THE LUCID INTERACTIVE MIND PROJECT // LIMP

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     "Why does it feel as though we're in a prison?" Tatum asked as the bus moved slowly along the road. "Like, you guys forced us in here out of our own will!"

            "Pfft. Yeah, we were perfectly able to manage on our own," agreed Michael rolling his eyes,

            "We don't know what could happen with you meddling kids and son," replied Panther.

            "Why the fuck are you insisting on singling me out? I came with them! I'm also a meddling kid!" mumbled Aaron.

            Panther looked back at him and squinted and turned back as he quickly slammed the brakes to allow the family of moose to go through.

            As his father wasn't looking, Aaron quickly ran up the aisles to sit with Michael.

            "If my dad gets too unbearable, I'm gonna open up all the emergency exits and jump right the fuck out," whispered Aaron looking up.

            "Is he that bad...?" Michael wondered widening his eyes,

            "Yes, he is. He always bitches at me when I fuck up."

            "Damn. The closest my parents ever got to bitching at me was when I got late to dinner from extra-curricular activities."

            "Lucky! Luckily, only my step-mom did that kind of bitching since she was the stay-at-home kind of person."

            "What even happened to her anyway?"

            Aaron responded with a shrug because he didn't know, and he didn't really care either since he finds himself to be an independent person at this point.

            "Ah, so ya don't know?" responded Michal raising an eyebrow.

            "Pretty much. I don't think my dad even knows anyway," Aaron replied as though it was no big deal.

            "That makes a bit of sense I guess. What's the deal with your dad anyway?"

            "It's a long story, and I really don't feel like saying it, especially since he's with us right now."

            Suddenly, the driver slammed on the brakes crashing the bus into an abandoned building. It was a total freak accident.

            It was an hour later and Michael was out of the bus with Tatum, Amethyst, and Aaron trying to find the others in all of the rubble after getting their stuff out.

            "Eek!" screamed Amethyst as she found a severed arm beneath part of the wreck. It was covered with blood and had a few bones visible.

            "Oh my god, whose arm could it be? It has to be somebody's!" Tatum wondered with a worried expression on her face.

            Aaron moved some of the rubble to reveal the face of the driver.

            "If the driver's dead, then where's my dad...?" asked Aaron examining the head.

            "This is the fifth time that some sort of vehicle we've been in crashed! What's next? We all fucking die getting on a plane? I don't know about you guys, but I'm gonna start using this goddamn passport. It might be our only hope," Michael muttered angrily grabbing the passport in his pocket and began to walk away.

            The others decided to might as well go with his plan when it came to the whole passports since who knew what could happen.

            The group kept walking and walking until they came across a small part that had lodging and a lake to swim in.

            "I guess we'll stay here for the night," Tatum commented, "I'm fucking exhausted."

            The boys decided to be in one of the cabins while the girls took one of the others. Little did they know that Ophelia escaped from prison and found herself in one of the cabins.

            Michael got into a cabin and threw his stuff onto the floor.

            "I'm gonna go take a nap, and I have no clue what time it is, so I shall appreciate my time of resting," said Michael to Aaron as he jumped onto a bed and laid down slowly getting himself to sleep.

            Aaron gave a shrug and decided to join Michael by going into the same bed. He figured that it would be a good time to also get some rest before tomorrow.

            It started to get dark out and Tatum walked out to where the lake was and just stared at it.

            I'm always swimming against

        The flow of the tide

        Kissing the life into something

        That's already died

        She began to hallucinate and see Jerrica swimming in the lake water but with a blonde and pink ombre.

        I've been drowning forever

        I let go

        I dive into the river

        and flow

            Tatum started to see Jerrica slowly rise out of the water staring back at her. Sure, Jerrica may have been a bit ditsy, but she died too soon in her life.

            Suddenly, Tatum heard rustling coming from the bushes allowing her to click back into reality. She gave a shrug thinking it was probably just a small bunny only to hear a very familiar voice in the distance.

            "Tatum!" screamed Ophelia getting out of the bush.

            "O-O-Ophelia?!" Tatum responded in surprise.

            "Can I join you guys again? Because sure my dad's a goddamn serial killer, but the skills he fucking showed me can come in handy at one point at time."

            "Sure, I guess, a lot happened over the past few days, so I guess we'll have to start a campfire and catch you up."

            A fire was burning and the gang were sitting on logs explaining to her what has happened while she was put in jail simply over being related to a serial killer..

            "Sounds like you guys were in a huge fucking roller coaster," replied Ophelia to their stories with a slight grin. "What's in those emergency kits? There might be something that I could use that could come in handy."

            "A shit load of stuff," said Aaron to the blonde girl.

            "Works well for me."

            'Can I go back to sleep? I didn't want my nap to be fucking interrupted," Michael asked.

            "Feisty, huh, Jackson? Never would've thought you've gotten to that point," laughed Ophelia to Michael.

            Michael rolled his eyes and stopped the fire, and they all went to sleep.