Both our Hearts

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: ANDY

The next morning came as fast as the speed of light. I awoke very early in the morning in order to set everything ready for Josh so he won't miss a thing for school.

As I was doing so, I got a call from John and Will telling me that they couldn't come to see me before going because their flight was put to fly out in the morning so; l said my goodbyes and John promised he will call as soon as they landed.

After half an hour I was done with Josh's stuff and woke him up to take a shower.
After the shower Josh checked if there was anything that I had left behind that he was going to need and added a few stuff.

Lydia arrived to pick up Josh.
We had a moment to say our goodbyes before Josh had to go.

As soon as Josh left Tae (Ki Tae) showed up as excited as l have never seen him before.
"What's making you grin," I ask him as l finish packing and putting everything in the car he came with since we were going with his car.

"Nothing, I just woke up like this." He says and I just nod because I did not want to argue with him it was too early to be arguing.

As soon as we get into the car Tae shouts 'Road trip' and I just ignore him.
He drives for 2 hours straight and I am now bored out of my mind, I was excited at first but the excitement died out after an hour and half.

"Are we going to get there already." I say so annoyed.
"Chill, I am now getting tired can we switch." He says and we switch.

After the switch I figured we still have a long way to go and I was getting impatience.

We pulled up on a drive thru and ordered ourselves some food to eat before we had to continue.

After a wholesome meal we drove a maximum of 2 more hours and that's when we stopped.

We both got down and to my surprise the road ended there, were we supposed to hike all the way to the place we are staying at Black Crystal.

As if Tae heard me he said, "Yes we are hiking from here so let's take our name badges and get the arbortec gloves."
"Make sure you don't carry anything else Andy, not even a phone. "  Tae tells me and l shrug it off and carry my phone. I mean how were we supposed to tell the time without our phones.

We did and walked for a kilometre before we stopped at a red tree. Most of the trees we had passed had a green demarcation on their trunks, but this one was all red.

I saw a small white button that was on the tree trunk and pressed it.
I am taken aback when the tree trunk opens and we both see a recorder, two walkie-talkies and a map.

We play the last recording that was  recorded.

"Welcome to your orientation Givens and Ruah.

To get to Black Crystal you have to pass through 3 challenges.

All three of them are in different trees. The second one you will find it in a yellow tree and the last one will be in a blue tree.

Your first challenge is Tree climbing, until you reach a yellow tree you must move from tree to tree without stepping on the ground or below the red demarcation.

Everywhere within the red region is bobby trapped.

You may begin. "

The recorder switches off.

All this was going to be timed so we had to reach there within an hour and half.

"What the hell," l question Tae and he laughs so hard that l almost get annoyed.

After laughing he then tells me the trick to actually do the tree climbing without any difficulties.

We had to pull tags at the top of most trees in order to get a rope swing from one tree to the other.

After nodding to what he had told me l smiled figuring it was not going to be as hard as l thought.
"See the best partner you will ever have." Tae says too proud of himself and l nudge him.

Tree climbing was a dog walk in the park considering we had gloves we did not get hurt.
We stepped down once we got to the yellow tree.

"That was not so hard." l say catching my breath leaning on Tae who was also catching his breath.

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