lifeless troubles by sharon cruz (best books to read for young adults TXT) 📕

/> I fell over but Bert caught me, “Be careful.” He said and took me back inside our “home”. As I sat there he told me to lie down as I rested on my back and closed my eyes. He began to massage my feet and it felt so good! As I drifted to sleep I felt small soft kisses go up my leg as opened my eyes again and looked to see Bert kissing me. I smiled as he reached my bulging stomach then up my neck and finally my lips. I guess he didn’t care that he was kissing a girl whose breath smells like vomit. After the kiss, he looked at me with those love eyes and said, “Let’s go take bath, it will make you feel batter.” He said smiling sexy. I groaned, “I don’t feel good Bert.” I said and he knew that very well. “Fine.” He said so just as he got off of me, in one quick movement he picked me up and I screamed as he then held me tightly. “You don’t have to walk, but you’re still going.” He said and I laughed as he carried all the way to where we found a small lake about a week ago. Once we made it there, Bert gently put me down and I sat there as I watch him take off his clothes as he went in the water he turned around and looked at me. “Are you coming in?” he asked as he pushed his wet blonde hair back. “I don’t...should i?” I asked and I stood up and stood there. “Yah, the water-”Bert began to say but then he notice that I was smiling slyly. He raised his brow. He knew this game. I striped tease him as Bert watched and slowly taking my time. Once I had my bar off, he couldn’t take it any longer so he went out and threw me in playfully in the small lake. I laughed out loud as I came up from the cool water and went over to kiss Bert. “I win.” I said. Bert just rolled his eyes and as I giggled. We swam in the water as we also playfully splash one another. Finally, after a few hours of fun we got out of the water and got dressed. We walked away holding hands as we swung them back and forth. “Do you think we can hunt something to eat? I’m really hungry.” I said to him. “sure.” Bert nodded and took out a small spear knife out. “Where did you get that from?” I asked surprised. The spear had a real metal sharp tip to it. “I found it one day when I was getting more water.” “oh.” I said. “It looks really cool.” I added and Bert chuckle. “What?” I said smiling; I knew he was making fun of me because I called something cool. “Nothing...your so cute whe-”Bert stopped what he was about to say and halted. “What’s-”I began to say but he shushed me. “It’s them.” Bert whispered and that was all I needed to know to understand. We both ran behind a tilted palm tree, as we squatted down. I knelled down behind Bert as we listened again closely. I peeked a little as I saw a tall, lean, skinny beast. It stood about 7 feet and had jet black fur and was standing on two legs. It’s back was hunched so badly, it’s translucent skin showed how disgustedly the bone is arched out. even through the jet black fur I could see pink blood running all around his body. It was walking with it’s hind legs way up off of the sand. It was smelling around the area, so we have no idea how good it’s nose can smell...but we are about to find out.

CHAPTER 11: THE ENDING?

I quickly grabbed a log and threw it at the beast. It hit him like a small rock as the beast came raging through the trees. I kept throwing everything behind me to distract it. “Stop, jac! Just runn!” Bert yelled and just in time as the beast was about to slam it’s fist down at me, since I was underneath the thing, Bert pulled me from the waist as we tumbled to the ground. I lay on top of Bert when I said, “What now?” I asked quickly. “Just run!” Bert exclaimed as I got off of him nearly falling over again as I stumbled to get up. Grabbing Bert’s hand we ran over bunch obstacles...

