WHAT A JOURNEY: Chapter 21 – 30
GIFT OKORIE??
CHAPTER 29
“Whatever it is, we will make it across” David assured us, he looked down at me, I nodded and smiled at him.
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WHAT A JOURNEY: Chapter 21 – 30
“Wake up lazy dummies, it’s morning” we all jumped up when we heard Ruby whistle, followed by a gun shot.
Everyone was rubbing their eyes sleepily.
“You are the head dummy” Kira mumbled at Ruby.
“As long as you’ve admitted being a dummy, I’m good” Ruby replied. We all stiffens a laughter, Kira threw her water bottle at him, he stuck out his tongue for her and she eyed him.
“Why did you shoot the gun?” Mum asked dad who was holding Salvador’s gun.
“I had to help Ruby in waking you guys up since his screaming wasn’t helping” he replied, mum laughed a little while dad smiled at her. They really looked like they’ve missed each other, but will that change anything.
I really need to talk to them in private, I need to know why dad came to help, I need to know why he wants to get closer to us all of a sudden, what about his bchy wife and son. Do they want our family back, what is going on in their minds? I need to know.
“What are we gonna have for breakfast, our snacks has finished?” Henry asked.
“All I need right now is a bath” Kira complained.
“I second that” David backed up.
“I third that” Kiwi added.
“Kiwi there is no such thing as I third that” Bathny corrected, we all laughed while Kiwi giggled shyly.
“Oh come on, give the girl a break, anything can be a word, who’s gonna fourth that” dad asked and I raised my hand, everyone laughed.
“Lucky y’all, we are still close to the village, before you get to the village gate, there’s a narrow pathway by the right, if you go down, you will see a shiny river, you can bath there, though the villagers don’t go there often” mum stated.
“I know I need a bath badly, we all do, but one thing I can’t do is bathing in any river in this jungle again, that won’t happen” Kira exclaimed which triggered another round of laughter considering what happened with the crocodiles.
“Let’s just find something to eat, but make sure you don’t give Marichuiy any berries, reasons best known to the jungle” Henry blurted out, we all laughed again.
“You know? Ever since we got deeper into the jungle, Marichuiy hasn’t experience any bad luck, who else noticed?” Bathny asked.
“Yea, that’s true” they all chorused except my parents.
“How does it come, what does it feel like?” Dad asked. I shrugged and gave a light but unsure smile.
“Painful, bad, weird I guess” I replied. He gave me an apologetical smile, I nodded in understanding.
“So what’s for breakfast?” Henry asked.
“Does any of us look like your chef?” Kira fired at him.
“I say we hunt for squirrels and roast them for breakfast” Ricky suggested the worst.
“Eeeeewwww” we exclaimed.
“Seems like you guys are not hungry yet” Salvador mocked us. He took a rifle from the black guy, he beckoned on them to join him, they walked out probably going hunting.
“Please not squirrel” Kira prayed.
“I’m gonna puke if I see it” Kiwi complained.
“I won’t even look at it” Bathny stuttered.
“I can see you guys are not actually hungry” dad chuckled out.
“Dad?” I called him, he swiftly turned to me, probably surprised I called him that, well he wasn’t the only one, mum was also staring and so was everyone else, why are they surprised, they were the ones begging me to let things go, now just because I called him dad with a soft voice, they are looking at me as if I swallowed a ten year old frog. “How do you expect us to eat squirrels, those things carries bunch of diseases” I complained.
“Beggers are not supposed to have choice munchkin” he breathed out. Munchkin. I missed that. I missed hearing him call me that, but why did he leave me.
“Oh, here comes the hunters” dad announced, we turned to their direction and saw Salvador returning with his men but empty handed. “And the hunters caught nothing” dad complained.
“This jungle has no eatable animal, it’s either a wolf, or a tiny dragon, or snakes or crocodiles” Salvador complained, we sighed sadly. “And antelopes..” Salvador continued, we all turned to him.
“Did you say antelopes?” Dad asked him.
