“HELP!” then laid back down.
Everyone shot up like a bullet almost hit them. When they realized Mcayla was
yelling in her sleep, they almost burst out laughing, but held themselves
together. About a half hour later, after everyone had fallen asleep, for Michael
woke. He opened his soft, narrow eyes, staring at the empty sky while thinking,
“I wonder if I should ask Mcayla
out. But then, maybe I shouldn’t. Mom would understand that I have a girl I am
interested in. Wouldn’t she? I wish I had those shoulder conscious people like
in the movies. A little angel on my right shoulder, and a little dare devil on
my left. That’d be awesome.”
He closed his eyes questioning what
to do. As he opened his eyes and looked at Jerrin, Courtney then Mcayla, he
took a long deep breath. He wanted to make the right move, and hoped it wasn’t
too early to make such a big decision.
“I’ll wait until morning,” he
whispered. He closed his eyes, turned over and fell asleep. During the night,
he was tossing and turning making grumbling noises. At a moment during the cold
night, Jerrin woke up hearing Michael making a lot of noise. So he walked
gently over to Michael then shook his arm. When he turned onto his long skinny,
yet very muscular back he opened his eyes to see Jerrin looking down at him. Jerrin
explained that he was making a show while sleeping with all his grumbling and
tossing. Michael sighed, realizing that even in his sleep he was stressing over
asking Mcayla out.
“Are you alright?” Jerrin asked.
“Yeah, I’m fine. Thanks. Hey, can I
talk to you? I mean, I wanted to know if this was a good idea.” Jerrin nodded. They
had gone through so much those past couple days, it worried Jerrin. Michael
started to stand up and told Jerrin to follow him. Jerrin picked up his shoes,
and puts them on, then follows. Michal stared up into the dark sky and asked
him,
“Jerrin, have you ever liked
someone, and you’ve been friends for some time now, and well---”
“You want to ask Mcayla out, don’t
you?” Jerrin interrupted. Michal was silent for some time, then admitted,
“Well, yes. I was wondering, since
we’re in a crazy, unpredictable desert, do you think that it would be
appropriate to ask her? We barely know each other, but already get along great!
And---” as Michael explained his thoughts, Jerrin stayed very attentive. Jerrin
is usually someone who doesn’t like to listen to others troubles; so when Michael
saw that he was being attentive, he took full advantage of it and kept talking,
hoping that he would understand and give him good advice.
“Sure,” Jerrin answered when
Michael finished. Michael was shocked.
“Really? You think I should?”
“Yeah. Wait a little though, or
else she might think you’re rushing into a relationship.” Michael nodded.
“How should I do it?”
“When the time is right, you’ll
know,” Jerrin insisted. Michael sighed, then started walking back to the girls.
When the sun was coming over the sand dunes,
Michael and Jerrin were just getting back to the campsite. When they arrived
Mcayla wasn’t there, but Courtney was fast asleep. Courtney was all about getting
her beauty sleep. Jerrin looked northward of the campsite and saw Mcayla
sitting on one of the high sand dunes. The sunlight was hit her just right to
make her look like she was an angel sitting on a cloud. Jerrin nudged Michael,
and pointed toward her and said teasing,
“Doesn’t she look like an angel?”
Michael blushed, and with a deep, relaxed voice,
“She sure does.” Jerrin just
smiled.
“What’s going on? Why do people
keep whispering here? What are you boys talking about?”
“Guess what? Courtney’s awake!”
Jerrin announced laughing with Michael. Courtney stood up and marched right
over to them and made a fist.
“Don’t test me!” the boys looked at
her knowing she wouldn’t do anything. “Just remember, I won’t hold back next
time. I will get both of you, if you start making anymore more rude comments about
me.”
“But Courtney, I thought that’s
unlady like,” a soft voice asked sarcastically. Courtney turns around to see
Mcayla with her hands on her hips smiling.