“AHHHH!” I screamed so loud that I fell hard with a disturbing thump. Bert looked back and went to my aid. I was clutching loads and loads of sand as I began to cry. “What’s wrong?” Bert asked panicky. Bert was looking all over my body to see where the pain was but at the same time was looking back seeing that the monster was getting nearer and nearer. (Since we ran ahead of it) the monster’s thump came closer and closer...
I tried to point to Bert to where the unbearable pain was but he didn’t see my finger. The beast was 3 feet away now...
Then 2... Then finally at the very, very last minute when the beast thought it had us, it opened it’s mouth and was right about to tear us apart, when Bert saw my injury which was located at my foot and without much choice he pulled me out of the way and together we rolled, body to body (having Bert as my shield) down the steep death hill. Where indeed was another world where I have been through. As we rolled, Bert even managed to throw his only weapon at the beast as it strangely exploded as guts and blood splatted on us. Still rolling down the steep hill I could see that it was getting darker and darker as we were being pulled away from the light. After what seemed like hours and not knowing where we were going to stop, we finally stop. Forgetting about the pain the whole time it soon came back and about to scream Bert covered my mouth as he got off of me. Looking at my teary painful face, I was begging him to just rip the thing out. The thing? It was a sharp bone of some kind of creature who used to have horns. It was impaled through my foot and I was bleeding a lot of blood. Bert uncovered my mouth because his eyes read “please don’t scream.” But it was already too late the creatures would be here any moment since it could smell human blood. I began sobbing so hard my chest hurts. “Please...” I sobbed to Bert “please...” I repeated and he knew what I was talking about. He looked at my foot and I waited for him to just rip it. I waited and waited, my adrenaline kicked in and my heart was beating so fast I just wanted to yell “JUST DO IT!” Bert then handed me a dead animal carcass to put over my mouth, and I did just that and finally he did it. I bit the carcass so hard dead blood, insects, and meat slipped in my mouth as I was tearing the thing apart. I clutched my fist so tight I bit my hands turned purple and my nails made my palms bleed. Once it was done, Bert hovered over me and I could see it hurt him a lot that I was in so much pain but it was finally over. Bert managed to make a small smile and wiped my tears away. Even messy and dirty and even reeked like a dead human’s body, he was so handsome and my hero. He leaned over and gently kissed me in the lips... everything then felt like slow motion... as he helped me up and brushed my hair out of my face. He whispered, “l’ll be back.” and gently kissed my forehead as he got up and I sat there...
When Bert came back he had a rough looking cloth and some strong old worn out rope. He knelled over my foot as he wrapped it around it carefully but securely. Once that was done he helped me very slowly as I put my body weight on him. I limped as he helped me. We walked slowly at first but I caught my pace. Not too fast or too slow. While we walked we had no idea what part we were at. It seemed darker and scarier than above. Literally strong fog was all over the trees kind of making it hard for us to see. And harder for us to see where were going. I could feel the moss as it gently glide my shoulder and shivering in response. I held on Bert’s arm for support as I limped. I looked down watching my step again unlike earlier. So as we walked calmly we suddenly pass by something sticky that held on to bet and I. We struggle at first but finally got free from it. Immediately we knew they were enormous spider webs. At one point my foot got stuck and Bert didn’t notice but felt me tugging on to him. “Bert...I’m stuck.” I said whispering loudly. Bert then pulled my foot out and soon continued walking again...
I knew hrs. Passed by, as we started to get bored of walking and we knew we were going nowhere. Just as we turned a corner my ears suddenly heard mumbling and groaning loudly. I stopped as Bert looked at me. “What is it?” he asked. I looked up at him. “You don’t hear it.” I said. Bert just shook his head. That’s before he heard it himself. We then followed the sound as it got louder and closer. What we saw made me gasp and become speechless. “No way.” Bert commented. In front of us was a pregnant woman, half naked and tied up in the spider’s web. She looked at us and saw relief in her eyes. We literally ran (yes even in my bad foot) and started to rip the web apart. Once t we finished we helped her up. The woman and inch shorter than me had dark red knotty hair and blue eyes like Bert’s. She was so pale and dead looking I thought it was an illusion. She looked like she could be in her early twenties. Probably if we didn’t find her she would been dead. I pulled her hair back and took out some of the web from her nose, so she can breathe properly and mouth so she can speak. “Are you okay?” I asked surprised and wondering how long she was stuck there. “yes.” She said breathlessly I could hear a little accent at that. Her stomach was so huge that I was having second thoughts if this wasn’t bloating at all...maybe I’m...no it can’t be...

On our walk with the woman we found out her name is Jessica, she and her husband and 4 year old son crashed here 9 months ago and both her husband and son was attacked and killed in front her very own eyes and she couldn’t do anything because she was pregnant. She still had her ring (which was sweet of her and it broke my heart) and warned me and Bert that she tried to get out but it’s like a maze. There was no opening... no freedom... Jessica even told us that a big spider took her away when she was walking one day and kept her since. The spider fed her everything and she described the spider which I told Bert almost the same thing happened to me. This made me think... Why didn’t the spider kill me right away unlike the other creatures?

“So are you two a couple?” she asked. Bert and I