After about 10 minutes of riding in the cable car, we make it to the other side. But when we get to the door, turns out that the door was locked on the other side. And on the other side, I could see Jessica in a light purple coat with a fur collar on the hood. She seemed to be walking towards us as she happened to hear us walking up. To get her full attention, Sam used her hand to bang on the glass. It scared the hell out of her and she jumped back a bit. "What the hell?!" she spat, seeing us at the door.
"Jessica! Over here!" Sam called as loud as she could. "Hey! Can you let us out?!" I shout to her. From what I could hear, she wondered if we were having some weird stroke or something like that. "Please let us out? Pretty please?" Sam begged. Jess rolls her eyes and goes to unlock the door to let us out. Once the door was opened, I push it open and the three of us walk out.
"Oh my god! For a moment, I thought we were goners. If we were in there for longer than ten minutes, I would've chewed off my own leg." Chris said with sarcasm all in his tone. I just shake my head at what he said and rub the back of my neck. "Aw sick Chris." Sam said. "Yeah, I wouldn't want to be in the middle of that, thank you." I say with a smirk. Chris then proceeds to walk over to Jess and he snatches something out of her hands. "Hey!" Jess yelled. "Chris!" Sam exclaimed. "Is that really necessary?" I say, feeling offended of rummaging through her property. If I can get onto Sam for snooping, I can do the same with Chris. "Give that back Chris!" I say, trying to get that letter from his hands but he holds it in the air so I can't reach it. "Oh that's real mature!" I shout, stretching as far as I could but it was up to no avail.
"My goodness! Seems like someone has a lil' crush on our good friend and dear class president Michael Munroe. Aaand what kind of sizzling erotica might our Jessica be capable of imagining? I wonder..." Chris said sarcastically, seeing what Jessica had possessed. Jessica stood there for a minute before saying, "Mike and Em split. We're together now." "Talk about drama!" Chris scoffed. "You know, I'm pretty sure they'll find a 'special reunion' if you know what I mean." I joke, making air quotation marks. Jess shoots me this offended glare at what I said. "What? I'm just making conversation." I shrug my shoulders.
"Whatever. You three will figure it out eventually." Jess scoffs, waving her hand at us. I shake my head and turn to see Sam checking out the view on our right, hands on her hips. I walk over to her and admire the view as well. "Isn't this nice? You just got to take it in, minus the drama." I tell her, admiring the view as well. "Oh yeah! Sometimes they just forget to stop and take it all in." Sam agreed. As much as we wanted to admire the view that laid in front of us, we had to get to the cabin before we freeze our asses off.
Afterwards, Chris, Sam and I had left Jessica there at the cable cars because she said she was going to meet Mike. Makes me wonder what they were going to do while we were gone. One can only wonder. We make it to the cabin and notice that Matt and Ashley were sitting in front of the cabin. Ashley was sitting on the steps with her arms crossed across her lap. And Matt was looking a bit distant with the rest of us. "Hey Ash. How you doing?" I ask, trying to make small talk with everybody here. She looks up at me with a grin. "Eh, been better. I'm freezing though." she answers, shivering a bit. "You're telling me. I hope Josh gets the door open soon." I respond, looking over to see Josh and Chris catching up. "You know, I'm surprised you haven't hit it off with him. We were kind of hoping you would." Ash said, keeping her voice low. She took notice of how I was looking at Josh. "Oh shut up with that. It's not the right time to do that because of what happened." I said, feeling embarrassed. Ash chuckles at my reaction but she knows what I meant.
"I'll catch up with you later." I tell her, going to Sam all the while waving at Ash. She waved back at me. We're pretty good friends but not as close as Sam and I. Sam was chilling on the gate to get to the ski lodge. "How're they doing?" she asked me. "Ash is doing good but with Matt, something tells me that him and Em got into a fight or something." I shrug, leaning on the gate with my elbows holding me up. "Well, in your words, I shouldn't pry into other people's business." she shrugs her shoulders. "You've learned your lesson already." I grin at her, to which she playfully shoves me. "Oh hush up!" she said while laughing. I too laugh along with her. Soon enough, the laughter dies off before something seemed off, like we were being watched or something like that.
