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Chapter 4: Never Ending Darkness
When the four were convinced by Grace to keep on going - keep in mind it wasn't a hard job seeing as the latter option was to just sit on that damn cliff till the day they died - it was night fall and the full moon was covered in dark, angry thunder clouds. Just their luck.
They had entered the Dark Forest, yes that was actually the name of the forest, how anticlimax can it get (look how's talking, the kid who wrote this). Its name came from the fact of it being pitch black, no mater the time of day.
As the walked aimlessly into the darkness, how they didn't fall off path or walk into any tress, don't ask me. They walked hand and hand, well not like in Oz (Lions and Tigers and Bears! OH MY!), just the two couples - Lucas and Grace, Marshall and Corrine.
They walked on in complete and utter darkness and silence, which was bazaar because they were in a forest. A forest! There's suppose to be birds singing or and least grasshoppers making that really annoying sound that they make and you feel like running off and go squish them until they're little brown spot of the ground! Um . . . uh . . . oh yeah, but there was not a sound, besides the shuffling of their feet against (the yellow brick road) the dirt path.
Marshall wanted to break the silence, need to break the silence, it burned his ears, but his throat was dry from crying earlier and the only thing to drink, soda, was in the car which was impossible to get to without that damn bridge. So he just carried on with the silence.
The never ending silence continued for an hour or so, but was interrupted by the high pitched screams that filled the void of darkness around the four teens. Then followed by an eerily silence.
Lucas stopped dead in his tracks followed by Grace. Straining their eyes they searched the darkness but they couldn't see anything, not even their hand in front of their face.
Something was wrong, terribly, terribly wrong! Lucas felt it in the pit of his empty stomach that something just happened, but when he racked his brain he came up with nada.
That's when Grace saw the void that they were missing, their beloved, bossy, caring, warm hearted, curly headed friend Corrine. Corrine was missing!
"CORRINE!'' Marshall cried, only to be met by silence.
Lucas turned to Grace with fiery eyes and exploded, "What them hell did you think you were doin'? Now we have lost another friend! We should have stayed at the car and waited for help! This is all your fault! Damnit Grace! I hope your next!"
Lucas was pissed, as you could tell, but could you really blame him, because I'd even yell at her too. Grace was dead silent; 'I hope your next!' those words, the tone of his voice. They buzzed around in her skull. She knew she deserved that, it was her fault. But she had bigger things in mind at the moment, then to get too caught up in those harsh words that burned through her ears.
"Grace. . . Grace! Don't you have anything to say? Aren't you going to deny it, or something?" Lucas asked with silent tears rolling down his already tear stained checks.
"The story," she gasped, her voice sounding miles away.
"What?" Marshall asked with strain, it was hard to get the muscles in his throat to move, let alone let him talk.
"The story, my story, from two nights ago, remember? It's coming true, it's all coming true." she sniffled.
Lucas considered it for a moment, "It is, all of it is coming true. Except for some little details, but the main things are happening."
"I know." she cried.
"Wait, what is supposed to happen after we arrived at the house?"
"I. .I . . . don't know." she said as she lowered her head.
"What do you mean you don't know! You were the one telling the story, how do you not know what is suppose to happen!"
"I . . . I was just making it up as i went along. The story was kind of just popping into my head. I. . . I'm sorry. I know this is all my fault, I hope I am next too!" she sputtered as she turned her back on Lucas and burred her face into her hands.
Lucas took a step and hugged Grace from behind.
"I'm sorry. You know I was-" he was cut off by Grace pulling out of his grasp.
"I know you're sorry, but you did mean it. Deep down, somewhere you meant every word. It's okay, this is all happening because of me, and I should be next! But let's just keep on walking and get out of this hell story!" she stated, as she continued down the path.
He sighed and jogged to catch up with her fast paced walking, with Marshall shuffling far behind him. Too deep in depression to actually give a damn where he was going. Hell, you could probably dress him up as a doll and still he wouldn't care.
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As they reach the end the edge of the forest, the clouds break, reviling the bright, orange, full moon. Lighting up their sight, they focused on a house a quarter of a mile away. Their eyes light up with excitement, and with a sudden burst of energy the three science club members took off in a mad race for the house that would hopefully be their way out of this sicotic story.
But alas, it cannot be that easy for our geeky science freaks (which I am one myself), because as they neared the pathway that lead up to the grand door, thick, white fog engulfed them completely. Wrapping each of them in a cocoon of fog, so dense they couldn't even see their hand by their side.
"Um, you guys . . . okay what the hell!" Lucas screamed.
"Just clam down, Lucas." Grace said with breeze, as if they were just skipping in some field with daisy and dandelions.
After a few agonizing moments later, the fog evaporated completely, leaving only two geeks, I mean, fellow science club percipients.
Just Lucas and Grace (and if you didn't figure that out, man your slow).
The last two teens remained, starring wide-eyed were their friend last stood.
A/N: What do you guys think? Huh? Slow chapter, but next is gonna be twice as long and it's kinda funny, I think. And for all you guys who are still reading this and not reviewing, just PLEASE REVIEW! If you guys review, the quicker I'll update. Thanks for reading.
