Notes: Thanks for all the reviews guys! I love seeing what you guys think. I already know who dies when and how and such, but I still love reading who you guys think should go. I don't know. Also, faster update. This took like one week to update? Yeah! Haha. It's also kind of shorter than all the other chapters, but that's alright.
One other thing before you guys start reading, I actually decided to make a cover for the fic! I'll be posting links to see the cover if you guys want to check it out in full view. Links should be posted sometime tonight if my internet stops being stupid. It took one hour just for me to log onto the site. So, yeah.
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Chapter Six:
Beck's hands shook as he tried to dial the number on the phone in the kitchen. Trina had just died. He had seen her dead body, he had her scream, and he was scared to death. He tried to dial the number for his grandparents since he couldn't seem to remember any other number but theirs right then. He knew the number for the police in Canada by heart, but he couldn't remember it right then. Beck knew that if he told his grandparents, they'd be able to get the police and maybe everything would somehow get better. Maybe Trina would magically come back to life.
"Hello?" Beck's grandmother's voice said through the other end of the phone.
"Grandma!" Beck yelled. "Oh my god. Trina.. She.. She..."
"Beck, honey, calm down," she told him, trying to calm her grandson.
"Grandma, Trina, she fell and she-" Suddenly, he could hear a loud beep and then static and the busy phone noise. "Grandma!" Beck yelled. He slammed the phone down and picked it up again to try and call her, but the phone had the noise that meant it was busy. Or disconnected.
"Beck," Cat whispered, tears streaming down her face. "Are grandma and grandpa coming?"
Beck turned around to Cat. "I don't know," he told her. "The phone, it... it disconnected." Cat gasped and started crying even more. Jade was by her side and she was holding onto Cat and trying to calm her. Beck looked over at Jade and Jade shrugged her shoulders. He sighed and looked back at the others who were all in the living room. Tori was the one who was crying the most. It was her sister who had just died up here in the Mountains where no one could get to them in a few minutes.
"Let's go upstairs, Cat," Jade said to her friend calmly. Beck watched as Jade started to walk towards the stairs, still holding onto Cat.
Beck's hand reached out to grab Jade's shoulder to stop her. He stepped closer to her and whispered in her ear, "I love you." He kissed the top of her head and let her go. He turned back around and motioned for Andre and Robbie to come over to him. Robbie was sitting next to Tori and she had her head on his shoulder and she was crying on him. Robbie shook his head at Beck and Beck understand that Robbie didn't want to leave Tori just right then.
Andre patted Tori's back and walked over to Beck. "So," he said, not knowing what Beck needed him for.
"Go outside with me. Grandpa told me where the phone dish is so I can try and fix it and then call my grandparents again and tell them what's wrong," Beck told him. "Can you just go upstairs and grab the tools out of my room?"
Andre nodded his head. "I don't care too much to go outside just right now," he told Beck. "But we need to really call your grandparents." Andre sighed and ran up the stairs to go get the tools Beck would need to, hopefully, fix the phoneline.
Beck walked over to Tori and Robbie and sat down on Tori's other side. "Hey," he said to Tori. He looked over at his friend and couldn't help but feel incredibly awful for her. He knew that she would never get over her sister dying on this trip. He knew already though that he was going to get everybody back home safely. He didn't want to lose anybody else because they tripped and fell or a mountain lion killed them or something like that.
"Hey, Beck," Tori mumbled into Robbie's shoulder. Beck could hear her voice shaking as she tried to speak and he wanted to reach out and hold onto her. He didn't want Tori hurting so much.
"I'm so sorry," Beck whispered.
"It's not your fault. It's no one's fault. She just tripped. She... She's okay." Tori hiccupped and started crying a little bit more. Robbie sighed and kept his arms wrapped around her waist and rubbed her back with his hands.
"Got the tools," Andre said, coming down the stairs. He had already put a heavy coat on so he could go out in the cold. "Do you know where the dish thing is?"
"Yeah," Beck said. "It's behind the cabin and a little ways in the woods." Beck slowly got off the couch and patted Tori on the back. He grabbed his coat and slid it on his body. He then grabbed the toolbox out of Andre's hands. "Grab that flashlight," he instructed Andre. "You're in charge of making sure we can see." Andre nodded and grabbed the flashlight and the two boys headed outside.
Beck could feel the cold immediately. The snow was still falling from the sky and he was wishing it would stop. He wanted to make sure that they could get out of this place whenever they could and that his grandparents could make it up here. A road covered with snow wouldn't be the best thing ever. He glanced back at Andre who had the flashlight shining on the ground. Beck could tell that Andre was still scared from the other night when the mountain lion had attacked them. Andre would never admit that of course, and Beck wouldn't admit that he was scared either. Andre would once in a while shine the light on the trees or around them to make sure that there was nothing hiding.
The two boys finally made it to the back of the house and started walking a little ways into the woods. "You sure you know where it is?" Andre asked Beck.
Beck nodded his head. "Give me the light," he told Andre. He took the flashlight out of Andre's hands and shined it ahead of them. "Right there." He pointed at the circular disk that was in the light. "Come on." The two boys walked towards the dish. They reached it and Beck set the toolbox down and opened it so he could find the right tools to try and fix it.
"Do you know what you're doing?" Andre asked Beck.
"Yeah," he answered. "My grandpa taught me how to fix this stuff at his place. I've known how to do this since I was a kid." Beck looked around in the box and found the right tools and he started messing around with the dish.
"Did you hear that?" Andre asked.