I look behind me and raise my eye brow at the woods behind us. "Everything okay, Lilly?" Sam asked, taking notice. "Uh, yeah. Yeah everything's okay. Let's just focus on having a fun weekend, k?" I say optimistically with a smirk. She smirks back at me; agreeing with me. After while, we walk up to where the front door was with Ashley. We were waiting on Chris to open the door considering it was locked. Then, we hear Chris on the other side making a spooky ghostly sound. "Hi Chris. Very funny." Sam said, not phased by his attempt of trying to scare us. "Aww, how did you know it was me?" he asked. "It's easy to figure you out. Please get the door open." I say, crossing my arms. He then walks from the door. I shivered from how cold it was. Chris better hurry the hell up with opening the door so I could get my stuff unpacked and I can get into bed to warm up.
About 5 minutes later, I could see Chris on the other side with his make shift flamethrower. "Hurry up! We're freezing our buns off out here!" Ashley said impatiently. I couldn't agree more with her on that one. Once he did get the door open, he swings it open and acts as if he's presenting something to us. "Thank you, thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week." he said, bowing down. "Okay Mr. Show-off." I say, rolling my eyes. Before he could answer, a baby wolverine happened to run out of the door, scaring the hell out of Chris. Sam, Ashley, and I laughed at his reaction. "Jeez! That thing freaks me out!" Chris sneered. I laughed at how irritated he was. "What was it? Are you okay?" Ashley asked with a chuckle. "Never knew you were such a jumper to every little thing, Chris." I joke, unable to hold in my laughter. "Well, it was a-, a-" he stammered. "Aw, it was just a cute baby wolverine." Sam said in a slight baby voice. Chris was flabbergasted by what Sam said, that a baby wolverine was in fact that big.
"Take it easy bud. You'll be a big boy someday." Josh teased him. Just then, we all walk inside the cabin. To be fair, it was a bit chilly inside but it's better than being out there in the snow. "Home sweet home." Josh said, going over to the fireplace. "Well, sweet isn't exactly the word I'd use." Matt commented. I stretch my arms and release a sigh as we all walk in. "Oh my gosh it feels so good to be inside!" Ashley said, feeling relieved to be out of there. "Hell yeah, but frankly, it still is cold in here. Josh, why not get a fire started huh?" I say, rubbing my clothed arms. I feel my blush at talking with Josh. He nodded at me and winked at me, which made me blush even brighter.
"This place doesn't look any different than before. "Well, of course, no one's been up here lately." I point out, standing next to Sam with my arms crossed. Matt looks at me for a minute before looking away. "You mean with the police up here too?" Ashley wondered. "No, not really." Josh said, getting some wood to start a fire. Just then, both Mike and Jess walk in casually. "What's up party people?" Mike said enthusiastically with his hand raised. "Heeeey!" Jess exclaimed just as enthusiastic as him. Everything seemed to be going okay, that is until Matt takes a look at Mike. "Hey Mike, make yourself at home!" Josh introduced. Well, at least someone is being civil.
"Yeah. Go ahead. Take a load off. Have whatever you want." Matt said, standing up and marching up to Mike in a demanding way. I roll my eyes at what I saw because I kind of knew Matt would get jealous of Mike and Emily seeing each other. "Hey, take it easy cowboy." Mike said, pretending to be offended. "What the hell were you and Emily doing on the trail?" Matt pried, getting my eyes to widen. How did I know that was going to happen? I can't say I'm a psychic, but I guessed that spot on. "What are you talking about?" Mike asked, acting confused. "I saw you two out there, through that telescope." Matt answered, looking pissed. "What? Is it wrong that I just want to say hi to an old friend?" Mike responded, trying to keep Matt from killing him. Matt's pissed off face then faded as he figured out that he overreacted and he apologized to him for being like that.
