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Someone else lunged through the wooden slats.

I screamed and jerked away.

Another worker came from the opposite side.

For a few seconds, there was nothing but screaming and laughter and the roar of the chainsaw.

Then my friends hand slipped from mine.

He was gone.

“Hello?

A scream came from somewhere behind me.

Charlie.

The lights went out.

“….Hello?”

A red bulb flickered on.

I wasn’t alone.

He stood at the other end of the barn.

The mask.

Every bit of fear I’d felt seconds ago changed.

My pulse didn’t slow.

It just started beating faster for a different reason.

I glanced behind me.

No sign of Charlie.

When I looked back, the masked man was closer.

I swallowed.

“Did you do that?”

Nothing.

“Because if you had your creepy ass farmer friends kidnap him-”

He took another step.

I smiled.

“I told you.”

Another one.

“I’m not running.”