Hello everybody! Here's the 5th instalment of the Dizzy Game! Hope you enjoy it!
p.s. Does Hayner, Pence and Olette have last names? I didn't think so, so I made them up myself.
p.p.s. In Australia, Mom is spelt Mum. Hence I spell it mum. ^^
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Hayner's POV
Follow me!
Where are we going?
To a special place. C'mon! Hurry up!
I'm hurrying!
This is it!
Wow! This is great, Hayner!
Yeah? Wanna play a game?
Sure, I know what we can play!
Hm… ah… huh?
Oh… it was just a dream.
Yawning, I outstretch my arms and fingers and look at the clock. What's that say? I rub my eyes and look again…
8:27am.
Oh no! My bus leaves at 8:30!!
Scrambling out of bed, I rush over to my wardrobe and pull out my school pants and school top. Changing quickly I pull on some black socks and run down the hallway, to the front door. My little sister Ellie sees me. She's 8 years old. She's all ready for school, but she walks. It's not nearly as far as my school. Mum works so she can't take us. I pull on my school shoes and zip up my bag.
"Hayner? Are you leaving now?" Calls out my mother.
"Yeah, mum!" I call out, tying up my shoes as best I can in the time span I have.
"I didn't hear you get up. I thought you must've been sick or something!" She calls.
"He only just woke up, mum!" Ellie calls out cheekily. Her blonde pig tails twirl around as she moves her head.
"Bye!" I yell, not listening to them and shutting the door. I start running towards the bus stop, which isn't too far from my house. But my bag takes it toll on me and starts slowing me down, plus one of my shoes isn't even on properly. I keep running though, and by the time I turn the corner and the bus comes into view, it's starting to drive away…
"Wait!!" I call out. If I don't catch this bus I'm in for a long trek.
I start running after it, shaking my arms like a crazy banshee on the loose. Of course, I stopped when I saw Seifer and his gang at the back of the bus, looking through the window. They were laughing hysterically. I slowed down and called out "Wait…" and I watched as the bus turned the corner and left without me.
Wouldn't be surprised if the bus driver saw me and kept driving anyway. That's what the ice cream van did to me once.
So I began the long haul to school.
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Olette's POV
"Class," shouted a loud voice over the top of the class. "Today I'm handing you all notes about the school camp…" Mrs. Hossack was handing out camp notices, payment forms and activity booklets.
Where is Hayner? He isn't sick, that's for sure… maybe he slept in? I wouldn't be surprised.
Just then Hayner bursts into the room, huffing and puffing. He looks a mess, like he just woke up and ran all the way to school.
Hayner's POV
Great, I've just woken up and ran all the way to school, and now everyone's staring at me.
"Mr. Leslie, I sincerely hope you have a good excuse for turning up late looking like that." She said in disgust.
"I fell into a manhole and had to climb out."
Well, it wasn't like I was gonna tell her I'd slept in!
Everyone started laughing. Even Olette giggled a bit, though I knew she'd give me a lecture afterwards.
"Mr. Leslie, if you would be so kind as to tell the truth, I might let you on this year's school camp."
"Camp?" Oh, yes! I love the school camps.
"Yes, Leslie, now get to your seat. I'll be calling your mother on this though."
Dammit. Mum hated phone calls from the school.
She hands me the sheets that says how much it costs, the activity sheet and other handouts. Then we're all given a little piece of paper.
"Now class, you can write down 2 people you with to be with in your cabins. And no, there are no unisex cabins, so stick with your own genders, thank you."
No mixed cabins? Now that just ruins everything! Course, I've never been to a camp where they've done that before, but still… my camp plans are ruined. All well. I'm sure Olette has some girl friends she can write down. And I've got a few other guys I can put down too.
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It's the day of camp. We're outside the train station, early in the morning, saying goodbye to our parents before we go. We're going to a place called "Snowy Mountains Camp." No need to ask what's up there.
Mum and Ellie are seeing me off. Ellie looks so awake and ready to face the day. I can barely keep my eyes open. The train leaves at 7:30am, and I'm not even usually awake by that time!
"Have fun, sweety!" My mum says, hugging and kissing me.
"Mum, stop! You're embarrassing me!" I look over to see Pence chuckling at me.
"Muuum!" I say again, and she lets go this time.
"Don't get up to too much mischief, okay? And brush your teeth!"
"I will, mum!"
"Bye, Hayner!" Ellie calls out as I grab my bags and head off.
"Bye, darling!" Mum yells.
"Bye!" I call, dragging my heavy bag. Pence catches up with me.
"Hey, did you get enough kisses from your mum?" He laughs, making kissy noises at me.
"Shut up, Pence!" I say, dropping my things and grabbing him in a headlock. We're both laughing and he's trying to get out, then I look over and notice my mum watching. I recoil, Picking up my stuff as if nothing happened.
We walk in and see Olette putting her things on the train. She turns around and smiles.
"Hey, guys!" She beams, waving us to come over.
We pack our stuff on the train, get the role marked and hop on board. It takes an hour and a half to reach the mountains.
