Thanks princessviolet for the review! Okay, this is where the actual plot starts coming out, believe it or not.
Disclamer: I own nothing, except for Davinna and David. And the storyline.
They traveled deep into the jungle together, stopping often to talk or look at the exotic plant life. The jungle itself was fascinating: a good deal of it was more water than trees; warm shallow water dotted with smallish lush islands, which were connected by bridges. Even when islands gave way to regular jungle, water was almost always somewhere nearby.
After a while, the sun had begun to sink in the sky, and the two friends decided they'd better head back to the boat.
"Come on, David, or we'll be late!" Nillie said, taking by the hand and beginning to pull him along again. "I don't want to hold up Shanta."
Dave laughed and stood still, pulling Nillie to a halt. "Nil, you don't always have to be in a hurry, you know. We've still got about an hour before sunset; that's plenty of time to get back." He looked around at the greenery surrounding him. "Okay, then… which way did we come from?"
Nillie looked around, too. "Um… that way, I think," she replied, pointing. "All right, so we don't have to hurry, but we should get going, don't you think?"
"Yeah. Er, are you sure that's the right way?" he said, looking the direction she'd pointed. "I can't tell; this jungle looks all the same to me."
"I'm pretty sure…" she mumbled, looking around once again. "Yeah, I'm almost certain. Come on!"
"Almost?!?" Dave said, but Nillie was already off through the tropical forest, leaving David behind. He hurried to catch up, and then they were off through the trees together, on their way back to the village… or so they thought.
"All right, where are we?" David said, coming to a stop after at least an hour and a half of fruitless wandering. "We should have reached the village by now."
Nillie stopped too, and glanced around, with a worried expression on her face. "I'm not sure…" she muttered uncertainly. "But the village can't be far now, can it? No, it's gotta be around here somewhere! We'll find it, don't worry, we'll get there…"
David shook his head and sighed. "Face it, Nil; we're lost." He gestured towards the western sky above the tree line, where bright pinks and oranges were growing paler and blending fuzzily with the purplish-blue sky all around it. "And we're already too late. It's getting dark, and we'll never find our way at night."
Nillie gazed at him, dumbfounded; her mouth was moving speechlessly as she cast about for the right thing to say. Nothing came. For once in her life, she was totally speechless. Her lips trembled slightly as she tried to hold back the tears that were welling up in her striking green eyes.
David stepped closer and put his arm around her shoulder. "It's all right, Nills; we'll be fine. They'll send out a search crew, and I'll bet we'll be home for lunch tomorrow."
Suddenly she burst into tears, and putting her arms around him, cried freely into David's shoulder. "I'm so sorry!" she sobbed. "This is all my fault. I should have brought a map, but I didn't think I'd need one, and then I would slow down and listen to you, I thought I knew what I was doing but I didn't, and now we're lost and it's my fault! I always get you in trouble, Davie, and I'm so sorry!"
David, bewildered by the sudden outburst, patted her back tentatively and tried to be comforting, to the best of his ability. "It's all right, Nil. It's not all your fault. I should have paid better attention to the path we were taking. Look, we'll be fine, though. I promise."
She pulled away from him, wiping the tears from her face. "I'm sorry," she said, smiling slightly. "I know we'll be all right, it's just… I wanted to do this one thing right. Something fun for us to do, together. And to be honest, I was kinda stressed to begin with, trying to make sure the day would be perfect, and now I've gone and screwed it up. I'll be fine, though. We both will."
David smiled back at her. "That's the spirit," he said. "The only problem now is… what do we do now?" The light had already faded to the dim purpley haze of twilight, which seemed to hang like a tangible mist beneath the eave of the tropical jungle. Soon it would be very dark; too dark to move very far without tripping over something, probably.
Despite their (somewhat forced) optimism, the duo's current outlook looked pretty bleak. Seeing nothing better to do, they sat down on the soft mossy ground together and waited to be found- or for daylight to come again; whichever came first.
Heh, yeah, so it's kinda sappy at the end there. The whole beginning of this story has been pretty sappy, I'm afraid, and I apologize for that P but it'll get better later on, I promise! Sorry this chapter was so brief, I've got a little bit of writers block XP Anyway please R&R, and tell me what you think!