#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.

here. I knew

in the cafeteria

too?” Lori said while I only continued inching toward my tent in silence, trying to get closer to the shotgun in case Enzo suddenly decided that we knew too much and that he’d need to kill us,

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

you guys should camp

Lori growled, glancing at

“It’ll be fun. You’d

would be 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 eyes were on hers, and how her eyes seemed almost glazed over, 1 knew it to be

Jessica into inviting him

I said, knowing that there was no way out now. Regardless of what

my response, then looked up at the

said, walking over to our fire pit and setting down the firewood he had so nonchalantly collected on his way to stalk me. “I’ll just go get Matt and James, and

in… Graduate student

sort of game was

could ask, Enzo

me,

shrugged in return.

know what

boy crazy, that’s what it is,’ Lori growled, stomping back over to her tent and continuing

that it wasn’t

be dead in the morning, I thought to

much to my dismay, James

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

the wrong tree

Enzo could learn from.

walked over to me while I

“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 to me; my eyes

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