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Chapter 2 - …And Found
"Jen!" Em squealed hugging her tightly.
"Em! Nat! Sandy! Flick!" Jen panted as she escaped from Em's clutches. "You'll never guess what! There'sa polar bear in there!"
"A what?" Sandy asked incredulously.
"A polar bear!" Jen repeated. "White fluff and all!"
"Any pineapples?" Flick asked and Em hit her. "Ouch!"
"Honestly Flick!" Jen laughed. "I swear you have a pineapple for a brain!"
The group burst out laughing.
"We thought you were dead!" said Sandy.
"Oh my God, you'll never guess who we've met!" Em squealed again.
"Who?" Jen asked.
"Charlie!" Em squealed.
"Who?" Jen asked, rolling her eyes. "That was a big clue... there's only like a million Charlie's in the world!"
"As in Driveshaft Charlie!" Em replied excitedly.
"No, you're joking!" Jen said in shock.
"She's not!" Nat said. "It's true!"
"Wow!" said Jen.
They settled down around the campfire and started eating their meals again and Jen leaned over Em's shoulder to pinch her potatoes.
"Oi!" Em glared at her friend.
"What?" Jen asked innocently. "You're the only one with a vegetarian meal!"
Em rolled her eyes and Jen nicked another potato.
The next morning they woke up to the baking sun beating down on them.
"Whoa! Heat wave!" Sandy said, peeling off her jumper.
"I'm hungry. I want some pine…" Flick started before Jen covered her mouth.
Nat laughed, pulling off her jumper too.
"Lets go see if we can find our bags," Nat said.
"Okay!" Em agreed. "And Charlie... he's so sweet!"
Jen rolled her eyes. "I think ickle Emi has a crushy wushy!"
"Oh shut up Jen!" Em said, blushing.
Jen stuck her tongue out.
"If I didn't know you before the crash I'd swear that bang had damaged your brain…" Em retorted, sticking her tongue out back at Jen.
They headed down towards the fuselage and started digging through the debris.
"Nat, why are you blushing?" Sandy enquired.
Everyone turned to look at Nat who went a brighter shade of red and looked down into the pile of bags, muttering a 'nothing'. This caused all four of the others to look at where Nat had been gazing. Jen was the first to spot the tall, sandy-haired, handsome man with his shirt off several feet away.
"Ooh, does Natty Watty have a crushy wu…"
Em covered Jen's mouth. "Shut up Jen!" she said, rolling her eyes.
"…shy," Jen finished, sticking her tongue out and dodging Em's fist.
"Ooh, hot guy at eleven o'clock!" Jen grinned. "Wait… Isn't that…Oh my God it is… Robert Pattinson! You know, the one who was going to play Cedric in the next Harry Potter movie?"
Four heads instantly snapped up.
"Oh my God it is!" Nat squealed.
"I'm in heaven, pinch me someone!" Jen said, falling into a daydream. "Ouch! I didn't mean literally Em!"
"Jen, where are you going?" Flick asked as Jen randomly set off across the beach.
"She's going to make herself known I bet," Nat said, rolling her eyes as they all watched Jen stroll proudly up to him.
"Hi! Have I met you before?" Jen asked boldly.
"Er, I don't think so…" he said, looking slightly scared.
"Oh, I'm sure I've seen your face before, I just can't place it!" Jen said brightly.
"There she goes with the innocence…" Sandy muttered.
"She should permanently wear a pair of devil horns to ward people off…" Flick said, grinning.
"Well, I was going to be in the new Harry Potter movie…" he said cautiously.
"Really?" Jen said innocently. "I know that's where I've seen you! You're going to be playing Cedric aren't you?"
"Er, yeah," he replied.
"There she goes… poor bloke." Em rolled her eyes.
"Oh wow! I've never met anyone as famous as you!" Jen smiled innocently again.
"Battering of the eyelashes next," Nat predicted. Sure enough they battered.
"Er… thanks." Rob smiled. "It's nice to meet you. What's your name?"
"Jennifer Murray, but you can call me Jen." She smirked. "And you are Robert aren't you?"
"Yeah but everyone calls me Rob. I hate Robert, it's so formal," he said flashing Jen a smile.
"Well it was nice to meet you Rob! I'm going to go finish helping my friends looking for our bags now!" Jen grinned at him.
"Okay see you later!" he smiled.
"Bye!" Jen grinned before joining the others, who were all giving her disapproving looks.
"What?" she asked, tossing her hair over her shoulder. "I have to make an impression!"
The other girls rolled their eyes and set back to work digging through the rubble. By the end Em, Nat and Sandy had found most of their stuff and Jen and Flick had come across the odd bag each. Sandy also spotted a piece of plastic which they nabbed, and they also got some tree branches and spent the afternoon building a shelter. Jen and Em decided to stay at the shelter and add the finishing touches while Nat, Flick and Sandy went to see if they could find out if there was any more food around.
"Ooh look there's Charlie!" Em said excitedly.
"Where?" Jen asked cheekily.
"There!" Em pointed at Charlie who was with the man who was asking about the painkillers and a woman she had not yet met.
