Previously on the "Nightmare In The Forest" :
Jillian, Victoria and Beth were missing, everyone thought they were left. The day's coach was Jeff. He decided to put everyone in a forest-walking season. During the walking, something bit Jericho's foot. Eve and Kelly thought it was a bug. Jericho needed to rest, Trish offered to go back to the camping area. John sent them with Punk, Barrett and Gabriel. The rest of the team found a dark cave and walked into it. They were expecting a bear or bats, instead, they found the dead bodies of the missing girls.
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Randy Orton, Candice Michelle, John Cena, Mickie James, Maria Kanellis, Jeff Hardy, Melina Perez, Johnny Nitro, Trish Stratus, Chris Jericho, Amy 'Lita' Dumas, Matt Hardy, Cody Rhodes, Barbara 'Kelly' Blank, Mike Mizanin, Alex Riley, Wade Barrett, Torrie Wilson, Adam 'Edge' Copeland, Justin Gabriel, Ted DiBiase, Maryse Ouellet, Eve Torres, CM Punk, Stacy Keibler, Evan Bourne.
A/N: There may be some spelling, grammer, name errors. It's 6:36am here and I'm actually about to fall asleep. G'Night, peeps! Oh, and enjoy the new chapter! ~
Warning: *character dead*, *early-unexpected-two-character-hug*, *drama*.
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It's been exactly a week since the three women's death.
Jillian, Beth and Victoria were not the greatest three to consider as nice and easy-going people. But still, they belonged to the gang and everyone knew them.
Well, they knew them enough to call them 'bitch'.
And knowing they were not coming back was just crazy. For God's sake, they were sleeping, eating, hanging out in the same place! The three were dead and their own lives were endangered. And knowing that sucked even more.
Trish was standing next to John, who was checking out her boyfriend's foot. "Is the bruise over there healed? It seems paler," She said, concerned about her boyfriend's health.
"It is," John answered without getting his head up. "How are you feeling, Chris?"
"Much better," Chris answered as he moved his foot a little. "At least, I can step on it with no pain."
John nodded his head as Amy and Matt joined the three and they started to talk about the injury of Chris. Meanwhile, Maryse and Candice were talking with John 'Johnny' Morrison-Nitro, Melina Perez, Mickie James and Cody Rhodes.
"I know, it's forbidden to talk about you-know-what here. But I'm like about to explode if I dont!" Maryse exclaimed silently. "I hate it!"
"Gee," Candice hushed her. "Keep your mouth shut, girl. No one wants to talk about it."
"It's just a damn rule."
"It's just not a damn rule, Ryse," Johnny said. "It's the best thing we can do to keep everyone under control. You wouldnt want everyone, and I meant everyone, to scream and run around like rabbits, would you?"
"...No," She sighed. "But I want to know what really happened to them."
"We all do," Cody said. "But talking wont solve anything or reveal the truth."
"Cant believe you, guys," Maryse shook her head. "We're all gonna have fun and do nothing about it? We'll live like nothing happened?"
"Everyone says somethings about the animal attack," Melina said. "Maybe it's true."
"Maybe," Candice repeated with a sigh. "I'm really tired of talking about this. I know, I probably look like a cold-hearted bitch, but let's face the truth. An animal attacked them while they were separated from us and I dont think that we should be afraid of those animal or animals -since we dont know how many of them- because when John and others went off to hunt them down, I'm pretty sure, they got scared and run away from here."
"Too much optimism," Johnny mocked. "You seem so sure about the animal-attack-thing."
"What? You think there's like... A psycho, mad serial killer hiding in the forest just to murder us? Uh, some realistic thoughts in need here," Candice laughed it off. "Come on."
"I want to believe you, Candy," Maryse sighed. "I hope, you're right."
Mickie shook her head with an eye-roll. "Are we going to talk here all day or continue our trip?"
"She got over it, already," Cody laughed at her. "Way to go, girl."
After a minute or two, everyone walked around of the tree that was on the center of their tents. It was the time to choose the daily coach. Everyone were refusing, agreeing and disagreeing about the choices. John eventually made up his mind and told the name of the daily coach.
"Mike Mizanin."
All the arguments cut off with the name being said. There was a long, boring silence and Mike was the one who broke it. "Oh. My. Gosh! Really? Really? Really!"
"... Yeah."
"Hell yes! You know why?" Mike came closer to Randy. "Dude, you know why!"
Randy gave him a fed-up glare. "Why, Mizanin?" He asked with a sigh, knowing the answer already.
"'Cause I'm awesome!"
Everyone groaned, sick of hearing the same sentence whenever they asked him a question. Shaking their heads, everyone waited for his answer to the question that was asked by Alex, "What are we gonna do, Coach?", hoping it wouldnt be the same damned answer; I'm awesome.
Appearently, so was Mike. He decided not to do any walking, instead; he wanted to stay near to the camping area and let everyone to have fun on their own.
