Lord of the Flies ~ Fanfiction
Tainted Rainbow
Chapter 2 ~ Morning Light.
By the time the sun rose, the storm had gone, leaving nothing of its presence but swirled sand and soaked trees. The sun rose into a clear morning sky, pink on the horizon. The few girls that had slept were woken not by the sun's light, however, but by the slowly seeping in tide, which had begun to lap at their feet.
Many of the girls were already awake, and had gone a little way down the beach in groups. Most girls never went anywhere alone, if they could help it, and this was no exception. Footprints led away in many directions across the wet sand, some down to the water's edge and some towards the forest.
Kitty was woken by her friends moving past her. As she looked around her, at Lara's silhouette against the sun, Sam's long blonde hair down her back, Lilly's wet, mousy hair falling in her eyes, Tilly trying to get the water out of her shoes and Angela absent mindedly shredding some seaweed, it took her a few seconds to remember what had happened.
"Angela? Wha-Oh, God, it wasn't a dream?"
Angela and the others turned round.
"No, sure as hell wasn't." said Angela, yawning widely. " But I guess you got the most sleep, if you thought it was a dream."
"You can hardly talk," said Lilly sulkily "You sleep through anything. I'm knackered."
"I think everyone is, Lil'." Sam pointed out. "Its not as if it was a restful night."
"What happened, anyway? Does anyone actually know?"
The girls shook their heads. Kitty sat up. "What about everyone else?"
"That's what we were just saying, Kit." Said Tilly, trying to scrape the damp blonde hair out of her face. "There don't seem to be any adults, and everyones confused."
"And of course, Jennifer is leading all her little groupies about on a string. God, she is such a cow." Said Angela, darkly. "Do you remember what she was like last night? 'Yooou're the ones who led us down here?' Stupid bitch." "Oh God, can you imagine what she's going to be like?"
"We can't just let her try to rule everyone, if there's no adults."
"Yeah, but who in their right mind is going to oppose her? You know what she's like, she'll probably set all her groupies on them." Said Lara, looking round for them.
"We need to call everyone together, to sort out what's going on." Said Kitty, firmly.
"Uh, how? Exactly?" asked Angela. "This place looks pretty big, and people have been mooching off for hours."
"And anyway, what good will it do? Jennifer will just overrule anything anyone says."
Just then, a girl with brown hair and freckles came racing over.
"Oh great. Here comes Jodie, groupie number three."
"Oi! You lot!" yelled Jodie impatiently. "Jennifer's said everyone has to go over to this pool thing she found along the beach."
"Why?" said Sam, stubbornly.
"Because she said so. We need SOME good thinking while we're here, not just weirdness." Said Jodie, looking straight at Sam, who flushed and stood up. So did Angela and Kitty.
"Say that again."
"I'd rather not, thanks." Said Jodie, looking round and deciding that the odds were a little uneven. "I might just remind you later." She turned on her heel and left, a little quickly. Tilly, Lara and Kitty grabbed onto their friends to stop them going after her.
"I swear," breathed Sam furiously "I swear, I will get them one day."
"Leave it," said Tilly, wisely. "They're just trying to rile you up. We know you're not a freak. None of us are, but they just say it to pick a fight."
"Are we going to the meeting thing, then?" asked Lara hesitantly.
"May as well. I mean, if she starts messing things around, it'd be better if we knew about it." Said Kitty.
They all stood up, and made their way down the beach, following the trail of footprints to a large gathering of girls. There seemed to be a lot more than had come to the rocks last night. Most of the girls were sitting or standing about in little huddles, in a sort of crescent shape around the pool. More were arriving in dribs and drabs, following Jennifer's "messengers". Kitty's group sat down on the sand near the edge of the crescent.
"Where's Jennifer?"
"Maybe she drowned," said Kitty, hopefully.
"Sadly, no," replied Lilly in a bored voice. "Because she's over there." She pointed to the where the rest of the groupies were standing around.
"Dammit."
Jennifer suddenly stepped forward, followed by all her little friends. She was slim, not too tall but not short, with jet black hair and greeny grey eyes, which were squinted maliciously against the sun. All her groupies, Danniella, Natalie, Jodie, Sarah and others were standing around behind her, making sure they all looked cool. Jennifer made sure every eye was on her before she bothered to open her mouth.
"Hey. I called you lot together so we can figure out what to do. And I think the first thing we should do is find out exactly who is here."
Murmurs of agreement came from the crowd.
"So. We should make a list of who's who, and who's going to be in charge."
