Continued… from Ch.4

Little did Jeff and Shannon know that Matt had a trap set to either kill or injure them to the point of a near death experience. As Matt was walking through the trees with Jeff and Shannon right behind him he suddenly thought of a flaw in his mastermind plan. How was he going to get them both to stand exactly where he needed them to without one of them being able to escape as soon as he started his diabolical plan? Then suddenly it hit him. All he needed to do was trick the weakest minded one—in which at the point and time to him was Shannon—into standing right where he was so that he could talk to Jeff at the other end of the small circle that he had found in the trees. Little did Matt know that Jeff and Shannon were never going to separate away from each other with Matt acting all weird like he was right now. So as Matt told Shannon to stay put Shannon instantly started yelling at him telling him "No Matt!! I am not just going to stand here and wait for you to try to pull one of your tricks on me or Jeff." Shannon had said those words with such intensity that it had startled Matt, and he (Shannon) suddenly felt a sudden urge of power over Matt, knowing that he had indeed just made Matt's original plan a little bit more difficult to proceed.

A few minutes had passed with Matt and Shannon yelling at each other back and forth about the same thing, until Jeff finally got sick and tired of them yelling and decided to walk into the trees alone. When Matt, and Shannon got done bickering they noticed that Jeff was no where to be seen, and agreed to go look for him. Matt in a way not wanting Jeff to be found was getting a kick out of him being missing all of a sudden—it was the perfect timing, because now he could finally pull off his scheme to get rid of Shannon once and for all.

As they both trudged along through the trees to find Jeff, Matt led him and Shannon back to the concealed circle hidden deep into the trees to finish him off once and for all. Once they reached the circle Shannon started to catch on to what Matt was thinking—or in his case could have been thinking—and started to panic. "So… Matt…I think we are lost. We have been going around these trees for about an hour now looking for Jeff, and he is no where to be found." Explained Shannon, trying not to make any unnecessary comments to Matt that may make things worse than what they already were. "Wow! Shannon you know what? I think you actually right for once!" Retorted Matt, in one of the most sarcastic voices you could possibly think of. "You know what Matt! I have had it with all of your little games! I am sick and tired of you being like an ass hole every time the past gets brought up about your stupid accident! It isn't like I actually meant to burn your stupid play house down with you inside! You weren't supposed to be home yet. You were supposed to be in tutoring at school. While you were at school I was going to burn it down, just to get back at you a little bit for putting me in the Hospital. How was I supposed to know that you were skipping tutoring for the day?" Shannon tried to explain as much as he possible could at the time being with as much sympathy as needed. Matt just stood there looking at Shannon in amazement. Matt was so… surprised that Shannon had finally let the truth out about his accident, that he actually looked somewhat relieved, but still infuriated at the same time.

Meanwhile...while all of this was still going in the trees—Jeff was back at camp listening to his Mp3 waiting for Shannon and Matt to return. He was actually starting to wonder if they had heard him say that he was going back to camp until they both settled it out. After a while of sitting there doing nothing, and listening to music he started to worry about Shannon. He started to wonder if Matt had killed him and was disposing of him right now, and coming up with a strong alibi to prove that he didn't actually kill Shannon. After a few more minutes of thinking of what Matt could of possibly done he'd had enough. He decided to walk back into the trees to the circle in the woods where he had originally left the two arguing. When he got to the small circle in the woods he was shocked to see that nobody was there. Instead he saw a place where it looked like there had been a struggle. Jeff not wanting to think of his brother or cousin being dead instantly started yelling and running off in the direction it looked like they had gone. After a few minutes of searching and coming up empty he stopped yelling and tried to listen for them to see if they were anywhere close, but again he cam up empty handed.

About an hour had gone by, and Jeff was still struggling to find his brother and cousin both still alive and intact, and out of no where he heard a scuffling noise not far from him. He was hoping it was just them walking loudly toward them, but he couldn't afford to get his hopes up after knowing how mad Matt had been at Shannon all of these years. Jeff slowly got closer and closer to the noise. For every step he got closer to the noise the more sure he was that it was them, and they were both ok. Every step he took that got closer to the scuffling noise he got his hope up higher and higher, until at last when he went through the last shrub bush he found something that he didn't want to see, and was at the very least prepared to see. He saw Matt and Shannon both lying on the ground making out, half naked.