They all happened to want to have fun in the nearest waterfall to the camping area. It didnt take too long to go there, all it took was ten minutes. The girls, as always, helped each other with sunbathing as the boys found a way to have fun; climbing to the top of the waterfall and jump.
"John!" A mad Mickie shouted. "It's dangerous to do that, big man! Get your ass back here!"
"Come on, Mickie! It's fun! You should try this out!" John laughed from the top of the waterfall.
"... Okay, wait up!"
Kelly chuckled at Eve and Maria, who were also sunbathing along with the other girls. They were making gossip about the others and celebrities who were in the OK! Magazine.
"OMG!"
"Maria," Eve said. "You know I love you, girl. But you really should stop pronounce the sentence, 'Oh. My. God' as 'O.M.G'. It's kinda... weird. It can stand for anything, you know. Like Ozzy Osbourne made garlic cookies."
"Garlic cookies? Ew!" Kelly shook her head, Eve shrugged.
"Gee, fine," Maria rolled her eyes. "But I like the way it sounds! OMG..."
"You know when I would have said that?" Kelly grinned. "OMG for the time I saw Evan's ass!"
"Oh. My. God!" Eve giggled.
"Bet you liked it, you dirty girl," Maria laughed at Kelly, who nodded in return.
"Sure I did! But it's a secret, so... Shh."
"OMG!" Maria covered her mouth with her hand, a tiny chuckle escaped. "She liked it!"
"Stop it, Ria..." Eve shook her head with a grin.
"Fine... OMG!"
"Havent I told you to-"
"Shh! Look at Punk and Barrett!" Maria held her stomach as she started laughing. "Damn! They look stupid."
"My Gosh, do they," Kelly giggled. "I cant believe they wore those boy-shorts!
"I know right? It looks- Oh, look out! He's gonna jump," Eve chuckled. "Torrie, you got a camera?"
"Hell yes, I'm saving it," Torrie laughed out loud. "There's no way I'm missing this."
"Perfect," Amy smiled. "We'll have a good laugh later."
With that, Punk jumped off from the top of the waterfall and screamed for his life. Everyone laughed as he hit the water. When he appeared on the surface, he shouted out, "Holy Hell! It was fuckin' awesome!"
"I know right?" Mike smirked.
"I wanna try out!" Evan screamed with a chuckle. "Eh, since I'm a high-flayer, I can do much better than him."
"No doubt there, bro," Jeff grinned. "Beat his ass."
"It's not like I'm jumping off of here. I wanna jump from right there," Evan pointed out the other hill that was a little higher than that one.
"Aye... You sure?"
"Yeah, why not."
It took him five-six minutes to climb to the hill. He took his shirt off as he was appeared from the trees. "Woohoo!" He shouted out, waiting for everyone's reaction.
"Evan!" Candice chuckled from the bottom. "You sure, bud?" She asked, calling him 'bud' as the short form of 'buddy' like she always did. "You can kick his ass on everything. You dont have to prove that."
Evan chuckled. "Hell yeah! It's for fun, Beckman! And by the way... A special shout-out to someone... I love you, Kelly!" He grinned as he sent her a flying kiss.
Kelly's eyes wide opened. "What?" She put her hand on her pinky lips as she yelled to make him hear her. "Is... Is that true?"
"... Should it be?" He yelled back.
"Heck yes!" Kelly exclaimed as she got out from where she was. The truth was Kelly had been in love with him for a year. It was a love at first sight, to her, anyway. She smiled brightly as she heard him saying those three words. "God! I love you, too!"
Everyone clapped, yelled, laughed with them. Kelly became shy and only cheered for Evan like a cheerlader captain. "Go for it, love!" She smiled.
"This one's for you, girl!" Evan shouted back with the brightest smile just before he slipped as no one heard him. "Whoa!" He fell right, directly to the water with no protection of his arms and hands.
Everyone stood there, shocked. The last thing they saw was him hitting the water hard. They narrowed eyes to see him better and there he was, lying without a move on the water.
"Holy fuck!" Randy, Jeff and John reached to him as fast as they could. Evan's eyes were closed and he did say no word.
"You're the doctor here, John," Jeff said. "What the fuck's happened to him!"
"I dont know! Let me just check out, for God's sake!" John shook his head as he put a finger to Evan's neck, checking out if he was breathing or not. "Shit! He's not breathing!"
"What?" Randy exclaimed. "Do something!"
"Carry him to the land, now."
When Evan was carried to the land, everyone got closer to him. They let Kelly to kneel next to him, she was hardly holding back her tears. "Is he okay?"
John exchanged looks with Jeff. "I, um..."
"John! Please..."
"Not sure, yet, Kelly," He lied. "We're gonna find out. But please, everyone, just step back. Let him breathe," He said, although, he knew he was not breathing. The others listened to him, including Kelly. Even embraced her, saying it was okay, he was going to live.
Randy whispered as the three of them were standing close to Evan. "This cant be true, man. He didnt fall that hard!"
