??ONCE UPON A GIRL?♀️
??SHE’S JINXED (CURSED)??
(Beast of the jungle)
©GIFT OKORIE✍️
?CHAPTER 8?
I Couldn’t reply her until we got to the helicopter and it took off with ear deafening sounds.
Mexican jungle here we come.
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MARICHUIY’S POV ?♀️
The helicopter landed in front of a warehouse which seemed to be near a beach but on a small hill.
We all got down, salvador and his men went into the warehouse while we all hung around admiring the beach which was like half a mile from the hill, people at the beach were having fun, pla-ying games, dancing and other beach games.
“Its so beautiful” I heard Kiwi say.
“Yea, the sight is so magnificent.” Bathny backed up, I smiled as I stared at it.
I felt David’s pres£nce behind me, I turned and there he stood like a greek god, looking so h0t for a guy his age.
“I wish we are in mexico on a different circu-mtance” he stated as he stared at the beach, the bright sun shinning in his face made his skin color change to a light bronze, I smiled as I stared at him, he finally to-re his eyes off the beach and diverted them to me, he smiled back and win-ked his left eye, I swallowed ha-rd and tried so ha-rd not to let him see my cherry red cheeks.
I heard someone gr0@nfrom behind, we both turned and saw Kira, Michael was holding her in his arms but she was busy rolling her eyes at me. I wonder when she will st©p hating me for no reason.
I rolled my eyes and turned back watch the beach, I felt David’s hand snake throu-gh my shoulder, he drew me closer and I rested my head on his shoulder and that was when I realized how tired I was, I took a de-ep breath and closed my eyes for a while.
“Ughr, babe let’s get out of here” I heard Kira tell Michael but I didn’t turn to look at them, I wonder where they want to go.
“Where do you guys wanna go?” I heard ru-by ask them.
“Yea, cause the last time we tried to run away from this people, we ended up falling into their tra-p, so where do you wanna go now?” Henry added.
“Nowhere, just over there, we just want a quiet time” Michael replied, David scoffed but I didn’t know why and I don’t think I wanna know.
“Gush the water is so beautiful” Kira commented as she and Bathny sat by the edge of the hill watching the beach. For some reason i felt jealous, silly me, they are just beach-watching, its not like Bathny will st©p being my bestie again just because if Kiwi.
I sighed again.
“Are you OK?” Dave asked me.
I was about to reply ‘yes’ when toyota black camper drove in with high speed, blaring its horn as if its on a highway.
A tall slim but broad shouldered guy got out from the driver’s seat, he was dressed in a fake military p@n-ts, a white T-shi-t, a black boots and a brown shade sunglas-ses. His glas-sy dark oiled wavy hair was revealed when he took off his baseball hat.
“Oh, he is h0t” Henry cooed.
“Is there ever any guy who isn’t ‘h0t’ to you?” I asked him.
“Like you are not drooling alre-ady” he brushed me off, he ru-bbe-d his hands together multi-ple times. “I just can’t st©p thinking about how good he will be in be-d” he added.
“Be more concerned about how you’ve not had a bath since last night” Michael fired at him as he and Kira approached.
Are they done with their quiet time? David laughed a little, i blu-shed when I realized I had thought aloud, thank God no one else heard it.
I turned to Bathny and Kira, they had alre-ady stood up and was about walking towards us, she st©pped and stared at the man and then at Henry, she bent her head in disappointment, I didn’t nee-d to be told that she alre-ady knows what Henry is thinking.
“Bathny are you OK” I heard Kiwi ask her, she nodded a bit. “Then come on” Kiwi whined, she took her hand and they giggled as they ran towards us, I was tem-pted to be angry but I shrugged it off, we all can be friends, it won’t change anything, if she wants to join Bathny and I, she’s very welcome.
“I see our ride is here” we all turned to the entrance of the warehouse and Salvador and his men coming out. His men were carrying hvge bags, actually they were dragging the bags cause it was probably to heavy for them to carry.
They got to us.
“I’ve printed the map my brother s£nt to my email. And these….” He pointed at the bags his men dragged out. “Are our jungle gears.” He stated.
His men opened the big bags and started bringing out big backpacks, they tossed it to each of us.
“In each backpack, there are two bottles of water, snacks, can foods like spaghetti and beans, a can of soda, two match boxes, a flashlight and a slee-ping bag, oh also two apples” Salvador stated as his men shares the backpacks.
“I hate beans” the camper driver complained.
“Oh we are in this together baby” Henry whined and ran to him, he held his biceps and sniffed his scent, crazy. Bathny rolled her eyes.
“Dude must you throw yourself at any guy you see” she asked him.
“Must you interfere in my business” he fired back.
“I do not know what that was all about but I don’t care. Let’s move it people” Salvador said, he walked out towards the van.
“Move” his men beckoned on us. The camper driver walked out and Henry ran after him.
The rest of us walked sluggishly to the bus.
