#Chapter 54: No Coincidences

Nina

Jessica, Lori and I had begun setting up camp not far from where the businessman had been murdered when I heard twigs and leaves crunching in the forest.

Someone was coming.

“Oh my god,” Jessica complained as she fiddled with her tent poles, “this is impossible! Lori, I need help!”

“Guys,” I said, but they didn’t hear me.

“I just helped you two minutes ago,’ Lori said, standing and walking over to Jessica with her hands on her hips while Jessica whined.

“Shh!” I said, which made them finally go quiet. “Do you hear that?”

My heart raced as I listened to the footsteps. They were getting louder, and definitely headed directly for our camp. I glanced over at my tent, which had the shotgun inside- 11 I could just get over there before anything bad happened.

“Hello?” a male voice called out from the woods.

I knew that voice anywhere; it was Enzo.

And hearing it didn’t make me any less terrified.

He stepped out into the clearing, holding a bundle of firewood with a backpack on his back and a big, stupid grin on his face.

followed us out here. I knew I should’ve

had said in the cafeteria the other day about

toward my tent in silence, trying to get closer to the shotgun in case Enzo

over at me just as I w novelxo.com fast updateas about to reach into the tent for

guys should camp with us!” Jessica

Lori growled, glancing at

fun. You’d be okay with it, right,

guy to forget all of our morals, but her nonchalance toward him in the cafeteria the other day made me wonder now if he was using some sort of werewolf powers to make Jessica say these things… And when I saw how focused his eyes were on hers, and how her eyes seemed almost glazed over, 1 knew

Jessica into

no way out now. Regardless of what I said, he would. find

grin at my response, then looked

collected on his way to stalk me. “I’ll just go get Matt and James, and

As in… Graduate

sort of game was Enzo

could

turned toward me, her

the fuck?” she said, to which I shrugged in return. There was no use

said. “I don’t know what came over me just

it is,’ Lori growled, stomping back over to her

that it wasn’t Jessica’s

in the morning, I thought

and, much to my dismay, James was in

James said as they entered the clearing with their things. I blushed, mumbling a quiet “Hey”, and quickly looked away as I felt both James and

empty spot next to Lori’s tent, unaware that he would be barking up the wrong tree if he tried to get with her. James picked a spot

Enzo could learn from.

I pretended to be

“Hey,” he said quietly.

the ground, pretending I didn’t hear him. He crouched down in front of me and pulled something out of his pocket, handing it

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