"In charge?" came a voice from the group.
"Yeah, someone who can make the rules, someone who can solve problems and stuff." Her tone of voice made it sound perfectly clear who she thought should have the job. "Any suggestions?"
"Yeah," said Angela, loudly. "How about, before we get all wound up in ideas of leaders, like little kids, we should figure out where the hell we are."
"And where we're gonna live." Added Sam
"And what we're going to eat." Called Kitty
"And, how we're going to get off this God forsaken rock." Finished Angela. The crowd muttered it's approval.
"Fine," said Jennifer, through her teeth. "OK. Does anyone know where we are?"
A short dark haired girl stepped forward. "I remember someone on the plane saying we were passing over a group of.what was it? Smuggler's Islands. She said they were used by smugglers years and years ago."
"Right, well that tells us something. We're on an island. And from the sound of it, it can be reached by boat. So, we wait for a boat to come by. Then we go home. Simple."
"How long till a boat comes?"
Jennifer gave the girl a sharp look. "How the hell should I know? We just have to wait till one does."
Another yell came from the group.
"What're we going to eat in the meantime?"
"You see those birds?" said Jennifer, pointing to a group of brightly coloured birds in the trees. "They live here, so there must be food for them, fruit and stuff. So, we'll eat fruit, and anything else good. I bet there's fish in the sea too."
The group were murmuring quietly amongst themselves. They were clearly quite impressed.
"They're falling for it," Sam whispered quietly.
"Hook, line and sinker." Replied Angela. She spoke up. "And where are we going to live? We cant keep sleeping on the rocks."
Jennifer thought for a bit. "Has anyone seen any caves, or stuff? We could find one to live in, or we could just stay in the forest. Has anybody been back to the plane yet?"
Everyone went quiet. Then a voice piped up.
"It might be dangerous."
"Someone saw a dead body by the plane. I don't want to go near it."
"That wasn't a dead body!" laughed Kitty "That was me! I fell over in the dark, and someone ran into me. I remember everyone was yelling so loud about a body that I couldn't make myself heard."
Jennifer rounded on Kitty "Just like one of YOU to scare everyone out of their wits. I bet you thought it was hilarious, you freak."
"Oi, that's enough. Who was it who called everyone down to the rocks? Us. So you can shut up. Just because we're not like yo-"
"Oh, shut up." Said Jennifer in a bored voice. "I have better things to do with my life than listen to you. So," she said louder, turning to everyone else. "So, now we've got that dispensed with, who's going to be in charge?"
"How about you?" said Danniella, faithfully.
Jennifer looked around. "Everyone agree?"
"No," said Kitty and Lilly together, loudly.
"Oh? Then who do the Freak Sisters recommend? A big blonde moron with no brains? Or a little crazy midget?"
"We are not FREAKS." Said Kitty angrily
"And we're not sisters." Added Lilly.
"And lay off our best friends," said Sam, fuming.
"I wasn't talking about your friends, stupid. I meant you, you retard."
Tilly had to grab hold Sam's hair to hold her back. She turned round furiously.
"Get off!"
"She insulted me too. Just leave it."
In the meantime, Jennifer had turned her back on them, and was rallying support.
"So, shall I be in charge?"
The crowd nodded and murmured.
"Great. Well, first of all, as long as we all stick by the rules, we'll all get on fine, won't we? So, what we're gonna do, is we're gonna go to the plane, and salvage whatever's there, alright? Clothes and food and stuff. Then we should take a good look around, and see what there is we can use. I think there's some coconuts here, we can eat them, drink them and use the shells for stuff. But for now, I think we need some breakfast. You lot, you can all go get some food, and we'll all go up to the plane later."
And with that, she walked back to where she had been standing earlier, and sat down to brush her hair.
The crowd slowly dispersed, and Kitty and her friends sidled off, not anxious to be left with Jennifer and her group.
"So, that's it." Said Lara heavily. "She's going to make our lives hell."
"I dunno," said Kitty. "She might be a total cow and everything, but she probably just wants to be a good leader."
"Just so she's still popular. It's sad." Sighed Angela. "What is her problem with us anyway?"
"We're just different. That's enough." Muttered Sam. "I mean, she doesn't like Angela, because she's almost a threat to her, and she hates me for being me. Its not like I can help being autistic."
"Hey, chill out Sammy." Kitty hugged her friend "Remember, its what she thinks. I didn't even know you were autistic when I met you, so its not like you're a freak, no matter what Bitchzilla says. She really hates me, just for standing up to her in my old school."
