Allison is gone.

Nina stumbled toward the car, she could hear the warming beeps, alerting the driver that the keys were still in the car and the door was open. She looked around, but couldn’t see Allison anywhere. “Ugh, this is just great,” she mumbled to herself. Nina placed both hands against the passenger side window and leaned in to see what was there. Lying across the back seat was Allison’s strapless burgundy prom dress. Nina’s mouth dropped open and she took a second look to confirm what she had seen, the dress was still there. Nina saw that her friend’s matching burgundy prom shoes were also in the car, one on each side of the floor. She shook her head as she stepped back from the car.

She was about to call Allison’s name when something on the ground caught her eyes. Nina walked around the car and found Allison’s cell phone smashed on the highway. She crouched down and picked it up, the cell phone was broken up pretty badly. After a quick inspection, Nina was pretty sure it hadn’t been run over by any vehicle

“What the hell is going on?” she asked herself.

She stepped on the dotted yellow line and looked in the direction of their high school prom. All she saw was darkness, then she turned and looked back the way they’d come. Far off in the distance she thought she could make out a pair of headlights. Nina’s hand went down to her stomach; fear had tightened itself into a ball in the pit of her belly. She didn’t know why, but she started back for the forest. The gravel was sharp and hard under her bare feet as she tripped and fell into the ditch. For the second time tonight she found herself on all fours. Nina crawled the rest of the way, until she was just inside the tree line. She watched as the headlights grew larger and the sound of the on coming vehicle hummed in her ears. She saw the vehicle begin to slow down, then it pulled over to the side of the road behind her abandoned car. She couldn’t make out if it was a car or a truck; the fog only allowed her to see the bright headlights. Nina almost screamed when she heard a door slam shut.