End Journeys
No, I'm Not

"That's.. Isn't that Thomas's friend?" Ruby tried to call Thomas who was not seen on the page.

Ruby immediately called Thomas who had gone to check the road and put a spare tire on their car that had a flat tire.

"Why is it so long?" Ruby felt very worried because Thomas did not pick up his phone.

"We're in hiding" Thomas answered and switched off his phone.

Cassie and Bella instead went out of the room to record the incident. Ruby's agony screams heard to the point that she didn't dare look out of the room.

"What did they do to Thomas' friends?" ask Ruby about Anne.

"It looks like they will attack blatantly," replied Anne who Ruby already considered her own mother.

"What do you mean?"

Anne did not answer Ruby's question. He went out of the room to approach Thomas' friends who were screaming in pain. Ruby ventured to take a peek at what the sect members were doing to Thomas' friends. Ruby witnessed a horrific scene where Thomas' friends were bound by their hands and feet, plus they used blindfolds, tied in the middle of the yard. Two women and two men in black robes guard Thomas' friends. Looked incision that is still wet in the skin of friends Thomas.

Ruby immediately goes out and looks for Cassie and Bella for fear of something happening to them.

"Sssstt," Bella pulls Ruby's hand. They hide under the table that used to be where Poppy receives guests because from that place it looks quite clear the terrible scene that occurred in the motel yard.

Ruby peeked and searched for Anne's whereabouts but she did not see Anne in the courtyard.

"You guys seen aunt Anne?" ruby asked Cassie and Bella.

They responded by gesturing to Poppy's room before them. Ruby felt a little relieved that Anne did not approach those people. Ruby thinks Anne went back to where she was held before.

"We're going to record from here" Cassie pointed her camera at Thomas' friends.

"Just record, don't live" Bella said.

They recorded four men with their hands and feet tied and eyes covered in red cloth sitting in the motel yard,amidst the scorching sunlight that stung the skin of those who were injured due to being slashed deliberately by members of the sect.

The sound of footsteps could be heard clearly, very close to them. Cassie who was great at recording paused for a moment because she felt she would be caught recording.

"Hide, I'll take care of them" said the white-robed woman.

Rubby, Cassie, and Bella looked up, seeing Anne had changed into the same robe as the one used by the sect members.

Cassie re-recorded while Ruby sent a message to Felix and Thomas.

"We're hiding in the car" Felix replied to Ruby's message.

Anne was seen approaching them. The four sect members instantly bowed when Anne came.

"Let's get closer" Cassie asked.

"Come on," Bella replied.

They stepped closer and now hid behind two water barrel on the right side of the motel door.

"Mom.. It wasn't us who killed him" one of the men shouted as if he was avoiding something.

Anne was speechless to hear that, she immediately told the four sect members to return to the hall.

"Go back to the hall. They let me take care of it," he said.

The four young men left Anne and four of Thomas' friends.

"What the fuck? He's also a sect member?" ask Cassie to Ruby.

"I know not" Ruby replied. She believes Anne is undercover to help them.

"Hahaha this is the one I'm waiting for. My sister-in-law," a man in the same robe as Anne appeared and patted Anne on the shoulder.

"Poppy's father" Ruby said.

Cassie and Bella just fell silent, they were quite confused by the situation they were in.

"Who did they kill?" ask Anne.

"The girl we found on the riverbank" replied the man.

"Why did you kill him?" snapped Anne.

"Well, good acting," Ruby praised Anne who she believed was acting.

"It doesn't seem like acting" Cassie said.

Bella and Ruby looked at Cassie who was still recording what was in front of them.

"Aaaaa," came another scream. This time a man sitting next to Thomas' wounded friend shouted.

"Why did you kill him?" anne asked with a blood-stained knife in her hand.

"That's what you said acting, Ruby?" Cassie's starting to freak out.

"There are three women under the table. Arrest them" Anne ordered the four men. He untied their hands and feet and opened his blindfold.

"What's that crazy woman doing?" Cassie wakes up and runs towards Ruby's room. Bella and Ruby followed in a panic.

"If you don't want to die, then take the three women alive!" anne shouted out loud.

"Huh? How's it?" The confused Ruby immediately locked the door of their room.

The four men banged on Ruby's bedroom door.

"We don't want to die, please come out" said one of the men.

"You crazy? I don't want to die this way either" Bella snapped from inside the room.