Snippet #2128898

It was obvious the other girl didn’t want her around. She sighed lightly to herself. So much for this making things easier. Why was it that no one ever wanted her around? Her businesses were great, her customers loved her. But this… making friends had always been a challenge. It was probably one of the reasons she only stayed in college long enough to get general education classes out of the way and never declared a major.

Watching Amnell head into the forest, Enid glanced around herself uneasily. The hairs on the back of her neck were picking up and she rubbed at the sleeves of her shirt nervously. It didn’t help she was soaked all the way through, but she hardly noticed. It was so dark and the rain made everything impossible to tell what was what.


The hallway had been just as dark when she’d opened the door to her room that night. Something hadn’t been right. She had awoken from a deep sleep, covered in sweat. She’d cried out screaming for her parents, but they never came. That was when she smelt something. It didn’t smell right. Like when she had tried to cook eggs once and only managed to burn them. Stepping out into the hallway, the young girl could only see the blackness around her as it threatened to encompass her. She had stood in the dark hallway for minutes on end until she had the courage to start down the hallway to where she knew her parents were supposed to be…


Enid tore herself away from the memory, not wanting to relive it here. She didn’t want to go through the emotions now not with people she didn’t know. People who didn’t know the truth about her. That was when she heard the first scream. Her eyes widened and she glanced around to see if any of the others were going to do anything. She sure didn’t want to be the one to go into the forest and find the source of the help.

But what choice did she have?

Gulping past her fears of the darkness and what she knew it could hold, but ventured in as slowly as she could without a light. She hoped that once she found the source, she would be able to find the light too that had disappeared into the woods. Her steps were tentative as she made her way slowly feeling with her feet before taking steps. It was slow going, but she eventually made it to where she felt a drop off.

She could hear something not too far off to one side that sounded like another person, but she was sure she could just make out Amnell only a few paces away. She gulped and made her way slowly over to the girl.

“Hang on.” She muttered more to herself than to the other girl. She wanted out of the forest as quickly as she could get or at least to have a flashlight of some type. Curse running out of batteries.

Bending down onto her knees, she stuck out a hand and grabbed onto one of the other girl’s shoulders before hiding the other one and started to slowly try and pull her out of the watery hole. It was probably an old creek bed that had filled with water because of how hard it was raining.

Enid’s breathing was heavy and she fought to go backwards on the slick surface. If the other girl could help in any way, now would be the time. She wasn’t sure if she had the arm strength to do pull her out on her own, but she was going to try. Maybe now Amnell wouldn’t dislike her as much if she only managed to help her out.