Chapter 8

(Open Area-LaPush Forest)

Tonya went missing in the forest a couple of days ago. Her and a group of two teenage girls. We finally got our friendship on track she disappears. So many odd things is happening around me. From Claire accusing me being able to see the future to another one of my friends being placed in a situation like this. I'm not liking this.

Three missing high school teenagers has put a dent into the town. Search parties are being organized. I'm ready to search for my friend even if it means putting my life in danger.

I stand in the back of the organized search parties amongst teens and adults listening to Sam go over the rules when searching through the forests up front near a forwst opening. Stay together. Never go off trail. Don't provoke animals. Listen to the leaders of the search parties.I'm ready. At least eighty people showed up. This is the second search party that has been organized since their disappearance. Such a moody Saturday. The weather is kind of cool. The ground is wet. We have been experiencing rain over the days. I cross my arms glancing at Paul. Him and a group of other tribal men will be helping the search parties.

Bzzzzz. I frown hearing a bee loudly swarming in my ears. I fan my ears. "Question?" Sam asks someone. Attention turn to the left. "Are witches real?" A teenage boy ask.

"Do you feel as though that was the reason these young girls went into the forest?" She might've went into the forest for witches? "Just rumors. Just stories." He softly say upset.

Bzzzzz. I frown crossing my arms. It is no bees around but what is that buzzing noise? God! It's so annoying. "Witches are not real. The forest is a very dangerous place to go looking. Charlie." Sam says back.

Charlie is the Police Cheif. He goes over a few rules for some minites. After a while the search party begin and people migrate into the forest. I look up at the cloudy grey skies. It look like it will rain again.

I make moves to walk when Cliff walks over to me toting a flashlight. We greet each other. "The world is coming to an end." He say looking around the trees.

"Don't say that. Just bad things is finally hitting our neck of the woods." I softly say trying to calm his nerves. He seems really upset. His skin is pale.

"She heard buzzing." He say in a small hint of anger. I didn't know that. Is he assumming that I had something to do with her disaapearence? "Do you want to tell the police?" I ask sounding dumb.

I really don't know how to handle the situation. "No. Something weird is going on." He say voice cracking. I look back at the forest. Maybe he is right. "Claire. Tonya. You might be next, Mary." He say making my heart race. That is some type of theory but he might be right.

If I am next then I need to stay away from the police. I frown. "Something supe-" "Let's not speak that word, Cliff. Let's not sink in. You dig too deep and you mi-" "Be killed." Cliff say in disbelief.

"Yeah. We know how movies end. Leave it alone." I strongly say. We can't have bodies piling up in Forks over a buzzing noise. "Just watch your back. She heard buzzing." He say walking away. I lose sight of him when he walk pass a bunch of trees.

"Long as I hear it and you don't, Cliff." I groan out in fustration. I don't want him to die. I look around noticing I'm all alone. Tonya hear buzzing before she went missing. I'm hearing buzzing. I wonder if Claire heard it.

I groan rubbing my face as I start heading towards the forest. I walk up to the trees seeing my surroundings shift into my bedroom. I turn around eyes widen in horror. "Hello!" I shout hearing an echo. What the hell is going on?

I turn back around coming face to face with a bare chest. I glance in at his six pack. Paul? I look up at his face to see a black smudge. I cover my in shock wrapping my jacket around me in horror turning my back to him. Oh, no!

I'm next. "Oh, Jesus." I whisper horrified. I walk hitting someone's chest. "You're supposed to stay with the group." A voice sounding like Jacob say. I keep my eyes down looking at his blackish shoes.

"Sorry." I breathe out putting my hair behind my ears and turning around to face someone wearing a white shirt with green linen. I look up staring Paul in his eyes. I grin. My emotions seems to calm down.

"I got her." He say to Jacob. He walk pass us heading into the forest. "You okay?" He asks me. "No." I explain to him what I just heard from Cliff, the buzzing noise, and what I just experienced.

"You take your medication?" He asks. I guess he don't believe me. "No. I guess my mind is playing tricks on me." I tiredly say rubbing on my face.

I'm not trying to die nor have my family being killed. I'll have to think of something or investigate this. I take a few more minutes to calm myself before walking around Paul and heading into the forest. The sounds of branches snapping scares me right back out. I run right across the open field to the parked cars.

I'm not being killed in that forest. I take my keys out of my pants pocket dashing between parked cars to mine. I unlock the doors seeing Paul and his friends watching. I can't. I shake my head opening the car door and getting in. I drive off.

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"He lied?" I ask Paul confused. He takes his shoes off in my bedroom. "Why would he do that?" I ask pacing. I thought we were friends. I mean it is the first time since I seen him in almost four and a hlaf months.

"Tonya is his girlfriend." He say taking off his shirt. His girlfriend? I walk to my bedroom window. It might explain his emotions when speaking on her. "Paul, what if I can? This world is coming to an end cause of me. I can be out there helping." I strongly say banging on the window sill.

I can be helping find Tonya and her friends. "What you see?" He ask laying on my bed. What do I see? I frown. "A cult sacrafice. Very hard. My mind could be...playing tricks on me." I softly say in disbelief. My heart speeds up. This Paul on my bed coul be part of my imagination.

"What you see now?" He ask not sounding like Paul at all. A pure white man wearing brown cowboy boots and cowboy hat. His skin seems to sparkle under the sunlight. I shake my head walking out of my room in terrified. I go into the living room and grab my purse off the coffee table.

Knock. Knock. Knock. Who is that or is it part of my mind? I walk to the front door and place my ear on the steel. I'm scared to look out on what could possibly not be real. I breathe. Knock. Knock. Knock.

I swallow unlocking the door and slowly opening it. Paul walks in and look at me. Paul always wear his leather jacket. If things are not real then was it even a search party. He stands there looking at me.

I close the door. "Paul, you were just in the room." I say not bringing myself to look at him. I don't know why. My eyes looking into his face makes me feel heavy. I walk past him and sit on the couch. "Did you go to work today?" He asks me.

That let's me know everything was fake or he was never at the search party. "Tonya's search party was today." I say in a dead tone. "Did you go?" He asks. I relay eveything that happened including the white man in my bed. He checks for me.

He walks back. "What he looks like?" "White. His skin was a certain white. He had a cowboy hat and boots on. Both were brown. Maybe he wants to kill me." I seriously say staring in his face. That's the only thing I can think of. Cliff gotta be right. The world must be supernatural. He looks thoughtful. Weird that I don't hear a buzzing noise now. It gotta be that forest.

"What you think?" I ask him. I want to hear his thoughts. "You're going crazy." He say heading for my bedroom. Am I? I get up off the couch and poke my head around the corner to see him walking in. He takes off his leather jacket. I sit back down in confusion. Maybe, I am going crazy from my experience in Greenwood.