Chapter nine:
No one's P.O.V.
Two campers arrive in the city and they walk along until they find a convince store in which they enter.
The cashier looks up and notices the two. "Ah hello."
"Greetings." The alpha looking camper responds. "We just need some food then we'll be on our way."
"We have plenty of food here." The cashier says with a smile.
This makes the alpha looking camper chuckle then join his buddy in picking out the food that they want.
Once they paid for what they picked out they leave the store heading off on their way.
They deem that they are ready then head off into the forest disappearing from sight.
No one thought twice when they spotted the two campers as they brushed it off as that the campers will be back in the city in at least one night.
….
Hikaru is sitting in his room at the mental hospital staring outside only to sigh. He gets up and heads out of his room to down the hall. He slightly glances around himself as he checks out the area around himself. He stops and turns to the stairs that are going down since he is at the top level of the building. He decides to just turn around and head back to his room this time with his head down. He shuts his room door behind himself once he inside of his room. He leans against the door only for the corners of his lips to twitch wanting to move upwards but instead he heads to the nightstand in the room. He looks down to the picture that he placed there before staring outside.
The room is quite silent.
He reaches over and picks up the photo brining it closer but still watching it. His teeth clench and his vision blurs with tears.
A tear or two fall down his face.
"I'm sorry."
More tears follow.
"I'm so so so sorry!" He falls to his knees heavily sobbing with tears like waterfalls.
… Two days later….
People are mummer to themselves in news that is spreading like wild fire.
The campers have not returned from the forest.
Surely the spirit of the younger twin would have spooked them out of there by now right?
"Should we go looking for them?" A woman questions.
"I don't know. I'm too scared to go into there." Another woman responds.
"Oh those brave campers." A third woman adds. "Being out there with all that is going on. Especially those horrifying screams."
But when there was still nothing a few days later two officers were assigned to go into the forest.
The two officers are standing at the edge of the forest staring into it.
"I don't want to go inside." One says sweat dropping and taking a step backwards.
"Neither do I but we are low ranking officers so if we want to keep the job we worked hard to get into then we must do as told." The other says turning to the first officer.
The first officer sighs but is sweating in nervousness and fear. "Alright alright." He agrees with the other officer who is a female.
The two move into the forest going to search for the campers.
Night time rolls around and one of the officers wife is awaiting for her love's return.
She stays by the window looking out to the front yard but as minutes tick by, the clicking of the clock echoing loudly for her, there is no sign of the officer.
A seven year old child comes over to his mother as he is holding his special blanket gripped in one hand that is hanging at his side with his free hand rubbing one of his eyes. "Mom?"
The mom turns to the child who lowers his hand from rubbing one of his eyes.
"Where's daddy?" The child asks.
The mom frowns and turns back to looking out the window.
The child looks scared at this only to rush over to his mother and cling to his mothers leg. He buries his face into his mothers leg out of pure fear.
The mother turns worriedly and sadly to her son and she crouches enough to pick her son up in which the child allows this. She holds him in her arms as he warps his arms around her neck. "Hush my darling." She says gently as she is very gently bouncing the child like a mother would to help quite a young child get to sleep. "Let's get some sleep and see if he's here in the morning. Sound good?"
"Mhm." The child responds with his arms still around his mothers neck.
"Ok here we go dear." His mother carries him off to tuck him back into bed hoping that this time he will sleep and stay asleep. She places him in his bed then pulls the blanket over him. "There you go." She says. "Now. Remember if you sleep then the faster it'll be tomorrow meaning it'll be faster for you to see if he's come back."
The child nods and yawns after doing so. "Night mom." He says after yawning then closes his eyes with a slight shift to be comfortable.
The mother leans down and places a kiss on the child's forehead. "Good night my precious." She then leaves the room closing the door behind herself.
But the two officers would never return home from the forest...
… Five days later…
The forest has become secured for the time being while the police try to decide to do about the four missing people.
Meanwhile gossip carried by the whispered voices have spread very rapidly about everything that is going on.
Hikaru walks down the stairs and goes into one of the many rooms on the main floor. He is walking with his head down and is approaching two other patients to pass them.
"I heard something." One says.
"What? What? What did you hear?" The other asks.
"You heard of the disappearance of that younger twin right?" The first says.
"Yeah it was a hot topic for a while between the doctors so it spread to the rest of us here." The other responds.
Even though Hikaru is already passed them he slows in his walking speed to listen in.
"Well I heard that that younger twin is haunting the woods unable to rest in peace." The first one explains.
Hikaru stops dead in his tracks and his eyes widen as he seems to stare straight ahead.