Okay by a show of hands how many of you hate me? I'm soo sorry for not update for so long. I completly understand if you do. But try to forgive me, okay. And enjoy the chapter.
And I'm sorry if I don't type a word exactly the way Jeb would say it in the book, like the pronunctation is off, or something.
ANd there's a fun facts/blooper thing at the bottom if anyone cared enough to read it.
Previously:
The Jamie led me to the kitchen. As soon as I smelled food I realized I was hungry. Very hungry. I hadn't smelled food that good in a long, long time. I stared longingly at it, not paying any attention to anything else. Until someone behind us said, "What're you doing, kid!"
Life Goes On
Chapter 9: Jamie's Tour Part 2
I spun around and there stood a old man with a long beard and these sharp blue eyes that were glaring at Jamie.
"What'd I do now, Jeb?" Jamie asked. So this was Jeb, the guy who found this place. Woo hoo! I really don't care right now. I just want food. And they had chicken! Chicken! Do you know how long it's been since I've tasted CHICKEN!
"You know I always give the tours."
"Oh! Mel told me to do that." Jamie said. Technically she gave a choice. She said 'Or.'
"Hi." I said before Jeb could reply to Jamie. "I'm Meggie." And I'm hungry, I added in my head.
"Oh, yes. Hello! So your the Meggie everyone's been talking about." Ooo, great. Everyone's talking about me. Niiice.
"Yeah. And I'm pretty sure she's really hungry so can we go eat now." Jamie said. Wow, is it really THAT obvious?
"Of course! But come get me afterward, you hear me, kid."
"Yes." Jamie half-sighed. Jeb turned and walked over to one of the tables full of people I've never saw before.
"Okay so let's go eat!" Jamie said, enthusiastically, like always.
I was seriously about to scream 'Okay!' and run over to that table thing and grab as much food as possible, but I realized that would be really rude of me so I said, "Really, I wouldn't want to take all your food. It must be hard for you to get."
Jamie looked disbelievingly at me. Like he couldn't believe I was objecting. I really couldn't believed it, a little. He said, "It's really not as hard as you might think. And we have plenty. You live here now, so you get food."
NOW I said, "Okay!" and ran over to the table thing and grabbed as much food as possible for me to eat without hurting myself or taking to much to be really rude. I'd worry about the 'not as hard as you might think' part later.
Jamie led me over to a table after we got our food. Melanie, Jared, Ian, Wanda were there. Great, this'll be interesting. Well I sat down, ignoring them completely and started eating like crazy. And it was sooo good!
"Wow, you look hungry." Jared said. I looked up at him. Gosh, he states the obvious a lot.
"Well for one, I AM! And for two, it's been FOUR YEARS since I've had chicken at all. My mom hated it and she wouldn't ever cook it for the rest of us, or even buy it, because she was NOT going to eat it."
No one said anything. Melanie was glancing at Jamie like he was going to say something that would hurt my feelings, or something. Well, I got back to savoring every bite of my chicken, potatoes, and green beans. And it was actually a decent meal. It's been like a year since I've had a good decent meal capable of satisfying a person who eats a lot, like me (When I can). I had a feeling every meal here would be this good.
When I got over my food craze, I actually looked around me. There was even more people here than there was in the garden. Seriously, how many people do they have here? And how the freak did they all not get caught and end up all here in the same place.
They all seemed nice enough. Except for this one old lady glaring at me. So I asked Jamie what her problem was.
"Oh, that's just Aunt Maggie. She glares at everyone. She probably thinks you led Seekers here and is eating too much of our food, or something stupid like that." Ew, Maggie. So close to Meggie. Hmm, I should glare back at her. I put on the Megan-Matney-Is-Insane type glare that my grey eyes have perfected that I never get to use enough that makes me look somewhat sadistic and glared right back at her. She surprised me when she actually looked away after about 20 seconds of our stare-down. Haha.
When I looked back at my table, we were all laughing.
"You showed her." Jamie said. I just smiled smugly at him. It's just what I get for being a good actor and having a older sister that gives you an opportunity to glare at her five times a day. Ah, Brittany. If she were here, she'd be glaring at me for out glaring someone she couldn't. And then i'd glare at her until she looked away to glare at the chicken she would be eating, though complaining a little bit about how 'icky' it tasted, seeing as she shared Mom's dislike for it.
