Josh POV

These are the things that he shows me, the darkest places of my mind. Shows me what I'm capable of and more. Makes me feel powerful, but I feel that every night it drains me making me powerless. Psycho, he talks to me encourages me some nights, and others manipulating my thoughts. Where I become disorientated and paranoid, I hate those nights but even more that they happen during the day. I see him in his mask always in the distance, but hear his voice as if it's behind me whispering. But knowing that no matter where I go he goes too? That'll make anyone paranoid. He also knows when I'm trying to make him go away. Just like every night when I take any medication, but he hasn't shown up yet. He didn't do anything, I didn't understand, maybe I'm getting stronger. Unfortunately the relationship I have with another annoyance in my life, Dr. Hill shows up wherever, never know when he's ready to pencil in another session.

"Hello Joshua" he says from his desk folding his leg in his chair, I look at his desk and notice a folder on his desk. Thinking of what could be inside and thinking of the photo he showed me last time, I look up at his as he grins and says "welcome back, you seem in good spirits today, would you like to tell me why that is?" I thought about Sam and started to have flashbacks of what we did tonight, "Oh? Congratulations, being a man from time to time feels good doesn't it" my eyes grew wide, "So you two have feelings for each other, yes?" Involuntarily I thought of when we kissed and I told her how I felt I felt my heart flutter. "Aw how sweet, teenage love; you don't even realize how fragile you are. She's not going to deserve the hurt you're going to give her." I see flashes of me chasing her around the lodge in a towel and feeling an adrenaline rush. While running, I just so happen to see in the corner of my eye a mask in a mirror. Psycho. "NO!" I push those thoughts out of my head, he looks taken back, "There you are, let's start your exercise then shall we." He grabbed the folder and took out a sheet of paper it had one of those ink blots on it, "tell me Joshua, what you see in this picture?" he says handing me the photo, I never understood these kinds of tests. I shrug my shoulders, "try a different perspective" I flipped it upside down. "How about now?" I look at it and it mostly just looked like a black blob, until the side of it looked similar to Hannah's tattoo. My heart sinks, the blob starts to look like a side profile of a face, until it starts moving to look at me. Its Hannah I can tell from the glasses, she looks zombified. I throw the picture on the table, I can hear Hannah screaming "Laying down with the enemy? Aren't they the reason we're dead?" I grab the sides of my head No this isn't real please stop, leave me alone! I lift my head after hearing silence, Dr. Hill was still seated waiting, "let's go back, to the exercise." He says flipping over another photo, it looks almost like a face. It starts to move around until it reaches out and grabs me by my shirt, I'm still paralyzed as I get dragged into the darkness. I'm able to move around but I can't see a thing, I start to see a flicker of light and start to walk towards it. The closer I get the flickering starts to turn into a projection screen, like a movie. I stand there staring at the screen as I see some pictures start to form. It was Sam bathing alone in the tub at the lodge, and the psycho behind her. I reached out for the screen thinking that was going to help or warn her. But he looked at me through the screen, then walked out of the screen up to me. I was paralyzed where I stood, as if not breathing or moving he wouldn't be able to see me. But he does and he walks right up to me, he cocks his head to the side and I can hear his voice behind me. "Joshua your fucking with your future, the one I have planned" He moved to the side exposing the screen, its Sam dressed up in an evening gown while I'm in a tux, my name flashes on a screen and I jump up and walk over to the stage, Sam is up clapping smiling, I lean over and kiss her. "I don't understand" I say looking away from the screen. He points at the screen "winning awards for my ideas, being famous! I have the perfect idea, but you have to think big." A photo of the lodge pops up on the screen, "you must go back, and have a grand finale" he said throwing his arms in the air. I start shaking my head No, I can't go back there not after what happened to Hannah and Beth. "YOU MUST!" I hear him yelling in my ears. "No you're not the boss of me anymore" I say covering my ears, but I can still hear his voice in my head. I can hear him saying "You think you're stronger because you got some pussy? It's going to have to take more than that. You want everyone to remember you as Josh the guy who lost his sisters or the Josh that goes back and makes a better situation out of a bad place. Making lemonade the whole nine!" I start saying over and over "this isn't real, none of this is real." I can still hear his piercing voice in my head I close my eyes tightly, "let's make a movie Joshua, and let's make history"

I open my eyes and I had to immediately cover my eyes as the sun started piercing through my brain. I looked around and see I'm still inside the tent, look over and Sam is already gone. I unzip the rest of the sleeping bag and see two white pills and a bottle of water, Sam. I smiled and took the water and Tylenol happily, I get up and stumbled walking over to my bag, I felt something on my foot and it was my boxers from last night and I can see they were wet. It was real! I get to my bag and grab my sunglasses that are on top, so I can function. I looked into the bag and shuffled through the clothes and start changing, when I see my pill bottle, thinking about Dr. Hill and him, I grab it and pop one in my mouth.