“Yes, why” he asked back.
“Because antelopes are eatable, this guy is something wrong with your brain?” Mum fired at him.
“Who on earth eats antelopes?” Salvador barked.
“Everyone except you” Dave and Michael snarled at him at the same time.
“Well, sorry if It was that important” he stated nonchalantly.
“Ugghhrrr” Kira groaned and stood up.
“Well bye bye to breakfast” Bathny cursed under her breath.
“Let’s just go, it’s almost mid morning” mum informed us.
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As we were packing up, I heard a whisper. “The day after tomorrow is the D day”
“D that of what?” I asked David and Bathny who were busy with their backpacks. They both turned to me in confusion.
“Huh?” Bathny asked.
“You said tomorrow was the D day, or peharps one of you said it” I asked them.
“We didn’t say anything” David replied.
“Oh my gush, the whispers came again?” Bathny asked me and I nodded.
“Could it be that those dark dragon lords are nearby?” David asked.
“I don’t know” I shrugged.
“What are you guys whispering about?” Mum asked us as she approached.
“Whispers of the dark dragons and their dragon lords, we encountered them before we got to the village” I explained everything to her.
“Hey, don’t worry, we will get to the temple before your birthday, I promised” she assured me. “I have a feeling that the temple is close, it could probably be across one of this pathways, we just have to find the right path to follow” she added as she stared at the three pathways.
“Well one thing is for sure, it’s definitely not the middle path” Henry blurted out and we laughed.
“I say we take the left” mum suggested.
“No, the last time one of you suggested, we ended up in fire forest” Salvador complained.
“Well did you see the right path to take in the map?” Mum asked him. Good question.
“I’m not even seeing any of these paths in this map, but my instict is telling me to go right and my instinct is always right, so we are going right” he stated.
“Dude, this jungle is not about instincts” Michael warned but Salvador didn’t listen, he was already walking towards the right path.
“We have to go with him, no matter what we have to always stick together, if not I would have suggested we go left and leave him and his instincts to go right” dad whispered, we all laughed.
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He took the lead and followed Salvador while the rest of us followed him.
“So far so good” Mum breathed out as we admire the different types and colors of beautiful flowers in that forest.
“Maybe the original path is always the right, not the left or middle, this place is awesome” Henry blurted out.
“Don’t be too sure” Michael snarled at him.
“I have a bad feeling about this” I whispered to David.
“Yea, nothing seems right here, it’s so weird and too easy” he replied.
“Oh, I could live here forever” Kiwi jumped as she swing her arms in the air, David smiled at her, I looked away, I didn’t want to but I did.
Dad was trying to catch up with Salvador but Salvador was trying to get away from him, Ricky and mum were chatting and laughing as they walked.
I felt jealous on dad’s behalf, but the inner me said ‘come on, they are just chatting, nothing serious’ so I shrugged and kept walking.
“Woaw, is it just me or is it getting chilly in Here” Ruby asked.
“It’s not just you, Marichuiy is shivering already” David complained, he drew me into his chest and covered me with his arms, I smiled gratefully at him.
“Goodness, this is worst than the heat of that fire in the previous path” Bathny complained, Henry held her tightly.
“I’m gonna freeze in ten seconds” Kiwi complained. David was about to remove his jacket and give it to her but Ruby beat him to it, he covered Kiwi and held her to his chest, I think he really likes her.
David shrugged and held me, and for the first time he didn’t look jealous, instead he looked happy that Kiwi was fine. Is he getting over her or what. Seriously this jungle can change all the narratives you once had about people.
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Kira is no longer rude to anyone even though her crazy path comes once in a while. Kiwi is no longer that dumb, she’s getting exposed to things and she can express herself freely now, no longer that timid.
Henry has been cool with Bathny, no longer crushing on his father’s agemate (Ricky) in the name of being a g.ay. The boys no longer hate me, they love me now. Bathny is no longer a nice girl, but crazy and very troublesome, lol.
This is cool.
WHAT A JOURNEY: Chapter 21 – 30
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