Wednesday, April 9, 2014

After Whatever After: Where are we?


Oof! We land in a forest. This doesn't look like Rose to me. Jonah wakes up from the hard landing." Abby, this-" I put a hand over his mouth. "Ammy! Met mo om my moum!" Jonah tries to pry my hand off, but I'm too strong for him. "AMMY! MET MO!" Jonah screams at me, kicking. His voice echos through the forest, making crows fly away. "Hush, Jonah!" I scold him. "Mime. Mut met mo om my moum! My meed mo malk here!" Jonah says. I let go. Jonah gasps for breath, as if he were suffocating. ( Yeah, right.) I walk through the forest, Jonah trailing behind me. Cute little squirrels follow us. I stop to pet him. "Aw, who's the cute little baby?" The squirrel bites me as if I had offended him. "OUCH!" I scream. Jonah looks like he's trying not to laugh. " Not funny, Jonah, not funny." I say to him, scowling. Jonah shuts up. I look down at my hand. It is bleeding freely. Ow. It hurts so bad! I look for something to wrap it around with. I find a ripped part of a shirt and tightly wrap it around the injured part. The blood spreads around it, and suddenly stops. Ahh. Much better than before. I didn't know that squirrels could bite you... We keep walking, occasionally stopping for water breaks. By the time we are out of the forest, we are tired, panting and we are messy. VERY. " Come. Pant! On. Pant!  Jonah! We need. Gasp! To find.  A portal home." Jonah whines. "Come on, we have,-" Jonah reads my watch. It reads 3:47. "- We have plenty of time." I look at him. "We need time to figure out where we are, a portal home, and BE IN TIME BY 7:00, Jonah! And do you know how long that will take?" I say, exasperated with him. Jonah nods. "A long time." He peeps at me. "Oh, and we need to fix my injury and if we can't, then we have to explain how I got hurt." I take a breath as if I was suffocating. We have to find a place to stay, I don't want to stay in a creepy forest full of biting squirrels. We keep walking. Suddenly, Jonah points. "What is that?" He says, awestruck.

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