Ch. 14 Plane!

Lex sighed and stared at the sky. It was the day after the funeral, and the sky was cloudy and there was a slight drizzle. A drop fell on Lex's nose. He pulled his hat over his forehead and continued to fix the radio. Well, to the best of his ability. The radio was now just a bunch of wires. And the part that played music.

"Hey Lex," Abby walked over to him.

"Hey Abby! How are you doing?" Lex asked.

"A bit better. I'm ready to come back now," Abby smiled.

"For real?"

"For real," she grinned and sat next to him.

"How's the radio coming?" she asked.

"Not good. I don't even think we're going to get static again. That's really depressing."

"At least we've got each other, right? And, as much as I don't want this place to become home, you could get used to it," Abby shrugged.

"Yeah. Maybe sometime we'll actually be fine with living here. Maybe. At least the others have something to hold on to," Lex shrugged.

"Oh yes. Do you realize that I've walked in on one of the couples kissing more times than I ever saw ANY kinds of PDA at home? Ah well," Abby laughed.

"Yeah," Lex shrugged, "I've gotten used to it. Although I don't think I'll ever get used to Nathan and Daley… Nathan just… I want to know absolutely that he's going to take care of my sister. Even though we're step siblings, I still am protective of her. Especially since her past boyfriends were crap.

"It's true. I was actually friends with Daley, and I knew her boyfriends- I wouldn't date them. They kept… well, they never really treated her the way she deserved. One just wouldn't be a good boyfriend, the other just kept asking for sex. It was horrible," Abby shivered, "but I'm sure Nathan isn't like that. If he was, well… Daley hasn't learned anything. Which is stupid, because Daley is very intelligent. So she learns from past experiences."

"I know she does. Just… Nathan could be bad for her in other ways."

Abby nodded, and they left it at that.

Eric was walking through the jungle, gathering food. He stumbled over a root and fell onto the earth, grumbling.

Why do these things always seem to happen to me… Eric thought angrily as he looked up into the sky, and saw something that made him gasp.

He looked around the jungle, and grabbed the four white objects and ran as fast as he could back to the camp.

Oh my God…

He laid the objects together and called everyone down.

"What is it now, Eric?" Daley yawned, apparently annoyed.

"Woah, who got up on the wrong side of the bed?" Eric laughed.

"For your information…" Daley grumbled, "oh… its too embarrassing. Nathan, you tell them."

"She's… its that time of month," and Daley blushed.

"Oh dear," Melissa shook her head.

"That sucks," Taylor nodded.

"ANYWAY," Eric yelled, obviously annoyed.

"Right, right," Jackson turned to Eric, "what is it, Eric?"

"Look what I found," and Eric revealed four medium-sized bird eggs.

"Woah!" Abby gasped.

"Food!" Lex laughed.

"Yeah. I found them, completely unattended. I took them and ran, naturally. Lex, can we eat them?"

"Well… Let me see," Lex looked closely at the eggs for a while, everyone hovering around nervously.

"Yup. Eric, if you could find more of these eggs… well, we'd all be way better off," Lex sighed, "these have way more nutrients than fish."

"I'm on it," Eric did a salute and ran off into the jungle.

"That's my man," Taylor sighed. Everyone stared at her in disbelief, "I mean… boyfriend…"

Everyone shrugged and left, excited that there was now a new food source.

Nathan stared into the sky, bored out of his mind. There was nothing to do. Eric was gathering food, Taylor was getting water, Jackson was getting wood, Melissa was cleaning the water and tending the fire, Lex was working on the radio, and Abby was washing clothes. Daley got these few days off because of her "condition".

Nathan was just being bored.

He had asked Jackson if there was anything for him to do, and he had shrugged and said, "comfort Daley."

Daley had nearly bit his head off. Apparently her periods were "bloody horrible."

Ooh, bad choice of words, Nathan shook his head to clear it of the horrible images coming to mind.

I feel bad for her. I really do. But she won't let me near her. I think I'm going to go try and comfort her again… Nathan got up and stretched, and saw something in the sky that would haunt him for the rest of his life.

"GUYS! COME HERE NOW!"

Everyone came flooding in, all ready for some huge catastrophe.

"LOOK!" Nathan pointed in the sky.

There was a huge search plane.

"OVER HERE!" Everyone jumped up and don and waved at the plane.

"OVER HERE! WE'RE OVER HERE! OVER HERE!" Everyone cried out and kept crying, hoping that the plane would notice them.

They kept at it for an hour. They didn't tire, the plane was going by very slowly.

Against all odds, it missed them.

Daley, Mrs. Hormone at the time, burst into tears.

"We're never going home!" she wailed.

And no one disagreed with her. Nathan comforted her, but all felt like crying themselves.

They didn't have any hope left.

(902 Words) See what I mean? Short Short Short. I'm going to see King Tut at the Field Museum today, so no more updates! Yay! But I'm forbidden by my sister to do the Egyptian Walk... which really sucks...

P.S. There is now a reason why my updates are becoming less and less frequent. And I'm afraid there's no one to blame but myself. You see, I just unlocked Site B on my Jurassic Park: Operation Genisis game, and its really cool (I'm playing it while I type right now) So you could say I'm obsessed. Although it has given me an idea for a new Flight 29 Down Fic! Yay! Anyway, that's why. Yell at me all you like in your review, it won't change the fact that I'm obsessed... ooh, look at the Camarasaur! Never mind...