THE TUNNEL

FIRE

IT had been two hours since Universe had to piddle.

Two hours of complete boredom.

With a sigh, universe took out a bag of marshmallows from her backpack.

She still had a lot of snacks and water in her backpack to feed them both.

Even if the bad boy wasn't a huge fan of sweets.

Ripping open the cover, she stuffed her mouth with marshmallows and began to chew.

" Dwo ywo cwor? "

( Do you care? )

The asked with her mouth filled with marshmallows and the bad boy looked at her before shaking his head in amusement at her unlady-like manner of eating.

Surprising spotting five flint stones at a corner, Corey Knight shifted his gaze to the marshmallows in her hands and the stack of sticks at another corner.

" Perfect "

He muttered before getting up and picking up the items and setting them in between himself and the naive girl.

" What are you d-doing? "

Universe asked after swallowing down her mouthful of mashed marshmallows and sitting up straight.

" Fire "

He muttered before checking if the sticks were wet.

" But we don't have a m-match box "

She said and he looked up at her after dropping the sticks.

" Hand me the empty packet "

He ordered and she scrunched her face in confusion before throwing the empty packet of marshmallows to him.

The bad boy caught it with ease and placed it on the floor before joining the medium sized sticks together.

" To make a spark I'll need friction. When you rub two sticks of wood together you get friction which creates heat and in turn creates a spark, then a flame, which eventually creates fire. I could strike these two stones together "

He explained.

Universe grinned as that had been the longest he had ever said in their time spent together.

The naive girl watched as he repeatedly struck the two stones together while flinching at every spark it made.

Finally, it let out a bigger spark and the bad boy joined it with the empty packet which had been placed on top the joint pieces of wood.

Gradually, the packet burnt, also slowly transferring its fire to the sticks underneath it.

The bad boy got up and approached the now pouting girl.

" I w-would have roasted my marshmallows if I had know t-that you'd make fire "

She whined as she stared at the burning sticks.

" My bad "

Corey Knight said with a smirk as he also joined her in watching the flames, light reflecting on each of their faces and shadows reflecting on the dark and rocky walls.

Too focused on the flames, Corey Knight failed to notice as the naive girl made a form of a spider with her fingers which reflected on the walls.

" Spider! "

She yelled and the bad boy's head immediately snapped forward before noticing the shadow of a spider and immediately scooting forward in fear to look behind him.

Seeing the form of a spider made on her fingers, he narrowed his eyes at the naive girl while she burst out laughing.

Tears spilling out of her eyes as she clutched her stomach.

" Ha-ha very funny "

Corey Knight said unamusingly, before rolling his eyes and returning to his position beside her while suppressing the smile that threatened to break out on his face.