The trap

We have been driving for what felt like hours to one of Charlie's old family farm house. He said that no one would be there and it sounded like a convenient place to carry out our plan.

We finally arrived.

Luckily the generators were still up and running so all we had to do was sit tight and wait for Charlie's twelve hours to elapse.

It was just about one hour to go and that was when the light went of plunging us in darkness. We all immediately lit our phone torches up

"Shit! The generator must have died. Now what do we do?" Asked Charlie

"I'll go check it out and get it back on" Jason volunteered stretching a bit as he stood

"I don't think we should separate" I warned a bit scared

"Well we can't do much in this darkness so..." He chuckled "and don't worry I'll be fine" he held up his baseball bat and walked toward the door

"I'll go with you" Riley shouted out running up to him then they were gone. That was when I realized that Damon was nowhere to be found.

Riley POV

He was ahead of me a bit, headed for the barn where Charlie said the generator was. He was walking too fast it became hard to keep up

"Hey! slow down a bit"

"Why volunteer to come if you know you can't keep up, you're such a liability" he stood waiting for me to catch up

"Geez, you didn't have to be mean about it" I rolled my eyes at him

" I'm not trying to be mean. I'm just saying that we shouldn't waste much time here than we have too,"

"Yeah sure" we kept on moving till we reached the barn. I felt something run over my leg and I couldn't help but scream holding on to Jason's shoulders as he also yelled

"What?!"

"Something went past my legs" I said pointing towards the ground to reveal it was just a little rat. I really hated rats

"Chill, Its just a rat. Nothing to be afraid of" he said laughing hard

"This isn't funny" I said getting annoyed by the sound of his laughter

"Yeah, it kinda is" he continued with his laughter

"Just fix the generator would you?" I crossed my hands rolling my eyes

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot" he moved ahead towards the generator as I looked around just observing the place

"Oh boy!" Jason said sounding tensed

"What is it?"

"Fuck! We have to get the hell out of here" he said quickly grabbing my hand tightly dragging me along with him, leaving me totally confused

"What? And you haven't even fixed the generator" I said struggling to break free from his cold touch but deep down I know I didn't want to let go. It felt nice and I wouldn't mind if he held on to my hands more often

"All this has been a trap! The generator never failed it was cut, cut you hear me. This was its trap and we fell right into it" he kept on talking "we need to inform Veronika and Damon" he held out his phone and my blood froze as I stared at the red figure approaching behind him

"Fuck! there's no fucking signal" he yelled

"B-b-b" I kept stuttering on my words

"What the hell is up with you now?" He said giving me a strange look

"Jason look behind you" I finally cried out. As soon as he turned back face-to-face with the red ghoul he was struck hard on the face with a shovel and I think I saw blood

"Jason" I screamed his name kneeling down beside him checking for his pulse luckily it was still there. I then felt the shovel's metal brace my skull. And I was out

Veronika POV

I went outside to catch Damon lighting a blunt

"Hey" I made my presence known. He quickly turned to me

"Hi, I don't suppose you smoke?" He asked holding out his pack

"I do too" I blinked. But well I guess there's a first time for everything right. I took one which he helped me light up staring at me with a smugly grin. I took a drag and immediately choked on it coughing out like an idiot

"Easy there" he chuckled patting on my back

"That tasted horrible" I declared throwing it away

"Its always that way at first but you'll get used to it"

"Yeah no kidding" we both laughed a bit. A moment of silence

"I think we should go back inside" I told

"Yeah but first I have something to tell ya" he stated dryly

"Okayy what" I looked at him. My best guess was that it was about him missing in action at Alexa's party. He never told me his reason for bailing

"The reason I was MIA at the party was because my brother came by to see me" he has a brother? I didn't know that. I had recalled from the night that I got drunk that his lost his mum but I thought he was the only child

"You have a brother?"

"Well stepbrother"

"Ooh~ what did he came to do?" I asked on

"My father sent him to come check up on me" he paused "he told me my father was sick and that he wants to see me"

"I'm so sorry"

"Its okay" he said with a shrug

"If your dad is dying you should see him" I advised

"What for? I don't want to see him, I still haven't forgiven him for what he did to me and my mom. Hell, he could die for all I care" he snorted angrily

"You don't really mean that"

"How would you know?" He said looking further away

"Because I know you and I know your hurt. I would be hurt too if I were you but like my grandpa always say for you to truly move on, you have to let go of your past and the best way to do that is by confronting it" I placed my hand atop his

"I don't know about that"

"Just talk to him and see how it goes" I smiled at him and for a moment we just stood lost in each others eyes

"Strange-" he uttered looking lost in thoughts

"What's strange?" I asked

"The light should be back on by now but it isn't, something's wrong"

"Charlie?" I quickly mentioned as we both rushed in

Charlie POV

I looked at my watch and it was twenty minutes past the time I was given and still nothing had happened, I had started to feel a bit relieved. I went to the restroom to take a leak. I filled my palm up with water and brushed my face looking up back at the mirror I stared at a red mask and I could see him swinging a tomahawk at me. I let out a bloodcurdling scream then quickly moved myself from harms way.

I reached out for the doorknob, twisting and pulling at it but it didn't bulge "Veronika... Damon... Anyone please help me" I screamed for help

"No..." I begged "you don't have to do this" it ignored my pleas and struck at my stomach. Tears welled up around my eyes. My vision began to fade as I started to loose conscious. It was then I realised I was too far gone

Damon POV

We heard screams coming from the bathroom. When we arrived we could hear Charlie begging for life. I pounded on he door knowing fully well that time wasn't our friend but the door refused to yield. I gave a final kick and the door burst open. The display of Charlie's body cut open was on the floor

"Charlie" Veronika said from beside me

I looked up at the broken window and I knew it had just made an escape through. I couldn't let it get away this time so I chased it going through the window.

I saw it red costume going into a corn maze. It stopped and looked at me, signaling me with his fingers to follow it into the maze and I was ready to follow.

I cut through the corn maze with the steel pipe I held. I couldn't see any sign of the red ghoul and that made me mad. In a flash I saw it lunge at me I quickly ducked in time. I swung at him but he backed up. The fight went on and on

My steel pipe was gone and I was up against the ground. I struggled on the ground as it placed it foot on my chest with it tomahawk in the air. But it was stopped by Veronika who stabbed it with a pitch fork. It struck her with it hand as it escaped.

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