I rummage a bit more through some of the corpses that we had already tossed out. Even then I couldn’t find it.

I thought that maybe the pigs had ripped it apart however, there are no signs of that at all. It’s almost like it just disappeared.

I pondered as to where it could have gone until I heard a voice speak up.

“My suspicions were right. Dante, I think Annabelle got rid of it.”

What?

Why was he saying that?

Curious as to why he thought she took it I asked him

“What? Why would Annabelle take it? I thought she didn’t know where it was.”

He looked at me straight into my eyes and said with dead seriousness

“On the night after the pigs attacked us late at night, Annabelle got up and walked out of the church. I think she was getting rid of the supply box.”

I couldn’t believe him, maybe I was naive, however, she just felt like a nice person to me. I couldn’t understand why she would do any of this.

As I thought this an image came to my mind that sent chills down my spine.

It was Annabelle with the head of a chameleon.

As soon as it came to thought I tried to get it out of my brain and I remembered something and told Ezra

“Didn’t you do the same thing? Jack said that you left the church at night why should I trust you?”.

A saddened look came onto his face as he looked at me and spoke

“I did. Please just trust me. I know it seems hard to but, don’t trust Annabelle or Wilson for that matter.

If you feel like that’s hard then don’t trust anyone including me.

Trust doesn’t matter when your dead”

His words resonated with me as I thought about them.

I didn’t know what to do. I wanted to trust both of them.

Ezra had saved my life before and I felt as if Annabelle was as kind and caring as if she was my mother.

‘Trust doesn’t matter when your dead’ those words kept running on a loop in my head.

I tried to think of something to say and spoke

“I-”.

Before I could get another word out Ezra put his finger to my lips to silence them and then turned me towards the door.

Annabelle was just about to walk inside.

“You guys are already done. Nice work did you find the supply box?”

she spoke as she entered. I looked at her for a second then I looked down. All I could muster was to shake my head.

A somber sigh managed to slip out of her mouth.

Could a monster have emotions like this?

I didn’t want to believe what Ezra could be saying.

She just felt so human.

Before I could steel my resolve for her humanity Ezra said

“Where’s Wilson?”.

“Oh? I left him to play for a bit so I could check up on you guys and Cheryl. Anyways, I should get back to Wilson “

She then turned the corner and disappeared behind the church door.

I looked at Ezra and tried to say

“See-”

however, he cut me off and pulled me while bringing his voice to a whisper.

He whispered to me

“She is still outside of the door look at the shadow at the front of the church.”

I couldn’t believe what he was saying I couldn’t see her shadow and we had also seen her walk away from the church. It couldn’t be true.

I then saw him point his finger at something.

I followed where his finger was pointing and I was in shock.

If you looked very closely you could see the small shadow of what looked to be a person’s foot.

I stood there stunned at the sight in front of me.

I couldn’t believe it.

As I stood there shocked Ezra spoke

“We should check on Cheryl and take a rest now. Don’t you agree Dante?”

I looked at him and could only manage to stutter

“Y-Yeah we should do that”.

As I said that I looked at the shadow and saw that it was gone.

I didn’t hear any footsteps however, there was probably only one person who it could have been.

Annabelle.

I didn’t want to believe it but Ezra was probably right.

All I could do was look down.

I didn’t know what to do.

Could I interact with her normally for the rest of the time here?

What would happen after the seventh bell ringed?

Was she human or something else?

My mind raced with endless thoughts until Ezra managed to pull me out of my head.

He put a hand on my shoulder and said

“Let’s go check on Cheryl.”

I nodded and we sat next to her as she started to wake up.

It must have been our talk with Annabelle that woke her up.

As she was getting up I couldn’t help but get lost in thought again.

I felt as if I was losing all trust. I didn’t know if I could trust Ezra either.

I felt guilty for not believing in someone who saved my life however, there was something off about him.

As my mind was deep in thought I was pulled out of my mind by the sound of a bell ringing.