“Oh my goodness! I can’t Believe
it! I actually did something that’s unlady like? I can’t believe it. Goodness
gracious! My word! I..I..I just can’t believe it! My, my, my! ME! Out of all
people, it had to be me! see? This is what ordinary life does to me! Hanging
out with ordinary people, and talking with ordinary people, and dealing with
them and living in dirty places. why? why? why? I can’t stay like this! I have
to get back to my regular life!” Courtney cried. Every started bursting out
laughing. “What? What are you guys laughing about?” She asked pouting. While she
watched them laughing, Courtney couldn’t help but laugh too.
About an hour after some talking,
laughing and hanging out, they packed up and set out for another long day. They
walked about 5 hours, then decided to take a little break. When they were about
to sit down Courtney screams,
“WAIT!” Everyone turned to
Courtney, just waiting for another prep class. “Lets put something down so we
don’t get dirty.” Just to please the little toddler, they put down some little
towels they brought. They laid down as they watched the clouds in the sky. Not
too much time afterwards, they were all fast asleep. When Mcayla opened her
eyes, she felt like somebody was watching her. She looked everywhere, but there
was no one in sight.
“Hello? Is there anybody there?
Hello?” Mcayla beckoned. Suddenly, there was a tiny voice, that sounded like a squeak,
but answered,
“HELLO! I’M DOWN HERE! STOP BEING
SO LOUD! AND…WAIT…STAY! STAY!!!!! DON’T MOVE ANY CLOSER! STOP!” Mcayla had
stood up, and looked to see who was talking. Mcayla looked down, and realized
that the person that was talking was the size of an ant. Mcayla laid down on
her stomach to look at him. She realized that it was a little man. Mcayla
whispered,
“Hi, I’m Mcayla, and these are my
friends. This is Michael, Jerrin and then this is my sister Courtney. She can
be really obnoxious sometimes.” And with that, they became good friends with a
start of a laugh. Jerrin woke up to see Mcayla whispering to the floor. He
thought she was talking to herself, but when he realized that she was having a
conversation with someone that he couldn’t hear, he remembered the little
people who worked on Mcayla’s leg. Jerrin quietly turned over and shook Michael.
Michael woke up slowly, figured something happened again during his sleep. Instead,
Jerrin insisted,
“You must see this Michael. Michal,
are you listening to me? Look at me,” Michael just groaned and barely opened
his eyes. Jerrin clapped really loud in Michael’s ear. Michal sat up fast and
yelled,
“OWE!” Mcayla was so into talking
and laughing with the little man, she didn’t notice Michael or Jerrin.
When Michael finally recovered from
his shock, he turned to Jerrin with a very mad, curious and misunderstanding
face and asked him with a low voice so nobody would hear him,
“What in the world do you think you
are doing? I am trying to---”
“SHHHH!” Jerrin interrupted.
“Look.” Jerrin pointed down to where Mcayla was lying down next to her friend
talking.
“What is she doing? Why in the
world is she talking to s---”
“Quite!” Jerrin whispers loudly.
“Mcayla is talking to one of the tiny people! Look as close as you can.” Michael
stared at what Mcayla was looking at and he realized there really was someone,
or something there. Once he saw it, he stood up about to go to her, but Jerrin
grabbed his arm. Michael realized that Jerrin was probably doing the right
thing. When he let go, Michael went right ahead. He decided he would improvise.
When he walked up to her, the
little guy screamed that another giant was coming. Mcayla spun around quickly, and
saw Michael standing before her. Michael reached out his hand to help her up. When
he thought she was starting to like him more than a friend, he was pulled down
quickly, and realized that his hand wasn’t being held anymore. He felt
disappointed. About 5 minuets later, everyone had become friends, including
Jerrin. As for Courtney, she didn’t wake up before the sun had come up all the
way.
Soon enough Jerrin and Mcayla were
talking about how cool it was to have found such a discovery. Michael was over
talking to the little midget, whose name was Chris, Chris Titatick. Chris made
a good point to Michael. He told him that he should take his time with Mcayla, don’t
rush. Show that he cares for her by doing the simple things. Don’t jump out and
surprise her with the heavy weight of romance; become good friends first. Michael understood, but felt a little disappointed.
