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Reddit you have to help me please I don't know what to do today my girlfriend Thea decided to go hiking I know I should have gone with her but she always does her hikes alone because I slow her down usually she's only gone for 2 hours or so now she's been gone for nearly 4 and considering calling the police she should have been home by now I've tried calling her repeatedly but she doesn't pick up all I have is our text conversation from the other day and as I read it over and over I feel like something is terribly off 2:33 p. m. I messaged seen anything cool yet theia responded no I'll send you pictures when I get to the waterfall though 2:57 p.

m. Thea messaged you're cooking dinner tonight right yeah chicken pot pie I responded young so excited Thea messaged after that interchange we didn't exchange any texts for about an hour I wilded away the time constructing pylons and Starcraft then around 4: she sent me a text 4:06 p. m.

the messaged I found the waterfall below this text was a selfie Thea standing in front of a small waterfall smiling at the camera arms crossed cap covering her Wild Hair earrings the turquoise ones I'd given her on our first anniversary glinting in the light I sent a text back you're cute with a smiley face then I stopped something about the photo bothered me I stared at her smiling face blue eyes shaded by her her cap her thick curls of black hair brushing her shoulders wait her arms were clearly crossed she wasn't holding the phone there was no way she could be someone else had taken the photo or maybe she propped it up on a rock or in a tree but she couldn't have taken the photo herself I quickly shot off another text who took that photo she didn't reply to that right away so I'd left the phone on on the desk and went downstairs to start prepping dinner I pushed the creeping anxiety to the back of my mind and focused on the food putting more effort than usual into cutting the onions call me paranoid but my last girlfriend cheated on me and left my heart broken knowing someone else took that photo and the fact that she hadn't responded to that text when she'd responded to the others promptly made me feel awful come on she' probably just asked some passer by to take her photo clunk my knife sliced through the onion hitting the cutting board with a full thumb what if when I got back upstairs 45 minutes later I was relieved to see there was a new text 4:53 p. m. thinking of you winky face I frapped first she didn't answer my question second they had to usually send emojis or smilees gifts sure but not this it was weird I responded thinking of you to did you get my last text the replied I'll be back by dinner time or tooi Thea usually didn't send less than threes to me either that was more me in any case I decided to let it go I then sent her a message saying okay I love you heart emoji I unposed Starcraft and played for a while I was only interrupted by my phone pinging I picked it up a text 5:37 p.

m. the texted I'm on my way back followed by an image the image popped up it was another selfy this time she was holding the phone I could see her outstretched arm in the lower part of the frame and she was standing in a much clearer part of the forest she must have been near the trail head I breathed toire of relief and began to type awesome pot pie is already in and I stopped my fingers froze in the photo just at the edge of the screen there was something in the fallen leaves a shadow a shadow just a few feet from her own cast by someone off green it's after 6:00 now dinner is cold I've been sitting here my heart pounding calling Thea repeatedly nothing except for one text that came in as I was typing this up they un messaged I'm going to be home late sorry I love you heart emoji somehow I'm sure she wasn't the one to send that text for an update sorry I didn't post last night so much has happened and I'm still trying to process everything I guess I'll start at the beginning Fe never returned home on Saturday night a lot of you told me to go look for her myself so that's what I did after I called the police I headed over to the trail alone well not entirely alone I brought our little dog Jazelle thinking she might be able to pick up on a scent or something but as soon as I pulled into the parking lot my heart dropped there was her car her beat up Honda Civic parked crookedly under a Street Lamp Thea's still here but she wouldn't do that not voluntarily it was already pretty dark out and we have a lot of coyotes in the area she wouldn't be stupid enough to keep hiking past dark would she I tried the door to her car locked I shined my phone's flashlight in the windows she wasn't in there nothing looked out of place though it was hard to tell with how messy Thea's car always is the dread in the pit of my stomach grew I grabbed Jazelle and headed towards the trail as soon as we stepped into the woods it was even darker what remnants of light was left in the sky was choked out by the thick foliage I took a second to glance at the sign to figure out which way the waterfall was then I continued into the forest Thea I called Thea no response I looked at Jazelle she didn't seemed to be picking up on anything I tried to call Thea again she didn't answer all I had was that last text staring me in the face I'm going to be home late sorry I love you heart emoji as a last ditch attempt I sent a text back 8:23 p. m.