Beck looked up at Andre and shook his head. "Calm down, man," he told him. "It's probably just a little animal or something. Nothing to worry about." Beck went back to work and after about ten minutes, he decided that it would hopefully be fixed. "Let's go," Beck said as he put his tools back in the box and slowly stood up.
"Good," Andre said to Beck. He started walking out of the woods and back to the cabin. "I do not want to come back outside in the dark."
Beck laughed a little and kept going back to the house. "Nothing to worry about," Beck told Andre. "We're safe out here." Andre shook his head in disagreement and kept going back to the cabin. Beck sighed and followed after him. He really didn't see why Andre was so worried about going outside in the dark. Sure, they had a small problem with a mountain lion the previous night, but it really wasn't that big of a deal. They made it back safely and no one got hurt. Except Cat of course who was luckily starting to do better.
The two made it back into the cabin and Beck was shutting the door when he heard a growling sound. His eyebrows moved together and he looked outside. He shrugged it off as nothing and closed the door shut. "Let's see if the phone works now," Beck said. He walked over to the phone and picked it up. He listened carefully, but he couldn't hear the disconnected noise. He smiled and nodded his head. "It's working." Beck started to dial his grandparents' phone number and heard it start to ring.
Suddenly, the phone started the disconnected noise again. "Shit!" Beck yelled. He slammed the phone down and kicked the phone. "Shit, shit, shit!"
"Are you alright?" Tori asked from where she was on the couch.
"The phone was ringing and now it's disconnected again!" Beck told her. "No one's cellphone works up here and there's no way I can contact my grandparents!"
"In the morning you should go and drive to their place," Robbie suggested. "Get in your truck. That'd be a good way to contact them."
Beck sighed. "The road will just be worse in the morning," he told them. "It's already covered in snow." He shook his head and went to get a drink of water. "I'm just going to go upstairs. Go to sleep. Maybe I'll think of something."
Tori frowned at Beck. "I'm sure it'll be okay in the morning for all of us to drive to your grandparents. Don't you have extra gas in the back of the truck too?"
"Yeah," Beck said. "I guess we could do that."
"Then we could all get away from here. I don't like this place anymore. It... I can just think of Trina and I hate it. I need to get away from this place," Tori said quietly.
Beck walked over to Tori and placed his hand on her shoulder. "Alright," he told her. "In the morning we'll drive to their place. We'll get them to send somebody to come back and get Trina's body. We'll maybe go stay in a hotel somewhere and go skiing or something."
"Do you promise?" Tori asked him. Beck could tell she really did not want to be here or ever come back. She'd probably want to go back to Yerba than be here.
"I promise," Beck told Tori. He smiled down at her and hoped that maybe she'd feel a little better in the morning. Then again, that would probably be completely impossible because she just lost her sister. He wasn't expecting her to feel any better any time soon. "Night, Tori," he said with a smile. He looked at Andre and Robbie and smiled at them too. "Goodnight."
Beck walked away and walked up the stairs. He skipped his and Jade's room and walked to Cat and Tori's. He glanced inside and saw Cat was laying in her bed. Jade was sitting next to her in a chair and she was staring at the wall. He walked in quietly and the two girls turned to look at him. "Sorry," he said.
Cat shrugged. "I wasn't asleep," she told him simply. "I was just thinking." Beck nodded his head at her and looked over at Jade. She had gone back to stare at the wall and ignore him.
"Hey, Jade," he said.
Jade looked over at him and smiled. "Hey," she said. She stood up from her chair and bent down to hug Cat. "Go to sleep now," she told her. Cat nodded her head and closed her eyes to go to sleep. Jade turned back towards Beck and walked out of the room with him. She closed the door and walked to their room.
Beck followed Jade into their room and sat down on the bed next to her. Jade laid down and rested her head on his lap. He started playing with her hair and watched as her eyes slowly started to close. "I feel bad," Jade told him honestly. "I tried to kill her. And now she's dead because she fell." She sighed and closed her eyes tightly. "It's all my fault. If I hadn't done that, she wouldn't have gone outside and gotten hurt."
Beck sighed and started rubbing her cheek with his finger. "It's not your fault, Jade," he told her quietly. "Trina didn't have to go outside. And it wasn't really her fault for tripping either." He smiled lightly down at Jade who still had her eyes closed.
"It's still my fault," she told him. He sighed lightly, knowing she wouldn't stop believing that Trina had died because of her.
They sat there in silence. Beck's fingers continued to run through her long soft hair and Jade's eyes stayed closed. Beck thought that she was finally asleep, until she started talking again. "Did you ever get in contact with your grandparents?" she asked him.
"No, I'm afraid not," Beck answered. "But I'm thinking of getting in the truck tomorrow and driving to their house to get them to come back and get Trina's body."
"Do we all have to go?" Jade asked him.
"Of course."
Jade groaned loudly in response. "I don't wanna go," she complained.
"You have to."
"No."
"Jade."
"No."
Beck sighed and ran one of his hands through his own hair. "I promised Tori that-"
"Oh, so you promised Tori that we'd go back!" Jade said angrily. "Well, guess what? I'm not going." She glared up at Beck as he looked down at her.
"Listen, Jade, please let's not-"
"Go back. Let's stay here. You and Tori can go back together and I don't care what you two do!" She sat up and rolled over into the bed and slid under the covers. Her back was facing Beck and he looked back at her body. He felt her legs kick him and he sighed.
"Sorry," Beck said. He climbed over her body and moved under the covers to go to sleep himself.
