so to speak, ahah.
- mg.
Mike's short and quiet answer, the two went out, starting to talk about their own things and leaving these two alone, Maddie looked down at the brunette who was busy with her wounds and did not pay attention to the look, because he was very busy with her limbs, her legs were warmed by the warm hands of the guy which slightly squeezed her thighs, and sometimes when the wound from the peroxide tingled and he saw it, he would blow on the wound and stroke it with his hand, smiling warmly at her, this embarrassed the girl a little, it was still an awkward situation. In general, he was almost done with her legs
- Don't you think this place is strange?
He spoke sharply when she looked at him intently
- What? A..e..
she was a little confused
- I don’t know, it’s just like someone is watching us, don’t you think?
- yes, I guess not, I didn’t notice anything like that, maybe the place looks creepy because of the weather
After these words, Mike finished treating her wounds and put the used cotton pads in his backpack.
- then forget it, maybe I’m becoming like Kai, a coward
laughed a little at his own joke, Maddie also thought it was funny.
- Well, who knows! Ahah, okay, let's go help that sweet couple, otherwise they'll be there for another couple of hours collecting branches
She glanced at the exit and again at Mike, they both stood up and turned off all the lights.
She could finally get up and go out of this place into the street, it really felt better... Mike, of course, went out after her, having previously closed his backpack.
After he left behind him, he closed the tent and they all went away, were busy with business, getting twigs for the fire, even though they had coal, they thought it was necessary.
About 30 minutes passed, everyone was sitting by the fire, built in the open air, which only warmed their bodies a little, but they would soon eat, it was slowly starting to get dark outside, Maddie didn’t like the atmosphere of the forest anymore.. she had a very strange feeling.. it seems. she understood Mike, it also seemed to her as if they were being watched, because of this she wanted to hide somewhere from everything with her company and leave in the morning.
But since everyone was chatting well and not quarreling, she also tried to maintain the conversation without showing it, but it seems that Mike noticed Maddie’s concern, although she tried to hide it as much as possible.
- Madd, is everything okay? Maybe you feel bad?
Mike said this in her ear, she could feel the warm breath from the guy’s words, it even warmed her up a little.
- What? No, everything's fine, I just... I don't know.
- Something happened?
- no, no, maybe I’m just tired, maybe I didn’t get enough sleep.
- OK then.
Nodding at Mike’s words, she continued the pleasant dialogue, the guys were already planning another trip, to Casey’s dacha, she has a lake next to her house, and her parents allowed her to go without them, everyone, of course, confirmed that this was a cool idea and were already planning the date!
When it was already completely dark, they finally decided to fry a delicious barbecue since everyone was hungry all day, as a result, they sent Maddie to another tent, where there was a backpack with meat, she did not resist and slowly got up from the already heated place and went to one of the tents where their things were, including a backpack with meat.
It wasn't far to walk, just a couple of subways, but still not far to herself, she was still haunted by the feeling that someone was watching her, the girl walked quickly in order to also quickly return to the light, because she walked without a flashlight, she calmed herself in her thoughts.
“maybe it’s my friends who make sure everything is fine? Crap! Most likely because of Mike's words, I screwed myself up! Everything is fine, everything is fine.."
While she was already halfway there, she heard a strange sound, a quiet rustling of the bushes next to the tent... as if someone was walking between them, stopped and looked at her, her breathing quickened and she became afraid to approach, her legs became weak and she instantly stopped, she I wanted to turn around and run to Mike so that she could be protected! She doesn't want to stay here! We need to tell the guys to leave, something is really wrong here! Maddie was about to turn around and go back to the guys, she stood and slowly began to turn in the other direction, when suddenly Casey called out to her, who followed her, because she began to linger and they began to worry.
- Madd! Why did you stand rooted to the spot?! We are all waiting for you!
At this cry, the girl jumped slightly and quickly began to approach Casey to shut her up
- quiet... quiet! There is someone here, we need to go to the guys... let's get out of here.
The girl quietly began to say this to her friend, Madd’s voice trembled as did her hands.
- What's happened? Did you see someone?
Casey was very tense about this and the girl began to look around, turning on her flashlight and looking at the area, while stroking Madd soothingly
- nobody there.
- A..
Maddie felt awkward, she began to slowly calm down next to another person.
- maybe it really just seemed to me.
She muttered under her breath.
- Go to the guys, and I’ll take the meat myself.
Maddie nodded and awkwardly walked back to their place while Casey continued to the tent to pick up her backpack.
