The Loop //Horror\\

The Loop - 3

Ivan and I took off running back outside to the car. The figure chased directly behind us, knocking everything in it's pathway down. "DARREN!! SONNY!!" I yelled out to the others, hoping they could hear me.

Ivan and I kept running, becoming closer and closer to the door. THUD!!
I whip my head around to see Ivan on the ground, holding his arm in agony. I immediately stopped ready to go back and help him until the damn figure grabbed ahold of him and just dragged him into the dark void behind us...

"AHH!!" That was the last thing I heard from him until he vanished with the figure. "IVAN!!!" I yelled out for him, but of course I refused to go inside of that void. I got no response of course, so I ran out to the others.

"GUYS!! IVAN- HE- THE THING! THE FIGURE!!" I yelled, just mixing up my words. Darren stuck his hands out in front of me, grabbing my shoulders. "Bro! Slow down! Just- calm down!" I must've ran for a while or I just got bad lungs cause boy was I outta breath.

"Okay...are you good now?" Darren calmly asked and let go of my shoulders. I nodded my head. "Ivan...he was taken." I tried my best to stay calm while telling this tragic ass story that they probably wouldn't believe. "Taken? By who?" Sonny slowly approached the conversation.

"I don't know!" My tone became aggressive, but I truly didn't mean it. I was just panicked at the moment. "What did they look like." Darren hopped in. "Well...me and Ivan were just grabbing some snacks and food until this weird ass black figure just- appeared and started chasing me and Ivan!"

I could hear Sonny silently laughing in the back while Darren gave me this weird look. "And...where is he now? Hiding somewhere until this prank is over?" Darren replied. I just stared at him with a dirty expression.

"Ya'll think I'm lying? After all of the bullshit we just witnessed and you think I'm fucking joking?!" I clenched my fist tightly as if I was ready to punch the shit out of both of them.

"Alright man, it's just a joke." Darren placed his hand on my shoulder, but I immediately threw it off. "Well, I'm not fucking joking bro!! That's my best fucking friend!! We need to get our asses in there and help him!!"

Darren threw his hands up. "Alright, alright, chill! Let's just go then!" I slowly shook my head, turning around as Sonny asked, "Soo...that gas station looks like it ain't got no power on. How we gonna see?"

I responded, "I still have Darren's phone. Ivan charged it up a bit before we came here." Darren nodded his head. "Alright then, let's go." "Fuck yeah! Ghost hunting!" Sonny yelled. Darren slapped him in the back of the head.

We slowly entered the store once again. Of course I had to lead the way cause these dudes were just scaredy cats. Sonny gasped. "Dudee! These are my favorite chips!" I glared back at him while Darren kept observing around.

"So..which way did it 'take' him?" Darren made those quote marks with his fingers. "Like I said, I'm not joking about this. I couldn't see that well since it was real dark." I responded, annoyed.

"Hey, what's this?" Sonny asked. Darren and I turned to where Sonny was. He stood next to some random door. We both slowly approached the door, Sonny grabbing ahold of the knob. Luckily, it wasn't locked.

We carefully examined the area behind the door. Darren noticed some flight of stairs leading down as if it was a basement. "This must be the basement." Darren said. "Should we go down?" Sonny asked, standing right by me. Boy, oh boy did his breath strongly smell like alcohol.

Darren looked back at us, me slowly nodding my head while holding my breath. All of us slowly crept down into the basement with Darren first, me second, and of course Sonny last. The basement was slightly flooded with water.

"Ya'll hear that?" Darren asked while carefully placing one foot in the water. "Yeah...sounds like someone weeping." I replied, right behind him. Once all of us made it down, we carefully examined the room. "Hey, shine the light over there." Darren said.

I did so, shining the light to the area he was pointing to. It was a person sitting with their head in there lap, crying. "What the..." Sonny whispered. "Hey...are you alright?" Darren asked.

The crying stopped, the person slowly lifting their head. I could finally make out the face of the person. "Ivan?!" I tried my best to keep my voice low. "Guys..?" He quietly responded. "Bro! C'mon before that thing comes back and kills us all!" Sonny said.

Ivan slowly got up, the bottom part of his body wet from the water. He walked towards us, limping slightly on his right leg. "Hey, wait...what's up with your right leg?" Darren pointed out. Ivan looked down at his leg.

"Yeah...I thought it was your left leg that was fucked up?" Sonny included. "...Are you guys okay? Did y'all drink to much or something?" Ivan replied. "Hey, I know I drank a bit, but not that damn much to be seeing this type of thing." Darren said.

"Can we just...go? I'm cold as hell and of course fucking traumatized." Ivan sighed. I gestured for us to go. We all quietly walked back up the stairs. "Shouldn't we grab more before we go? We might be on the road for a while, y'know." Sonny mentioned.

"Yeah, sure." Darren nodded. We all grabbed a few more things, stuffing them into the leftover bags that sat behind the counter. Finally, we made it back inside of the car somewhat safely. "Sorry I'm getting your seat all soggy." Ivan said, buckling himself in.

"It's alright man. Y'all got the gas, right?" I turned to the back where Sonny and Darren sat. They both nodded their heads. I buckled myself in, placing the key in the ignition and turning on the car.

We took off back on the clear road, just driving anywhere until we hopefully ran into some type of people or buildings. We were driving for a while in silence which was very unusual. I glance over at Ivan who was still wide awake just staring directly in front of him.

"Yo..you good? I know how you don't like to sit in silence and all..no music?" I asked Ivan. He slowly shook his head, not even looking over at me. The silence sat for a bit before I said, "You've been acting a bit different ever since..that happened. I know it was scary and all, but you're just different?"

Ivan immediately responded with, "I'm fine like I said." His tone sounded a bit...aggressive like how mines was earlier. "Alright bro. Just askin." I say. The silence grew once again and stayed like that for the longest.

Sonny groaned, "Broo..I'm never gonna get home man." Darren stared over and said, "I don't think any of us are, dumbass." I glance over at Ivan again who was still sitting in the same position for like an hour.

"Darren?" I asked. "Hm?" He responded. "Time check?" I asked again. Darren looked at his phone then back at me. "It's still 3:25..?" I looked at him with a concerned look in the rear view mirror. "And...you're lying, right?" "I'm dead serious! Look!" He handed me the phone.

"This gotta be a joke." I chuckled to myself, nervous. "Alan said he's very upset with us.." Ivan whispered. "Huh?" I look at Ivan who I couldn't clearly understand. Ivan looked at me with a confused expression. "What?"

"Did you say something?" I asked, also completely confused. Ivan shook his head, finally changing positions and leaning on the door. "No?" I glue my eyes back onto the road. "Okay then..."

Shit, was I going crazy or did I really drink that much? I tried not to think too much about it since I'm driving. "Alan..." Ivan chuckled. "Yo, what?" I know I heard him this time.

"What?" Ivan played dumb once again. "I know you said something so just spit it out bro. You're pissin me off." I stated, very annoyed. Ivan just stared at me before grabbing the wheel, causing me to swerve the car...

Hello! This is here to apologize for not posting at all last week. Some unexpected things happened in which I wouldn't be able to post at all. Again, I am very sorry. The next chapter will be posted tomorrow!