Thanks for the reviews for the last chapters…this chappie is actually pretty weird. But hopefully you'll like it anyway ^-^ please R+R thanks! :D
Zoey's POV
When Stark came back about three hours later, his face was set in a grimace and he was dripping wet. He was carrying firewood, though.
"What happened to you?" I asked, trying not to laugh at his sagging wet clothes.
He grunted. "Well first I fell in some poo, which was the highlight of my day. Then I got tangled in some grape vines and almost got attacked by an armadillo, and once that was over I fell in a freshwater river in the forest and got dragged 3 miles across this stupid island!" He angrily threw the twigs and branches on the ground in front of him. "But the good news is I found wood and we have fresh water to drink, unless my presence contaminated it." His face was covered in sarcasm as he crumpled down to the ground and leaned against the wall of the cave.
I pulled my sweatshirt tighter around me. "Well, Stark, I'm sorry that you haven't been having the greatest time here. But I just discovered that I have something bleeding profusely on my head and now I'm shivering and I think I'm gonna die…" My thoughts just poured out of my mouth, faster than I planned on.
His face softened. "What?" he asked me worriedly. He climbed over to me and pawed through my hair, until he came across the deep gash that I had just noticed. I sniffed.
"Oh, goddess, Zoey, why do you always manage to get yourself hurt?" he moaned, pulling me into an embrace and pressing his hand to my head. He reached for the backpack and pulled out a blood bag. "Drink this. You'll need it."
I looked at him, but not at the bag. "No, I couldn't, I don't need it, I'm…" My words faded as my mouth started to water. I stared at the bag and the blood sloshing around in it, immediately thinking of Heath and how much I really missed him. What made me feel guilty was that I thought of him when I looked at blood.
I snatched the bag from Stark's hands and downed the contents. After wiping my mouth, I mumbled, "Thanks."
Stark just held me tighter, then ripped the hem of his shirt and wrapped it tightly around my head. "That should stop the bleeding, and here, I'll start a fire." He pushed the bigger branches together, grabbed two sticks, and began to rub them together.
I started to laugh. "Don't be so old-fashioned." I giggled at him. Then I called fire to me and wordlessly directed it to the pile of sticks, which ignited immediately.
He stared at it for a little bit, then came back over to me and lay down next to me."Come here," he whispered. I scooted closer to him and rested my head on his shoulder. "It's 1:00 pm. You should be asleep, and you need the rest, especially in your state." I felt my head throb. "Good night…err, day, Zoey."
Within seconds, and before I could even mumble a reply to him, I was asleep.
My eyes creaked open at what my watch said was 12:00 am. I still felt Stark's shoulder beneath my head, and when I rolled over to look at him I saw that he was sleeping soundly, too.
I sat up and yawned. Then I grabbed a grape from the pile and shoved it into my mouth. Realizing how hungry I was, I ate more grapes, and more, until I felt someone standing behind me.
I turned to find Stark with a smirk on his face. "So you're not tired of grapes yet?" he tweeted sarcastically. He reached for one himself. "You know we could always make wine out of this."
Nodding, I said, "Oh, sure, because we're totally gonna be waiting here for 37013502408645062062895620 years to wait for wine to ferment from some stupid grapes you found on the island." I rolled my eyes as he ate another grape.
"Now now," he pointed at me, grape in hand, "keep that optimism up! Remember what your therapist said?"
I groaned and threw a grape at him and unfortunately missed. "Oh, shut up. If anyone needs a shrink it's you."
"Mhm. That's why you're the one that…" He trailed off, obviously out of sarcastic remarks. He leaned down to kiss me, and I said, "You're one lovable pain in the butt."
He giggled. "Ditto."
After having a nourishing breakfast of grapes with grape sauce and a side of grapes, stark and I crawled out of the cave to explore the island.
"Hey, what about looking through the forest?" I suggested.
Stark shivered dramatically beside me. "Oh, no. There is NO way you're dragging me in there." He smiled at me.
"Wimp." I playfully muttered under my breath.
We walked around the island a little bit, and Stark caught two huge crabs the size of a generously sized lobsters and a fish. When I saw the crabs, I commented, "Wow, I didn't know that they had steroids this far out."
About halfway around the island from where we started from, I saw two moving figures by what looked like a little building.
"Hey!" I shouted, but apparently they didn't hear me.
"You see that too?" Stark asked, holding the crabs and the fish in the net he found tangled in a bunch of rocks.
"Yeah," I said, "that would explain why I'm shouting at them."
We approached the figures and when we were a little far away from them, one of the figures stopped. It went over to the other figure, whispered a little bit, and then they both ran into the small building.
"Looks like they saw us," he murmured, leaning down to whisper in my ear.
"Yeah, I saw that. Let's go check it out."
The small building turned out to be a little cabana type thing, made of palm fronds, some branches, and what looked sort of like bamboo. The door...type thing was closed tight and Stark knocked on it.
"Uh, hello?" came the voice from the other side. It was unusually deep, obviously faked.
Stark rolled his eyes. "Open the door."
"Uh, we can't do that," a super-high also faked voice rang.
"Yeah, um, because, we're…" The deep voice struggled for an explanation.
"We're, um, we're naked!" the high voice screeched triumphantly.
"Oh, goddess," stark moaned under his breath. He handed me the net and kicked on the door, which swung wide open.
Who we saw were the last people I expected to see on this island, and the last people I wanted to see, here in front of me.
AHAA, cliffhanger :] last thing you expected to see, huh? Guess who they are? Thanks, beta vampluver19 :]
