The Nightmare begins…

The two male figures moved slowly closer to the car. Nina noticed that the man on the right walked with a limp and the one on the left had something swinging back and forth, dangling from his hand. None of the girls could see the two strangers’ faces yet because the fog was so thick.

“Fuck this!” screamed Cassie as she shoved the car door open. Nina tried to grab her arm but failed and fell into Allison. By the time Allison and Nina had balanced themselves, Cassie was gone into the darkness. In unison, both girls popped their heads up and looked out the back window. To their surprise and horror, neither of the men were there.

“What the fuck Nina, I don’t like this…” Allison said shakily.

“You think I am having fun?” Nina shot back in a mix of fear and frustration. “We need to go find Cassie.”

“Hell no! I am not getting out of this car,” protested Allison.

“Fine, you stay here and I’ll go find her. Keep trying the cell-phone,” Nina said handing her cell to her friend. “If anything happens,” Nina paused, worried that something bad could happen, “honk the horn.”

Allison looked terrified, “what! You’re going to leave me here! Alone!”

Nina didn’t answer the **** plea from her friend; instead she opened the car door and stepped out on to the gravel. It crunched under her high-heels and as she tried to walk, she realized how hard it must have been for Cassie to walk until they met her. Allison immediately locked all the doors and wheeled around to watch Nina disappeared into the darkness in the direction Cassie had went.

“This is fucken crazy,” Allison told herself as she absently stroked her fingers through her brilliant red hair.

Allison sat, with her knees tucked under her chin, pressed against her chest. She was nervously biting her nails, trying to pass the time. When finally she had nothing left to chew off she stopped and looked at her fancy gold prom watch, the prom she’d never make it to now. She couldn’t decide whether the girls had been gone twenty minutes or closer to half an hour. Either way, it was a long time.