Getaway

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

You clench your teeth. You shake your fists. God, you want to scream so badly, but then you'll wake up the people in the neighboring cabins again. And then they'll call the rangers, and the rangers will kick you and the others out. And then the 20-hour drive to the middle of nowhere will have been for nothing.

No. You need to wake someone up. Maybe Jake's still awake, he said he'd quit drinking for a while, so he shouldn't be-

Voicemail. He's passed out too.

Well.

You sigh heavily and take a seat by the fire pit. The wood burned out long ago, and there's nothing but the faintest orange simmer rising gently from the circle of stones.

You smile and turn towards cabin number four. The family who lives there started the fire. Wonderful people, them... an older couple, and three or four kids, all brimming with energy and cute as all hell. They lent you their boat and sport tube, they showed you where to find the best food whenever you went to town... hell, they even drove your drunk asses home on more than a few occasions.

You need to plan better. You chuckle a little, but frown as you listen close and hear nothing. Their lights are on... aren't they generally playing cards by now...?

You glance over the other cabins. Total silence. This is a first... there's normally always someone up. Did everyone just go out into the woods somewhere and leave you alone?

You glance off into the woods. Your imagination starts to wander. You know... people around here do disappear sometimes. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. The locals have some troubling legends... one myth is that an entire tribe of natives wandered into a certain section of the woods during the relocations. They spoke of great and terrible beasts with greying, decaying flesh and huge claws that dragged along the ground as they walked.

They were never heard from again after that.

(Work in progress. I can't do it all tonight.)