"The hill he jumped off was high," John noted sadly. "And when he slipped, he wasnt in a position to protect his head. Is there a possibility of him... to break his neck?"
Jeff's eyes wide opened. "I thought it would be a shock or something... that he's not breathing. But a fuckin' broken neck? He cant be alive then!"
John sighed quietly as he put his hands on the each side of his head. "I dont know..."
"John, hear me out," Randy said angrily. "Forget about other stuff and focus on this, dude. Come on!"
After a few minutes of examining the dead body of Evan Bourne, John shook his head sadly. "The same result as we concluded."
"And the result is...?" Kelly was just about to break down. One freakin' word...
"We lost him, Kelly... I'm sorry," John explained as she broke down in sob. "I did examine him with the best way I could in this freakin' forest. When he slipped, he hit his head hard down water. We couldnt save him..."
Eve and Maria hugged her tightly as she was crying hard. "No," Kelly yelled. "Not him... please," She shut her eyes and cried even harder. "I didnt even get to- get to hug him... Not now, please... Not him!"
Jeff placed himself on a tiny rock and buried his face onto his hands. "No... This is a nightmare. It's not real..." He muttered. Amy and Matt sat next to him and caressed his back.
Randy and John stood there with the rest of the gang, silent. This was supposed to be a relaxing vacation, not a freaking horror movie.
Maryse was having a nervous breakdown, Ted had her in his strong arms. "Shh, it's okay," He whispered, she shook her head.
"N-No.. it's not!" She cried harder. "Fi-First Jillian, Victoria an-and Beth... N-Now Evan? Yo-You call this o-okay?"
Ted sighed sadly. "I know how it looks, baby. Just calm down... I know, I shouldnt even say this after what happened. But it's for your own good health."
Johnny held Melina with the way Ted did with Maryse. Melina was sobbing and looking at the dead body of her best friend. "How could this happen?" She whispered. "Just before an hour, we were laughing and having fun and..."
"Hush," Johnny stroked her hair. "Cry out. I'm here. I'm here for you."
Candice slowly walked up to John and Randy. When she was near them, she whispered, "I-I saw him, it didnt look like he slipped..." She wiped away the tears.
"What are you trying to say, Candice?" John questioned softly.
"It was like... Someone pushed him behind, John," Candice sighed. "I know, it sounds crazy! Hell, you cant help but think who might have done that. This... This is why, I'm only saying what it looked like to me. Everything I said... It did not have any guarantees..."
"I believe, it affected you bad, too," John sighed. "I'm pretty sure Mickie's like you, as well. He was your close friend, I understand," He gave her a faint, sad smile. "I'd better look out for her. You sure, you're okay?" He asked, she gave him a little nod.
When he made sure she was okay, he was off to see Mickie. Candice sighed and hardly placed herself on a rock. "But... I know what I saw," She tried to give herself encourage and that she was not dreaming things.
"I saw that, too."
She turned around to see the most unexpected person to have on her side. "Orton?"
"I... I've seen it. Thought, it was his shadow or something," He explained as he sat next to her. "He sure is a human; he can fall down but... Come to think of it, he's a high-flyer. He does that all the time. And the path he was standing on wasnt too dry or too wet. He cant slip on that."
"I knew it... I knew that I wasnt dreamin' it!" Candice wiped her tears away. "We gotta tell everyone," She stood up, but Randy grabbed her arm and pulled her back to the sitting-position.
"No," He said. "They wont believe you. Probably will think, you're having some nervous breakdown and imagining things."
"But... There's someone out there, Randy!" She begged. "We have to do this, I cant let Evan down... And-and, this person can be one of us! Are you willing to take a chance on your life?"
"Listen, I want to know the truth as much as you do. But telling everyone this will just back the guilty-person off and we wont have a chance to catch him. I want to punish him the best way I can do, when I find out."
"He died, Randy..." Candice started to sob more. "He wouldnt want this! He wouldnt want Kelly and us to be in danger... He wouldnt-"
"Hey, hey," He stated. "I know, it's hard to accept. Despite the fact that he and I have never been the best of the friends. But losing someone from the gang is always awful. And I know you're his very close friend, this is why I-"
He was cut off with the sudden hug coming from her. "Thank you," She whispered. "... For making me feel better."
The sentence had two meanings that she probably thought. But he was not going to point it out.
With a sig, he wrapped his muscular, tattooed arms around her. "It's okay," He whispered back. They remained like this for a moment. When she started to sob in his arms, he did have no chance but stroke her back to relieve her. And he couldnt help but notice the fact that she was hugging him of all people. He shrugged it off, eventually. Everyone was giving each other comfort and when her best friends were embraced by their boyfriends, she was left alone and in need of some comfort. "Yes, possibly", He thought.
Everyone was caught unprepared when they heard the voice coming out from their friend-enemy AJ Styles.
"What the hell happened here?"