Duskwood: A Town of Mysteries

Chapter 21: Missing

I stretched out on the bed and took an ice pack from my head.

Me:
—Jake? Guys?

Jake:
—You're awake. How do you feel?

Me:
—How'd you... Where am I?

Thomas:
—At your house. Do you remember anything?

My head was aching and I wasn't understanding anything.

Me:
—What? How?

Jake:
—Me, Thomas and Cleo brought you from the forest minutes ago.

JAKE, Cleo and Thomas? He and my friends?
What the fuck??

Me:
—Shit.

Cleo:
—Why did you go into the forest?

Me:
—First of all: Where is he? Where is Richy?!

Everyone was confused, and then I got desperate again.
They didn't have a clue about where was Richy.

Me:
—Where is him, Jake?!

Jake
—I don't know, Vanysh.

Jessy:
—What happened to you, Vanysh?! Are you okay?

Cleo:
—Can please tell us the whole story of how you put yourself in this?

Thomas:
—Where is Richy?
—Has jake always been here?

Cleo:
—Yeah...?

Dan:
—Yeah yeah, how come this hacking freak has been here with you? -Dan suddently said. Apparently Thomas had called him.

When I finally woke up to life, I jumped out of my bed.

Me:
—Richy is in serious trouble!
—We must be fast.

Jessy:
—What?!

Cleo:
—Is he okay?

Me:
—Richy and I were hanging out at his house when a female voice started calling out his name.
—He thought it was Hanna and ran towards the forest immediatly.
—So I went after him, but shortly after, I lost him in the middle of those bushes and trees. -I started speaking so fast that it was hard to understand.

Cleo:
—Okay, Vanysh -She touched my shoulders- you need to calm down.
—But tell us exactly what happened in there.

Me:
—When I lost Richy, I kept walking in circles and calling out his name.
—And that voice started screaming again. My name.
—But that time I finally recognized her voice. It really seemed to be Hanna's.

Lilly:
—Oh god.

Everyone came closer and anxiously waited for me to keep talking, but I felt sufocated.

Me:
—So...
—So I ran after it as well, and then I found Richy.
—He was standing there, with a hole in his stomach, which wouldn't stop bleeding.
—The kidnapper or that fucking man without a face stabbed him.

Jessy:
—WHAT?

Thomas:
—Oh, man!

Me:
—He fell in my arms and sufocated in the blood that was coming out of his mouth...
—And then Jake called me, I asked for his help and started looking around.
—But when I turned back, he was there. Holding a knife.
—All I can remember after that is fighting him and then being hit.