how late where are you I've been calling you I watched as the indicator went from sent to delivered and then to Red my blood ran cold my fingers Flew Over the keys starting to type where are you please call me good and I stopped if it really wasn't Thea writing those texts if it was someone who had her maybe that wasn't the smartest thing I stood there in the middle of the woods my heart pounding as jaelle whimpered had my feet and then I typed that's fine if you want to stay out late but I'm going to bed I love you good night three little dots appeared in response and then it popped up she messaged me no you're not I stared at those three words my head swimming huh what does that mean gelle ped the ground a few feet away and then another text came in it read you're out here looking for me I hear you calling my name why don't you come a little closer winky face I grabbed jelle and broke into a run over thick roots and large Stones the terrain sloped up then down out of breath I stopped shining the flashlight in a circle around myself Thea I screamed straining my ears for something anything that might sound like her a rustle her footstep her sound anything but there was nothing I pulled out my phone and sent another text I wrote where is Thea and then finally I did hear a sound a pinion that strange Little Tone the one I'd heard all over the house for the past 2 years whenever Thea got a text or an email it was Thea's phone right out there somewhere in the darkness I blindly ran towards the sound but as soon as I stepped off the trail the terrain changed a deep slope a carpet of dry leaves I hadn't gone 10 steps when I stepped on the uneven surface of a jagged rock my ankle buckled I lost my balance I cared into the darkness th it then a rustling sound off to my left the snap of a branch I pulled myself up as fast as as I possibly could pain shot up my ankle but I continued blindly forward waving my phone Every Which Way white light flashed across gnarled trunks yellowed leaves Jazelle barked at me from the trail but I didn't see anything I sent Thea another text tell me and then I listened but there was no ping no footsteps no rustling nothing just silence punctuated by jelle Sparks the police arrived soon after that I told them everything I showed them the texts showed them where I'd heard Thea's cell phone they didn't find her but they did find something in the parking lot that I'd missed a turquoise earring and I didn't sleep on Saturday night I drove around town for hours looking for anything suspicious asking late night par goers if they'd seen anything I called the police repeatedly checking in on their search nothing and then when the sun broke over the Treetops my phone pinged to my surprise it was Thea 6:42 a. m. Thea messaged I'll see you soon smiley face a selfie popped up but this one wasn't like the others the photo was dark and grainy the forest was all Grace and shadows maybe just taken after sunset or just before Dawn and there leaning against a tree was Thea arms hanging at her sides hair wild her cap pulled so far down her eyes were completely hidden in Shadow just looking at it made me feel like throwing up I sent the photo to the police immediately but they haven't been able to do anything with yet I thought they had some technology where they can pinpoint the location of a cell phone but either they haven't been able to do it or they don't want to tell me yet what they found but there's one thing I haven't told the police tonight I got one final text from her after nearly 48 hours without Thea after my fruitless search in the forest after everything the police have done this is all I they have one final text 12:01 a.

m. she messaged are you going to come find me winky face I think maybe it's time to return to the woods final update you guys pointed out that going into the woods was a bad idea you're absolutely right when I wrote that I'd had maybe 2 hours of sleep and about 5 cups of coffee I wasn't thinking thinking clearly that text was a trap sent by whoever took Thea I handed everything over to the police even the final text they were able to find out what cell tower Thea's phone was pinging off of but unfortunately the area encompassed most of the park I organized a small search party to go around town in search we also posted all over social media everything came up empty Wednesday rolled around with no texts no leads no word from the police and then Thursday each hour that went by without hearing anything I got a little less hopeful several times I forced myself to look at those three photos she sent me to look for Clues but they only made me feel sick and then Friday happened I'd started the day as usual checking in on the social media groups looking to see if anyone found anything out I made some coffee and was about to call the police to see if there were any updates and then my phone rang when I saw the caller ID I couldn't believe it feya I snatched the phone and immediately picked up feya I asked my heart pounding in my chest silence on the other line Thea tell me where you are please sence if this is who took Thea please I'll do anything don't hurt her I'll pay Ransom I'll do whatever you want just please please don't hurt her no one spoke but I did hear something now a faint cracking sound maybe static the wind blowing through the speakers please say something I pleas baded my heart pounded my legs shook I glanced around the kitchen my mind racing can't the police trace the call do they need to be on the line do I need to keep the call for 60 seconds I had no idea do you want money I asked my voice trembling as I opened my laptop we don't have much but I'll wire it all to you right now please just give Thea back to to me I began placing a wireless call to 911 the crackling sound intensified please the call dropped I immediately told the police begged them to trace it to do something but they just gave me the same canned responses they had for the past several days so I got in my car and drove I didn't even know where I was going but then I found myself pulling into the parking lot staring at those same dark trees and Winding Trail I was debating whether I should actually go in when I saw it a plume of dark smoke Rising above the Treetops I jumped out of the car and ran into the forest all while that horrible crackling sound played in my head Thea no no I climbed over the rocks and sticks following the acurate smell of smoke pleased please don't let it be the fire stood in a small clearing orange Flames licking the air black smoke blowing up to the sky Thea's remains were found in the fire god saying that her remains how can you say that about someone you love so much such a cruel horrible thing to say feya my wonderful the he's gone since I got the news I've been sitting in the kitchen Downing whiskey as I flipped through photos of us in our final days a photo of us on the boardwalk her grinning and holding a stucked teddy bear me standing stiffly beside her I remember that trip how annoyed I was that she wanted to play every game in the 90° weather what an idiot I'd been and every minute with Thea was a gift I flipped to another photo a selfie of us on the couch her grinning as she held up the bowl of pasta we'd made from scratch my thumb hit the screen as I started to flip to another photo I stopped is that in the photo I could see our front windows behind the couch I could see the neighbors's lights across the street see a car rolling by on the road and I could see something else an irregular Shadow I zoomed in the photo quality wasn't great grainy SS of blue and gray but even so I could see what it was a figure crouched between our two bushes looking inside I stared had the blurry shape Frozen then I flipped to the next photo the and I sitting on the floor a week prior playing with Jazelle and zooming into the window I saw that same awful shape crouched just outside the Halo of our back porch light the next one the unknown assignment peeking in through an uncovered corner of our bedroom window no I flipped to the next photo oh God no no than standing in the laundry room balancing a basket on her head and sticking her tongue out at me but behind her inside the house a sliver of Darkness poking out from around the corner not a shadow but someone standing there yep I jumped a foot as jaelle let out a shrill Yelp from the family room I scrambled over to her sitting in front of the window staring into the darkness outside Yip shaking madly I stumbled over to the front door clicked the deadbolt into place and I CED my hands over the window and peered out nothing I ran through the house making sure every window every door was locked I closed the curtains even slid the lock across the basement door then knowing I was safe I collapsed into the couch and began dialing the police and a few minutes they'll be here and they'll know everything they'll find the bastard that killed Thea who has apparently been stalking us for months and we'll make sure he gets the worst sentence he possibly can they will get Justice it's finally over or has it just begun I knew Mark was a widower when I met him and honestly I was relieved of course I wasn't happy that somebody died but at my age 37 most of the men I met on match.