He is coming...

It only appeared at night. When there was no light. When hope was a word that many forgot...
The sound of its claws scratching the walls was heard on the whole building...
The sound of it´s footsteps was like death itself...coming closer...and closer...

No one exactly knows what had happened...
Why they couldn´t get out of the Hotel...and why night after night they had yo survive the own personification of evil.

“John? Are you awake?”
John quickly woke up and looked at the window. Night was coming...HE was coming....

“The others are already in the room. They decided to choose one of the rooms that was on the fifth floor” said Ana, with a trembling voice.

“Hmmm...i still think it´s not worth changing rooms every night...he always seems to know where we are...”said John. While getting up from the floor.

“Yes, but you know how they are...always afraid to stay in the same room, because he might...”

“search there first...yes....but he always finds us...always...”

John opened the door and, followed by Ana, started walking towards the stairs.

“Do you still have faith, Ana? Hope that someone may come and save us?” he asked, while walking.

“Yes. Sooner or late, someone will come here and save us. And you?”

“I´m affraid i lost my faith two weeks ago....when i saw him taking Harry...”

“We must have faith, John. We must believe in God...now, more than ever”

“If God is allmighty...if God controls our fate...then why is he doing this to us?”

“God works in misterious ways...”

“Hmm...i doubt that...Do you remember our first night, in here?”

“Yes. I do.”

“What did you think, when he took James?”

“I thought it was a nightmare...i thought i would wake up, and find out that i was still in my room...in my bed...”

“Everyone thought that, i think....everyone...”

“James didn´t.”

“No one knows what James thought at that time...You know...i remember we spent an entire day trying to get out of this place. The windows wouldn´t open...the glasses wouldn´t brake....and the exit door just...”

“...disappeared. I remember how panicked we all were when we found out”

They had reached the stairs and were now going to the fifth floor.

John had been stuck on the Hotel for the last four weeks, along with Ana, and another 5 people.
John felt something was wrong when he decided to stay at the Hotel. Placed on the middle of the woods...away from civilization...
But it was a cheap Hotel, and that was what mattered at the time.
How quickly it became a nightmare...how quickly people begun to disapear....

Ana and John reached the fifth floor.

“What´s the room, Ana?”

“Room 1313”

“Oh good...that should give us some luck” said John, in a sarcastic voice.

John and Ana had begun to shake. They knew that it was almost night....they knew that in less than half and hour, he would come, and take one of them with him.

John opened the door. Henry, Brian, Bilal, Matt and Paul were already there.

“Where the hell were you?!” asked Henry.

“Sorry. I fell asleep on another room...you know that none of us will be able to sleep the rest of the night....”

“Yeah, but why didn´t you sleep with the rest of us? I had to send Ana to search for you!” said Henry again, with an angry voice.

“I said i was sorry!!”

“Come on, calm down...” said Paul

“Sorry...It´s just that...” muttered Henry.

“You´re affraid you´re gonna be the next one...we all feel that, Henry...and right now, we are all affraid...” said Brian.

John looked at the window of the room.
Night had come....

“He will arrive soon...” said Bilal, while turning on the light of the room.

“Yes...let us pray...” said Brian.

“Why? It hasn´t helped much...” said John.

“Every night is the same thing....John...we must have faith...sooner or later...” said Paul.

“Nothing will happen. We´ve been here for the last three weeks. Every night, he takes someone. Every night, he comes. And, every night, we pray...i don´t believe in God anymore...i stopped believing when...”

“...when he took Harry. We know”

“No, you don´t. You have no idea, you have no....”

“YOU´RE NOT THE ONLY ONE SUFFERING RIGHT NOW!!!”

“YOU HAVE NO ****ING IDEA HOW IT IS TO LOOSE A BROTHER THIS WAY! TO LOOSE A 12 YEAR OLD BROTHER TO A CREATURE THAT WE HAVEN´T EVEN SEEN! I PROMISED I WOULD PROTECT HIM! I PROMISED, AND.....”

“It´s not your fault, John. You couldn´t do...”

“I WAS HOLDING HIS HAND ANA!!! I WAS HOLDING HIS HAND! SWEARING I WOULD PROTECT HIM! PRAYING TO GOD! And....and....he just disapeared...one moment i was holding his hand, other moment i wasn´t holding it anymore...you don´t know how it is....”

Suddenly, the light of the room went off.

“Oh no...” muttered Bilal.

