"What are you doing?", CJ shouted while Johnny knocked in the window with his ski pole. "What's your plan, stay out here and freeze to death?" Johnny sounded annoyed, why had they even kept going when they could see that it had been clouding up, and the snow came down stronger then earlier. "We gotta stay here, at least just for tonight, and then we can go back tomorrow". Emma smiled, of course she did, the adventurer she was. Johnny liked that about her, no messing around, not making it complicated, just playing along, trying to make it through the night in this old, huge cabin, that had seemed to come out of nowhere in between the mountains. Sally didn't seem so convinced with the plan, probably didn't think they had the authority to be there, oh what the hell, better to break into someones cabin than die.
The four of them all climbed through the window, Johnny first, then the girls, and CJ as last man in. The first thing that hit them was the smell. The smell of rotten furniture, trapped air and they could tell at once that there hadn't been anybody in this cabin for several years. "You guys, there's not reception here either", "Of course there's not, we haven't had reception for the last four hours" Sally didn't like Johnny's response, why did he always have to be so cocky. "Let's see if we can try to get this electricity going" Emma interrupted, breaking the bad mood that was developing.
They started walking, out from the bedroom they had entered and out to the hallway. This place had way to to many superfluous rooms, how could anyone even need this much space for a cabin, CJ though while Emma lit a candle. Soon they all had their own, which gave just enough light to see a couple of feet in front of each of them. Johnny was leading the way, with Emma walking right behind him. They were both chatting about the most random stuff, CJ didn't even care, he just wanted to find a bed, sleep and get out of here as soon as possible. “You guys”, “What” Emma and Johnny replied in unison, while they turned towards Johnny. They all looked at each other, turning and staring at the empty spot, the spot in the back of the line where Sally was supposed to be. “What the ..” Johnny screamed, “She was right there a second a go”. All out of the quietness they heard a huge bang, like a door slammed, followed up by a scream that could not be from anybody else than Sally. As they all put there candles together, the light lit up more than they had wished to see. Blood marks of a body that had been pulled along the floor. Sallys blood.
They ran, as fast as they could. All different directions. CJ ran, ran as fast as he possibly could. Opened one door after the other. His candle had blown out the minute he started running. He ended up in something he decided must have been the kitchen. “What kind of place is this” Johnny whispered to himself, while he ran down the hallway. “Down right, and then a left, that must be where the entrance is, so I can get out of here”, he thought, while he was trying to catch his breath. Then all of the sudden, he tripped. Head first he dived down a stair, that had showed up from nowhere. He bumped his head, scratched his back and it wasn't before he saw a pair of ardent eyes coming towards him and Sallys dead body laying next to him, he realized he was in a dank basement and would never see the day light again.
Emma ran, tried to open door after door, but they were all locked. She couldn't get out of the long, cold hallway she was trapped in. There, the last door, finally opened. It was the master bedroom. When she shot the door as quietly as she could, she heard a big bang, like the last time. This could only mean one thing. There were only two more left, and she was one of them. She hid under the bed, trying to catch her breath. Out of the quietness she heard footsteps. Heavy footsteps, like she had never heard before. And they were coming closer and closer. The doorknob twisted, the door opened and from where she lay she could see a mans lower body. His flash light lit up the room. This creation was unlike anything she had ever seen before. He came closer. He was holding an ax, blood was dripping from it. She hold her breath, trying to be unnoticeable, terrified. “This is it, this is the ending.” Her thoughts got interrupted by a loud noise, pots falling to the ground. The huge person, that had been just a couple of feet away from her, turned around, shut the door and walked away,
“Shit” CJ shouted almost too loud. He had heard it. The second bang, and he was sure he was next. But unlike the others, he was about to be prepared. It was when he reached for the kitchen knife, he touched the pots that were hanging on the wall and they all fell in the ground. The sound was loud, very loud. “I'm not going to be nineteen and die, there's no way I'm dieing here!” He said to himself as he took a firmly grip around the knife. He could hear it, hear it coming. Getting closer and closer. With the rising in sound also came the rising in light. It got lighter and lighter, until he got blinded by the light.
“There!” Emma thought when she finally managed to open one of the windows in the bedroom. She climbed out, jumped down in the snow and started crawling. The wind hit her in the face, the temperature most have dropped several degrees, but the only though that went through her mind was to get away from that cabin as fast as she could. She crawled, and as she got further away she turned, gave the cabin one last look. She saw the light. She saw CJ, and she saw the second where the beast swung his ax, and walked slowly away from the kitchen while the light slowly disappeared. Hear tears streamed down her face, while she kept crawling into the woods, into the dark, alone.
