"Are we there yet?" Cat sat beside the window, her hands and face almost on the glass as she peered out taking in the view.
"No." Jade turned back quickly, flashing the red head a fed up glare before turning her focus back onto the road in front of her.
"But I'm squashed." Cat groaned, poking the boy beside her.
"Cat, stop poking me!" Robbie pushed Cat away from him, half jokingly, half serious.
"Yeah, it's so squashed back here. My nails are wet and Andre keeps knocking into me while I try and paint them!" Trina held her nails up towards Jade who chose to ignore her.
"No one invited you anyway." Jade replied harshly.
"Maybe if you stopped painting your nails in a crowded car I wouldn't mess them up so much." Andre rolled his eyes at Trina.
"Guys come on, this was meant to be fun. Our first proper road trip together. Why don't we all sing a song?" Tori wiggled her eyebrows up at everyone only to be greeted by loud sighs and fed up groans. "Take that as a no then." She trailed off.
"Look, we'll get there as fast as we can. I can't wait to get out of this stupid car with you lot. You are all driving me insane." Jade pushed her foot down on the gas.
"Jade, calm down." Beck started, stopping the minute he got a death glare from the driver.
"Are you sure the cabin is down here? It's kind of in the middle of no where." Tori's worried voice broke the harsh silence that had began in the car.
"I'm sure." She replied, a smirk on her face.
"Are there any tigers in the woods?" Cat turned to face Tori, fear flooding her brown eyes.
Tori chuckled at her naive best friend. "The only wild cat in the woods will be you."
Cat giggled along with the rest of her friends. "Okay, Tori."
...
An long hour later the friends had finally arrived at their cabin in the woods. The cabin itself looked as if it would have been idyllic in another life, but it looked as though it had been neglected the past decade. The paint was weathered and peeling off in spots, and the slats in the shutters on the upstairs windows were mostly broken out. A slight breeze made the shutters tap against the house and the hinges squeaked. The sun low in the sky, illuminated the upstairs rooms making the two windows facing the friends look like horrible red eyes, and the door below a eerie smile.
"We're staying here?" Cat grabbed Tori's hand tight as the group of friends headed towards the cabin.
Jade nodded. "You guys wanted a cheap vacation, I found us one."
"We didn't think you'd book us a abandoned cabin in the woods." Andre added, his eyes wide and staring around the property.
"You guys are never happy with anything I do. It's either you sleep in here or outside. Your pick." Jade walked up to the door, swinging it open and staring back at her group of friends who quickly followed.
A quick gust of wind whirled around the friends as they stood at the entrance of the cabin. Dust and cobwebs covered the floors and walls and a dirty white sheet hung over the sofa. The inside of the cabin certainly looked slightly better than the outside. It looked cosy and with a bit of love it looked ok to stay in the for vacation.
"See, it isn't that bad." Jade pulled a smug look onto her face as her friends finally relaxed.
"I like it. It's old fashioned and cosy." Tori smiled back at Jade, placing her bag down on the wooden floor.
"So where's the bedrooms?" Beck stood at the bottom of the creaky stairs, his bag resting on the first step.
"There's two bedrooms. Girls have the biggest room, you guys have the smaller room." Jade spun on her heel, smiling at the girls of the group.
"What? That's not fair." Rex spoke. Robbie looking shocked at the puppet on his hand.
"There's more of us, so it is far, puppet." Jade snapped back, smacking him around the head.
"Owch." Robbie moaned, rubbing Rex's head for him.
"Yay! We get to share!" Cat jumped on Tori and Trina, wrapping her arms around their waists.
"Oh yay." Trina replied sarcastically. "I get to share with the children. Can't I have my own room?"
"If you can build one, then sure." Jade pulled a face at the oldest Vega sister. Grabbing her bag and heading up the stairs. "I shotgun the double bed."
"Shotgun the single bed!" Andre and Beck said at the same time.
"I'll rock, paper, scissors you for it." Beck replied heading up the stairs after Jade.
"Hell no. I ain't sleeping in a bed with puppet boy!" Andre complained as he lost the game.
