One two three

There are monsters all around us, but some got too close.

One two three

Laying on ground sirens around me, most people will say that I've probably been in an accident. But something is off about this accident then, it has a pretty bad ending.

I'll start with who I am, I'm Lucy currently 31 years old and working in hotel. I'm waitress in a restaurant.One day, my friend, nah, bestie phoned me on work asking something. I understood completely nothing, because she was in like one hour rush. After she calmed down, I got the information that me and my friends from school are going to a trip in forest. I wanted to say no, but it was her birthday .... so you already get the answer.

On the next day in morning, we were getting ready. We were going with Mark ,Alicia , Marta and John. I knew them since school, so I knew that they mess around most of time . Thinking about the day ,Marta called me.

" Yo, where are you? We're here already. "

" Oh yeah, I'm going ,ait a second, please."

When I went out, everyone was there already.I joined them and started our work car.

As we were miles away from any green trees, the ride was really long. As the "sad puppy" here it was John in our company, always asking where we are and how much time it will take to get to the destination. Yeah well, there is always this kind of friend in any companies anyway. We just sat and waited to see something new.

The ride took us 4 hours. Everyone quickly got off car as we arrived, but yeah, first one was still John. The forest around us looked huge and wild. Deciding to firstly eat we took out our bags, then food we had with us. After eating we were thinking where to stay for the night, as it was getting colder and darker, when Marta spoke, and gave us an idea. Some people might think that we chose to stay in the forest and sleep in tents, but it wasn't that way. The choice we made was way more dangerous than we thought.

A house in far got our attention. We thought, yeah, it's more warm there than out here and it's just better, ha, ha. but who knew that it would paint the forest in red. And as it was autumn here ,the way was slippery and John still somehow felt at least four times. We got closer and closer to this house. We continued going until it was clear as day.

The house was grey and large, later we understood why. Without thinking much we entered. It was a normal house for us, but something felt real off. Let's get to the point. We walked around and were choosing our room. Everyone had their own room, as no one was really dating between us, you know. Mark chose room near entrance. I was sure about it even earlier, because he was really lazy sometimes. Marta chose the most beautiful one, as she had birthday today .She had all rights to do it. Alicia, on the other hand, just went to the first room she saw, with words "Geez, you guys choose too much, just take what you have. John was late as always, so he slept in living room. And I? I chose a room near balcony ,that was a little suspicious.

Night came fast, as we were all busy unpacking our things. It was dark in my room, which made my brain play with me easily After some time, I finally calmed down and went to sleep.

Waking up with a dry tasted mouth isn't what most people wish for, but it still got to me " Get up and go running " my mind hoped I'd say, But me is me. Sorry. Yeah, everything was on same place ,though I spent some more time looking at the things around me. I don't know how much time passed, until Marta came in. She was an early bird, so I'm not shocked to see her this early. Marta took my hand and we went down without sharing a word. We got in the kitchen, there everyone was sitting already and waiting for me. Finally, John started to explain why everyone's here, in the kitchen and this early.

"Lucy, you're probably shocked to wake up this like this , but we got some information that you must hear out. " He stopped and looked at others, just then I noticed their expressions .Why mostly talkative Marta hasn't said a word since we went out of my room? Suddenly, John continued.

" OK, so the night was real weird.I heard a lot of things. Alice took a look at source of sound which came from the kitchen, but she says that didn't see anything as well. Meanwhile, Mark and Marta were sitting in the garden, I don't know why they were there, but never mind. They are certain that heard voices and saw shadows. And you Lucy, did you hear anything weird?

Shocked even more by the news, I went silent for some seconds. Thinking on what I should say, because I had completely great sleep, and I didn't have any interruptions. Looking at that, I'm only one who was calm and saw nothing, everyone would think that I've done all this mess.

" Well, I didn't really notice anything during the night time. "

They were confused to hear my answer. How? How could that be? But after some time, we went on to having breakfast. The food was tasty. You might think that it was ours, but no, it was a soup from the fridge in this house. Everyone was happy and full. But I sat and thought for a second, how can the soup that's laying in this old abandoned house be so fresh and nice?

Outside was a little cold, but we still decided to head out. The gates of garden were already open, no one noticed it, then we remembered the last night things. Mark and Marta said that they heard voices and shadows in the garden, right? It is probably related to this. After discussing we shook all the thoughts and kept going. We were walking outside till night came. Everyone was talking. But I was thinking. How did everything happen? But I had nothing going on? With questions in my mind time passed real fast and we already arrived. It was around 21:30 at that time as we got to destination. We ran to the kitchen to eat something there were many things in the fridge still. Being in state of starving, we didn't think much of it, Dinner time!