To be honest, after this behavior from Madd, the bravest girl in their company, Kay also tensed up a little and walked as quickly as possible in order to return to her company as soon as possible. When Madd returned, the guys were perplexed and immediately asked a couple of questions, or rather only one.
- Maddie, did something happen on the way?
- and where is Casey?
The girl sat down next to Mike again, but closer to make sure she felt safe.
- In general, everything is fine, I was just a little scared... in general, little things!
Already smiling, Madd answered Mike’s question and then continued:
- and Casey decided that she would bring the kebab herself.
- ah, well then it’s clear.
Kai answered and continued to warm his hands next to the fire
- What exactly were you afraid of?
Mike's sharp question took him by surprise, the girl didn't even know what to say... the truth or not to say anything? But after a second of reflection, she still managed to answer this.
- Yes, there it is, most likely the quiet rustle of the wind.
- m? Wind? I didn’t even notice that he was there that moment, oh well, then it’s really little things ahha.
While Mike was saying this, Casey had just returned with a backpack, which contained their food with disposable utensils. In the depths of her soul, Maddie was very glad that nothing had happened to her and this could prove that she really thought that strange sound and the feeling itself surveillance, although about the feeling... it still hasn’t disappeared from the girl, it’s just become several times less.
Finally, taking the meat out of his backpack, and then threading the meat onto skewers, Kai began to speak
- Let’s quickly cook and start eating..
Dialogues began between the guys again and they all communicated amicably, but at that moment Maddie was thinking that it was not in vain that she took the cleaver, what if she still has to defend herself from this .. unknown? Although maybe it wasn’t even a person, it was an animal! The little one... got scared and ran away when the light appeared, now she felt uneasy, but still she wanted to leave here, at least get away from this dark and creepy forest. The girl did not control her thoughts, she tried to justify what she thought was all this, but it didn’t work, animal fear was still deep in her soul.
In about 15 minutes, the food was ready, they laid out several fragrant and juicy pieces on disposable dishes, everyone got the same thing, at that very second they began to eat it all, continuing their chatter, it seems now Madd had forgotten a little and was sitting calmly, but in no mood .
The girl was in her own thoughts and only confirmed some of the words from the company, she ate slowly and very little, although the last time she ate food was earlier in the morning before going out.
At one point, Kai could no longer stand it and suddenly stood up, thereby forcing everyone to pay attention to him.
- sorry, but I’ll quickly go into the bushes in a small way, otherwise I’ll burst soon!
He giggled slightly and walked away, he was scared to go there, but hopelessness forced the guy to retreat into the dark forest and pour out the contents of his bladder.
When he left for a short time, they continued to communicate as if nothing had happened, even Maddie was distracted from her thoughts and smoothly joined the dialogue between Mike and Casey.
Quite a lot of time passed unnoticed, and Kai was still missing, it was strange, because he would have returned as quickly as possible, the first person who noticed Kai’s long absence was Casey, she and volunteered to be the first to go and check if he died there
- So, I’ll go check on the one who went into the bushes, otherwise he’s been gone for a painfully long time, ahah.
When Maddie realized that the guy had really been gone for a long time, terrible and frightening thoughts about this place began to come to her again, a strange sensation was again next to her and the girl began to get very worried, this was visible to the naked eye until Casey walked away into the same darkness Behind Kai, Mike noticed the worry on Madd's face.
- Are you worried?
- Yes.
- You know, when the feeling that someone was watching went away, it didn’t disappear for long.
- What do you mean?
- I would like to leave in the morning...
Before he had time to finish speaking, he suddenly fell silent and heard a drawn-out cry from a girl, or more precisely, it was Casey. With a quick glance at Maddie, he realized that she had heard him too, and together, without saying a word, they went to check on Casey.
It was clear that now Mike was seriously worried about this situation.
When they finally instantly came up behind Casey and saw that her gaze was directed straight into the bushes, they came up and Mike dared to look where Kay was looking, while Maddie stood just behind them, already predicting what they found there..
- yours...
As soon as Mike looked there, he felt like the kebab was asking to come back out, because Kai’s body was lying there! There was not even hope that he was alive, he was severely crippled and at least not breathing, the guy’s gaze was devastated and the grimace on his face expressed fear. Mike couldn’t stand it for a long time and, taking Casey by the shoulder, began to move her back so that she would no longer look at this horror.
- Madd, don't even think about looking there.
While he was saying this, he himself looked at the expression on Casey's face, his eyes expressed pure fear and sadness, tears were rolling down his cheeks and his mouth was slightly open in shock.
At that moment he felt very sorry for his friend and at the same time his girlfriend, who saw the dead body of her beloved guy.
