Alyssa awoke to find a few drops of rain falling on her face. At first, she thought nothing of it, but then it began to rain. No, I mean really began to rain. For a few minutes the girls just stood there screaming at each other in a hysterical state. They were literally dripping wet. Then the thunder made its crashing noise, and lightening began to light up like fire in the sky. Alyssa took Jackie's hand and made a mad dash for a nearby cave that she had somehow not noticed before. Jackie was still screaming when they got into the cave.
"Calm, down, calm down!" She told her. Jackie finally calmed down.
"Here, we're going to be fine, just sit down and we'll be fine. Do you know how to build a fire?" She asked as she got on the ground and began to attempt to build a fire using some sticks she found. Instead, Jackie blinked and Alyssa saw a blazing fire before her. It wormed her cold skin almost automatically. "From the way it looks, we're going to be here for a while."
"Yeah." Jackie shivered. "Can I ask you something?"
"Yeah."
"I've been with you for the last couple of days, and I've been thinking. You're going to marry my brother. But you told me the other day that, that you had a brother too."
"Yes, Adam, sweet little Adam. He could have been my twin rather easily."
"Oh, great, just what we need!"
"Shu! Do you want me to tell you or not?"
"Sorry!"
"Thank you. As I was saying, even though he was three years younger than me we were very close. He was closer to me than he was to his real twin. Abby doesn't remember him either, and she was his real twin."
Jackie wondered how he died. But she dared not to ask. In fact, she did not want to know. Alyssa was already visibly upset. Jackie pulled a tissue out of her pocket and handed it to her friend, who was now sobbing.
"I'm so sorry."
"Thank you." She said.
After a while the two of them fell asleep. When Alyssa awoke, the rain had gotten worse and the roaring fire had died. It was still very dark out but light enough to see now. They were freezing and there was no way to restart the fire that they had had going. Alyssa heard something. She looked up and noticed that little rocks were falling from the top of the cave, their size and volume increasing evermore by the second.
"Wake up!" She screamed at Jackie, silently afraid her voice would case the cave to collapse. Jackie stirred, then opened her eyes. "No time to waste. We have to go now." Jackie looked up and saw the falling rocks. The two darted out of the cave. In that instant the cave collapsed scattering dust and debris everywhere. A huge cloud of dust joined the windstorm and created a dust storm which overtook the island.