1-Chicken soup

She looked out at the blue water that surrounded her, and the boat she was in. Not far away from her was a large island,as it slowly got closer,she could see jungle everywhere, and a big beautiful white beach. It really was like she had ended up in the middle of a paradise. And this she got paid for!

back in New York Rebecka worked as a freelance journalist at a traveling magazine named Go fast and don't look back. When one bussy day at the magazine the boss gave her a new assignment, travel to Thailand and check out some new places that would be perfect for young people who lived by the motto of "you only live once" to travel to.

She looked one more time on the island and couldn't believe her eyes, it was so beautiful almost like an painting. A small cough made her twitch and quickly turn back to reality. She turned around and smiled at the older man whom she had met during the first week she was traveling around in Thailand, She quickly realized that it was hard to communicate with just a Thai Dictionary so after a bit asking around for a guide she found the perfect match. Chang was very skilled when it come to knowledge of survival, and had taught her a lot during the two weeks they traveled around together. She had recorded everything he taught her and was going to write it down in her article, not that her boss was gonna put it in the final version but she could atleast try to share this old man's knowledge.

She sat herself down in the boat and brought out the purple notebook and overlooked some off her notes, she had seen alot of things in Thailand, not only beauty but also broken people and bad places. She rememberd how she got to know about this island, it was the second and last week in Thailand when she and Chang was taking a beer together at a bar called "See no evil" after a long day walking around diffrent places, mostly out in the djungel and the heat showed no mercy and the thought of a coold beer was all she could think about. It was then she overheard a loud conversation that two large men had right next their table. They were talking about an island.

She stod up and walked towards the table they were seated at and when she was next to them they sudenly stoped their talking and looked up in confusion,

"hrrm,hi"

she started a bit nervous due to there apperence, they could easily snap here in half if they wanted.."WTF Becka stop that thinking!"

"ehrm...i'v heard you guys where talking about an island, forgive me if i am snooping but when i looked at my map i couldn't find it, and i am working for a magazine and been comissioned to find intresting places around Thailand and write about them.."

She stopped and took in a small breath, the men looked at eachother for a second and nodded in a silenc as if they just thought the same thought.

"Well, what kind of gentlemen would we bee if we didn't help a nice looking woman like you"

the largest of them two said and then he took the map and pen out off her hands and wrote something on the papper. A few seeconds later he handed it back over to her and nodded his head "good luck, it's a beautiful island" and turned back to his beer and friend"

She was confused when she returned to her table and sat down, Chang looked at her, Rebecka lay the map down on the table and they both looked at the numbers the man had vrote, Chang furowd his eyebrows

"it's cordinates"

"It's really beautiful here"

she said, with delight in her voice, Chang hummed a little and tried to focus on driving the small boat without hitting the rocks that could be seen in the blue water. After a few minutes it hit the beach and Rebecka took her black bag over the shoulder and jumped down barefoot on the burning hot sand. While Chang pulled the boat up a bit on the beach Rebecka started to take pictures.

The memory card was full in a few minutes as she took several pictures just of the sea, she turned around and looked into the djugeln and feelt very exited to explore the things it was containing.

Chang took their packing out of the boat and suggested that they would try to find a place where there was shade to put up camp. They started walking against some palm trees that could serve as protection against the strong sun during the day. After putting up the two tents they sat down on the soft sand, she wiped away a little sweat from her arms and hauled up the almost empty water bottle out of the bag. Chang suggested that when they had rested for a moment, they could go in the jungel and try to find a water source that was pure enough to fill the bottles.

perfect idea she thought and laid down, before anything else could cross her mind she fell asleep completely exhausted by the heat.

She was surrounded by shadows, wherever she looked she could see the shadows with yellow eyes staring at here. "No dont come any closer..get away from me" She screamed but her voice craked.
She tried to run away but when she was about to take her first step, she couldn't,the body was frozen on the ground, just like ice. The only thing she could do was to look, and get terrified,as the shadows come closer and consume here."noooo.."

She sat up quickly and gasped with sweat running down her forehead, it was just a nightmare, it was just a fucking nightmare she repeted to herself, trying to calm down her rasing hearrtbeat,and slowly she could feel her puls go down to normal again. It had begun to darken in the horizon, and she turned to the other tents and said gently 'Chang?' she got no answer'Chang'she said a little higher this time but she got no response back. With a frown on here forhead she crawled up to the entrance and pulled down the chain to the tent .. 'what now ..' she stared into the empty tent. Where had Chang gone? Mabey he went of to find some water for them

"Okay i should make some food til Chang comes back"

Searching throug the backpack she cursed how un-orginased she was, well she wouldnt wanna be a neatfreak but mabey just enough orginized so she didnt have to spend tewnty minutes looking for the hing she needed. "aha!" she said outlaod with triumph in her voice,

"lets see what kinda flavor this is"

No poit in trying to read the label beacuse it was in thai, instead she looked at the lable, it had a chickenbreast and some vegtebals in a bowl with a creamy looking liquid, so she assumed it was chicken soup, off some sort anyway.

Suddenly she heard a nosie from behind and she quickly turnd around too only look at the now not so peacfully djungel. It was dark and the remaning sunlight didnt give her much of a lightsource, she squinted her eyes in a atempt to locate the sound that had starterld her. But after a few seconds she shook her head at her silliness, she was still shaky after that horrible nightmare and was probably just imaging stuff. Well the mind can do that to you sometimes. She rememberd when she was just a kid, around 10-11 years old and watched a horror movie even though she wasent allowed, after that she couldent sleep for a week, affraid othat the killer would become real and go after here, but it's differnt when you are a kid. Now she was all grown up and couldnt really call for her mommy for comfort,so in an attempt to calm herself down she started to talk to herself. That usually did the trick, not only when she was scared, but even when boredom struck her.

"now back to making dinner and stop these nonsens Becka, monsters dont exist!"

she said and turned back to the half-opened can of chicken soup.

"that sound good Rebecka,what's for dinner?"