Lost And Found

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CHAPTER 4- SOMETHING THAT COULD EAT US ALIVE

                                                                     MAISY'S P.O.V

I had no idea how I had landed in an Amazon jungle, lost and with an annoying and frustrating boy. Does he ever stop scowling or is it just around me? These thoughts swam through my mind as I moved aside branches and plants, trying to find any trace of humans. The safari group I was in, another group or any civilization, it didn’t matter. Well, it did matter if they were murderers of course.

We had been in this jungle for one and a half days and we were slowly running out of resources. Just my luck to get lost, well I guess his too. I snuck a glance at him, seeing him gazing at the trees, no expression on his face. I quickly turned around when I realized I was staring. If he had been freaked out about me falling asleep on his shoulder, he didn’t show it at all. We woke up, I said good morning without getting a response, both of us had a small piece of chocolate and started walking.

I continued walking when my foot got stuck on a branch but before I could face plant on the dirty floor of the jungle, a hand grabbed my arm, preventing me from falling.

“Be careful.” He grunted. So he can speak, huh. What made him start talking to me? Weird. I straightened up about to thank him when his hand froze on my arm. His action caused me to freeze as well. What did he see? We were in the middle of a jungle.

“Don’t move.” He warned me in a quiet voice and I complied, I wasn’t ready to die just yet of whatever it was. I looked ahead of me, only seeing trees, plants and colourful flowers and the brown floor of the jungle. The sun was beating down on me and with fear, the sweaty me had arrived and it intensified as we heard a deep ferocious growl behind us.

“What is it?” I whispered.

“Lion.” He whispered back. No way.

“Is it going to eat us?” I asked.

“Yes, if you keep on talking.” I quickly shut my mouth. Just as I had convinced my self that we were going to be eaten by a lion I heard a distant scream. No not the screams in horror movies but more like a Tarzan one.

Instead of it being one, it multiplied to 2 and 4’s. What was that? The lion let out another growl and I whimpered. I was scared shitless. Eugene slowly moved back to where I was and wrapped an arm around my shoulders. I think he couldn’t deny the fact that he’s going to die soon as well. He had a confused look on his face, can he hear the screams that I can hear as well?

“Can you hear those?” I whispered and he nodded slightly. I looked at the lion and it started to walk slowly towards us like we were his preys. What am I on about? We are his preys. Just as it was getting ready to jump on us there was a very loud whistle and the lion froze then turned around where there was a man coming towards us and a few behind but they didn’t come any closer.

He had tanned skin and was only wearing a cloth to cover his private area and my eyes widened. Holy shit, there were tribes here?  The lion was rubbing his fur on the men’s leg and the guy patted the lions head lightly. The lion was his pet?

He came closer, the lion trailing a few steps behind him. The lion was still giving us a look that clearly meant he still wanted to eat us and probably share a few arms and legs with his friends or family. Speaking of arms, did I mention that Eugene still has his arm around my shoulders? Well he does.

The guy stopped a metre away from us, giving us a friendly but guarded look.

“Hello.” He said, “Welcome to the jungle.”

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