It was a dark, windy night, and the wind howled through the trees, sending a shiver down my spine, when Ashly decided to play hide and seek. “Let’s play hide and seek! It’ll be fun.” She said right before she decided to be the seeker. I didn’t have much choice but to hide, considering that was the point of the game.

 I was hiding right behind a tree, just playfully waiting for Ashly to find me. I was getting tired after twenty minutes went by and I didn’t hear anything so I decided to go out of my hiding place until I heard someone stepping on a branch. “It must be her,” I quickly said as I decided to continue playing the game so I hid behind a bush. Just waiting for her to walk past me. Only, it wasn’t her that walked past. “Since when did Ashly wear big shoes?” I asked myself. “When did she have a husky body?” I also asked myself. It wasn’t then when I realized that the person I wasn’t seeing wasn’t Ashly. It was a man that I had never recognized before. Not only did I not know the man, I didn’t know the sharp object he was holding in his hands, that was dripping red. 

 That’s when I realized that i wasn’t playing for Ashly’s benefit, no I was playing for mines. For my life. The man was dragging something behind him, it seemed to be a lifeless body. Although it wasn’t Ashly’s, it was someone else. When the man walked past me I decided to stay in my position, hiding, and watching. Until I heard Ashly calling my name. No, she was yelling my name, as loud as she could. “Why Ashly? Why? Not now, please not now,” I begged as I saw the man turn around and see if he could locate where the yelling was coming from. “Come out Natasha, I’m tired of searching for you. Just hurry up, I want to go eat,” she yelled. And just then was when the mysterious man realized there wasn’t only one young girl in this forest, there was two..

 The man walked away seeming as if he wants to hide the body he has and track down his next target. When he walked far enough that I couldn’t hear him, I ran. I ran, and I ran as fast as I could. Not to get home, no, but to find my friend before the man found her. “There you are,” Ashly laughed as I ran up to her. I tried to shush her but she wouldn’t stop talking. “What are you doing?” She asked as she seemed to get mad now. “Be quiet, we’re not alone in this forest,” I whispered starting to feel nervous. “Well no duh, there’s animals, and trees here, and-.” I made her stop talking when I felt as if someone was coming. I dove both of us in the bushes that was right beside us. My heart was pounding, my head was aching and I was getting more colder then the second. “What was that for?” Ashly started to say before I covered her mouth and pointed. In the distance there was a man that was around his forty’s looking around. “So?” Ashly whispered. I made her head turn downward to see the sharp blade dripping in a liquidity substance. She figured out what it was quite quick and looked at me in horror. The man seemed to make eye contact with us and held up a number three and a zero. “What does that mean?” Ashly asked abruptly as the man closes his eyes with his hands as he turns around and puts his face to the tree. “What does that mean?” Ashly asks again, but this time her voice was more shaken. “He’s playing hide and seek with us..” “He’s what?” Ashly asked as she locker eyes with me. I quickly got up waisting no time, and Ashly followed me. 

 I looked at her and the unspoken words registered in Ashly’s mind. We have to get away before he spots us. Me and Ashly made a run for it. We passed so many trees that all looked the same. As we was running we saw the murderer staring at us, just smiling as we run for our lives. 

“We had ten more seconds before he will try to kill us,” I thought as my heart raced a lot more faster then it should.

 Ashly decided to hide in another bush while I decided to hide in a hollow log. It was damp and wet but I had to make it do. When five minutes go by I hear the man’s footsteps come closer and closer. It stopped inbetween me and Ashly’s hiding spot. The murderer seemed to scoff as if he’s disappointed in us, as if we could’ve done any better. The man said, “I’ll give you girls one more chance, make this worth my while. If not..” he seemed to trail off as he walked in the same direction where he came from. I thought he didn’t actually know where we was and was just talking out loud. Ashly, however, didn’t decided to stay to find out. She started to run, not even waiting for me but it didn’t take me long to catch up to her. She was running to the street.

Right before we were able to make it to the road we saw a man smoking a cigarette. “Please sir, there’s someone looking for us,” Ashly whispered in a yelling voice. “Yeah he’s in the woods,” I joined in. The man holding a cigarette turns to us and raises an eyebrow as if we’re lying. “Please he’s right there call the cops,” Ashly whined as she started to cry. The man starts to walk away so me and Ashly decided to follow him. For some reason he was walking in the forest. I felt my hairs for up but I thought it was just because of the cold. The man turns back to face us when he makes it deep into the forest. “Looks like you missed two, didn’t you?” He asks. “Huh?” I asks back confused, but then I realized, he wasn’t talking to us, no he looked past us, above us.

 Just then I heard a gargled sound coming from right next to me. I turn to see what it was and it was Ashly, she had knife in her chest, blood ran down from her mouth and from her fatal wound. I try to run, and I try to scream but I didn’t get to far when I felt something dig into my back and out of my chest. I see the man that we followed into the woods light another cigarette. “Well, now we got all of them, ain’t that right brother?” The original killer asked right behind her. “Sure did,” the man in front of her said as he nodded his head. “Sure wished we could’ve kept one alive, especially this one, she’s real pretty..”