The ball suddenly lit up even stronger and became super-hot. Max felt a warm current streaming into his body, it started comfortably but after about a couple of seconds, it felt like his whole body was burning. Max fell to the ground and dropped the ball. He looked at his hand, it had a big burn mark on it.
“Max what happened??”
Max was in shock. But quickly he felt how his hand started hurting.
“I, I don’t know”
Max ripped off a piece of cloth from his wet t-shirt and wrapped it around his hand. He had gotten burnt quite bad.
“I told you not to touch it!”
“Yeah, I know…” Max answered while rummaging through his backpack.
After a while, he found what he was looking for. Max pulled out a glass bottle and proceeded to poke the ball into the bottle with a stick.
“Hey look I made a lantern!”
“Good job,” Ella said sarcastically “Let’s keep looking for firewood.”
After they had gathered enough wood Ella and Max decided to set up camp beside one of the streams and began to make fire. They stacked big stones in a ring while using Maxes knife to make small pieces of wood to start the fire with. It had started do get dark, it was a lot later than back home which made Max think that they were probably closer to the equator. The weird thing was that the heat here was nothing like what it should be.
“Max, could you give me the matches?”
“….. I don’t have any.”
Ella who had been trying to stay strong couldn’t cope with it any longer. She just sat down.
“What are we going to do! We are going to die here.”
Max grabbed the biscuits from his backpack, put on a big smile and handed them to Ella.
“Please eat these and calm down. Let’s try again tomorrow, I’m sure we can get a fire started.”
He didn’t even believe what he said himself, but it seemed to help get Ella on other thoughts. After Ella ate the biscuits they went to sleep. Max felt his stomach hurting from hunger, but it was nothing he could do about it. It was very uncomfortable laying in the grass with just trousers, but he was exhausted. Slowly the sun started going down and the air quickly got colder. At first, it was only a bit uncomfortable but slowly it got harder.
“Ella it’s fucking freezing, I can’t sleep
“Yeah me too, why it is so cold?”
“I don’t know, probably because we are on a mountain.”
“Let’s sleep together to stay warm,” Max suggested
They coped up together to ease the cold but, in the end, it was still freezing.
“If we just had made a fire…”
After a while, Max couldn’t take it anymore. He stood up, grabbed a stick and started spinning it on a piece of wood.
“Max, what are you doing?” Ella said while shivering
“I’m making fire.”
Max started spinning the stick violently. His hand hurt a lot, and his whole body felt stiff from the cold.
“Nothing is happening….”
Ella laid on the grass while hearing Max swearing and grunting. Her whole body was shaking. But hearing Max was a bit soothing and she felt very tired. Her eyelids felt heavy and her body started to feel warm.
“Max, I’m going to sleep. I think it’s getting warmer.” She said as her eyelids closed.
Max heard Ella who said she was going to sleep. He kept rubbing but a thing she said kept nagging in his head, “it’s getting warmer”. If anything, it was only getting colder. He wondered why she said that.
“Fuck.”
Max quickly got up and ran over to Ella. He grabbed her hand and fell a chill go up to his spine.
“Ella, wake up!!!”
He started slapping her cheeks, but she wouldn’t wake up. He desperately looked for a solution. He rubbed her legs in an attempt to make heat. Max started to rummage through their backpacks but found nothing of use.
I apologise for the short chapter but I wanted to end it on a cliffhanger hehe. I’m on summer break from school rn so I will actually have time to write on the story compared to before. So hopefully you guys can expect more frequent chapters in the near future. :)))
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