- We'll leave here tomorrow...
Casey's voice trembled and she herself said it very quietly, but in such silence it was very clearly audible.
- Yes..
Maddie nodded and lowered her gaze to the floor, she herself was ready to cry from fear and sadness, the girl understood that she would no longer see her most fearful friend, that now everything in their company would not be the same without him.. it was so sad to realize, in her head was just a mess of thoughts, from the fact that she was simply going through memories to thoughts of what could happen to him here, they didn’t even hear his scream.
- Send quickly to the tents and we’ll go to bed! In the morning, everyone should be ready to leave the forest at 04.40.
Mike said in a pointing tone and led the girls to the tents, they in turn nodded.
- I.. I’ll probably sleep in a tent alone, excuse me, I want to be alone.
Mike thought about Casey's words.
- are you sure about this?
- Yes.
“I think it’s dangerous to leave you alone.”
- If anything happens, I’ll scream!
- Well, Kai didn’t scream when someone did this to him!
- Well, I will!
Suddenly the guys began to argue and quarrel about this matter, while Maddie walked between them and looked around, the feeling of being watched by them returned again, perhaps these two could also feel it but they were now busy with their argument.
- okay, that’s enough, because of you now my head hurts even more! Let her sleep alone if she wants to.
- Phew, as he wants in short.
Mike said a little touchily and rolled his eyes, at that moment they almost reached their tents
- well, fine.
They decided to take Casey to her tent and in just a couple of seconds they were already at home, Mike leaned his elbow on the pillow and Maddie closed the tent and turned on the flashlight that was already there, even when she was not alone she felt uneasy, the feeling of anxiety did not go anywhere was leaving and she was afraid for Casey that she was left alone, alone with danger..
- And why did you let her stay alone?
Mike spoke sharply
- I don’t know.. it’s her decision.
- At the very least, it’s not well thought out!
- I just think that now it would be better for her to be left alone!
- I don’t think so, she’s in danger!
- I think everything will be fine.
- We all thought so much about this delay! Only now Kaya is no longer alive!
When Mike said this, Maddie suddenly fell silent, she simply did not know what to answer him because he was right, she awkwardly looked away and sat closer to Mike.
- Well, why are you silent?
- Tch.. well, yes! You're right, but I just think she'll be better off in silence now!
- Okay, we’ll see in the morning then, but now go to bed and rest.
He didn’t want to continue this argument, he couldn’t think of anything better than just putting her to bed
- I don’t want to sleep and I probably won’t be able to
- Don't worry, I'll keep an eye on the situation.
The guy nodded and smiled warmly at Maddie.
“I won’t be able to sleep in this situation.”
His expression immediately changed and Mike simply silently took her hand and pulled her to him, he pressed her to his warm body while she froze in place in bewilderment, the girl definitely did not expect this. While Maddie was taken aback like that, the guy wrapped his warm and firm hand around her, thereby hugging her.
- If you think I’ll fall asleep like this, then I hasten to disappoint you - no.
She muttered quietly about Maddie and he grinned in response and said:
- it just works, you won’t even notice how it will be morning and you will wake up
- pooh.
She rolled her eyes demonstratively, knowing that Mike wouldn’t even see it.
-Are you scared now?
Such a sharp question made her feel somehow uneasy, and because of it, she remembered what had just happened recently.
- Probably yes.
- Even after hearing that I won’t hurt you?
- Yes.
- But this is a shame.
This made her laugh a little and you could hear a quiet chuckle from the girl’s lips, after a moment she spoke again
-Are you scared?
- actually, yes, I wouldn’t want you or anyone else to know this at all, but I was scared from the very beginning when we arrived here.
- wow, I didn’t know you were timid
- Not true! I just had a strange feeling!
- … me too
The guy’s grip at that moment had already weakened slightly and she could finally look at him in this dialogue, Maddie looked straight into Mike’s green eyes, he also kept eye contact, although he was slightly embarrassed by what he told the girl.
- so why did you go then?
- Well.. I didn’t pay much attention to him.
- Likewise.
After this little conversation, suddenly the two of them fell silent and just kept eye contact with each other.
- Do you want me to tell you something? So that you try to sleep.
- Well, tell me
After Maddie's answer, the guy began to tell some stories from his childhood, all of them were short and funny enough, so he managed to put Madd to sleep.
Noticing that she was sleeping, he stopped telling her something and began stroking the girl’s head, touching her tangled and tousled hair.
