I'm not sure how exactly to describe our little trip of sorts since we left that place. It's been mainly a sense of paranoia, fearing that Alex could come out at anytime and try to hurt us, fearing that tall thing will come out and hurt us, fearing anything will come out and hurt us. You get the idea.
As for what our plan is now, we're going back to that park with the red tower. It was one of the place's Alex wanted to shoot his movie. It's funny in a way, I kinda remember going there with Alex and Brian in the early days. Dad thought it would be good for me to have something else on my mind after the doctors told us that mom was very sick so he had asked Alex if I could help with the script a little and maybe hang out with him for some of the summer. Alex was cool with it so I helped Jay with some of the script. Then Alex went crazy and nearly seven years later, here we are.
"So you really think this will be a good place to shoot?", I asked Alex as I walked with him and Brian towards the clearing of the woods. In the distance a red tower.
"It's perfect. It looks good, it's big enough for not many people to be coming through and it's close by", Alex responded, sounding pretty upbeat about it.
"And what scenes exactly are we shooting here?", Brian asked.
"I was thinking maybe a bonfire scene somewhere around here. I think as long as we bring a fire extinguisher or two just in case, it'll be okay", Alex explained. "I was also planning on getting a shot of this area for either the opening or closing credits". The red tower was starting to make me curious, so I asked,
"Hey, Alex. What exactly is that red tower over there?"
"That?", Alex looked to the tower briefly. "I think it was either a climbing wall or something for the fire station. I'm not really too sure".
"Have you showed any of the other?", Brian asked.
"Just Jay. Sarah and Seth were gonna come but they had something else scheduled for today. That reminds me actually, where's Tim?"
"Yeah, I thought he was comin' with us", I added in.
"He had a doctor's appointment", Brian shrugged.
"Another one? Is he okay or something?", Alex questioned.
"He says it's nothing. He's kinda private about it so I didn't really push him about it".
"Fair enough". Alex gave a low whistle as he looked from the red tower to the woods. "I was thinking maybe one of us could climb up the inside of that tower and try to get a shot of the woods. I think it would look good".
"Rebecca?" I nearly jumped when Tim said my name, him and Jay looking back at me. "You okay? You looked like you were somewhere else".
"Yeah, just thinking is all", I replied simply. I guess walking through these woods just brought back some happier memories. They both gave a small nod before we continued on through the woods. We had only walked a further distance and down a slight slope when Tim stumbled a bit.
"You okay there?"
"Yeah, just a hole".
"Yeah, Forgot there were holes out here", Jay said, trying to hide a sheepish look along with me. It was so long since we were here that we forgot about the holes that were around this area.
"Nice timing", Tim simply said, no doubt trying to be sarcastic.
"Uh, sorry", I said for Jay and I, before noticing Jay seemed to be looking at something.
"What is it?", asked Tim before I could say a word. Jay just looked quickly at us before walking ahead.
"I just thought I saw something. You okay?"
"Yeah. What'd you see?", Tim asked again.
"I thought I saw something moving there for a second but it was nothing". Jay seemed to shrug it off, but I wasn't just going to let it go just yet.
"You sure? I mean, if it made you stop and look..."
"Happens to a lot of people", Jay defended himself. He had me there.
"Are you positive? Nowadays even thinking we saw something is enough to be worried about", Tim questioned as he looked in the direction Jay had been looking.
"I know, but I think it's just a bird flying in between the trees". Well, considering we're in a forest that was believable. Either way the subject was dropped and we continued on until we made it to the red tower. It didn't seem to have changed much since we were last here, but there was a chance that the wood might have been a bit more unstable.
"This is where you found that tape, right?", Tim asked us. "Where was it exactly? It was inside, wasn't it?"
"Yeah, it was on one of the ledges at the top", I answered as we went inside the tower.
"... Hold this". Tim put his camera in my hands and began his own climb up. I wasn't really too worried for him since physically speaking he was stronger then Jay so he would have less of a chance of falling and breaking his neck.
"Be careful because last time we were here I nearly slipped off", Jay told him.
