In Love, Never Say Never

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In love, never say never chapter 641

“Let’s go that way!” Nora called to us. She spotted Tabitha and Laurel just climbing out of the hole. “What’s up, you two? If you’ve had a good rest, let’s move on!”

The two women nodded as they dusted the dirt and grime off their wrinkly clothes. They glanced at Tessa, who was still immersed in her prayers. Tabitha mumbled, “She’s so pious. Do you think God with really bless her?”

Nora shrugged. “Let’s go!”

The forest was rather humid in the morning. The soil had become loose. One could hear the soft crunching of the earth just by stepping on it.

“Ah!” Laurel screamed. Then, she squatted on the spot she had previously stepped on and began to scrape at the ground.

Very soon, we saw what had been hiding underneath the earth. It was a cluster of yellowish-white fungi. Some of them had been crushed under her feet.

Only a few short and stout ones were spared.

“Mushrooms!” Tessa, who had been reciting her prayers the whole time, promptly came forward and started digging up the plants from under the fertile soil. She wiped the dirt off and began to swallow them a few pieces at a time.

Laurel, looking equal parts terrified and worried, wondered, “Do we… eat them raw? Just like that?”

Tabitha turned around and, indeed, managed to find other mushrooms of the same variety under some rotten leaves.

She passed some of them to us. “Yes, this kind of mushrooms can be eaten raw. There used to be plenty at my place and we did this all the time. Sure, they won’t satisfy our hunger, but it’ll have to do for now. Let’s eat!”

They dug in. The rest of us, having barely eaten anything for a day, followed suit.

Nora helped herself to some mushrooms. A while later, she looked at Tabitha, a question on her mind. “Are you sure we won’t have any hallucinations after eating these? Once, I watched the news about poison testers in the south. They usually do that come May and June. Those who really did get poisoned are said to be able to ‘transcend reality’.”

Tabitha chuckled. “Well, if you know which ones to eat and which ones to avoid, basically you won’t have any hallucinations.”

Laurel found many other kinds of mushrooms in the soil. She turned around to ask the expert, “What about these?”

Tabitha nodded. “Sure, but we’ll need to cook them. If not, we’ll see things that aren’t there.”

“That’s a pity. None of us have a lighter, otherwise, we could have made ourselves a feast supplied by Mother Nature herself,” Nora sighed as she stuffed more mushrooms into her mouth.

“Ah!” Tessa shouted all of a sudden, prompting everyone else to look towards her, surprise hanging on our faces.

“What? Has your God decided to show Himself?” Nora spoke in annoyance.

Tessa’s face turned pale, her body stiffened, as she muttered, “B-B-Bamboo snake…”

All of us followed her gaze simultaneously. There was a tiny green snake, about fifty centimetres in length, hanging around the leaves of the tree next to her.

We would not have noticed it if we had not been paying attention. The snake spat out its forked tongue. It looked like it was preparing an attack.

“This snake is venomous. We have to be careful!” Tabitha yelled, her face pale and haggard.

I scanned the surroundings from the corner of my eyes. There was a branch that must have been snapped in half by the wind. One of its ends seemed rather sharp.

“What now! What now! I’m going crazy just looking at that ugly thing! Ah, it’s giving me goosebumps!” Nora stood close to me. Driven by anxiety and fright, she clung tightly onto me as if her life depended on it.

I wanted to comfort her, but I was scared too. The creature was inches away from us, equipped with venom!

“Is it not too late if we run now?” Nora muttered, already backing away.

“It’s too late!” Tessa said, her voice trembling. “This is a bamboo snake. It’ll come after us.”

“Damn it! But we can’t just stay here like this!”

Laurel was so scared that she was shaking uncontrollably, her face completely drained of color.

“Kill it!” Tabitha proposed. Despite being scrawny, she dared to glare at the reptile hiding among the leaves with a wicked glint in her dark eyes.

Tessa was closest to the snake. Any careless movements and the snake could latch onto her and sink its fangs on her neck.

