A/N: Hope you enjoy the ending and a very sinister epilogue still awaits you so stay tuned.  

PS to all my shy readers who never comments or vote.. this is the last chapter so you might as well come out of you cocoon now ;) have fun. 

Chapter 19 (part two)

“So where is the breakfast little brother?”

“Right here.” Rachel gasped when she heard Derek’s mumbled scream from the other side of the door.

He knows Rachel thought to herself, she pushed her ear into the door so that she can hear more clearly.

After listening to their conversations for a few minutes, she started panicking. She was trapped...

“She’s in the bathroom isn’t she?” well now she was definitely screwed, she backed away from the door when she heard Ethan’s footsteps approaching her.

Everything went to slow motion for Rachel when Ethan’s hand touched the other side of the doorknob. She thanked the gods for the door being locked, but a loud thump noise caught her off guard.

It sounded like as someone threw away someone’s body into the wall like a rag doll. Her heart cried thinking that Derek was protecting her, she didn’t want to run away but what other choice does she have in this situation?

She can hear the fight going on in the bedroom, there was a lot of cursing, but she had no idea who was winning, so she decided to run.

Rachel took some weak steps towards the window, she could have used something else to break the glass, but she was running out of time. She broke the glass window from her elbow; she carefully tried to remove the broken pieces of glass from her hand which were still lying on the window frame and used the bathtub to support her legs in order to climb up.

She tried to slide her body as smoothly as she can, but still tiny pieces of glass pierced her body on several spots in the process, she managed to get a hold of her tears and continued the task until she was completely out.

She couldn’t help but laugh at the irony; this was the second time she was escaping from a window in this weekend, but last time it didn’t go so well.

Rachel sat still on the edge of the window while cold air was exploiting every inch of her body. Her legs were dangling in the air freely, both of her hands were grabbing onto the opposite sides of the window, she was forming a plan, on how to jump and not kill herself in the process.

She debated with her mind and settled upon a very simple theory fuck the plan and just jump.

She landed onto her bottom with a soft thump noise, the snow protected her from having any injuries, and it proved out to be a soft landing spot for her. But she did felt a little pain in her abdomen, she ignored it. Thinking it was probably nothing.

Rachel quickly got up on her feet and chose a random direction, and moved her feet as fast as she can and decided to run away from the haunted cabin, the cabin was haunted by terrible memories at least for her.

But what she didn’t know that she chose a very particular direction which will lead her to a very special place, the infamous lake for which no one bothered to give it a name since it was in the middle of nowhere and very small too, but some of Ethan’s finest childhood memories were formed there.

A few minutes later

Ethan moved his feet as fast as he can, following the trail of small footsteps. The footsteps were getting fresher by every second which meant he was catching up to her. He was at a very serious conflict with himself, he was happy since he now he knew, he was sad because he now he also knew what kind of monster he is. 

He was so close to her, he can almost feel her presence now, he was also closer to the lake, and soon he will be out of this dark forest and will meet his favourite childhood summer destination. 

This will be all worth it, he kept telling himself that. Once he will catch up to her, he will explain everything to her, he will confess every sin which he ever committed to her. It will be all okay, it has to be, what other option was there?

In a matter of few more footsteps the path became much more visible to Ethan, well for obvious reasons since small droplets of blood were now guiding him to her. His pace became much more faster, and the path became more visible by every second.

The small droplets of blood on snow soon started to form a clear trail, it was like a path created by heaven. The more closer you get, the more frightened you become. Ethan’s heart was beating out of his chest, why was there so much blood?

As soon as Rachel left the cabin she stopped at nothing, she forgot to wear her boots, so now here she was running barefoot in snow. A few minutes passed, but her mind was still with her and so was her strength.

She was panting and sweating heavily, she took a hold of a tree and used all her upper strength to keep herself standing. She placed her hands on her hips and tried to catch her breath while taking a small break.

Rachel ran her hand on her forehead to wipe the sweat off. Her mind became numb when she saw that she had just accidently covered her forehead with blood. Horrified by the sight she took a look at a pair of shaking hands dangling in front of her in mid air and both of them were covered in dark slimy blood.

