𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐀𝐙𝐈𝐍𝐆 ★ 𝐁. 𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐁𝐎𝐓

𝟔.𝟓 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐚𝐧

"I wonder why Stiles would send us here?" Jules could hear Scott say but when she turned to look at him no one was there. Her friends had disappeared and she had no clue where to start looking for them. She kept walking until she got to a carousel that was full of dead leaves. To say it creeped her out was an understatement. It felt like she was in a horror movie and she was the final girl that the serial killer was looking for.

She placed her hands on one of the horses and dragged it until she heard leaves crunch behind her. She turned around to see Brett and Lori but Brett had some type of black liquid running down his face. Lori was holding his hand and she was bleeding from her forehead and her skin was visibly dirty. Jules couldn't even form words as she was shocked by their stated. "You could've saved us." Brett says with vile in his voice as tears begin to form in her eyes. "Why didn't you save us?" Lori asks her with a sad look in her face.

"You should've saved us." They say together as they walk closer to Jules in a very creep manner. Jules began walking back only to hit the horse in the carousel which left her panicked as the siblings kept chanting.

"Save us. Save us. Save us."

They just kept repeating it and it seemed like Jules was going to go mad and began closing her eyes as she pleaded with them to stop. "Stop. Please Stop!" She yelled until she felt someone shake her shoulders. "Jules! It's just me." Malia says as Jules opens up her eyes. "Brett and Lori they-they were-"

"It wasn't them. It was just a hallucination, none of it was real." Malia tells her as Jules was still visibly shaken up. "Come on let's go find Scott and Lydia." She tells Jules as she grabs her arm and drags her through the town to see Lydia and Scott together and both of them seems shaken up as well. "The energy here, it's causing hallucinations. We can't stay here." Lydia says as the two girls approach them. "We can't leave—not until we figure out why Stiles sent us here." Scott argues as Lydia purses her lips. "Who are we going to ask? There's no one here." Lydia says until Malia turns around to see a little boy standing across the street from them.

"We can ask him." She says pointing to the boy but when she does he begins to run away from them. "Hey!" Jules calls out for the boy but he doesn't stop.
"What do we do?" Lydia asks the group. "Go after him!" Scott yells as they begin to run after the boy only to be lead to a house which seemed abandoned.

"Hello? Anybody here?" Lydia says as she knocks on the door, making an older woman come out of what Jules assumed was her kitchen. "Visitors? I can't believe we have visitors! Oh, Caleb will be so happy to see you. It's been such a long time since he's had anyone to play with. Oh, you must be thirsty! Come on in and have a seat while I get you something to drink." The woman says as she goes back into her kitchen. "Seriously? What is with her?" Malia says in a whisper as Jules shrugs. "She's the woman I saw in the mirror..." Lydia whispers making them go quiet.

"This was my mother's lemonade recipe...at least, as much as I can remember. We always served this when we had friends to visit." She says as she places the lemonade in the table. "We didn't come to visit. We're looking for someone." Malia informs her. "A friend of ours. Maybe you've seen him? His name is Stiles." Scott tells her as she begins to think. "It's been a while since anyone came through Canaan." She tells them in a weird tone. "How long?" Lydia asks. "Since April 8th, 1987?" Malia suggest as the woman's face turns cold. "Why would you disturb those things? They don't belong to you." She tells them in a monotone voice.

"We need to know what happened." Jules asks her even though she was a bit creeped out. "There was a picnic, a community party." She starts. "It seems like everyone left in a hurry..." Malia says rudely. "People have been leaving Canaan for a long time. That's the day the last of them left." She tells them making Scott look at her questioningly. "All at once? They all just disappeared?" Scott asks her. "I didn't say they disappeared—I said they left." She says sharply. "Did they leave in a cloud of green smoke?" Malia asks not noticing that the woman was becoming very erratic. "THEY JUST LEFT!" She screams as she slams her hands in the table stunning all of them.