She let out a blood curdling scream, slamming on the pedal to reverse backwards at blinding speed that made me grip onto the inside side of the car door. A grinding noise shrilled at the top of the car; the headlights suddenly blocked by a large creature that drove his claws into the front of the hood. I let out a scream as we could hear the front half of the car lowering, a low groaning of the engine as the heavy creature brought its claws over the hood of the car.
Ashley suddenly slammed on the brakes, forcing the creature forward and off the car. Before she had time to ram the car over it, the creature jumped straight into the window which created crazed lines over the glass surface.
“He’s trying to break in,” Ashley fretted, and had no choice but to reverse the vehicle again. The creature stalked us, the bright headlights revealing its whole frame.
“It’s a wolf,” I mouthed aloud with fascination. “A wolf!”
“He’s huge,” Ben breathed out with amazement.
“And he’s trying to kill us!” Ashley screamed out to bring us back to reality. “Let’s get out of here.” She did a sharp U-turn while reversing, letting the wolf fall back into the endless darkness once the headlights shone away from him.
She hit the brakes to set the car in drive, but her sedan got slammed into again from the rear right corner, making Taylor scream out when he realized the creature was so close to him. The back half of the tire leaned backwards and into the right, the sound of air bursting out of the tire set us into a state of alarm. The car was hit on the side again, making Ben cry out in terror as he realized we were trapped.
“Anyone have a gun?” Ashley screamed out, since she was the only one still in the right frame of mind. “I think we have a flat.” The car heaved to the left suddenly, it was clear the wolf was trying to break in.
“Let’s get out now before it is too late,” Ben suggested. “We can still make it inside.”
“Are you mad?” Taylor screamed out. “It will kill us all before then.”
“I didn’t reverse that far,” Ashley pointed out. “Sara, are you in?”
“I’m staying,” I said with a terror-stricken voice, hating this thing that continually rubbed the front of his head against my side of the car window. “I don’t understand. What does it want from us?”
Taylor’s couldn’t hold back his sarcasm as he pointed out, “this is what you get for dressing up as Little Red Riding Hood.”
I turned sharply in my seat, and yelled out, “I swear to God if that thing doesn’t get you first—”
A loud howl shrilled in front of us, making the hairs over the back of my neck rise so much that I turned to look at the enormous wolf next to my car window. The creature growled low as he crept its way to the back of Taylor’s seat, making him tremble with nerves as he felt the eyes of the wolf pay attention to him.
“Taylor …” I mouthed out with worry, before the creature rammed itself into his side of the window. The car heaved high into the air, making me think we were about to tip over.
“Get out!” Taylor screamed with a hard push against his boyfriend. “Get out!” He screamed at the top of his lungs, forcing Ben to unlock the door and sprint outside with his plastic sword flinging in his hand.
“Ben!” Ashley screamed out with horror, but she was too late, her brother was sprinting into the darkness of the night. The wolf growled out aggressively, making us all scream as we watched it stealthily walk around the back of the car.
“He’s coming through the open door,” Taylor yelled out, and quickly scampered to the left side of the car to shut it. “Stay out,” he demanded after he slammed it shut, which only provoked the wolf into a state of anger. “Let’s go through the other side.”
“Ben is out there!” Ashley cried. “Help him!”
“I’m trying,” he grunted, and then moved to his usual seat before he pried it open. “Argh!” he screamed dramatically as he burst through the open door and sprinted out as fast as he could towards our cabin.
“They don’t have our key,” I suddenly realized, as I moved backwards to desperately try and reach for Taylor’s open door.
“Sara,” Ashley uttered with pure misery, only for me to look over my shoulder to see the wolf was standing dead ahead of the vehicle with the car headlights illuminating his face. “The wolf is looking at you.”
“Shit,” I mouthed under my breath, before I crawled over the car seat to make my way into the back. I shut the door before the wolf realized it was wide open and locked it with a satisfied grunt. “Okay, now what?”
