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drenched, in the river.
Well, I say ‘stand’. I’m actually treading water, seeing as it’s deeper than 5’9” (my ridiculously tall height.) Ben’s standing on the muddy ground, doubled over because he’s laughing so hard. Maria looks like she’s having a fit of hysterics, while Aria stuffs a fist into her own mouth to stop laughing and Lily gasps for air, laughing so hard she’s actually crying!
I look at each of them carefully, my eyes narrowed, before I realize that Ben was the only one anywhere near me when I was pushed in. With one fluid motion, I reach out and pull his legs until he topples into the water. Ha! Serves him right. It’s HIS turn to splutter at me, before recovering and expertly splashing water in my face.
I send a ‘tidal wave’ of water back at him before taking a huge breath and submerging myself entirely. Glancing back up at the surface, I notice that Maria, Lily, and Aria have all either jumped in or been pushed in, and are now arguing with Ben.
I seize the moment and dunk Ben’s head back underwater while he’s distracted. Relatively quickly, he pushes me off him and resurfaces. Apparently, though, the other girls have been preparing. All three of them splash water into his face until he opens his mouth to speak.. and Maria lands a perfect splash of water right in his mouth!
He spits it back out and, raising his hands above his head, pants, “I surrender!””
I nod in satisfaction before jumping out, pulling my now-soaked brown hair out of my face with a pink hair tie, forgetting that I had ‘borrowed’ it from Aria and was only supposed to use it when it was dark out and she couldn’t see it.
Aria’s eyes widen in comprehension before narrowing as she yells at me, “So that’s where my hair tie went!”
I laugh hysterically. “Catch me if you can!”
I love these moments when I feel like we’re actually teenagers. Okay, we ARE actually teenagers. BUT, you know what I meant. I meant, I like it when I feel like I’m actually able to act like a teenager.
The next second, a bucket entirely full of water comes cascading down my back, effectively re-soaking me just after I had begun to dry! Obviously, I chase Aria and Maria (who were responsible for the bucket of water) and Ben (who had been distracting me) for a good 15 minutes before they finally surrender and we all take a breather.
We spend another hour or two just playing in the river (it felt so good to swim and wash up after so long!) and so, by the time we get out, we all have hands and feet so wrinkled we looked like 80-year olds.
But Maria’s got a goofy grin on her face… and luckily for my nose and her, the layer of filth that must have covered her for who-knows-how-long was finally gone. Definitely worth the hours we spent.
That’s when the sun begins to set and we all stagger back to our base, ready to spend another night in our dark and damp base, our moment of fun gone.
Chapter 6
We head towards Zentyn when we woke up, which used to be an enormously large city (according to the size of it on the map, at least.) Well, there’s also the fact I visited it once and watched the news report on the situation there.
It promised to be a great scavenging location, due to the fact when the tsunamis threatened to hit, it was evacuated within hours and the evacuees left pretty much everything but absolute necessities behind. Of course, this included all those wonderful canned foods that we, as survivors of the natural disasters, etc., were forced to live upon.
It was a shorter trip than usual from Lynin City to Zentyn, and we each only have a few shifts of working and not working. That’s pleasant enough; what’s even nicer is that we have some fresh food to complement the ugly, brownish mush we often have to consume from cans. The mush looks bad enough, but the metallic taste is even worse.
Anyways, we arrived in Zentyn at what we
Well, I say ‘stand’. I’m actually treading water, seeing as it’s deeper than 5’9” (my ridiculously tall height.) Ben’s standing on the muddy ground, doubled over because he’s laughing so hard. Maria looks like she’s having a fit of hysterics, while Aria stuffs a fist into her own mouth to stop laughing and Lily gasps for air, laughing so hard she’s actually crying!
I look at each of them carefully, my eyes narrowed, before I realize that Ben was the only one anywhere near me when I was pushed in. With one fluid motion, I reach out and pull his legs until he topples into the water. Ha! Serves him right. It’s HIS turn to splutter at me, before recovering and expertly splashing water in my face.
I send a ‘tidal wave’ of water back at him before taking a huge breath and submerging myself entirely. Glancing back up at the surface, I notice that Maria, Lily, and Aria have all either jumped in or been pushed in, and are now arguing with Ben.
I seize the moment and dunk Ben’s head back underwater while he’s distracted. Relatively quickly, he pushes me off him and resurfaces. Apparently, though, the other girls have been preparing. All three of them splash water into his face until he opens his mouth to speak.. and Maria lands a perfect splash of water right in his mouth!
He spits it back out and, raising his hands above his head, pants, “I surrender!””
I nod in satisfaction before jumping out, pulling my now-soaked brown hair out of my face with a pink hair tie, forgetting that I had ‘borrowed’ it from Aria and was only supposed to use it when it was dark out and she couldn’t see it.
Aria’s eyes widen in comprehension before narrowing as she yells at me, “So that’s where my hair tie went!”
I laugh hysterically. “Catch me if you can!”
I love these moments when I feel like we’re actually teenagers. Okay, we ARE actually teenagers. BUT, you know what I meant. I meant, I like it when I feel like I’m actually able to act like a teenager.
The next second, a bucket entirely full of water comes cascading down my back, effectively re-soaking me just after I had begun to dry! Obviously, I chase Aria and Maria (who were responsible for the bucket of water) and Ben (who had been distracting me) for a good 15 minutes before they finally surrender and we all take a breather.
We spend another hour or two just playing in the river (it felt so good to swim and wash up after so long!) and so, by the time we get out, we all have hands and feet so wrinkled we looked like 80-year olds.
But Maria’s got a goofy grin on her face… and luckily for my nose and her, the layer of filth that must have covered her for who-knows-how-long was finally gone. Definitely worth the hours we spent.
That’s when the sun begins to set and we all stagger back to our base, ready to spend another night in our dark and damp base, our moment of fun gone.
Chapter 6
We head towards Zentyn when we woke up, which used to be an enormously large city (according to the size of it on the map, at least.) Well, there’s also the fact I visited it once and watched the news report on the situation there.
It promised to be a great scavenging location, due to the fact when the tsunamis threatened to hit, it was evacuated within hours and the evacuees left pretty much everything but absolute necessities behind. Of course, this included all those wonderful canned foods that we, as survivors of the natural disasters, etc., were forced to live upon.
It was a shorter trip than usual from Lynin City to Zentyn, and we each only have a few shifts of working and not working. That’s pleasant enough; what’s even nicer is that we have some fresh food to complement the ugly, brownish mush we often have to consume from cans. The mush looks bad enough, but the metallic taste is even worse.
Anyways, we arrived in Zentyn at what we
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