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Remember: Jackson 1 Jackson from Flight 29 Down.
Jackson 2 Jackson from Hannah Montana.
Daley, Melissa, and Taylor were up talking late into the night.
"I think we should make these people feel at home," Daley said. "You know, so they're not that worried about being here."
"That's a good idea, Daley." Melissa said.
"Yeah, but how are we going to do that?" Taylor asked.
"Well, I'm sure we could find a way." Melissa said.
"Hopefully," Taylor said.
It wasn't only those three up talking about them, Nathan, Jackson 1, Lex, and Eric were talking about it too.
"They seem really nice," Nathan said.
"Yeah, and now there are kids here that are closer to my age!" Lex said.
"And ones, like, a gourmet cook!" Eric said.
"What do you think of them, Jackson?" Lex asked Jackson 1.
Jackson 1 shrugged. "They're trustworthy, if that's what you were wondering." Jackson 1 said.
"I think it's going to be a better stay for us here, now." Nathan said.
"And we have a whole lot of new things to use from the airplane that they crashed here," Lex said.
"Like what?" Eric asked.
"Well, they do have water and some more food sources. I'm guessing that they probably have a kite to fly in the air and many other things, like the solar powered batteries that I had found on the other plane. But I can't be sure." Lex said.
"Okay," Eric said. "How will that help us?"
"Use your brain, Eric," Lex said. "The kite could be a signal and we could use the radio to contact someone."
"Oh," Eric said.
Soon, Daley, Melissa, Taylor, Nathan, Jackson 1, Lex, and Eric were asleep.
In the morning, Cody woke up before everyone else. He started the fire, took out a pan and a bowl, and started to make some pancake mix with the pancake mix he had brought. He started flipping the pancakes. After thirty pancakes were made, he started to warm up some syrup. After the syrup was warmed, he kept the fire going and put the pan to the side. He put two pancakes on each plate.
Lex was the first one to wake up. "What are you doing, Cody?" he asked sleepily.
"Making breakfast," Cody answered.
"What are you making?"
"Pancakes."
"Really? I haven't had pancakes for a year…my mom didn't make them much."
"Well, you'll get to have them today." Cody handed Lex a plate of two pancakes and he passed him a cup of syrup. "Eat up, it's pretty good.
"Okay," Lex said. He sat down on a log near the fire and started to eat.
It wasn't long before everyone was up and eating.
"Cody, these are amazing," Miley said. "You're a really good cook."
"Thank you," Cody said, going red in the cheeks.
"One time, Cody made this batch of cookies that everyone loved," Zack said.
"And all you could do was sell them," Cody said.
"Hey, I just think that you could have a career as a gourmet chef," Zack said. "You need to be used to the fact of selling your products."
"And since when are you a professional on jobs?" Cody asked.
"Okay, enough fighting," Jackson 1 said.
"We're not fighting," Zack and Cody said at the same time.
"Right," Lilly said. She and Miley exchanged a grin. Zack and Cody felt like idiots and went back to eating.
"So, we're going to explain some stuff to you guys," Daley said.
"Like how we're going to spend our day doing our equal share of jobs to help us survive?" Cody asked.
"Yup," Nathan said.
"What do you want us to do?" Oliver asked.
"Well, Eric's job is one of the hardest, so I figured that Jackson and yourself could help him with it," Daley said. "That is, if that's okay with the other Jackson."
"That's fine with me," Jackson 1 said.
"What is this job?" Jackson 2 asked.
"H E double hockey sticks." Eric said.
"You guys are going to collect water from the underground spring," Melissa explained.
"And how is that –" Oliver was going to ask.
"Just trust me, it is." Eric said.
"And I thought that Zack and Cody could help us gather some food," Daley said.
"Get plenty of oysters!" Taylor said.
"I could make an oyster soup with them!" Cody said.
"Yum!" Taylor said.
"Oh, and don't waste your time trying to get coconuts," Nathan advised.
"Even I'm not stupid enough to climb up a tree that's like, what, thirty feet off the ground," Zack said. Nathan glared. "Nothing personal if you actually did it, though."
"What do you want us to do?" Maddie asked, gesturing towards herself, London, Miley, and Lilly.
"How about you and London boil and filter some water," Jackson 1 suggested. "You could switch off every hour with Miley and Lilly."
"And while you guys are not helping, maybe you could help me to ration some food," Daley suggested.
"Great, just what we need," Nathan said. "More Daley's." Daley glared at Nathan.
"Or, they could help us gather more food," Zack suggested. "You know, while they're not filtering water."
"All of those are great suggestions," Miley said.
"Do we get to pick what we want to do?" Lilly asked, staring longingly at Zack, who was no longer looking at her.
"Could we?" Miley asked, looking at Cody.
"But wait, if they get to choose, how come we don't?" Jackson 2 asked.
"I want to choose what I get to do!" London said.
"Which is what?" Maddie asked. "Sunbathing?"
"Well, it would be a shame not to get a tan while we're on this beautiful island," London said.
"Tell me about it," Taylor said.
"Look, no one is choosing what they get to do," Melissa said.
"I agree with Melissa," Daley said. "You guys are just going to have to do what you have to do. Understood?"
"Yes," Zack, Cody, Jackson 2, Oliver, Miley, Lilly, Maddie, and London said.
And, after they had cleared their plates, they set off to do their jobs.