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"Robbie! Please be okay! Beck has to be almost there! He'll help you. Please be alive! Robbie, Robbie, Robbie, Robbie!" Cat cried into the walkie-talkie in her hand. Her whole body was shaking as she yelled for him to answer her, yet he never did. She kept crying and accidentally ended up letting go of the walkie-talkie in her hand, letting it fall down onto the floor. She fell down onto the hardwood floor herself and curled up into a ball, crying for her friend to come back to her.
Cat couldn't handle losing Robbie. It was all too much for her to have lost Trina and Tori and now Robbie? She couldn't deal with each of her friends dying and it was tearing her apart. Her sobs shook her entire body as she thought about the gruesome death Robbie could be going through right then and the death Tori went through. She kept seeing images of that horrible beast grabbing them both and eating them alive. She cried out and dug her nails into the floor, yelping as pain struck through her fingers and hands. Cat stood up off the ground and started heading towards the stairs, but ended up tripping over them from all the sobbing and shaking. She laid there on the stairs and cried for what felt like hours to her, but was actually only about fifteen minutes.
Then, she sat up when it hit her. Beck was out there with no way to contact any of them. She bit her lip and forced herself to not cry for her other friend and she stood up. Jade and Andre were also out there alone too. She wrapped her arms around her waist, hoping that somehow this would keep her together and she ran over to the walkie-talkie that was on the floor. She slowly leaned over and picked it up off the ground and checked to see if it was broken. Luckily, it wasn't so she slowly pressed the button for Jade and Andre to be able to hear her. "G-guys?" she said, stuttering at the beginning of the word.
"Are you okay, Cat?" Andre's voice asked in a comforting tone. She gulped and started crying once more, unable to control herself anymore. "Cat, are you okay?" he asked once again.
"Yeah," she said in between cries. She sniffled and took a deep shaky breath, trying to get some control over herself. "I'm... I'm fine. It's just.. Robbie..." She tried to stop herself from crying because she didn't want to worry the others, although she knew Jade and Andre were probably worried about her right then.
"I know," Andre said, sounding sad to know about his friend. "We all heard what he said and what you were yelling..." Cat nodded her head and didn't say anything, just listening to Andre talk to her. "We're almost there to the cabin. Jade and I are going to check on you and then go out for Beck."
"Okay," she whispered, biting down on her lip. "Do... do you think he's okay?"
"I'm sure he is," Andre told her comfortingly. "We'll be there in fifteen minutes or so."
"Please hurry."
"We will."
Cat nodded her head even though she knew he couldn't see her do so. She held onto the walkie-talkie tightly and walked over to the kitchen to grab herself a drink. She grabbed a glass from the cabinet and filled it with water and slowly took a drink from it. Her hands were still shaking and it was hard for her to drink out of the glass and she ended up spilling a little bit of water on herself. She sighed and put the glass down and went over to sit on the couch. She pulled her knees up to her chest as she sat there and rested her head on her knees with her arms wrapped around her legs. She sat there, staring at the door in front of her waiting for Jade and Andre to come back.
The door finally opened and the two were there. Cat jumped off the couch and ran over to them, grabbing onto Jade first and hugging her tightly. She cried a little on her friend's shoulder and felt Jade carefully pat her back. "It's okay," she heard Jade say comfortingly. Cat nodded her head and leaned up and kissed Jade on the cheek.
She ran over to Andre next and grabbed onto him tightly. She felt his arms move around her waist immediately and she let herself start to cry on his shoulder. "I hate this," she muttered into his shoulder. "I want out of this place."
"We all do," he whispered into her hair.
"He's dead."
"I know."
Jade sighed and looked at the two. "I'm going to go upstairs and grab a few things and then we can head out to look for Beck," she said.
"Jade," Cat said, turning around to look at her gothic friend. "What if we get hurt looking for him?"
"Oh well. We're going to find him one way or another," she answered.
"But Jadey-"
"No, Cat," Jade said harshly, glaring over at the little redhaired girl. "We are going to find Beck. I need to know if he's safe or not."
"Jade, I really don't think that's the -"
"Smartest idea? I know," Jade said, shrugging her shoulders. "But I need to know." She turned around and ran up the stairs away from Cat and Andre.
Cat sighed and looked up at Andre. "I don't want to leave this cabin unless we're in the truck driving away," she told him.
"I know. We're going to leave as soon as we figure out what happened to Beck. You can stay here-"
"I don't want to be alone," Cat told him angrily. She moved over to him and wrapped her arms around his waist and held on tightly. "I don't want to be by myself. I won't be able to handle it if you guys don't come back because what will I do? Sit here and wait for it to come get me next?"
"You saw what it was, right?" Andre asked, looking down at her not wanting to answer her question.
"Yeah, I saw it on the cameras."
"Can you playback what you saw?"
Cat nodded her head slowly. "I think so... Why?"
"I want to know what this thing looks like."
