#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.

hey!” he said, as if he hadn’t followed us out here. I knew I

squealing with delight. Despite what she had said in the cafeteria the other day about Enzo, she couldn’t

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

and a couple other guys. It’s a nice weekend for it.” He looked over at me just as I w novelxo.com fast updateas 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 swallowed, my heart practically beating out of

you guys should camp

growled,

fun. You’d be okay

so dumb at the 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 when I saw how focused his

Jessica

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

at my response, then looked

setting down the firewood he had so nonchalantly collected on his way to stalk me. “I’ll just go get Matt and James, and we’ll be over in

in… Graduate student

was Enzo

I could ask, Enzo

toward me,

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

know

back over to her tent and continuing to set it up

knowing that it wasn’t Jessica’s fault.

dead in the

returned; and, much to my dismay, James was in fact

mumbling a quiet “Hey”, and quickly looked away as I

Lori’s tent, unaware that he would be barking up the wrong tree if he tried

Enzo could learn from.

while I pretended to be fiddling with

“Hey,” he said quietly.

front of me and pulled something out of his pocket,

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