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Olette's POV
Train rides are boring, but when the whole year level is in the train, it becomes a noisy fiesta. Paper planes fly everywhere, teachers are yelling all the time, and the overall buzz of it all gets me in high spirits. I've never really skied before, and skiing sounds kinda scary. But Hayner says he's done it before, so I'm sure he'll be able to teach me.
When things finally settle down and the teachers can relax, we arrive up in the mountains. The buzz starts all over again and we scramble out to get our bags and go to our cabins.
I picked Casey and Bec for my cabin. I've known them since pre-school, and we say hi all the time, and usually sit near each other in class. Even without the boys I'm sure it'll be really fun.
We all head to the lodge where we get a lecture from ours teachers on safety, behaviour and other boring stuff. Then we get escorted to our cabins. All the cabins are around the middle of the first mountain, with heaters and nice warm bedding. I'm in cabin 1, and the boys are together in cabin 4.
We arrived at sunset, so we pretty much had to go to bed straight away. It was a boisterous night, with all the girls laughing and giggling and being too cold. Eventually though, we fall to sleep.
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Hayner's POV
Man, last night was freezing! I'll be glad when we're skiing down that mountain. We all get up and changed into our warm clothes, the boys and me. There're 8 in every cabin, and Pence is with me too.
We're out on the field, the first timers going on the smaller mountains and the better ones on the big one. Which is a shame, cause Olette's in that group, and I said I'd teach her how to ski.
Heck, what does it matter? I tell Pence, who is a pretty good skier himself, that I was going into the other group. He calls me crazy, but I go anyway.
Most of the girls are in the group, and most of them are already skiing down the mountain, but I can see Olette at the top, looking a bit nervous. She looks cute when she's nervous.
"Hey," I say, in a casual way. But it takes her by surprise and she slips backwards, saying "Woah!" But I catch her before she hits the ground.
"Thanks…" She stutters as I help her back up. "What are you doing here?"
"I came to teach you how to ski."
"But don't you want to ski with the better group?"
"Nah, that mountains isn't that much bigger. C'mon, show me what you got."
But she doesn't look like she's about to go anywhere.
"C'mon, Olette! Did you come here just to sit in the lodge all day, or did you come to ski?"
"But what if I fall? It'll be so embarrassing."
I sigh. There's no way around Olette and her pride. "Okay, we'll go somewhere else, where they won't see you.
"But we're not allowed."
"Since when have we obeyed the rules of ski camp? C'mon, let's go!"
I lead her around the other side, which it's thick with trees and shrubs, where no one would see us.
"Alright, did the instructor tell you how to do it?"
"Yeah…"
"Then let's see you try!"
She looks uneasy, but I urge her to try it out. She pushes herself forward and slowly starts moving. I tell her to go a bit faster and she tries, but flips backwards and lies in the snow.
I go up to her and bend my knees, looking into her eyes. "You okay?"
She looks up through her goggles. "Yeah, but I can't ski very well."
"You'll get better."
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Olette's POV
We practiced all morning, and finally I got the hang of it. Hayner was a much better teacher than Mr. Sweeney. I ski down the small mountain with ease, and when I reach the end I turn around and say "Yes!"
I can Hayner at the top smiling. He then skis down next to me.
"See, not too hard, right?"
"No, not too hard at all! Thanks, Hayner, for all the great advice."
He smiles back at me. We're stuck in this stance smiling at each other for a few seconds before we here a rumbling noise.
"What was that?" I stammer, keeping my position and bracing.
"Sounded like the snow was gonna fall." Hayner said, almost in a whisper.
"You mean like an avalanche?" I say, a bit too loud for Hayner's liking. He covers my mouth and says "Shhh!" He whispered into my ear "If you're too loud we might cause one."
I start getting a bit scared, and Hayner can see that. I feel all shaky now. I need to sit down. I bend over, but Hayner grabs my arm.
"No!" He whispers. "If an avalanche does happen, you'll be crushed!"
I then take a step up the mountain, initiating to move away. But Hayner says no again, and suggests we go the other way. But the other way just looks like a vast array of trees that would kill us faster if an avalanche happened. So we take our skis' off so we can walk easier, and out of fear, I follow him, trusting him.
We keep going, considerably sloping downwards, and we can see a cave up ahead.
"Look, Hayner!" I shout, then clasp my hand over my mouth, realising what I just did. A rumbling noise starts up and we look behind us, and we can see a heaping amount of snow gathering up. The rumbling gets louder, and I don't know what to do. Hayner eventually snaps me out of it by grabbing my arm and we start bolting towards the cave. Hayner makes a daring leap into the cave as the snow comes closer, dragging me down with him. My face nearly gets buried in the dirt and snow, and I shut my eyes.
The rumbling stops. I feel a hand press against my back. I lift my head slowly, tearful, and shift my body around so I can see behind me.
We're caved in.
The hand firm on my back starts moving back and forth. Hayner can tell I'm fear stricken. I slowly sit up, breathing heavily, not believing what just happened.