“He is coming...he knows where we are...” said Brian.

“SHUT UP!” said John.

It was dark...they couldn´t see anything...it was like if the window of the room had disapeared.
They could only heard each one of them breathing...breathing with fear....
And then...

SSSSSCCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

“Oh God...please no...” said Ana, starting to cry.

It was the sound they all feared...
The claws...scratching the door. The door was closed...but they all knew that wasn´t going to save them.

“ssshhh...not a sound” muttered John.

Ana continued to cry. John followed the sound of her breath, and hugged her.

“I won´t let him take you away. I promise you...”

Suddenly, they heard the door opening.
And a breath...that wasn´t human.

“He is here...he is here...” muttered Ana.

John didn´t know what to do. He just kept hugging her. He could heard all the others breathing.
Someone else had begun to cry. Henry, probably.

Footsteps....it had entered the room...and now it would choose...
The breath grow stronger...it started to make sounds....weird sounds...sounds that they would always connect to the word «death».

Suddenly...John wasn´t hugging Ana anymore...she had disapeared.

“NNNNNOOOO!!! I WON´T LET YOU DO THIS!!”

John started to run. He had no idea to where he was running. He couldn´t see a thing. But he would not let him take her....

“GIVE HER BACK!!! GIVE HER BACK!!!” he screamed, while running.
He could hear his breath...but he couldn´t heard abyone´s else breath...

BANG!
John crashed against a wall, and fell. His noose was bleeding.

He got up and kept running, following the breath, with his hands desperately trying to reach Ana.
She was close...he knew it...she had to be close....
Then, he grabbed something...a hand...

“ANA!! OH MY GOD!! I WAS SO AFFRAID!! I WAS SO...”

But then....he noticed something...claws..the hand had claws...

And then, he saw two big green eyes looking at him...
HE was looking at him....his breath growing faster...
He would kill him....he would take him...

“NNNNOOO!!” screamed John, while jumping back, to the floor, trying to escape him.

Suddenly, he heard something...
Footsteps...

“JOHN?! WHERE ARE YOU?!” said Paul.

John got up. The eyes had disapeared...
He was gone.
The nightmare was over...tonight.

“John? Is that you?” asked Brian, getting closer.

John quicly runned into the direction of Brian´s voice, and he quicly found him.
“Oh my God, John...we thought that...we thought that...”

“I...promised her...i...failed to protect her...and now she was taken away...”

“John...”

“I...I...failed to protect her...”

“JOHN!! I´M HERE!!”

Suddenly, he saw a light....the light from the room...it had came back..
John was in the corridor, just on the other side of the door.
Then...he saw Ana´s face.

He hugged her.

“I thought you were dead...i tought he took you....”

“No...i just...i just got away from you...i was so scared that i just got away from you and stayed in a corner....trying not to breath...” she said, still shaking.

“But...in that case...who did he...?”

“He took Henry, John. He took Henry...” answered Paul.

John felt relieved....incredibly relieved. Altough he was still shaking...

"Henry? He....he took Henry?" he asked, in a trembled voice.

"Yes. He took Henry. He left...he..."

"What part of the body did he left this time?"

"The...the head...."

John started to shake harder.
The head...HENRY´S head....it was the first time he left the head of one of his victims.
He always leaves something behind....a hand....a finger...but this time it was the head...

"I...saw it....I saw his face....I..." said Ana, starting to cry.

"Ana was the first one to see it. We got rid of it...."

"How?"

"We just hid it..."

John was about to ask where they hided the head, but he realised....that he really didn´t wanted to know the answer.

"What happened to you, John? You just started running from out of the room...what happened to your noose?" asked Bilal.

"I ran against a wall. I just couldn´s let him take Ana...i just couldn´t" said John, looking at Ana, who was still crying.

Ana looked back at him...this time, with a smile.

Suddenly, John remembered...the eyes...the claws...

"I saw him..."

"What? Who did you saw?" asked Paul, confused.

"HIM. I saw him....the...the...creature" answered John.

Everyone looked at him. They just stoood silence...looking at him...

"Oh my god...you saw him....but...oh my god...how is it? Is he really a monster? Is he...human?"

"No....i don´t know what he is....i just saw his eyes, and i touched his claws..."

"YOU TOUCHED HIM?!" screamed Bilal.

"Yes, I did"

"And you´re still alive...he didn´t kill you when you were close to him...this prooves what we always thought: he chooses who he wants to kill....we thought that he only killed the person that was closer to him....or the one that he just saw first...but it´s beyond that..."´

"But you touched him..." mumbled Ana.

