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There was silence......Water droplets sounded somewhere, and it sounded as though, it was somewhere close. It's really frightening .The sound reverberated through my veins ......What is happening? ,Why am not in my bed at home sleeping? ,Why am I in this.......Wait! Oh my God! Is this a forest or something?, what am I doing in this place?, why does it look so ancient?, like am floating through a maze?,...... but am walking ,I can't feel myself!..Where am I ??? I panicked .."There has to be someone I can talk to somewhere".... , I heard myself say ...Then I moved ,I pushed aside the thorny shrubs, I kept on moving at a fast pace ..There has to be something,, I thought to myself...What is this place and why does it feel like am familiar with the environment???. I thought to myself as I kept moving...... Ouch!this shrubs are too pricky, I looked at my arm, it has developed red patches, my eyes were already watery, Is this a dream or what.....How could I have made it to this ..... What is even this place?.......This looks so real......If this is a dream, then someone needs to wake me up because right now,, am scared out of my wits.....I sighed. What if it gets dark, what am I going to do?.............. ...."Hello!"!!!...I yelled...... Nothing. Just the echo of my voice was delivered back to me...I kept walking,, till I came to a mountain. What kind of mountain is this?, it looks so gruesome, I stood there wondering which direction to move next. Maybe left, or right or...... Then I heard the sound....Like a gong ,it sounded from the top of the hideous mountain..What!?...Seriously!? How am I supposed to go up there ,I mean I couldn't even score a 40 in my climbing lessons on mountaineering .. I groaned. This really sucks!!!. I pondered on what to do for awhile. There has to be something somewhere ,I just have to look ,I don't really understand what is going on ,but somehow I have to find a way out of this hellhole .Maybe there's someone up there.I just have to look and if it means me climbing up there so be it..... I mean I have to be home before sunset lest my parents freaks out...I rolled my eyes ..Like they cared ..I could very much get lost in this mountain for a lifetime and no one will notice , they will probably think am still on my bed sleeping out my remaining worthless life..Mum always makes it obvious that she's scared for my life. Like am some rubber doll that can be blown away anytime by the wind..She will always tell Robert my brother to hold me close lest I hurt myself. For christ sake I am 20!...Yet has a meaningless life . I am weak, jobless ,couldn't even maintain a good relationship . My best friend Joan and her boyfriend with my other two friends Marvin and Drew has decided to rescue my life from drowning to some stupid "adventurous trip" they say.....Just right!!!!...Awwwn....How am I supposed to get out of here and get back home before they get there to pick me up ,and then think I've absconded ..We are supposed to leave by 12 and it's already , I made to look at my watch and discovered...I didn't have it on and I am on my nighties ....."Aaaaaaaaaaa"...I screamed ..What am I going to do now..No cell phone , no wristwatch ,no food , no nothing and on my nighties?.... , I have to climb that mountain because I need answers and if it means going up there to meet whomever it is then so be it!...I exhaled in anger.. I took the first plunge into the forest to find a climbable path up the mountain, I kept pushing off intruding leaves trying to get on my last nerve. This place is gloriously scary, it looked like one of those human eating forest from the movies .No Jennifer, stop that, I mean how can you even be having such awful thoughts in a time like this!...Focus Jenny Focus!...I kept walking , pushing aside leaves so as to see ahead . Then I saw it. Yes!.It has to be there. I moved at an unprecedented speed towards that direction. When I reached it, I exhaled a breathe I didn't know I've been holding .I checked out the place for supportive stones and smiled when I saw them. I steadied myself and then laid my hand on the first stone trying to elevate myself , one push, one push gggrrrrrrrrrhhhhh,,,,,ooooouuuuuu..,,almost there,,,almost there,,,,,,,,uuuuuuuuu,,,,,,Gbush!!....Ouuuuuuch! Was that the sound of my head hitting a rock??....The pain reverberated through my whole body .Breathe Jenny, I inhaled and then opened my eyes and tried to lift myself off the ground .I sat and clamped my head with my both hands , I sense an impending headache. I need rest but I can't, I just have to keep moving if I wish to reach the top before dark. With my last breathe I pushed myself off the ground and began my ascent with renewed resolution.... It was almost dark before I finally got to the top. I waited and listened, I was very certain the sound came from here, I mean I can't come all this way for nothing. It was certainly from up here. I stood and started walking forward...I stopped, crouched and listened.........I heard voices. Human voices ,yes yes yes!!!!...Am super_exhilarated ,I have to get to them as fast as possible. Then I stood and started moving towards the voices expeditely..... I saw them; a group of people gathered together. What in god's name are they wearing? The men were literally naked with leaves covering their private region while the women had their upper region