[i]As he calmed down, it became pretty clear that he wasn’t the only person around. When he stopped moving and his ears weren’t filled with the hammering of his heart, Gavin could just barely hear another person’s voice and footsteps as they walked over grass. Opening his eyes, he also noticed the ambient light coming from a few houses down the street. While a small part, the one that remembered the horror movies he’d watched, told him to ignore the light, the need to know he wasn’t alone made Gavin step forward. 

Leaving the immediate area in front of his house, the eeriness of the situation struck Gavin once more. Without the flashlight he didn’t know if he would have been able to see more than a few feet in front of him; if the stars were out then they were certainly being obscured by thick clouds. Swinging the beam of light side to side, he couldn’t help but shiver a bit at what was revealed. An empty car sat in the middle of the road, idling in silence somehow, waiting for a driver that’d disappeared. A door halfway open to a house, with its curtains fully drawn, he walked by. Odd things that simply didn’t fit in.

He didn’t want to risk calling out in such an odd situation; using the flashlight probably attracted enough attention as was. So to compensate as he didn’t really want to sneak up on anyone and surprise them given the situation, Gavin moved bobbed his flashlight around. Apparently he’d caught the person’s attention, getting a flashlight beam to the face when he turned around the corner. Turning away slightly as he shielded his eyes with the hand holding the wrench, he aimed his flashlight down at his feet and away from the other person.[/i] “Dude, be quiet. Are you trying to attract attention?.” 

[i]Despite his tone, Gavin was actually fairly happy to have found another living soul. Granted the other person sounded panicked, so whether it was actually a good thing or not Gavin wasn’t sure, but it was something at the least.[/i] “Can you get that out of my face?”