Move on ahead anyway
From Create Your Own Story
You clamber down, looking all around. You feel that someone, somewhere, is watching you. It is crazy, you know. It's just the three of you, isn't it?
"I want to go back," Charmaine whimpers.
"We can't," Kwan starts to say.
All of you jump. The flash of lightning has burst around you. It is blinding. The ground shakes. A roll of thunder cracks above your heads. You look ahead. The path is deserted.
"I can't see anyone building anything," you tell them. More spots of rain fall, heavier now. "Look, we'd better keep going. It's not far to the road."
"Leng, no!" Charmaine shouts.
But you are already crouching down, slipping under the pole. You lift your bicycle over to the other side. "Come on!" you signal them.
First Kwan hoists his bicycle up and over the pole. Then you lift Charmaine's bicycle across, while she darts beneath the pole.
Kwan looks down the path, frowning. It twists off into the trees. For the first time he looks uncertain.
"What if we get into trouble?" he asks.
"If people were working here, the path would be a lot wider. There'd be tyre tracks of lorries." How clever you sound! "We've come this far, we might as well keep going."
Charmaine shoots you a glance that is as black as the sky.
