LOST TILL DAWN

The two jolly Friends, Mary Adam and Elizabeth Fallon or Mary and Lisa as they like to be called, found themselves in someplace like a passage. It was a long dark and narrow tunnel which led to somewhere they couldn't tell. They also didn't how they got here but they kept threading this long tunnel oblivious to whatever was ahead or anything but the funny discussion they were having. "And he said he'd have loved to.. eeew!" Lisa said as Mary laughed very hard till she was out of breathe. "seriously, just the sight of his lips makes me want to puke" Lisa added with a snort that could judge the look on her face. The pair could hardly see themselves or the direction they were going. "Wait, why am I carrying a backpack?" Mary stretched out her left arm to find Lisa and feel the backpack she was carrying. "Why are we carrying backpacks? we didn't have backpacks!" Lisa couldn't answer that question. How did they get there, she wondered. The last thing she remembered was standing in front of her former house in Ballybane Road waiting for John Daly to round off his well rehearsed love speech and go away. She couldn't stand watching him talk. She thought to herself, Though John had a 'killer body' but his crooked set of teeth were like his curse. Perhaps that was the price he had to pay for his bodily beauty. The girls continued down the dark tunnel and Mary noticed some people walking ahead of them. "We are not alone!" she cried happily. There were three boys walking ahead of them, going further into the darkness of the tunnel as they all talked and laughed. Lisa suggested they maintained a little distance between them and follow them quietly but Mary was ready to hurry off to them. Lisa pulled back her friend by the hand. "Aww!! that hurts!" Mary screamed. Lisa put her hand over Mary's mouth and stood still as the boys suddenly looked back at them. "I'm gonna take off my hand and you have to keep quiet okay?" she whispered into Mary's ear. Now the boys were gone. Where did they go? Could they be hiding? Are they dangerous? All these unanswerable questions from Mary only increased the adrenaline level in Lisa as they both ran down this tunnel which seemed to have no end. The tunnel actually had an end as the two now found themselves in an empty room with no other doorway but the one leading back into the tunnel and windowless windows through which they saw big trees and heard birds chirp. They walked towards the window and to their shock, it was the earliest part of the morning and they were in the middle of a thick forest. In the middle of nowhere. Mary dropped her bag as she gasped "Where the hell are we?" "Holy mother of God" "How did we get here?" Lisa could only stare back at terrified Mary with nothing to say but " Holy Mary!" They heard footsteps behind them and spun around. The boys were back. They made their way through the tunnel. With expressionless but scary faces they walked slowly towards the window where the girls were standing. Mary didn't think twice before screaming, jumping out the window and screaming off into the forest. Lisa froze up as she watched her crazy friend as she disappeared into the thick forest and wondered if it was a Gorilla that would get to her first or a Tiger. Then she turned around calmly thinking to herself that it was better to be faced by humans rather than animals. The once empty room was now filled with chairs and desks and the boys were seated quietly and hardly with a movement. One of the boys pointed to is far left "That is the way out" The way he had pointed to was the way that once led into the tunnel but now all Lisa could see was a doorway into the forest. As she moved towards the doorway, the forest lost it's trees and the bush vanished. All that was left was a garden in bloom and a sunshine that beautified it. Lisa was amazed by this transformation and, for the next minute, did not bother to find out where she was. It was so beautiful. She looked around and saw nothing but beautiful flowers coming to life. Then a cock crowed. The cock crowed continuously as it vibrated from under Lisa's pillow. She pulled out her phone and hit the 'dismiss' button. "Dave, wake up. It's time for school" she said to her brother who was still half asleep beside her. She dragged him off the bed and into the shower