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Dougie's POV.
That night was colder. Chris, Alex and Vicky slept in the tiny cave while Tom, Rick and I had to sleep outside, with the wind and the snow. L.o.v.e.l.y. I woke up feeling horrible, not only because my whole body was already starting to feel tired, but because I had fever. I didn't say a thing about it, there was nothing I could do anyway. I wondered if my fever could be dangerous under our circumstances, but I put that thought in the back of my mind; the last thing I needed was to have to worry about something else.
It was snowing when we woke up, that was not helpful at all. I had snow over my hair. Tom and Vicky had been the first to woke up and surprisingly found big fruits. I truly gave a damn if they were venomous, I was hungry and wanted to eat something different from bread. Tom seemed to get on well with Vicky, when they came with the fruits, they were smiling. I wondered how that was possible; we were on hell. But well, Vicky was friendly, a normal person -not like someone else I met-, though her eyes were sad the whole time.
Around 8am, we were walking again. I tried not to look like a zombie, but Tom's eyes missed nothing.
"Are you ok, dude?" he asked me.
I simple nodded, which was a mistake, it made my head hurt even more.
Today's walk was very slow. More snow kept falling and my feets were burried in the snow. It made us get tired easier and faster, and our feet soon started feeling weird. It was a nightmare. We'd walked for hours until we found a big frozen lake. We decided not to cross it and had to go back and take another way. We'd lost hours and hours of walking. I started to feel truly dizzy and breathing became a problem. Tom didn't say anything, but he kept glaring at me from to time and I knew he knew there was something wrong.
"We've got to do something" Rick said "It's only 2 pm and I already feel like we do at 8 pm. Walking like this, with the snow, is killling us"
"What do you have in mind?" Chris said.
"Well, let's go back and cross the river. It was the easier and faster way." Rick said.
"We don't know how long it's been frozen" Alex argued "It could be dangerous"
"It could be also dangerous for your foot if we keep walking in the snow" Rick said pointing at the snow... Well, actually her foot that was hidden somewhere under the snow.
"Let's give it a try" Chris said.
I sighed; dammit.
We went all the way back to the stupid frozen river. What a waste of time, jeez! I was feeling worse by the minute, I think I was shacking, and not only because I felt like I was freezing. The bad mood of the ones sorrounding me wasn't helping either. Alex didn't even look at me, she was probably pretending I did not existed. It was a shame she was being a complete bitch again, but I felt like a fool for having believed she acutally knew how to be a nice person. Around three hours later we were there again.
We all stopped at the edge of the river.
"Let's not hurry" Vicky said "It doesn't look too safe. Let's go one by one"
"I'll go first... I just want to sit down for a moment" Alex said and walked forwards. The river was about two streets long. She walked quickly but didn't run, always staring down at the ice with fear.
"Come on, Alex, you're almost there" Vicky shouted when she looked back in fear.
She finally got to the other side and sat down in the snow looking very tired.
"I'll go next" I mumbled. I did too want to sit down so badly.
I walked forwards alone and feeling like my body suddenly waited so much more. I kept my eyes on Alex the whole time, thiking I could do this, just some more meters...
... But when I was only meters away from her, I just felt, my legs failed, my head hurt, my body couldn't resist anymre.
"Dougie!" I heard Tom shouted. Alex reached me in a second.
"No, Tom, come back!" Vicky shouted too.
"The ice!" Alex cried desperately as she grabbed my arm and pushed me off the ice "Victoria, the ice!"
I turned my head to watched what was going on behind me. Tom was running toward us, Vicky was behind ice was breaking behind them into a straight line towards them. I tried to get up and Alex used all the energy she had left to pulled me up.
"Move!" she shouted at all of us.
We managed to reach the trees, safe off the river, but the ice broke, I didn't see it but heard it, and Alex shouted again.
"Vicky!" she launched herself towards the river, but, somehow, I was faster and caught her arm.
"No, don't go!" I said.
The ice under Vicky broke and suddenly she was out of sight. Tom hesitated for a moment, then ran back to the broken ice were she'd disappeared and threw himself into the water.
"Tom, no!" I shouted so hard that it hurt my throat.
Then nothing. Silence. Fear. Tears.