Warren

Path to Cabin

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I looked at the fallen tree to see nothing standing on it. Only a few seconds ago I saw Kate laughing after hitting me with a snowball. Now she was gone. Then I heard her scream, which made my heart race and my mind full of terror. "Kate!?" I yelled, but I got no reply. I climbed the tree, finding some difficulty. "Fuck-nuggets!" I murmured to myself as the fabric of my jeans scraped my leg. I went down to the other side, but I saw footsteps.

They weren't as big as mine, but were bigger than Kate's. Almost slightly bigger, or smaller. I had no idea. I saw a tractor covered in snow and ice, and I went to check on it. Maybe she was in there. I jiggled the door handle making several things rattle. Including something else. A face, which at the time truly horrified me, fell from the ceiling of the tractor and onto the glass. I screamed, and I looked closer to see it was just a mask carved out of wood.

"Scared the blue outta my jeans. What the hell's that doing there?" There was still no sign of Kate, so I decided to follow the footprints I found earlier. They led down a small path, and as I went closer to a tree trunk, something moved behind it. I went into that defensive mode all boyfriends have. I clutched my flashlight like a hammer, ready to pound this prick and find Kate.

The person giggled. The person was holding deer antlers. She jumped out at me and screamed. I jumped and almost had a heart attack, not from the scare but from who scared me. I was in disbelief.

"Oh my God! That was so good!" She taunted as she went to her phone that had been propped up against a rock to record her little prank. She showed me the recording. "Look at your face!"

"Catherine."

"Did you use my full name?"

"Ugh… Kate. You can't just scare people like that. I'm in the middle of the woods, I hear a scream as if you were being mutilated, what the fuck were you thinking? If you send that video to anybody, I'm…"

"You'll what?"

"Gonna kill ya." When I said this, her face didn't change a bit.

"I never knew you had such a lady-like scream, Warren! Guess you never really know someone until you scare the pants off of 'em."

"Last time I checked, my pants are still on, so I guess it was a fail."

"Okay, but they're not off yet." I simply cringed, but we're college kids, so we make sexual innuendos all the time. Even on homework, someone will write 'DEEZ NUTZ' and draw a walnut next to the question.

We kept on walking down the path as we did before her prank, occasionally sharing some innuendos and cringing. At some point, I hear a noise by the path, and I stop dead in my tracks. She also stops, and a concerned look stares at me. "What was that?" She started to get scared.

"I don't know." I looked to where the sound came from, and picked up a snowball. "Hello!" I yelled, but there was no response. I chucked the snowball into the brush, and soon afterwards an elk jumped out and ran away. We both fell to the ground, and she was freaked out.

"That thing coulda killed us!"

"Nah! Elk don't do shit!" She laughed, and we continued down the trail. I felt like we were in the Walking Dead, since we've been walking, and walking, and walking the entire night. If Victoria never started that fight, we wouldn't be in this situation.

We came to a stream with a small shack by it. We called it the cabin Nathan promised us as sarcasm. Kate sat next to the stream, running her fingers through the probably freezing water. I went into the shack to find hooks, chains, and things a pyromaniac would use. Even a mask. There was a name inside the mask that said Frank Bowers. The mask itself was old and rusty, so Frank must be from the early 1900's for this mask to be as rusty as it is.

I saw a perfect opportunity for revenge.

Important Decision

Get Revenge & Scare Her

OR

Show Her Mask

You Decide!

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