But she was too frightened at the moment to do anything. Her body kept shaking. “Don’t provoke it, you guys. I’m scared.”

“What are you scared of? You recite your prayers all the time, right? Your God will protect you. Go on,” Nora said, with great irony.

In a situation like this, no one could afford to be distracted.

Tabitha turned to instruct Tessa. “Okay, here’s what we’re going to do. I’ll count to three. You get ready to dodge. I will throw a rock and see if I can hit it.”

What?

Tessa was on the verge of tears. “You can’t possibly hit it! The chances are slim. What if you hit me instead? I’ll die!”

“Do you have other ideas?” Tabitha asked a rhetorical question. Tessa shook her head in despair.

“It’s a gamble then!” With that said, Tabitha slowly bent down and picked up a stone.

Tessa was really having a breakdown, but time was running out and we had no other choice. We had to take our chances.

“One, two, three… Duck!” As if on cue, Tessa promptly moved away.

Tabitha flung the stone towards the bamboo snake hiding among the leaves.

Wild animals often had faster reflexes than humans.

The bamboo snake evaded Tabitha’s attack. Angered, it made its advance on Tessa, who had just barely got out of its way.

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A reactionary creature like this was even more fearful when it sprang into action.

It’s going to get Tessa! I hastily picked up the branch I’d spotted earlier on the ground and jabbed its sharp side at the snake.

Thankfully, that single thrust pierced through the snake’s mid-section and successfully pinned it down.

Its head and tail, however, remained wriggling furiously.

Tessa was still recovering from her fright. Anger and shock coursed through her, forming a volatile mix of emotions.

that Tabitha had flung away earlier, then brought it crashing

be caught in a daze. Without hesitation, Tessa vehemently crushed

Tessa only stopped, satisfied, when the snake had been

girls looking on turned a sickly pale. Nora gulped, then quickly said, “Let’s go. It’s getting late, and we

slowly forged our way forward, we managed to pick quite a lot of mushrooms. The forested mountain

and drink. No matter what else happened to us, at least we knew we

day’s journey, we spotted a red fruit, resembling an apple, growing on

Nora panted. The near-constant rate of trekking had

scaled the tree and tossed a few down. “It’s grown in the wild. It’s not very sweet, but it’s edible. We can pick

tree after Tabitha. Tessa, however, sat a little way off fiddling with her own belongings. She’d eaten quite a lot of mushrooms along

her best shot. Being rather plump and short, however, climbing naturally posed a rather insurmountable

few attempts but gave up after a while. Laurel was resigned to waiting on the ground below, picking

leisurely on the branches. She greedily ate any fruits she’d managed to pluck, blissfully indulging in

She’d sensibly warned, “Look out

surroundings, then took another huge bite of the apple in her hand. “That

head helplessly, then continued throwing fruits down. Laurel continued

observed, “What is that woman doing? She’s been fumbling with her things ever since we got here! Did killing that snake mess with

merely shrugged

are the two of you talking about? Let’s be quick! Once we’re done picking the fruits, we should hurry along,” I broke

girls can be so flippant about things sometimes! I fumed

that we had enough and a little more besides, we’d wiped out the entire tree. We even took the few that weren’t yet ripe

the only aggressive one we encountered. The rest of the way, though bumpy, contained nothing as treacherous as that

a side of mushrooms, we considered ourselves rather

suitable resting spot for the night, however. Nora grew visibly anxious, insisting, “Let’s keep going forward. I saw a couple of manmade paths along the trail, which means there must be a village

to be the only viable solution for now. The other girls found Nora’s proposal

Let’s get to the village quickly. We’ll be home soon,” we urged each other. Our spirits lifted at the

another peak and indeed saw flares

surely take myself out for a good foie gras and a seafood buffet. Besides, I’ll treat myself to some cosmetic

everyone out to high tea,

eat a whole cow,” Nora declared exaggeratedly, popping the rest of the stash she’d picked

