The Cabin
"Ugh Please! Pretty Please! Can we just stay here forever and not go back to work tomorrow!" Laurena asked Devon as she walks towards the front door. "I wish! Hmmm, what do you think Indie?" Devon turns to Indie, Indie who is already smiling, holding her pacifier. "See even Indie agrees" says Laurena. "Yeah, well she doesn't pay the bills, I'm telling you right now when she turns two, I'm bringing back child labor." replies Devon as he picks up Indie and cradles her in his arms. "MOM!" a faint yell comes from outside the house near the Jeep. "MOM!" once more, "AYE COMO CHINGAS! What now?" Laurena yells at their oldest child Derrick.
"The cars not open!"
"Ok well, wait for me to get there to unlock it."
"But Mom, it's HOT outside!"
"Ok well be patient so I can get th-"
Snap
Derrick pulls on the handle. "Derrick wait for me to get the keys I s-"
Again, Derrick pulls the handle, Smack
"DERRICK, I SAID WAIT!" Laurenas raises her voice at Derrick. "SMACK!" A third time the handle slams back into the door. "DERRICK!" Laurena rushes towards Derrick, pulling his arm away from the door and spanking him on his hand. Derrick tried pulling away from his mother. "Derrick stop! Don't misbehave! I told you to stop, you have to stop! If you don't listen, you get spanked." Derrick looked at his mom turned away and tried pulling once more. Laurena turns Derrick and spanks him once more with a little more force to get his attention. "Derrick! I said stop misbehaving I don't want to hit you!" Derrick turns to his mom; angry he stares at her. "You have to listen Derrick. you can't be doing things when I tell you no."
"HMPH." Derrick sighs with resistance. "You have to start listening to me, ok? I love you and I don't want to hit you. You have to wait mijo before trying to open the door when its locked, that's how you break it ok?"
"Fine, it's just hot outside don't know why you take forever."
"We have things to do too Derrick. We have to make sure everything is clean before we leave, you know that already."
"Fine."
Laurena opens the door to let Derrick inside the back seat. Devon walks out with indie in his left arm and the bag of snacks for the road. "Ok ok, are we all ready to go?" he looks towards Laurena. "Yeah, we should be good! Phones are plugged in, you have the snacks, all bags should be in the back, seems fine to me."
"Ok good don't feel like making a U-Turn midway thru the drive." Laurena walks to the passenger side and sits in the car, Devon fasten indie in the back seat next to Derrick. "I'm going to need you to watch Indie ok Derrick?"
"Ok, but I don't want to touch her poop."
"Don't worry that's your moms' job" Devon laughs as he looks towards Laurena.
"Yeah, says your dad now till he gets in the mood and ass is the only thing he eats" Laurena whispers under her breathe. "What did you say Babe?" says Devon.
"OH, nothing don't worry about it"
"Yeah, that's what I thought."
"Excuse me what did YOU say?" Laurena replies back with lightning quick speed, "OH nothing babe I love you is all" Devon replies back with a laugh. Devon closes the back-side door and walks towards the driver's side, reaches into the car, and begins to turn the ignition, the engine begins to start then before the car can turn, Devon stops twisting the key.
"I have to go to the restroom really quick don't start it I'll be back" Devon rushes back inside leaving the car's battery on. "OH yes Air." says Laurena.
"You don't have to pee do you Derrick?"
"No, I'm fine"
"OOOOKKKAAAYYYYY" says Laurena knowing that Derrick is still angry and that's the reason he is saying no.
"Well stay in here with your sister, ok? Ima go inside really quick to use the restroom too."
"1 or 2?"
"Just stay in here with your sister little trouble maker." Laurena laughs as she walks back towards the cabin. "Put on something good, ok?"
"OK!" Derrick replies getting out of his seat and climbing to the front to get his mom's phone to play music.
Laurena walks back through the front door "Babe are you going one or two?"
"I'm going..." he pauses "Just give me like 2 minutes I promise."
"Ok well hurry the kids are in the car and I have to pee, I want to sleep the rest of the way." she yells thru the door for Devon to hear. "Ok Ok just let me take care of this real quick."
"Ok hurry." Laurena says to Devon as she shakes the handle. "STOP!" says Devon. "You better leave me alone! You don't like when I do it to you don't do it to me!" Devon laughs. Laurena shakes the knob one more time. "SEE! That is exactly where he learns it from! Monkey see, Monkey Do!"
"OH, whatever hurry up Devon pinch it or twist it let's go! I have to pee!" Laurena tells Devon with a sterner tone. "Fine I'm almost done! Let me just wipe!"
"Ok hurry." replies Laurena while moving side to side to distract her from the thought of peeing.
"MOM!" Once again Derrick yells from the car. "What Derrick?"
"There's a rabbit in the car!" Derrick yells to his mom little more scared. "MOM THERES A RABBIT IN THE CAR!"
"What do you mean there's a rabbit in the car?" Laurena curious to see if Derrick is acting up again makes her way to the car. The toilet flushes and sink starts flowing.