And it was all my fault.
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Luckily Hayner brought along a backpack full of some things. I knew that Pence had snuck in some food so that he and Hayner could pig out when the teachers were giving lectures, because he didn't bring his own bag along. There were also some matches, and his cell phone, but it didn't have reception. There was a spare jacket that his mum obviously put in, and a drink bottle, and our camp activities book.
How were we going to get out? The snow must be 10 feet over our heads by now, and who would know where we are? And with the little food we had we weren't going to survive for long. And Hayner said we shouldn't go down further into the cave in case we get lost, or if someone does find us and nobodies there.
It was in the afternoon, and it was getting colder by the minute. Hayner was still trying to call Pence from different spot in the cave; near the entrance, in the middle and whilst holding it has high as he could reach. But it didn't work.
We had a packet of chips to tide us over and tried to dig some of the snow out of the hole, which was our only hope at this rate. We weren't going to go further down into the cave. There would probably be an endless amount of tunnels, and if someone did eventually come to get us, we wouldn't be there.
Soon afternoon turned to nightfall and we were both really tired. The backpack was big enough for both out heads to fit onto, and Hayner got out his jacket to use as a blanket. We couldn't find anything to set on fire with the matches, so we went without warmth too.
"Hopefully someone searches for us in the morning and finds us." Hayner was saying as I lay my head down on out 'pillow'.
"Yeah…" I said sleepily, but we both knew it would take 20 bulldozers to get us free.
Hayner lied down and rested his head near mine, and pulled the jacket over us both.
"Well, goodnight." He said, trying to sounds convincing. "Try to have a good sleep."
I laugh a bit. "You too. Goodnight."
I shut my eyes and try to sleep.
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I must've fallen asleep and woken up again, because it was SO much colder than it was before. The midnight bitterness made me so chilly I could feel myself shaking.
I felt somewhat warmer. Hayner must've rolled closer to me. Knowing he was asleep, I edged closer to grab some more of his warmth, but my eyes stayed clamped shut.
I was still freezing my butt off, though, even with Hayner by my side. Oh, I felt like I was gonna turn into an ice cubicle…
But then something happened. I felt a hand on my shoulder, where the jacket came up to, and it pulled the jacket further around me. Hayner. But he must've been freezing too!
Wait a minute, he must be awake then! And he thinks I'm asleep, and he can see me shivering. Oh… that's so sweet of him. But then when I wake up he'll probably look like a snowman.
So, in the hope he doesn't think I'm awake, I edge even closer, pretending I'm just rolling closer to him. Our arms and legs are touching now, and I can feel my heart pounding like crazy. Maybe that'll heat me up a bit.
In case he's looking at me, I don't smile, but I'm smiling on the inside. I hope he can't feel my heart pounding though. He'll probably think I'm having a heart attack.
I can feel his right arm getting a bit uncomfortable, in the place it was. It was a bit awkward for him. His raised him arm a tad, trying to find a comfy spot for it, but it seemed the only spot it could rest was…
On my back.
He slid his arm around me and sighed in content, all the while my heart was holding a brass concert inside of it.
Soon it ceases though, and turns into a more calming pulse, and I feel myself drifting of to sleep… safe and warm…
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Yawn! I flutter my eyes open. The whole jacket is over me now, and I can see Hayner trying to dig some more snow at the entrance. He hears me rustling around and turns, smiling.
"Good morning." He says, trying to be cheerful despite our situation. "Did you… sleep well?"
"Mmhmm," I say, wiping sleep from my eyes.
"That's good." Hayner says. "Want some breakfast?"
He walks over and I watch, sitting up with his jacket around my back. He reaches into his bag and feels around for some food. He pulls out a large chocolate bar.
"This is all we've got." He sighed, though I thought he might like the idea of chocolate for breakfast. He unwraps it and breaks it in half, and I start eating it, even though I feel a bit sick.
We were just about finished eating our chocolate when we heard voices coming from inside the cave. We both stood up and Hayner stood in his fighting stance, and we could see a light pouring into the cave.
We braced ourselves for a grizzly bear or a wolf, but Mr. Sweeney and Mrs. Hossack appeared from around the corner!
"Leslie! Hanson!" Calls out Mrs. Hossack. "Thank goodness we found you!"
Hayner and I looked at each other with relief, but then confusion.
"How did you find us?" Hayner asked.
"Hayner, this is the ridge cave. You were all supposed to come here but then the avalanche happened. It's is your activities book." Mr. Sweeney said.
Hayner looks a bit shocked, and looks in his bag for the book. He pulls it out and reads it.
"The class will then head to ridge cave," He read, "Where it will lead you around and straight back to the… lodge."
A big gush of embarrassment waved over Hayner and I. We were stuck in a cave that led straight back to the lodge! I blushed red with fluster and Hayner just looked down, pushing and book back into his bag and saying "Let's go…"
All well. At least I learnt how to ski.
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Haha, can you just imagine Hayner and Olette stuck in a cave like that? Hehe! =)
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