"I heard that!" Robbie called up after them.
"You were meant to." Andre laughed. "No funny business, got it?"
Robbie bowed his head and nodded. "I know."
...
"But how come I have to sleep on the floor bed?" Trina complained as they entered their bedroom.
"Because there isn't enough room. Tori and Cat are going to share the single and you're not sleeping in my bed. You invited yourself so you get last pick." Jade threw her bag onto the double bed, pointing to the single mattress on the floor.
"It looks comfy." Tori joked, sticking her tongue out at her sister.
"Why can't me or Tori share with you Jade?" Cat questioned, sitting on the single bed.
"Because I don't like either of you." Jade replied without missing a beat.
"It's fine Cat, we'll have a sleepover." Tori tried to cheer her best friend up.
"Oh, yay!" The red head smiled, instantly forgetting what Jade had just said to her.
"So who's up for a drink?" The black haired girl pulled out a bottle of vodka, a proud smile on her face.
"It's only five in the afternoon." Tori laughed, raising her eyebrows up.
"So? Time means nothing when you're on vacation, Vega." Jade mimicked Tori's eyebrows, taking a sip from the bottle. "I dare you."
Tori paused, chewing on her bottom lip for a moment before taking the bottle from Jade. "If you can't beat them, join them." She said, taking a heavy sip from the glass bottle.
"Let's get this vacation started!" Jade threw the rest of her items down on her bed, running back down the stairs and plugging her pearphone into portable speakers.
...
A few hours and a few drinks later the friends were sat around a campfire they'd made outside the front of the cabin. The sun had set leaving the woods in complete darkness, the light of the fire being the only light for miles. Noises echoed around the empty woods, the sounds of various animals being heard by the group.
Cat giggled as she switched between drinking cherryade and vodka and toasted marshmallows. "This is fun."
"Yeah, this is way better than I thought it was gonna be. You did good, Jade." Andre punched her arm playfully, taking another swig of his beer.
"See, you guys doubt me too much. Why would I bring you to some shitty vacation?" She replied, her face in a permanent smug smile.
"Because you would." Beck chuckled. "It's halloween in two days, it would be so like you to bring us to some haunted cabin in the woods."
"What and kill you all one by one?" This is real life, idiot. Not some horror movie." Jade rolled her eyes at her ex boyfriend.
"Well if you did kill us all I'd survive." Trina beamed, flicking her curls over her shoulder.
"Why?" Tori questioned, her eyebrows crossing.
"Because I'm the pretty one. Everyone knows the pretty girl and the virgin survive." Trina replied proudly.
The group sniggered to themselves. "So 'you' and Cat would live then." Jade mocked.
"You think I'm pretty?" Cat gasped, her eyes wide and excited.
"I think you're a virgin." Jade laughed. "Honestly, you and Tori would probably survive."
Tori looked to the ground as her cheeks blushed red, her heart skipping a beat as she replayed what Jade had just said.
"What about me? I'm the smart one and the smart one always lives." Robbie added.
"You're the geeky one, and the geeky one always dies first." Jade said across the fire to him.
"Well luckily, we aren't in a horror movie." Tori smiled. "But out of curiosity, if we were in a horror movie, who would you kill first, Jade?"
Jade blinked a few times as she took in what Tori had just questioned her. "Cat."
Cat gasped in shock, back away from Jade and into Tori.
"Calm down little red. She's kidding." Andre reassured, his eyes almost glaring at Jade.
"Why her?" Beck asked, his face confused along with the rest of the group.
"God I was kidding you idiots. I wouldn't kill anyone. Maybe harm a lot, but never kill. And honestly, she was just the person I was looking at."
Cat let out a breath of relief. "Yay, Jadey wouldn't kill me!" She moved back towards the pale girl, springing her body onto hers and hugging her.
"NO!" Jade screamed loudly, making Cat jump back off her faster than lightening.
"I'm gonna hit the hay. This whole day has knackered me out." Beck stood up, brushing dirt off his trousers.
"I'm coming too. I don't wanna be left with the killer." Andre smirked at Jade.
