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Two friends explore an urban legend by taking a wrong turn on a bike path, but what they find may lead to no escape!
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It was an average day in the small town of Xenia. The weather was warm and humid. In the sky the sun was just beginning to set, bathing the small town in a mix of blue, orange and pink light.
Two boys, both in their mid teens, walked down one of the bike paths, holding gas station slushies. They walked and sipped until they reached the town bike hub and moved over to a shaded area for a bit of rest.
\\u201cJeez it\\u2019s hot today.\\u201d\\xa0
\\u201cNo kidding. I feel sticky and grimy too. Definitely going to need to wash up when I get home.\\u201d\\xa0
\\u201cWell then we should get going.\\u201d\\xa0
They started down the paved path, but they soon stopped when confronted by a diverging pathway. The path wasn\\u2019t paved like the rest of the trail they were on, rather this part of it led off into trees and bushes. It almost looked like a jungle to the boys.\\xa0
\\u201cWhat is this Kyle?\\u201d
\\u201cOh\\u2026 it\\u2019s just this path\\u2026 it always creeps me out\\u2026 \\u201d Kyle replied, his voice soft but his words were heavy and hung in the air between the two.
Kyle peered down the path, but to Daniel it looked like any other part of the land surrounding the city\\u2026 dirty and overgrown with wildlife, the ground covered with dead leaves and trash. Normal everyday Xenia.
\\u201cWhat about this is creepy?\\u201d Daniel asked.
Kyle turned his head away from the pathway to look at his friend. \\u201cYou\\u2019ve never heard about Patty Short Daniel?\\u201d Kyle asked.\\u201cWho?\\u201d Daniel responded.
Kyle chuckled a little bit. \\u201cYeah, I guess that would make sense. How could you have heard of it with you having only lived here for a few months now.\\u201d
He was right. Daniel had moved to Xenia in March and while his dad was quick to get comfortable in the town due to his job, he and his mother had mostly just been at home when not running errands.\\xa0
Daniel had only met Kyle since they lived on the same street, his parents electing not to have him start in a local school since the school year was almost over. As such, Daniel hadn\\u2019t really interacted with anybody else his own age.
Kyle took a loud sip from his slushie.
\\u201cWell, it\\u2019s hard to say how much of it is true, I only heard it from my friend\\u2019s older brother, but it is something really messed up.\\u201d
\\u201cThen why bring it up?\\u201d Daniel questioned before taking a sip from his own cup.
\\u201c\\u2018Because you asked about why that path freaked me out. Aren\\u2019t you a little curious? Or are you just scared?\\u201d Kyle replied, his tone still the same soft and heavy mix, but it gained a bit of its normalcy when he questioned the bravery of his friend.
\\u201cWell if you stopped to tell me then you might as well finish the story. Besides, I\\u2019m not scared\\u2026 \\u201d Daniel told Kyle.
\\u201cAlright\\u2026 alright. Don\\u2019t say I didn\\u2019t warn you.\\u201d Kyle responded before taking another sip. The two boys looked at each other and then towards the path.
\\u201cThere was this girl named Patty Short. My friend\\u2019s brother and her went to the same school together when they were about our age. Anyways I guess she started to uh, develop early, if you know what I mean, and she started getting attention from a lot of people.
Well I guess she started to lean into it and became popular\\u2026 like mega popular with everybody; boys especially. So she starts to date a lot of boys and I don\\u2019t mean seriously date, just go out with them and mess around. Time goes on, and she eventually found somebody she liked. Liked liked.
Things got intense, and while she seemed to be really happy, there were some who were totally jealous. Well one boy in particular really didn\\u2019t take kindly to the idea that this girl he was head over heels for was now unavailable, and this pissed him off royally\\u2026 and he began stalking her\\u2026 staying in the distance and trying not to be seen by her everywhere she went. Really freaky stuff.
Just before school let out for the year, Patty vanishes. Some people say they saw her around town, some say they saw her leave town one night on the bike path, but nobody knows for certain\\u2026 she just disappeared.\\xa0
Now my friend\\u2019s brother said he knew the truth\\u2026 that the boy who would follow her saw her walking one night down here and somehow got her to go down that path. They walked on and come to an abandoned house, and Patty got talked into going inside.\\xa0
Things didn\\u2019t go as planned, and when Patty tried to get away from the psycho he knocked her out, stuffed her in a rain water barrel, and buried her in the backyard\\u2026 but she wasn\\u2019t dead! Well, he kept her alive down there with just the tiniest hole for air and whatever food and water he brought her. She was now completely his.\\u201d
Kyle finished and took another loud sip.\\xa0
Daniel however stood in silence\\u2026 stunned, horrified silence. He had gone pale, and goosebumps popped-out all over his arms and legs\\u2026and his expression\\u2026 pure terror.
\\u201cYou\\u2026 you can\\u2019t be serious.\\u201d Daniel finally spoke out.
