Previously on...Stuck...
Something was out there, on the shore. I sat straight up and my eyes bulged out of my head. Can something really be there? I got up and ran full speed at it, not even knowing what it was.
Chapter 2: Company
Whatever it was, it wasn't moving. Just...lying there, helplessly.
I came up closer to this thing, realizing that...it was a person. I saw his-no, her stringy black hair, scattered among the dandelion color grains of sand. I knew it was a girl because no boy ever had the long hair she had. I got closer to her, kneeling down next to the side she was facing, because she was on her side. She wasn't moving or awake. Her eyelids looked like they were glued together.
Her face was ultra smooth like a baby's bottom, not that her face looked like one. Wait a minute...the black hair, smooth face, black eye liner and mascara, which was partially smeared across her face from the water...I knew this person. This was Erica, a girl from my class! She wound up here too! But why on this side of the island? Oh well...
I grabbed her face and rested it on my kneeling legs, and took her pulse under her ear/chin/cheek. There was a pulse. She wasn't dead...yet. No, I had to think positive. She'll make it...she'll make it...
Right as I was chanting those words in my head, I heard a faint groan from her. She started moving and coughing. Water danced its way up her throat. She didn't open her eyes at first, but when she did, she looked startled, with a faint hint of surprise.
"Hey...are you ok?" I quickly asked, as soon as she realized who I was. She turned her head around to see where we were, and her eyes widened with horror.
"Oh my God," she started. "Reese, where ARE we?" She seemed scared and upset.
"Um, I don't really know right now. I woke up not that long ago, but I was on the other side of the island."
"ISLAND?" she screamed, quickly getting up from my lap and jumping up, then falling back down, grabbing her chin on the way. "Ow, my leg hurts really bad!"
"I know, my whole body hurts," I paused. "Look, you're the only other person I found here so far. The sun is going to set soon enough, and I really don't want to be out in the dark,"
"Me neither," she quickly responded. I got up from the sand and started walking. "Where are you going?"
"Well, I was on the other side of the island, I started circling here, so I already covered that half of the island, so I thought I should go this way. You can come or you can stay here, with no one," I started walking with a smug smile on my face. I knew that Erica doesn't like being alone, she was a vice popular person, as I like to put it, and she was always used to being around people. She'd probably die if she wasn't.
"Hold on, I'll come,"
"Ok, but the pain in your chin…you're just going to have to suck it up."
"Fine," she heaved out a sigh. I turned around to see her walking at me. She was wearing a Pink halter top with a ruffled end, short shorts, which wear denim, orange flip flops, and a white bandana with red hearts on it. She tried undoing the knots that held her hair prisoner, but it was no use. She tucked her hair behind her small ears and kept moving ahead of me. I followed. There was a moment of silence. "So, that was a pretty bad storm,"
"Yeah, did you kick your window open to get out?"
"Oh, so that was you who told people to do that!"
"Yes, why, what happened!?" I questioned her with panic in my voice.
She turned to me and smiled. "Nothing, they all followed your advice, a lot of people got out." A lot of people...that doesn't mean all of them. I didn't want to think about that now, it made my stomach churn.
"Ok, that's good,"
"Mhm," There wasn't much conversation here. I knew that we were both putting the question we had to talk about off. I had to ask the question.
"Reese...what do you think will happen to us?" Oh, I guess she read my mind because she asked me it before I asked her. I had to answer carefully. A young girl at a time like this isn't someone you want to mess with...or make upset.
"Um," I thought of something smart, yet careful. "Well, I think that eventually," Bad word. "Er, soon, a helicopter will fly by and see us, then we can go home." Very short, I know, but it was the best thing I could say. I looked at her to see if she bought it. It looked like she didn't, but we both knew that we had to believe it.
We made the turn and there weren't any more shadows. The sun was hitting us and it felt great! I felt warm like I usually do when I entered the boys locker room. It always had a way of smelling like B.O. and just being...hot, it didn't even matter if you had it first period. Smells and hotness.
But somehow, this was a different hotness. I was warm like I was, but this felt good. I wanted to sit and last in the sun all day. Too bad it was just about sunset. The sun was at a 145 angle in the sky. It was awesome.
"Wow, the sun feels so good!" she said.
"Totally."
We kept walking, without saying anything, then I remember I was supposed to be watching out for things that could help us. I looked up at the sand, and it was just so...sandy. I started thinking about the sun, when something in the corner of my eye got caught and wouldn't look forward again.
I looked at the beach, and there was another, motionless, human being.
