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"Wake up! Hey, Wake up!"

I regained my consciousness as James shook me back to reality. Instead of feeling sand on my skin, I felt cement and dust. My head hurts like hell as the blurry sight becomes more and more clear. It looks like a storm just passed us with our stuff being scattered all around us and the food being wasted to the ground.

Man, I didn't even get to bite some of those desserts being made by Kristen, I bet it would taste just as much as those top dessert delicacy, heck, it might even be better but the dust ate it all up, maybe the 5 second rule can still be imposed? Nah wouldn't want my mouth to be filled with inexplicable diseases.

I saw Gregory, Ryan and Jefferson looking confused as they look around this weird and peculiar place, while Troy is busy waking Venus up and James waking Sheila and Wesley I also saw Jasmine, Jane, Kevin and Carlo started to regain their consciousness as well, while the others are still on the floor lying.

As I try to stand on my two feet, I noticed three houses in front of me, the one in the middle is huge and another three houses on my back, everything is surrounded in a five feet tall wall with openings on each of both of my sides. It looks like a town in the old west but with a modernized look and with less dust storm and more grasses, weeds and bushes. Outside the wall is a forest with trees having a red and orange leaves, it looks like a maple tree. We may be in a foreign land because back in my place, no maple trees are said to grow there. We are standing on a cemented road leading to only both the openings on the side.

The remaining ones, who are still lying on the floor, are now trying to regain their consciousness.

"Where are we?" Johnny moaned in pain as he tries to straighten up his mind,

"I don't know…" Gregory muttered,

"Oh my GOD! Maybe we're kidnapped and they're trying to sell our insides!" Johnny started shouting ridiculously,

"Come on! Johnny, don't just scare us like that. I can't imagine my entrails being placed on the table." Sheila said to Johnny as some are showing distress on their expressions,

"I don't think that's the case here." Jefferson said as he tried to analyze his thoughts in this thought provoking situation,

"Why would you say that?" Troy asked, asking for the reason in Jefferson's answer,

"If we were kidnapped, there should be guards on both openings right there and there plus we are placed here out on the open and not inside some prison like room and with less struggles and more freedom. In addition to that, why would the kidnapper even bother to carry our stuffs and bring it along with us? It seems like we're teleported into another dimension." Jefferson explained, pointing out the facts in the current situation except for his theory of teleportation, that is not a fact at all,

"Jefferson's got a point." Gregory agreed,

"There's no signal here too. We can't really call anyone." Jasmine informed everyone,

"How about we get out of this place?" Claire suggested to just wandering around,

"Yeah. My mother will kill me if I can't go home early. I even told her a sophisticated excuse…" Kristen groaned and agreed to Claire's suggestion,

"We can't just wander just like that." Nadia said, trying to reason out both Kristen and Claire,

"Nadia's right. We don't even know where we are, if we go wander now, we will be more lost than we already are." Jane explained Nadia's reason not to wander around,

"How about we check the GPS in our phones?" Claire suggested again,

"Our phones can't receive any receptions much less a WIFI, idiot!" Ryan said as he thrashed Claire's suggestion,

"Just trying to throw out ideas here!" Claire trying to defend her case,

"What should we do then?" Venus asked,

"Guys, it's already 5:00 pm. It'll be dark soon." Wesley said, informing everyone about the time that has passed by.

He said it'll go dark soon but the sun still shines too brightly,

"THAT MUCH TIME HAS ALREADY PASSED?!" Steph exclaimed,

"It felt like we just slept for a minute." Kevin said,

"Yeah but we're dried up so we could have been sleeping for god knows how long." Carlo agreed to Kevin's words,

"How about we asked people around? There are houses here, surely, there should be people living here. Just look at how grand the houses in front of us! Especially, that middle part right there. Let's divide the group into 6 parts that should cover every house visible here." Gregory suggested as he points at the biggest house and came up with a clear objective,

"Okay!" everyone agreed to Gregory's proposition, it's the only best option we can do so far,

All I ever did throughout that conversation is listening to all their dialogues. My thoughts and action can't make much of a difference anyway, since Jefferson is inclined in reasoning and logic though unreasonable and unrealistic sometimes, as well as Gregory's outstanding leadership. Jane and Nadia are both very smart and reliable, logically and reasonably speaking, especially in analysis and they also broaden our knowledge in so many ways. Jasmine and Kristen are good in survivability; they know how to cook… For me, that is part of the survivability skill considering the fact that I can only cook eggs. Steph, Troy and Venus are athletic so they are good with strenuous activity, with the addition of Carlo, Ryan and Kevin for extra muscle power. Sheila and James had experience in martial arts in their respective field so they can provide basic protection, I guess... Sheila doesn't even look scary and James sometimes turns into a retard, well it's better to have something than nothing. Johnny, Claire and Wesley have an energy so high that it feels like they are always in the state of sugar rush so they can help the group in so many ways possible. While on the other hand, I'm small, skinny, has a weak limb that will easily dislocate in a very cartoonish way, low stamina, and has so many, useless trivial knowledge; like Super Mario being a murderous sociopath or what will happen to earth if it rotates in the opposite direction; Thank you internet for all these useless facts that has zero chance of helping everyone at all!

What am I thinking? I'm thinking that the situation we are in feels like it's a very big of a deal, maybe because we woke up in the middle of nowhere, without any access to internet and/or reception.

Anyway, there will be six groups consisting of three individuals. I'll be tagged along with Jefferson and James and we will be going to the big house as everyone already started to go to their respective assigned houses.