Cat nodded her head and walked over to the computers. She checked the screens really quickly to see if she could see anything. At the moment, there was only a small deer at camera seven and it wasn't important at all. She clicked on one of the cameras she had seen the monster on and figured out how to rewind it. She finally got to where she had seen it walk across the screen. "Here," she said, looking back at Andre who was standing behind her. "Watch carefully."
The two watched the video and waited for the creature to run across the screen. Finally, they saw it. The creature stopped, howled loudly, and started moving once more. "See?" Cat said to Andre.
"What was that?" Andre asked in shock.
"I don't know."
"It was like... a yeti or something."
"But they're not supposed to exist," Cat protested, shaking her head at Andre.
"Yeah, but tell me, do you think scientists have ever discovered a creature like that before?" he asked Cat. She shrugged her shoulders and he nodded his head. "No, of course not. If they had, I doubt they'd allow people to live out here with no safety."
"So, what now?" Cat asked.
"Find Beck and then get the hell out of here," Andre answered. The two heard Jade walking down the stairs and looked over at her. "You need to see what got Robbie and Tori," he told her, motioning for her to come look at the video. She watched the video of the creature and her mouth was hanging open in shock.
"What..." Jade whispered, staring at the computer screen.
"We don't know, but Andre thinks it's a yeti," Cat told her innocently.
Jade shook her head and stood up. "Second thought, we're not going out there," she said. "I'm tempted to grab Beck's keys and leave right now, but just in case he's still alive..." Her voice trailed off and she stared at the door. "Do you think..."
"Maybe," Andre told her. "So, spend the night here. If he's not back, we leave tomorrow?"
"No," Jade said. "Give him more than just the night. It's almost nightfall so he may want to like climb a tree and relax or something. Spend the night tonight, wait all tomorrow, spend our last night here, then leave in the morning. That gives him one full day and a little extra time."
Cat shook her head. "I don't like it."
Jade glared at her. "You know how it gets dark early here. If we leave tomorrow evening, we'll be driving on a snow-covered road in the dark. No thanks," she said in annoyance.
The three stood there in silence for a while and stared at each other or at the walls or outside. Cat sighed and looked at the kitchen. "So... who wants dinner?" she asked simply. The other two nodded their heads and they all walked over towards the kitchen to fix themselves some food.
After they had fixed themselves something to eat, they started heading upstairs to go to sleep. Cat brushed her teeth and changed into her pajamas and went to her bedroom. She kept the door open and walked over to her bed and climbed in it, sliding under the soft covers. She closed her eyes and tried to sleep, but it couldn't seem to work. Hearing strange howling noises outside, she decided to get out of her bed. She knew Jade probably wanted to be alone since Beck still hadn't come back, so she got up and walked out into the hall and towards Andre's room. The door to his room was wide open, so she knocked on the wall.
"Yeah?" he asked, yawning a little.
"Can I come in?" Cat whisper-asked him.
"Of course, Little Red," he answered. She walked into the dark room and looked around. "What's wrong?" he asked, sitting up a little.
"I can't sleep," she told him. "I keep... thinking about it and I'm scared and worried and." She stopped herself from saying anymore and she felt her eyes starting to get wet. She shook her head and sat down on his bed with her back facing him and she put her hands over her eyes, trying to stop the tears.
She felt the bed move and heard it creek as Andre moved around. She felt his arms around her waist and he kissed the side of her face. "Cat," he whispered quietly. "It'll all be okay. You, me, and Jade - we're all going to make it out of here. Maybe even Beck will."
She shook her head at what he said. "But Robbie, Trina, and Tori. They won't make it out. And Beck maybe won't. What about them? What will I do without them?" she asked him, her voice cracking on a few words from trying to hold back the tears.
She heard him sigh lightly. She felt his arms tighten around her and his head rested on her shoulder. "I promise you this, Cat," he told her. "No matter what happens. You're going to make it out of here alive."
"You don't know that though."
"No," he whispered, shaking his head. "You're going to get out of this hellhole and back to Hollywood. You're going to stay alive."
"Andre..."
"Yeah?"
Cat sighed and moved his arms away from her and turned around to look at him. "I don't agree with you on that," she whispered. "None of us are going to live if we don't leave tomorrow."
Andre shook his head once more. "No, Cat," he said quietly. "You're going to get out of here. I'll make sure of it."
She bit her lip and sighed, still trying to hold back tears. "Whatever you say," she told him. She slid more onto the bed and looked over at him. "Can I..."
"Whatever you want," he said. He laid back down in the bed and Cat nodded her head. She slid under the covers and rested her head against the pillow. She gulped a little since she had never actually slept in the same bed as a boy, but she decided to scoot a little closer to him and curl up against his body, wanting to know that she could feel safe.
"Sorry," she whispered quietly.
"For what?"
"For waking you up..."
"I wasn't even asleep," Andre told her, smiling slightly. He turned his head and kissed her on the forehead. "Sleep tight."
"You too."