remarked rather evenly, “We’re lucky to make it out of here alive. Let’s focus

rather dampened our cheeriness. Exchanging glances, the rest of us decided to pay no heed to

love, never say never

me and queried, “Scarlett, if we indeed get to go

I want? That question lingered in my mind as I

“I want to see the person I miss most, give him

surprise. Then she curiously

a faint smile but declined

was located in quite a rural area of the mountains, and perhaps due to its inaccessibility, there didn’t

lamps we’d counted shining in the dark, there were probably thirty to forty

to hunker down for the night,” Nora suggested, already making her way towards the door of the

Woof!” A dog suddenly rushed out into the yard and began sounding the alert at our sudden

leashed to a rope. It strained against its tether,

of the cottage had evidently heard the ruckus. Out stepped

what he was trying to say. After a while, Tabitha gasped. “We

peak after peak, hadn’t brought us any closer to home. We’d even gone so far that we were in another country

of the cottage seemed to further mistake our intentions. He waved his axe at us threateningly

age, ran out of the cottage just then. She tugged at

man for a while. He then grew noticeably calmer and lowered

few hesitant motions with her hands in return, trying to

couldn’t tell if he understood. He did, however, let us into his

Its clay walls were caked with soot, doubtless from the fire that was

ceiling, the sort that farming villages would have used decades ago. The lamp burned dimly at a bare fifty watts, probably to save on electricity costs. Shadows

corner. The roof of the cottage was, in fact, a tent stitched together out of gunny sacks. There was dust everywhere. It turned to grime at damp spots where rainwater

small heaps of blackened dirt that covered the tent looked sure to be full

bowls from a cabinet and

continued to gesture furiously. He

bowls in front of us. The food was steeped in chili. Nora recoiled ever so

exclaimed rather adventurously. She had more of an appetite than the rest

gratefully. The flavor of the pickled onions, spicy with a hint of

since we’d really tasted anything. The pickled onions thus thoroughly satisfied

ate, the man and his daughter squatted in a corner. They gazed at us with curiosity

to communicate with them. Along with

and daughter came to understand that

were stumped, however, by what

only wait until the next day for the man to seek help from his fellow villagers. Until then, we’d have to take shelter in this battered cottage.

next morning, the man was

beneath the tree with a basket, picking up the soft fruits he’d accidentally let tumble onto

she’d beam a smile in our direction. It

it?” Tabitha mused, looking rather wistful. She looked almost like

frame. “Why? Are you thinking of something

on this whole turn of events, and I feel as if I’ve been

Tessa quipped. This discussion aligned with the philosophical tendencies she’d been harboring all this way. We’d finally managed to pique her

her temple, groaning, “Can we take

the yard and began picking

but smiles and gestures seemed to

say never

to head home, Nora hauled me along into

must have a phone around here! we thought. When we knocked on the door of the next cottage, however, Nora’s hand signals asking for a phone only met with baffled

miming remained futile. We departed after a good

sitting side by side, disconsolate. Laurel was the first to speak. “If we can’t get

aren’t careful, we may be mistaken for thieves and locked up,” Nora countered. She plopped down onto the floor with a sigh,

locked up?” Tessa asked thoughtfully. “Surely, the local policeman knows a little more than the average villager. If we manage to

get in touch with the local police, they may be able to send us home. We won’t

was the most promising idea we’d had. We cheered up instantly at the thought and launching into a feverish discussion of what we should do to

in a village on the mountain. Who knows if there’s even a

remained steadfast in her conviction that she shouldn’t participate in any criminal act, regardless of its motive. She slipped off

“Leave

Nora and Tabitha walked boldly up to one of the villager’s yards under the pretense of borrowing something. They then grabbed a bundle of items and sprinted

arms laden with fruit, fully expecting the police to be

villager. The owner of the house had been enraged at the two girls’ theft. However, on account of Nora and Tabitha being

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