Chapter 7: Everyone Has Demons

Chapters Notes: I'm back from vacation! Now that I'm back it's back to business as usual. The reason I didn't write more during vacation is I was having a lot of fun, the internet was really bad so it was hard to do research to make sure everything makes sense, and I had writers block. It feels good to sit on my bed and bust out another chapter though so I will work hard to make this a good one. As for reviews there is another one from the ever useful Revision today. I really enjoy your reviews and insight Revision so thanks for all of your help! Let's move onto the review now.

Reviews: Revision chapter 6. Nov 20

I can take a hint to what Hannah's traits are high: honest, curious, and charitable. Low: brave and funny. I don't know about romantic so I'm just gonna put that in the middle. Let me know if I got it right or wrong, we already know that her traits will heighten during her experience and we don't really have to check The Strangers traits because it's pretty obvious since he's a Wendigo hunter. (Yeah you hit the nail on the head for Hannah that's pretty much exactly how I imagined her character except for romantic. I imagine her as being very romantic instead of just in the middle. Obviously Beth has much less romance than Hannah and is also braver. I like that the two sisters are similar but still have different personalities such as Hannah being more naïve and Beth being more of a blunt person. As for the Stranger he's definitely brave, curious, and charitable. His lowest would be honest, funny, and romantic. Now that we have got some of the character traits out of the way let's move on to the story.

10 Hours Until Dawn: Sam, Hannah, and Chris were fast approaching the top of the cable car station and Chris had just finished off his story of how he met Josh.

"Boom, butterfly effect." Chris finished with emphasis.

"I feel like you and Josh would have found a way to meet each other either way Chris, it's like a match made in heaven!" Hannah stated with firm conviction.

"I guess you're right, after all if you believe in fate…" Chris' voice trailed off when a loud thunk notified the group that the cable car had reached the top station.

"One step closer to our destination!" Hannah said with excitement as she was getting cold and wanted to get back to the comfort of the lodge.

Jessica was waiting for Mike to finally get up the mountain and make it to the top of the cable car station, which is where she happened to be right at that moment, when she heard a loud clunk, indicating that someone had taken the trip up that she had undergone just minutes before.

"Oh boy, some people… time to meet and greet." She walked to the door that for some reason stays locked from the inside, assuming that Mike would be there to meet her and jumped when she heard an enormous BANG.

"Jessica hey, can you please let us out." Sam called out desperately.

"Umm are you guys having a really weird stroke?" "Jess please just let us out of this stupid station." Hannah stated hopelessly.

"Oh Hannah… hey." Jessica said awkwardly as she opened the door to let out the three people that were previously trapped in the cable car station.

"Hannah, I just wanted to say… I'm really sorry about what happened last year, it never was meant to be that mean. I was just scared for Em you know?" Hannah took a deep breath before beginning what Jess assumed was a total tangent before surprising her by saying,

"Jessica, the prank you orchestrated was cruel but I've forgiven you, no one got hurt and Emily and Mike aren't even together anymore. They broke up two weeks ago and I know that you and Em are close so you should be helping her out. I hope she's ok…"

"Wow, that's very… mature of you Hannah and don't worry, Emily is fine. She has liked Matt for quite some time now so that's part of the reason why they broke up."

"Oh that's good. Sam, Chris, and I need to be getting to the lodge, are you coming?"

"I was thinking of waiting here for Emily and maybe see who else is coming along."

"Alright then see you later Jess, let's go guys." The rest of Hannah's group took off for the lodge after exchanging goodbyes with Jessica.

Jessica felt bad lying to Hannah at all, especially after she had been so kind to Jess, but she had no other choice. If Han had found out from Jess that the real reason Mike and Em had broken up was because Mike had feelings for both Jessica AND Hannah, then Emily and Mike would both get madder than it was worth dealing with right now. Emily had also quickly rebounded with Matt to get over the hurt she had felt learning that Mike was so conflicted with his emotions. Jessica, for one, wasn't going to betray her best friend and destroy her new chance of a friendship with Hannah by dating Mike, so both Jess and Mike remained single. Throw into the mix the fact that Beth and Josh both had feelings for Sam and this would make for one interesting weekend. Beth is bisexual and has liked Sam for almost as long as Josh has, and the poor girl was none the wiser. But how did Emily, and later Jessica, find out about all of this? Well, the Josh, Beth, and Sam thing had been going on since they were in middle school and anyone that had ever seen all three of them together in the same place could see there was some unspoken drama between them. The Mike scenario was trickier for Jess and Emily to figure out since Mike's best friend, (who he told a lot to), wasn't a common part of the group. He also happens to be Mike's vice president for student council. This man's name is Adam Thompson and while he is very loyal to Mike, he's also a bit drama obsessed. Emily had used that to her advantage and eventually managed to get it out of him that Mike was very much conflicted in his relationship with Emily. That was all she needed to confront Mike about it and one thing led to another and eventually Mike had said they needed to take a break for him to figure out his own emotions. Not everyone knew this, as Josh's main circle, them being Sam, Beth, Chris, and Hannah; all had no idea that Mike might have feelings for Hannah. Jessica also wasn't sure if Mike's feelings for Hannah were genuine or the result of the guilt from the prank he had been such a large part of… or both. Jessica eventually gave up waiting for Emily, figuring she must have already been on her way up to the lodge and had gotten ahead of her.

Emily and Matt were having a conversation about why the lodge couldn't just be right where the cable car station had ended as they walked up to the lodge.

"Seriously, couldn't they have built the lodge, like, right where the cable car ends?" Emily had asked with annoyance.

"I don't think it would have been like, as pretty… ya know?" Matt responded.

"Yeah I guess, and where's the bellboy when you need one."

"I'm pretty sure that's what I'm here for Em."

"Aww you're sweet." As Matt and Emily kept walking they struck up a conversation about the awkwardness and drama this year would bring.

"I'm getting chills… brr." "We're almost there."

"No I mean like, it's gonna be weird seeing everyone together in one place."

"Yeah it's definitely gonna feel like a normal party, I mean what do you think-". It was at that moment a large, hulking figure leaped out at the two!

Authors Notes Ending: About three quarters of the way through this chapter I fell asleep so I jumped back in that same weekend so if there's any differences in writing that will do it haha. I also tried to Jessica's character make more sense, if she is Emily's best friend why would she go and date Mike right after they broke up? And with that I saw a great opportunity to make Hannah's character more relevant as a whole since until now she has just sort of been hanging around. So now this may be a Mike x Hannah or a Mike x Jessica depending on the way this story shapes out and how I'm feeling when I write it. Heck maybe Jessica will end up with Matt and Emily will end up with Mike… that's doubtful but hey anything's possible.