Marcia buckled her self in as her father got into the car; the poor puppy was whimpering and twitching in pain. All she could do was soothingly pet its head and hush it. She let her mind wander as her father began to drive again; speeding off towards the local pet hospital. Those voices...they sounded like kids. I didn't see any houses near ours when we came here. In fact, there are no houses around the forest. The only building we saw was a barn... She shivered and stared out into the forest once again, looking deep into the mass of trees that they were passing. Marcia's eyes widened suddenly and pressed her face up to the car window; a brief second she saw 4 children walking in the forest with a tall man walking behind them.

Before she knew what was happening, the forest disappeared and they were driving on a cement road on the way to the nearby town. All around she could only see the fields of corn that the barn nearby owned. The puppy whimpered once more, and Marcia sat down in her seat petting the poor puppy, for there was no more forest to see. "Daddy, do you think any of our neighbors lost this puppy?"

Her father didn't answer, and continued to drive. Steve couldn't believe he had hit an innocent puppy. Although... the puppy did run onto the road. He breathed a sigh of relief as he reached the town, and was turning onto the parking lot of the Vets. All he could focus on right now was the sympathy he had for the puppy he had run over; he didn't want to answer his daughter's never ending questions.

"Stay in the car, Marcia. Daddy will be back shortly, and then we will go to the store, come back and check on the puppy. We will take it home for the night and when it's all better we will go around checking if the barn owners lost a dog or something. Okay?" Steve said quickly as he was carefully wrapping the puppy in his daughter's jacket. Marcia nodded in understanding and watched her father walk into the building with the puppy. As soon as her father left, she locked her door and sat in the car thinking to herself. Thinking about the children she saw and the tall man. There were no houses around their house and she was sure that the barn people were two old people. Did I imagine them? She sighed, I probably did imagine this. Layla will find this a funny story when I get back with Daddy. I should tell Mommy about it too, she might find it funny as well. She began to hum to herself as she waited for her father.

"Marcia..." A deep voice called out to her, unlike the high pitched childish voice that she heard before in the forest. The voice itself was deep and intimidating.
There's the voice again! She closed her eyes and a different voice echoed in her mind, "Don't be afraid of us Marcia We want to play with you. Slendie wants you to play with us out in the forest... with your sister too!" That voice was a softer tone, as if it came from an older child. Three other voices began to boom in her mind.

"Marcia!" It was the deep intimidating voice again.

"Marcia, we just want to play!" It was of a young boy, echoing in her mind.

"Please?"

The sound of a car door pulled Marcia out of her thoughts, and the voices ceased and her father's soothing voice rang in her ears. "Marcia, did you hear me?" She shook her head staring at her father with a blank expression. Steve sighed, "I said what do you want to eat for dinner, it is way to late to go to the store, so why don't we just go pick up some fast food." Marcia shrugged and her father sighed of frustration. He grumbled, "Taco Bell it is then."

Steve started up the car and pulled out of the parking lot, heading into the large town. Marcia couldn't honestly think that she had imagined those strange voices she had heard minutes prior. She would think about it, but that could possibly lead to another surge of voices in her head; she didn't want to hear it. Those voices scared her, even if they took the nicest and calmest voice they scared her that she didn't know who it was or where it was coming from. It was as if those people were in the car with her, but they weren't.