Fabeth by Cerenberger (black female authors .txt) 📖

Squinting I could roughly make out her face in the dim light. "Hate to break it to you, Liz, but I wasn't joking about the ugly part. What happened to your face?"

"I could say the same about you Ads, it looks like your face went through a blender." She joked. And cautiously stood up and walked around, taking in our surroundings. "Hey where's Mark and Layton? Have you tripped over them yet?"

"Ha ha very funny! " I replied sarcastically , "No I haven't seen or fallen over either of them. Not that you can see very well in here."

Just then there was a low moan from somewhere far to my left. "Layton? Mark? Is that you?"

"Yeah, we're over here," came a muffler reply from what I thought was Mark, "Dude! Get your ass off of me!"

Yup, definitely Mark, I thought smiling to myself.

"Are you guys injured, or were Addie and I the only lucky ones?" Liz asked

"I'm injured, It's bad, it's really really bad. Oh dear god I'm going into shock, I'm gunna DIE! I see the LIGHT. It's calling out my name telling me to come fourth and accept my horrid fate. Oh please God I'm too pretty to die!" Layton ranted hysterically before bursting into tears.

"Ugg will someone please slap him." I shouted covering my ears from Layton's screeching. There was a nice solid SLAP and the sound of a body hitting the ground, then all was quiet.

"A little too much slap Mark" Liz said walking over to Layton and poking him, "I think you made him pass out and I'm definitely not carrying him again."

"Nose goes" I shouted putting my finger on my nose, Liz followed suit.

"You are sooo childish, both of you" Mark complained.

"Your just mad because you got beat by some girls." I shot back how dare he call me childish. Then the screaming started up again.

"Ahh man, I thought you said he was unconscious!" I shouted to be heard over Layton.

"He is" Mark shouted back while shaking Layton just to make sure.

"Uh guys, I think that's Missy, she was in the water with us to when it went all freaky and tried to kill us" Liz said looking toward to the direction the noise was coming from.

"Well it defiantly sounds like her screeching now that I think about it" I said to Liz..

"Yeah that's got to be her. Mark go shut your girlfriend up please." Liz begged.

I stiffened at the girlfriend part shaking my head disgusted by her. Mark walked over to where we expected she was. I don't know how he did it but Mark actually got her to shut up and stop screaming. But then of course she had to complain about her broken nail, messed up hair and how her arm hurt. I was seconds away from giving her another injury that would do more than just hurt. But Liz knowing me as well as she does grabbed my arm and drug me over to where Layton was still unconscious.

"You know he didn't really hit him that hard, do you think we should do something?" Liz asked me shaking Layton gently trying to wake him up again.

"Nah he's just a pussy. He's had worse things happen to him." I said. Suddenly Layton shot up from the ground smacking Liz's head with his.

"OW" Liz shouted clutching her already bruised forehead "God dammit Layton did yo have to do that I already have a headache"

"Sorry Liz, but at least you have a hard head so it hurts you less." He replied indignantly. Pulling Layton and Liz off the ground we made our way grudgingly back towards where Mark was still comforting a fake sobbing Missy.

"Hey Layton your up! Good, I was afraid I going to have to carry you. I lost to nose goes again." Mark said relief clearly evident in his voice.

"So what are we going to do? Does anyone know where we are?" Liz asked everyone, but Missy.

"Well were obviously in somesort of cave" Layton said

"No way really?" I said my voice oozing scarcasim "Really Einstien I don't know how we ever would have figured that out"

"Over where Missy fell there was a tunnel" Mark said

"I saw a tunnel somewhere off to the left of where Layton fainted" Liz said pointing in the general direction.

"I did not faint" Layton said haughtly, but no one was listening to him anymore.

"Yeah I saw it to" I said

"Okay so there are two tunnels. Which one will lead us out of this dank dungeon? Layton asked."How do we choose which one to pick? I could come up with an equation comparing all of the variables and tell you the most probable out come."

