#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.

out here.

practically squealing with delight. Despite what she had said in the cafeteria the other day

in case Enzo suddenly decided that we

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

should camp with

Lori growled,

fun. You’d be okay with it,

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

was manipulating Jessica into inviting

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

flashed another grin at my response, then looked up at

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

game was

could ask,

turned toward me, her eyes

to which I shrugged

don’t know what came over me

what it is,’ Lori growled, stomping back over to her tent and continuing to

that it wasn’t Jessica’s fault. “Maybe

dead in

enough, the boys returned; and, much to my dismay, James was

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

barking up the wrong tree if he tried to get with her.

Enzo could learn from.

Enzo walked over to me while I

“Hey,” he said quietly.

the ground, pretending I didn’t hear him. He crouched down in front of

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