I walk out the tent and see Chris, Mike, Ashley and Sam sitting by a small fire eating breakfast sandwiches, "Look Sleeping Beauty is finally up" Chris says I wave but continue walking without saying anything, I need to find a secluded area to take a piss and brush my teeth and try to get rid of this headache, before I attempt to interact with any one just yet.

Sam POV

Chris, Mike and I are discussing the questions that were asked and some answered from last night since he passed out early. "No way really Ash?" he says turning to her as she looks down in a blush. I look up and I saw Josh emerge from the tent, Chris looks at me then turns his head following my gaze, "Look Sleeping Beauty is finally up" He waves a hand over at us walking away, I wonder if he remembers last night. It's almost like its eating me up inside, to talk to him about it but I don't want to push him away. I can hear his voice in my head saying "One day at a time" I take a deep breath and focus back into the conversation, I look up and Jess comes stumbling out with her sun glasses on. She walks over to the cooler and grabs a bottle of water, "Guys is there anywhere to take a shower?" I raise my hand "I second that question" Chris leans back in his chair and says "There's a lake about a quarter of a mile that way" he says pointing inside the woods. "What? Chris I'm not going out in the open and skinny dip in a lake" Chris looks over at Ashley who is blushing. "Well it's secluded by rocks and has a small stream waterfall you can use." I felt like I had a light bulb go off, "we could go in our bathing suits." Chris and Mike look at each other and nod their heads, Jess finishes off her water bottle then says "Genius" walks back into the tent and I'm assuming to start changing into a bathing suit. I get up and go into the tent, I look at the sleeping bag and think of last night and how amazing it was. I shuffle through my bag and find my Black and Pink bikini and slip it on. I walk out and see Jess ready waiting off to the side, as I walk over to her I see Josh come into view and start talking to Chris and Ashley still seated by the small fire, I look at Jess " you ready?" she looks over at their tent "Mikes changing, he's coming too." Speak of the devil I turn seeing Mike emerge from the tent in his trunks, he walks over to Josh and puts his arm around him and whispers something in his ear. Josh nods his head while listening and he looks over at me, I almost felt stunned by his gaze. He starts walking over to the tent, while Mike walks over to us throwing his towel over his shoulder "Josh is coming" my heart flutters. Jess looks over at me and pulls me aside by my arm and when we're out of earshot, "spill it" she says, "What are you talking about?" she puts her hand on her hip pushing it to the side, "You and Josh. You spent the night alone in the tent together and it's all over your face that something happened" she says circling my face in the air. I sigh "don't say anything Jess" she claps while having this huge smile plastered on her face "details" Josh emerges from the tent and walks over to Mike who looks over at us. "Short version. We both told each other how we feel and we… had sex" her jaw dropped and she playfully pushed me in my shoulder "No way! Wait, who initiated it" I nod my head raising my hand guiltily. "We don't have all day ladies" Jess perks up when hearing Mikes voice calling out. She turns to me and says "We can walk and talk".

We both turn and start walking toward them, they were ahead of us talking quietly to themselves, and we fell behind a bit so we can talk amongst ourselves. "So how was it?" I look over at her she changes her question "How was he?" I suddenly started feeling embarrassed "the whole night was amazing, he told me that he likes me and I told him I felt the same, and then one thing led to another" she looks over at the guys to see if they were listening, but they were stuck in their own conversation. "That's what I wish would happen for me with Michael, but since him and Em just broke up I don't want to be a rebound." Jess has always told me about her crush on Mike for a year before him and Emily even got together. So I understand how much being with him means to her as much as I needed last night to happen for me and Josh. "You never know what could happen. I surely didn't expect last night to happen…" I look over at the back of him, he's talking to Mike about what sounds like an idea for a video. They start to fall back and we notice that we're starting to catch up without putting much effort. Mike says "It should be coming up" we all start walking forward together. I can hear water, but I don't see anything, I notice the louder it gets the deeper we go and the shrubbery increases. It is starting to feel secluded so we must be close, the guys go off the sides to widen our search.

