So, they walked to the North. It was really hot and Ray regretted wearing his brown jacked. He looked longingly at the short sleeves of Rachel, who was jumping and hopping over stumps like a deer. He, as a matter of fact, was stumbling and falling over the stumps like a penguin. 700 meter were way longer than he thought.
‘Can we stop for a minute, Rachel?’ he gasped. ‘what?’ she turned around, ‘already, westerner?’
‘yes, already, “guide”’ Ray was getting really tired of the whole “poor-weak-westerner”- thing.
‘I’m just not used to this heat, alright?’ he snarled. ‘Than sit down, westerner. I never said you couldn’t.’ Sulking he sat down after checking the ground. It felt like Rachel won, and he didn’t like that, but he was glad he could rest anyway.
You can say a lot about the westerner, but he has guts, Rachel thought while looking at the grumpy guy sitting on the moist ground. No good condition, but guts. Suddenly she spotted something orange in the tree above him. What…
‘Ray. Don’t stand up.’ She said quickly. ‘I wasn’t going to, Ráche. That the thing with sitting down, you know.’ ‘No, no. I’m serious! There is eh.. Whatever you do, don’t stand up. Promise?’ he looked like he sensed something was wrong.
‘Rachel, what is going on..? I won’t stand up, I promise.’
‘Alright, there is a huge poisonous snake hissing above your head.’
‘WHÁÁÁT?!’ he yelled. He didn’t stand up, like he promised, instead he just jumped straight down. Ray, you fool! She thought. The snake got scared of the sudden movement and fell from the tree.
‘Holy, holy, holy no!’ he squealed while landing on his back, ‘is it gone?’
‘Uhm..’ the snake fell on Ray’s belly and looked amazed by the rapid change.
WhatdoIdowhatdoIdo? Rachel asked herself.
to be (guess what!) continued