Let’s better skip until the morning, Mike tried not to fall asleep all this time and he succeeded quite well, even though he was very lethargic,
As soon as 04.30 came, the guy began to wake up Maddie, who quickly woke up and sat down next to her.
- What? I still fell asleep
- yes, but she kept repeating it so furiously
The guy answered with a laugh and then got down to business.
- so, take your bags and I’ll take one, we’ll go out to the village now.
He actually took one of the bags, also took the same lantern that he had been working all night, Maddie, in turn, began to take away those pillows and blankets that she had taken here, quickly getting ready, these two left the tent, without bothering to collect it, they immediately went to the next one to wake her up and check how Casey is doing, if she’s okay.
As soon as Maddie and Mike began to approach the tent where the girl was supposed to sleep, it began to open and Casey came out safe and sound, it was clear that she had just woken up.
- phew, it’s good that you’re okay and nothing happened last night.
- Yes, nice... when are we leaving?
The girl said slightly alarmed
- now, I think we won’t even take tents!
Maddie answered very confidently, to which Casey just nodded, it was clear from her that she was still upset by the recent death and this was not surprising.
- Kay, turn on the flashlight and we’ll be on our way.
Mike said and immediately went first into the thicket of the forest, followed by the girls.
-Are we really going in the right direction?
- Yes, they should go out to the village soon.
Hearing this answer, Maddie nodded and silently with Casey followed Mike, they really didn’t walk for long and came out to some abandoned church, this definitely wasn’t the case when they walked into that clearing!
- Mike?
- damn... well, if there’s the first building here, then we should get there.
The guy muttered with less confidence; it was already 05.20 on the clock and it was getting lighter outside.
The guys decided to take a little break and collect their thoughts in order to continue their journey, they came closer to the church and Maddie sat down on the steps that were along the way.
- well, I’m sure we’ll get to the nearest settlement!
- hope so.
Casey said quietly while Madd was inspecting the area, she was completely unfamiliar to her, she wasn’t even on Google maps when she was inspecting the area of the house from the computer, looking around, she looked up at Mike and screamed sharply:
-Behind!
But before the guy had time to do anything, he was hit on the head with a bat and he fell face down on one of the steps. Casey, due to the loud blow and scream, also drew attention to them and quickly stood up, and before getting up, she took Madd by the hand and pulled her themselves, but it was too late to run away anywhere, they were surrounded by an unknown crowd...
These people had long black capes that reached down to their feet, a mask that was made of a goat’s skull, and crosses were visible on their open, pale necks! It was something like a tattoo or just some kind of drawn picture.
They quickly took the girls' hands, while they resisted, Maddie remembered about her cleaver in her bag! But it was too late to take advantage of it; she wanted a more opportune moment.
They threw the bound girls to the walls of that abandoned church, covered their mouths with some kind of wet rags, these same rags smelled strongly of a metallic smell, as if they were soaked in blood, although.. most likely they were! Abomination! When Madd thought about this, she almost vomited, she looked at Casey and saw that she was unconscious, the girl may have hit her head hard th against the wall when they were thrown, because blood was running down the top of her head and onto her face.
When Maddie heard something strange, her gaze quickly turned to this crowd... sectarians! A group of cultists quickly lit a fire with unknown intentions.
Maddie had a lot of thoughts in her head, one of the options was that they wanted to give them to some kind of “god” as a sacrifice... this thought and everything that was happening scared her, she felt very sick even just because of stress. When they did their job, some of those people began to approach the two girls and Maddie pretended to be asleep.
The first was taken by Casey, who had already begun to wake up and at first did not realize what was happening, they threw her very harshly near the fire and, taking out the crosses, they began to pronounce something, they spoke in some other language, it was not even Latin!
Mike began to gradually wake up when they began to shout some words unknown to them, it seems those people thought that he had died, but this was not so, he stood up and crawled slightly behind one of the pillars of the building, starting to observe everything that was happening, after a couple of minutes he came horrified when his friend Casey began to be cut right when she was conscious, she began to scream furiously in pain, Madd looked at it all and immediately closed her eyes again, she didn’t want to see it, tears appeared in the girl’s eyes and flowed down cheeks.
Casey was over very quickly, all this time, in fact, Maddie was not wasting her time, but was thinking about her plan and slowly freeing one hand from the rope, two people from there began to approach her and Mike was about to run out from behind that pillar to save Maddie couldn’t do it... he was very dizzy and he needed to rest a little more, in his head he blamed himself for falling very badly.
