#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.

he hadn’t followed us out here.

Despite what she had said in the cafeteria the other day about Enzo, she couldn’t hide her fangirl nature

get closer to the shotgun in case Enzo suddenly

about to reach into the tent for the shotgun, his eyes flashing red for a split second as if to warn me not to do it. I

you guys should camp with us!” Jessica

growled, glancing

replied. “It’ll be fun. You’d be

first sign of a hot 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

Jessica into

Regardless of what I said, he would. find

flashed another grin at my response, then looked up at

had so nonchalantly collected on

in… Graduate

sort of game was Enzo playing with

I could ask, Enzo

turned toward me, her

she said, to which I shrugged in return. There was no

don’t know what

crazy, that’s what it is,’ Lori growled, stomping back over to her tent and continuing to set it up while she grumbled

said, knowing that it wasn’t Jessica’s fault.

we’ll all be dead in the morning, I thought

and, much to my dismay, James

the clearing with their things. I blushed, mumbling a quiet “Hey”, and quickly

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

Enzo could learn from.

to me while I

“Hey,” he said quietly.

front of me and pulled something out of

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