One Mystery One Life

Chapter # 66

I turned and walked away. It was him. One of my most trusted henchmen. You can still turn and run away from Alex. My heart screamed at me but I thought that it was too late and malicious. I can't turn away from me. Breath in and hold your faith together I told myself. I hadn't thought once before doing this of Spence. I love him and I am betraying him. I hope he just crosses my path just like the others and I don't recognize him. I hope this storm finishes before I know.

But what I know now is that this is the silence before the storm. I walked away. I still could feel his body lying back there, behind my back. I clenched my fist and gripped on the metal in my hand. If my strength was as strong as my emotions I could have curled the gun in my hands by now, but no I am there sitting like a clawless tiger. I ignored my thoughts and looked at the body of the person who caused me a great deal of danger. I placed my hand on his chest and kissed my hand retrieving it. I really honour those people who return me humble when I compete with them.

My hands took off his gloves and the gun from his hands. I need some ammo and of course I had been dreading for these Tactical gloves from a long time. I wore them and placed my gun back into my belt. I stood up and lifted my foot. I was going to stop but the hand on my shoulder stopped me. I looked beside me and saw the man grinning. He's not dead yet. He swung his arm at me and I dodged it. I just slapped him as a reflex and he fell down. That's Ottomani slap tactic for you. I slapped my foot on his face and that brought my eyes to something. The wound on his stomach. He was playing dead. What an idiot. We mostly shoot them again after capturing them.

That ceremony left me bluffed. I sighed at his foolishness and moved ahead. I can feel somebody's eyes on me. This time I am sure it's not a dead body. I walked a few steps and stopped out of a sudden making a somersault to behind the tree. I peeked from it and shot at a high tree a few times. No response. I better walk carefully . I turned around again with my back to my enemy. Never turn your back to your enemy, my mind screamed to me again, but I walked deeper into the trees.

I watched each one of my step and ducked behind trees as I went. Not with a speed but slowly. I kept doing this until I was sure that somebody was walking. It had been one of my first lessons to never turn your back on your enemies and, the second one was to never ignore the voice of your brain which says someone's watching. I obeyed one and ignored the other one but not completely.

I shifted carefully between the trees and hid myself in between of them. I walked further and saw a high tree. I guess I am just a fan of them. In a few seconds I found myself climbing it. The hill hit my cheek and I shivered. The cold is starting to pierce through my joints. The temperature is very heavy. My lungs started calling me. Stop we can't go up. You won't be able to breathe. They told me, I stubbornly refused and climbed up such a fan girl I am. I still could feel the cat in the shadows. Yes, that's what I like to call the seekers peepers. Cats. Cats chasing rats.

I climbed up as fast as I could and returned to the comfortable part of the tree. I slowly saw the distance and saw nothing even with these glasses on. What is happening I should be able to see something? I am pretty sure there's someone watching. Maybe there wearing something I thought. I dismissed the thoughts and thought about concentrating on what I should do.

I thought a little deeply and decided to do what Alex did. I know it's insane but why not give it a try, you never know when it's your last chance. I breathed in and out to make sure my lungs don't die out of hunger. I exercised my hands and finger for a bit so that I could easily have a gip. I kept my gun in my hoodie as I had no space left in my belts. I sat at a branch where I was sure the another branch of another tree was close to me. What if you fall? My mind brought forward excuses and I declined them. When you want to do something 'Do it now' so that you don't regret not doing it later.

I placed my hands carefully on the branch I was on and jumped. I grabbed the branch and swung over to the next one. Wait, wasn't the thing Alex did like a jumping one. I thought and reached up again. I should try jumping. Jackie you would die. I know I will die someday. I ignored every thought in my sub-conscious mind and did what I wanted to. I placed my foot tightly on the heavy branch and jumped off.

Pain ran from my feet to my knees as I landed. Gosh! That was awesome. It took me a while to feed myself the fact that I successfully managed to jump. Now I want to do more. I saw Alex doing this when I was taking Jack and Rebecca to the hotel. Thank god I did.

I jumped a few more times slowly that I will not fall. When I was confident that I could jump a little faster I did. When not, I did not. These glasses sure do make it easier for me. I opened the compass and looked at it seemed that I was heading the right way.

I jumped and kept jumping until I reached a place with a few different trees. What are these? These could be those trees Alex was talking about. Poisonous and itchy. Seeing this I contemplated weather I should keep going or stop. In the end I reached a similar conclusion, keep going.

I decided that I should hurry with these trees so I don't get poisoned or so. I jumped again and then a few times again. When I was satisfied that I should go fast I did. When I reached on the other end I saw a few red woods.

These are pretty long for sure. I wonder how I would climb them. I jumped off the tree again and walked towards them. I had to turn my full neck upwards to see where they ended.