sorry I know it's been forever
"Boys wake up we got word from Joe last night that he knows where Komba is. Sort off. But he's not telling us till we're all there so come on" Julie called through the door I heard a displeased groan from Dan
"Find out and come tell me will you Julie" pushing myself up I shook my head
"Come on they'll have breakfast ready you know what Marucho and Preyas are like with cooking" I tried coaxing him out of bed cos otherwise they wouldn't stop nagging me to wake him up
"Oh maybe they'll make takoyaki again I love that" yea that worked. Getting out of bed I dug through my bag to find some clean clothes
"Go outside Dan" I told him once I had
"Fine but don't whine when I eat all the food while you're getting changed" rolling my eyes I waited for the door to close before getting changed.
"Hey what happened to manners we have to wait for everyone to come you don't just help yourself" I smiled as I walked towards the couch. Runo was scolding Dan and I could imagine how it would go, him trying to grab something, her swatting his hand away her towering over him, him backing down wanting to avoid a fight so early in the day.
"Look he's here now can I have the food" I looked up and saw he and Runo stood next to each other in basically the same kind of way as I had imagined
"Fine I guess I have no reason to stop you any longer" she sighed turning to walk over to Alice and sit down beside her. I sat down in a spare space and waited for Marucho to tell us where Komba is
"Ok Dan mind sitting down for me" he slumped down on his seat almost crushing Preyas and Gorem in the process
"Oh uh sorry guys didn't see you there" he rubbed the back of his head clearly embarrassed "ok now that that's out of the way I've got a name of the place where Komba is. The name I got from Joe was Nairobi which is in Africa as I'm sure we're all well aware"
"Of course we are Marucho we are going to Kenya which is in Africa" Julie pointed out
"What oh yes I'm sorry I guess I kind of forgot" he laughed nervously and continued "anyway I have notified Kato and we're on our way as we speak" with that he sat down and started to eat what was left of the takoyaki
"So how about a game?" Alice asked and I couldn't help a groan "what?" she asked obviously not seeing what had provoked my action
"Don't start a game there tedious" I complained and surprisingly Dan and Runo agreed with me
"They really are Alice why don't we just relax or better yet have a battle to pass the time" I nearly laughed at him he appeared to have caught my smirk and asked "what now?"
"To have a battle you have to open the field and opening the field starts a time freeze so no matter how long you're in there a second won't have passed here if anything it'll just make it seem like longer" I pointed out
"Oh yea forgot about that" he smiled sheepishly "so what do we do?"
"I don't see what's so hard about keeping quiet is it impossible to say nothing for a few minutes?" I asked keeping my frustration in check
"Fine, fine we'll be quiet" I smiled slightly I closed my eyes in bliss of the new found quietness waiting patiently for us to arrive in Kenya.
Mercifully no one spoke for a good 10-15 minutes but the silence that had settled in was disturbed by Kato informing us that we were there and it was time to get off the plane
"Come on then we've got a lot of work to do" Alice smiled seeming much happier than last night
"Yea about that…" Dan started gaining our attention
"What? What did you do?" Runo asked him sounding like she expected it
"What? Nothing why do you always think I did something?" he asked not giving her time to answer he continued "honestly Runo I think you look for the worst in me. All I was gonna say was that I need to get changed" with that he turned heading back to the direction of our room leaving us all to wait.
He came out 5 minutes later ready to go and actually rushing us. With us all out of the plane we tried to decide who'd go where. With us split in groups of 2, me and Dan, Runo and Julie and Alice and Marucho, we set off me and Dan going to the national park which he was most likely to be at. He told me he always visited the park on visits at least once. It would be a long walk because it was 4 miles from the centre of Nairobi which was where we landed but that didn't bother me I was used to exercise thanks to my training. Just like Dan was cos when he practiced he went a little over board. While we were walking I tried to think of something to talk about but he beat me to it
"Do you remember when we were young we'd play dress up and you used to always dare me to wear my parents clothes?" I looked at him, what on earth made him think of that
"Uh yea why?" I stopped so I wouldn't trip and kept looking at him
"No reason just thinking of when we were stupid little kids who didn't care about anything except having a laugh" I smiled at the memory's that came to the surface. We were like that for a long time the only time that really changed was after my mum died
"I'd love to get back to that wouldn't you?" I was snapped out of my thoughts and looked at him trying to hide my shock
"What oh yea" I shook my head a little focusing back forwards and continuing on our way back to the park. Dan seemed to pick up on my unintentional hint and carried on walking by me but keeping quiet.
I don't know how long it took us to get to the park but what felt like an eternity till we arrived at the entrance of the park. Mainly because of the slightly awkward silence that enveloped us half way through the walk.
"Well finally" I looked over at Dan having finally had the silence broken
"Yea took a while" we were just talking for no reason simply to prevent the awkward silence from reappearing
"So where exactly do you think he'll be?" I shrugged
"Not sure I guess we just wander round till we find him" his jaw dropped
"What? But that'll take forever and he might not even be here"
"Stop complaining you'll just make it seem longer and if we don't find him within a couple hours we'll stop ok" he nodded not loving the prospect of walking round a park for hours when he might not even be there.
"I'm tired" I half glared at him we had been walking round for about an hour with no sign of Komba
"I get that, we'll sit down for a few minutes and carry on" he groaned and looked annoyed but didn't say anything just dropping down on the floor laying back sighing in relief
"Stop being dramatic" I rolled my eyes but dropping down next to him anyway
"Stop being dramatic" he imitated badly
"Grow up" I closed my eyes ignoring whatever he may have countered with.
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