Camp Lakeview

Chapter 6: The Hike

As soon as I opened the door bats began to fly out above our heads. I ducked and heard Kirk and the guys screaming. I wasn't afraid of bats because back home during the summer they are always making their way into our attic and I get to help my dad move them outside. I turned around to make sure everyone was okay and seen Melissa just smirking. That girl has some serious issues. I processed to walk until I felt a pair of hands on my shoulder. "Wait." I heard Shawn say. "What is it?" "Let me go first." Shawn the protector. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I'm glad he's willing to go first. Besides the little courage that I managed to muster up is now gone. "Okay." I barley got out in a whisper. I took one large gulp of spit and followed after him...well after him, after Danielle of course.

"Ugh it smells in here." Danielle said covering her nose with her hand while waving her other hand in the air. The smell was awful. You know if you leave meat out for days then throw it in the trash and let it sit until the trash men comes. Well it smells worse than that. But it was dark and eerie. The only light was coming in from the cracked boards on the windows. There was glass shatters everywhere on the floor. Everything was covered in white sheets...well what used to be white sheets on top odd drift and dust. Talk about abandoned thus place was worse than abandon. "I can't believe they just left this place to sit and rot." Rot was the correct word because that's exactly what it looked and smelled like. "Yeah I guess they could've tore it down. Maybe it made for good ghost stories during camp fires" Shawn said. "What ghost stories and for what?" Danielle question. He shrugged. "I don't know maybe to scare kids into being good. We stared to look around. I was getting ready to go over to the used to be closet but then this bright light skinned in my face. I turned to see where it was coming from. It was coming from the used to be dresser. It was exactly like the ones in our cabin expect it was broken down. I walked over to it and part of the top drawer was opened a little. I looked inside and seen thus thing glistening. I opened the drawer a little bit more and reached in and grabbed the piece of mental. It looked like an id bracelet with writing on it that I couldn't make out. "Okay guys lets get out of here I can't handle the smell any longer" Danielle said. Shawn and I shook our heads in agreement and we headed towards the door. I shoved the bracelet in my pocket before anyone noticed it. I felt someone looking at me and I turned behind me. I noticed something in the closet. I tried to look harder but a pair of hands grabbed my hand causing me yo jump and turn around. "What are you looking at?" Shawn asked concern. " Nothing." "Well come on guys this smell is giving me a headache." We walked out.

"So Kirk name one thing and describe in detail what was in there. It shouldn't be so hard since you've been in there" I said. "Well uh." I could see he was looking for the answer. He's never stepped foot in the cabin a day in his life. "Whatcha looking up at the sky for the answers not up there?" I snapped at him. "Uh I know that what does it matter where I look I know what's in there how about a dresser." Of course he could guess that because the cabin is the exact match to all the others just abandon. "You made that up." "I did not." "Whatever." I just rolled my eyes and let it go. "Come on babies time to stop playing house and head to the cave" Melissa said.

We begin the rest of the trek to our destination which I guess was this cave. I don't get why we are going. Like what are we supposed to find there. "OK! This is it guys. We finally made it to caveman's doom. Isn't this cool?" Kirk said. The cave looked like kind of creepy. It has moss and vines growing on the outside and it felt was kind of cool and damped by the entrance. There was a bunch of broken and rotten wood laying all around. Nothing cool about this. "I guess man but why are we here?" Shawn questioned. "To check it out duh man get with it. Nobody knows...where this one goes." "So you expect us to go in there and explore like we are Lewis and Clark?" said Danielle. "Yeah why come all this way to stand outside quit being a bunch of babies." said Melissa. She was really getting on my nerves. "Look Dora the explorer we already went into cabin six while y'all just stood outside now y'all want us to go into some cave in the middle of the woods that leads to who knows where. How about no and you go have your little sick and twisted strange fun." I said. "Come on guys it will be fun." Kirk said while he came around and stood between me and Danielle and put his arms around our shoulders. I looked over at Shawn. He just shrugged. "It could be fun but you guys go first and don't be pulling any tricks." He said. "Lead the way Dora" Danielle snickered at Melissa. She just rolled her eyes and went in first.

"So Kirk why do they call this caveman's doom." Shawn said. I nudged him with my elbow. He looked at me like what. Always the curious one. Well curiosity killed the cat. I really didn't need to hear the story I already didn't want to go in. "It's called caveman's doomed because of what happened years ago right before cabin six was abandon. And this is the place that the killer is supposed to be hiding out at because this place is for forbidden. "So if the killer is hiding out here why are we in here you big dork?" "Because that's just a story." "So is everything else that you ever told us." "Okay guys I want to know what happened before the whole cabin six." "Anyways back to the story before I was rudely interrupted." I just rolled my eyes at him. "There was this guy once who was hiking in these very woods alone. A big storm came and he couldn't find his way home and he came across this cave for shelters. At least he thought it was shelter. He went in and never came out." "Well why?" Danielle asked cutting him off. "Well maybe if I can get through the story then we will all know. Anymore question before I finish?" "Just get on with already" Shawn said annoyed. "What he didn't know was that there was this thing dealing in the cave nobody knows what it was so don't ask but it had claws and sharp teeth." "Hold up if nobody knows what it was how would you know that it had claws and sharp teeth." again Danielle said cutting him off. "Because now hush." "You hush." "Ugh just let him finish the story." "Okay okay." Danielle and him could go at it forever. "So the thing attacked him and the flood from the storm swallowed him up. They didn't find him until six months later when Camp Lakeview opened up for the summer." Man Kirk is really bad at telling scary stories. I don't even believe this one. "They even say till this very day that the thing sometimes roams these woods at night looking for his next victim."

OK, now I was really scared because I have been feeling like something has been watching us since we been on the hike. But I'm trying not to show that I'm scared so I got argumentative. "Wait a minute. Which one was it? Did the thing eat him or did he drown?" "Both!" "That's impossible because it doesn't make any sense he was either eaten alive or he drowned. You can't be eaten alive then drown because you will already be dead and vice versa. "Hey I'm just repeating the legend." "Whatever." "Shh did you hear that." Kirk said putting his arms out in front of us." "No." "There it goes again." He started to make scary sounds. Even dumb and dumber Josh and Kyle joined in. "Knock it of guys it's not funny." Shawn said. I can tell he was tried of the stupid tricks. "Yeah quit it" I said. "Shut up guys" said Danielle. "Let's just get out of here I said. I turned and tripped on a rock. "Ouch." "La'Rayna are you okay" Shawn said bending down to me." "No I think I twisted my ankle." Kirk and the guys were still making that sound. "Guys if you don't knock it off I will knock you out" Shawn yelled at them. I have never seen him so mad before he's always so calm and cool. They shut their mouths. "Come on I can't believe you guys were actually scared it was just a joke." "No we weren't scared you moron it was annoying" said Danielle. "Come on help me get La'Rayna up so we can head back to the camp." Shawn said giving directions. I'm glad someone else needs to take charge of what's going on because we all know Kirk can't handle any situation.

We made our way back down to the camp. I definitely twisted my ankle but I could walk on it much better. Shawn didn't allow it anyways. He is do protective especially when it comes to me. When we reach the end of the camp I looked back and stopped thinking something was missing. I turned and looked at thought wheres Melissa?