Chapter Five: Alone

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Fiore sat on the log still, drenched to the bone. Her arms shakily stayed still as much as they could. She looked around and it felt like her luck was getting worse by the hour. Everyone was most likely celebrating, there was no chance of a wandering cameraman. Hell, she'd even take that annoying puppet.

"ACHOO!" She sneezed, starting to wipe her nose with her soaked sleeve.

She let out a yell of annoyance.

"WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME!? WHAT DID I EVER DO TO ANYONE!"

Back with the others at the motel. Everyone was wearing raincoats and holding umbrellas. It seemed they were all ready to continue their search. Connor looked at the others and put away his phone as he finished talking with Oliver once more.

"The others are on their way, I'm going in right now, because the sooner we get in there the sooner we find her."

Karol was already walking in with one of the wolves.

"Agreed, I'll see if this guy can find her."

"And?" Connor raised an eyebrow.

"I'll stop him from getting close to Fiore, and get close to her first." She nodded slowly.

"Good, you guys know where to go?" He looked at the rest.

Everyone knew the plan and their points of entrance. Miriam looked at the sky and then back at Connor.

"Well, one of us could stay here and wait for the others and explain where everyone already went?" She told him.

Connor thought for a second and nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, Miriam, could you do that?"

"Sure can." She nodded.

The others journeyed inside the forest. Connor was by himself, Karol had left with the one wolf, Lill was with Hunter, and James was with Lake. By each minute the rain was falling harder and faster. They needed to try and figure out where the girl was.

Lill slowly stopped and looked at two areas of interest that might lead them to Fiore. She stared at the trees in front of her.

"Something wrong?" Hunter asked, looking at Lill.

"No, when someone gets lost they'll look for resources, like food." She pointed to the tree, walking over to it and examined it closely.

Hunter followed behind her.

"Yeah, do you think she was here?" He followed her around, taking a look at the tree and noticing the bananas.

"Possibly, take a look around there, and I'll look over here." Lill told him, as the two began to look without any problems.

Fiore stared at a tree. The rain poured, the wind blew, and all Fiore could do was stare at a fucking tree. She had already walked around, but ended up in the same place as before. She couldn't remember how many hours she'd been there? Maybe it was two? Four? Seven?

She looked around in silence. Her stomach was crawling with hunger. She clung to it. Only remembering eating her breakfast. It was around lunch time when she decided to go on this great idea of a walk.

Never was she trusting nature again. Being alone was one thing. But not having anyone nearby was another.

It left her with her thoughts, and they weren't schemes of winning or manipulation. They were memories and words she was haunted by.

One of her memories was of her parents leaving her alone for a month without supervision and she had to make her own food....most of it was burnt or undercooked. Near the end of that month, she had nothing.

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