We screamed as our tire burst, causing the car to swirl across the road. My cousin, Alli, grabbed me and screamed into my shoulder. My brother screeched the car to a halt, pulling over to the side. I closed my eyes and leaned my head back onto the headrest. This was the last thing we needed, it wasn't like we weren't already late to our family reunion. My brother cursed and hopped out of the car, jogging over to the deflated tire. Alli jumped out of the car after my brother and stared at the tire.
"Oh man, there is no hope for this tire," she turned to face my brother, " and I hope you have an extra." My brother bit his lip and glanced back at her. Her eyebrows lowered. "You don't have one, do you?" I rolled my eyes and crawled over to the driver's side and leaned out the window.
"Alli, when does Xavier ever have an extra of anything? Or a spare?"
"Touche." My brother glanced at me and walked over to me. He appeared very annoyed and distressed.
"Alli and I are going to push the car and I need you to steer it, understand?" Alli gawked at Xavier, glaring at him.
"Why me? You are the man, you push it?" Xavier spit to the side and threw his leather jacket in the back seats. He gently patted Alli's cheek and walked to the back of the car.
"Because you are strong." It was my turn to gawk. I turned the rear view mirror to stare at my brother.
"And I ain't?" Xavier groaned and leaned on the car. Alli walked next to him, rolling up her sleeves. I jumped as I heard a loud crack. Soft pallets of rain began to fall around us.
"Aww Hell's bells. Why does it have to rain now," Alli complained. She pulled her hair up into a low ponytail and placed her hands of the car. "Well, lets get this thing going. Maybe we won't get struck by lightning." Xavier and Alli began to push on the car. I glanced out the windshield to see a small hill we had to go down.
"Uhh guys, I don't think this is such a great idea, remember, we are on a hill." Alli glanced up, still pushing. He glared at me, her teeth clenching. Her once poofy hair was falling around her face, damp from the rain.
"Quit complaining, at least you aren't the one pushing. You got it easy."
"Well sorry for being concerned for your and my safety. Let me not care anymore."
"Both of you shut it and just get this thing mo-" Xavier quickly turned around to see a pickup coming up behind us, its headlights shining brightly. He smiled and waved his arms in the air. Alli did the same. The pickup slowly came to a stop, the engine softly humming. The window rolled down and an older man licked his lips then spoke.
"You kids broke down?" Xavier shook his head, his bangs falling in his face.
"No sir, we have a busted tire and I have no extras." The old man blew on a cigarette and motioned to the back of his truck.
"Get in, I have an extra cabin ya'll can stay in for th' night, then ya' go to town and get a new tire." Xavier smiled and bowed his head.
"Thank you sir, thank you." The man blew on his cigarette and slightly shook his head.
"Get in before I change my mind." Xavier motioned for me to get in the back of the pickup. OK, so this guy just offers to let us stay in an extra cabin he has. This is how the idiots get killed in horror movies. They trust strangers and what happens to them? Yep, they die. We will probably be the next headline of the newspaper, 'Three People Die of Stupidity!'
"Hurry up Eve, we are leaving!" I opened the door and threw my jacket behind me. I know it would probably be cold in the morning, but right now it was really humid and I didn;t want it to get torn up or anything. No harm in leaving it here. I sighed and got out of the car, slamming the door behind me. Alli helped me into the back of the pickup truck and I sat in bewteen them. I crossed my arms, glaring at my feet.
"I can't believe you just trusted that guy like that, Xavier. What if he is a killer and we become his next meal?" Xavier laughed and ruffled my hair. I smacked his hand away, crossing my arms again.
"No more Texas Chainsaw Massacre for you missy." I shook my head and stared at our car. The pickup began to drive off with a pocket of smoke trailing from the exhaust pipe. I covered my nose with my tank top and closed my eyes. Alli sighed and wrapped an arm around me.
"Don't worry little cuz, nothing will happen to us. We will make it to the reunion by tomorrow." I opened one eye to stare at Alli.
"I hope this guy has a phone, we need to call my mom. He will be hot to hear we are going to be late. Again." Alli shrugged and leaned her head back.
"We will have to see." I rested my head on my arms. I had a feeling something wasn't going to go right. Not at all.
XxxX
After a 15 minute drive, we pulled into a small driveway that lead into a deep section into the woods. I gripped my brother's arm and groaned. He stared down at me with raised eyebrows.
"Why is it so deep in the woods," Alli remarked, glancing around at the surroundings.
"So nobody can hear ya' scream," the man growled. I jumped and gripped my brother's arm tightly. The man let out a hearty laugh and glanced back at us with a huge smile on his face. "I'm just kiddin' kiddo. There is nothing to worry bout'. Maybe you will see a bear here or there, but nothin' bad." Still latched onto my brother, we hopped out of the car. Xavire tore his arm away from me.
"You know for a 17 year-old, you sure are a scardey cat." I stuck my tongue out at him. The man rolled down the window.
"Not listen up, down the road in 'bout one mile or so is the town. Go to th' store and buy ya' a new tire. If ya' need anything, go to Jenny's Cafe, Ol' Jenny can't turn away kids needin' a good meal. Stay safe and sleep tight." The man gave a small wave an took off. We stared after him until we couldn't see the tail lights. Thunder roared above us and the rain seemed to fall down harder.
