Not so assholic

"What?" I went rigid.

"Come on! What are you waiting for?" 

Turning around he began running pulling me along with him, and I let him for my mind was still busy processing the new outrageous information just delivered. My head tilted over my shoulder for a confirmation look, and a gasp left my mouth. The one spiral of black smoke converted into a dozen more in a matter of moments. Was it a joke of fate or was death indeed closing in on us I had no idea. All I knew was that I didn't wanna die this way, I didn't want him to die because of my fault.

My hand around his tightened while my pace quickened matching his perfectly. All the guilt, exhaustion, thirst and hunger was long forgotten, and only one thing circled around my head. Survival. Just as it did with all those lives present in the jungle. The happy chirping of the morning birds turned into pure shrieks, and the wild flapping of their wings sc