Fabeth by Cerenberger (ereader iphone TXT) 📕

still breathing heavily when I felt Addie come up beside me and hug me. I hugged her back and we sank to the ground shaking from relief and fear. It was over, and we were alive. Then the floor opened up below us creating a rift. Addie and I mercilessly plunged into the darkness. We were both to scared to scream anymore not that we could have, my throat was so raw from screaming and the dust I could hardly croak.

I squeezed my eyes closed and held on to Addie with bone crushing strength. Well since were going to die at least we were going to die together. But we didn't. Instead of crashing into the solid, pointy cave rock as i expected we fell in frigid water. The current immediately pulled us under and dragged us in the same directions as the water flow. When we first hit the water Addie was wretched from my grasp. Now I scrambled to find something to grab onto. But it was hopeless, the water was too fast and the rocks to slick to get a good grip and keep it. So I stopped trying to grab something to hold onto and just focused on keeping my head above the water and prevent my clothes from drowning me.


*****

I awoke some hours later to the feeling of something warm and gritty beneath me. Moving my hand slowly across my surroundings I tried to figure out where I was without opening my eyes. Sand. I was lying on a beach or shore of some kind, although it could be a desert to. No, I can hear water lapping softly against rocks. So I'm on a beach somewhere. Next I tried to open my eyes to see if I was correct, but I couldn't. They were crusted with sand.

Crawling towards the sound of water I wondered how I had gotten here. Am I by Silver Lake? Did everyone leave me behind again? Carefully I splashed water over my face and scrubbed the sand out of my eyes. I bet this was Addie's idea. Addie! Then it all came back to me, the party, the lake, the cave and finally falling through the cave floor with Addie and the water ride.

I shot up off the ground and immediately started shouting Addie's name. My voice was horse and barely audible but I kept shouting anyway. She didn't answer. I tried unsuccessfully to run around and find here but I was still shaky from free-falling and the water ride, so really I staggered around for a little while before I lost my balance and fell to the ground. Crawling yet again to the water I looked into it's crystal blue depths frantically trying to see if she was in there. She wasn't. I curled myself into a ball and just sat there crying. I had lost my best friend. I was the one who let go. It was all my fault.

There was some rustling in the trees near by me, but I ignored it until the tree said "LIZZIE!"

I jerked my head up and there she was. Addie! Alive, battered and bleeding, but alive. I wobbled to my feet and we ran at each other. We caught each other in a bone crushing hug. Neither believing that the other was alive. I don't know when I started crying again but I was shamelessly. Then I noticed that Addie was too. But she never cries.

"Oh my god Liz I thought you were dead! Oh I Can't live without you. You know I joke about it all the time but I need you. Your the Best friend I've ever had." Addie wailed.

"Your the best friend I've ever had too Ads. I thought I had killed you" I confessed.

After we had calmed down a little we did damage control. It wasn't that bad. Addie had some minor cuts and bruises on her arms and a pretty nasty one on her left leg She also had a very nice left black eye. We cleaned the cuts as best as we could and ripped up parts off my sweatshirt I had around my waist to wrap around her leg. I, like Addie, had small cuts and bruises on my arms and legs. The only major injury Addie deemed worthy to do anything about was a deep cut on my forehead above my right eyebrow. We butterfly stitched it with one of Layton's emergency pocket sized first-aid kits he always made us carry. It was a miracle she still had it after all the things we have gone through so far and the fact that she never listens to a thing he says. When the first aid was finally done being administered we stood up.

"Which way should we go Liz? And where are the boys?" Addie asked.

"They didn't fall with us, they were on the other side of the cave. As to which way we should go. Follow the stream coming from the lake maybe? What do you think?" I responded

"Well if we follow the water we can always follow it back, there's less of a chance of being even more lost than we already are" reasoned Addie.

"I agree plus we will always have water to drink if we stay close the the stream."

We had been walking silently for about thirty minuted when Addie suddenly said " Do you remember what I said back at the lake, about you being the Best friend ever?"

"Yeah why?" I answered

"Don't tell anyone I ever said those things. If you do I will deny it and then we are no longer friends understand." She demanded

I grinned at her "Of course, wouldn't want to ruin your reputation, show that you actually care about things"

She smirked back "Exactly!"

I laughed, at least I knew she was for sure okay now. Back to her normal wacky self.


******


Mark's P.O.V.


I watched helplessly as the ground swallowed Addie and Liz . I ran to the hole hoping to grab them and pull them back up. But I was to late. I was about to jump down the hole too, when I felt Layton wrench me back away from the hole right before a giant boulder would have crushed me. I gagged on the dust that erupted from the boulder falling. But apparently there was only a small weak part of the ground because the boulder covered the place where Addie and Liz had disappeared. I shoved at the rock as hard as I could but it wouldn't move. I used all of my strength to get it to move but it wouldn't . There was no way we could get to them now.

"What do we do now?" Layton asked

I sighed, "We continue down this tunnel and hope that where ever they fell to has the same exit as we do."

"Alright, but Mark?"

"What" I asked wearily

"Where's Missy?"


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