Girls' Trip by Jason Letts

Author:Jason Letts [Letts, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-01-24T00:00:00+00:00

17

Itry six-eight-three-seven again, then I try eight-six-three-seven, but the result is the same each time. The red light signals an incorrect code, preventing us from entering. I’m speechless. How could this be happening again?

I give up hope quickly, giving Taylor a chance to try her luck while I turn my attention to the dark forest around us.

That’s when I spot the glowing eyes I saw before. Could it be a deer? Are they the same ones I saw before? I don’t have the slightest clue. But I want to get away from them, and this keypad is preventing me from doing so. I’d never even picked up the oar after dropping it.

Before I can say anything, the eyes vanish, leaving nothing but darkness in their wake. I can’t hear anything over the sounds of Taylor cursing at the keypad. She puts her hands up, admitting defeat.

“Let’s go quietly,” I say, creeping around the side of the cabin as we start our second lap.

I’m not even waiting for them with their flashlights, instead stumbling forward and doing my best to recall the shape of the terrain. I take a bad step, but it’s not bad enough to roll my ankle, and from there I run blindly around to the other side of the cabin to get to the steps leading up to the screened porch.

Each step thudding up the wooden steps, I finally reach the top where there’s enough light filtering from inside to see the door handle.

I jerk my arm to get a hold of it, but as I yank it pulls me closer to the door rather than the door swinging closer to me. A little clinking conveys the unpleasant truth that the screened-porch door is locked.

My next move is to turn to Alice and Taylor, who are hustling up the steps behind me.

“Who locked this door?”

They look at me like I’ve told them they have cancer. Because apparently she didn’t learn that I wasn’t joking around with the keypad, Taylor reaches out and tries the door herself, not having better luck with it.

“Maybe Chett did it when we were inside drinking,” Taylor says.

“You can stop calling him that. His name is Wesley,” I say, and she scowls at me.

“Whatever! You know who I’m talking about.”

Alice groans, starting down the stairs with her phone’s flashlight held out in front of her.

“You know what we have to do,” she says, and a sinking feeling accompanies the regrettable acceptance that I do.

For all the speed I had while getting from the front door to here, I feel like I have lead boots on while descending the steps and trekking around to the side where Mr. Chambers’s door is.

Once again with no light in the darkest corner of the cabin, where the tall trees block the moonlight completely, we stare uncomfortably at his unadorned door. I feel completely exposed but still can’t bring myself to go through this again. And that’s before I remember how little he was wearing the last time we had to get him for help out here.

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