"Come on, we need to get inside before one of us gets sick." Alli nodded and grabbed my hand, the three of us darting for shelter.
We opened the door and were almost appalled. The place was a wreck. Furniture was thrown everywhere, the curtains torn. Everything was covered in cobwebs and there was a hole in the top of the roof in the middle of the room. I slapped my brother on the back.
"Take shelter from a stranger that lives in the woods and this is what you get. A worn down, leaky cabin that smells like rotting food. Sweet." Xavier shook his head and slowly walked forward, the boards creaking underneath him.
"You need to be a little more grateful Eve, at least we aren't stuck in the road pushing a car hoping we don't get hit."
"Or push me off a cliff." Alli walked to the couch and lifted it up with ease, sweeping her off a spot. She jumped onto the couch and closed here eyes.
"Xavier, did you bring your wallet?" Xavier nodded. "Good," I yawned and glanced around. I frowned.
"Looks like there is no phone, so no calling anyone. I hope we don't have a stroke or anything." Alli slapped on a spot next to her. Xavier sat on an old recliner and groaned.
"Hey Eve, come sit next to me. This couch is really quite comfy for it being worn down and old. " It probably has mites and spiders living in it. I mentally protested in disgust, but my legs seemed to travel forward. I dusted off my spot and sat down. Huh, it is comfy. I shifted to get more comfortable and rested my head on the arm of the couch, closing my eyes.
XxxX
Slenderman growled as he approached the vehicle. His tendrils flicked wildly behind them, ready to shred whatever he found. He sniffed the air and smiled. It smelled of humans. They were recently here. One tendril gripped a door-handle and ripped a back door off, throwing it down the cliff behind him. His mouth began to water and his hunger gnawing at his stomach. He hadn't eaten in a few days, the last single human walking through his territory didn't satisfy him. She was rather small and not much meat on her. But she did put up a fight, and did he love it when they did that. He loved to play cat and mouse with them, toy around with them until they snap or he grows impatient and his hunger takes over.
He shrunk himself down and crawled halfway into the car. There was a black jacket with green letters spelling 'Eve'. He leaned down closer to the jacket and licked it, talking in the scent. He growled happily and grabbed the jacket, pulling it out with him. He hissed at the vehicle and grabbed it in numerous places, crushing it and throwing it over the cliff and into a lake, nothing but waste in his territory that needed disposed of.
Whoever this 'Eve' character was...
She was delicious.
xXxX
I felt someone tug on my tank-top. I groaned and swatted them away with my other hand. I flipped over and hugged myself.
"Leave me alone." There was a tug on my back, only a little rougher this time. My eyes snapped open and I quickly turned over. I was not in the mood to mess around. "Look, I said t-" my eyes widened as I saw a little girl standing next to me. She was bloodied and her left arms was missing. She only had one eye, the other was nothing but pitch black with a small patch of dried blood under it. She was covered and dirt and soot. I screamed and fell over the couch, backing away from her. I didn't care if she was a child, she was dead and creepy as hell. "Y-you stay a-a-away from me." The girl stepped closer and I screamed. "I said stay away!" I then realized that I was alone, Alli or Xavier were nowhere to be seen. Where did they go? Did they just leave me here?
"He is coming." Oh my gosh, her voice was so freaking creepy. It was very soft and low with an echo. It sounded like numerous children were talking at the same time. "He is coming." I furrowed my eyebrows and tilted my head to the right a little. "What?" The girl's face went serious. As if I wasn't already unnerved.
"Mr. Slenderman is after you. He has already tasted you and he wants you." I glared down at the girl.
"What is a Slenderman?"
"Not what, who. He is going to find you. Then once he finds you, he will kill you. All of us where his victims. You must leave now before he arrives," she slowly began to fade away, "not like it matters anymore."
I shot up from my dream and fell off of the couch. Alli was snoring next to me while Xavier was reclined, drool running out of his mouth. I literally jumped on Alli and slapped her shoulder, frantically looking around. Alli glared at me sleepily, throwing me off of her.
"What in the hell Eve?" I shot up and stared up at her. "You look like you've seen a ghost. In fact, you look like a ghost, you are as pale as snow." I nervously laughed and smiled up at her.
"Alli, there was this little dead girl who visited me in my dream and said some Slenderman was coming to kill me." Alli stared down at me like I lost it.
"I think you need to go back to sleep. You have been unnerved ever since we got to this shack. It was just a dream so go back to sleep. Nothing is coming to get you. Wake me up again and you and I are going to have a problem." She turned over and fell back asleep. I fell back onto my butt and laughed.
Alli was right, it was just a dream. I was stressed and I had a nightmare. That was all. I fell back onto the couch and rested my arms over my eyes. I was almost asleep until a loud creaking sound came from outside. I shook it off and sighed. It was probably a raccoon or something. This is probably where the little thieves live. There was another creak, only louder this time. It sounded like it was closer. I opened my eyes to stare at the door. I began to shake a little.
