#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

said in

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, just like he did with the

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

guys should camp with us!” Jessica

Lori growled,

Jessica replied. “It’ll be fun. You’d be okay with it, right,

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

manipulating Jessica into

no way out now. Regardless of what

at my response, then looked up

firewood he had so nonchalantly collected on his way to stalk me. “I’ll

As in… Graduate student

game was Enzo playing

could

toward me,

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

know what came over me just

growled, stomping back over to her tent and continuing

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

dead in the morning, I

and, much to my dismay, James was in fact with

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 Enzo’s eyes on me

barking up the wrong tree if he tried to get with her. James picked a spot opposite my tent, keeping a respectable distance

Enzo could learn from.

I

“Hey,” he said quietly.

down in front of me and pulled something

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