"Anything that's not what she likes, or who's not like her, and she treats 'em like crap. Well, she can shove it." Said Lilly heatedly.
"Oooh. Well, if we aren't having a good old bitch then." Said a voice behind them. The group spun round to face Jennifer and her groupies.
"What do you want?" demanded Angela.
"Nothing, except to tell you that you lot better do as I say." Said Jennifer with a malicious smile.
"Oh? And what if we decide not to?" asked Lilly
"Because we'd really rather not." Added Kitty
"Because," said Jennifer, her smile widening slightly "Because, my little flowers, there are no adults to run to on this island. I am in charge. I'm the power."
"Ooo. I'm SOOO scared." Said Lilly sarcastically.
"Good, because unless you play by my rules, you may find that you wish you had."
"What're you going to do? Put us in 'prison'?" asked Sam.
"No, but being in charge, I can make life very uncomfortable for you. By, say, banning you from food supplies until you decide to play nice."
"You can't do that. It'd be illegal." Said Tilly
"Ah but you see, there are no laws on this island, except the ones I make. Now, I'll leave you to ponder on that, if it can get through your thick, freakish skulls."
Kitty stepped forward "We are NOT freaks."
Jennifer looked her up and down. " You are to me. And that's what counts on this island. And I thought I'd taught you a long time ago, not to push your luck with me, freak."
CRACK
Before Jennifer had time to blink, Kitty had slapped her across the face, leaving a big red hand shape on her cheek. Kitty tried to duck back in with her friends, but Jennifer caught her arm, digging her nails into the skin.
"I see you didn't learn your lesson." She wrenched Kitty's arm round and over to expose the other side. "Which is strange, as you still have the scars." She pulled down on Kitty's arm, and she yelled. Her friends started forwards, but Jennifer had released her arm, and stepped back with her groupies.
"I'd see you around, if it weren't for the fact being around you makes me feel ill."
And with that, the lot of them sauntered away down the beach.
Kitty looked at her arm, which was bleeding from where the nails had gone through her skin.
"Great. Another set of scars."
*~*~*~*
Ooooer!!! So now we know Jennifer's in charge, and she's even prepared to hurt people on her way to the top..This cannot be good.
Tainted Rainbow
Chapter 2 ~ Morning Light.
By the time the sun rose, the storm had gone, leaving nothing of its presence but swirled sand and soaked trees. The sun rose into a clear morning sky, pink on the horizon. The few girls that had slept were woken not by the sun's light, however, but by the slowly seeping in tide, which had begun to lap at their feet.
Many of the girls were already awake, and had gone a little way down the beach in groups. Most girls never went anywhere alone, if they could help it, and this was no exception. Footprints led away in many directions across the wet sand, some down to the water's edge and some towards the forest.
Kitty was woken by her friends moving past her. As she looked around her, at Lara's silhouette against the sun, Sam's long blonde hair down her back, Lilly's wet, mousy hair falling in her eyes, Tilly trying to get the water out of her shoes and Angela absent mindedly shredding some seaweed, it took her a few seconds to remember what had happened.
"Angela? Wha-Oh, God, it wasn't a dream?"
Angela and the others turned round.
"No, sure as hell wasn't." said Angela, yawning widely. " But I guess you got the most sleep, if you thought it was a dream."
"You can hardly talk," said Lilly sulkily "You sleep through anything. I'm knackered."
"I think everyone is, Lil'." Sam pointed out. "Its not as if it was a restful night."
"What happened, anyway? Does anyone actually know?"
The girls shook their heads. Kitty sat up. "What about everyone else?"
"That's what we were just saying, Kit." Said Tilly, trying to scrape the damp blonde hair out of her face. "There don't seem to be any adults, and everyones confused."
"And of course, Jennifer is leading all her little groupies about on a string. God, she is such a cow." Said Angela, darkly. "Do you remember what she was like last night? 'Yooou're the ones who led us down here?' Stupid bitch." "Oh God, can you imagine what she's going to be like?"
"We can't just let her try to rule everyone, if there's no adults."
"Yeah, but who in their right mind is going to oppose her? You know what she's like, she'll probably set all her groupies on them." Said Lara, looking round for them.
"We need to call everyone together, to sort out what's going on." Said Kitty, firmly.
"Uh, how? Exactly?" asked Angela. "This place looks pretty big, and people have been mooching off for hours."
"And anyway, what good will it do? Jennifer will just overrule anything anyone says."