"Only his claws"

"How...was it?"

"Sharp...very sharp...he could have killed me very easily with those things...he could have killed any of us..."

"However, you´re still alive"

"But what is it? What makes him choose? What did Henry have that we don´t?"

"Or maybe...what did Henry didn´t have that we do?" said John.

They all stood silence, in the corridor, for some seconds.

Ana wasn´t crying anymore, altough her eyes still had some tears...

"We better get going....Matt and Brian are still pretty scared..." said Paul, still shacking.

"Aren´t we all?" said Ana, in a low voice.

They all looked at her. She was right. They were all shacking.

Everyone got scared at that night. Everyone was affraid for their lifes on that night. Everyone was affraid of HIM...

"Well, we better get back to the room..." said Paul, in a trembling voice.

They all started walking towards the room.

"Thanks for...erm...trying to save me....altough i didn´t need to..." said Ana to John, smiling.

"Heh, anytime" answered John, feeling embarrased.

They both smiles, at each other. They were walking back to the room....but....

Suddenly, they heard a breath...

"Oh my god...no..."

A breath that wasn´t human...

"No...it can´t be...he already took Henry..."

The breath was on the other side of the corridor, where there was no light...

"No...it can´t be..."

Suddenly, they started to hear footsetps....and the breath started to come closer...

"No...Henry....YOU TOOK HENRY!» screamed Ana.

Ana started to run towards the breath. Towards HIM.

John ran after her and grabbed her.

Paul and Bilal started to run towards the room, leaving them behind.

Ana was trying to escape from John´s arms, and the breath kept coming closer...

"Let...me...go...IT´S NOT FAIR!! He already took Henry..." she said, while trying to escape.

"Calm down....please...calm down..." mumbled John, while trying to take Ana to the room.

SSSSCCCHHHHH!!!!

The claws....the sound...it was only one feet away...

Suddenly, Ana fainted.

The breath was closer....John could feel it in his face...

John grabbed Ana and started to run towards the room...

The green eyes were so close...

John entered the room...

"CLOSE THE DOOR!! QUICK!! screaned John when he entered the room.

The light was still on.

Paul closed the door.

SSSSCCCCHHHH!!!

He was doing it...on the other side of the door.

John softly placed Ana on the floor. She was still fainted.

He looked at the door....

Paul was pushing it...hoping not to let him in...he was crying...

"Please...please no...not now...not today..." he mumbled.

Everyone was just looking at him...completely paralised by fear.

They knew that he would soon try and enter the room....and then...someone would die....

John started to push the door too, helping Paul.

"Yes...not today...not now..." he mumbled.

But....he wasn´t trying to get in. He was just on the other side of the door....they could hear his breath...

"We´re going to survive this, Paul. We´re gonna get out of this place...." said John, lookin at Paul´s eyes.

And then...it stopped...the breathing disappeared...

They heard footsteps on the other side of the door....he was going away...

Paul fell to the floor...with his hands in front of his face...

"Oh my god..." he mumbled.

John got away from the door.

He was still alive...everyone was still alive...He didn´t take anyone!

"I thought that...that...i was gonna..." said Bilal, with a tear in the corner of his eye.

John knew what Bilal thought...he thought the same thing...they all did...

"Yes...we all thought that...however...we are still alive...he didn´t take anyone" said Matt.

"No...he didn´t...but WHY?" asked Paul, while getting up from the floor.

"Maybe, he just wanted to scare us...have some fun..." said Bilal.

"No...it wasn´t that" said John.

"Then, what was it?" asked Paul.

"I don´t know....and i honestly don´t wanna know what it is...why he did this....but, unfortunately....i´m affraid we might get the answers to all those questions very soon..." said John, walking towards Ana´s body.

"Why do you think that?" asked Brian.

"Because now there are few of us...he has killed a lot of people...he has chosen a lot of people...and right now, his victims are ending" answered John, sitting next to Ana´s body.

Ana was still fainted.

Matt sat next to Ana´s body too, and looked at her...

“She looks so peaceful....Should we try to wake her up?” he asked.

“No. Leaver her alone. She hasn´s slept anyrhing in days. Let her rest for a while...she´ll wake up, sooner or later” answered John.

“So...John..you think that, sooner or later, we´ll find out what´s happening? Why are we stuck here? Why he didn´t kill anyone tonight?” asked Paul.