Was she hallucinating? Why her hands were covered in blood, and why there was so much blood. She soon realised the source of blood was in between her legs. She clutched her stomach tight and she felt incredibly dizzy, her arm touched a sharp corner of a broken glass piece which was pierced inside her abdomen.

But still why was there so much blood in between her legs, lower half of her dress was now soaking in dark blood. Did she just have a miscarriage? She kept thinking of these questions when suddenly she became aware of the dark figure approaching her from behind.

She clutched her stomach and tried to stop the tears, my child...

But it was still not too late, maybe there was something that she can do so she started moving again. She sprinted past a few trees, but now there were no trees to hold onto.

Her eyes scanned as far as she could, but all they could see was a frozen lake. Gust of cold breeze were dancing on its surface, forming magical shapes with the help of snow above it. No sign of trees or any sort of living being around it. Its whiteness was almost too tempting to refuse.

“Rachel stop!!” a very out of breath and tired Ethan yelled from behind her. He was only a few meters away she didn’t have any more time to think.

She placed her naked foot onto the frozen lake’s surface; it was not as slippery as the surface of her high school stadium where she used to figure skate. But then again she never needed to walk on ice barefoot either, there’s a first time for everything.

And soon she was using both of her legs to carry herself away from Ethan, her foot kept slipping here and there, and the amount of blood which she lost made her really tired, as if trying to walk on ice barefoot wasn’t enough the blood covered legs made it ten times harder.

“Rachel please for the love of god stop.” Ethan tried to reason with her for one last time, but he was a brink of a mental breakdown. The sight which he is seeing is too horrible to even think about...  

He could see her wife’s small figure trying to get away from her, slipping and falling, leaving a trail of red path behind her, her naked legs were almost blue and she was not wearing any coat, her thin dress was now half red and the other half was white, he could see her suffering in front of his eyes. Her attempts of trying to run away from him were killing her.

He fell on his knees unable to take it anymore, and buried his face in between his hands. He ran his fingers through his hair and screamed one mighty roar for the last time.

“Rachel!!” the small figure stopped moving for a second and turned around to take a look at what you could call a very fragile and broken Ethan.

Her brunette locks were flowing freely in the air, she looked so pale so weak and so thin, for a second he thought this cold air will take her away from him with itself. The task of standing still seemed so much difficult for her.

She took a sharp breadth and fell to the ground before whispering Ethan’s name from her lips for one last time.

“No.” Ethan screamed and ran towards her before he knew it, he was placing her head in his lap.

Rachel was shaking uncontrollably, her legs, her whole body was shaking. She was having a seizure, Ethan just sat there trying to hold her still not knowing what to do next. He touched her cold lips with his fingers; they were becoming more lifeless by every second.

She was suffering, she was suffering a lot. Ethan touched her abdomen and wept for his unborn child, she was still shaking.

He placed a soft kiss on her lips and very slowly moved his fingers towards his belt where his gun was. He placed the mouth of the gun on her belly and gave her shaking lips one last passionate kiss before pulling the trigger.

One bullet gone

She was bleeding from her belly, but she was still alive. She stopped shaking, the seizure must be over, but soon gust of blood came out of her mouth. She was choking on her own blood.

Two bullets gone

Ethan hated doing this, but she deserved a peaceful death, not a cruel death. More blood came out of her belly but she was still alive. Ethan moved the gun’s mouth from her belly to her forehead.

Three bullets gone

And this time she was finally gone. No more pain, no more suffering...

Ethan placed the gun on the floor and took her lifeless body and hugged her with all his power. A cry of agony and loss escaped from his mouth, he cried his lungs out. He fired two shots in the air out of anger...

He lost his brother, his baby and his wife in one hour. And with one bullet still left in the pistol he rocked his bride back and forth in his lap while running his fingers through her long hair. He was unsure of what to do next anyway so why not spend just a few more last moments with his perfect bride.

This cabin and this forest watched a love story whose beginning was perfect but in the end it became so sick to watch that they will be haunted by this story forever. After all what love is without tragedy and how wonderful tragedy it proved out to be. 

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