Child of Earth

31

I groaned, pulling myself out of the warm embrace of my Comatose Mattress.

Ebony, who was sleeping next to me snorted once and rolled over, almost completely pushing me off the bed.

"Oi!" I said, slapping her on the knee to get her to stop. She didn't. I grunted and stood up, making her fall out of the bed, landing on her back.

"Ah, Jesus Thai, just... no!" she mumbled rolling over and dragging the blanket down with her.

I shook my head and sighed, walking over to the bed that Nathan was in, or sort of anyway. He was lying in the bed diagonally so his feet and head were hanging off the edges while both of his hands were tucked under the pillow.

I had no idea how he managed to sleep like that, I just slept on my stomach with my hands under my chin and my forehead on the pillow, I mean it's not normal but it's not weird like Ebony and Nathan.

Nick didn't want to sleep next to Nathan because he knew that he'd fall off less than half way through the night so he slept in the water bed section.

I nudged Nathan on the shoulder and he sniffed once and rolled over, I sighed again and kicked the base of the bed, making it shudder and Nathan fell off the bed, landing on his stomach.

I laughed and kicked him again and he sat up hitting me on the leg.

"Get up we've gotta go." I said picking up his pillow and chucking it at Ebony who was still curled up on the floor like a massive caterpillar.

When the pillow hit her in the face, Ebony sat up throwing the blanket off her with a huff and chucked it back at me.

I caught it in my left hand with a smug look and she sneered playfully and stuck out her tongue before standing up and walking over to my backpack, pulling out her backpack from inside.

I walked over to my backpack and imagined Nick's black and grey hiker's pack.

The magic backpack was very small but it was wide meaning that as long as you could stuff it in one bit at a time, you could pull it back out again, like Marry Poppins's bag.

I pulled my arm out with Nick's pack in hand and chucked it to Nathan who caught it and chucked it at Nick's waterbed, landing on the edge of the bed before falling off, shaking the whole thing and waking Nick up immediately.

He sat up and stretched his arms before yawning and picking up his bag, heading for the boys bathroom.

"How come he didn't get a rude awakening like Eb and I?" asked Nathan as I passed him his bag as well.

"Because Nick gets up easily and I get up early, you two take ages."

He nodded thinking, before heading after Nick to change and get ready for our hike.

I hated that we had to leave this cave but saving the world came first and foremost and even though it felt like we had been here only a few days, the outside world might move differently time wise.

I sighed and pulled my bag out of the magic back pack and walked to the girls bathroom. I opened the door with a slight creak before entering the closest empty stall.

I heard Ebony in the stall next to me, constantly yawning and grumbling about getting up early.

I took a black T-shirt with the Green Day symbol on the back, a pair of black denim shorts and my black DCs. I put them on, also using some roll-on deodorant and brushing my hair and teeth by the sink.

Once I was ready I tied back my hair in a tight pony tail and left the bathrooms, waiting for the boys and Ebony to finish up when I noticed two people running around in between the mattresses scattered around the place.