After eating, we somehow, I don't know how, but we found beer in the living room.As of course, we never miss out free stuff, we started the party. We were. singing, running and doing different useless things. Also me, Alicia and John are feeling like something is going to be between Mark and Marta, because they started to spend too much time together. They both went to garden again John told me that day. He also told me that they look at stars and things like that. That's suspicious. After all this crazy stuff, drinking and partying, we finally went back to our rooms. Everything was normal until while I was going back to my room I saw Mark`s room suddenly go black. I thought for a second that it was my mind tricking me. But I continued into the darkness. I didn't notice that when it's dark out here, the hall and walls look much bigger and emptier than before. Out of blue. John appeared in front of me, the lights of my candle touching his face. I agree, it kind of freaked me out. He said to me in a calm voice.

"You know, it's really confusing that everything is happening, but not with you. Why, how is it possible? "

" I don't know the reason myself, John. "

I was real calm too, but it made me angry inside that for everyone I'm the killer, I'm impostor. But am I that suspicious all the time? We said last bye to each other and went to rooms.

Next day came. Silence and peace. I always slept till 9 in the morning, but shouldn't have someone woke me up at this late time already? A feeling of unease took over me. I got off bed, went slowly downstairs. All house was in silence ,which was making me a heartdrop feeling. Going down slowly and looking at every corner, waiting for some sort of human sign. What I didn't expect was to see my friends standing in circle in the living room, without a sound. But something was wrong I didn't see John out there. I started to walk to them asking what's going on, but having no answer made me even more curious. Coming up to them and trying to understand the situation. But in front of me wasn't explanation, but a cold body of my close friend, John. John was laying on the floor. He didn't have an arm, there was no legs too. Now I understood the silence of others. The living room was a mess. The things were covered in red it's like someone exploded from inside. It took us literally 10 minutes to get back to common sense. We looked at each other, thinking what happened last night. It was so strange the night was perfect for us. John's skin was pale, so it meant that he died a while ago already, around 4 hours minimum. The death was long, as he passed away because of blood loss. The endings were cut very straightly.. Surely used with sharp weapon. I went back to my room to think about it.

Yeah, I didn't know what to say to others, I had no words, so I chose to come to my room and think clearly. My principal questions were: who did it, why they did it and where did the other parts of body go? Sitting and questioning myself. What if I wasn't so bad to him before? Would we be some more time together and escape the situation that we are in right now? The day went miserable, as everyone was thinking about what if it was their fault? Alicia was suspecting me only. As I'm only one who says nothing and went from living room fastest. I don't deny it, it was weird from me, but I just was too confused for that. My bad. I was sus then, OK. At night, everyone didn't talk much and went to sleep. But before I did, Alicia met me in hallway.

"Hey, Lucy, how are you? Good. I guess. That John was always trying to get your attention. You got tired I see. I'm sure that it was you who killed him, so don't act so "good"

I didn't say nothing to her, I just went to my room as I was planning. I fell to sleep instantly, facing my nightmares.

Until the sun got me covered in light. Everything still on same place, same conditions, everything perfect. But the second I went out, everything changed. Everyone was different, they didn't seem sad anymore. It's like they lost memory and forgot about yesterday. Yeah, everyone, but not Alicia. She was still trying to blame me. If she was as before, then it was the same situation. Just, my friends chose to move on, it shocked me as only one day passed. But It's time. And what happened is already in past.

Not looking at the results we got from our trip, we continued, but the trips went more boring and quiet without John`s whining, and unstoppable stops for eating. We went in back part of house today and as it was in forest, the weather was colder here. Forest middle of autumn. Every step I took was diving in the pool of leafes. The wind was making my every breath more colder inside. It was weird behind the house, old blue gates, trees looked real old too. There was a swing behind it, as there were no people out there, we just climbed the fence. Swing river grass. Leaves.

Getting back to the living area was nice. We spent 2 hours on houses back part. We arrived at twenty o'clock today, which was really early, so we went downstairs to see this old house better. The floor in the basement was made of wood, so we could hear ourselves. We could easily get lost there. And don't be shocked, but we did.

" Hey, wait, everyone. Where's Alicia?!" yelled out Mark.

"She was behind me, I swear I was looking at her." I said

I said in confused tone. I. literally saw her a second ago. Where did she go ? Suddenly a loud noise came up towards us from distance. We went towards it, but nothing was there.

"Someone caught Alicia. It's them." Martha panicked.

She, ran more further inside darkness. I was trying to catch her before running, but it was too sudden. Wood under us both was telling our location to unknown source, that was taking, our friends away. During my last step, everything went black.