"For a minute there, I thought we'd have to bring out a net to break this fight up." I whisper, leaning over to Sam. "No kidding. The last thing we need is a ridiculous fight." she whispered back to me. Just then, Emily walks in and sees Mike and Jess snuggling on the couch. "Spoke too soon." I whisper, shaking my head. Emily sneers at this and makes a rude gesture. "Oh my god, that is so gross." she says in a jealous tone, "What're you trying to do, swallow his whole face?" Jess then stands up at what she says. "Excuse me? Did you say something?" she spat back. "Oh I'm sorry, was your sluttiness too loud for you to hear me?" Emily spat back. I pinch the bridge of my nose out of frustration because this is the last thing that I wanted to hear right now. "No one wants in your territory honey." Emily continued to smack talk Jessica. Jessica got in Emily's face this time in an offended way. "Well, sounds to me someone is bitter because they don't make the cut." Jess retorts with her arms crossed. " Yeah. It's all a big cattle call with that dreamboat. Congrats, you're top cow." Emily spat back rudely. "Ohh that's real deep with calling Ms Homecoming a cow." Jess scoffed at her. Okay, this is getting out of hand. Someone's got to break this minuscule cat fight up.
"Okay you two! Knock it off! You two are causing more trouble than the rest of us!" I blurt out, wanting this to stop. Both of them turn to me with angered looks on their faces. "You need to stay out of this, you idiot!" Jess spat back at me. I took a step back in offense. Jeez, so much for trying to break up a fight. Why does she have to be a bitch to me? The two continue to bicker and I just shake my head in disbelief. "I really didn't want to come up here just to hear those two fight like children." I whisper to Sam. "You're not the only one. C'mon, let's head upstairs. I see the need to take a bath." she replies back. Josh had broken up the fight between them just then. After that, Sam and I head upstairs as Mike and Jessica leave the cabin to go god knows where and frankly I don't give a shit where they go because I don't want to be apart of whatever that was down there.
I go into the spare bedroom that Sam and I were going to share considering there's two beds in it. I set my bag on the bed with a swing and begin to open it. It had my phone, some clothes to help me through the weekend, my anxiety medicine because I do have anxiety problems and I have to take medication for it. My phone charger, & my headphones. As I unpacked my stuff, I could hear Josh downstairs. "Hey Sammy! Lil' Brown!" he called, getting me to blush. "What?" Sam called. "Yeah?" I call too. "What're you two doing?" he asked loudly. "I'm just uh... getting into the bath!" Sam called in answer. "Oh well, will Lilly be joining you in it?" Josh teased us.
That made me blush beat red and I chuckle in embarrassment. "Hardy har! Plus, I don't believe she's got the guts." Sam replied. "Oh shut up!" I laugh. I finish unpacking my things and walk out of the bedroom to see Sam walking out of the bathroom. "What's this about joining you for the bath?" I ask in a joking tone, hands on my hips. I give a smirk at what she said. "Oh come on now. You know I'm just teasing ya'. I really wouldn't ask you to join me. Unless ya want to." Sam played, playfully punching me in the shoulder. I chuckle at what she did. "Oh please. It's never gonna happen." I joke. We laugh at what I say. I rub the back of my neck and crack it. "Okay, so what do you say we try to pry the hot water out of Josh?" Sam said to me, walking with me through the corridor. "Yes. We must. Why? It's not working?" I wonder, raising an eyebrow at her. "Tsh, yeah. I don't want to be an icicle so it's a must." she answered me. I nod in reply as we begin to walk down the stairs and the closer we got, the more audible the voices of Josh, Ashley, and Chris could be heard.
