The Nest

TWELVE

My legs can't push any faster and my breath can't go any faster and my heart can't go any faster.....

I sees blur of person in a green shirt, I swerve, I fall, I skid.

I'm lying on the ground waiting for a few seconds feeling mad that my adrenaline rush had been interrupted. I feel a had lift me up to a sitting position and stroke hair out of my face, I feel like I'm still not ready to open my eyes though until I hear his voice "okay Jay I know you are excited to see me but you didn't have to crush me with your love, I'm not that hard to resist am I?", he says almost genuinely curious.

I shake it off and stand up I almost forgot I was meant to meet him today, " huh?"I say grabbing my bike then curse so loudly at it "oh my f@@@ing gosh are you f@@@ing kidding me the derailleur is broken it's as good as trash now for f@@@ sakes ugghhhhhhhh", I put my face in my hands and shout my bike is literally f@@@ed!!!

"I'm so sore Jay it's okay I know a great mechanic who can try and fix it leave it up to me honestly it's going to be okay", he says putting a caring arm around me. I have the urge to shove him away but instead I let myself melt into his warm body as a few tears roll down my face, I am just so mad because I felt a strong buzz to head onto my mission but I feel like it's crumbled away.

"How do you know a mechanic? what's you name? And where are you from?" I ask as I stand up and slowly push myself off of him.

"Where are you going Jay? Because something tells me you weren't on your way here just to see me", he replies not answering anything. " I has bringing meat bags for the hunters", I say with my quick thinking. "Last I saw they were heading that way", he says pointing away from the direction I was headed.

"And why would you know where they were headed?", I ask feeling anger build up in me, " who are you?", I say loudly.

He picks up my bike and says "meet me back here in two days I'll tell you weather we can fix your bike or not", he turns I watch him head away and I shout after him "we??!! Who the hell is we?!!", I storm off down the way I was heading off before.

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I am at the cave entrance, this time I brought my solar powered torch, I flick it on and head down into the caves mouth, I see the odd Weta and spider crawling above me. I get to a the narrow part and squeeze through, then the big bolder that I climber over, I creep around the hidden dark corner and onto the sandy ledge.

There I start taking off my clothes and dumping anything needing to be dry into my dry bag, even the leather bag I carried everything in goes into it. I am thankful to have a dad that loves the idea of outdoors and bought me this bright red bag that is completely water proof, all you do is twist it around then clip it up.

I dip my toe into the blue water, the only sound is the splashes as drops hit the water from the small tunnel of light streaming in from above.

I take in a few deep breaths then dive under and my force sucks me up on the other side, I put my dry bag in the ledge. Just for fun I swish around in the blueness and laugh to myself I dive back under and half way under the tunnel I come up to the air gap to catch my breath with my face tilted up so that I can have the breath of such I tiny space, I love it.

I get out and luckily I have a towel this time, I dry myself off but not too much because I need to use it on the way out too, as I walk into the cave entrance to the room I notice above it in wood is a small sign that has the letters 'LE' I feel confused and search for missing letters... what was the girls name again?

I scan my eyes around to the nice sewn together possum skin bed, she must have taken a long time to get each piece in dry, I am starting to have a lot of appreciation for her.

I realise what the walls have on them now, stories, things that she has figured out...one big flat wall on the far side has some sort of ink rubs off with water (accidentally touched it after swishing my hand in the water hole).
The walls have words and pictures, over in one corner is a wonky desk made out of wood and the cave actually carved out as a seat to sit on. On the desk are books, just standard ones you would buy at a shop I open them and some are completely empty, then the stack beside it is completely full of writting graphs.

I sit down on the bed with a book that has 2982 on the front, that was only a couple of years back.

Funny how people from the olden days wouldn't expect society to be like this but there was a solid 25 years where the human race got low, when the mega earthquake hit ruining homes, farms food... nothing left for the super markets. I'm glad my parents lived through that, it took 10 years for the world to look normal again.

My little sister Haylee wasn't actually my mum and dads biological child, they would never really talk about her parents or where she came from because we think her family may have died or still been struggling with the recovery of earths big shake. That's what they called it EBS 'Earths Big Shake'.
Maybe if it hadn't happened then the world wouldn't be like this and the Devainians wouldn't of had the chance to kick us Kiwanas out of our country, maybe the legal royalty issues wouldn't be like this.

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I'm in my car munching away on some chocolate I feel like I deserve the reward.

I open one of the books from The cave that I brought home with me and start reading, I flick through and find a list of names
-Ben
-Zepp
-Blake
-Lacey
-Seven
-Jet
-Nate
-Terri
-Mia .... and on the list goes, I don't bother following along for too long, but it does interest me that all the names are so short and a lot of them I can easily tell aren't their real names.

Next to each name is an age and their job, next to some of them is a little more like where they come from, I notice next to Seven it doesn't say where he is from.

I want to know the girls name, the one who made all this, there is nothing anywhere that rings a bell. I'm going to find Lacey and then Ben I need this to be my thing I need to head back out into the world if it's going to help me find my sister too then I will do it.

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Mia is pulling eggs out of laying boxes when I find her, the bundle in her hands looks a bit much so I grab the egg basket and take a few out of her arms and place them in then the puts the rest in with a happy smile.

"Hi Jay it's so nice to see you what's been happening this afternoon girl!", she says in her chirpy little voice. " well that's the thing I feel like I can speak to you about anything and this is me being trusting I can tell you...", I say to her and she interrupts"anything is safe with me that is a guarantee the only one I may get tell is Mini and she may tell Jim...but I'm guessing our doggies already know everything", she giggles. Mia is such an adorable chatter box but I think I can trust her.

"Okay well I found a cave..", I start "you what!!", she squeaks with excitement, "yeah.. and it's definitely been Someone's hideout", I say and she looks amazed. I show her the books and she tells me to go straight to Ben and no one else.

"Her name was Ellie by the way", the says and squeezes me a hug as I leave.

Ellie? I think for a moment, L E .... I say it out loud " L E, Ellie", I giggle as I understand what she did with her name on the cave entrance and I skip off down towards Bens area.

I hope things are starting to make sense now...but I can't give away all the secrets just yet

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