Hey guys, sorry for not updating sooner. I'm a little (really a lot) uninspired lately. And I had my birthday, which delayed things a little ;)

Hope you like it :D

Jade

No. No, no, no! A plane? NOW?

"We need to signal it!" Beck shouted.

"How?" I yelled back at him. We didn't have anything to make fire with; we'd left everything on the beach with Robbie and Cat.

"Your scissors! Use the reflection of the sun!" Tori made up. I immediately got them out, and tried frantically to catch a flash of sunlight. Believe me, it's difficult in a stressed situation like that. I couldn't believe there was a plane flying over NOW, after all the time we'd had a huge fire burning to signal one. The others, just as panicked as me, were yelling. As if they could hear us up there.

Later I had no idea if I actually managed to sent a flash up there. Neither did the others. I was the first one to realize how hopeless this was – even if the sun HAD reflected, what were the chances the pilot (or someone else on the plane) had seen it? And then even if they had, what were the chances of them reporting it? I sighed, defeated. The others calmed down too, looking rather hopeful.

"This could be it!" Tori said excitedly. "We could be saved now!"

"Don't get your hopes up, Vega," I replied. "They probably didn't even notice us." She looked disappointed.

"But... they must've seen us, right? They must've at least noticed the island, and they'll sent someone to check it out, and they'll come and find us, if we go back to the beach, and..." I put a hand on her shoulder, and she quieted, looking devastated. I actually felt bad for saying what I was about to say, but she had to understand...

"Tori, we probably won't be saved. At least not by this plane. If you keep hoping for that, you'll go totally crazy. I'm sorry, okay? There wasn't anything we could do." She shook her head disbelievingly, and looked at me with eyes full of hate and anger. Kind of scary, coming from her.

"No. No, they'll come. You'll see, they'll get us!" she said, and I think she really believed it at that moment. Then she ran off towards the water, swimming towards Cat and Robbie rapidly. André followed her, leaving me and Beck alone once again. I sighed, knowing Tori would just have to get over it sooner or later. Beck put his arm over me, and I rested my head against his shoulder for a while.

"You think they saw it?" I asked him. He thought for a while.

"No. I don't think so." Well, at least he was honest.

"Let's go back to the others," he said after a short silence. I nodded, and followed him back into the water.

Cat

Robbie and I were having tons of fun, me diving off the cliff and he watching and clapping and hugging me every time as if he thought I could just have died. I was so happy that he liked me! I totally lost track of time, and it seemed way to early when Tori and André returned. I'd just dived, and me and Robbie swum towards me.

"How was the island?" I asked excitedly, but Tori ignored me and sat down on the beach. I was really confused; had I upset her somehow? André smiled at me reassuringly, so I thought it was probably not something I had done. I noticed Beck and Jade weren't at the beach anymore. When I looked around I saw them swimming towards us. André followed Tori and sat down next to her, and I wanted to do the same, but Robbie stopped me.

"Leave them alone for a while, okay?" I wanted to say they already had been alone for a while, but he seemed a bit sad, so I gave him a hug instead. Beck and Jade reached us, and I let go of Robbie.

"Hey, guys! What's up with Tori?" I immediately asked. Beck looked at Robbie.

"Did you see the..." Robbie nodded, pointed at me and shook his head. I didn't get what he meant by that.

"What's that supposed to mean?" I yelled, thinking it might be some kind of insult I didn't know about.

"Nothing, Cat. Just that you didn't see the... something."

"What didn't I see?" Everybody looked a little nervous. "Did something bad happen?"

Robbie coughed. "Well, kinda. Not really bad bad, but sort of..."

"A plane flew over, Cat," Jade interrupted him. I was confused.

"That's good, right? Now we can go home!" I smiled excitedly, but the others' faces gave me an anxious feeling.

"Right?" I asked again, slightly less certain. Beck shook his head.

"We didn't have fire to signal it. They probably didn't notice us."

"But... they'll come back, won't they?" I loved the island, but I missed my parents and brother and friends. I looked at my friends, who all looked back with sad eyes, and at André, who was trying to calm down Tori, who seemed very upset.

"Well... I guess that's okay," I decided out loud. "And maybe more planes will fly over, if this one did. And then we can try to sign one." Robbie smiled, and put an arm over my shoulders.

"Of course. It might take a while, but we'll get out of here eventually." Beck and Jade nodded too, and I turned around again to look at Tori and André. She still seemed upset; I think she was even yelling at André, which I found really weird because Tori's always calm and happy and she never yells, only at Trina, and sometimes Jade.

"Is Tori okay?" I wondered. The others looked at her too. She looked back at us for a second, and she looked angry. I didn't know why. Did she blame us because we couldn't signal the plane? That wasn't our fault. Right?

André

"Tori, please!"

"No!" I couldn't remember her yelling at me ever before, so I knew she was really upset. I understood, until a certain point. It's not every day you see the one thing you want most in your whole life, to be so close, but be unable to get it.

"I know you're upset, but this isn't going to help."

"Well what if it does?" Her voice was full of venom. That wasn't entirely fair; none of us could have done any more than we did.

"Tori, you know Jade's right, don't you?"

"She's not! They must've seen us. She's lying!" I sighed.

"Try and think rationally, please! Besides, why would Jade lie to you about something like this? Don't you think she wants to go home herself, too? We all do. But we can't believe in something that won't happen." It hurt me to say that, because I truly wanted to believe in what Tori was saying. But I knew that in the end it would only hurt more.

"But it WILL happen. I mean, we sent a signal up, didn't we? And they must be paying extra attention, so there's a chance they saw it. Maybe they won't come today, but tomorrow, or the day after, or..." I heard the anger and wilfulness die away when she finally came to her senses. She looked at me remorsefully.

"I just want to go home." I smiled, and embraced her tightly.

"Believe me, I know how you feel."

"I know." She sounded sad and tired, and my heart ached for not being able to take her home.

The others were nearing, and I let go of Tori.

"You okay?" Beck asked. Both me and Tori nodded, and everybody clearly relaxed a bit. On everyone's faces I saw it, though. The same thing I saw on Tori's face, although hidden better: the knowledge we'd just missed our chance. There was a long, awkward silence. No one knew what to say now. What could we say? It was one of those things everybody knew but nobody wanted to say out loud, in fear of making it more real somehow.

"We should get back to the beach," Beck finally decided. None of us disagreed. This place, as beautiful as it was, wouldn't ever be a happy one for us, like the cliff wouldn't be. So we all followed him into the forest.

Cat was the first one to return to her happy self, as I'd already expected.

"I wanna swim in the ocean when we get there," she excitedly chirped.

"You already have, for hours," I replied, slightly surprised but also amused.

"Well now I wanna do it again." She looked around.

"Are we going the right way? I don't remember this." She clung to Robbie's hand, which was both sweet and really weird. Usually girls stayed as far away from him as possible.

"We have to walk around the mountains," Beck explained to her, "because we can't climb off that cliff."

The mood slowly lightened, and by the time we'd reached the shoreline Cat and Robbie were happily singing songs, and Tori had lost the defeated look. We'd all accepted that this plane wouldn't be our rescue.

"Ocean!" Cat yelled through the middle of her song, as soon as we saw the first sparkle of blue. She pulled Robbie with her towards it, and he followed her. I wasn't sure if that was because Cat was stronger than him or because he really wanted do go with her.

I noticed it was starting to get dark, which meant we'd have to sleep on the beach, or in the forest. Like when we'd just gotten here.

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Xxx Red