Vlad

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"Melanie!"Jord shouts, trudging through the woods as the rain poured down.

Because of the rain, he was having trouble tracking her scent.

His ears morph into points as he tries to listen for her.

"Melanie!"he shouts.

He releases a labored breath as he looks in the direction of the trash shoot.

"I'm gonna kill you."he huffs before walking in that direction.

....

Jord could smell the trash already. He covers his mouth and nose as he walks towards it, seeing a ghostly figure standing before it.

Once he realizes it was Melanie, he takes off towards her.

"Melanie Jesus Christ! What are you doing out here?!"he shouts as he gets to her, immediately taking off his jacket and wrapping it around her.

She stares blankly down into the trash shoot before looking up at him.

"Don't you hear it?"she asks, pointing down the trash shoot.

"Come on, your lips are blue let's get you home and get you warmed up."he says, trying to pull her along.

"The rain flooded the shoot. There's no garbage."she says.

"I can still smell it, and you're going to freeze if we stay out here come on!"he huffs, begining to walk back towards the house.

Suddenly, he hears a splashing sound and instantly he looks back.

He sees his jacket on the ground before the shoot where Melanie was standing.

"Oh my god."he says before running to the shoot and looking down into it.

The smell hits him like a truck, and he instantly backs away, gagging.

"Melanie!"he calls.

"I'm okay!"she calls from the shoot.

"Jord! There's a bricked up door down here!"she shouts.

His curiosity peaks and he looks down into the shoot, covering his nose.

.....

Melanie

I didn't know how I ended up at the trash shoot. My feet seemed to have brought me here.

My feet also decided it was a good idea to jump into garbage water.

But finding the edge of this bricked up door felt good. I knew something was down here.

"Is there any writing?!"Vlad calls.

I hear slight humming coming from the wall, and I gasp.

It was the song. The same song Rosalie was humming the entire day.

"J-jord, I think there's someone in here?"I say, looking up.

I hear Jord groaning, walking around in circles as if he were trying to convince himself to jump.

"Alright. 1. 2. 3."

Then Jord comes hurling down from above, splashing into the water.

He surfaces and takes a deep breath, and then instantly gags.

"Jord come help me."I say.

"Oh my god! What are we doing down here! Uhg it hurts."Jord bellows.

"Shut up and help me!"I demand as he wades over to me.

He finds the ancient bricked up door and runs his hand around it.

"Strange. This wasn't here when I dug out this pit."Jord breathes.