"Nearly gave me a heart attack", I mumbled as Tim looked along the ledges.
"I don't see anything up here".
"I wouldn't think there would be", Jay said as he moved to go outside but then moved quickly back in and Tim asked,
"What is it?".
"... Come back down", Jay whispered loud enough for Tim to hear and climb back down.
"What's wrong?", I quietly asked Jay.
"I think there's someone out there".
"Is somebody following us?", Tim wondered out loud as he discretely peaked through the entrance.
"Where are they even?", I added in when I peaked out as well.
"Right outside". I bit my lip briefly as I saw no one out there in the warm Spring sun.
"Well there's nobody there now", Tim simply said before going outside. "I don't see anybody". Jay frowned, looking like he didn't believe what Tim was saying.
"They were right there", Jay insisted, as he pointed in a direction.
"A-are you sure it wasn't your mind playing tricks?", I questioned carefully.
"No, but they were right there!"
"Did you point the camera at them at all?", asked Tim.
"Yeah, I think so".
"Rewind it. Let's check".
"Good idea", I agreed with Tim as Jay quickly pressed the rewind button of his camera just a few short seconds and we watched the footage.
There was no one there.
"... I'm positive there was someone standing outside when you weren't looking", Jay told us as we made out way back the way the way we came through the woods. "I just... Didn't point the camera directly at them like I thought I did. Must have been, on side of the frame or something".
"Well we should leave. We should have left when you first thought you saw something", Tim said back.
"... Sorry".
"Don't worry about it Jay. It's not like you're the only one who's seen things", I pointed out with a small shrug, remember the occasional hallucination I had of Michael. But I usual did my best to hide it from the guys, instead opting to go to a private place to cry my frustrations out. There's no use crying in front of them. We have more serious problems then my weepy emotions.
Suddenly I felt Jay's weight on top of me as he fell, bringing us both to the leaf covered ground, and Tim quickly ran back to us.
"You guys okay?"
"I am", I mumbled as Jay moved over to let me sit up. "Jay?"
"Yeah", Jay replied as we both got up. "Give me a second".
"Hmp, those holes are a death trap waiting to happen", I grumbled when I saw the cause of Jay falling.
"Yeah. You got lucky. This hole is pretty deep", Tim noted as he began shifting through he leaves in it. But he then pulled out what looked like melted plastic.
"Is that a tape?", I asked as Jay took hold of it.
"Sure as hell looks like it. There's more". And there was as Tim began pulling them out.
"They're all melted".
"Didn't Alex say he was going to burn those Marble Hornets tapes before he gave them to you?", I asked Jay.
"Yeah, but I got them from him before he did that".
"He might have already burned half of them before then, or maybe he decided to keep the more important or condemning ones to himself", I suggested, and Tim agreed with me.
"Makes sense. These could be his".
"... Keep looking through these holes. There might be more". I nodded and went to a separate hole to look through. I thought we were finished with Alex's tapes. But I guess I was wrong. I am confident to say though that if we live, I never want to see another fucking tape as long as I live!
Date: 27/04/13
Time: 09:56
Ever since I watched those tapes with Jay, tapes have become the bane of my existence. Possibly woods too.
The one tape that didn't seem melted took some time to get working but we finally did. It seemed to be a continuation of previous footage of Alex in some sort of playground at night. Though I could be wrong.
What stuck out though was that Alex was talking to Amy in the beginning of the footage. She was never mentioned in the tapes Jay and I found. Thinking on it now, Alex did hint at having a girlfriend six, nearly seven years ago. I can't believe I actually forgot about that. But giving the time span, can I really be blamed? And to be fair, Alex never actually mentioned her name. I guess Alex never gave us the tapes he burned because they had mentions of Amy? Or maybe there was some darker stuff on those tapes?
Either way, we'll have to see if we can get those tapes working. I don't have high hopes for it to be honest.
Rebecca Kralie.
I'm sorry this took so long. I was working on my new story, 'Challenged Chronicle', and I also have some exams coming up, and it's my graduation on Thursday and I'm playing my sax for it.