“Yes. Like i said, his victims are over. There are few of us, now”

“And haven´t you think that...maybe...just maybe...he´ll just kill us all, with no answers. Just...kill us...for pleasure” said Paul, in a sarcastic voice.

“Yes...that´s possible....”

They all looked at him. Bilal was still shaking, and he looked at John with desperate eyes.

“I believe that, right now, we´re all thinking the same thing...” said Matt.

“What? What are we all thinking?” asked Paul.

“We are thinking that....we´re all going to die in here. He will kill us all, he will leave no survivors, he´ll just continue and...”

“STOP IT!” said Bilal, while getting up.

“Why should I? No one escaped so far. We have no idea of what´s happening. And i think that, right now, there´s no hope that we might escape this place” answered Matt.

“There is still hope...there´s always hope...” said Paul.

“No. You have hope, Paul. But i lost mine a loooong time ago” said Matt, while gettin up, looking at Paul´s eyes.

John was sitted, looking at them arguing about hope and survival. And then he realised that...he still had hope. He was still thinking that they would survive. That they would find out what was happening.

“Stop it, you two! We should stay together, now more than ever!” he said, while getting up.

“Oh yeah? And why is that?” asked Matt.

“Because only two things can happen in the next days: we die, with no answers. Or escape from here, with or without the answers. And i still think that maybe, but just maybe, the second one can happen.” answered John.

They all stood silence for some seconds.

Then, Matt started to laugh.
“That was all very inspiring, Paul. But you forgot something...” said Matt, still laughing.

“What?” asked John, getting angry.

“We might find all the answers, Paul...we might find out what the hell is happening...but...maybe he´ll kill us anyway” Matt answered.

Matt was right. They might spend the next days thinking about what´s happening. Thinking why they are all stuck there. But that didn´t mean they would survive....

“Yes, Matt. Yes...you´re right...you are one hundred per cent right. BUT, i prefer to die knowing why i died, then to die not knowing why i died. And right now, yes, we might all die. We might all get killed, But i think that if we´re gonna die...we have the right to know why” said John, in a stron and decided voice.

Matt tried to answer. He opened his mouth to say something...but he just shut up. He didn´t know what to say.

“You know...i always wondered why we´re all here. What made us come here. To this Hotel” said Paul.

“I always wondered the same thing...” said Brian.

“Yeah, me too” said Bilal.

“Yes...i always wondered the same thing...” said John.

They all looked at Matt.

“Yes...i always wondered about that” he said.

“So...why are we all here? What´s our story?” asked Paul.
“Well I just got divorced from my wife...and since she got the house, i needed a place to stay, so, i was looking for a Hotel, and i founded this one. It was cheap, and it looked good, so i decided to stay” said Matt.

“My father had just died, and i needed to chill. Get away from everyone for some time...me and my ada were really close....so, i found out this Hotel. In the middle of the woods, away from civilization...and i decided to stay here for a while...” said Paul.

“I was on vacation...i neede a cheap hotel...and i choose thie one. I thought i could explore the woods, and everything...” said Brian.

“I had to sell my house...my mother needed some money for her health-care....she has cancer...” said Bilal.

“Well, John, you´re the only one left...sice Ana´s stil fainted...” said Paul.

“I prefer not to talk about it...” said John.

“Everyone said it, John...i think it´s your turn, now...i think we have the right to...”

“Ok, ok...it all started one week before i arrived here...I received a phone call from my mother. I hadn´t talked to her in ages, since i left home....She said she wanted to talk to me, she said that Harry missed me. My dad never liked me much. And i never liked him either...But i never thought...i never immagined that he could do that...” suddenly, John stopped. It was very hard for him to talk about that...

“What is it, John?” asked Paul.

“Every night he came back home...drunk...and then he just started to hit him...each night, my brother got punched and kicked by his own father...by OUR father...and he did the same thing to my mother...He just arrived home and started hitting them” said John, with a tear running down his face.

Everyone stood silence, looking at him.
They couldn´t immagine...they couldn´t know....

“So...you ran away with Harry...” said Paul.

“Yes...I just couldn´t face my father...so, i just ran away with him...my mother wanted to stay...it´s amazing...she still loved him...And you know...i bet that if i had faced my father...if didn´t run away...Harru would still be alive...It´s my fault...” said John, crying.

“No...John...you couldn´t know...you couldn´t..”

