The Path

You should never go an unknown place when you were warned that it's dangerous.

Have you ever been in a place you've never been before? So, let me tell what happened to me. I was relaxing, just enjoying my summer vacation at my grandparents' house. I was a hot day, and I was only enjoying the sun and having an ice cream. I was amazing. But it was too calm for me, and I remembered that my grandpa told me that when he was a child, he used to explore the city with his friends, oh, I just forgot to say that my grandparents live in the country, they always lived in the country. So, let me finish this.
And he said that they found a path through the forest, and all the people used to say that it was a path for a big lake, but the people used to say that the path was dangerous, and grandpa and his friends decided to go and see that path.
He said that it was awesome and that they had a lot of fun there. But it was a really strange place, he said that he could feel an horrible atmosphere there. And he told to don't go there, never. And he told that one of his friends got mad because of that path and that he died 1 month later. And I'm wondering, why is that path so horrible to make people get mad and die? I had to check it out.
I invited my little brother to come with me, first I said that we were going to be in an adventure, it was an adventure, but not at all. So, we just waiting 'til my grandparents went to the church and we went to see the path. And grandpa never said that it was so far away from his neighborhood. So, we finally saw the path through the forest, rounded of trees, what a beautiful place. We just started walking on the path and I could see that it was getting darker because of the trees, but it was getting colder too. I could feel the atmosphere, my brother started to bother me saying that he wanted to leave that place and go home, I told him to wait a little more 'til we arrive at the lake, but it was my mistake.
We just kept walking and I could feel something following us, it was horrible. My little brother was holding my hand all the way, and for a moment I could that he wasn't holding it anymore, and I looked at him and I saw that he was looking to something, and I asked him if he was ok, and he just said "Look" and I did look, and I just saw a shadow, but it wasn't a shadow of a person, and even an animal, it was a shadow of something unknown, both of us was scared. I whispered on my brother's ear "James, keep calm, we're goin back home now, but we have to do it silently, we can't do so much noises and even move fast, let's keep calm, ok?". He answered by shaking his head.
So, we did turn around really slowly to leave that place and go back home, this moment was a moment of fear, I wasn't giving a damn about the lake, I just wanted to leave that place as fast as I could.
We were only walking, but I could feel again that someone was looking at me and following me, and I could feel that my brother's hand was getting colder, and I decided to look back and see if the shadow was still standing behind us, but I was afraid to look, then I just took my cellphone and I tried to behind me through its screen. And I did see anything, I though that that it was all ok now, and I said to little brother that we were safe and and we were turning back. Finally, we arrive at my grandparents' house and we just arrived with them, and they asked us "Were where you?" and I answered "We went to the park and we were only playing there with the other kids" and they smiled.
Later that day, I could see that my brother was strange, he was getting pale and his skin was gettign colder, really colder, at night, while everyone were sleeping, he just woke up and started walking, but he didn't turn any lights, he didn't went to the bathroom, he was just walking, but I could see that he went to the kitchen and started lloking for something, I was hidden and only watching, then, he found a knife, and I was wonderign why he was looking for a knife? Then he started walking with the knife in hands and I could see that he was with an empty eye, he wasn't himself. And I couldn't believe, but I started to believe on my grandpa's story about his friend, what did he see that made him mad? Could it bee the same shadow we saw earlier that day?
I just gor scared and started crying, I ran back to my room and I pretend that I was sleeping, then I noticed that my brother entered the room and he just started sleeping again. In the morning, he was kinda normal, but he was strange again, and he wasn't with the knife. 2 weeks later, we were still on my grandparents' house and it was our last night there, our parents were going to take us back home. And at night, my brother did the same again, he went to the kitchen and got the knife, but he didn't turn back to our room, he went to our grandparents' room, and I got scared, what was he going to do? I decided to ,follow him, and he was stading in front of their bed and the knife in hands, and then he licked the knife and, I coukld believe, and made a cut on his arm and then tried to cut grandpa, he didn't killed him, but he tried and but made a cut on grandpa's face. I was scared and I started screaming, grandma woke up when grandpa screamed because of the cut my brother did on his face, and my grandma started to say "Why are you doing this?! Stop it, James! STOP IT!" and James just jumped on grandma and started to stare at her, he smiled and made a cut on her knee, grandma started to scream and to cry, and I just ran and called the police.
My grandpa tried to fight him, and I was only watching, I didn't help them, grandma was crying and  trying to make James stop, then James jumped again, but this time he was trying to make them confuse, the started to jump all over the room and shaking the knife, then he tried to kill grandpa again, but grandpa could defend himself and then he started to stare at him and then he asked "WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS, JAMES?" and James said "I'm not James, you know me, but I'm not James!". Grandpa was scared and started to cry. And then he said "WHO ARE YOU, WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?" and James answered "Are you sure that you don't remember me? Really?" and grandpa answered "I DON'T REMEMBER! WHO THE F**K ARE YOU?!" and James answered "Do you remember your friend, Max? The little p***y that was scared about going to see the path to the lake? The one that got mad when saw the shadow? Do you remember? So, I'm not him, but I am the one who made him mad and made him kill his entire family and finally kill himself".
I couldn't believe, I was right, it was the thing that happened to grandpa's friend, and now it's back to kill him! And James said he was going to kill grandpa now, and that he was going to kill the rest of our family. Grandpa started to cry and to scream and he tried to make him stop, and then James said "GO AHEAD, KILL YOUR GRANDSON!" grandpa just fell on the floor and starte to cry again. Grandma just fainted because of the pain on her kness.
Finally, the cops arrived, they entred the house and entered the room, and James just stopped and fainted. They took my grandparents' to the hospital, they called my parents and took James to the Asylum. It was a trauma for me. But the it's not over yet. One week after what happened, James attacked and killed 5 nurses at the Asylum and killed the Doctor who was taking care of him, and then he killed himself.
Grandpa told us what happned to his friend and that what happened at the night that James tried to kill him. But I didn't tell that I took him to the path. I know that it's all my fault and and I'll probably be next to attacked by the force that made James mad like grandpa's friend.
Now, 10 years later, I have a career and I husband, and we have a child coming, I'm so happy, and I'll protect him or her forever and never let something try to hurt him. I hope that it doesn't try to follow and over with my hapiness, but that unknown force, that obscure thing will probably find me and try to get me too, but until it find me, I'll live my life as much as I can with my husband and our child.

Author's Note

The story doesn't have a really good ending, but just lost my ideas LOL but I tried to do something creepy for the end xD Hope you like it

Reviews

[Emunah June.]

Hueh...well that was...intense. O_O

So lemme get this straight...the little brother saw something in the woods that made him go crazy? I see, I see. And the speaker...was it a female or a male? I'm assuming it was a female since you said she had a husband and was expecting a child.

Anyhow, I really like the creepiness of it all, not to mention there was gore all over the place which, as you know, I'm quite the fan of. You should write more short stories like these, it was really good :D

[Orlando Junior]

Yep, it was a girl xD
And thank you, I wanted to make it intense xD