chapter two is up!!!!
"Hey Katie!" yelled Josh.
"Wha-?" Suddenly I'm blinded by a flash of light. I blink several times, trying make the different colors that now dot my vision disappear.
"Josh , stop taking stupid pictures. You're wasting my film!" I snatch the camera away from him. We had been snapping pictures all day, of me and Josh, of Stacey and Scott, one of me by the Shelter Mountain sign. Now we were inside the cabin, and the boys were trying to record a football game or something. Stacey and I laughed as they try to figure out how to use the crappy VCR the cabin had.
"What are you guys trying to record that on anyways?" asked Stacey.
"I don't know, they had a blank tape in the lobby" answered Scott. "You guys want to see if it worked?"
"Yeah, whatever" I answer. Josh gently pushes the tape into the slot. All four of us look at the screen, but it remains dark. Then, it jumps, and a few lines run across the screen. "Never mind, it didn't work". Josh reaches for the eject button. But then a white ring appears the black screen, and the t.v. starts to make a weird, high pitch screeching noise. Then a other things appear on the screen. A chair. A ladder. A water with dark waves of blood. Maggots. A woman combing her long dark hair. "What the hell is this? I whisper. The weird images keep flashing, ending with a well. Then nothing. Only static.
Slowly Josh reaches a takes the tape out. The silence in the room is suddenly broken by the phone on the table next to me. Everyone, even the boys, jump. The phone keeps ringing. "Answer it Katie." Stacey says in a barely audible whisper. I reach for the phone slowly, my hand shaky. "H- hello?" I say quietly, surprised at my shaky voice.
"7 days." A child's voice whispers.
I slam the phone down, but even then I stare at it, half expecting it to ring.
"Who was it?" Josh asks finally. I look at him, at everyone. The lie comes easily, so easily I almost believe it myself.
"It was the cabin guy, he wanted to know if the T.V. was alright. He said they get really bad reception up here."
"Jesus Katie, you didn't have t hang up on him. You scared the crap out of us!!"
"Then.what was with the tape?" says Stacey, her blue eyes wide with fear.
We reassure ourselves that it was a lame joke that someone played on us, that it was no big deal, that we were never really scared. But I knew that it wasn't a joke. When I first heard rumors that there was a tape that kills you exactly seven days after you watch it, I thought it was bullshit. That someone made those rumors up to scare people too gullible not to believe them. That's was everyone else would think. That I was just freaking out, that it was impossible that a child had just told me that we had seven days to live. But if there is a tape, and if someone really knew that we watched it.then what would happen to us?
"Hey Katie!" yelled Josh.
"Wha-?" Suddenly I'm blinded by a flash of light. I blink several times, trying make the different colors that now dot my vision disappear.
"Josh , stop taking stupid pictures. You're wasting my film!" I snatch the camera away from him. We had been snapping pictures all day, of me and Josh, of Stacey and Scott, one of me by the Shelter Mountain sign. Now we were inside the cabin, and the boys were trying to record a football game or something. Stacey and I laughed as they try to figure out how to use the crappy VCR the cabin had.
"What are you guys trying to record that on anyways?" asked Stacey.
"I don't know, they had a blank tape in the lobby" answered Scott. "You guys want to see if it worked?"
"Yeah, whatever" I answer. Josh gently pushes the tape into the slot. All four of us look at the screen, but it remains dark. Then, it jumps, and a few lines run across the screen. "Never mind, it didn't work". Josh reaches for the eject button. But then a white ring appears the black screen, and the t.v. starts to make a weird, high pitch screeching noise. Then a other things appear on the screen. A chair. A ladder. A water with dark waves of blood. Maggots. A woman combing her long dark hair. "What the hell is this? I whisper. The weird images keep flashing, ending with a well. Then nothing. Only static.
Slowly Josh reaches a takes the tape out. The silence in the room is suddenly broken by the phone on the table next to me. Everyone, even the boys, jump. The phone keeps ringing. "Answer it Katie." Stacey says in a barely audible whisper. I reach for the phone slowly, my hand shaky. "H- hello?" I say quietly, surprised at my shaky voice.
"7 days." A child's voice whispers.
I slam the phone down, but even then I stare at it, half expecting it to ring.
"Who was it?" Josh asks finally. I look at him, at everyone. The lie comes easily, so easily I almost believe it myself.
"It was the cabin guy, he wanted to know if the T.V. was alright. He said they get really bad reception up here."
"Jesus Katie, you didn't have t hang up on him. You scared the crap out of us!!"
"Then.what was with the tape?" says Stacey, her blue eyes wide with fear.
We reassure ourselves that it was a lame joke that someone played on us, that it was no big deal, that we were never really scared. But I knew that it wasn't a joke. When I first heard rumors that there was a tape that kills you exactly seven days after you watch it, I thought it was bullshit. That someone made those rumors up to scare people too gullible not to believe them. That's was everyone else would think. That I was just freaking out, that it was impossible that a child had just told me that we had seven days to live. But if there is a tape, and if someone really knew that we watched it.then what would happen to us?