Just then, a girl with brown hair and freckles came racing over.
"Oh great. Here comes Jodie, groupie number three."
"Oi! You lot!" yelled Jodie impatiently. "Jennifer's said everyone has to go over to this pool thing she found along the beach."
"Why?" said Sam, stubbornly.
"Because she said so. We need SOME good thinking while we're here, not just weirdness." Said Jodie, looking straight at Sam, who flushed and stood up. So did Angela and Kitty.
"Say that again."
"I'd rather not, thanks." Said Jodie, looking round and deciding that the odds were a little uneven. "I might just remind you later." She turned on her heel and left, a little quickly. Tilly, Lara and Kitty grabbed onto their friends to stop them going after her.
"I swear," breathed Sam furiously "I swear, I will get them one day."
"Leave it," said Tilly, wisely. "They're just trying to rile you up. We know you're not a freak. None of us are, but they just say it to pick a fight."
"Are we going to the meeting thing, then?" asked Lara hesitantly.
"May as well. I mean, if she starts messing things around, it'd be better if we knew about it." Said Kitty.
They all stood up, and made their way down the beach, following the trail of footprints to a large gathering of girls. There seemed to be a lot more than had come to the rocks last night. Most of the girls were sitting or standing about in little huddles, in a sort of crescent shape around the pool. More were arriving in dribs and drabs, following Jennifer's "messengers". Kitty's group sat down on the sand near the edge of the crescent.
"Where's Jennifer?"
"Maybe she drowned," said Kitty, hopefully.
"Sadly, no," replied Lilly in a bored voice. "Because she's over there." She pointed to the where the rest of the groupies were standing around.
"Dammit."
Jennifer suddenly stepped forward, followed by all her little friends. She was slim, not too tall but not short, with jet black hair and greeny grey eyes, which were squinted maliciously against the sun. All her groupies, Danniella, Natalie, Jodie, Sarah and others were standing around behind her, making sure they all looked cool. Jennifer made sure every eye was on her before she bothered to open her mouth.
"Hey. I called you lot together so we can figure out what to do. And I think the first thing we should do is find out exactly who is here."
Murmurs of agreement came from the crowd.
"So. We should make a list of who's who, and who's going to be in charge."
"In charge?" came a voice from the group.
"Yeah, someone who can make the rules, someone who can solve problems and stuff." Her tone of voice made it sound perfectly clear who she thought should have the job. "Any suggestions?"
"Yeah," said Angela, loudly. "How about, before we get all wound up in ideas of leaders, like little kids, we should figure out where the hell we are."
"And where we're gonna live." Added Sam
"And what we're going to eat." Called Kitty
"And, how we're going to get off this God forsaken rock." Finished Angela. The crowd muttered it's approval.
"Fine," said Jennifer, through her teeth. "OK. Does anyone know where we are?"
A short dark haired girl stepped forward. "I remember someone on the plane saying we were passing over a group of.what was it? Smuggler's Islands. She said they were used by smugglers years and years ago."
"Right, well that tells us something. We're on an island. And from the sound of it, it can be reached by boat. So, we wait for a boat to come by. Then we go home. Simple."
"How long till a boat comes?"
Jennifer gave the girl a sharp look. "How the hell should I know? We just have to wait till one does."
Another yell came from the group.
"What're we going to eat in the meantime?"
"You see those birds?" said Jennifer, pointing to a group of brightly coloured birds in the trees. "They live here, so there must be food for them, fruit and stuff. So, we'll eat fruit, and anything else good. I bet there's fish in the sea too."
The group were murmuring quietly amongst themselves. They were clearly quite impressed.
"They're falling for it," Sam whispered quietly.
"Hook, line and sinker." Replied Angela. She spoke up. "And where are we going to live? We cant keep sleeping on the rocks."
Jennifer thought for a bit. "Has anyone seen any caves, or stuff? We could find one to live in, or we could just stay in the forest. Has anybody been back to the plane yet?"
Everyone went quiet. Then a voice piped up.
"It might be dangerous."
"Someone saw a dead body by the plane. I don't want to go near it."
"That wasn't a dead body!" laughed Kitty "That was me! I fell over in the dark, and someone ran into me. I remember everyone was yelling so loud about a body that I couldn't make myself heard."
Jennifer rounded on Kitty "Just like one of YOU to scare everyone out of their wits. I bet you thought it was hilarious, you freak."
