Kay, sorry I haven't updated in such a long while!! I'm only doing it now because Erin bullied me into it. LOL jk!! I'm leaving for Disney World in a couple of days!! I'm so excited! My marching band is going there to march in a parade! We just had a concert this past Saturday, and it was really fun. We got new Marching Band t-shirts, too! I'm so excited. Our old member shirts were lime green. These are stop-light red. Awesome awesome. I'm watching The Sandlot (one of the greatest movies ever made, by the way. It's right up there with a Christmas Story) on TV and so if I start rambling (sort of like I'm doing now), you'll realize why. Okay, I guess I'll shut up now and just write the story………

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It seemed like so much time had passed when the ship came, but it was in actuality it was no more than four months after Star's alleged pregnancy. (So far she hadn't shown any signs at all.)

The girls were spending a quiet afternoon, sunning on the beach and cooing over Charlie, who liked to yank on their hair. They all thought it was adorable. The boys were out doing something manly, supposedly, like hunting or lying to each other about how far they'd gone with their girlfriends. (AN. Doesn't it strike anybody else as odd that there are always just the right amount of girls to match the boys and that they always like the right one, so that like X-ray and Zero don't both like Rogue? Mwuhahaha! I'm at the part in the movie where Squints pretends to drown and then kisses Wendy Peffercorn. That's one of my favorite parts!!)

"What's that?" Link asked, propping herself up on her elbows. Her entire stomach was covered in pearly white sand, but she didn't care.

"It looks like a big cloud sitting on the edge of the water." Jewel said dreamily, her knees drawn up to her chest and her chin resting on them.

"Nah, it's not fluffy enough to be a cloud." Apple pointed out, always having to point out the facts. She was just like that.

"A shell then." Kitty said, making little piles of sand over her feet. She didn't seem to be paying a whole lot of attention to the conversation.



"Um, anybody else think it's strange that there's a cloud or a shell or something floating on the horizon?" Star pointed out, furrowing her pale blonde eyebrows.

They all sat up. "You know, she's right." Minx agreed. Her arms were gently rocking Charlie, but her face was turned toward the ocean. "Somebody should go get the guys."



"But where are they?" Rogue wondered aloud. None of them had seen their boyfriends since breakfast.

"Probably in the tree-house." Link rolled her eyes fondly. Since they'd been trapped on the island, she'd grown a lot more open with her friends.



"I'll go." Kitty said, climbing to her feet and brushing sand off her butt and thighs. "Somebody come with me?"

"I'll go." Jewel offered, scrambling up. "We'll be back in a minute."

"Don't get lost!" Link teased cheerfully. None of them thought that the cloud or shell or whatever it was posed any threat at all.

Jewel and Kitty returned about five minutes later with the boys, and they definitely looked a bit shaken up.

"Oh my god," X-ray peered through his glasses (clean for once) out at the thing on the ocean. It was steadily getting closer.

"What is it?" Apple climbed worriedly to her feet and reached for Caveman's hand almost absently, as though she didn't realize she was doing it.

"It's a ship." ZigZag said grimly. "And it's coming straight for us."

"What are we going to do?" Rogue's tone was slightly hysterical, though she had never been one of the more frantic ones.

"Well, we have a couple of options." Star said, immediately taking control. Her power-moments were those of panic. "We could hide in the woods until they pass us by. Or we could light a signal fire and get rescued. Or we could just go about our lives as usual and if they stop, great, but if they don't, then we're no worse off by it."

"Let's take a vote." Zero suggested logically. (AN. Sorry to all you Hector Zeroni fans. I seriously didn't mean to leave him out in the last chapter. Umm………He was in the bathroom *cough* yeah, that's it………)

"Okay, all in favor of hiding, raise your hands." Star instructed.

Minx raised her hand, then looked around and slowly lowered it. If nobody else wanted to hide, far be it from her to hold them back.

"All in favor of just going about our day?" Star asked next.

Link, Zero, and Rogue raised their hands.

"Okay, and all in favor of lighting a signal fire and getting rescued?"

Everyone else raised their hands.

"Well, I guess that's the majority." Star said, glad that they were going to be off the island in time for her to have her baby. "What we'll have to do is make a huge bonfire on the shore in the direction of ship, and we'll have to keep it going at all times."

"All right, everyone except Minx, go find firewood!" X-ray ordered, and they all split up at once and raced off into the woods. Minx sighed and sank down onto the shore, watching the huge cruise-liner get steadily closer and closer.

The bonfire was huge, and they kept it going for four days straight. The ship anchored out in the deep water, and sent a speedboat out to the island.

There were two rescue men wearing pristine white uniforms in the speedboat. They looked amazed to find sixteen bedraggled teenagers staring back at them.

"You kids okay?" The dark-haired one called to them, leaping out of the speedboat and hurrying up to them.

"We're fine now." Kitty smiled and leaned into ZigZag's protective embrace.

"How long you been here?" The second one, a blonde, demanded of them as he climbed out and waded through the shallow water to them.

They all looked at each other, then shrugged. "Months. Over a year." Minx shrugged, indicating the baby she held in her arms. Charlie cooed pleasantly.

"Holy shit," The first one rubbed his temples, looking amazed.

"All right," The blonde began ushering them into the speedboat. "Climb in. We're going to take you back to the Queen Mary and we'll contact your families from there."

"We don't have any families." Jewel said quickly, and they were all rather glad that she'd spoken up. None of them really wanted to see their 'families' anyway.

The blonde looked at them all sadly. "How old are you?" He wanted to know.

"I'm nineteen." X-ray said. "I'm the oldest." He pointed to Fidget. "She's the youngest, and she's fifteen."

"Fifteen?" The dark-haired one looked up from where he was starting the speedboat's engine. "How many of you are under eighteen?"

Slowly Apple, Minx, Link, Rogue, Fidget, Caveman, Magnet, Armpit, Zero, and Twitch all raised their hands.

"There's ten of you that are underage?" He said in surprise. "You've managed to survive out here with ten of you being underage?"

"We'll have to put you all in foster homes." The blonde shook his head sadly. "If you don't have any family to go to."

"Can't we take care of them?" Star asked hopefully. "There's six of us that are over eighteen. We can take care of them. Please?"

"We really can't be separated." Minx urged, indicating Charlie in her arms. He had gone to sleep.

"We'll talk about it with the police." The dark-haired one told them gently. They all visibly gulped. He started the speedboat and they zoomed off toward the cruise liner.

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Mwuhahaha!! Cliffy, right?? All right, I want 185 reviews. And *sniffs* I won't be able to update until next Wednesday, because I'll be in Disney World until then. Well, I get back late Monday night, but I'll be way too tired to do anything on Tuesday. So………I hope you liked it. Em, how was Jr/ Sr?? Did you have fun?? Who all was there?? And, I hope you like it Erin!! I bet you can't wait for me to update Disturbed Lives!! *exaggerated wink wink* I love you all!! Byeness!!