Bride and Seek

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by mjburleson

by mjburleson

--I don't own this story--

During a wedding reception of a young couple, the guests decided to play a drunk game of hide and seek. It was decided that the groom was "it" and he eventually found everyone but his new bride. Eventually, the man became furious and decided it wasn't funny anymore and he left her there. As weeks went by he accepted that she'd had second thoughts and went on with her life, so he did the same.

A few years later, a cleaning lady dusted off an old trunk in the attic of the building that had held the reception, out of curiosity she opened it. Inside the trunk was the rotted body of the missing bride who'd, apparently, became locked in the trunk she'd hidden in.

Whether she'd suffocated or starved was unknown, but her face was frozen in a scream...