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It's dark... There's no one around... Why am I alone? It's so cold too... And am I on the floor. Groaning, I get up and look around. There's gotta be a light somewhere, I know it. In the corner of my eye, I see some kind of light. I followed it and saw Chris and Ashley walking. "Guys?!" Ashley was covered in blood. It was on her face, hair clothes, everything as if she was washed in it. "Ash, what happened to you?!" Both of them wiped their heads to look at me with horrified looks. Chris immediately came walking towards me with a heartbroken look. "Y/N, I'm sorry. I'm so so so sorry!" He seemed to apologize to me. "Why are you apologizing? What happened? Where's Josh?" The two both froze at Josh's name and Ash lets out a cry of woe. "He's... He's!" Ash tries to tell me, but I notice someone behind her hanging by their hands to a wood wall. Their bottom half is gone with intensities showing, and blood was dripping. I covered my mouth in horror. "Who's that?! What happened?!" I tried to walk towards the deceased body, but Chris held me back. "Y/N no!"
I furrow my eyebrows in confusion with him telling me no before I see the face for a glimpse and see it’s... "Nooooo!!!" I let out a scream in horror and pain. It was Josh... "Josh!! NOO!!" I cried out. All those memories of me and him together with his sisters. The day he confessed to me. The days where he would take me to his dad's workplace and show me behind the scenes. IT was like everything was quickly running through my head trying to make me believe he's still alive. But right now, he's not. He's gone from some unknown fate that I'm not even sure what happened. Chris grabbed me and Ash to pull us away as much as he can. "Josh!!" I screamed again and hoping that it was just a dream and he will suddenly come and say, "Gotcha!" But he's not going too, cause he's dead!
We left the place, and I see it was like a shed. I cried into Chris's chest as Ash just holds onto his arm. Suddenly we can hear Matt's voice. "Chris! Ashley! Y/N!!" I can hear their footsteps coming closer and Emily saying something about blood. "Whose blood is that, Ash?" Matt looks at us. "Are you okay?" Emily looks at Chris. "Chris, what happened?" We were all a mess and Chris was just sobbing. "J-Josh..." Matt cuts him off. "Josh what, dude?" I spoke up with tears in my eyes and slight nose dripping from the cold and from the situation. "He's dead!" Chris spoke up. "Right in front of us, man-" Emily interrupts. "What are you talking about?!?!" Chris pointed behind us like he just remembered something. "T-there's a maniac-" Matt looked confused. "Maniac?" Emily was believing it. "Oh my god. We gotta get outta here." Matt looks at me. "I don't understand what happened- Y/N what happened?" Chris answered that question for me. "There's a maniac! And... he was- there was a saw, and it was either him or Ash and I didn't know what to do!" Ash started crying even more as I realized now what he meant. It was either Ash or Josh to save and he chooses Ash... I cried even more, but I couldn't get mad at him. I mean, his best friend or the girl he likes but the fact that Josh probably thought Chris was going to save him... I couldn't look at anyone and only the ground.
"Cut right through and- spilling out fucking everywhere-" He continued, and Emily realized the situation as well. "WHAT?! Oh my god Chris what?!" Chris cuts back in with even more shame. "I-I killed him! I-I killed him.." He admits as he shed even more tears and Ash kneeling down in tears. Matt looks at him in shock. "Whoa, Chris-" Ashley cuts him as she screamed and cried. "It was my fault, Matt-" Emily shakes her head at us. "No. No, this is insane. We need to go get some help." Both Chris and Ash continued sobbing as they don't know what to do. "We're gonna figure this out, guys." Emily turns around. "Matt, we need to go get help now!" That's when it hit me. "The radio tower...!" I whispered, but when I looked up, they said something about Sam. To which, I won't lie, I had completely forgotten about because of all of this, and she wasn't with us earlier. "I think she's in the lodge-" Emily cuts him off with a fine. "Get everyone else together. But if there's a maniac running around, I think we need to get some help, too, right? Not just wait around?" Matt looks at her. "But what about--" Em cuts him off again. "Why are we still talking about this let's go!" She urges him.
"Come on guys..." I take Ash’s hand, and she takes Chris’s as we move to pass both Matt and Emily back to the lodge. "Wait, Y/N.” He pulls me back gently as I let go of Ash’s. I turned to him and as he wraps his arms around me. “Be careful, (nickname)." I heard Matt whisper to me as we passed. "You, too." I smiled as we both let go and we kept walking...