"Oi, that's enough. Who was it who called everyone down to the rocks? Us. So you can shut up. Just because we're not like yo-"
"Oh, shut up." Said Jennifer in a bored voice. "I have better things to do with my life than listen to you. So," she said louder, turning to everyone else. "So, now we've got that dispensed with, who's going to be in charge?"
"How about you?" said Danniella, faithfully.
Jennifer looked around. "Everyone agree?"
"No," said Kitty and Lilly together, loudly.
"Oh? Then who do the Freak Sisters recommend? A big blonde moron with no brains? Or a little crazy midget?"
"We are not FREAKS." Said Kitty angrily
"And we're not sisters." Added Lilly.
"And lay off our best friends," said Sam, fuming.
"I wasn't talking about your friends, stupid. I meant you, you retard."
Tilly had to grab hold Sam's hair to hold her back. She turned round furiously.
"Get off!"
"She insulted me too. Just leave it."
In the meantime, Jennifer had turned her back on them, and was rallying support.
"So, shall I be in charge?"
The crowd nodded and murmured.
"Great. Well, first of all, as long as we all stick by the rules, we'll all get on fine, won't we? So, what we're gonna do, is we're gonna go to the plane, and salvage whatever's there, alright? Clothes and food and stuff. Then we should take a good look around, and see what there is we can use. I think there's some coconuts here, we can eat them, drink them and use the shells for stuff. But for now, I think we need some breakfast. You lot, you can all go get some food, and we'll all go up to the plane later."
And with that, she walked back to where she had been standing earlier, and sat down to brush her hair.
The crowd slowly dispersed, and Kitty and her friends sidled off, not anxious to be left with Jennifer and her group.
"So, that's it." Said Lara heavily. "She's going to make our lives hell."
"I dunno," said Kitty. "She might be a total cow and everything, but she probably just wants to be a good leader."
"Just so she's still popular. It's sad." Sighed Angela. "What is her problem with us anyway?"
"We're just different. That's enough." Muttered Sam. "I mean, she doesn't like Angela, because she's almost a threat to her, and she hates me for being me. Its not like I can help being autistic."
"Hey, chill out Sammy." Kitty hugged her friend "Remember, its what she thinks. I didn't even know you were autistic when I met you, so its not like you're a freak, no matter what Bitchzilla says. She really hates me, just for standing up to her in my old school."
"Anything that's not what she likes, or who's not like her, and she treats 'em like crap. Well, she can shove it." Said Lilly heatedly.
"Oooh. Well, if we aren't having a good old bitch then." Said a voice behind them. The group spun round to face Jennifer and her groupies.
"What do you want?" demanded Angela.
"Nothing, except to tell you that you lot better do as I say." Said Jennifer with a malicious smile.
"Oh? And what if we decide not to?" asked Lilly
"Because we'd really rather not." Added Kitty
"Because," said Jennifer, her smile widening slightly "Because, my little flowers, there are no adults to run to on this island. I am in charge. I'm the power."
"Ooo. I'm SOOO scared." Said Lilly sarcastically.
"Good, because unless you play by my rules, you may find that you wish you had."
"What're you going to do? Put us in 'prison'?" asked Sam.
"No, but being in charge, I can make life very uncomfortable for you. By, say, banning you from food supplies until you decide to play nice."
"You can't do that. It'd be illegal." Said Tilly
"Ah but you see, there are no laws on this island, except the ones I make. Now, I'll leave you to ponder on that, if it can get through your thick, freakish skulls."
Kitty stepped forward "We are NOT freaks."
Jennifer looked her up and down. " You are to me. And that's what counts on this island. And I thought I'd taught you a long time ago, not to push your luck with me, freak."
CRACK
Before Jennifer had time to blink, Kitty had slapped her across the face, leaving a big red hand shape on her cheek. Kitty tried to duck back in with her friends, but Jennifer caught her arm, digging her nails into the skin.
"I see you didn't learn your lesson." She wrenched Kitty's arm round and over to expose the other side. "Which is strange, as you still have the scars." She pulled down on Kitty's arm, and she yelled. Her friends started forwards, but Jennifer had released her arm, and stepped back with her groupies.
"I'd see you around, if it weren't for the fact being around you makes me feel ill."
And with that, the lot of them sauntered away down the beach.
Kitty looked at her arm, which was bleeding from where the nails had gone through her skin.
"Great. Another set of scars."
*~*~*~*
Ooooer!!! So now we know Jennifer's in charge, and she's even prepared to hurt people on her way to the top..This cannot be good.