"Hey Eve, go scare the rats or whatever away, they keep waking me up," Alli growled, staring at me. I nervously swallowed and I slowly stood up. The floor underneath me seemed to creak louder now than ever before. Everything seemed to disappear around me, trapping me in blackness. I shakily grabbed the door handle and breathed out. I swung the door open and closed my eyes. There was a creak beside me and I opened one eye to see what was there. I wish I hadn't.
"Mr. Slenderman is close. He smells you. Come with me." I began to back up, but was stopped when there were multiple, torn children behind me, blackness clouding behind them. I jumped as I heard an inhuman growl. The children cowered, their eyes wide in fear. The little girl grabbed my hand. "He is here." The children wailed and moaned as their wounds began to ooze blood, their eyes closing. The little girl let go of my hand; she was crying blood. "There is no escape."
I screamed and shot up, running out of the cabin. I didn't even really know I ran out, I just wanted out of that damn cabin. I felt someone lock their arms around me and I screamed and kicked. "Leave me alone! Leave me ALONE!"
"Eve, calm down," Xavier yelled over my screams. I opened my tear-soaked eyes to find my brother with his arms locked around me. I stared up at him and shook like a puppy in his arms. He stared down at me with sad eyes. "What is wrong?" I wrapped my arms around him and cried into his chest.
"I had a double nightmare. Some freaky dead little ghost girl and her friends began to bleed like a dying cow and they kept telling me that I was going to die and there was no escape," I cried into his shirt, "it all felt so real! Some Slenderman guy wants to kill and eat me." My brother laughed and detached himself from me. He was laughing so hard he had to lean against a tree for support. I glared down at him, still crying.
"It isn't funny! I am scared as hell right now." He opened his eyes and wiped the tears away and ruffled my hair and walked towards the cabin. He stopped at the stair and laughed again.
"Alli! Eve thinks Slenderman is gonna eat her," he yelled into the cabin. I gritted my teeth and shakily sighed. If only he truly knew how scared I was right now. I heard Alli laugh and she walked out of the cabin, closing the door behind her.
"Oh Eve, Slenderman is just a myth. He isn't real. You must have read or heard something about him and it just now exited your subconscious and came to haunt you for a night. Don't sweat it." I sniffed and crossed my arms. I was still really unnerved. Xavier hugged me to him and pinched my cheek softly.
"It's Ok Eve, big bad Xavier will protect you from Slenderman." I smiled a little and pushed him away. He laughed and motioned for me to follow him. "Come on, we gotta head into town."
xXxX
We finally got our tire. It wasn't as cheap as we though it would be, but it was affordable. We managed to get a meal from Jenny. She was a very sweet and generous woman. She made our bill very cheap. We asked her if there was a way we could get a ride up to our car. She asked her husband to drive us up there and he agreed to it.
"Where the hell is our car," Xavier yelled. The car was nowhere in sight.
"Where the hell is my jacket," I said, "I paid a lot for that thing!"
"And all our luggage was in there too," Alli's eyes widened, "and my I-Pod! OK, issue an amber alert for a missing car!" I jumped out of the car in disbelief. I turned to my brother.
"How much you wanna bet it rolled off the cliff?" Xavier glared at me and hopped out of the car.
"Did you park it!?"
"Yeah, I did park it!" Jenny's husband scratched the back of his head.
"Are you kids sure this si where your car is...er...was? You sure it ain't up th' road?" Xavier shook his head and frowned.
"No, this is where it was." He screamed and kicked the ground, jumping back in the car. "Well we wasted money today." I sighed and walked over to the car. A huge gust of wind caused me to shiver. I ran back over to the car and sat next to my fuming brother. We were never going to hear the end of this.
XxxX
Slenderman froze as a familiar scent hit him. It was a delicious smell. It was his prey, she was close! He growled and teleported to the treeline of the forest. He saw her climb into a car and they headed for the town. He began to follow them, but he hissed and sulked back into the forest.
He was never fond of daylight.
Slenderman felt that the children were trying to protect her, save her. They could do nothing but instill fear into her. They want to protect her? They couldn't even save themselves! Slenderman teleported to an old cabin far away from the town and sat down on the wooden floor. He heard a creaking sound behind him and his tendrils wrapped around whatever made the creaking sound. His tendrils held a raccoon. It was hissing and clawing at it's restraints. Slenderman brought the raccoon closer to him and inspected it. This tiny creature had no idea who was holding it. The raccoon hissed in Slenderman's face and tried to scratch at his face where his eyes would be. Slenderman hissed back and broke the raccoon's back like a toothpick, the sickening crack making him slightly happy. He threw the dead carcass out the window and glanced at his bloody tendrils. The critter managed to get some bites and scratched, but they were nothing. The wounds slowly began to heal as new skin grew over. Soon, though, they would be relishing around his prey, her blood coated on them, dripping into his mouth.
He couldn't wait for sundown.
Well well, there is chapter one! I hope you enjoyed it! I am going to try and keep Slendy as in character as possible throughout this story, but he will have some moments where his isn't a cuddly teddy bear, but he restrains himself. I hope to see you all in the next chapter! Reviews are much appreciated! -CD