“I really nee-d a bath” I mumbled, Dave laughed.
“I un-derstand how you feel, girls can’t stand not having a bath for a day let alone two days, and mind you, we might be in that jungle for more than a week” he stated.
“plea-se don’t remind me of it” I whined and he laughed as we got on the bus.
“Let’s go to the back” I pleaded with him.
“Seems cool” he replied.
“What will happen if you stay here or anywhere but the back?” Kira asked. She and Michael were sitting on the second row by the window.
“What do you care?” Bathny fired at her.
“I wonder” Kiwi added. The both of them were sitting on the third seat row, by the left window, Henry was sitting directly behind the driver while ru-by was on the second seat behind Henry.
Salvador was in front pas-s£nger seat beside the driver, his men were on the first seat directly behind him, and they were both re-ading a book, funny and weird. Lol.
The back seat seam to be free from drama and quite comfortable as well, so no matter what Kira said, I’m sitting there and I’m taking David with me, she can go to h*ll for all i care.
“Let’s go Dave” I took his hand and slowly dragged him to the back while he laughed, I couldn’t resist laughing with him, even Kiwi and Bathny laughed but the funniest thing is that none of us knows why we were laughing.
“I hate you so much, bit-ch” Kira blurted out.
“The feeling is mutual girl” I fired back at her, she g@sped and turned to look at me.
“You know, the fact that I’m in this mess because of you makes me wanna strangle you” she barked.
“Wrong, you are here because you are so irresponsible that you can’t sit your bu-tt at home at night, instead you rushed off to go to a night p@rty, let’s just say you were at the wrong place at the wrong time” I fired back.
“Fair enough” Bathny said.
“Yea, Kira 0%, Mari 100%”
“That’s a weird short name” Bathny mumbled.
“Yea, we are still trying to figure out the right short name to give her” Kiwi replied.
“How’s that working for ya?” David asked.
“Not quite great” Kiwi replied and I had to f0rç£ myself not to laugh cause Kira and I are in a serious business here and I’m so re-ady for her.
“You guys don’t see it, she just insulted you as well, she said I was irresponsible and that’s why I was at the p@rty, you were also at the p@rty so technically she called you irresponsible.” Kira fired.
OMG, I didn’t mean to put it that way, sh*t, how do I fix this.
“I never said I was responsible” ru-by stated. Waaaaat. This guy. Lol.
“Neither am I, I was just there to find a b©yfri£nd” Henry added. Oh my God.
“And technically, I never wanted to go to the p@rty, you dragged me there, that didn’t make me irresponsible in anyway but it did make you an irresponsible bossy bit-ch” Kiwi stated.
“And i always tell my parents anytime I’m going to a p@rty, so I’m not irresponsible” Bathny added.
Kira stared at them all in shock, she turned to David hoping he would back her up. “Dave” she called him.
“I honestly don’t care what you think Kira” he replied.
“Babe?” She called Michael.
“Babe plea-se just let it go and relax.
“Oops, again, Kira 0%, and Mari 100%” Kiwi stated.
I noticed Bathny curl up to herself in quietness.
“Finally some peace in this bus” Salvador breathed out.
I stared at Bathny and she looked like she couldn’t believe these were her friends, to be sincere if I was the one my friends denied like this, it won’t be funny, I kinda feel for her but she’s just damned too rude.
“Babe are you OK?” Michael asked her but she waved him off and stood up.
She walked to the front seat, she tapped Salvador, he turned.
“Awwww, now who made the princess shed tears, the person kinda deserves an award, what is it princessa?” He asked.
“I beg you in the name of whatever you believe in, let me go home, plea-se” she cried out.
“But you know I can’t do that, we are not throu-gh with our mission” Salvador stated and faced the road, Kira didnt nee-d to be told that the conversation was over. She breathed in and turned to come back to her seat.
I really feel guilty now.
Michael walked up to her and wanted to take her hand but she st©pped him.
“plea-se I just want to be left alone” she insisted. She went to the only empty seat in the bus, she sat down and bent her hand.
“Hey don’t feel guilty, she always pl@ythat guilty card on people” Dave whispered to me.
“No, i know Bathny too well, I’ve never seen her like that, she’s really hurt this time” Kiwi stated.
“I wonder whose fault is it” Michael asked rhetorically as he eyed me.
“Hey don’t put this on Marichuiy, Kira started it” Dave fired at him.
“Can you guys just shut up!” Salvador barked at us and I flin-ched in fear, his voice is so scary.
We all bec@m£ quiet and relaxed back on our seats, but Michael went to Kira and sat beside her, he slid his hand on her shoulder and drew her to his che-st in a hvg.
“He really loves her” I mumbled.
“Yea, he does” Dave replied as he watched them.
I looked up at him and realized he kinda looked worried.
“What’s wrong?” I asked him.
“Nothing I’m fine, why do you ask”
“Cause you look worried” I replied.
