AncilChapter 11: In The Devil’s House.
Let’s do a little recap shall we. The Midnight Robber came out of nowhere and slaughtered everyone living in Arima, Valencia, and Sangre Grande. He apparently claims that he’s some sort of freedom fighter but we all came to the conclusion that he was a psychopathic maniac bent on evil and destruction. He then threatened to kill everyone in the city of San Fernando if the Prime Minister didn’t surrender himself. The Prime Minister however didn’t do as the Midnight Robber said but instead he flew to Jamaica in fear. The Midnight Robber found the Prime Minister and shot his head off in front of the entire cabinet and now we were supposed to be fighting alongside ten of the best soldiers in the Twin Republic. But the only thing is that the soldiers were dead and Megan and I were now in a huge mess. Literally. We were in a huge mess. We were in the Tobago waters that just reeked of mess. What’s my point? Megan and I were in shit. We swam to shore and were unlucky enough to be covered in some black oil like substance that dripped down from our skins. It was disgusting. At least it was better than being dead.
“What the hell is this?” Megan shouted
I couldn’t answer her question. I had no idea what it was myself. My first guess was that it was oil but it didn’t smell like oil. It smelt like sewage mixed together with death. If death had a smell, it would definitely have smelt like how the black substance smelt. Megan rolled around in the sand to try to get it off her and well it worked. She got most of the black substance off of her but the smell still remained. My first instinct was to jump in the water to get it off but it was the water that got us in the mess in the first place. We had no choice really but to endure the smell as we walked deeper into the forest infested island of Tobago.
The evergreen trees looked a bit healthier and greener in Tobago. I think that the fact that there was little to no humans in the area caused the island to have a much more healthy and majestic glow. The airwaves were mainly occupied with the sound of birds and rustling trees. I began to worry about the welfare of the forest especially since a giant piece of metal was burning at one thousand degrees and letting out plumes of smoke that could suffocate any and anything in its path. The wreckage from the hovercraft left a huge fiery crater in the forest giving the air the horrid smell of smoke. There wasn’t anyone around to be affected by the blast except for a few animals.
Tobago was considered a barren wasteland. No one lived there and no one dared to live there not only because of the multiple hurricanes that ravaged it yearly but also because of the government. The government showed very little interest in the island since the floods. Its tourist appeal died and so did any interest that the government had in it. It was definitely a perfect place for the Midnight Robber and his Masqueraders to hide. I wasn’t sure where exactly they were hiding so we were basically walking aimlessly. We both had our guns perched on our belts so we were still prepared to put up a fight even if we didn’t stand a chance.
“Where are we actually going?” Megan asked me
“We’re just walking,” I answered. “Where else could we go? Definitely not back in the water.”
“I’m just asking. Because we don’t really have a mission again. All the soldiers are dead.”
“Not all,” I said.
The chances of us leaving Tobago alive were slim and I knew it was just a matter of time before we got caught. I knew it and Megan knew it too.
I straggled a little way behind Megan who walked fiercely in search of some sort of clean water. I couldn’t help but stare at her rear that had a slight jiggle while the tight leather suit hugged them firmly. I had no idea that her butt was so big. Was it always that way? Maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough, or maybe the super tight leather exo-suit made it out to be bigger than it really was. Apparently a female tends to seem more attractive when her boyfriend gets kidnapped by a set of Blue Devils. She also seemed a tad bit thinner than she was when I first met her in Arima a couple days ago. I guess the stress of everything that happened since then was getting to her. Everything was getting to me as well but I tried really hard to keep it together, burying my anguish inside, fictionalising that my dad was still alive in my head.
Rajiv’s death may have greatly affected Megan’s psyche. I came to the conclusion that she needed love and I was definitely the best person to give it to her. Rajiv was gone, her mother was gone and it was only a matter of time before Melanie faced the same fate. There was no better time to express myself. I always liked her but the fact that she had a boyfriend deterred me from doing much pursuing. But her boyfriend was now gone and even though I felt guilty taking advantage of this very tragic situation it was the least I could do after Rajiv almost killed me back in Caura. I gathered as much courage that was available in me then I said, “I like you.”
“What?” Megan asked.
It was already hard enough to say it the first time. I couldn’t say it again. I froze up every time I even tried to say it again.
“What did you say?” Megan asked me.
“Forget it. It’s not important right now.”
She just continued walking. There was an awkward moment of silence that just made the whole situation worse. Megan didn’t seem to care much. She had her hands clutched around the gun on her waist looking around knowing that anything could have jumped out of the bushes at any minute like what happened back in Caura. Her anxious movements also triggered even more anxiety in me. The more I watched her the more I thought that we were going to die. I had to do it. I held her by her hand and pulled her towards me then I said, “I like you. That is what I said before.”
Her eyes widened and her face lit up with shock. I was beginning to wonder if it was the right thing to do. Her shocked face then escalated into a smile then boiled down to an unsure look.
“I don’t know what to say,” Megan said. “I really don’t know what to say.”
“I just thought that I would let you know. I just had to get that off my chest before anything happens to us.”
