The door to cabin 16 slid open. We looked in and saw the girls with our backpacks on the floor of the living room. The furniture had all been moved back except the table which had the map of Africa spread upon it.
It was time to come up with the plan for our escape.
"it seems you guys have this all planned out" Mr Monroe said. His facial expression suggested that he was actually impressed. He walked into the living room and looked around at all the girls were able to put together and smiled.
"i like what I am seeing here" he walked over to the map and bent over it.
He used his finger on top of the maps, probably making use of his dexterity in map reading to peruse how best we could escape this mess. He paused mid-way.
"wait, how did you guys find out that we were in this mess" he asked, a puzzled look on his face.
"well, Jerry was the one that found out first" jayjay pointed out as she started walking over to where Mr Monroe was.
"he saw the name for the first time on the ring of Mr. Ahmed" she explained. I just watched.
"okay...and he is?" he asked with an eyebrow raised.
"he's the owner of the cabin town" Danny said seated on the couch. Eva was there with him.
".....and Camilla's dad" I added quickly feeling betrayed.
The room fell into silence or could it be shock.
"so the owner of the cabin town is Camilla's dad?" he asked looking around at our faces for answers.
"yeah and he had a ring on that had that name on it" I explained further.
"it was because of this ring that I found it strange that I saw that name with the DJ and on the cups too. I wondered why since that wasn't the name of the lodging company. I told jasmine about it and then we came to you for explanations, thus the discovery."
"wow" he exclaimed before rubbing his chin.
"how about you?" Danny asked Mr Monroe.
"uhn?"
"like...how did you get to know?" he asked, his face squeezed into a frown. I guess he was trying to confirm his suspicions.
"oh right!...….. I wondered the reason for the questioning and while I pondered on the bench where I sat, a waiter approached me and gave me a drink. I saw the word on each knuckle"
"so I became curious and that's when I noticed the DJ and all the other servants had it somewhere on their body as well"
"i love the way we are sharing our experiences and all but can we please focus on making a strong and all encompassing plan" Eva said uneasily. She seems to have been holding that statement in for a long time based on the tone and volume of her voice.
She was basically screaming.
We settled down and moved over to where the map was to consider the routes we could follow.
Mr Monroe bent closer to the map with his cellphone as a source of better lighting.
"i suggest" he started
"we try to walk our way back to civilization which should be somewhere here on the map" he marked the spot on the map.
"nice…..but no" Danny said, his hand rubbing his chin
"why is that?" jayjay questioned
"well because for one we don't want to be met by any standby venators while we are trying to escape, otherwise they could kill us just to ensure that they totally covered their tracks.
"what are you suggesting?" I asked. At this point in time, I was very open to any ideas because to be honest I didn't have any.
Danny stood quiet at the table for quite sometime. He looked up to the purple lit ceiling and released a breath
"we may have to go deeper into the wild" he said
"why?" Eva asked, despair clearly painted on her face. She seemed to really dread the idea to the depth of her bones.
"i feel what we should be trying to do is for us to get to the sea or ocean and flag down a ship" he stood at akimbo over the map, his eyes travelling across it severally.
"that's actually a good idea, the ship can then get us home" jayjay pointed out. The idea seemed to resonate with everyone in the room at the moment, except one person, Danny himself.
He had that look on his face that showed that he didn't fully trust what he had suggested. He just stood there, motionless, looking at the map without moving even a bit.
I couldn't take it.
"whats on your mind?"
"routing" he replied without shifting his gaze.
"what do you mean?" I asked, slightly confused
"the fastest way out of this mess is for us to travel on a straight line, but if we do we would be traveling on plains without any obstructions."
"and this is bad how?" I asked
"because, this means if we are figured out and chased by vehicles, we would be caught and dead in a matter of hours" Mr Conroe explained. At this point in time, it seemed that Mr Conroe was more in sync with Danny than I was.
"agreed" Danny responded
"we need to travel in a way that we would be hard to catch up to, slow them down a little bit"
"how about we travel in the opposite direction" Eva said
The room went quiet again.
"when we girls encounter a person we are either crushing on or displeased to see, we would simply travel the other way." she explained
"its the last thing they would expect" on that we could all agree.
"i guess that's what we are doing" I concluded.
"one more thing" jayjay said with her hand up.
We gave her an audience.
"i think we should build rafts that we will use to escape rather than wait for a ship to save us" she suggested.
"we cant actually sail bag to LA" Mr Conroe said
"we could sail to an island and then wait for a ship to save us. The whole idea is to be off this continent and out of danger." she concluded.
The plan was set all that was needed was for us to gather all the stuff we would need for the journey.
Danny and I stepped into our quarters to bring out and gather our stuff for the journey, we needed to be ready as heck.
We got our survival kit and we emptied our bags unto the table after folding and keeping the map. We wanted to take into account all the things that we had at our disposal.
We have some snacks, ropes, flashlights, flints, hunting knives, boots, clothes, knapsack, and a few other supplies that we ran through and took into account.
Despite all the supplies we had, we just felt the need to make sure that all the stuff we were looking at was all that we had to work with.
"have we got everything?" I asked as I shook the bag one more time to be sure. The girls went into their quarters to cross check and make sure that we had all they had initially brought.
"i guess so" Danny said as he shook his bag as well.
Suddenly, something fell out of my bag that brought me a glimmer of hope.
DO YOU GUYS WANT TO GUESS WHAT JERRY SAW IN HIS BAG?