Cold floor touching my face, realising that it wasn't wood, it took me up on feet in a second. It was a room, white room. Well, almost. Near me was laying Mark and Marta. Brown closet. It took my attention. Why is it only thing that's different colour? Mark woke up with same shock, face showing different emotions at once. He went up strictly to me asking same question that I was, what's going on? Marta was still unconscious. It took her 15 more minutes to wake up. At last both three of us were looking around the room after we decided to check up on the brown closet. I was going first, then Mark and just after him Marta. Slowly I opened the little doors and I understood that it was a really bad decision. I opened them and my voice continued without noticing.

" Alicia...."

The room went silent. Alicia's body was "sitting" on a big box in the closet. Unlike John, she had legs and arms. But still, there was one thing that I'll never forget. Her face, saying more correctly, it was gone. We standed there for a long time. But our attention changed to horror later.

The door opened, but not the closet once`s, though I hoped that it would be them. Creek of it made our ears go numb. A man entered, than another and then another. It was us and these three men in the same room . Something about them seemed wrong, they looked weird, acted hmm same manner, to be honest. The first person who also seemed the oldest, he was the shortest of them. He had short hair and black eyes, just like other two. They were wearing old kind of clothes, I could tell cause my grandpa once showed them to me. They were looking around the room, probably planning something. Suddenly they bursted us. We looked at the room thinking, what to do? Suddenly, Mark ran in front of me. But why? My face was full of misunderstanding, mess. Who are these people? What are they doing here? Seeing this Marta kicked the wall then started to walk towards us, as she got close, she pushed Mark towards those weirdos. He screamed out.

"Marta what are you doing? No, no"

Mark tried to stop falling, but the strengths that Marta put was unbelievable. He gasped last time before landing on knives that they had. He stomach and head were cut open.

Martha said : "I loved you, Mark. And this is what I get, yeah?!!"

The room went silent. Only laughs of the killers filled the room with terror.

The hall was filled with sound and laughing of that crazy people. We were trying to put water in our mouthes. For you guys to understand what really is going on right now, Mark got killed and after seeing a chance to escape, we ran to the door. We ran literally for our lives. We were hiding in the bathroom. It was dark. There were no lights in the bathroom too. The lights under the door got darker and darker. Whatever that was behind the door, it was getting closer to us.

"Someone is coming. Keep quiet." I whispered to Marta.

Door opened. We were hiding inside the bathtub with closed doors. The man hesitated a little and after spending some time watching the surroundings in the bathroom, he left us. The door of bathroom was already opened, which meant that we could escape it without doing any kinds of sound. Slowly, we got out of the bathtub, then the bathroom, but we did a real big mistake, we didn't do a plan. As we didn't know what to do, someone other was already coming our way. I hand of fear and desire to live me and Marta got split up. To take at least a little responsibility, I decided to attract the monster to me.

"Hey, I'm here. Go catch me." I yelled with all my strength

In my head was going only one thing "Martha, I love you. I won't. let you die after your birthday. Thanks for helping me all the time. Thanks for being my favourite person in this world." In desperation of hiding, I felt down sometimes. As all the weirdos were running after me, I was giving the air my happy tear.

Bed, table, chairs and window. I was in Alice's room. It was filled with sadness and darkness, as it was her last travelling point. I was terrified to even look out of the door as they could be there, watching, waiting. After 13 minutes, which felt like eternity. I decided to go downstairs. Taking steps to the door, opening it at first my eyes didn't meet anyone. So I went on to somewhere more near to outside world. Cold floor creaking after every step anyone did, also exposing their positions. I ran for my life until entered a new place.

Balcony. Without hesitating, I jumped on to boxes and right down to the bushes under me. The door behind me opened, and it was a scream from one of them. But I was fast and landed by that time on bushes already. I heard a quiet "ouch" down me, Marta. She was alive. We both were laying under the bushes now making zero sound, watching for perfect timing to run out of this place. Suddenly a loud noise came from back parts of the house. Wait, it was swing, all the weirdos ran towards the sound. Me and Marta took the chance.

We were running through forests for at least 26 minutes, until we got on a road .There were no cars, no humans, but we did it, we escaped the forest. Standing in middle of the road, we got in a chat and Martha got in front of me looking at the forest, saying that this is crazy man and she never going to come here again. I answered her with yes. Never mind. Come here. Martha got closer to me, but still facing back to me. Putting my hand through the pocket, I said in low voice:

"One , Two, Three "

My knife cut open her neck, blood flying around the road. Suddenly there went an activity from the bushes behind me. The three crazy men approached me, saying:

"Good job, sister "