Chapter 3, A little surprise

Recap of last chapter

I simply jumped off the boat and untied the ropes from both ends of the boat. What I forgot about is how far the jump from the dock to ship really is. I got a running start and jumped as far as I could. I would have fallen if it weren't for a strong pair of arms holding me in place.

"You really need to stop falling around me." Jack laughed as he let go of me.

We were soon on our way, to the biggest adventure any of us would ever have. For some it would be their last.

And we were off; the wind was blowing, but not too hard. Clear skies, but all of us knew that wouldn't last very long.

I finally sat down after all the commotion of well, falling into Jack's arms. I sat at the table next to Cole. He had his laptop out and was typing really fast; I just sat there in awe.

Jack, Bill, Gordon, and Sam were looking at a map and Ben and Gail were just sitting around. They started talking about some flower but I was too focused on Cole's laptop.

Cole looked at me, "Uh, are you ok?" he asked with confusion.

"Oh, yeah I'm fine. I was just really interested in your laptop. I've seen computers but not laptops." I said excitedly.

"Well I'll teach a little about it on the way back, but first I have to find our route to the Orchid." He said smiling.

"You can't chart the fastest route before you begin." Bill told Jack.

"What's an Orchi…?" I was soon interrupted.

"Already have." Cole spoke up. "Check it." He turned his laptop around. "Aight now were up linked in real time to NASA and Asia SAT comp. (Not sure on that part.) Now under ideal conditions," he typed a few keys, and pointed to the screen, "There's the fastest route, but once we superimpose weather patterns for the past ten years. And then extrapolate, BINGO. The pad ran to the sullintang basin (not sure on that either)." He leaned back in his seat, "Hm, I'm a bad man." He smirked.

I looked to Gail and she just nodded her head and walked away.

"Alright look, we got less than a week to get to that Orchid." Gordon looked at Bill, "Now if you can't get the job done. Give us our money back and well get somebody who can."

"Like hell you could find someone brave enough." I smirked and got up heading towards the stairs to go check how Tran was doing.

As I was walking up, I looked back to see Bill smirking, "I'll get you there." And he stood up and walked to the back of the boat.

As I was coming down the stairs I saw Gail go to where our restroom was. I could sense that she had a disgusted look on her face. She walked back and went into her room, a couple of seconds later I saw her throw some baggage out the door. "Bitch" I murmured.

I went and sat down and just looked out at the river. "Beautiful." A voice came from behind me. I jumped a little bit but hopefully not enough for the person to have seen me. I looked up to see Jack starring out at the river.

He then looked at me and smiled. 'Now that is what I call beautiful.' I smiled in my mind. He then turned around and walked towards Sam and Cole whom were both looking at something on his laptop.

I smiled to myself, but was interrupted when I heard Bill calling me to him. I got up and walked towards him, when we were out of hearing distance he whispered to me. "Do you like him?" he asked sternly.

"No!" I whispered.

"Well you sure did act like it then and there. Ok, listen I can sense something in this guy that's just not right. So please, stay away from him." He asked with a concerned expression.

"Like I was gonna do anything with him. But yes I promise." I smiled up at him.

He smirked and walked away. And just in the oddest moment, there came a scream from inside the room Gail was in. She soon came out waving her hands and freaking out. She grabbed onto the first thing she came in contact with, which just so happened to be Gordon. She kept saying that something attacked her.

Suddenly Bill came jumping down from the stairs. Gordon looked at Bill, "She said something attacked her."

Bill looked down the hall and made his way to her room, she tried to grab his shirt pull him away from there but he just kept going.

Not a second later he came out with a monkey on his shoulder. "It's ok, what the hell did you do?" he asked Gail. "You scared him."

"I scared him?" she yelled back.

He turned around, "This is Kong, Kong lives here. Your guests." He said looking around at the others.

Sam and I just laughed, and then she caught eyes with Ben. "Awe, how cute!' I smiled.

"Be nice" Bill added as he turned to leave.

I looked at Gail still holding onto Gordon. "Disgusting animal." She murmured. "Uh, you okay now?" Gordon asked her. She looked up at him, "I'm fine, just keep your hands off me!" and she hit him and turned on her heels and headed back to her room.

"Oh yea well, it's gonna be tough but, uh, I'll try!" He yelled.

We only had about maybe an hours worth of piece and quiet before both Gail and Gordon started talking on the phone.

Bill was driving the boat and Tran was carving something. Sam and I were sitting at the table. Ben was looking off to the side of the boat.

"Come on Sam, you've gotta go for him!" I whispered and pointed at Ben. I mouthed the word 'HOT' and she just rolled her eyes. We both laughed until Jack cam strolling up.

He bent down in between us. Unfortunately, he was closer to me, and our noses were about an inch apart. He looked at Sam and started talking about the Orchid. Over his shoulder I started making faces at him. Sam was trying not to notice but when I acted like a turkey and tried to bite him, she just blew up.

She could not stop laughing. After realizing that I was the person who made her laugh, Jack turned to find me standing next to Ben throwing pieces of wood into the river.

Jack just continued to stare. Ben leaned over to my ear. "Don't look my Jack is giving you like the meanest look I have ever seen." He chuckled. I tried to stay as calm as I could, surprisingly I didn't have to wait that long to get out of his 'evil eyes.'

Gordon and Gail were busy talking that they ran into each other. They kept talking until they both started losing service at the same time.

"Hello. Hello, damn" they both said in unison.

"Try my phone, works just as good. But its free." Tran said sarcastically.

"Oh, ok, maybe you can use my special antenna to bust your reception." He said giving Tran the bird. He turned away and Tran started to laugh.

I took a seat again, this time next to Sam and Cole, with Jack sitting across form me. "Were dealing with a specific vine. So were gonna have to search every rock face." Jack said pointing to the map.

"Now this here seems a good bet" she couldn't finish because Ben had called out her name. She turned around and Ben took a picture of her.

I quickly smiled and chuckled into my hand.

"Come on Sam, What do ya say? Were young, were single, we're in Borneo. What do you got to lose? If you're not satisfied, you walk away, no commitments." Ben tried to sound charming.

"No commitments, that's you pitch?" Sam questioned.

"Did I say no commitments, I meant marry me." He smiled.

"Am I going to be dealing with this for the next two weeks?" she asked all of us.

"Yep," was all Jack said, and Cole just nodded his head.

She looked to me, and all I could do was laugh. Jack looked up at me, I surely didn't notice but a certain someone did…

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