Chapter 4
chapter 4:
the conversation
I woke up at around 8:00 am, made myself breakfast and poured myself a cup of orange juice and then right as I was eating, my phone started ringing again. it was Chris, I was very reluctant to answer the phone, but then I remembered the incident with the homeless man and the hallucination I had the night before. I immediately answered the phone.
"hello"
"Jason, are you okay? why haven't you been answering my calls?" Asked Chris.
"I'm fine Chris, I needed to talk to you anyway."
"what's going on Jason?" He asked.
"just come to the house, okay?"
"ok, I'll be there." He said.
"make sure to bring Julia and Donnie with you, they need to know too."
"wait..."
I then ended the call, I then started asking myself a question "am I really making the right choice?"
at around 12:00 pm, I waited and wondered if Chris and the others are gonna make it? I then had that feeling again, but it quickly went away when I heard a knock on the door. I had a sigh of relief whenever I heard that knock. but when I opened the door, It felt like that thing was going to attack me; but I remained vigilant. I opened the door, and it was Chris and the rest and they quickly came inside my apartment. I sighed in relief, because I thought I was going to be attacked by that thing. I asked Chris, Julia, and Donnie to sit down anywhere in the living room, maybe the couch and I explained to them about the camera and the footage on it and I even told them about the incident with the homeless man the previous day. I asked them what they remembered before they left, starting from when we were hiking out in the woods. Chris went first:
"well, I do remember we found that abandoned cabin and found a camera.....but then we were at basecamp."
Julia went next "Chris, I remembered the same thing."
"that was because your memories were erased, Chris, you told me not to take the camera with me before we were attacked by that thing and...." Chris stopped me before I could finish my sentence.
"wait, we were attacked? by what? a bear?"
"no, we were not attacked by a bear." I told him "then what the fuck was it?" Chris asked.
"if you just let me explain, I'll tell you what it is?" I then explained the man in the suit, and explained how we were each attacked before we were teleported back to basecamp. I theorized how the entity had somehow erased their memory. "try to remember, Chris, Julia, Donnie?" Donnie then got up out of the couch and decided to act like a child by saying
"I'm fucking leaving dude, I knew you were trying to play a act on me. you all were, ever since we went on that trip."
"suit yourself, dumbass." Julia muttered to herself. Donnie walked out the door and then flipped me and the rest off, and left the apartment. suddenly, I along with Chris and Julia heard a scream coming from the hallway. it was Donnie, I knew right then and there that Donnie just put himself in danger.
"Donnie?" Chris said and Julia was just as surprised when she heard Donnie screaming.
we all rushed outside my apartment to see what was going on. and what we saw sure did traumatize Julia for a while. first we saw Donnie in a gruesome display, his intestines were pulled out and he had claw marks on his face. his eyes gouged out, and his jaw torn apart. then we saw a masked man who wears a skull mask and wields what appeared to be a glove with knives, "something out of that movie a nightmare on elm street" I thought to myself. then I started remembering that one tape and that scratching noise, He may have been the one responsible. Julia then started screaming when she saw the entity that had been following me. just then, the entity looked at me and both the entity and the masked man that murdered Donnie started pointing at me. As if I had been marked or something, I then started having that feeling again and this time it was even more painful and throbbing. it was so painful that I started screaming, because it was so painful, like that scene in Independents Day staring Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum. then just a few hours later, I woke up with Chris and Julia on the floor. I almost thought they were dead, but they too woke up. Donnie's body was still on the ground, luckily the police were there when we woke up. a police detective walked up to me and said.
"hey shithead, wake up. we have some questions for you. come with us."