Chapter 2
A camera turns on around 6:30 in the morning with Jonas lifting it up and carrying it out of his room. He walks around the house peeking into different rooms showing that everyone else is still asleep and he turns the camera to his face and laughs, "Zis is going to be a very good day". He turns the camera back around and walks into Ariel, Jenny, and Zoey's room and climbs up on their bed and stands up. Jenny starts to turn when all of a sudden; Jonas begins jumping up and down on the bed screaming, "GUTEN MORGEN, DAMEN!"
The girls jump up feeling the bed shift and Jonas yelling to the top of his lungs and decide to push him off. He falls back and sends the camera flying across the hardwood floor the camera turns towards a window and the picture starts getting fuzzy but not too bad. For a few moments all that could be heard was the sound of Jonas laughing and complaining about how much it hurt to fall on the hard floor. The camera is picked up and turned to look at Matt and the picture clears up.
"Huh… I could have sworn the picture was just fuzzy", Matt said looking into the screen.
"Maybe it was just your imagination, Matt", Eddy said looking at the camera to make sure the lens wasn't cracked, "Oh wait… I'm sorry… you don't have one". Eddy started to laugh but Matt pushed him down and Eddy took the camera with him. Matt and the girls started laughing and Eddy got up off the ground. He turns to look at the staircase to show that Greg was coming down wearing nothing except boxer briefs.
Greg walked over to the kitchen and started looking through the refrigerator, "Hey! What in here is edible?" Greg shouted with his head practically dug into the fridge.
"Zere is some sausage in ze freezer und eggs in ze fridge if you feel like cooking for everyvon", Jonas said walking into the kitchen with Greg. As they start pulling food out, Eddy turns his attention to the girls' room as they start to get up out of bed. He started to step into the room when Jenny puts her hand on his chest stopping him.
"Where do you think you are going with that camera, Eddy?" she asked looking at his face and the camera started leaning down so that her boobs are completely visable in the screen.
"I was gonna record the entire trip, Jenny. You want to get a different kind of recording done tonight?" Eddy asked moving the camera down further to show her underwear bottoms. Jenny takes her hand and pushes the camera back up to her face and, with all seriousness in her eyes, she turns the camera turns to where both her and Eddy's faces. Jenny grabs Eddy's jaw line and brings him closer to him and kisses him on the lips. She then moves away, pushes him down again, and closes the door.
Eddy stands back up and hears laughter as the girls would start getting changed, "Hey! Remember everyone, POV cameras during the day!" Eddy shouted at the closed door. Eddy puts the camera down on an island in the kitchen and reminds the guys about the POV cameras before going back upstairs to get dressed and get his camera. Matt turns the camera toward him and picks it up to record what Jonas and Greg are cooking.
"What are we cooking this fine morning boys?" Matt asked in a funny voice.
"Get that shit out of my face, dude…" Greg said pushing the camera away. Matt turns to look at Jonas and he giggles a little bit.
"If you must know, Matzew… I am cooking some sausage gravy for biscuits und gravy. Vould you like anyzing else to go viz zat?" Jonas said as he started to pour some milk into a skillet.
"Nice, Jonas… Very nice. But since you're asking, I guess I'll have a couple sausage biscuits if that's not too much to ask for buddy", Matt said slapping his shoulder.
"Alright zen. I'm fine viz zat, Matt. I take it you don't vant the gravy zen?" Jonas asked looking at Matt with a sincere look on his face.
"Nope… I gotta keep my body in shape if I want to have any chance of getting into the Olympics", Matt said opening the fridge and grabbing a bottle of water. Matt puts the camera back down on the island to open his water and is taken off the counter by something or someone.
Ariel's voice comes from behind the camera as she zooms in on Matt's face, "Do you think I don't know what you did with this camera, Matt?" She turned the camera around to look at her face. Her bright red pixie cut hair almost seemed to glow in the screen of the camera as Jenny and Zoey walked out of the room in the background.
"Hey! I said POV Cams ladies!" Eddy said coming down the stairs with his POV camera on his shoulders. Ariel turned her attention to Eddy and the girls.
"Oh, can't it wait, Ed", Zoey moaned looking at the dark haired boy.
"I'd rather it didn't, Zo", Eddy said looking at Ariel; "I want to capture every moment like Ariel is doing now". He walked over to the redhead and takes the camera from her and gently pats her on the head. "Now… I'm going to shut this camera off and I'm going to turn my POV camera on', Eddy said as the camera in his hands turned off. A moment later, Eddy's POV camera turns on with the word "EDDY" down in the bottom left corner of the screen.
Eddy walks up stairs and hears a creak in the floorboard in one of the upstairs bedrooms and he pauses, "Hey, guys… Did anyone else come over while we were asleep?" Eddy asked slowly continuing upstairs. As he made it to the top he heard what sounded like a footstep and stopped again.