exposed with the same amount of leaves covering their lower region . Are you kidding me right now? Like I was smacked on the face with shock., I crouched abruptly and observed them from my distance. What are they doing?.......Then I saw him, a man. He stood up from a throne_like chair and addressed them in a language am not familiar with .... He said something's ,and then stopped , then the people responded in unison something I can't relate to...Who are these people?, does people still live like this ,I mean this is 21st century for crying out loud and if they can't speak english ,how am I supposed to address them, Can they even help me?. I was still pondering on these when I saw the most disgusting thing ever _ A man hanging on a stake over a fire!...Wait what!!...This is barbaric...Cannibals???..Am so dead!...I didn't even know I've started weeping until I saw the tears spilling down my face....What am I going to do? If they see me they'll kill me...Maybe this was supposed to be a secret or some ancient people in a lost time right???....If I as much as move a limp, they will see me...How come I didn't see the hanging man at first? ..OK..They moved. Yeah. They moved while I was in my reverie ....The man is probably dead coz from the look of things he isn't moving .Then as if that wasn't enough, The assumed leader moved towards the roasting man added something to his body. Is that to spice him up or something?...Then he ....no no no no don't do it , please don't...He withdrew a knife from somewhere in his waist, cut off the man's d**k ,wait! d**k why his private part for Christ sake? and then ate it...There it is....my full...I can't do this anymore.. I puked my intestines out... once am done, I turned as silently as I can..I have to leave here before they see me..Somehow there must be a way...I moved still crouching ,I took first step, second, still crouching...Keep moving . Yea like a prowling cat..Almost there and........ Then I heard the worst sound of my entire life ... " Stop moving this minute"!...I've been caught, my heart was pounding, I could literally hear my heartbeat like it was about to fall off..Run. Run.Run.That was my mind speaking, I can't let them catch me, no matter what. I can't be killed and eaten like some worthless pork meat...I have to do something. I turned and saw them coming towards me..The leader was looking pointedly at me..Jenny how can you outrun these men?..No, focus!. This wasn't the time to acknowledge weakness...I turned and heard the leader say "running is at your own ..........I didn't let him finish. I took off, running blindly into the forest, I don't care if I run deeper into these hideous forest as far as am not caught..I can't die like this .....I've not even had s*x!....Scratch that. I have. But not with the man of my dreams.....Jennnnyyyyy what a thought to have at a time like this.....I kept runningggg...Then thud!....I fell...aww www...I hit my head on a giant tree and thump!..Not again!... I fell....No way..I stood and took my first step and then a hand clamped on my ankle ,the strongest arm ever. I pushed forward and cried "Let go of me!", Let me goo oo , I promise I won't tell anyone. Am lost, I just needed help before I saw u guys" "Please let me go" I said out of breathe .He dragged me to him, held my wrist and turned me round like I weighed nothing and then the weirdest thing ever happened. His eyes widened like saucers.....Holy moly! . He looked at me so intently, it was so intense, I was so frightened like a petulant kid, and manage to sneak a peek and bloody hell! this man had the most beautiful blue eyes ever!. I looked at him and kept on looking like I was not about to be roasted and then..,.. He opened his well shaped rosy lips and said ......."Rosalinda" ......wait what!...No no no ....Gorgeous, am not Rosa what??..My God I can't even get a hold on my self......He was saying something, listen nut case..... "I knew you will come back to me, I knew it"!..."Don't be scared, no one will hurt you ever again, not when am alive" he said ..He was happy to see me....Do I look like someone he knows or something?...I opened my mouth to speak but he stopped me by placing his index finger on my lips but I pushed it out ..and said ..... "Sor...Sorrry Sir, I don't know what you are talking about but I am not your Rosa Rosalind ,my name is Jennifer Amy, I...I..I don't even know you".. ..I stammered while gesticulating with my other hand...He drew me close..Ow ow ow..Hold on mahn, I mean I know you are macho and of course super_cute and... and all that but you got to cut me a little slack ...I thought...He looked at me with those dreamy eyes ..Oh my god!!!...With an eye like that, I could ......Then he said..... "It's okay Rosy, you can say whatever you want as long as you are here with me, that's all that matters, together we'll rule the world like were supposed to before they took you away from me" ....and then .....he kissed me..What!!!;...Dude just kissed me after eating a human d**k ...Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww.......I was floating again ,,the voices were distant ,like I was being drawn from my reality , it was like a knock and then a shout..That voice!...I know that voice, That's my mum!!!..What is my mum doing here???..Then ........ ....."Jenny wake up, wake up ,it's only a dream" .... "Baby"??..."Open your eyes ,you have to prepare before your friends get here ....You are sweating profusely, must have been a bad dream , wake up sweetie”She shook me......I opened my eyes and saw my mum looking directly into my eyes and I felt felt.......damp!!!,,,, I jumped up from the bed , and panicked .,..wait, it's just a dream , just a dream???...Omg.... "Mum"?... ...."Yes baby" she said ... ....."It was just a dream"?...I asked "Yes love, are you okay?" she asked ...."Yea'.....I said 'I thought I was going to die" ...I continued, looking around quite shaken from the dream... ....."No baby, don't say that...I mean why will you?...You need to take a shower and come down and have your breakfast before your friends get here" "Remember you are going to have the best time of your life with your friends out there and come back a better person yeah"?....Mum cajoled.. "Yes mum" I said...."Let me get to it" I emphasized hoping she leaves....I can't believe this. It looked so real....And the man. The leader, he looked superhot and he kissed me...That man is an adonis!!!!...And he kissed me!.....But he's a barbarian, that doesn't change anything.., Well twas just a dream right?........Mum was saying something again and I wasn't following ... ...."Jenny?" She said looking worried..Wait,my mum is concerned about me???...New...I internally rolled my eyes.. "Yes mum"....I said "Are you sure you are okay"? She asked "You can cancel,if you like"She said...No way! "No mum am good"...I said and moved off the bed towards the bathroom.....I am so taking this adventure with my friends!!!..Whoaaaaa!!!!!!! The last I heard was mum closing the door after leaving my bedroom..I smiled...What a dream!!!!.... My name is Amy Jennifer. A full blooded African .My parents always says my ancestors were one of the earliest migrants after the period of slavery and since then, we have grown to love America and calls it our home .This is all I know and have .My entire life has been here, my friends and all ,so I can't even imagine another place other than here. I live in Illinois with my family ,my Dad, mum and my brother Robert... .Life has not really been el dorado to me...I remember times I have considered suicide to end it all...Sometimes I just wish this is not my life, I mean who would want to be me?...I am a total loser...I have to switch up to like three different high schools because I couldn't bear the jibes of the other kids who thinks I am too weird . I try my best to flow along but it just doesn't connect . Mum once had me admitted for therapy but even at that I still can't figure out my life . Most nights I find myself far off . Yes this isn't the first time am having this kind of a weird dream . Just that this time, it's as clear as my very reality. Robert, that is my elderest brother and my favorite. He lives in minnesota, but spends most of his time at home being our parents favorite .He always tells me I have a purpose and thinks some day I'll figure it all out. He believes so much in me and thinks am super smart..I cried so much when he moved out at first until he promised to always come around . He asked me to move in with him, but I declined because I couldn't infringe on his new life .. ..Mum said he needed time to adjust to his new life. Joan ,Marvin and Drew are my three best friends .Sometimes I wonder what my life would have been without them...We were referred to as the three musketeers by Dad. They were super cool. We have been friends since grade 2, when Joan helped me ward off some cruel bullies .Yeah!. She's the Jackie Chan of the crew. Marvin and Drew are soooo adorable both Caribbean and Latino respectively..They're like the smartest kids in the entire planet and I wonder how they choose to roll with someone like me in the first place because am like the odd one in the group but they always say they were chosen to protect me... Marvin came up with this idea of an adventure. According to him, it was supposed to be like a project to him. He always has one project research or the other to carry out from his department or self given , but this means a lot to him because, as he says, he intends to delve into the wild to discover secrets that has long been buried but that are of great significance and will help solve one societal problem or the other and then he was at the library and came across this very interesting group of people whose activities has once helped shape America's major decisions. Further inquiries has confirmed their disappearance from the earth surface. From his perspective, such disappearance precedes doom. And then when he brought up the question in his history class ,his lecturer feigned ignorance and tried to quell his curiosity, which made him make it a personal responsibility to find out the truth . When he first mentioned it, I was totally against this whole show. Like who delves into ancient secret ,just for what???...From what I've read this kind of stuffs don't bore well and I don't want to be involved. But what will I do when my three friends has hung the death robe? , I have to go too, but I had to lie to my parents that it was a getaway to avoid too much inquisitiveness, I mean I don't even have answers to give them. I tried. I really tried my best to believe what I had was just a nightmare, but it refused to go. I just couldn't push the feeling away, and during this whole time ,I kept having this bad feeling that this so called "adventure"" is not going to turn out well......