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Night walk

I always walk around the town in the night. People find it weird, but it helps me deal with stuff and calms me down. I remember one time my good friend Trinity was having a bad time since her family was getting divorced, so I invited her to walk with me and surprisingly she did. We would walk around each night looking at stuff and even taking a few photos. This went on for several years and on our final year of high school, we decided to bring back good memories by walking this time through the forest. It was like the old times, but this particular night was different. We walked through several neighborhoods, passed the park, and over the bridge to get to the forest. We walked through the small path in the dark and listened as the tree branches were gently shaking by the cold and windy day it was. As we made our way through several pathways, Trinity turned around and stopped. I froze and asked what was wrong. She said that there was a noise and it startled her. I was about to say something when the noise was heard again. This time I managed to hear some sort of gurgling noise coming straight down behind some bushes or trees. I watched as Trinity walked towards the sound and I followed behind her. It was so dark that I could only see the outline of Trinity even though we weren't that far. She stopped and pointed behind the bushes. I walked towards the bushes and push right through them. Nothing, but if I had walked any farther I would fallen down the steep hill. I slid down the small hill and slowly looked around as I walked around. As I was walking around, I tripped over something and landed onto the dirt. I wiped the dirt off my face and kicked the thing that tripped me. As I stood there on the dirt, I immediately noticed how soft the ground was compared to the dirt I had just stepped in.

" Paul? Can we go now? Something doesn't feel right about this place.... It's scaring me."

"Yeah, alright. I'm coming."

I didn't want to leave Trinity alone anymore so I climbed up the steep hill and we continued walking. We eventually returned home and enjoyed our last few days before Trinity moved away. A couple of months passed and I had been watching the news when the news lady said that the police had caught a dangerous killer who would go hunting for victims in the dark.

" The man who is 48 had been going at night to look for victims to kill. It is believed that the man had killed about 8 people and more are being discovered as we speak. The man had killed a young woman by the name Katie just a few months ago and her body wouldn't have been discovered if the man hadn't been startled by people who were walking around in the middle of the night. The man said that he had hid behind a few trees and watched as a boy had walked down and tripped on the woman's grave. The man confessed that he was going to kill the boy and that he almost did when he heard a girl calling to him. The boy upon hearing the girl left, but the killer followed them the whole way until they had left the forest. It is believed that the boy had tripped over one of Katie's arm and in anger kicked the arm from under the dirt, revealing her location where later a man who had been walking his dog noticed the arm sticking out."