Chapter 10

sorry I don't have anything to say after I announced the chapter, wait I said something!

I woke up before sunrise. I walked out on the beach and waited for the sun's magical beauty to happen again. Watching the sunrise had become a regular thing for me now. But this time I didn't feel so excited, a permanent unease stayed in the pit of my stomach. Jack wanted them to take me? I gulped. I didn't even realize that happened outside of movies.

About two seconds later, Simon came out. He put his arm around my shoulders, "Are you okay? You seem a little down."

"Ya, I'm fine, why wouldn't I be?"

He looked at me and raised an eyebrow, a look he held quite a bit, "The better question is why you would be. I'm your boyfriend, you can tell me anything."

I let out a small gasp and pushed my eyebrows together. I looked at my toes to hide my face from him. I never really liked the whole, boyfriend/girlfriend labels, but I couldn't decide if I liked it with him. I knew I liked him, well hey, I even love him, but I just didn't like the whole property sounding thing. I gave up my mental distraction concluding that I love him and he loves me therefore he is my boyfriend and I his girlfriend. Then I had to go back to our main discussion, "I'm, I'm scared." I coughed out a sob.

He held me in his arms, "I promise you, as long as I'm here, I will protect you. I won't let you out of my sight. They won't be able to touch you."

I put my head into his chest and cried, nothing could comfort me, not completely. I looked up just in time to see the sunrise. This time it didn't seem bright and happy like usual. No, it was being harsh, cruel, mocking me. It would always rise, day after day, but it knew after some point I would no longer be able to. I was trapped here with all of my fears and worries.

I spent the next couple of days jumping at every shadow I saw and every noise I heard. I punished the sun by not waking in time for its hurtful charade. I didn't even understand why I had done it. Or why I felt this way. All of the boys still at our camp had assured me several times they would watch and protect me from Jack and his new tribe.

I felt I had lied to myself. I told myself I would be strong, but here I am without the courage to leave the beach. Maybe Jack had finally gotten to me. No, I couldn't let that happen. I slowly started asking for less and less body guards until only one person would watch me while I slept. I tried to prove to myself I was a strong women by taking frequent walks to the meadow. But one day I realized that wasn't enough, no one knew about the meadow, if I really wanted to prove myself, I had to go out into the tangle of jungle.

I went to the meadow as usual but then walked to the other side. I stood at its border breathing deeply. I took a step forward. I took a couple more steps forward. I was about twenty feet away now from my comforting solitude. Something in the back of my head was telling me I was being stupid and needed to turn back. I ignored it, I had to do this!

I took another step forward, then went into a light jog. I tripped over a tree's root and rolled down a hill. I lay on my back trying to get my breath back. I opened my mouth but air refused to rush in. I heard two voices close by. If I could just say something, they could help me back to camp. Help? No I was supposed to be strong. My ankle writhed in pain, it couldn't hurt to ask for help just this once. After all, how was I supposed to walk with a hurt ankle?

I finally found the capability to speak, "Hey, over here! I think I twisted my ankle can you help?"

The beings that owned the voices came out from behind a bush. I let out a small gasp to see that it was Maurice and Roger. "Ahh, sweet, she's finally alone."

Maurice let out an evil laugh, "Yeah, now Jack will stop pounding us to go get her."

They stood around me quietly for a second. Then Roger asked the question we were all thinking, "Uh, how are we supposed to carry her?"

Maurice rolled his eyes, "Like this Stupid."

He picked me up and draped me over his shoulder. I couldn't think of anything to do but try kicking him, pounding him on the back, I refrained from screaming for a while, that would reveal the scared little girl I was to everybody. Who was I kidding? I was, no I am a scared little girl and so the screaming began. "Simon! Simon! Anybody! Come help me, please, hurry." I then focused some of my cries toward Maurice, "You put me down! They'll come after you. You know they will. If you were really smart you'd put me down."

He let out a chuckle to my frantic words, "Come after me? Ha it's either Ralph or Jack, who would you rather be beaten by, as if they could beat me at all."

I could only think of the first day we were here, while we were at that rock formation. I couldn't help myself from blurting out, "Ralph was in fight club."

Now Roger laughed at me, "And we're hunters, come on Baby, we outnumber them anyways. Even if they wanted to come get you, they wouldn't be able to. But believe me, they won't want to come get you, you're just a burden to them. You are useless. Well now you won't be, Jack said he's got a good use for you. He hasn't told us what it is yet, but I know it should be pretty good."

I swallowed hard, I didn't like the sound of being of a good 'use'. The blood rushed to my head quickly, but I couldn't tell if it was from being up-side-down or the overwhelming news I was just told.

We finally arrived to what they called Castle Rock. I gasped to see that it was the formation we had climbed the first day of being here.

Maurice put me down and put his arms around my own arms to restrain me. I quietly struggled. Jack started walking toward us. I squirmed all the harder. I was panicking. Maurice turned me around, "You really need to knock that off." He said almost gently enough to convince me he was good. Almost. I looked him in the eyes and kneed him in the groin as hard as I could. As he fell to the ground cussing at me, I made a break for it.

I ran as fast as I could, but I could here Jack's quickening footsteps racing towards me. He leapt at my back pinning me to the jungle floor. He rolled me over so I was facing him. "Get off of me! I'm going back!"

"Oh no. You're staying at my camp with me!"

"I'm not staying anywhere with you!"

He mockingly repeated the words I had told him so many times, "Please, get over yourself."

He grabbed me by the wrist and dragged me back to the beach. He let out a loud cry to gather all the members of his tribe, "Everyone, I want you to push all those boulders over there into a circular pattern," he nodded his head to a bunch of boulders a little off in the distance, "We're making a cage for this slut."

There was a loud cheer and everyone began to work. My mind was racing as it began to fit together all the pieces: a cage, a good use, satisfy my- I could only let out a small whisper, "Oh no."

I hope I didn't make that last part too confusing. Oh, you'll understand next chapter anyways, I hope. Please Review! I did the math and only have like two reviews for every chapter. We should change that :)