Escape

Screw it, Just Pull!

Linda was trying to bend the sheet of metal Sam had acquired, and Sam herself was fiddling with the metal grate. They needed to make a shovel, but had no way of creating a handle.

As Sam put the grate aside to try something else, the lights flickered slightly before dimming Linda knew what it meant, as Sam had recounted everything that had happened since waking up.

"Six o'clock!" She said cheerfully. She put down the metal and took a drink of water.

"Should we take a break? We've been trying to make a freaking shovel for the whole day!"

Sam sighed. "It's only been several hours, Linda." She said, examining the screw and twine.

"Besides, we need to escape, remember?"

Linda cringed at the word 'remember.'

"I know..." She whined out. "But why can't we enjoy ourselves?"

Sam threw the screw to the ground, giving up on the task at hand.

"Okay, fine. What do you want to do?"

Linda responded by unraveling the twine and holding it out.

"Jump rope?" She suggested.

"I don't know how to play." Sam said. "I don't think I'm the kind of person to do things like that. I don't know... Can you remember anything?"

"No!" Linda cried, dropping the 'jump rope.' Sam stepped back slightly as she sighed.

"Sorry for snapping, Sam. I'm just frustrated."

"I know." Sam agreed with her mouth full. Doing practically nothing for a few hours had made her hungry!

"We need something to do. Something useful. But what?"

"That I don't know." Sam put down the bread and began fiddling with the piece of paper. She began folding it, not knowing what she was making.

Linda sat against the wall.

"We need to brainstorm."

"No duh about that. But I'm out of ideas." Sam finished her creation, an origami crane. She didn't know where she learned it, but she remembered how to do it.

Linda crouched down near the metal container and pulled at it. A faint rattling noise was heard.

"Sam! Did you hear that?"

Sam dropped the paper crane and raced over.

"No, do it again."

Linda reached for the metal again, when Sam stopped her.

"Kidding, I heard that." She said. "There's got to be something here!"

Linda nodded.

"Let's just try pulling it out!" She said enthusiastically.

"I already tried that." Sam remarked, frowning.

"But with both of us it might work, right? I mean, the whole shovel idea obviously isn't working." Linda said, rolling her eyes. Sam noticed and playfully slapped at Linda.

"That was your idea, remember?" Linda stuck her tongue out teasingly at Sam and got into a position to lift the metal. Sam followed her movements, right on the other side. Her fingers curled around the slight lip of the container.

"On three."

"So, like, a second after three?" Linda asked.

"No, right as I say three."

"Why three?"

"Screw it, just pull!" Sam cried, tensing her arms as she heaved the metal out. At first nothing happened. The edge of the metal dug into her hands as well as Linda's, but the metal creaked slightly before, quite suddenly, popping out. Lind and Sam let go in surprise, and the metal dropped back down. Linda reached in and looked at it. The container was about a foot long and a foot wide( 1/3 a meter by 1/3 of a meter. Maybe a little more).

As Sam was studying the box, Linda was holding something up in triumph.

"Linda... Correct me if I'm wrong, but is that... A shovel?" Sam laughed. The whole situation was just... Wow. They had been trying to make a shovel this whole time, and here was one...

"That's not the only good news, look!" Linda pointed to the ground beneath the box.

Dirt. Dark, damp dirt.

"Oh, hell yeah!" Sam exclaimed.

"We can dig!"

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Hey guys, sorry this is short, I haven't updated in a while and I wanted to get this out... Once I hit 1000 reads on my Truth or Dare book I'm celebrating by trying to update all my books twice in one (maybe two) days!