[He probably should've figured out how to start, but maybe it's best that he didn't plan too much. Maybe it's better to just talk.]
This is... Gonna be long.
[Some parts he can abbreviate a little, but he's still going to end up kind of rambling a bit.]
So uh... Josh and I have known each other like, ten years. And I knew his twin sisters Hannah and Beth too. Sam was Hannah's best friend, Jess was Beth's, and everyone else in our group just sort of... Formed around the twins and Josh.
[It's possibly the strangest group of people, but still.]
Last year there was... I told you we all would have a yearly party in the frozen shithole that is Canada. So last year we were all there, and Josh and I got like, super hammered drunk and passed out. When we woke up, we found out that um... Everyone but Sam had played this really mean prank on Hannah, and she like, ran out onto the mountain. And Beth went after her.
[He sighs quietly, because that had been one of the worst days of his life, but it's one he's at least had time to deal with by now.]
We all looked for them for a long time, but uh... W-We never found them. And we didn't know at the time, but like... You know about the wendigos. They must've been attacked by one.
[He still doesn't know that for sure, even if he knows the rest of the twins' fates. But that's not something he plans to share, not because there's a problem with Nick knowing, but just because it's... Something personal to Josh. He doesn't want to tell that part without him being okay with it.]
So uh, fast-forward a year, and Josh invites the rest of us back again. Everything's like, fine for a few hours, then um... Things went all slasher-movie. Before they went monster-movie.
T-There was uh... Someone in the house. He attacked me and Ash, and when I woke up Ash and Josh were both gone. So I went looking for them, out to this shed aways from the lodge, and um... Y-You seen Saw? The whole thing was like, straight out of it.
[Which makes sense now, knowing what he does, but at the time he hadn't even made the connection. He pauses a moment because this is where things start to get really bad, and as much as he's trying to just focus on finding the words to explain he can't avoid remembering; his tone is more distant when he continues, still walking but gazing at nothing rather than where they're actually going.]
Ash and Josh were both tied up and there was this huge saw, and I had to pick which one would live. So I picked Ash, and the saw tore Josh in half.
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[He probably should've figured out how to start, but maybe it's best that he didn't plan too much. Maybe it's better to just talk.]
This is... Gonna be long.
[Some parts he can abbreviate a little, but he's still going to end up kind of rambling a bit.]
So uh... Josh and I have known each other like, ten years. And I knew his twin sisters Hannah and Beth too. Sam was Hannah's best friend, Jess was Beth's, and everyone else in our group just sort of... Formed around the twins and Josh.
[It's possibly the strangest group of people, but still.]
Last year there was... I told you we all would have a yearly party in the frozen shithole that is Canada. So last year we were all there, and Josh and I got like, super hammered drunk and passed out. When we woke up, we found out that um... Everyone but Sam had played this really mean prank on Hannah, and she like, ran out onto the mountain. And Beth went after her.
[He sighs quietly, because that had been one of the worst days of his life, but it's one he's at least had time to deal with by now.]
We all looked for them for a long time, but uh... W-We never found them. And we didn't know at the time, but like... You know about the wendigos. They must've been attacked by one.
[He still doesn't know that for sure, even if he knows the rest of the twins' fates. But that's not something he plans to share, not because there's a problem with Nick knowing, but just because it's... Something personal to Josh. He doesn't want to tell that part without him being okay with it.]
So uh, fast-forward a year, and Josh invites the rest of us back again. Everything's like, fine for a few hours, then um... Things went all slasher-movie. Before they went monster-movie.
T-There was uh... Someone in the house. He attacked me and Ash, and when I woke up Ash and Josh were both gone. So I went looking for them, out to this shed aways from the lodge, and um... Y-You seen Saw? The whole thing was like, straight out of it.
[Which makes sense now, knowing what he does, but at the time he hadn't even made the connection. He pauses a moment because this is where things start to get really bad, and as much as he's trying to just focus on finding the words to explain he can't avoid remembering; his tone is more distant when he continues, still walking but gazing at nothing rather than where they're actually going.]
Ash and Josh were both tied up and there was this huge saw, and I had to pick which one would live. So I picked Ash, and the saw tore Josh in half.