To 'Nameless' I came up with the bull idea because i saw some highland cattle on my DofE bronze though they didn't confront us, we were so scared of them that we walked a longer route to avoid them despite being knackered!
To rawriloveyouxo, there will be a bit of Sedward coming up (he's gonna ring her) and there might be a bit of Zorsia and Arthur (I'm not sure yet) :)
Thank you to mirrorsparkles1234 for this idea :) And you definitely have to imagine Jonny's Scottish accent in this chapter ;)
"Well don't you lot look happy!" Michael joked as he turned around to look at his team whilst they were walking. They were almost half way now, between checkpoint two and three and spirits were low. It was raining and they all had their hoods up. The pace had slowed down and luckily, their waterproof coats had all turned out to be waterproof. Their bags all had waterproof coverings that came out from the bottom so their stuff wasn't wet either.
"Well you're team leader, I think you should motivate us." Sacha stated, he was slightly out of breath.
"Any ideas guys?" Michael asked cluelessly.
"I've got one." Jonny replied.
"Please share." Michael joked.
Jonny : "When I wake up, well, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you." Jonny poked Jac in the arm and she smiled.
Jonny and Sacha : "When I go out, yeah, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you
If I get drunk, well, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you
And if I haver, hey, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's havering to you"
By now, the entire group- except Zorsia- was laughing, even Jac. Though they were mainly laughing at Jonny's accent because he actually sounded like the proclaimers. They were walking through a forest at that point in time and their voices echoed throughout it.
Jonny, Sacha, Michael and Mo : "But I would walk five hundred miles
And I would walk five hundred more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door"
Whilst the others continued to sing, or rather, shout, Jonny elbowed Jac.
"Come on, join in." He smiled.
"I'm happy listening to you four thanks." Jac replied.
"Come on, you know you want to. And if you do, I'll cook dinner tonight." Jonny suggested and Jac raised an eyebrow. He didn't even bother trying to get Zorsia involved.
Jonny, Sacha, Michael, Mo and Jac (quietly) "When I'm working, yes, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's working hard for you
And when the money comes in for the work I do
I'll pass almost every penny on to you
When I come home (When I come home), oh, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who comes back home to you
And if I grow old, well, I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's growing old with you
But I would walk five hundred miles
And I would walk five hundred more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door"
Jonny and Sacha shouted : "Da lat da (Da lat da), da lat da (Da lat da)
Da-da-da dun-diddle un-diddle un-diddle uh da-da
Da lat da (Da lat da), da lat da (Da lat da)
Da-da-da dun-diddle un-diddle un-diddle uh da-da."
Everyone was laughing by the time they finished because Jonny and Sacha had been trying to see who could shout the loudest. Even Zorsia smirked a little.
Then they reached a fast flowing, river across their path about five meters wide.
"No way are you going across that." Jonny said sternly as he pulled Jac back.
"I'm not ten Maconie." Jac moaned. There was rocks sticking out at the top though almost none of them were flat.
"I'm sure I didn't cross any rivers on the route." Michael pouted as he got the map out. Jonny peered over the map.
"Yeah generally, a blue wavy line across a map means there's a river." Jonny snapped. "You're not going across that." Jonny repeated to Jac.
"Jonny calm down, I'll be fine." Jac said calmly.
"No you-"
"Oi, you coming or what?" Mo asked. They had been too busy to realised that Sacha and Mo had already crossed the rocky, fast current and only the first inch of their trousers had a bit of water splashed up them, though their feet were now freezing, like the rest of their body.
"Mo!" Jonny shouted. How could she do that? Now Jac was going to want to do it.
"Oi, slowdown!" Jonny shouted as he looked away from mo and realised that Jac had already put her foot on a flat-ish, wet rock. Jonny quickly got behind her and put his hands on her hips to steady her.
"Would you rather I go very slow and spend even more time on this dangerous river?" Jac joked. "No thought not." Jac answered her own question as she continued to move forward with Jonny's hands still tightly on her hips.
Slowly, the pair made their way across the river, followed by Michael and finally Zorsia. Just as she was about to reach the river bank, Michael held out his hand to help her but she simply walked straight past it with her head held high.
At 1pm, they arrived at checkpoint three. Where Sam, Tom, Dixie and Fletch were sitting on the steps of the coach.
"Can we stop for lunch now?" Jac moaned.
"Yep. We'll have a fifteen minute break and we'll leave at 1:15pm okay?" Michael said as he sat down on a log at the edge of the lay by that the coach was in.
Jac slumped herself down on a tree stump, used her hand sanitiser, chucked it at Jonny and got her lunch out: a pasta salad followed by two triple chocolate chip cookies and a bottle of lucozade. She was happy because she could eat whatever she wanted and she didn't really have to think about the consequences because they were burning so many calories trekking.
"How're you feeling? You tired yet?" Jonny asked kindly. Mo sat next to him, then Sacha, then Michael all sitting along a log. And Zorsia sat alone on a tree stump on her phone.
"My legs are a bit but I'm alright-ish." Jac replied.
"Alright-ish?" Jonny queried.
"Okay I admit it I'm knackered." Jac said which made everyone on the log smirk.
"You guys are way ahead of group two." Sam stated to raise their spirits.
"I'm not surprised the bloody speed we've been walking." Jac exclaimed which made everyone smirk again.
"We'll slow down a bit if we're ahead." Michael said.
"What do we get if we win?" Jac asked, hoping it would be a night in a hotel rather than a tent but she knew that would never happen.
"You'll find out soon, if you win that is." Tom teased as he smiled.
"It's actually several prizes and they're not as crap as you might think they'll be." Sam added.
"Just tell me what they are." Jac moaned.
"Nope, you'll have to win to find out." Tom said which angered Jac even more. But the anger was constructive and she was going to use it to beat the other group and complete the trek.
"Sam, what are the prizes?" Fletch whispered to Sam.
"you'll have to wait and see like the others. I know you're only going to go and tell them." Sam stated.
"I would do no such thing." Fletch lied.
1:15pm
"Come on, I thought we were supposed to be leaving now." Jac moaned as she stood with her bag on her bag and her hip strap done up.
"Are you feeling alright?" Michael joked as he stood up, pulled his bag on and done up his hip and chest strap.
"Haha, come on I wanna get this over and done with." Jac said as she began walking ahead of the others.
"Jac, wrong way!" Michael shouted. She did a 180° turn and walked the opposite way.
"Stop smirking." Jac muttered as she walked past the rest of the group who were trying not to laugh. They pulled themselves together and followed Jac as they continued on their trek.
Thank you for reading, please review and I might update again today. Then again if I don't get enough reviews I might not *wink wink*