"What did you say Derrick?" Devon opens the restroom door "I Thought you had to-"
"OH MY GOD DERRICK STAY IN THE CAR!" Yells Laurena. "What's going on?" asks Devon
"LOCK THE DOORS! DONT OPEN THEM DO YOU HEAR ME?" Laurena slams the front door and locks the bolt, rushing up the stairs towards second story room. Devon completely stuck in confusion, "Babe what's wrong? What are you doing?" Laurena rushes past him and turns the corner of the stairs, Devon chases after her out of breath, "Why are you on the balcony?"
Devon walks up to the balcony and notices Laurena kneeling on the floor staring over the ledge, tears pouring down her face, hands gripping the wooden edge. "The rabbit." she says, almost inaudible. "Wolves." Devon slowly walks over to the ledge of the balcony. Wolves began to surround the Jeep; the rabbit had attracted them for a hunt. "He must have... he must have jumped in when I got out." says Laurena. Devon in complete shock stays silent as he is helpless to run out to his children.
"Our ... kids." he stammers. Laurena jumps up and walks towards Devon placing her hands gently on his face "They are safe, ok? Devon look at me they are safe as long as they stay inside the car, ok?" Devon stammers thinking of what words to use to put into words the fear he was overcome by. Devon reaches for his front pocket and fumbles around, "Where... where is my phone..."
The sudden realization fell upon them both. They had left everything in the car with the children. "OMG, Derrick! Everything is with Indie and Derrick inside the car!" Devon rushes inside the room grabbing anything he can along the way to scare off the wolves. Blood rushing through their veins, the parents began to think of anything they can to distract the wolves from the children.
"WHAAA!" Indie begins to cry among the ensuing chaos. The howls and scratching getting louder, the parents frantically running across the balcony screaming. "INDIE!" Laurena screams. Panic starts taking over Laurena.
"Stop Indie!" comes from the car "Stop crying Indie or else."
Devon looks towards the car barely able to make out what's going on inside with the glare from the falling sun. "Derrick?!" calls Laurena "I said stop crying Indie you have to listen to me." Devon still trying to avoid the glare can barely make anything out beside shadows. "Derrick what's going on?"
"It's ok I'm just trying to get Indie to listen and stop crying."
Derrick turns to Indie inside the car, sweating and flustered both red in the face, and raises his hand "SMACK" Derrick slaps Indie on her arm. "I said stop Indie, stop crying or else! You have to listen to me." Indie Cries louder from the slap from Derrick. "Derrick STOP!" Yells Devon. "Stop Derrick don't do that!" "But she has to listen to me dad!" Laurena's motherly instincts start to become overwhelming "JUST LEAVE MY CHILDREN ALONE!" Laurena is yelling voice hoarse veins pulsating out of her temples. "Derrick!" yells Devon "Derrick! Put my jacket over your sister!"
"A jacket dad?'
"Yes, a blanket! Anything! Anything you can find!" Devon rushing back towards Laurena "It's ok sweetheart think! We have to think! Calm Down" Devon pulls Laurena towards him breaking out her trance. "Water Anything!" Devon says to Laurena "Anything heavy quick!"
Laurena and Devon rush inside looking around for anything they can use to scare the wolves. "STOP CRYING INDIE!" Yells Derrick from the car, as he looks around for another jacket or blanket to put over his sister. "Derrick! Let her be! We are coming!"
Derrick still searching for more and more things to toss over Indie to get her to stop crying. Pulling every piece of clothing he can find in the bags. Smothering her with anything he can find. Indie frantically trying desperately to take everything off her so she can gasp for air. "It's ok guys!" derrick yells from the car. "She isnt crying as much anymore."
Both parents too busy rushing from room to balcony and back, bringing chairs, pots, drawers, anything they can throw. One after another furniture flies over the edge. "It's OK GUYS!" Derrick says again. "She isnt crying anymore."
"We are coming derrick!" A chair lands on top the animals, another hit by bottles. The Wolves trying desperately one last time to get inside, trying to find any way to get their prey. At last, with one last look at the parents on the balcony the wolves ran off into the bushes. "Quickly! Hurry before they come back!"
Devon and Laurena rush back down the stairs making their way to the front door. Jumping over the broken mess and glass, they ran to the car doors and pry them open. "Please tell me you guys are ok!" Laurena looks at Derrick. "I told you it's fine you guys! The blankets and jackets worked!"
Devon turns towards a pile of clothes on the seat. "Derrick what do you mean it worked?" Devon shaking with every muscle in his body starts taking every piece of clothing one by one. "Yeah! Dad said put a jacket or blanket over Indie when she is crying to get her to stop so that's what I did."
Laurena's body went cold, her arms weightless, every breathe of air she takes feel as cold as ice. "Oh....m...m...my....g... god..." Indies little two fingers began to stick out of the pile of clothing, still and not moving.
The rabbit jumps from the back and out the door with his chance to escape. A twig breaks in the bushes behind the jeep. A shiver runs down Laurena's spine. "It's ok mommy the bunny is gone."