Josh was telling both Ashley and Chris about some Ouija Board that Josh has here somewhere. Chris, of course, doesn't believe that they don't to anything but Josh promised that it does and that he did it all the time with someone. "Hey Josh, No hot water's kinda major oversight doncha think...?" Sam said, grinning at him. "Is it because you two are gonna share a bath together because that's just weird if it is." Chris asked. "Hell now we're not sharing that bath okay? Of course, I do love ya Sammy but I'm not sharing the bath with ya." I say with an embarrassed grin. "Believe what you want. But in all seriousness, the boiler's in the basement. Just got to turn it on. As for you two, go and find that spirit board." Josh points to Chris and Ashley. "As for you two, you up for a ride along?" Josh asked. Good god, why was he so cocky yet so smart? That's one of the many reasons that I got a crush on him. And I believe he's catching on with that.
Sam and I follow him down into the basement. But he stops us before we could go in there. "Hey, did you two notice how I gave them a mission together? A little, "Alone Time" would do them some good, don't you guys think?" Josh asked us. I wrinkle my mouth at what he said. We all know that they like each other so he was right to do that. "They are very sweet together. They should really hit it off." Sam said in a flattering tone. "You and me both. As far as we know, he's not going to say how Chris really feels unless someone's holding a gun to his head." I agree, cracking my knuckles. Josh proceeds to grab a flashlight from the drawer so we could see what's in front of us considering it was slightly. "Quite the gesture, Lilly. All they need is a traumatic situation to have them fall into each others arms." Josh said, giving us a two fingered salute before he walked off from us. We all go to the basement and before we even walked in there, Josh held his head and let out a sigh.
"You know, Sam and Lilly..." he began. The tone in his voice made me feel sympathy for him and we walk up to him. "Yes Josh?" Sam said. We stood in front of him and gaze up at him. "I just want to say..." he stammered. I put my hand on his shoulder to comfort him. "It really means a lot that you guys had come back here." he said, looking at both of us. "Josh... we're here for you. Really. Whatever you need. We'll make it through this... together." Sam said supportively. "Yeah Josh... we're not going anywhere. Especially when you need it most." I add with a smile. Josh rubs the back of his neck again. Ever since what happened that year, Sam and I have been supporting him through this because I can't imagine losing a loved one so sudden like that. "I just want us to have a good time... you know." Josh said to us. He then walks off from us. Sam and I exchange looks for a moment before we follow him down into the basement.
"Watch your step you guys." Josh warned as we walk down an old flight of concrete stairs. "Um, I think we can handle some stairs." Sam corrected. "Uh huh." he commented. I roll my eyes at what he said and we make it down the stairs. "Sorry to drag you two down into the bowels." he apologized in a joking tone. "Just get me some hot water and I'll be super fine." Sam sighed, closing her eyes. "Yeah, you should've gotten it on earlier dude." I say, popping my neck. Josh chuckled at my comment. "Well, you two wouldn't want to be alone down here. Unless, you guess being together wouldn't count as being alone." Josh teased us. "Okay, enough of that." I say, with an embarrassed tone. Sam caught on and she too laughed. "On the other hand, this place is kind of creepy." Sam said, observing the place. "Yep, not a place you two would want to be." Josh said, walking ahead of us. She wasn't the only one to feel creeped out by this basement. I've been one to hate basements because of how people finding weird and scary shit down there. So I steer clear of them.
We come to where the boiler was and Sam and I noticed how there wasn't a knob on the boiler door. I inspected the door along with Josh while Sam happened to find a baseball bat that just happened to be sitting by the boiler for some reason. "What's this doing here? Is it yours?" she asks Josh, picking up the bat. Both Josh and I turn to face her. "You bet it's mine. I used to play baseball with my dad all the time. But that was before he got too busy to spare some time with me." he said, taking the bat from her. "Damn, that's got to suck big time. I wouldn't do that with my own kids. If I ever have some that is." I say, crossing my arms. Both of them agreed with me because they know I'm not a workaholic. I love to bide my time with my family and friends as much as possible.
