I woke up later that night. I thought I heard something but I decided that I had gone crazy so I just closed my eyes and tried to go back to sleep only to be woken up later that night by a nightmare.
'Damn! I HATE these stupid dreams!' I thought, aggravated because I had been woken up twice that night.
I was sitting straight up in my cot and I was hyper-ventilating. I tried to slow my breathing down and hoped that I would stop sweating. Nothing was working, I couldn't calm myself so I thought it might do me some good to go out and have a walk.
I quietly got out of my cot and stepped out of the tent, moving as gracefully as I could being half asleep. Although maybe I wasn't half asleep, I did just have a nightmare.
As soon as the tent flaps closed behind me I noticed the temperature wasn't even one tenth of a degree cooler, 'Damn, why's it always hot? Oh, wait, I forgot I'm in hell.' I didn't know where I was going, only that I needed to keep moving.
Walking towards the thousands of holes I noticed that someone from my tent had followed me, how rude of them! I didn't care though, I just kept walking; maybe they'd get tied and walk away back towards the tent.
I found a hole and sat down, dangling my feet into the hole; I looked up and gasped... The stars... They were so beautiful; I had never seen the stars like this in the city.
I was so possessed by the stars over-head that I hadn't noticed what was in the hole.
I was shaken from my thoughts when I felt something on the leg... Something was crawling on my leg!
'OH MY GOD! GET IT OFF!' was the thought that was spinning around in my head.
"What the FUCK!" I screeched, going completely stiff.
It was a lizard, a nasty-looking spotted lizard.
'Oh, it's just a lizard; I'm such a dweeb!' I thought looking at the lizard. 'You know what? That's a huge lizard now that I actually am taking a look at it... OMG, OMG, OMG! IT HISSES!' I thought as the lizard opened its mouth to hiss at me; I was scared now...
The thing jumped off my leg and onto the flat ground a few feet from where I was sitting, DAMN, THAT THING COULD JUMP!
Its muscles flexed and I knew it was going to jump at me, but for some reason, I couldn't move.
The thing was in mid air when I felt two arms around my waste pulling me straight backwards; I fell on my back on top of whoever had saved me... Not noticing that the lizard had fallen into the hole.
I was still in shock when I heard, "Would you get off me girl?"
I scrambled to my feet and turned around... Squid.
"Wha- Why...? It was only a lizard! Why'd you do that! I mean... It did hiss… AND OMG DID YOU SEE THE THINGS TEETH! But STILL, I didn't ask for help! And on top of all of that I could-" my senseless rambling was interrupted.
"You're welcome... Taylor?"
"Yeah, my names Taylor- Hey wait, I didn't-" I never finished because Squid turned around and walked back towards the tent.
"UM!" I yelled at him, confused as hell; he turned around.
"You coming or are you going to wait for that thing to back for ya?"
"Eeep!" I screeched and ran towards him.
The walk back to the tent was quiet, but not awkward.
As we neared the tent I stopped and looked towards me feet, embarrassed.
As soon as squid noticed that I was not walking by his side any longer, he stopped and turned around.
"What has you now?"
"Nothing, I just...," I looked up at him and into his eyes, I could see because of the stars and the moon. "Thanks." I said giving him a ghost of a smile; I wasn't good at thanking people for I hadn't the reason to do it often.
He smiled in my direction and nodded while turning towards the tent and walking through the flaps; I followed suit.
I walked into the tent and quietly made my way towards my cot and as soon as I was on that cot, I had once again, fallen into my world of sleep.
