Chapter 5: The Journey

This is a joke right?

"HEY YOU LITTLE PUNK, DON'T YOU EVER DARE TO COME INFRONT OF ME YOU FLIPPING EMOTIONLESS STONE! I'M GOING TO-" What would I do? It's not his job to take care of me, nor going through all of this with me.

"To do what?" A male voice said behind me. Turning around, I saw Dwayne with two backbags in his hands, while looking at me with a icy cold stare. The realization, that he actually stayed and didn't left me behind, made me feel at ease. But his stare...

"These bags contains everything we need for the next few days" He said and turned around.  Wait a minute... Normally, I would just follow him like yesterday and wouldn't analyze what he has or not, but THAT is something I really need, especially RIGHT NOW!

"Is that a sleeping bag?! Why do you have one, I want one too!" I quickly said and stopped in front of him, not giving him the chance to walk any further. I'm not going to sleep on this cold hard ground again!

Silence.

"You know what, I'm going to find myself one." I was about to walk away, when he suddenly held me by my wrist and looked me intensely into my eyes.

"There was only one left, so now stop being noisy, we have to find a way out of here." he said, loosening his grip around my wrist and walked away.

Stupid arrogant bigheaded dumbhead! Why do I even do this to myself?!

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Time passed by and we halted at a few huts to find something, that could be useful for us. Since we didn't knew, how long this situation could last, we could need everything ,we could find. Being prepared for everything is key guys, key! I don't have to say out loud, that

'Doing what we are good at! Or at least what you memorized to have at least a normal conversation with others'. Well, you're right. let's do this, shall we?

"Dwayne, what colour does a burger have?."

Silence.

"Burgundy!" I said and quickly looked at his face to see a reaction. He was not showing any reaction at all. So he is a tough one..

"Okay second round: How do you make holy water?"

Silence.

"You boil the hell out of it!"

Silence.

"I asked my dad for his best dad joke and he said, 'You'." Did I really just say that? Frustrated, at how my hard work wasn't appreciated, I looked at Dwayne. To my surprise. I actually caught him grinning. Hold on-,That son of a bachelor, how dare you grinning only after I insulted myself? Let's see if this is still funny to you you mendacious dumbhead! Acting like you didn't found it funny at all, huh?! "Dwayne you know, you have two parts of brain, 'left' and 'right'. In the left side, there's nothing right. In the right side, there's nothing left."

Silence. 

AND THE VICTORY IS MINE! But it makes no sense if he doesn't reacts to it..."Gosh, talking to you is like trying to explain social media to a 70 years old. Do you even have a brain that works properly?"

"Brains aren't everything. In fact, in your case they're nothing." Dwayne said.

You little- "Do you practice being this ugly?, or does it come naturally?" I said with a pouty face.

"Any similarity between you and a human is purely coincidental." he said with clenched teeth, while being now a few inches away from me. And I'm definitely not going to let that sit on me!

"Keep talking, someday you'll say something Intelligent." I took a step further. Strangers would probably say, that this scenario would be completely perfect for a romantic movie, but dear lord, I am about to chop his head off!. Yeah, I'm going to chop his head off, if he dares to say something dumb enough, to make my temper boil like crazy. Dwayne leaned down to my ear and paused for a second. In this little amount of time, I felt his hot breath against my skin and not only that ladies and gentlemen, I actually started to feel really intimidated.

"Be careful Holly, you don't know with whom you're talking to-"

"Tabi sa?" A male voice said behind Dwayne. We both looked at him. He had a few cuts on his legs and his clothes were totally worn out. I assume, was hitted by the Tsunami too. Which is actually quiet obvious at the sight of this half destroyed country. I would be in his situation too, if I hadn't had that dumb headed Dwayne.

"Oo?" Dwayne said and turned to him. It seemed like that man and Dwayne communicated easily. That their conversation was about a route, was quiet obvious. I mean, the man was showing Dwayne some directions with his hands. While waiting for the two of them to finish their conversation, I looked at my clothes. My oversized white T-shirt is by now completely dirty and my skinny jeans too. You ask, why I am wearing oversized clothing?

"Salamat."

"Ok ra to oy" the man said and walked off.

"So what now?" I asked after Dwayne turned back to me.

"The man said, that we have to go to the south to find help."

"Then we should go and don't waste time"

"No, we're going north."

"...Wait, what?"

"The south side of Palawan is much smaller, which means, that the Tsunami destroyed more than the half of the place there. The north side is much bigger. The chances to find help is quite big there."

"You just assume that right?"

Silence.

"I have to take care of something there" he said and walked off.

Hours passed by and it was getting darker with every passing minute. It's been quiet a while, since we walked into a jungle like forest. Okay it's only had been half a day ago. I didn't wanted to exaggerate, so I stayed silent, but something about this forest made me feel really uncomfortable and uneasy at the same time.

"Let's stay here for the night" Dwayne ordered. Oh hell no, I can't stay here. The forest is the home for all bad things! Spiders, and I don't know spiders could be everywhere!

"Don't you think we could go a little further and find another place to stay?" I said friendly enough to change Dwayne's mind. And I have to admit, that his answer didn't surprised me at all.

"We are staying here. Others would steal our things, while we are sleeping." He told me, while packing his things out. Watching him opening his bag and picking a few things out, I wondered, if he was carrying something, I should know of. I know this man since yesterday. Who knows who he is! Immediately opening my bag, I picked out two canned foods and gave one to Dwayne. Searching up for a few more things, I found out, that my bag contained a water bottle, a knife, some canned foods, a rope, a spoon, a matchstick pack, soap and a comb.

.............

"Can we atleast put on a little fire it's getting colder"

"No."

Stupid dumbhead.... "Why are you always against everything that I say?!" I crossed my arms. Again, he remained silent, and I watched him opening his sleeping bag. 'I want one too' My inner voice said pleading. While my inner self was crying over a second night on the cold hard ground, I watched Dwayne stepping inside the sleeping bag. Now he was looking at me.

"Do you want to sit there the whole night or what?"

"Huh?" I said confused. Slowly, I realized what he wanted to say. Oh my God, this is my first time sleeping next to a guy in my entire life. 'What are you even talking about? You didn't even gave a chance to anyone!' True that... Dwayne turned his back to me and left me a little space. The more I thought about it, the more it felt awkward sleeping next to him. I have to do that, since I don't want to sleep on the cold hard groundagain...

Okay Holly, breathe in breathe out. Everything will be fine. Slowly but surely, I stepped inside the sleeping bag. Our backs were now against each other, touching. The sleeping bag was not that big. I mean, this sleeping bag was considered for one person. I think the rest explains it from itself. It's a little bit tight, but bearable. The only thing that wasn't bearable, were our body warmth, which was making everything much worser... Gosh, why do I feel so intimidated, he doesn't even care at all!! He surely had a lot of girls in his bed, that's why he is sleeping so peacefully-

Holly! don't think too much just sleep!

..............

The next morning

or

should I say dawn?

Suddenly, Dwayne halted and I stopped right behind him. I peeked from his side, to see what exactly stopped him from walking. And it didn't looked pleasing at all.

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Hey Lovelies,

I hope you liked this chapter!!! It's getting colder here and I'm freezing...

Have a lovely day

Hati.