When he stood up he smiled sweetly as he watched Mcayla talking with Jerrin.
Chris, with his light blonde hair smiled as well knowing that Michael was a
smart young fellow. Michael reached out his hand and helped Mcayla stand up and
told her,
“Mcayla, I…I have something
important I need to tell you.” Mcayla urged him on. When Michael was about to
admit his feelings for Mcayla, Courtney came up from behind him and gave him a
little push.
“Why didn’t you wake me up?! I didn’t
know we had visitors! Come on Mcayla,” Courtney grabbed Mcayla’s hand. “introduce
me to your friend!” As Courtney dragged Mcayla to Chris, Mcayla looked back at
Michael to see his head back in disappointment. As Mcayla and Courtney sat down
talking to Chris, Mcayla looked at Michael every now and then. She became very
curious about what Michael was about to tell her. It had seemed very serious.
It bugged Mcayla so much it just swarmed her thoughts. Chris told Courtney he
had something he wanted to show them. The girls followed him as the boys stayed
at the campsite. All of a sudden, the girls felt the ground moving beneath
their feet. A crack formed in front of them, and to their surprise, Chris
jumped right into it. Mcayla stopped thinking about Michael and screamed,
“CHRIS!” afraid something happened to him.
Courtney just stood there confused. “CHRIS!!! Courtney, don’t just stand there
dazed, help me!” Mcayla went towards the crack to see if she could see Chris. Courtney
yawned, then as she was about to follow, the ground started shaking again below
her feet.
“Mcayla…” Courtney lost her
balanced and fell into a crack that formed below her. Mcayla turned around just
in time to see her sister disappear into the ground. “COURTNEY!” Mcayla raced
over to find Courtney gone into black darkness. Tears formed as she screamed
for Michael and Jerrin.
The boys came running to see what
was wrong. When they saw only Mcayla, and with tears in her eyes they started
to panic. Mcayla started to explain what had happened, when the earth started
shaking again. “It’s happening again!” Mcayla prepared. Michael and Jerrin ran
to Mcayla so they wouldn’t be separated. Mcayla started sobbing afraid for
their lives. Trying to calm her down, Michael hugged her and said,
“Shhh…it’s ok. I’ll keep you safe.”
“How will any of us be safe in an
earthquake?!” Jerrin asked. Michael rolled his eyes.
“You’re not helping Jerrin.” Jerrin
turned around to see how scared Mcayla was.
“Well I don’t know about you, but
Mcayla is the only logical thinker here. We’re dead meat,” Jerrin insisted. Jerrin
lost his balanced and fell to the ground, but instead of going under like
Courtney and Chris, the ground lifted upwards. “Wooaaahhhh!” Jerrin screamed as
the ground lifted him towards the sky.
“JERRIN!” Michael screamed. “HOLD
ON!”
“WHAT ELSE WOULD I DO?!” Jerrin
held on for dear life. Eventually it stopped traveling up. “I CAN BARELY BREATH UP HERE!” It looked as
if he was in the clouds. Mcayla’s tears dried up as she wiped them with her
hand.
“Maybe he’s right…” Mcayla
whispered. “There’s no hope.” Michael turned to see Mcayla staring at the
ground in surrender. As happened before, the ground started to shake again.
Michael turned around to see two rough tan columns in front of him. He followed
them from floor to top to find a creature of large stature.
“What the…” Michael just stared up
at what had come before him. He then realized the creature was in Mcayla’s
place. “Mcayla…MCAYLA! Mcayla where are you?!”
“Up here!” Mcayla yelled. Michael looked up to find
Mcayla looking over the fluffy creature holding the two columns together. The
creature started to move, and made Michael lose his balance. As the columns
turned around, Michael saw the head of a parrot on the fluffy base.
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