Somewhere in the woods surrounding Abington, Virginia a group of college students were sitting around the campfire telling stories. The group contained four sets of siblings with weird rhyming names: Brad, Chad, Mandy, Candy, Randy, Addison, Madison, Aiden, and Caden. It's up to each person to decide which is weirder, so many twins being friends with each other or the names. It was currently Chad's turn, and he was telling a story down in the camp they were counseling at, Camp Vaguely Offensive Name. It was the story of Bobby Jenkins, a boy who died decades ago.
"Ok so the story goes like this. Once upon a time there was this loser…"
"Hey, lay off the fictitious kid" Interrupted Randy trying to create a laugh.
"Caiden you know the rules, no interrupting." Candy sticking up for her boyfriend.
"Back on topic, this poor poor young man. There, are you happy now Caiden? This boy was bullied by every other person at camp, even the paste eater. No one could ever tell why he was chosen, he just somehow was chosen as the sacrifice, the scapegoat. The children showed just how cruel kids can be by inflicting every horror they could imagine on him. They would put random stuff they found in the woods into his food, sometimes making him sick and sometimes just made it taste bad. They would pants or wedgie him whenever they passed by and he was not paying attention."
"Sounds absolutely dreadful, berries and wedgies" interrupted Randy again.
"Shut up Randy, Chad didn't run his mouth when it was your turn, so show some f'ing courtesy!" Candy chastised.
"Can I get back to the story now? … great. They escalated more and more, with this Bobby became more and more resentful, but not at his peers. He somehow had the maturity to know that the other kids were not at fault, the fault lied with the counselors who did nothing when they witnessed the abuse. The abuses he suffered grew ever worse: physical and verbal assaults, destroying his supplies, and various other indignities. This culminated in the worst night of his life, it was also his last. They woke Bobby up in the middle of the night by throwing a backpack over his head. When he struggled against his attackers, they proceeded to tightened their grip on his limbs and lay into his ribs with several punches. When they carried him into the woods, they passed a counselor. When the counselor asked what they were doing, the kids said horseplaying and Bobby begged for help. The counselor decided to take the kids words over Bobby's. When the kids reached a clearing in the woods they dropped Bobby to the ground and when they did they realized he was no longer breathing. Scared of the consequences, they ran back to their bunks and feigned sleep even though it never came to him. The funny and sad thing is that if they got him help, they could have prevented two tragedies. The first a young boy's tragic and premature death and the second that came later. As the young boy's corpse lay in that clearing it was imbued him dark and unearthly essence attracted by his resentment and hatred. That essence twisted him in mind, body, and soul. Bobby had become a twisted mockery of the human form, one arm gigantic, one arm skin and bones, one foot facing forward, one foot facing back, skin a sickly gray, and a face that could be barely recognized as human let alone Bobby. The corpse started making its way back to the cabins while picking up a pair of garden shears it encountered along the way. When the kids woke up the next day it was to all of the counselors entrails spread across the camp. The monster was never seen again but is said to still wander these woods to this day."
"Well on that note I gotta go empty my bladder on some tree. Here's hoping that I don't meet Bobby along the way." Caden said before walking into the woods.
Caden missed the shadow shambling in the background while relieving himself. One could hope that if he did see it what was to come could have been avoided. Unfortunately no one would ever know how that branch of this story could have gone. Instead he went back to the campfire unaware of the uninvited guest.
After another couple of hours, the counselors split off and turned in for the night.
Brad with Mandy, Chad with Candy, Randy with Addison, and everyone else alone.
After several hours, the night was broken by a blood curdling scream. After being woken up all the counselors converged on Madison's room where the scream originated from.
They dreaded what they would find in there, especially her sister, but they had to find out anyway.
When they entered, they all chocked on the metallic scent in the air and were horrified by what they saw. It was a lesson of contrasts: a stark white corpse in a sea of crimson, a young woman seemingly at peace surrounded by violence, beauty surrounded by ugliness.
They all stood there basking in the silence. No one wanted to break the silence as the moment they did, it would lock this moment into reality and once it was they would need to deal with it. However, reality is often disappointing and deal with they must.
"MADISON!!!" Addison bellowed before dropping to her knees.
Randy rushed to his girlfriend's side to comfort her.
The others just stood around not knowing what to do with the situations regarding either sister.
After several minutes, Addison's face morphed into an angry grimace.
"I'm totally gonna find this B*****d and when I do, he will regret ever being born" Addison gritted through her teeth before storming off.
Randy was conflicted, on one hand was his girlfriend and the other was his sisters. Chad seeing him torn, decided to put aside their differences and help him out.
"Randy, you stay here with Aiden and Caden to protect the girls. While Brad and I will go with her." Chad said before chasing after Addison with his brother.
"Hey, keep her safe." Randy called out behind him thankfully.
"I will, never doubt that. You keep your sister safe for me" Chad called over his shoulder.
Addison was already at the entrance of the forest by the time Brad and Chad reached her.
"Hey Addison, wait up for us." Brad called out behind her.
"let's split up to cover more ground." Addison stated all business.
"Ok Daph, you go north. Me and Scoobs will go east and west respectively. Are you kidding me? Its Already bad enough we are tramping through the woods looking for a killer. Now you want to sperate. What pray tell will a hundred twenty-pound white girl wearing short shorts and Ugg boots do to the guy that eviscerated a girl?" Brad retorted.
"Finding the killer in these woods is a needle in a haystack. The only way we have a shot in hell to find him is to split up." Addison implored.
Brad thinking ran his hand through his hair, then rubbed his neck.
"Alright, fine. But only if we stay close to each other and call for help at even the slightest hint of trouble. Deal?" Brad offered.
"Deal."
And off into the woods the three go and only one would return from this excursion.