Escape

Chapter 12: WTF

We wait for all of them to finish before I motion for them to follow me to the waterfall.

"Woah it's beautiful."

Someone says out loud.

"Cannon ball !"

That is the last thing I hear before being drenched in water by water loving teenagers.

I look at them annoyingly wiping at my clothes.

"Seriously. Now I'm wet."

Kenzie's elbow greets my ribs as she laughs heartily.

"Chill, it's just some fun before the inevitable. Let them live a little."

The light in her eyes dimmed.

I sighed. Coming to grips with what was happening was almost impossible but we had to. And to think the only problems I had a few days ago was a school bully. This is messed up.

After several wash ups and dry ups we were all ready to go back to our hiding places. The trees.

"Bruno come on. We gotta go."

A chubby girl shouted out to a tanned guy still in the stream. Mexican ?. He splashes water into the girl and laughs.

"Come get me Khaleesi."

Snickers arose. Why ?. I looked at the girl closely. Oh her hair was as white as snow. See what I did there.

She stumped her foot, huffed then removed her shoes and went into the water.

"You are so dead."

She swam over to him to pull him out but he ducked into the water and resurfaced farther down the stream.

"Too slow."

Khaleesi followed wadding through the water until she went under.

Cheers erupted for her to come back up and drag Bruno's was ashore but they died down after she didn't come up.

Bruno smiled.

"Khaleesi, don't play with me now."

Nothing. Bubbles rose up to the surface from where she submerged.

"Maggie. Maggie really."

We all panicked but none went foward.

Bruno swam to where she once was and went under to find her.

He came up a minute later screaming.

"Its got her. Help !"

An African American with tattoos moved foward to help out but hesitated when a tentacle rose up from the water and latched itslef to the back of Bruno's neck.

He stilled then started to jerk. He tried getting it off but it wouldn't budge. Blood trickled down the back of his neck where the tentacles attached itself. We all watched helplessly as he struggled. Face grew pale and hands grew slack before he stopped moving. The tentacle stayed on him a little longer before detaching and retreating back into the water.

Bruno's body floated on the surface of the stream face down. No one would go in to get his body out for fear of the tentacle getting them too.

Some sobbed, some wretched while some stared into space possibly thinking one thing that could be any of us next.

"We have to go. It's not safe amymore."

Kenzie's voice cut through the tension and people started to move.

A hand touches mine then envelopes it. It's Rachel. She looks broken down by what she just saw. She leads me away.

As we leave I turn back and see Maggie's body. Her dead eyes staring into mine.

I look away.

There goes the fish.