24 Hours

Chapter 13: Life's not fair

Me and Elliot stood in the opening, it was like a room in a house, there were no more tunnels.

"Is this just another dead end?" Elliot asked me.

"No, this ones different." I said, I inspected the area, I looked everywhere trying to look for some sort of evidence that this could be the right tunnel.

Then something caught my eye, it was a hole in the ceiling of the mine, it was small but noticeable.

"This is it." I told Elliot.

"How do you know?" Elliot asked.

I pointed to the hole, "That's where the light comes in."

He looked up, "Yup I think your right."

"How are we going to tell the others?" We didn't really make a plan on how we were going to tell each other if we found the right place.

"Guys we found it!" Elliot shouted at the top of his voice.

"Elliot shut up, these mines are ancient, they could collapse at any moment." I warned him.

I tried phoning Emily, Kylie and Logan but there was no phone signal.

Then I walked around a little and managed to get enough signal to phone Luke.

"Hello." I said into the phone.

"Hey Gabrielle, what's wrong?" He asked.

"We found the tunnel." I told him.

"Great, where are you?"

I told him the directions and which tunnels to go down to find us.

"Okay me and Emily will be there soon."

"Try calling Logan and Kylie." I told him.

"Ok bye."

"Bye bye." I hung up, Elliot was sitting on the ground so I sat next to him.

"What did Luke say?" Elliot asked.

"I told him where to find us and he said he'd be here soon." I said wearily.

"Are you tired?" Elliot asked me, I could tell he was tired.

"Yeah kinda." I said.

Elliot put his arm around me, allowing me to rest my head on his chest.

"Go to sleep." He whispered.

"No." I argued.

"Why not?"

"Because it's creepy you just staring at me sleeping." I giggled.

Elliot laughed, "Yeah I guess so but I'm so tired I'll probably fall asleep."

I closed my eyes and eventually drifted off to sleep. I woke up a while later to the sound of voices.

"Good morning princess." Elliot grinned at me, I looked around and saw everyone was there with us.