Five Star Cabin: An addictive psychological thriller with breathtaking twists by E.K. Green

Author:E.K. Green [Green, E.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 45

Stephanie

My entire body hurts, bad. Every muscle is sore, especially my legs. The skin on my hands and feet and face is prickly and stings every time it touches a surface. A pounding, slamming, constant pressure is bulging from the inside of my skull outward in a painful headache. The worst part about all that? It all pales to the emotional pain I’m drowning in right now.

Shame burns in me. I feel like I shouldn’t exist. As if my own existence is a crime. That my only purpose in life is to be ridiculed, or to give others the satisfaction that they’re better than me. My name and personality and entire being are erased and replaced with the name of that video.

I have never felt this low in my entire life.

That’s really saying something.

It surprises me. Everything that happened to me as a kid—the animal attack, the ridicule by my high school peers, my parents’ death, and the way my grandma treated me—should be worse than this.

It isn’t.

As I lie in bed face down with a pillow over the back of my head I wonder why. Then I understand that it’s because I’ve slowly been crawling my way toward a life of normalcy. Enough people in my hometown got old enough to stop caring about the video—or they moved to other places. Plus I hear that there are new viral videos every day or week—not that I’d have any first-hand idea.

For about a week I convinced myself that I could be a normal human being existing in a normal state in the world. I allowed myself to think that I could become a real person and not a punchline. I had the audacity to attempt to exist as an individual and not a thing for the amusement of others. That—plus being free from my grandmother—gave me a glimmer of hope that my life could be worth living.

When Jenny played that video, she showed me that I was wrong. That I can’t escape the horror of my past. The hurt she heaped on me is all the worse because for a moment I knew what being normal felt like. Every shout of Tiger Bait cuts even deeper because I’ve tasted the life Stephanie Keene had.

Then there’s John. What is wrong with that man? What is he after? He tried to tell me to stay away from the lodge, and says he didn’t give me the drugs that blacked me out—but he won’t tell me why he switched our drinks. Obviously if he tried to warn me away from the lodge tonight he must have known what was going to happen, right? If I’d known that Jenny was going to do that I would have skipped dinner.

Of course I would have. He could have just said that and saved me from this horrible misery. There were moments of romantic tension between us too, or at least I felt them. It makes his betrayal even worse. I asked him over and over why he switched the drinks and he completely ignored the question.

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