If she were here, she'd be doing lots of things she couldn't do now...And it's all because of me. My fault she'd ever gone in that house. my fault I didn't try harder or force her to leave. My fault I didn't come with her. My fault I complained about being low on food and how we should go on a raid soon. All my fault...
And just like that I was crying (something I normally never do) into the closest person to me (which normally was Brittany but seeing as I let the Seekers get her she can't be here, I vaguely realized it was Melanie). And then I distantly heard Jamie, I think, say, "Whoa, what's wrong." but I was too absorbed in my self-blaming and pain to really care. I did want to yell that everything was wrong and that I killed my sister. How could that not be wrong?
And then Meggie tried to comfert me, the whole hugging, back rubbing, whispering, "Shh. Shh. It's okay."deal.
Which made me cry harder, reminding me instantly when Mom used to do that exact thing- when I was little and crying when she and Dad were fighting or when there was a bad storm and I was scared.
But i also wanted so badly to scream at Melanie, "Are you crazy!? It's not okay. Nothing is!" But I didn't want to make a big scene out of this.
I eventually calmed down enough to realize this must be really awkward for her, having some girl you barely know randomly crying into your arms. As awkward as Jamie looked, glancing around at different things (which was weirdly funny, but I was in no laughing mood). And enough to realize that I could SO not eat anything else right now and that if I hurry up and get this tour thing finished I might actually get myself some kind of privet space to suffer the truth in my own silence and not take it out on Melanie.
So, calmly (acting skills, remember) I said to Mel, "Sorry." and to Jamie, "Are you done? I kinda want to finish our tour."
We got to finish my tour when we found Jeb (Who just HAD to come along and practically take over for Jamie). We went to the other garden first. It was basically the same as the other one but with different kinds of plants and it broke of into more tunnels than the other one did. Jeb was kinda showing off a little when he got all explaining his lights (which I already know the secret of).
And then he lead me down this one tunnel which I tried to remember because it would probably be important later. The tunnel lead us to the one room Jared had said had that boiling hot sprig thing. But I couldn't really see it for a few minutes because of all the steam which first reminded me weirdly of floating air sparkles (yeah, it's weird). And then the thought of that reminded me of those orb things as in spirit ghost orb things, which I knew they weren't in case you were wondering of my sanity.
But the floor looked really creepy when I was able to make it out. It was like half big huge holes that lead down to pitch blackness, like the floor was gonna crumple under every step I made.
And then there was the spring itself that was really creepy. I mean, i being the klutz I am would probably end up tripping and falling in it to my doom. It or one of those holes. I muttered under my breath, "Obviously!" when Jamie said, "You don't want to fall in there."
And then they made me go in this pitch black room where I couldn't see ANYTHING and said that was the washing room (A/N: That is what they call it, right. I cannot think at all right now). I silently wondered how the heck I could ever do anything in here with it so dark.
We left and went back to the garden and went in the 4th tunnel from the left. Jeb said that this and another tunnel was where the sleeping quaters were.
And so I asked them, "So I get a room?"
Jamie said, "Of course you do. For the same reason as you get food. You live here, now, I'm pretty sure your staying here, and your a guest, so you get a room. And it's the last one. Jeb let you have your own room."
"Oh, um, thanks. At least it's easy to remember which one." I said, trailing off. I assumed this was the end of the tour, finish it off with my own room. It has this blue blanket hanging over the doorway. Funny, blue's my favorite color. Inside, it had a few things: a mattress, chair, pillow. Someone had some clothes folded in a corner.
"So, what d'ya think?" Jeb said.
"Um,"I said, unsure exactly WHAT I was supposed to say to this. "I like it. It's way better than the backseat of a car."
"I thought you whould." Jamie said. Since when he got in on this conversation, I do not know. Looking at him, I thought of how I can make them both leave without being rude. If he thought I would like it so much, then he should also have thought I would want time by myself to 'cherish it'.
Luckily Jeb said, "You probably want some time here alone, so I'll leave you here and make Jamie come too."
Jamie said, "Hey!"
While I said, "Thanks!"
And then Jeb was making Jamie leave and I was alone (finally).
A/N:
Yeah, the endings very crappy, but be happy I even finished it.
Please review, tell me if you still like it, I know it's been months (Sorry for that).
I could not think at all today. I swear it. I spelled mattress machris the first time.