"Don't have too much fun up there." Jade cocked her eyebrow up at the boys.
"Wait, I'm coming too!" Robbie ran after his friends, looking back slightly in fear as Jade laughed at him.
...
"I'm glad you wouldn't kill any of us." Tori slurred as she lay in the dark, laying across from Jade.
"This is such a fucking weird conversation." Jade replied, throwing a pillow at the brunette opposite her. "Stop staring at me."
"Ouch, Jade that hurt!" Tori bat her eyelashes at her friend, pulling her lips into a pout.
"That cute look won't work on me, Vega. It was just a pillow."
"So you think I'm pretty and cute?" Tori said confidently, leaning further off her bed to get closer to Jade.
"I think you're a drunken idiot."
"A drunken, pretty idiot?" She questioned, not a hint of fear in her voice.
"Shut up." Jade shushed her, not replying to her question. "Go to sleep."
"I can't sleep. Cat's taking up the whole bed, her feet are all over my pillow." Tori looked down her bed into the darkness, her blurred vision making out her little red headed friend who was spread across the entire bed.
"Not my problem." Jade laughed.
"Can't I sleep in your bed, just for tonight?" Tori pleaded.
"No."
"Pretty please? I won't tell anyone."
"If I say yes will you get in a shut up?" Jade gave in, moving to one side of the bed and holding the covers up for Tori to get in.
"Thank you." Tori wrapped her arms around Jade as she moved into her double bed.
"Don't mention it, ever." Jade snapped, leaving Tori's hands around her waist.
...
Sunlight burst through the old curtains, shining across every inch of the wooden bedroom.
"Turn the light off." Jade groaned, throwing a pillow over her face.
"It's the sun." Tori replied as she changed into a clean set of clothes.
"Turn that off then." Jade rolled over, holding her cell away from her face. "It's only eight in the morning." She groaned again.
"Everyone's already up by the look of it." Tori moved to sit on the edge of the bed that Jade was curled up in.
The bedroom was empty beside from Tori and Jade. Trina's bed on the floor had been made, her pyjamas laying neatly on her pink pillow. Cat and Tori's bed was left in a mess, the pillows and covers scrunched up on the mattress with no attempt at making it.
"I can smell food, the guys must be making us breakfast." Tori finally caught Jade's eyes as she opened the bedroom door.
"Ugh." She groaned a final time before pulling her self up from the bed. Her hair was a mess, black and blue curls spread across her shoulders as she flatened it down; wiping her dark eyes. A yawn ripped out of her lips as she stood up, her feet cold against the wooden floorboards. "They better be making bacon."
"It smells like that." Tori smiled as she headed downstairs with Jade.
"Morning chicas." Andre said, wide awake. "Food will be ready in five."
"Thanks, Andre." Tori flashed him a grin as she sat at the table beside Trina.
"The floor bed wasn't too bad actually." She admitted as she applied her make up.
"I slept great with Andre." Robbie admitted, smacking his head as he realised what he had said.
The girls laughed as Andre smacked him around the head. "Good for you." Tori giggled.
"Hey, have you guys seen Cat this morning?" Beck questioned as he placed out seven plates on the table.
The group of friends all shook their heads.
"She's probably outside playing with the animals like the Disney princess she believes she is." Jade mocked.
Robbie opened the front door, letting on a cold gust of wind. His eyes scanned the wooded area ahead of him, nothing but tall, dark trees and gray skies filled his view. "CAT?" He shouted loudly, his voice echoing around the area.
He turned back to his friends, his face looked pinched, his eyes glassy. It looked as though he was going to cry, but he didn't. It was an emotion the friends couldn't put their finger on.
"Robbie, are you ok?" Andre asked, concern thick in his voice.
Robbie stood still, just staring out of the door. A feeling of dread crept upon the group of friends as they all exchanged worried looks, none of them knowing what to say or do.
"I think Cat's gone." He finally said.
A/N - So I wrote a one shot Halloween story last year and I decided to do it again, except I'm making it 13 parts up until Halloween, which means I will update every day without fail. I hope you guys enjoyed the first chapter!
What do you think happened to Cat?
