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Chapter 6 - I want answers
Roses POV -
"CHIP" I screamed into the darkness.
"Weeeeeeeee" was all I got in response from Chip.
I can't believe this, shoved into a hole and now on a endless slide in the unknown, what a day I'm having. Boy, does Chip have a lot of explaining to do. Eventually I reached the bottom and felt my feet on something soft and squishy, probably damp mud. Thank god I was wearing boots. I felt a sudden kick on my back as I was catapulted to the floor. Yep, I was right, the mud, was damp. What a way to find out, by literally, laying in it.
"Sorry Rose" chip apologised while running over to help me up.
"It's fine Chip, I'm not hurt, peed off maybe, but not hurt" I responded, annoyance clear in my voice.
"Wait here a sec and ill be back" he said before running off in a unknown direction, and in the darkness I couldn't follow. It didn't take long before he was back with a dim lantern and I could see. We were in a small circular room that had been dug out of the ground. It looked awful, the mud constantly fell from the ceiling in drips and drabs and the roots stuck out in all directions, mostly from the ceiling. If I didn't trip I knew I'd hit my head on those god awful roots.
"Follow me, and then I'll explain" Chip stated before walking off. I ran after him catching up to him in only a few seconds, but I didn't want to be left in the darkness again. After a few twists and turns we came to a wooden door with the smallest bit of light shining through the cracks. It seemed out of place surround by all this mud, but I didn't care, I couldn't wait to get out of all of this claustrophobic, damp, mud. Chip hung the lantern up on a hook next to the door. Slowly he opened the creaking door and walked in. I followed him into the blinding light, practically feeling my way around.
"Welcome to the den Rose" Chip said happily, and as my eyes tried to adjust to the light I tried to look around the room.
Once my eyes adjusted to the light I could see the room clearly. It was a large living room and dining room all in one. To my right was the largest fireplace I had ever seen, it was lit and spitting, above it was a birds house. Strange. Next to the fire place on its left was a bookshelf. To the right of it was a rocking chair, it looked so old and dusty, like it hadn't been used in a while. Surrounding the fireplace was a three sofas, what looked like they were made using long, thing logs and tied together by rope, but they looked sturdy enough and they were covered in brown furry cushions. On the floor in the middle was a bundle of cushions thrown all over the place. Man did this place need a organising.
To my left the dining room, well sort of. In the middle was a huge circular, wooden table that had a variety of different chairs surrounding it. The one that stood out the most was the one that had an animals skin thrown over the top. Poor thing. And it held a small resemblance to a throne. There was a small kitchen behind it, but only a few cabnets and a small old fashioned oven with a metal door. Straight ahead there was a hall way with various doors. The room was brightly lit, and the cream walls made it looked even brighter, but the dark wooden floors evened it out. There's was a variety of things scattered around the walls, animals heads, children's drawings, weapons, but mostly swords lent against the wall. I took a step forward to see a wooden spiral staircase to my left. Why didn't chip take me that way, it would of been so much easier. Oh well, I'm here now.
"Well?" Chip asked pulling me from my observation.
"Well, what Chip?" I responded turning my attention back to him.
"Do you like it?" He said fiddling with his hands nervously. Arr, bless him he was worried about what I thought.
I knelt down so I was face to face with him and smiled, "Of course Chip who wouldn't like this place, it's amazing in a sense". I may have been over reacting a little but you always did with kids.
"Good", he replied the smile getting bigger on his face. I actually didn't think that was possible.
"But Chip, I have got some questions if you don't mind answering them", I said trying to get him to see the urgency in my voice. But he didn't because he just turned and walked away towards the sofas. Once he sat down he gestured for me to go over there. I walked over and sat on a different sofa to him. I sat directly opposite the fireplace, as he sat facing the left wall, with all the books on it.
"So...?" I asked Chip who was staring into space. He rubbed his eyes and looked at me.
"Yeah" he said through a yawn. I knew how the poor kid felt I was tired as well, I'm not used to hiking and certainly not through jungles.
"Are you going to answer my questions or not?", I said a bit harshly, but I am tired and I get cranky when I'm tired.
"Sorry Rose, but we have to wait until the others get back", he said in a sleepy voice.
"But, you said...", I started to wine but I didn't get a chance to finish before he help up his hand to stop me. For a kid about 8 he sure has some attitude.
"Sorry, I know what I said but I never said when. Your just gonna have to be patient", was all he said before going back to his day dream, but the smile was gone and he looked more like he was thinking. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe he was about 10 or 11 than 8. Jesus, I need to work on my ages.
We sat in silence for a while. I watched the fire place crackle and spit, silently hoping that nothing would catch on fire. The more we sat in silence the heavier I felt my eyelids getting. I took off my boots and place them on the floor next to the sofa. I pulled my feet up and laid in a ball on the sofa, my head on the arm rest and my arms wrapped around my legs that were pulled to my chest. Slowly I fell to sleep, dreaming of the place I haven't dreamt of since I was a child, the place all kids dream of. A place so magical and enchanting that people believed nothing could be so blissful and magical all at once. Neverland.
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acknowledgements from the previous chapter -
Moonshroom420 and lexiwhitlock302.
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