Teenage Love

Chapter 6

Date Written: Tuesday, October 12th, 2021

Mikey quickly yanked back. "You're head! I had completely forgot!"

Before I could reply we were attacked by bats. Everyone was screaming and swatting at them. I screamed when one touched my face, I then buried my head into Mikey's shoulder. I felt one land on my back and start crawling on me. I screamed into Mikeys shoulder and I felt him hit it off of me.

Finally, all the bats flew off. Mikey and I rejoined our group. My head injury once again forgotten. We all headed down the new tunnel, and Mikey left me and went a ways ahead of me. I saw him talking to Andi and she grabbed hold of his outstretched hand. They continued walking like that. Hand in hand. I felt my heart sink into my stomach, then jumped when I felt a hand on my shoulder. I whirled around to find Mouth there. Something tells me he saw the same thing I did.

He then looked at my head. "Are you okay? Your head is bleeding a little." He took a closer look and lightly touched the spot with his hand. I flinched away when he touched it.

"I'm alright. One of the pipes caught me." I say shrugging, half expecting this to get cut short.

"That was like forever ago. Does Mikey know?" He asked, as we kept walking.

"Yeah, but every time we addressed it we got cut off." I say shrugging.

He takes off his jacket to reveal a flannel underneath. He took off the flannel and put back on his other jacket. He ripped a piece of his flannel and flung the rest of it to rest on his shoulder. He had me stop and he carefully wiped the blood from my face. Without clean water it was kind of hard to actually clean it.

We then heard commotion from ahead of us. We looked at each then ran to catch up. We saw a beautiful waterfall. We all stared in awe. We then noticed a bunch of coins resting at the bottom.

"Wow!" Mikey says, eyes wide.

"It's a giant piggy bank!" Data says. Him and Mikey go further into the water.

"We're rich! I don't believe it." Andi says.

"You guys, we found it. We found the gold!" Mikey announces.

"Gold and silver! It's shining all over the place." Brand cries out.

I want to be happy and celebrate, but something seems off. It all seems so easy. You would think there would be more than one or two traps. Plus, I was still upset over Mikey and Andi. And my head still hurt, less but it still hurt. I went to mover forward when Mouth stopped me. He had already ripped a new piece of flannel and was dipping it into the water. He then came closer and started to actually clean up my cut.

"The good thing is, it's not as bad as it seemed." Mouth says when he finished.

"Good, I heard head injuries always bled more." I smiled at him. "Thanks Mouth."

"No problem. Uh, you better get back to your boyfriend. He looks like he wants to kill me." Mouth says looking over my shoulder.

I turn and see Mikey glaring at Mouth. I roll my eyes and go over to him.

"Hey Mikey, what's wrong?" I asked him.

"Nothing. How's your head?" He asked, finally taking his eyes off Mouth and turning to me.

"Its better. Mouth cleaned it up for me." I say taking his hand.

"So I noticed." Mikey says flatly.

"C'mon Mikey, what's wrong? I know there is something." I plead with him.

"It's nothing." Mikey says, still sounding a little upset.