The Last Time I Saw Her

Chapter 8

In mere seconds, everything took place as though it was in slow motion. Focus and determination was the only two things on Lauren's mind. Watching in complete fear as she could only observe the brunette freefall before her, Lauren tried to increase her speed of where they were going to stay or what they were going to do.

Falling 979 meters, the green eyed girl didn't see any ground below them. With only the sea water crashing into the side of the mountain below them, Lauren removed any notion of trying to swim in that. Maintaining her visual on the brunette now merely a few feet away from her, the green eyed girl watched as Camila stretched out her arms to try to reach out for her. Lauren could easily see the panic form in those chocolate brown eyes she's loved for years. Tightening her jaw as she got closer to the petrified brunette, Lauren managed to successfully grab hold of Camila's waist as she held the girl close to her; engulfing her into a hug.

Relief. That was all Lauren felt as she held Camila as tight as possible even though they were both still falling. Taking in a deep breath to steady her own heartrate at the thought of losing the brunette, the green eyed girl finally controlled her emotions as she extracted one of her machetes and dug it as hard as she could into the side of the cliff.

Immediately forcing their bodies to collide at such an impact with the cliff, Lauren felt her arm holding the machete feel majority of blunt as she used her left arm to shield Camila's back from hitting the cliff.

Visibly seeing and feeling how shaken Camila was in front of her, Lauren's main priority was to access the beauty of any injuries. Scanning her eyes thoroughly over the brunette to make sure she wasn't harmed, the green eyed girl finally spoke up. "I got you, I got you. Are you okay?" she breathlessly asked out of breath. Noticing the brunette staring at her hands which was gripping tightly onto the collar of her shirt, Lauren tried to force the girl to look at her. "Camila, look at me. Are you ok?"

"Yeah" was all Camila was able to stutter out.

"Yes?" Lauren asked more forcefully to break the girl out of her current stupor.

Finally drifting her eyes up to meet Lauren, Camila a bit more confidently responded. "Yes"

"Good" the green eyed girl nodded as she began to access the situation they were in. Absolutely nothing but a wall of rocks was in front of them, the sea below them and the sky above them. "Ok. Ok. Alright, listen" Lauren stated as she took in everything she saw she could use. Positioning her feet within one of the rock formations, the brown eye beauty looked at Camila. "I'm going to need you climb on my back"

"What? Are you crazy? There's absolutely nothing below us" Camila yelled out as she gripped the green eyed's girl shirt even harder.

"Camz, you need to trust me okay?" Lauren stated calmly. "I'm not going to be able to move unless I have my arms and legs. You won't fall. I have some rope we could use to make sure of it"

"Move?" Camila exasperatedly asked. "Do you want climb back up there? It's going to take you the entire day. Can't we just stay here? Your team will come for us right?"

Lauren knew the brunette was scared. She knew Camila didn't want to move since they were seemingly safe for the moment. "We're sitting ducks if we just stay right here plus the team is a bit busy at the moment. We need to at least try to get an advantage over where we are"

"And where are we?" Camila shouted.

"I'm not entirely sure but somewhere on Mount Davis" Lauren answered as she looked up. "But I think I saw an opening when I was trying to get to you. It's about a mile and half to the right. If we start now we could get there before night fall" she stated before gazing back down at the brunette. Immediately seeing the beauty look down in fear, Lauren felt her chest dip. "Hey, look at me. Everything is going to be fine. You just need to trust me okay?"