“We can’t drive.”
“They are out there,” I reminded her.
“I know that!”
“We have to let them into our cottage.”
“They have a key for theirs,” Ashley reminded me as she watched the wolf unhurriedly make its way to my side of the car door. “I only hope they can find it in the darkness.”
“And the fog,” I reminded her as I kept my eyes on the wolf that was hovering low over the ground with its eyes intently on mine. “What does he want?” The wolf pressed his nose against the glass window, sniffing it curiously with his eyes solely on mine. There was something wrong with this picture, why was all his attention on me.
“A surprise attack would be great right now,” I muttered under my breath, but I knew Taylor and Ben were not the type to do that. I was almost certain that not even Ben’s knight in shining armor costume was enough for him to come back here and save us, even if he did have a plastic sword. “What should we do?” I moaned out in misery.
“The wolf wants you,” Ashley whispered from the driver’s seat.
“What?” I mouthed out with disbelief. “No, it doesn’t.”
The wolf turned away, and then began to circle around the car slowly. I kept my eye on him, taking in the darkness of his fur whenever he passed the front headlights of Ashley’s car. I could tell he was waiting, buying his time, but I wasn’t sure why he was so interested in me.
“You think the boys will call the police?” Ashley inquired.
“And tell them what … a gigantic wolf is out attacking people?”
“Sara?”
“No one is going to believe us,” I protested.
“We have proof,” she shot back. “My damaged car.”
“Relax, at least it’s not your life.”
“Says the one that is attracting wolves out of nowhere.”
“It’s only one,” I argued back, after I reverted my gaze to the uncommonly large wolf. “I don’t think it wants to hurt me.”
“It wants you.”
“I’m not sure why …” I laid my hand against the glass in front of him and watched as the wolf raised his head to sniff at the glass surface that stood between us.
“What do you want?” I demanded, unsure why this creature was so fascinated with me. “Why are you so desperate to get inside of here?”
“I say we split,” Ashley proposed. She offered me a false smile once I turned my attention to her. “Or do you want to stay here all night?”
“Yes.”
“Sara, it’s cold.”
“It is better than being eaten to death.”
“It won’t do that to you.”
“How can you be so sure?”
“I don’t know.”
“I’m not leaving this car until it is safe.”
She rubbed her finger over her bottom lip and then dropped it against the steering wheel. “I’m going to risk it.” She took the key out of the ignition, setting the whole parking lot into darkness. “Are you coming or not?”
“Ashley?”
“It didn’t chase after Taylor or Ben.”
“Yeah, but …”
“It stayed here.”
“Yes, but that doesn’t mean we will be as lucky as them this time.”
“I’m going to risk it.”
“Based on a hunch?” I reminded her. “Don’t be—”
“Are you coming or not?” she interjected.
“Damian could come rescue us,” I suggested in vain. “Maybe the boys ran down the hill to his cottage.”
“You can’t be serious right now, Sara,” my friend complained. “Damian?”
“He has guns,” I pointed out. “Knives.” I raised my hands in the air helplessly. “I know he would do anything to protect me.”
The car rocked beside me, making me revert my attention back to the wolf that backed up a little before it struck his body against the sturdy car door. He started to growl out angrily, snarling on the other side of the car door since he could not break in. I sensed his desperation and slid over to the left side of the car seat to create some distance.
“Damian isn’t coming!” Ashley yelled out. “We saw him run into the woods.”
“Your brother did,” I reminded her. “Which is a lie.”
“Why would my brother lie to you?” she remonstrated, before the car rocked harshly to the left again. “If we don’t get out now the car will be tipped over and then we are screwed.”
“It’s fine.”
“I’m leaving.”
“Ashley!”
“3 … 2 …”
“No!”
“1!”
“Noooo!” The door cracked open and I watched in horror as Ashley sprinted out of it, she ran around the back of the car, attracting the wolf’s attention and he sprinted after her.