PART XIIIThe Cabins
I held the ground with pale fists. This was THE scariest moment of my life. I shook yet remained frozen, my eyes gleamed with water. I kept an eye on my friends, they were my main concern, I wanted no harm to come to them. But they had all reacted the same way as I by lying upon the dirt path. It was as if the cabins themselves gave off some shock wave, crippling our knees and our nerves, causing us to fall. No one moved, the forest was deathly quiet.
I kept waiting for the dog to bark, for the woman to wake up and come running out screaming. I waited for the gleaming shotgun. No such event happened. No sound could be hear
d, not even any nocturnal wildlife. I stood up and the rest of my companions followed. Nicholas, although on the ground, had moved his flashlight not an inch. The beam continued to glow on the cabin in front of us, fueling our fear and vulnerability. This was true especially for Nicholas, for he was first in our line, and so the first to be harmed if any harm were to happen. I walked up to him, slowly, so as not to frighten him. He stood up, Gaeten, Nico, and Bob joined us. We faced the side of a cabin, a most insidious cabin, as if evil flowed off the shingles. The wooden cabin was not tall, nor was it long. It stood about 12 feet high, and stretched about 10 feet on all sides; it formed a square. Its color was brown, its roof was black. The two windows it had were covered in cobwebs. Our whole group walked around to the front, where a set of doors waited for us. There was a screen door and a solid door behind that. Quiet we all were, until, “So who is going to open it?” Gaeten asked. We all looked at each other in hopes that the person next to us would say “I will.” “Let’s just open it together,” Bob suggested. We nodded and Bob, Nicholas, and Gaeten stood together. They started to reach for the first door when, something happened…It seems the solid door, the one behind the screen door, could not wait for us…so it opened first, by itself.
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