"What in the Hell is going on here!?" Demanded Jeff, still confused as to why he just found his brother making out with Shannon of all people. "Jeff! Shit! Umm… I can explain everything!" Shannon pleaded to Jeff, half naked and scared to death that he and Matt had just been caught. "Oh don't worry Shannon! There will be no need to explain after I get done with you two!" Threatened Jeff, still in shock at the progress the two had made in such a little amount of time to make it in. "Shannon you don't have to worry about Jeff here—right now, he can't hurt a fly!" Chuckled Matt, whom by the way was now temporarily standing half naked next to Shannon in the trees—which by the way was still in the middle of no where. "Matt! You just wait to see if I can't hurt a fly, because you are the first person that I am coming after!" Threatened Jeff, while at the same moment to turn his back to leave them to their business, and pack up camp to leave early the in the morning as soon as the sun rose, and he could see where he was actually going without getting lost.

As soon as Jeff was back at the camp he did exactly what he told himself he was going to do. He packed all of his stuff, and hiking supplies up, and waited until dawn to head out. Over the few hours that he had time to think about what he had just seen, he had calmed down just a bit—enough to where he wasn't going to go back that instant and kill them both. Instead what he was going to do was much much more cruel than killing them. When he had packed up camp last night in is angry mind, he had come up with the fact that they couldn't survive out here in the woods without food, water, and other supplies, so… he packed up all of the food, water, and supplies and took them with him. It was a cruel plan; even for Jeff to go through with, but he did—he went through with it.

Jeff was already half way back to the reservation, by the time Matt and Shannon had arrived back at camp finding no traces of any camping supplies, or anything that they had brought. They were confused at first. They were sure that they had the right place where they had been camping happily just a little over twenty-four hours ago, but there was no sign of anything, nothing, noda, zip, zilch. "Hey Matt, maybe we should just walk around a min to make sure that this is the place where we camped at. Shall we?" Stated Shannon, whom was now walking over to Matt's side to see what he wanted to do. "Somehow I don't think we will have to do that Shannon." Matt replied with a worried, and frusterated tone, now holding a folded up piece of paper that read:

"Hey guys! I took all of the supplies, and everything else with me, so… hope you don't mind starving out there to death."

-Love Jeff (The person that could never hurt a fly)

"Shannon this is all entirely your fault!" Matt screamed at the top of his lungs, while at the same time pushing Shannon down, so that he could get the upper hand to killing him before he even had a chance to struggle much. "Matt! Wait! This isn't my fault! It was your brilliant mind that told Jeff that he couldn't hurt a fly! Remember Ma…" was all Shannon got out before Matt was punching him out of control. "This is NOT my fault! If you hadn't brought up the past around the campfire than none of this would of ever happened! I wouldn't of been mad enough to try to kill you and Jeff, which means that you would of never explained things correctly to me, which also means that Jeff would never of found me and you doing what we were doing, so then we would still be here with all of our camping stuff having a nice time—all three of us laughing and walking back together to the reservation. So this is all entirely your fault!" Matt shouted, while still taking his anger out on Shannon by using him as a punching bag. "Matt…wait…I'm sorry for bringing up the past around the campfire, but you are the one who can't control his anger!" Pleaded Shannon with all he had left before Matt could finish him off. "I. Don't. Care. What. You…" Was all Matt got out before he realized that he had indeed taken out too much anger on his poor cousin Shannon. "Shannon! Shannon! Oh My God! Shannon! Please talk to me! Please… Shannon…. Please" Matt begged, now only realizing the damage he had done with his own two fists upon Shannon's now bloody skull. "Matt…I'm sorry…" Was all Shannon managed to get out before Matt stopped him from speaking any further. "Shh… Shannon it's all right. I'm the one who is sorry. I'm sorry for putting you through Hell all of these years. Your right I have to work on my anger management, but…" Matt was pleading, but couldn't fight back the tears long enough to finish his sentence. "Matt…" Were Shannon's last words, for the blood force trauma to his head had caused him to bleed out, and die into Matt's arms.

Matt ended up committing suicide soon after Shannon died there in his arms, by jumping off of a really high cliff that he stumbled across with Jeff and Shannon when they were all looking for their campsite. Jeff on the other hand never actually made it back to the reservation. Instead he felt too guilty and decided to go back to find Matt, and Shannon only to find Shannon beaten to death, and Matt no where to be found. Jeff instantly got the same idea that Matt had and walked over to the cliff that they had all past, and saw matt at the bottom dead. Jeff couldn't just let Shannon rot out there alone in the trees, so he went back to Shannon, picked him up, and threw him over the cliff. Jeff now prepared to take his own life prepares to jump off of the cliff, but instead of jumping off the way he had planned… he tripped over a rock and went flying off unprepared and got caught on a branch hanging half way to the ground, and couldn't struggle free.

A few days later the rangers found Matt and Shannon both dead at the bottom of the cliff, but Jeff still alive hanging partially by the backpack he still had on. Jeff was safely lowered to safety, and instantly rushed to a hospital. After being fully recovered in the hospital they put him into the psychiatric ward, for trying to commit suicide.

The End