Jess and I pass a bush when we see the side of the lake, we walk over and see that it's a decent size lake and it does have a small waterfall feeding from a stream, but most importantly the fact that it's pretty clear water for a lake. I can see small schools of fish swimming around, we decide to take off our shoes and walk in. The water was cool but not enough to say it was cold. We walk over to the water fall and stand against it, while we lean our heads back letting the water go through our hair. As close as we can to showering, until tomorrow that is. Once I was done I walked back into the water and sat on the edge of a rock my legs submerged up to my knees kicking my feet. I hear Josh and Mike behind me walking in, Mike says "Mother Nature at its best" he says walking in throwing his shirt to the side then swimming across the lake, Josh following suit. Josh dives under and pops up about 10 feet in and starts to float on his back. Jess wades over to me and whispers "Are you going to say anything to him?" I look at my feet in the water "I don't know what to say" Jess looks over her shoulder keeping her eye on him, in her peripherals "What do you mean? You can fuck him, but can't talk to him?" I kick some water over to her "I'm dead ass Sam, you have to say something" she turns to Josh wading around the water seeming deep in thought. She turns to me and says "you better figure something out" I slide in the water, "I don't know maybe I'm scared of what he might say…" we start heading over to the other side where our stuff is, she says quietly "Both of you know how each other feels; and even went the extra mile and had sex. What more could you be afraid of" I start to dry myself with my towel "I don't know I just feel like I'm waiting for something bad to happen and ruin everything" Jess bent forward to dry her hair while saying "you shouldn't think like that, negative thoughts have negative results." I start putting on my shoes looking over at Jess when she whips her hair back out of her face, "is that from a fortune cookie?" I say jokingly. "Not sure" she says laughing. The guys come walking up grabbing their shirts and towels drying as they walk, Jess turns to me and whispers, "You're going to have to figure something out soon" walking back to camp, Mike trailing behind her.

I finish putting on my shoes and start to walk, when I feel someone file in next to me. I turn and see its Josh and my hearts sinks, I'm starting to feel nervous. "Hey Sammy" I turn looking forward to watch where I'm going "Hey" I try to hide my shaky voice. "Thanks for the hangover kit this morning you're a life saver" I almost forgot that I even did that "Oh yeah, no problem" he puts his hand on his side "Did you sleep well?" I step over a rock and start feeling an ache in my side "other than sleeping on a rock or root, like a baby" I look up and I can't see Jess or Mike anymore. He was silent for a minute pondering about something. Then says "Can I ask you something?" my heart is officially beating out my chest I just nodded my head, "Last night… Did you mean what you said?" I inhaled deeply "I said a lot of things last night, which part?" I respond. He grabs my hand, I stop walking and turn to him "all of it" he says looking at me I can see in his eyes begging for an answer. I thought about last night and how we both said we've had feelings for each other. I smile and say "one day at a time right?" he takes a step forward I look up at him, his eyes are smiling. We both turn when we hear our names being called by Mike and Jess, "I guess we're being summoned" he says starting to walk back to camp his hand is still in mine, fingers intertwined.

After a while of walking we start to see Mike and Jess in the distance when I feel my hand get suddenly colder. I look over and Josh is gripping his head in pain and my heart sinks "Josh are you okay?" I say guiding him to the floor as his knees buckled. "JOSH!" What the hell is happening? He's not responding he's just gripping his head in pain, I look over and Mike is running over while Jess is on her phone running behind him. I look back at Josh and he has blood dripping from his nose, "Josh?" Mike goes on the other side of Josh and starts rubbing his back, "what's wrong with him?" I look at Mike just as baffled, "I – I don't know we were just standing talking and then we heard you guys calling for us and we started walking and then he just dropped" I say exasperated, I can hear Jess giving only what I'm assuming is 911 dispatcher our location. I'm shaking I don't understand how it just went from the best moment to my most heart wrenching. I'm so scared.