“I KILLED HIM!I KILLED MY BROTHER!” he said, screaming.

Ana was now awake, looking at John.
She didn´t know...she didn´t know how much he was suffering...

“I´m sorry...I´m sorry...but it´s so hard....” said John, still crying.

No one know what to say....

Ana just got close to John and hugged him.

“It´s alright, John...it´s not your fault...”

“I killed him...if i had face my father...if i hadn´t run away...”

They both just hugged each other, while everyone was looking.

Suddenly, he found out. Suddenly, he knew. Suddenly, it all become so clear...

“I think i know...” said John, while he stopped hugging Ana.

“What?” she asked.

“I know what makes him choose...”

“You...know?” said Matt, surprised.

“He choosed us...by our personalyties...courage...fear...each night, he takes the weakest one. He takes the one who´s most affraid of him...It all makes sense....Henry was the most scared...he started crying on the afternoon...and he saw that...no...he FELT that...and he took him...” said John.

“You mean that, each night, he chooses the weakes one?” asked Ana.

“Yes...that´s it! That´s what makes him choose!”

No one smiled. No one showed any signs of happiness. It was only one of the answers. Only one of the pieces of the puzzle...

“Yes, yes, very nice, But...we still don´t know why are we all here. Why we can´t get out. Why this is all happening to us...” said Matt.

“Maybe he´s testing us...maybe he wants to see who can last the longest...and then, he´ll release the last one...the bravest one...” said John.

“Wait, wait...you mean that...only one of us will survive...only the best one...the bravest one will survive?” asked Paul.

“Yes” asnwered John.

They all stood silence. If John was right...then only one of them would survive...
Only one...

“So...all i have to do to survive this is....be more courageous than everyone else?” asked Brian.

“Yes...apparently, yes” asnwered Paul.

It was like a competition...the best one would live...

“No...ni...it´s not fair. I´m sick of this place, i´m sick of being affraind of this...this...MONSTER!” said John, while going towards the door.

“But...what are you gonna do?” asked Ana.

“I´m going to find him...and when i do...i´ll make him release us. I´ll make him pay!” he answered, while opening the door.

“NO! Wait...i´ll go with you...I...” said Ana.

“No. It´s dangerous. Ana, i´ve lost my brother, and i don´t want to loose you too! You stay...everyone stays....and if i don´t get back....well, then i believe you´ll be safe for the rest of the night” he said, while leaving the room.

He was scared...oh, yes, he was VERY scared.
He could die...the creature could kill him....
But he had to know...he had to see him....he had to face him, like he should´ve done with his father.
It was still night, and while John walked towards the corridor, he had very careful, walking slowly, affraid of hitting another wall. Affraid of hitting HIM.

Silence...the silence was scaring him...he could only hear his own footsteps and his own breath...
He couldn´t see anything...he couldn´t hear anything....and tears of fear were running down his face.
He had no idea where he was. But he still hadn´t reached any stairs, so he was still in the same floor.
Suddenly, his foot hit something....
A door...one of the rooms was opened...

He slowly stepped in....

He couldn´t see anything, so he just placed one of his hands on the wall, and just started to walk around the room.

There was a smell....a terrible smell...

Suddenly, his hand grabbed something....something that was on the wall...a finger...followed by a whole hand....but....one of the fingers was missing.

Harry.

John, screamed and fell to the floor. It was his brother...the corse of his death brother was on the wall...

He started to cry, while walking around the room.
Another corpse...Henry...the head was missing...
Corpses, the whole room was full of of them....corpses of people he had choose...people he had killed....

Suddenly, the lights of the room went up.

And he saw them....the corpses...his brother looking at him...from the wall...his faceshowed that he was in shock...
Gabriel, another one of the first people that died. His left hand was missing...

John started to walk backwards...he couldn´t take it...he was too scared...

Then, he hitted something.....and he heard it....the breath...the breath that wasn´t human...

He turned around...

And there he was...looking at him....facing him...the killer....the assassin...the creature...the moster...

His face was covered in white hair. His hands had the biggest claws John had ever seen. And the eyes...it was the only thing he could see through all the white hair...thos green, big eyes...
His whole body was covered in something that was a mixture of skin, and hair....John had never seen nothing like that before.

He fell to the ground.

The creature was still looking at him.
And then it spoke.....using the scaryest, stronges voice John had heard in his entire life.

“What do you want?” it asked, looking at John, who was still in the ground, shaking...