"Yeah sure Layton. While your doing that we'lldo what we always figure out how to decide things." Liz stated incontestably

"Oooh I can help with that" I said. I covered my eyes with one hand hand and pointed my other one in front of me.

"What the fuck is she doing?" Missy screeched again.

"Shut it banchee" Liz snarled back at her. I grinned at that. Taking a deep breath and praying I wouldn't fall down I started spinning around in circles randomly. When I couldn't spin any longer I stopped and pointed straight ahead and opened my eyes. I was pointing left of the tunnel Liz and I had spotted eariler.

"That's the tunnel we take" I stated.


Cave In

Liz's P.O.V

"My feet hurt

, I'm tired we've been walking forever can't we take a break?" Whined Layton for the tenth time in the last thirty seconds.

"NO!" Shouted Addie."Do you ever shut up?"

"Seriously Layton! We just started walking like a minute ago." I said in exasperation. "Even Missy hasn't started complaining again yet"

"Hey! I was not complaining" Missy shouted haughtily.

"Hump.I liked you better when you were unconscious" muttered Addie.

"That can be arranged too" added Mark. Thinking she ment Layton.

"Both of them?" Addie asked hopefully.

Mark gave her a disapproving look. "No, just Layton."

"Yeah, but I am SO not carrying him again" I declared, while Addie swore profusely under her breath. And muttered something about how she at least tried and she would be happy to make Missy unconscious herself as long as we could leave her here.

That made Layton stop complaining, well he stopped complaining loudly. Every once in a while you could hear his quiet grumbling about how no one appreciated him, he would do much better on his own and he could so take Mark in a fight. Oh yeah I would love to see that. Scrawny little science nerd verses huge hunk of a football star and overall athletic superhero. Oh yes I really can't figure out who would win that fight. But I left Layton to his preposterous fantasy and only sniggered at the extremely absurd things he said.


We had been walking for almost an hour when Addie noticed that the cave was getting lighter. She was right. We no longer had to use Layton's pathetic excuse for a flashlight. It was going perfectly well. Except for the part that we were lost and stuck with Missy who had commenced complaining again. But it looked like we may all be getting out of this damn cave soon. Or that's what I thought.


It started with a spider. I can't believe that something so small and insignificant could have been the cause of what happened. It "attacked" Missy. If it had been anyone else things might have happened differently. But of course live sucks and these things always tend happen to me.When Missy noticed it she went berserk. Literally. Screaming hysterically, jumping up and down and waving her arms around manically. She shot off like a bullet down the tunnel, tripping and tumbling all the way.

At first it was funny and I was laughing so hard I fell on the ground almost in tears. That's when I noticed the shaking. I wasn't an echo of Missy's psychotic screams. The ground was actually shaking. I staggered to my feet and grabbed onto the jagged wall to keep myself afoot. By now the others had noticed the shaking too. I looked around terrified. What the HELL was going on? No sooner than I thought that then Mark voiced that very same question.

"It's a cave in! Missy's screams must have triggered it. This part of the cave looks newer and it more subjected to collapse" Layton answered his voice going up an octave until he sounded exactly like Missy.

"What do we do?" Addie demanded terror evident in her voice.

It probably wasn't the best thing to do but we were scared and the ceiling had started to fall in so we took a note out of Missy's book and hauled ass out of there. Running in the semi-dark cave is a lot harder than it sounds. I tripped and stumbled along. I almost fell, the only thing that prevented me from falling and being crushed was Marks iron like grip on my upper arm. He practically dragged Addie and me along. Layton was way ahead of us and I took a second to think 'Damn that boy is fast when he wants to be, he must have gotten plenty practice from all those years of running from the bullies'. Before I had to concentrate on my footing. We had been running for what seemed like forever, which was really probably for only four or five minutes, when we finally collapsed from exhaustion.

The cave was still shaking like crazy but we had found a relatively safe place to stop. There weren't big pieces of ceiling falling on us and that was about as safe as it got. That's where we found Missy. Curled in a ball crying in a small crevice. I was