Chapter Six: Rosewater Park

Josh looked around at the outside and started out and let the door close behind him, not caring for what was happening to him. The outside was the best thing that had happened to him now. He didn't like the inside of buildings here in this damn place, but he guessed that he needed to go through them to get to his destination. He moved on down the walkway which was supposed to lead to Rosewater Park.

As Josh walked he looked to his left and saw a very large and high wall. On it was that girl that had kicked the key out of his way from the normal apartments from before. "Hey, that wasn't such a nice thing you did back there," Josh said.

The girl looked down at Josh and said, "Thought you were someone else, I'm sorry."

"Well that's fine," Josh said, "So what is your name?"

"Sophia," The girl said.

"Sophia huh, what's a little girl like you doing walking around these dangerous fogged streets?" Josh asked her.

"What's so dangerous about them, no cars to run you over," Sophia said looking down at Josh.

"Don't you see the nightmares that crawl on the streets?" Josh asked.

"Nightmares? Don't you have to be asleep for those?" Sophia asked tilting her head.

Josh shook his head and looked around the area. "Alright well we need you to get out of here, what are you doing here anyway?" Josh asked.

"I'm looking for her, the one that was always by the water," Sophia said.

"The one bye the water?" Josh asked.

"Nothing it seems you can help out with," Sophia said standing herself on the wall and then jumping off onto the side Josh wasn't on.

Josh sighed as he watched this. "Damn brat got away," Josh said to himself walking off down the road.

The fog was harder to see here, but from what he heard of Rosewater Park was that it had happened to be by some water. This must've called for some fog since fog was denser near water. Maybe it was all the water that was making the fog. Or even maybe, it was the lady by the water Sophia mentioned that made all the fog.

Josh reached the entrance to the park which had a giant sign that said welcome to Rosewater Park. There were bushes aligned on the walkway and cuts that veered off into garden paths. One had a gazebo.

Josh just followed the path and was about to walk into the park when he kicked a trash can tat nearly made him jump from his skin. He noticed on top of the trash was a letter that had the name Jacob labeled on the front. Josh opened it to see only a small amount of letters on it.

"Meet me in Rosewater, Lina."

Josh shrugged but this meant he might run into Jacob at the park. Josh moved into the park and looked around to see it led to the fog banked lake. The lake was blacked by a railway that didn't let one to the water. Small little binoculars that you paid to use stood on the gate, which let you look out to see. That might've been useful if it weren't for all the fog around. Josh thought that this must've been a large place for tourists to meet.

Walking on Josh found a woman leaning on the gate. Her hair was to her shoulders, straight and of a brown color. Her skin was f a Spanish tint, and she wore a purple shirt with jeans. Josh walked up to her.

"Excuse me miss, are you alright?" Josh asked tapping her shoulder.

"Oh, oh yes," She said turning around, "I've just been waiting for someone."

"What's your name?" Josh asked looking at her.

"My name's Amel," The woman said.

It was silent for a moment and then Josh gave her a hug before releasing her from his grip.

"It's me, Josh. I came here to get you," Josh said smiling.

She gasped before letting herself hug Josh, but then let go and looked him in the eyes.

"I wasn't expecting to ever see you with the things that were going on," Amel said.

"It's alright, at least we've found each other." Josh stopped for a moment and thought about something. "Have you seen a male, a female, or both in here recently?" Josh asked.

Amel shook her head, "I'm sorry, I've been here alone because no monsters had started to come in here."

"Alright then," Josh said starting to walk, "We're leaving this way, the way I came from is going to take too long."

Amel nodded and followed behind him. Josh let out a sigh of relief. He solved two problems now: He found Amel, and he found someone to stick with for making the journey less lonesome.

Josh started off and Amel followed behind him. They kept moving until Josh heard a car that was still on. He moved down to the gas station on the street he was on with Amel and looked at a cars hood, which the car had been on now. In the hood was a large steel pipe, which Josh took out of the cars hood and listened to it turn off as he did so.

"Here, take this," Josh said giving Amel the plank of wood. "I'm sure it'll help."

Amel nodded and said, "Thank-you. I was worried I wouldn't be able to defend myself."

Josh moved a little right from the gas station and found a bowling alley. Since the incident going on in this town made the walls seem to crumble, he could hear voices on the other side of the wall.

The two moved to the front door and Josh looked at Amel. "I'll want you to wait here, but please let me know if you need help by screaming alight?" Josh asked. Amel nodded and Josh went inside the bowling alley.

Moving through toward the bowling part Josh found the presence of the girl running to a doorway. 'That had to be Sophia,' Josh thought running after her and seeing if she was still in the room. Josh found she was not and decided to open the door to the next room.

When Josh entered he found a light on inside and Sammy was sitting on a chair, but no one else seemed to be inside the bowling alley.

"Hey, did you see a small girl in here not too long ago?" Josh asked looking around.

Sammy turned around surprised to find Josh inside the bowling alley now. "Don't stop following me huh? Well yeah there was one in here but she ran off," Sammy said.

"Thanks," Josh said starting for the door that Sammy said she went out of.

"Wait a minute, why are you chasing her around," Sammy asked still sitting in the same position without moving.

"Well she's a little girl, saving her might help out around here you know?" Josh asked.

"You keep thinking that, just remember what really brought you here," Sammy said. Josh just shrugged and ran through the door. "Trust me, it'll be the last thing that helps you here," Sammy said pulling out her magnum.

Josh was now outside and Amel wasn't where she was before. She came running out of the fog a few seconds afterwards panting.

"There was a small girl, she ran that way," Amel said pointing to where she ran to.

Josh nodded and started that was with Amel following him. This led to the back of a hospital building which didn't seem like it was going to be the most normal hospital building. "Where'd she go?"

Amel pointed to a very thin gap between a wall and a building. "Though there, but I have a short-cut," Amel pulled out three keys from her pockets in her jeans. "We can get to the front entrance through this door.

Josh sighed. "Can't believe I'm going to be going through buildings again," He said watching Amel unlock the door and open it. Josh walked in through the open door and Amel followed behind him, the door closing behind them.