"Ed… What are you talking about?" Matt yelled from downstairs. Eddy continued to a back room where he continued to hear the mysterious noises. He slowly walked to the door and tried to turn the knob but the door was locked. Eddy stopped hearing any noises and turned around only to have Jonas standing behind him. Eddy jumped and backed up into the door and grabbed his chest.
"Oh my fucking God, dude… Don't do that to me…" Eddy said walking back forward from the door. He slapped his shoulder and started walking back to the staircase when Jonas starts freaking out.
"Ed… Tell me you're yust messing vith me", Jonas said pulling a piece of paper off the locked door. Eddy turns around confused about what his cousin said and looks at a sheet of paper with "LASSEN SIE MICH ALLEIN" written on it with a scratchy tree drawn to one side. Eddy looked at the sheet and couldn't read it.
"What does it say, Jonas?" Eddy asked as he looked up at his cousin. Jonas was shaking from head to toe and the picture seemed to frighten him.
"Ze picture says leave me alone", Jonas said with a shutter in his voice.
"Jonas… What is this about? You're scaring the shit out of me", Eddy said grabbing the picture. Jonas would let go of the picture and start heading toward the stairs. Eddy folds the picture up and sticks it into one of his pockets and follows him down the stairs. The girls went and got their cameras on their shoulders and turned on and the guys were seated and eating. They look over as Jonas and Eddy come down the stairs and Jonas goes for the front door. Jonas grabs the door handle and opens the door, walks out and slams it behind him and heads out for his car.
Eddy makes it to the door and begins to walk out to Jonas's BMW. Jonas makes it to the driver's side of the car and then a loud snap is heard from above. Eddy looks up and notices a large branch snaps off an old tree and falls down right for Jonas.
"Jonas! Look out!" Eddy yelled now running to try to save his cousin but was too late. By the time Eddy would make it to Jonas's car the branch would have fallen all the way down and pierced Jonas's chest. Eddy dashes around to the driver's side to see that the branch stabbed all the way through Jonas and shattered his car window. Jonas fell to the ground with blood spilling out of his chest and he started to spit it out of his mouth.
Jonas reached out and grabbed his cousin by the shirt and pulled him closer to his face, "Keine augen… Immer gerade…" His eyes became lifeless and he spit out more blood only to have a single tear fall from his face. He would shake as if he was trying to get away from something but Eddy didn't see anything. The camera would suddenly go to static for a long period of time and would clear up with Eddy walking to his car holding Jonas's lifeless body wrapped in the table cloth everyone was eating on.
The others followed behind Eddy asking what happened and where Eddy plans to take him, "I'm taking him to a hospital to see if they can do anything", Eddy said as he closed the back door of the van. The girls and Matt stay back while Greg offers to help out; Eddy is hesitant to let him come but eventually decides it will be alright. Greg jumps in the passenger side and they take off to head toward town.
The girls and Matt begin to head back to the cabin but hear the van coming back toward the cabin. Matt runs to the van and it stops so Matt can talk to Eddy, "What's up man?"
"There are 2 or 3 trees that have collapsed into the road. I'll never be able to get around in the van", Eddy said putting the car in park and opening the door to get out. Greg does the same and opens the back to pull Jonas out of the van. Eddy and Matt look around when Eddy believes he sees someone in the distance; can't tell if they are within the forest, "Hello! Excuse me sir, can you help us?!" Eddy yelled at the man and took a few steps forward to see if he could get a better view of the man. Matt looks at him confused and looks out to where Eddy's looking.
"Eddy… Who the fuck are you yelling at? There's no one out there, man", Matt said trying to see what he's seeing. Eddy looks at Matt and asks what he's talking about and then looks back and the person is gone. Eddy looks back over at Matt and then looks at Greg strain to pull Jonas's body out of the van. Without saying a word, Eddy walks over to take Jonas from Greg and he carries him out behind the cabin.
"Where you taking Jonas, dude?" Greg asked as Eddy walked away.
"Bring me a shovel…" Eddy replied walking around to the side of the building. Greg and Matt look at each other and start looking around for a shovel. Eddy walks to the back and sets Jonas's body down on the ground and Eddy remains on his knees until someone arrives with a shovel and eventually Greg walks around with a shovel in his hands. He stops and drops the shovel down so Eddy can see it.
Eddy picks up the shovel and begins digging his cousin's grave in the small plot behind the cabin. After a couple of shovel loads full, Eddy stops his POV camera and tells everyone else to go back inside while he does this. "I don't want to remember burying my cousin and best friend…" Eddy said with his head down in the sleeve of his shirt. The others acknowledge his request and cut the cameras off. Cameras that run over night caught nothing out of the ordinary that night; not even static in the screens as the night before…