Dark Moves Of Love ~ Neymar Jr

Chapter 68

"Fuck David! How is this even possible?" I asked.

"I don't know!" He said. He had taken his map and spread it to the ground and was trailing the path we took with his hand. "It should have been here!"

"Are you sure we didn't make a wrong turn?" I asked him.

"Yes! No!" He said. "I mean, I don't think so!"

"You don't think so?"

"I can't be 100% certain but yeah!"

"Oh my God." I whispered. "This is exactly what we needed right now." I said glancing up at the sky. The sun was obscured by black clouds; it looked like it would rain soon. "And I'm guessing no one looked at the weather prediction!"

David looked up at the sky as well. "They're never really accurate you know."

I opened my mouth but then decided against answering.

"I wonder what the others are doing, with no map." David said.

"We have a map! And I can't say we are faring any better!" I said as I got to my knees and started looking at the map as well.

"Still no signal." David said. "And the last people we came across were almost an hour ago. And going the opposite direction. What if we go back?"

"We've been walking for almost three hours. The shelter is bound to be here somewhere! And I'm not sure we can find the way back anymore that we can find the way forward right now! If we keep going we're bound to find civilization at some point, if we don't get eaten by wolves first!" I said looking at the trail. "It'll start raining soon and OH MY GOD!" I yelled the last words.

"What happened?" David asked kneeling next to me.

"David this map is from 1982!"

"What?"

"This map is 30 years old! No wonder nothing is where it's supposed to be! Where did you get it?"

"Gift shop in Rio. It can't have changed that much! The shelters will be in the same positions!"

"No they're not! I heard Marcelo telling Peter! There was a fire a few years ago, they rebuilt two shelters! And the trails must have changed too."

"You're kidding." David said but I didn't bother answering. "And this place is huge." He said and for the first time I could detect uncertainty in his voice.

I took my water bottle out of my backpack only to see it had one sip left. "I hope it rains then, I am so thirsty."

"Eghh." David made a sound.

"What?"

"Rain water isn't drinkable in Brazil. Not without filtering."

"You're kidding, right? This is a nightmare!"

"I still have some water if you want." David said taking a full bottle out of his backpack. "I took all the remaining bottles with me." He told me as he gave it to me and showed me two more bottles in his backpack.

"Thanks." I said as I tried to drink as little as possible. "What are we going to do now? We have no map, no way to know where we are and in this light it's practically impossible to retrace our steps and go back to the car."

"What if I got up on a tree, try to see if I recognize anything?" he suggested.

"David this isn't the hunger games." I said ironically.

"Isn't it though?"

"You are enjoying this! You are actually having fun right now!" I shoved him as hard as I could.