“I’m good, I’m OK”
“Daaaave?” I called him and he giggled.
“Its nothing to worry about, I’m just a little concerned about our parents, I wonder how they are feeling right now” he complained.
“He really should have let you guys go, I mean this is my cross and nob©dy deserves to be tortured cause of me” I mumbled.
“It’s fine, we are here now, so let’s just hope we will find whatever it we are looking for, OK” he pasted my cheeks and i nodded, he smiled at me and I smiled back.
“We are here” Salvador announced. We all got out of the bus and behold a hvge jungle facing us, I began having goosebu-mps.
“No, no, no, no, I’m not going in there, there’s no fu-cking way I’m gonna go in there” Kira cried out.
“Hey, hey babe, it’s gonna he fine, I promise I’ll protect you, OK” Michael as-sured her and she nodded but still looked a little scared, she hvgged him ti-ghtly.
“God of America” Kiwi blurted out as she stared at what was facing her.
“OK, this Is no longer funny mehn” Bathny complained as she sl@pped her left leg to probably kill a bug.
“plea-se don’t tell me that was a mosquito” Henry asked her.
“What do you care?” Bathny asked back.
“Cause I hate those tiny vampires” He replied.
“Who loves them?” ru-by asked him.
“Maybe you do, but I certainly don’t” he replied.
“OK, less talking, more walking, let’s go people” Salvador commanded as he walked into the jungle, I saw a wooden old sign which has “Kuluvanda mountain this way” carved on it.
“Hey this my sign is still here, I put this sign 17 years ago” the camper driver stated as he t©uçhed the sign.
We all joined Salvador at the entrance.
“Hey, look” the driver called us to a tree.
“What is it?” Salvador asked him.
“Clara really did come back here, that woman is crazy” the driver said as he to-re an old scarf off the oak tree.
“Hey, my mum is not crazy, accord her with respect” I fired at him.
“You are clara’s kid?” He asked. He has an American accent, guess he’s American.
“Yes, and what’s with the dirty scarf?” Salvador asked.
“When we first c@m£ here years ago, clara had this idea of tying red scarvs on the trees so that we will be able to find our way back, but your brother didnt buy it, so we didnt”
“But now the scarf is here, which meand…” Bathny started, she turned to look at me and I realized what she was driving at.
“My mum tied that scarf” i stated and took the scarf.
“But it looks dirty and tattered, which means its been here for long” Kira stated.
“That’s true, that’s because its been here for two years” Michael said.
“What if she’s alre-ady out of the jungle?” Kiwi asked.
“If she was, she would have re-moved the scarf” the driver replied.
“What if something has happened to her and the husband?” One of Salvador’s men asked and I felt like knocking him out.
“Only one way to find out, if this scarf st©ps on a tree and we are not yet at the ancient temple, then that means something happened to them but if it didnt, lucky her, this will be fun, come on children” he walked out.
“How can he find it funny that something might have happened to my mum, my parents actually?” I cried out.
“Don’t worry we will find them” Dave as-sured me. He took my hand and we joined the rest in exploring the jungle.
“There is nothing fun about any of this” ru-by complained.
As well got dee-per into the jungle, bugs were alre-ady feasting on us, the squeaky trees made it seem as if we are acting a horror movie and the cobwebs, disgusting.
“Aaaaaahhhhh, oh my gush, snake” Kira cried out as she stared by her left.
“It’s just a tree br@nch, Kira can you not be dramatic for once” Bathny fired at her.
“She wasn’t lying, there’s a python over there” Michael screamed and pointed by the left.
“Ruuuuuuun” Henry shouted when we finally noticed the big python, as if he was targeting us before, the python started jumping from tree to tree, it finally landed on the ground and started chasing us, I went rigid and froze on my sp©t.
“Marichuiy come on” David dragged me and I finally got my leg and began to run.
“It’s behind me, it’s behind me, help!!!” We turned and saw kiwi and before we could say jack, she fell face flat.
“Kiwi get up” Dave screamed at her, but it was too late, the python was alre-ady hovering over her.
“I’m gonna go get her” ru-by stated.
“Are you insane, you won’t make it ru-by” Kira screamed at him.
“We can’t just leave her” Dave backed up.
“Let’s find another way” Kira shouted.
“Help me, plea-se” Kiwi cried as the python curled around her.
It opened its mouth to take her in hut we heard a gun sh0t and the python fell down like a thousand yards of fabric, Kiwi ran as fast as she could, I rushed to her and helped her up.
“You had a gun all this while and you didn’t think you should fire it sooner” Bathny yelled at Salvador whom I realized now was the one who sh0t the python.
“I forgot, let’s go” he shrugged and walked out.
“This man is a devil” ru-by grumbled.
“Hey Marichuiy what if that python killed your mum?” Kira asked me.
“You are an idiot” I fired at her.
TBC……
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OMG, are you sure they are gonna walk out of this jungle alive ???