"What, the dude in the shirt? He's…" Jen was cut off by Em.
"No the other one!"
"Oh!" Jen giggled. "Cute... Rob's hotter!"
"No, Charlie is!" Em said defiantly.
"Rob!"
"Charlie!"
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"Char… Ooh, let's go see where they're going!"
Jen and Em followed the three of them into the edge of the jungle. They scuttled along as quietly as possible before... Crack! A twig snapped and their cover was blown.
"Who's there?" the woman said cautiously, snapping round.
"Oh sorry… we… we're just out looking to see if there were any fruits around… but now we're a bit lost…" Em said quickly, saying the first thing that came to mind.
"Oh, okay... you know, you shouldn't be out here on your own," the man said.
"Oh, sorry…" Jen said innocently.
"They'd better come with us!" Charlie said. "They'll get even more lost if we send them back on their own!"
"True but…" The man hesitated.
"Jack, we can't leave them here!" the lady said. "You two can come with us!"
The man named Jack gave her a disapproving look before nodding in agreement.
"What are your names?" Jack asked.
"I'm Emily and she's Jennifer..." Em answered him bravely. "Who are you?"
"I'm Jack, that's Kate and that's Charlie," Jack replied.
"Is this your lost sister?" Charlie asked as they set off walking.
"Yep!" Em smiled.
"Jen this is Charlie. Charlie, Jen." Em said, giggling. "So where are we going anyway?"
"To find the cockpit of the plane to find the transceiver or something," Charlie replied, with obviously very little idea of the actual answer.
They followed Jack and Kate further into the woods until they reached a clearing.
"Holy shit!" Jen swore as she spotted the plane, the nose being supported by a tree.
"We've got to go in that?" Em asked, wide eyed.
"Yep!" Charlie said grimly. "Looks like it anyway..."
"Yes we have!" Kate confirmed. "The transceiver should be in the cockpit somewhere."
"Isn't that the bit stuck the highest in the tree?" Em asked worriedly.
"Yep!" Jack said. "Come on!"
The five of them ventured warily towards the plane.
"There are going to be dead bodies!" Jen whimpered, clinging to Charlie who laughed.
Em had paled considerably. Jen clung to Charlie (under Em's disapproving frown) until they reached the bottom of the plane, when she had to let go so she could use her hands to climb up inside the plane.
The reached the top, panting, and waited while Jack tried to open the door to the cockpit. Suddenly it wrenched open and a body went flying down the plane.
Em screamed and Jen started repeating 'Oh my God, what the hell?' but they followed Jack and Kate into the cockpit all the same.
"Whoa! Look at all the pretty buttons!" Jen exclaimed, her eyes lighting up.
"No!" Em yelled, grabbing her hands and holding them behind her back.
"Can't I just press one?" Jen pouted.
"No!" Em said firmly. "Knowing our luck, that one button will be the only button programmed to self destruct the front of the plane or something…"
"Please…" Jen whined.
"No!" Em said. "No buttons... bad Jen!"
Jen grumbled.
"So what does this transceiver thingy look like?" Em asked, ignoring Jen's sulking.
"Like a complicated walkie-talkie," Jack replied.
Em scanned the compartment and let go of Jen, who leaned over the pilot's body, accidentally trampling on his leg. Just as she did the pilot sat bolt upright, causing Em to scream loudly. Jen made a dash for the buttons, but once again Em restrained her.
"No you don't!" Em said, and Jen reverted back to sulking.
Meanwhile, Jack and Kate were questioning the pilot.
"Six hours in, our radio went out. No one could see us. We turned back to land in Fiji. By the time we hit turbulence, we were a thousand miles off course. They're looking for us in the wrong place."
They exchanged worried looks. Em let go of Jen who realised the buttons weren't to be touched and that this was a serious matter.
"Does that mean no one's going to find us?" Em asked.
They all shared apprehensive looks and then suddenly Em realized something.
"Where's Charlie?" she said.
"I don't know," Jen said, looking around blindly.
Em leaned out the door, yelling for Charlie.
Suddenly a door burst open and Charlie emerged.
"What on earth were you doing in there?" Em asked him.
"I was…" Charlie began, blushing slightly.
Then, suddenly, there was a loud noise outside and all their heads snapped back to the window in the cockpit.
Jack, Kate and the pilot started to try and clear the windows so they could see. The pilot climbed onto one of the chairs and went to open the window and suddenly something grabbed him.
Em, Jen and Kate all screamed and Em clung to Charlie's arm. They watched wide-eyed as the pilot was pulled from the cockpit through the window.
"Shit!" Charlie exclaimed.
"What was that?" Jen panicked.
"We couldn't see!" Jack replied.
"Let's get out of here!" Kate yelled. "Jack, don't!"
Jack had begun re-routing for the transceiver. He eventually found it on the floor and then led the way hastily out of the plane.
It was raining and they heard the noise again. What ever it was... it was close. They began to run, the rain pounding their shoulders, running down their backs and soaking them to the skin. Suddenly Em, who was at the back screamed and fell to the ground. Charlie, who was in front of her, turned to see her falling to the wet, dirty ground, whacking her head brutally on a tree.
