My legs burn as I run through the basement. I reach the safe room and slam the door shut. I turn around and sit on the wooden table.
"I'm okay, I'm okay," I say to myself.
"But I'm not." I turn around and see Emily standing there. All of a sudden she lets out a blood curdling scream. Some invisible force pushes on her left eye. Her screams increase when something goes through her eye. Leaving a bloody, empty socket. Her screams echo throughout the room. I run out of the room and up the basement stairs. I collide with someone and we both fall to the ground. It's Chris. A tall monster picks him up and pulls on his head and neck until his headless body falls to the ground, and the floor is covered in blood.
I shoot up from bed, sweat covering my face. I let out a sigh, it was just a dream. I reach for my phone.
"Hello?" I hear Chris say. He sounds tired.
"C-Chris?" I whisper.
"Hey, what's wrong?" He sounds more awake now.
"Nightmare," I say, my voice cracking.
"Do you want me to come over?"
"If you want to."
"I'm on my way." After a couple minutes I hear a knock on my window.
"Chris? Why the hell are you at my window?"
"Can you just let me in before I fall off this tree?" I open my window and help him in.
"Why didn't you just knock on the front door?"
"I was allowed to?! I thought your parents would let friends over at a certain time."
"Right now they're all about what makes me feel the most safe, and if that's having a friend over then they're all for it. They knew that you were coming over," I explain
"Then I will remember that next time I'm thinking about sneaking through your window."
"So do you want to talk about that nightmare you had?" Chris asks.
"I guess," I say sitting down on my bed. Chris walks over and sits next to me.
"What happened?" He asks putting his arm around me.
"I was running from something. I ran into the basement of the lodge, and then I saw Emily. H-her eye exploded, and then I-I saw you."
"Me?"
"Yeah. There was a Wendigo behind you, it-it killed you. Then I woke up," I say before starting to cry.
"It was just a dream. Nothing's gonna happen to me, I'm okay," he comforts.
"But Emily isn't," I sob.
"That isn't your fault."
"I know, but I just can't get that image of her body out of my mind," I say.
"I can't either. One day we will." I'm about to say something when my door swings open. My mom walks in.
"Yes?" I ask.
"I-it's Josh," my mom says.
"What do you mean."
"They found him in the mines. He's still alive."
A/N- Song chapter was based off of- Lead Me Out of the Dark by Crown the Empire. Sorry about the shortness of this chapter. Wednesdays are kind of crazy for me, but I really wanted to update so I wrote a shorter chapter. I'll update again tomorrow. Thanks for reading -floating_fangirl