Writing this chapter made be an emotional roller coaster. You'll know when you read it...
Part II
I look at Javier as he lets go of the ice bag and stands up straight. He looks to be in total disbelief. Eyes wide, mouth open and all four of his hands relaxed at his side. I then look at the door behind me. I look back at Javier and notice that he is now looking at me, still in disbelief.
That is until he starts to glare at me. Yea he's angry. Then he starts to bare his sharp teeth at me. He is fuming. And finally starts to breathe heavily. Yea he is fucking furious.
"What? The fuck? Did you do?!" He screams at the top of his lungs. He shoots all four of his hands in the air to show just how pissed off he is. Yea so what if the door is closed. All I would need to do is open the door using the safety lock. We'd be just fine.
"Hey man relax. We'll be outta here in no time." I say confidently. I turn away from him and inspect the steel door. There's no handle on the other side and huge bolts lined the edges of the plain steel door. On the bottom left corner of the door there is the safety lock. That's what I am looking for!
"What the hell are you talking about man?! The door is shut tight how could you…" Javier's voice trails off. I can hear him gasp in the distance. I look back wondering if he's okay. He looks okay but has that look of shock. Whatever, I need to get this door open before my hands freeze over. I walk over to the door, get down on one knee and grab a hold of the safety lock's rod. I start tugging on it.
"Don't tug on it or you'll-" I hear a snap interrupt Javier midway. I look down and see I broke the safety lock. Yep, I fucked up. I throw the metal rod off into the corner before standing again. I am suspecting Javier to shout or something again but he doesn't. I turn around to see Javier messing around with the thermostat of the room, his back turned to me.
I walk over to him meaning to apologize when he holds up a hand at me. What's all this about?
"Don't get any closer to me." He growls at me. He is clearly not happy with me.
I really didn't mean to break the safety lock or trap us in here. I'm just unnaturally clumsy sometimes. "Hey if it is about the safety lock I'm sorry man. I-"
"Just shut up man. All you do is make mistakes Reggie." Ouch. That really hurt. I know Javier can be rude or obnoxious sometimes but that comment hit really deep. And that just got me angry.
" 'All you do is make mistakes,' What kinda bullshit is that? If you weren't so god damn clumsy we wouldn't be in this mess." Javier stops fiddling with the thermostat and turns to me. He glares back at me with those red beady eyes. I glare back.
"Clumsy? Me, clumsy?!" He walks up to me until were only inches apart. He pokes me hard in my chest as he stares daggers at me. He's trying to intimidate me and to be honest its kinda working. But I'm definitely not going to show it; I am too deep in shit right now to back down now. "How can you call me clumsy when you're the retard who closed the door on us and broke the damn safety lock?" He spoke right in my face, and it sucked. His breath smells like alcohol and spittle hit my face a lot. I wipe the spittle of my face dramatically before I respond.
"Firstly get the fuck out of my face, your breath is killing me. And secondly don't call me a retard or else…"
"Or else what Reggie? What the hell are you going to do about it?" Javier takes a step back and raises all of his hands challengingly.
Crap! What am I going to do? All those insults I threw before were from adrenaline. But now that he has posed this question I really don't know what to do. Should I fight him? I haven't gotten in a fight since high school and I got ass owned that time. But then again is any of this worth it. Maybe I should just apologize-
"Yea like you were going to do anything anyway faggot!" My heart just skips a beat. I play the sentence over and over in my head. I want to make sure I heard him correctly. I come to clear realization that he really did say what I heard.
"Y-you take that back." I start to stutter. I feel like an emotional wreck. How could Javier say something like that? That hurt so much!
So much rage is starting to build up now. And all I feel like right now is just hatred at Javier.
"No. Why should I apologize to-" I slam my fist straight into Javier's face with a mean right hook. He stumbles back and slams his head against the thermometer hard. He instantly slumps against the cold steel wall, clearly unconscious. His head
That felt really good. It felt like all the stress from before was gone. I stand there huffing and puffing as I look over Javier's unconscious self. Yep I jacked up that bottom left eye of his. It's now red with shades of black and blue. My father always does say I have a mean right hook!
I hear a hiss come from the thermostat and a strong stream of mist shoot out of it. It now starts to become unbearably cold. I know beforehand it was cold but that was on the borderline of bearable. Now it is freezing cold in here.
I look back at Javier and then at the thermostat as it continue to spit out cold mist.
It's getting colder in here by the minute. I'm starting to shiver and my fingertips feel numb. It's so hard to stretch my fingers and I feel kinda sleepy.
I look back down at Javier. He's shivering!
Good God. What have I done? I locked us in here, broke the safety lock, knocked Javier unconscious and broke the thermostat. And as a result we're going to freeze to death because my own dumbass mistake. Why can't I…
"So cold…" Javier mumbles weakly in his unconscious state. Those words knock me back into reality. And I just stare at Javier.
No! It's not going down like this! I am a part of RΩR, the finest fraternity on campus! If anything me and Javier will get out here together! No stupid cold is going to put Reggie Jacobs down just yet!
Struggling slightly due to shivering hands, I take off my RΩR jacket and lay it over Javier's stomach. I hope it keeps him warm for a little while.
"Don't worry Javier we'll get out of here together." I say confidently before turning away. Damn, without my jacket it is now twice as cold now. But I try to focus, where there any openings anywhere around the room. I scan around the meat locker until I see something strange behind a box of frozen meat in the corner near the door. I walk over and push aside the boxes. There in the corner, the steel wall had worn down! A warmth breeze from the outside world hit my legs.
The section of where it has worn down is small. But if I find something strong enough to make the hole bigger I could definitely push Javier through. It's a stupid idea but the only one I have!
I search the room again until I find an ice pick lying on a box near Javier. This would do it! This iron ice pick is just strong enough to do the job. My whole body is now shivering violently now, I can't even keep my right hands still as I go to grab the ice pick. It hurts even to tighten my grip around the handle. I travel back to eroded wall, sit down in front of it and begin to chip away at the wall.
I couldn't feel anything in my fingertips now, they are completely numb. It's so hard to chip away the metal with my hand shaking so much. I feel really drowsy and I miss my shot sometimes. It's so hard to concentrate; I even sometimes drop my ice pick a couple of times. After sometime my body all together stops shivering and it is harder to breath now. But with all of this I still continue my plan. I continue until I know for sure the whole is big enough.
I smile a weak smile. This is some pretty good handiwork of mine. I can feel the warm breeze from outside and it feels like heaven. I would have stayed there for longer but I need to get Javier out of here. I drop my ice pick before standing.
Damn it feels like a hundred needles being pulled in and out of my legs repeatedly. It's the worst pain I have ever felt. I still stand up solely on willpower alone. I lean myself against the boxes nearby for support. I drag one leg in front of another slowly, grunting multiple times from the pain. I stumble a couple of times but never fall even when the pain got to the extreme When I finally get close enough to him, I pick him up and throw him over my shoulder before turning back.
I gently lay Javier near the hole. I get down onto my knees right behind his cold, pasty feet. With the little strength I still have, I grab onto his feet and push him out of meat locker. He is now outside.
I did it. Javier is okay. Someone will have to come across him during the night. I'm very glad I just saved Javier but now I need to save myself. I would but I'm just so tired. You know if I take a small nap it won't be too bad. Yea that's all I need is just a nap. I lean my back against a box. I slowly bring my feet close to my chest and wrap my now pale green skinned hands around them. I lean my head against my knees and
listen to my slow heartbeat. It's soothing enough for me to allow me to fall into unconsciousness.
I'm sorry but it had to be done... Don't murder me!
