The Prophecy

Chapter Seventeen

We decided to talk in the board room since it had enough chairs for all of us to sit in. My friends sat on one side while my team sat on the other. They stared at one another in silence, unsure of how to act with each other.

Trevor was seated to the right of me while Daniel to the left, facing each other while I was at the head of the table. It seemed fitting since I knew I would be the one doing most of the talking anyways.

"Okay so I'm sure you all have a lot of questions, who wants to go first?" Everyone's hand shoots up into the air all at once. Welp, this was going to be a long day.

"Grace," I call on her. I knew she would get straight to the point with her questions. Enough to summarize what everyone is mostly asking in their heads.

"So up to now you thought your team was dead," she points to me. "And you all thought she was the one who had died?" My teams nods their heads.

"Wasn't there any way to contact each other or send a message to her letting her know like hey I'm alive, not actually dead..." They shake their heads.

"We couldn't. They stripped us from everything that we had and just left us with the clothes on our backs."

"What did you guys do for the past five years then?" Fred asks.

"I wouldn't have lasted that long without dick..." I'm sure Casey meant to whisper that to Grace but instead she announced it to the entire room. We all laughed as Casey squeaked out an "oops," then proceeded to avoid eye contact with everyone as she fiddled with her hands.

"Well, sadly we had to." Hannah smiles, amused. "But that was the furthest thing from our minds. We all were put into one room which we had to share. They were decent enough to give us cots and meals each day but we were mostly alone together."

"I'm surprised you guys hadn't gone insane." I crack a smile when they glared at me.

"Well we were used to each other and our annoying habits by then. I mean Hannah was always complaining while Tori was tidying up the place. Lee was sleeping around like me and little Danny boy here was sulking away at the loss of his one true love."

"Seriously we are not kidding the boy was utterly heartbroken." Hannah whisper-yells but everyone still heard her.

"Was not." He rolls his eyes.

"Please you wouldn't even talk to us for months! It was hard on us too, but it hurt a heck more when all you would do is just mope around all the damn time and blame yourself for what had happened!"

"Next question?" I ask. I didn't want to hear how bad it was being down here all that time, it just made me feel even more guiltier than I already felt.

"What happened when you told our parents?" Tori's voice cracks at the mention of her parents. I glance down at my lap, unable to look at them in the eye suddenly.

"First, I had to explain to the police that we got lost on our way home and some group had jumped us. Then, I had to explain how we all got scared and ran away. Before I knew it we had all gotten separated. They sent a search team looking for all of you but after a few months they gave up."

"And our parents?"

"They never did. They still believed you were out there somewhere." They remained quiet, looking at one another with somber faces.

"Wait, you didn't tell them that they were dead?" Zack sits up from his laid back position. "But it's their parents! They had the right to know what had happened to them and yes, before you all point out the obvious of them being alive and all... their parents didn't know that. You, didn't know that! Why didn't you just tell them?"