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Chapter Ten

Into the Woods

Sadie stared down at the cell phone in her hand with disbelief, eyes growing wide as the disbelief turned into horror. Kyle, who had been huddling behind the driver's seat with his arms wrapped tightly around Ramsey, noted her shock and shouted, "What happened!" There was no help coming, that he knew.

Before Sadie could answer, the window behind her head shattered, causing her to scream in surprise and jumping away before the three-fingered hand that slipped through the hole could grab at her head. "My batteries just died!" She cried, screaming against as a deformed head poked through the window, a leering smile upon its twisted lips. She threw the now useless phone at the man, who looked more like a monster, feeling very little satisfaction when her cell struck it in the face.

"Is your sister coming?" Cried Ramsey as she dared a glance past her boyfriend's shoulder, toward the front of the car. She didn't like what she saw: the windshield was broken away, as was the glass on the passenger side of the SUV, and one of the deformed monsters was slowly crawling up the hood of the car with a crude knife in his hand. "They're coming in!"

Sadie looked to where Ramsey's eyes were still locked and watched, unmoving, for a moment while the skinniest of their attackers climbed into the cab. "Run, out of the car, into the woods, I'll try and hold them off 'til you get out." She whispered to her friends. Richard turned to face her, looking as though he believed she had just gone crazy.

"There are three of them and you can't hold them off by yourself. They'll kill you!" Richard pointed out, not wanting to lose his girlfriend as well as his sister.

Sadie paid no attention to his shouts, however, as she reached behind her and pulled her suitcase out of the cargo hold and opened it up. "Just run." She commanded, voice low, as she threw a pair of jeans in the man's face.

Ramsey needed no more urging; she leapt forward, shoved Richard out of the way and threw the door open, bolting from the car. Kyle rushed out after her, followed by Richard at his heels, the trio taking off toward the woods. The skinny deformed man didn't even seem to notice that there was now only one person in the SUV as he continued to advance toward Sadie, shaking his knives at her with a threatening laugh. With a scream of fear and rage, Sadie threw the entire duffel bag in his face and bolted from the car, taking off in the direction her friends had taken only seconds earlier. The disfigured man gave a surprised cry as the bag hit him in the face, spewing out its contents, one shirt getting tangled in his face. By the time he managed to free himself, he saw that the vehicle was empty and that the rest of his family seemed at a loss of where they had gone. The campsite was empty and the woods were silent.

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Without another word to Chris, Jessie snatched the car keys off the table beside the door, clutching them tightly as she turned to face her boyfriend. "I have to go. I want you to stay here, so nothing happens to you." She told him, knowing that he would never agree for a second.

"Are you crazy? Jessie, I am not letting you go back to those woods all alone." Chris commanded, walking across the living room and joining his girlfriend at the door. "If you're going, then I'm sure as hell going too." He said forcefully, locking eyes with the brunette.

Jessie wanted to protest but saw that there was something in Chris' eyes, concern and love for her; he didn't want anything to happen to her either but he wasn't going to stop her from going to rescue her sister. She loved him for that. She only nodded as she pulled the apartment door open, heading out into the hallway; Chris followed, pulling the door shut behind him, neither of them bothering to shut the lights off.

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Sadie finally stopped running when she could no longer see any hint of their campsite; she was in the woods, in the dark, alone. She wanted to call out for Richard and the others but didn't dare, too afraid that she was being followed and that her voice would give away just where she was. Sadie would have to continue toward safety alone, and hope that her friends would make it too.

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Around midnight Jessie finally let Chris pull her away from the driver's seat and take the wheel for a while, letting her have the chance to rest even though she was too worried and afraid to do such a thing. Instead, she watched the ever glowing orange road lamps whiz past her window, a blur due to the speed in which Chris was driving; time meant everything now, both of them knew that. If they didn't get there in time, Sadie would be dead...if she wasn't already.

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Ramsey frowned impatiently at the fact that Richard had stopped, despite her lack of breath and pounding heart; she could catch her breath later, as long as she lived. Stopping while those maniacs were still out there was not a good why to stay alive. "Why are we stopping? Sadie's dead, we can't wait around for her." She pointed out, knowing that it wasn't what Richard wanted to hear.

"Sadie is not dead." Richard hissed, turning away to face the blonde. "We have to wait for her, to protect her when those things come back." He hoped that his words were true, though he strongly doubted them.

Kyle frowned as well. "Those things will come back quicker and find us if we wait around." He placed his hand on his friend's shoulder, expression softening. "Look, man, I'm sorry but Ramsey's right. Sadie's dead and we'll be dead too if we don't keep moving."

Richard didn't want to admit it, but he knew they were right, on both accounts. They had to move or die, that was the way it was now.

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The sun was just beginning to decide to rise when Jessie and Chris reached the back country of the West Virginia woods, where Jessie and her friends had decided to go camping those months ago and Chris had taken his detour. Nothing had at all changed, not even the small sign proclaiming that they had reached Bear Mountain Road. With a grim look, Chris headed down Bear Mountain Road, into the heart of the woods.