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The late Arrivals

I stood for a second, unsure of my next move. Michael had just leaded me to a person who looked like Luis, but was unmoving and lacked his lively spark. I bent down and checked his pulse…Oh God he was alive! I remember calling out his name over and over again hoping he would respond but he didn't. My eyes started to burn and tears dropped from them, I could not handle this situation... "It will be alright Ana" I heard Michael say near to my ear. But I didn't respond only waited and cried…and to think…I thought I was such a strong woman!

I most have blanked out for more then four minutes because I came back to reality with Michael saying "He waking Ana! He's waking!"

The badly shook Luis opened his eyes and spotted Ana's reddened, teary face close to his own. He said in a low voice almost inaudible to the human ears "…Ana?" but she heard it. "Luis!" Ana yelled out grabbing him gently so not to cause him any more trauma today. The ever still Michael put a hand on her shoulder "Maybe I should check on the others" she nodded, never taking her eyes off her husband. He walked passed her and she saw him from the corner of her eye leave them alone to cry and thank God they had each other.

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Monica, Nicole, Glen and CJ all had a chance to introduce themselves and get a sense of how many people were alive on the beach. After about two hours of expecting each person for life, they started a mental list of how many had died. To Nicole's fears they put her father on the deceased list, not finding his body or any signs of him. She let out a whimper and told them he wasn't dead, but C.J just ignored her cries and listed him "dead."

"Damn!" a man, lucky enough to have his life and only a hurt knee, commented seeing the debris for the first time.

Among those alive was a young man Monica knew as the guy just placed on his first flight as a flight attendant…his name was Terry. There was a woman in her late fifties named Norma, and her friend and travel companion, a lanky guy named Tucker. Each one of them had a new job of gathering supplies from the plane, and along the beach. Suitcases, boxes of food, drinks, seats and metal all filled the area and someone had to gather it all while C.J and Terry tried to put out the fires that erupted from some lone pieces of the broken plane. "Come on move your ass!" C.J called after Terry who nervously took water with a plastic travel bag to a small fire.

"I like what your doing here" Michael told C.J. The captain gave him a once over and wrote him off as a nancy boy due to his soft spookiness and posture. "Well where the hell did you just come strolling in from? We could have used help out here!" C.J. yelled out to a taken back Michael. "I was helping out someone." Michael told him. "Hey!" Monica called for her bed of sand. "Leave him alone! He was around doing things way before you came!" Giving her a smile Michael waved her down and told her "Thanks okay I got this." He turned back to the other man and looked up at him. "Listen there's no need to have a fight here, im back now and am more then willing to do my part"

"I think there's going to be more problems" a booming voice called out. Everyone on the beach turned to face the group coming from out of the wooded area. In the lead was an insanely buff African American man in a black business suit. Behind was another man, a woman and a older man with a young girl. Nicole jumped up with tear filled eyes and screamed out "Daddy!" running to her newly found father. In turn he called out "Nicole!" and met her half way. It was a happy moment for Michael. He hadn't known the girl was looking for her father but was truly happy he was alive and well. "I'm glad to see you're all alive…but how far way did you come from?" he asked. "About 20 miles back…we must have been thrown on impact. The African American man told him. "Happy you joined us, I'm Michael" he held out his hand. The other man met his hand taking it in friendship in one of those instant male bonds you can feel right away at the first handshake. And Michael was glad to have it. "Kenneth" the other man said. "Well Kenneth, welcome. I'm not sure who everyone is but we all seem to be the only ones alive…other then two others." Kenneth nodded and shot a disgusted glance at C.J. having heard the drama he was causing only a few moments' prior.

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With the sun going down Ana walked to the beach hours later and found everyone working, most of the people she had never seen. "Wow," she said to herself. "An all new cast" Over hearing her Terry walked over to introduce him self. "Hey" he said. "Oh hi" Ana smiled. "We didn't get a chance to meet, I heard you were with your husband? Is he alright?"

Ana didn't want to think of poor Luis but was glad the young man was interested in his well-being. "Hes fine thank you" she told him quickly getting off the subject. "Oh, I'm Terry by the way" he told her feeling his shirt pocket. "You may remember me as the only male flight attendant on the plane. It was my first day…" he got to his nametag and blushed a little. "I remember you, you were doing great" Ana lied.

Now she was the one interested. "Why this job? Its not one you would think of for a guy your age." she asked. "Well," Terry started. "I always wanted to be a pilot and since I had to learn at school I wasn't cut out for it…I thought this was the next best thing…still in the air" Ana let out a small laugh on that notion…yeah still in the air she thought. Terry followed with a laugh not sure what was funny. Ana liked his enthusiasm about life. It was something they all could use.

"Okay Terry help me out here…I know that girl down by the beach with the older guy is Nicole…oh she found her father? That's great!" Ana started "And by her is Monica…and that guy over there with the tan is Michael, who is everyone else?"

Terry started on the side where a man held onto a female with long dark hair. "That over there is Andre and his girlfriend Luda, who by the way is pregnant!" Ana let out a low "Oh my God" over hearing that. It was bad enough for an average person, but a woman pregnant could lose the baby with such trauma! She made a mental note to check her out later. "Okay so go on…how about them over that" she said pointing to a group of four by the water. "Oh that's Norma and Tucker in the blade shirt. In the suit is this really tough guy named Kenneth." Ana nodded and saw another two strange faces in front of her "Them?" she asked nodding her head towards two men. "The guy with the mustache is the Captain named C.J… between you and me hes being an ass. And the other dude is named John…or Glen, I think its Glen…and over there…" he stopped seeing a girl by herself staring out into the wide ocean. "Her im not sure…Monica called her the Goth Chick."

The smile on Ana's face fell. Whoever the girl was she had such a look of pain and loss on her face it took Ana back to her high school days learning about sad and grim painters and paintings in art history…this girls mood could be a painting… "Thank you for helping me out. I guess I have to introduce myself to everyone…think it would be better if I just called out I'm Ana?" she joked. Terry smiled "Yeah, you may even get a 'Hello Ana' back from them!" he said. "Well I better get going with them" she told him walking away.

Terry was left with a wide look of the people and the wreckage that was the beach. One person stood out to him…the cute redhead he learned from Ana was named Nicole. Truth was he hadn't gotten her name until Ana pointed it out to him. He was too afraid to go up to her, and why should he when she had just gotten her father back? He could say hello in time…who knew how long they had to wait for help.