John couldn´t speak....he was too scared...but he had to be brave...he had to face him....

“I...I...I want you to free us!” he said, in a low voice.

The monster laughed. It laughed at John.

“HAHAHAHAH!!! Yes...brave...you´re the bravest one...oh yes....you´re brave...” it said.

And then, the creature screamed. The sound was terrible....it wasn´t a scream....it was a mixture of a laugh...and the sound of death...

John screamed too...of fear, and he almost fainted.

“HA! You´re not that brave...” it said.

John was giving it´s best to stay awake. He was giving his best not to faint of fear...

“I...want...you to...free us...” he said, while crying of fear.

“Hmmm...you know...i´ve been doing this for more than 52 years, now....and you´re the bravest one i´ve ever seen....amazing....quite amazing indeed...” it said.

“Please...free us...you already killed most of us...you killed my brother...”

The creature didn´t answer at first. It justs tood there...looking at John...

“Yes...the boy...you know...i do this to test you...to test your race...to test humans...”

“Yes...i know...but...WHAT are you?” asked John, facing the monster.

“I am something that goes waaaay beyond you. Way beyond your comprehension....i would have to tell you the whole story of the creation of this world, to tell you who i am....but my name is....Luciffer”

John was in shock. Luciffer...he was facing LUCIFFER. The devil himself was killing them...

“HAHAHA!! No, no...i´m not that Luciffer...there´s more than one Luciffer in the world, you know?” it said, with a laugh.

John was still shaking...still crying...

“Please...free us..”

“You are quite amazing...i don´t see this kind of stuff in Hell...”

John didn´t listen. He was giving his best to stay awake.

“I admire you....you should be proud of yourself...very well...i´ll free you...the exit door of the Hotel has just appeared” it said.

Joh got up. It had worked...he would soon be free...they would all be free...

“Thank you...” he said, while walking towards the door.

The lights of the whole Hitel had come back.

“By the way...John...he wasn´t thinking that...” it said, just before he left the room.

“What?”

“Your brother...he didn´t think it was your fault when he died...he wasn´t disapointed by you....he was thinking...how much he would miss you...” it said, with a smile that was visible through the white heair.

John stool looking at him...looking at the creature...
“And don´t worry...right now, he´s looking at you...and right now, he´s in another place...in a beautiful place...” it said.

John smiled. It hadn´t been his fault. It was no one fault...

John soon reached room 1313, where everyone was wondering why the hell did the lights come back!

“We´re free...” said John, when he reached the room.

Everyone just looked at him. They didn´t ask what had happened. They didn´t care.
They were free...and that was the only thing that mattered.

In that night they all left the Hotel.
They all left that damned Hotel...that cursed Hotel...

“Thank you, John...thank you...” they all said to John, when they left the Hotel.

Their cars were still outside the Hotel.
For a second, John thought that it was like time has stopped putsied the Hotel...and all those weeks hadn´t passed...

But then...he noticed that Harry wasn´t there.

“So...what are you gonna do now, John?” asked Ana.

“Me? Well, first of all, we´re all gonna go eat a Pizza...and after that...i think i´m gonna go back home and punch my dad” he answered, with a smile.

It was over.
The Hotel was still there, and they know that, one day, someone else would go there...and that story would repeat itself...
They all turned back and looked at the building one last time.

“I think we all agree that...it´s better if we don´t tell anyone what happened in here...” said Paul.

“Yes...no one would believe us...” said Matt.

“I don´t really know if i believe in what happened here...it looks so...” said Brian.

“I think we´re all gonna have nightmares with this...” said Ana.

“Yes...probably...well, but now we´re free...and i think we all agree on something: we need to eat something...maybe a pizza...”

“I don´t think we have money for something else, anyway...” said Matt.

They tried to laugh at that...but they couldn't. It was true, they had almost no money.

“I remember there´s a pizza, about a mile away from here...” said Paul.

“Well, then what are we waiting for? We should go get something to eat...” said Ana.

They were happy...however, none of them could smile. Knowing that someone else would, sooner or later, be trapped in that Hotel, like they were, was a thought that would stay in their mind forever. Knowing that people died there...knowing that people were killed in there...yes, they were free...altough that what happened in that Hotel would give them nightmares forever...

Someone would die there. Sooner or later.

They tried not to focuse on that...they tried to feel happy...they WERE happy...

At that moment, they were free...and at that moment, nothing else mattered.