Trapped

15 - NEW !!

I was gawking at the now settled rock barrier between our group when Zac, who had managed to get up, joined me. He started picking up some rocks and throwing them aside.

"Guys, can you hear me?" He shouted at the barrier. I started helping him lift some stones but a lot of them were too big for me to lift. Not that I was weak, but there were some stones on the pile that even Dwayne Johnson himself couldn't lift. Zac soon realized the same thing and he gave up. He did, however, manage to take out a stone that made a hole in the barrier and gave us a way of communicating with the others.

'Hey, guys, are you there?' My mind shouted out to them. I received a shuffle and a coughing sound as a response from the other side. Not long after Angela's face appeared behind the hole and she frowned.

'What do we do now?' She asked and I shrugged and looked at Zac.

'Are the others alright?' Zac asked and his question was answered when a moody Adam groaned and showed his face from the other side.

'Well, we all seem to be intact, Jeremy is just having a bit of a meltdown over here.' When Adam said that I listened carefully and I could hear some ragged breaths on the other side and assumed it was Jeremy. I wanted to be there for him but the situation made it impossible for me to comfort him.

'Angela, you have to calm him down,' I told her.

'How? I'm not good at those types of things and you know it! That's your forte, remember?' She said.

'Yeah well, just pretend to be me, then,' I said. I knew that Angela had it in her, she just had to try. She sighed and then I could hear her murmur some things to Jeremy.

'What do we do now?' Adam asked from the other side. I frowned, unsure of what we could do.

'Adam, you'll have to lead them through the tunnels, there is another way Luna and I can use to get there, but it is a bit more dangerous and it will probably take us longer.' He looked at me as if asking if I would be okay with it. I shrugged and put on a brave face because it was the only other option.

'But I can't remember- I mean I don't know how to get through the tunnels,' Adam said. I narrowed my eyes at his words but remembered that he did help save me and I needed to have more faith in him.

'Oh, right,' Zac said and handed him the map through the gap in the barrier.

'Okay, well, see you when you get there then,' Adam said and turned around and explained the plan to the others. Angela and Jeremy bid us farewell through the hole and then they were off. I turned to Zac and raised my eyebrow, expecting him to enlighten me on the situation.

He just stood there deep in thought and when he saw my face he shrugged and said: 'What?'

'I'm waiting for you to tell me where we are going and how dangerous it is exactly.' I said.

'Oh, yeah, about that, we should get going because it's going to take a long time to get through it,' he said and started swimming back the way we came.

'Wait, just tell me what to expect at least!' I yelled after him, but he just kept going. I hurried along after him, insisting that he tell me where we were going. He led the way back to the outside of the tunnels and my eyes widened when he swam into the deep open and lifeless waters.

'Zac, stop! Why are you swimming that way? Isn't there another tunnel we can take?' I asked and he just shouted at me to stop whining.

'Well maybe if you told me what I needed to know I would shut up!' I said but he just ignored me. Angela did that to me too sometimes, she ignored my questions as if I wasn't there and it irked me. Eventually, I did keep quiet, it was just going to make me more angry to continue asking without getting any answers.