AN: Here's the next installment! Many more chapters should be uploaded today since I do not have school. I hope to answer some questions and get this near completion. Thanks to my loyal reviewers and followers. Now, enjoy reading! This flashback... well, you may be able to figure out when it takes place - if you've been a careful reader.
Chapter 5:
"I can't believe you would let this happen! Look at what you've done!" tears fell from his face as he began to run away. Not just from the house, but from everything that had happened.
She watched him sadly leave her, the other being dragged along. She fell to her knees and sobbed, screaming into the night. It was her fault they were gone. She had only one piece of him left. But it seemed like more than just a piece to her. It was him. It was almost him. She couldn't lose this, too.
Would she ever see them again? She cried, tears escaping her eyes profusely, hitting the muddy ground to form puddles upon puddles. She stayed there into the morning, crying into the dirt.
When the sun rose, she awoke in the grass, covered in mud and still in her clothes from the day prior. She had to hide; no one could see her like this. They'd ask questions. And she was in no position to answer.
As she ran into the woods, waiting for everybody to leave, she began to cry again. She just couldn't comprehend all that had happened. They were gone. Forever. And no one knew why. They never would.
"Crap crap crap," Patricia kept mumbling to herself as she neared the house. She glanced at her watch; it was 6: 49. The house locked its doors at seven. And she was still more than a mile away.
She ran through the twisted, intricate pathways of the forest. There was little light left, this light only emanating from the moon. She could barely see three feet in front of her.
And then, off in the distance, she heard a scream.
She grew frantic, panting heavily. She was breathless and crying. But the screaming just grew louder with every step.
Keep going. Keep going. You're almost there, her brain told her. But the rest of her body was sure this was the end.
The scream grew louder still, but it was still in audible.
Finally, she dropped on the ground, flinging herself into the mud. She cried. And cried.
"PATRICIA!"
The screams grew closer, and they were yelling her name. People were there to find her.
"Help…" she moaned, but she didn't have the breath nor the energy to yell.
"PATRICIA WHERE ARE YOU?"
This voice, she could tell, was distinctly Eddie's. He had come looking for her.
Another voice, this one definitely Jerome's, yelled, "GUYS! I SEE HER! SHE'S OVER HERE!" His voice was the closest yet.
Six dark figures loomed in the distance. As they neared her, she was able to make out Joy, Jerome, Eddie, Fabian, KT, and Alfie.
"Guys…" Patricia moaned again.
Joy's terrified words came out jumbled as she frantically ran to her friend. "OMIGODPATRICIAWHATHAPPENEDWHEREHAVEYOUBEEN?"
Eddie and Jerome lifted her off the ground. Her ankle was throbbing, so Jerome and Eddie through her arms around her shoulders and dragged her back to the house.
Patricia felt limp and tired. She wanted to say something but she couldn't. The last thing she remembered, an enormous house loomed into view, then everything went black.