Chapter 1: Lucas
My
instinct told me to turn left; I told myself it was a very easy job
to find Sunny and Zeke. It was now 5 hours on since Sunny had first
gone missing, if you ask me, no way should Declan and Ringo have
allowed Zeke to wonder off on his own, what a mistake. When reality
hit me, I realised my confidence was not going to help me in this
situation, it was getting very dark which meant this was going to
become incredibly difficult. Maybe I should have waited like
instructed by Elle to stay put at the music festival and wait
patiently for professional help... no wait I couldn't have, if I
had just sat there how is that helping Zeke and Sunny, I did the
right thing I'm sure of it.
Everywhere began to look to
familiar at this point, it's as if I had recognised where I was but
surely not, I don't think at any point I managed to somehow make
myself go back around in a circle again. It was most likely the fact
that every tree looks exactly the same.
"Keep going these kids
are depending on your arrival" I told myself as I ever so carefully
lowered myself down a small but steep slope. "You can do this, it's
been a while you have been out here so you must be getting closer to
them" I started to think this place was making me go mad in the
head, I didn't normally talk to myself but somehow it helped me
reassure myself that I had both strength and will power to continue.
It was so hard to control my footing, I was grasping onto any tree
that was in reach, I could not risk losing my balance then injuring
myself. That would only leave everyone in the situation of trying to
rescue yet another person; no one would want that sort of hassle.
I knew my efforts were not proving to look to good so far as I
hadn't seemed to of got anywhere in the past hour and a half of
searching. Suddenly I fell over, my foot slipped and very luckily I
landed safely on a pile of leaves that softened the blow to my back,
I was uninjured. I discovered marks on the ground next to me as if
someone had set foot there recently, I managed to secure my grip on a
thin tree and I pulled myself back onto my feet. Annoyingly there was
still no sign of the kids though; it was just obvious they had once
been, so I chose to walk in the direction of one of the marks that
appear like someone had dragged their feet. I seemed to slither about
for a few seconds, my feet slipping backwards and forwards on the
smooth muddy surface.
Hopefully it wasn't that much further
to go as the shadows of the trees were disappearing because the sun
was setting, it was then that I noticed a brightly coloured pair of
trainers, their yellow and green markings creating a warning, as if
the kids were near me but I couldn't see them anywhere. I walked
over to the trainers and called out.
"Sunny....Zeke... are you
here" it was then that I heard Sunny screaming back at me.
"We
are down here" she replied. I looked down a small cliff with a
rocky bottom and there they were. I had found them.