\\u201cI am. I mean as serious as I can be\\u2026 it\\u2019s an urban legend after-all\\u2026 or some crap like that.\\u201d Kyle replied nonchalantly.
There was a silence between the two, amplifying the growing cricket song as the sun sunk low in the sky.
\\u201cSo\\u2026 what happened?\\u201d Daniel asked. \\u201cWhat do you mean?\\u201d\\xa0
\\u201cLike, did they find her?\\u201d\\xa0
\\u201cOh\\u2026 I mean obviously they tried to find her\\u2026 but some people say she was dead\\u2026 or that her family had found her and kept it secret\\u2026 moved away. Most believe she may still be alive in that barrel, waiting for her boyfriend to find her.\\u201d Kyle explained.
\\u201cWhat about the boy\\u2026 did they catch him?\\u201d Daniel questioned.
\\u201cNope. Everybody knew it was him, but I guess the cops could never pin it on him.\\u201d
Silence once more fell between the two boys.\\xa0
Daniel occasionally took small sips from his drink, his stomach feeling uneasy due to Kyle\\u2019s story. It couldn\\u2019t be true\\u2026 could it? The story he had just heard was too horrific\\u2026 yeah bad things happened to kids, but he just couldn\\u2019t wrap his head around this one.
\\u201cWanna go down there?\\u201d Kyle asked suddenly. \\u201cWhat?\\u201d Daniel responded, startled.
\\u201cYou want to go down the path\\u2026 see for ourselves if the story is true or not?\\u201d
\\xa0Daniel looked on in disbelief.
\\u201cBut I thought you were creeped out by it\\u2026 why do you want to go?\\u201d\\xa0
Kyle chuckled a little bit.
\\u201cYeah, but you know what they say\\u2026 you gotta face your fears! Are you too scared to go down there?\\u201d He asked Daniel teasingly.
Daniel gave his friend a scowl and started down the path without him. Kyle chuckled again and started down the path as well.
The duo walked through the trees and overgrowth for a while, batting away at mosquitoes. By this point the light was scarce, but there was enough to see where they were going.\\xa0
Minutes passed and Daniel was beginning to think the story was simply made up, and this uneventful walk through the overgrown weeds of Xenia wasn\\u2019t helping.
But after one final stretch of bushes, the boys found themselves standing before a dilapidated house surrounded by a half-standing fence and piles of trash\\u2026 but most menacing of all were the blue plastic rain water barrels that stood at various locations in the yard.
Daniel couldn\\u2019t believe his eyes... everything Kyle described in the story was here and then some.\\xa0
\\u201cJesus\\u2026\\u201d He muttered, the slushie in his hand dropping to the ground.
\\u201cIt\\u2019s true. Everything is true.\\u201d Kyle said flatly.
The two boys looked at each other, and in a move spurred by adrenaline and youthful stupidity, began wandering the property.
They poked their heads into some of the barrels only to find them filled with brackish water. They looked at the house in unison.
\\u201cWhat do you think\\u2026 wanna go check it out?\\u201d Kyle asked his friend.
Daniel looked at his friend and then again at the building. He couldn\\u2019t believe that Kyle wanted to go in\\u2026 this was the guy who had said he was afraid of the path to begin with.\\xa0
\\u201cWell?\\u201d Kyle asked again.
Daniel found himself unable to speak. On the one hand he was scared utterly shitless and wanted nothing to do with this horror show\\u2026 but, and he hated to admit this, he was curious. He had already gone this far, why not go just a little bit more?
His eyes fell on the garage attached to the house.
\\u201cThe garage. I say let\\u2019s check out the garage.\\u201d Daniel responded sternly.\\xa0
\\u201cAlright, it\\u2019s your call\\u2026 lead the way.\\u201d Kyle replied.
Daniel gulped\\u2026 of course Kyle would make him go first. He had been egging him on for the majority of the day. As much as he wanted to leave, he had told himself he simply had to close this chapter, he had to have the knowledge if the story was true.
The young man began to move towards the garage slowly, his heart pounding faster and faster with each step.\\xa0
When he reached the garage, Daniel found himself unable to reach out and open the door. His fear paralyzed him, as his heart began to feel like it was going to burst out of his body. Standing there he could feel every inch of his body tensing up and sweating bullets.\\xa0
He forced himself to throw an arm forward and open the door with a fury.
Daniel walked inside and looked around. The floor was unpaved, only dirt and some weeds covered the surface.\\xa0
Besides some broken shelves and trash, nothing else was present\\u2026 no girls in barrels or maniac kids\\u2026 just good ol\\u2019 neglect. Daniel sighed and scolded himself for being such a scaredy-cat.
He turned around to leave, and stopped in his tracks. In a corner by the door was a chunk of earth that had been dug up. Thunderous heart pounding became the soundtrack to Daniel\\u2019s own private horror film\\u2026 one he was living in!
His brain told him to run away, but his body didn\\u2019t listen\\u2026 and unbelievably moved towards the hole'