"Weren't I supposed to fix this old man up?" Josh muttered, turning his attention to the boiler. He gives Sam the flashlight that he had with him. "Here, can you hold this so I can see? Lilly, go to the generator over there and press the button when it turns green." he says, opening the boiler door. I nod and go to the generator that was on the right side of the boiler. Needless to say, Josh had to fix it before he gives me the okay to turn it on. Just as I get there, a strange noise lingered in the back of the basement, sending chills up my spine. I turn to look behind me with my eyebrow cocked. Sam heard it too and looked behind her. "Did you hear that?" she asked in concern. "Yeah. That's strange." I reply. "What was what? Shine the light over here so I can see." Josh said, not hearing what Sam and I just heard. I roll my eyes and kept my arms crossed while Josh fixed the boiler.
"Nice one. Okay first things first: we gotta increase the water pressure before we get the boiler fired up." Josh said, standing back up and taking the flashlight back from Sam. "Doesn't sound too complicated." I shrug my shoulders. "That's because it isn't, Lil' Brown. Just press that button when it turns green. Simple." he said, lazily pointing at the button. I turn my attention to the water pressure system and kept my hand up. Once the light turned green, I press down on it and the water pressure heated up, making a loud sound to signify that it was on. I smile in triumph and did a small dance. "Okay, don't get too cocky." Sam said. I chuckle at this. Soon enough, the two of us give Josh a high five to show we accomplished getting Sam her hot water.
Then, Sam and I hear that sound again. Those same chills ran up my spine in hearing it. "Okay, that's just creepy." I say, looking around the basement. "Yeah, that's weird. What the hell was that?" Sam asked, looking behind us. "It could be a lot of things... none of them nice..." Josh teased, trying to scare us. I shove his hand away and felt myself blush again. "Hey quit it." Sam scolded, turning around to face him. "I'm just 'Joshing' ya two." Josh said, making his hand into a upside down gun. "Very funny." I say. Josh chuckled and said, "Oh man, you two were freaked out." I scoff and cross my arms. "We were not scared." Sam protested, sulking down a bit. "You two are as white as a sheet!" he argued. "Don't tell us that you weren't freaked out too, Mr tough guy?" I say, leaning forward some. He jumped back a bit and pretended to be offended. "What? No-" he started, raising his hands up some. "Don't play coy, you too are as white as a sheet." Sam agreed with me. Josh shook his head and laughed at what we said.
"Nah, nah, come on. I been... I been down here enough, this place makes all kinds of sounds. I mean, big old lodge has gotta belch out some times." he protested. I scoff in disbelief because that wasn't a normal sound to anything I've heard before. Sam nudges me barely to get my attention. When I looked at her, there was a smirk on her face. I know that smirk from anywhere. She wants to get Josh back for accusing us that we were scared. I followed along with her impish plan. A look of terror etches on my face as I look at Josh. "Josh... Don't move..." Sam warned, looking past him.
Josh seemed confused at our sudden change of reaction. "What?" he asked. "There's something behind you." I say, pretending to be scared. "Yeah right." he said, tempted to look behind him. "No seriously." Sam insisted, glancing over to me for a second. "We're not kidding, Josh. Just take a look." I ask, looking past him. Slowly but surely, he does look behind him. At that, Sam and I laugh at what we did. "Hah! Gotcha!" Sam gloated. "We punked your ass!" I said, playfully shoving him. He chuckled at that and said, "Alright. You two proved your point." he said, being a sourpuss. Afterwards, we start to head out of the basement. Soon enough, the sound started up again, sending another trail of shivers up my spine. That is really creepy and weird. "Okay, tell us that you heard that too Josh?" Sam said, noticing that the sound got louder. I noticed how it was not a normal sound you'd normal hear in a basement. It concerned me greatly and I held my right arm with my left hand. "What?" he asked in confusion. "Is it just me or does it sound weirdly regular?" Sam asked. "No, that doesn't sound regular." I say, feeling on edge. Sam took notice of how on edge I was.
