Ralph stared into the jungle and everyone was silent until he spoke.
"Where's..." He started looking around to see if his father was on his way but when he turned towards the sea he knew he was dead. The plane couldn't be seen anywhere and the sea was perfectly still. He felt the lump in his throat and his eyes watered.
"What's wrong?" Ralph jumped having not seen the girl from the raft walk over to him
"My dad was in the plane.." He said and the sadness in her eyes told him she knew too there was no hope.
"I'm so sorry" She said quietly
"It's going to be alright Ralph. I'm Charity by the way" She said sticking out her hand which he shook swallowing hard to reduce the tightness in his throat.
"Hey! Stop it Jenna!" They turned round to see Gally on the floor with a girl mock wrestling him. She looked very familiar to Ralph then he realised she looked just like Jack. She had bright ginger hair like his but shoulder length and freckles all over her face. She was only pretend fighting but he could see how strong she really was as even Gally couldn't get up with her pinning him down.
"Guys we've got to make an escape plan, we need to get out of her as soon as possible" Ralph said walking over to them with Charity following behind
"Who put you in charge?" Gally said frowning
"Yeah! Why should you be the leader! You were in the cockpit of the plane when we were struck! Surely you could've done something!" Jenna snapped angrily at him. She must be related to Jack surely. Ralph opened his mouth to speak but was beaten to it by Tash
"Well you haven't exactly made any suggestions yet have you! You've just been playing about like a couple of kids, in case you haven't noticed we're stranded on a fucking island in the middle of fucking nowhere!" She yelled and the group fell into stunned silence not having expected such a thing to come out of someone as innocent looking as her.
"She's got a point" Charity said quietly only to back away slightly when met with death glares from Jenna and Gally.
"Why don't we ride off the island on turtles!" Said an airy voice from the back of the group.
"Not the cleverest are you Abby" Gally said to the girl.
"Well I think I should be chief here" Gally said folding his arms "I'm smart, I'm strong, I'm..." Gally continued listing his qualities
"I'm.."
"An arse hole" Tash finished quietly, met with a chuckle from Ralph.
"What did you say?" Gally snapped
"Nothing, nothing at all" Tash smirked walking into the forest "I'm gonna get some firewood"
"I'll give you a hand" Charity said going over to join her and they disappeared into the dark jungle. Ralph considered going with them but didn't particularly fancy returning to the battle ground that had been the forest.
"I think Ralph should be in charge" A girl said cutting Gally off "He's been here before, he knows his way round and everything" A girl said fiddling nervously with her long black hair not making eye contact with anyone. She very much reminded Ralph of Simon. Very quiet but sensible.
"I'm with Sophie" The boy who'd rescued Ralph from the water said who Ralph later found out was called Peter.
"So that's 4 for me and 1 for you" Ralph said smirking triumphantly at Gally and Jenna
"Make that 6 for Ralph" Abby said walking over to join Ralph's group
"You mean 5 Abby..." Peter said " 4 plus 1 is five love"
"I, er yeah you know what I meant!" She snapped, flicking her blonde hair out her eyes. Ralph could tell she wouldn't get on well in the wilderness what with the fake nails, hair extensions and makeup.
"Well looks like I'm chief" He said "Let's get building some shelters, I remember how I think. They went about collecting palm leaves and long sticks until the peace was disrupted by a nerve shattering scream from deep in the jungle.
