hashtagafreakingghost: or time to think things through (tomorrow's not a new day)
Ashley Brown ([personal profile] hashtagafreakingghost) wrote in [personal profile] callbacks 2016-03-05 08:59 am (UTC)

[text] this got long

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it wasn't always like this but as of a year ago we had this little group
me, Chris, and Josh, our friends Sam, Mike, Emily, Jess, and Matt, and Josh's twin sisters Hannah and Beth
some of us were closer than others. I mostly hung out with the guys
I'd known them since I was like ten and they were my first really long-term friends anyway
but we spent all of high school together
the ten of us
hanging out in different groups and getting along in various ways
and dating oh boy
Emily and Mike were like
the It Couple
always
but Hannah she
she always had a crush on Mike
I don't know why
maybe it was his charisma or his looks or something
Mike's always been a bit of a dick

but Hannah was head-over-heels
we all knew
it was obvious
like me and Chris obvious apparently
anyway each year Josh and his sisters invited us up to this mountain lodge in Canada their parents owned
Blackwood Pines on Blackwood Mountain
Mt. Washington we liked to call it
I started going when I was thirteen and slowly the whole group was invited
it was a big fun thing we'd all do together
the older we got the less supervision we needed until it was just us kids which was always much more fun

in the weeks leading up to it I got this text
from Jess
we all kind of
had this THING where we'd play pranks on each other
it was just fun and we were all good at it in various ways
and Jess said this next one would be great and it would fix a lot of the growing tension between the group
because Hannah's little crush was CUTE but it was making things weird
and it'd all be good fun
she'd understand
she was our friend

so Jess' plan was
me, Jess, Emily, Mike, and Matt were in on it
once Josh and Chris passed out from drinking like they ALWAYS did
because there's no way Josh would be okay with this and Chris is just
too good
we'd leave out a note for Hannah to meet Mike in one of the unused rooms in the lodge
the rest of us would hide
Jess and Emily just watching
Matt filming
me helping him hold the damn selfie stick
Mike would throw her this line and before it went too far we'd reveal ourselves and ha ha there it is Hannah we got you good
and show her the video
it was supposed to
I don't know
show her that she was being ridiculous or something
it was stupid

Hannah was always a sensitive girl
I knew this
and still I didn't want to
I don't know
rock the boat
make waves
I thought
it'd be awkward and weird for awhile
but it'd fix everything
I didn't think she'd take it that bad because I was
because I just wanted everything to be fine
so I pretended it'd be fine
and if we did this then Hannah would get over Mike and we could all keep being friends and things wouldn't get WEIRD

obviously that didn't happen
Hannah found out and was devastated
she ran out of the lodge sobbing
and Beth saw and


yelled at all of us
and then ran after her
it was snowing so hard that night and Sam said there was no way Hannah would want to see MIKE of all people or any of the rest of us and we just waited for Beth to come back with her and





they never came back
josh woke up a few hours later and i had to
i tried to tell him and he was so angry and
we spent the whole next day looking
the day after that
took off time from college
but we never found them
the rescue parties never found them


i didn't know until now they were dead but
em she
this year when she
she got stuck in the mines when everything started going
bad
and she found evidence that
they died down there
because of what we did



sorry that was long i just
all at once
fuck i'm such an asshole

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