"Should we see what it is?" Sam wondered, feeling concerned. "Why?" Josh asked, looking at her. We walk down the aisle and the sound increased the further we went down it. I felt unnerved by this and truthfully wanted to get the hell out of there. "Isn't it one of the pipes that might be on the verge of bursting?" Sam wondered. "Unlikely." Josh responded. I look up at the pipes and silently noticed that it wasn't them that were making those noises. "I wouldn't want this place to burn down on my watch if that were the case." I tell them, playing along. We get to another part of it, which was colder than at the entrance. "I'll go check it out." Sam said, heroically. "Why?" Josh asked her. I cock my eyebrow at him. "What's it to you Mr. Fraidyface?" I cockily said. "It could be nothing." he shrugged his shoulders. "Thank you Lilly. He can hold down the fort while I investigate. Care to join me?" she suggested, turning to face them. I hold up my hands as if to look offended. "Nah, it's all yours." I say, taking a step back. She shrugged her shoulders and made a joke of how Josh can hold me if I were to get scared. "Quit it." I scold, blushing again. Josh too was embarrassed at this.
Sam then walks to where the noise was coming from. Suddenly, someone in a monk outfit and hockey mask jumps out from behind a stack of boxes. This legitimately scared the shit out of me and I screamed at this. We all start to run from the strange man while Sam knocked some boxes down to slow the stranger down. I panted heavily as we ran to the basement door. "Oh shit! Shit!" I shout in sheer panic and terror. Sam tries getting the door open by ramming her body to help her open it. She too was in a panic. "Oh come on! Why are these doors locked!?" she screamed, trying to get the door open. My heart was beating out of my chest from how freaked out and scared I was feeling right there. "To keep out strangers!" Josh exclaimed, looking down the staircase. "Are you kidding me right now!?" I exclaimed, my hands shaking. The masked stranger gets to where we were. Just then, the figure starts to talk. "Heeeeey..." it spoke. That's when I realized, it was fucking Chris in that outfit. "What?" I exclaim, trying to catch my breath. "Heeeey!" he said again, raising his hands and making hand movements. "...WHAT THE HELL?!" Sam exclaimed, now pissed at this. He then takes off the mask and the hood. I now felt the urge to punch Chris in the face for pulling that stunt on us.
"Damn it Chris! What the hell is wrong with you?!" I exclaim, clearly pissed now. "You just got monked!" he said, pointing lazily at us. Sam and I glance at each other, she too was pissed at this. "What? Why would you do that?!" she scolded. I tried to get my heart beat to settle down because he did in fact scare the living hell out of me just now. "There's all this cool old movie crap down here. What, was I... was I not supposed to take advantage of the opportunity?" Chris said, holding out his arms as if to present something. My mouth drops in disbelief at what he said. He nearly gave me a damn heart attack! "What? You're kidding me right?! Where you in on this putz?!" Sam exclaimed, shoving Josh. Josh just chuckled at the prank pulled on us. "No, but I wish I was because that was pretty good!" he responded, high fiving Chris. I shake my head at this.
"I so want to punch your face right now." I say, walking out of the room with Sam next to me. "But you gotta admit, that did have a whiff of humor to it." she adds. "Jokemaster!" Chris gloated, walking ahead of us. I shake my head and follow them out of the basement and back into the lounge area. "Look, we said nothing about a joke! Your prank was dumb-" Sam began. "You two totally pissed yourselves!" Josh teased, walking up the stairs. "We were not scared!" I shout, playing in denial. "And that's just gross, okay?" Sam said, protesting. Even though I tried to deny it, I really was scared because of it being so sudden. Ashley then asked what Chris was wearing in a weirded out way.
"You know what? You know what? No! I've just been through enough spooking for one night, okay? I see a hot bath in my crystal ball. So have fun." Sam said, starting to go upstairs. I go with her upstairs but stopped halfway. "Watch out for Josh there! He's quite the schemer!" I say in a creepy way before going upstairs with her. Little did I know, this night would forever haunt me forever...