Trapped

9.

Angela woke me up the next morning and we started talking about our plans for the day, I told her about my theory that all of us are surrounded by our biggest fears and she agreed that it was a plausible theory. I was certain it was right especially after I read Angela's letter. It read:

Welcome to your worst nightmare. You will be stuck here until one of your friends come to rescue you. Hopefully, you can survive until then. Good Luck.

I was surprised that her letter was so much shorter than mine or Jason's. After exchanging several ideas as to what was happening and how it was even possible to travel through a slide into another dimension we decided what we needed to look out for based on our friends' fears.

We were walking through the grass when we saw a dirt road up ahead. We decided that we would follow the road since it might lead to civilization and that it was probably the safest way to find the others. We were walking along the dirt road and talking about this bizarre situation that we found ourselves in and what we have been doing for the time we were stuck here. I told Angela about everything that I've been through like the small room, the giant wolf pack and all my leaps of faith.

Angela told me that she woke up in a beetle nest on the first day, she had freaked out so much that she started crying if you knew Angela for as long as I've known her you would realize that it must have been really terrible for her to cry. I've only seen her cry twice and both times involved one of her dogs passing away, which is really something anyone would cry about. Unless you're a psycho or you hate dogs, which in my opinion is the same thing. She then told me that she dug her way out of the nest and ran as far as she could as fast as she could, she fell somewhere and cut her arm on a sharp little stone and then she found a tree, climbed it and slept there.

We were so lost in conversation that we almost didn't notice the massive spider that crawled over the road towards us. It was about the size of my head and it ran right at me. I let out a yelp and jumped, then the spider crawled through my legs and went to stand in my shadow. This was a Red Roman, I could see it by its colour and also because it was obviously chasing my shadow. Then it hit me, "Angela, Jeremy is afraid of spiders!" I said feeling relieved. This meant that we were one step closer to finding Jeremy. We continued on down the road with our new spider friend following in our shadows. Further down the road, there were more spiders, some were also Red Romans, but there were also some tarantulas, camel spiders and there was even a baboon spider. Angela told me the names of all the spiders we passed, her father bred with spiders, so she knew a lot about them. I had to admit it was pretty scary to have spiders around every corner, but at least they hadn't harmed us, at that time.

After some time of looking for Jeremy, we had seen over twenty spiders.There was a tarantula that passed by earlier and it bit Angela on her toe because she almost stepped on it. Her father had many tarantulas as pets at her home so we both knew that their venom wasn't lethal to humans but I knew it had to hurt like hell.

I knew Jeremy was probably freaking out with all these spiders around, I mean I was freaked out and I didn't even have a fear of spiders. I was used to having spiders around, because of Angela's father and because our house was filled to the brim with spiders in the rainy season.

We were still walking when we heard a very high pitched squeal coming from the bushes next to the dirt road. We heard a scream coming from the same direction that the squeal came from and I walked through the bushes to where the sound was coming from and Angela followed me. We started running towards the noise when someone yelled, "Help! Help me please!" Then it was followed by another loud squeal and another scream. We followed the noise until we came across the biggest spider web I had ever seen before and poor Jeremy was stuck in it.