Survival.....

Chapter 22: Leaving The Cave

(Yes, I know what you're all saying.. "How dare you not update in a million years!" ..And.. "God! Finally you updated!" But you know... stupid school always getting in the way.. What's the point of it anyway?! Oh right... education... DARN YOU EDUCATION!!!! WHY MUST WE LEARN!!! *Falls to knees dramatically* So... *Gets up* Oh yeah!!! Onto the chapter!!! >:D)

I woke up to the sun shining. I finally fell asleep last night and only got a few hours of sleep. I knew I would have to face the morning at some point. I groaned and sat up. Katy and Bri were still asleep. Why was I always the first to wake up? I grabbed the hollowed out coconut shell and climbed down to the ground. I walked over to the berry bush. New berries were starting to grow. Yay! I filled the bowl and climbed back up to the cave. We still were not all the way recovered from the death of Janette. I popped a few berries in my mouth and sat on the ground. I had an idea. We needed to get away from here. Away from the bad memories. I walked over to Katy and Bri to wake them up. I walked up to Bri and shook her shoulder. Her eyes opened groggily and she sat up. She rubbed her eyes and yawned. I walked over to Katy and shook her shoulder she rolled over and grumbled, "What." "Wake up," I said. "No," she said. I shook her again. "Ugh, Fine, I'm up!" She said sitting up and stretching. "Good," I said. "Alright guys I have a plan," I began. "Well go ahead and tell us Miss Julia," Katy said saluting me. Bri and I giggled and I continued. "I think we should leave," I explained. "Like, you know, to get away from all these bad memories, or at least try and forget about them." "So leave this cave?" Katy asked. I nodded. Bri shrugged her shoulders and said, "Sure, I guess we can do that." I looked at Katy waiting for an answer. "Ok," she said. "Lets do it!" I smiled and said, "Ok then, it's final. We leave tonight." They nodded and I gave them the bowl of berries, after we ate all the berries Katy said, "Ok, if we're leaving tonight we better get prepared." Bri and I agreed. "Okay, lets search through the bags and find stuff that could be useful," Katy said. We nodded and headed off toward the bags. I took Janette's bag. I looked through it tossing things into two different piles; useless and useful. Shirt, useless. Brush, useless. Shorts, useless. Water bottle, useless. Wait a minute! WATER BOTTLE! Since when did she have a water bottle?! "Janette had a water bottle this whole time?!" I said. Katy and Bri looked over. "Cool, it looks like the one we got at Zoomers a few months ago." "Omg! It does!" I said. "Why didn't she use it while she was here?" Bri asked. I shrugged and said, "She probably just forgot." I put it into the useful pile and continued searching through the duffel. Shirt, useless. Pillow, useful. Pants, useless. I looked around a little more and found just clothes. I put all the clothes back into the duffel and brought the water bottle and pillow over by the fire that was surprisingly still aflame. I added the rest of the wood to the fire and sat beside it waiting for Bri and Katy. Katy and Bri walked over. Katy had Janette's blanket folded and a flashlight. Bri didn't have anything since she didn't have a duffel and mine was empty. I looked around and realized something. "Hey guys.. where's Ari?" They looked around and shrugged. I started to panic. Where was my puppy?! Just then I heard barking. I looked outside and saw Ari standing under the tree and barking up at us. "How'd he get down there?" I asked. "Oh yeah.. I let him out to go to the bathroom... then forgot him," Katy said. I facepalmed myself and said, "Katy! How could you forget him?" "Uhhh... I don't know," She said. We all giggled and I climbed down to help Ari up. After I got him up I said, "Okay now let's pack." We dumped out any leftover sticks from my bag and put it to the side. We had to leave Janette's bag behind because we couldn't carry another bag. I put the flashlight, balnket, and pillow in my bag A.K.A. The Resource Bag. As it has become. We each grabbed a bag and I looked around the cave one last time. This place had saved us..but I knew we had to leave. There were too many bad memories. I sighed and said, "Okay, let's drink up and have something to eat.. then we'll leave." I grabbed Ari and made my way down the tree for the last time. When we got down I drink as much water as I could, knowing we might not have water for awhile. Katy and Bri did the same. I then filled up the water bottle and put it in my bag. We ate a bunch of berries. We couldn't keep the berries because they would be smashed in my bag. We jumped into the water with our clothes on so we would wash ourselves and our clothes. I noticed we all still had our matching llamacorn shirts on. I realized that Janette died with my extra llamacorn shirt on. I was glad because she would always have a piece of us to keep forever. As we washed off we caught a few fish in the process. I got out and brushed my long brown hair. Katy and Bri doing the same. I then put the fish we got into my duffel. We had a total of eight. That would last us a while. I changed into a skin-tight black shirt and skinny jeans. I looked at myself and saw the supposedly "skinny" jeans were actually pretty baggy on me. Even the skin-tight shirt wasn't very skin-tight. That's when I noticed how skinny I was.... I looked at my friends and saw that we were all very skinny. I frowned. Katy had on a blue shirt and jeans and Bri had on a pink shirt and jeans. "Alright guys, we better get going before it gets dark," Bri said. "Yea.. ok guys, Onward!" We laughed a little than started walking in the direction away from the cave. I thought in my head. 'Are we ever going to get home' I had to keep trying... I wouldn't give up.