Maddie was almost identically thrown in the same place as Casey, she fell right next to her and almost vomited again, the rag was removed from her and, surrounding the girl, they began to mutter something, gradually turning into a scream, they did not stop as quickly as with Kay, these sectarians seemed to be started to achieve some kind of “success”
The girl immediately felt even worse, she had a strong burning sensation in the neck and chest area, others could see there a faintly visible cross like those of these people, when one of the sectarians began to approach her, she finally took the cleaver she had given her in the same freed hand her mother was still at the very beginning, the girl without delay hit an unknown person who was approaching her with this cleaver, she struck him hard enough that he fell right on that fire, not knowing what to do, these sectarians just stood and looked back at each other, I think they They thought between saving their comrade or running after the girl who had cut the ropes and had already begun to run, albeit slowly.
Suddenly Mike saw all this and seemed to understand that this was fate! He needed to save Maddie and he finally ran out of his hiding place, taking the girl by the arm, on adrenaline he was clearly able to run faster, they really quickly ran to that floor of the abandoned village, it felt like they continued to be watched while the bus The guys had not yet arrived and decided to hide in one of the abandoned houses, as soon as they ran in Mike immediately fell to the floor, exhausted, and Maddie cut her ropes on her legs, because of them she could not run up quickly enough, so Mike dragged her along with him.
As soon as they more or less calmed down, the girl sat down next to the guy, it was necessary to do something with his wounds, but the maximum was to close them with her own hands so that there would be a little less blood.
- ah-ah... yours..
- I'm sorry, but it will be better this way, I think so..
- I probably should have taken at least one of the backpacks...
Just now the guy thought about this, leaning slightly on the girl.
- By the way, you are bleeding too.
- Well, naturally.
- maybe you can sleep? And I'll wake you up when the bus arrives.
- Okay, I hope we get home successfully...
When Mike closed his eyes and very quickly passed out, the girl began to simply silently wait for the moment when she could get out and go home, while she was haunted by severe hunger after the moment the sectarians did something to her, in her hands she tightly squeezed that same cleaver, waiting for someone to come in and try to harm her friend, but she became this pest.
Madd at some point felt a strong feeling on her face, as if the skin was starting to tear! It ended very quickly and the hunger became even stronger, puzzles formed in her head, these sectarians did something strange to her and she had to run away from Mike! She abruptly and timidly stood up from her seat, but it was already too late, the parasite, which was awakened by the sectarians, volunteered to come out, he needed something to drown out his hunger and couldn’t control himself and his mind, she slowly bit off Mike’s head, who would never wake up again, like As soon as she did this, Maddie went outside and began to look around the village, and from the forest she could see those sectarians coming, she was no longer afraid, after the parasite was able to calm down, her mind was able to return again, now she was thinking of giving herself up to these sectarians, she didn’t want to pain She could no longer live like this, she killed him with her own hands, a guy who was more valuable than life!
While she was in her thoughts, a crowd of people were able to surround her and worship her? What?
As soon as Maddie returned to reality and looked back, these cultists surrounded her and were on their knees in front of her! Unexpectedly, her mouth opened so wide that the girl could again bite off someone’s head or any limb, when this happened, these sectarians began to approach her one by one and the parasite bit off their heads.
In a couple of days, they found absolutely all the bodies, the entire village was dead again, they also found 3 additional bodies in the forest and in that same abandoned house, but you know who they forgot about? Maddie. When her body was not found, there were suspicions that she was the first to die, and some had assumptions that she was still walking in the forest.
Her mother, upon learning this news, could not stand it and very soon hanged herself in the kitchen of their apartment.
- Only 20 years later the village came to life again, young people settled there and some rebuilt abandoned houses.
This is what a boy of about 15, who was sitting in a shared room with his sister, ended up with.
This guy's younger sister was very frightened by this story and immediately began to deny it:
- Yes, you just made it up! This is not all true!
- Well, do you want to go into the forest now and find this missing Madd?)
- No I do not want to..
- So you're a coward!
- not true! Phew.
A girl of about 11 began to think about the decision to go there, they didn’t know this area that well yet, because they had just moved to this area.
- ahha! Come on, it really happened here, but at the end of the story it’s just an invention of the locals who supposedly survived, now, for example, they’re in a mental hospital!
- I knew it! Rave.
The girl rolled her eyes and looked out of the window of a two-story building next to the forest, starting to watch closely, the forest was so dark and gloomy... it seems she saw an unknown female figure for a couple of seconds and got scared and moved away from the window.
- I guess I’ll go to the kitchen and eat.
The girl said and quickly went downstairs.
Now this story and what she just saw in the forest will be stuck in her thoughts for a long time.
The End.