PART 2

Nikki twisted and turned, "Ugh, this branch is not comfortable." She mumbled to herself, hitting the tree with her fist. "Where is that other one!" She glanced around into the darkness. Resting her head back on the tree, she looked up. "Aha! There it is!" remembering she stuck her backpack on the branch that she usually slept on. Carefully, she stood up on her branch. Glancing down, she noticed something moving in the bushes. She reached down into her pocket, bringing back a smooth stone. She always kept them handy after almost getting attacked by wild pigs. Then she thought she heard her name. "Nikki?" the whispers barely reached her ears.

"Come on Nikki, get a hold of yourself" she thought.

Squinting in the darkness, she saw someone stepped out of the bushes.

"Nikki? Are you here?" she heard it say.

Her mind racing, the only person that knew her name was the boy she met. Sticking the stone back in her pocket, she started climbing down to a lower branch. Meanwhile, Walt is at the point of giving up. "Who knows where she is…" his shoulders drooped as he started to head back. A whoosh and a thump startled him. A smile broke on his face as he turned around to see Nikki standing there. "Looking for me?".

Walt smiled sheepishly, and pulled something wrapped in cloth out of his pocket.

"I… thought you might be hungry."

Nikki stared at the food, hunger taking over her. Walt handed the food over to her. She slowly took the food, and sat on the ground. Quickly unwrapping it she stared at the cut pieces of fish. Walt sat down across from her. "It's kinda burnt, but I hoped you wouldn't mind."

Nikki shook her head but continued to stare at the food.

Walt looked from the food to Nikki. "You can eat it you know."

Nikki laughed a bit, and ate a piece.

"Sorry, all I've been eating for the past couple weeks are berries and nuts." Nikki continued to eat, "Once I found a mango on the ground, but I couldn't figure out where it came from."

Walt glanced up the tree that she fell out of.

"Do you like, live in that tree?"

Nikki nodded,

"Except when I'm doing gymnastics, of course."

Walt chuckled,

"Why do you want to live out here alone?" Nikki put down the food that she was about to eat. "Well… that's a long story." She said and suddenly felt uncomfortable.

(FLASHBACK)

9-year-old Nikki (With semi-long hair) is standing with a 14-year-old Beth, and a 10-year-old Sarah waiting for Sarah's Parents. A boy gave Nikki a little push, but Beth caught her, she turned around to face the boy.

"Ooh, it looks like your 'Parents' forgot about you!"

Nikki smiled,

"That's nice, and where are your parents this hour?" she said keeping cool. The smile slowly disappeared from the boy's face as he tried to figure out what to say. Nikki smiled to herself, and waited for an answer.

"At least mine aren't in jail!" He snickered.

Anger built up inside her until she couldn't control it and she gave the boy a punch in the stomach, just as his mother pulled up.

"Maybe you need to keep to your own business." She yelled back.

"Nikki, stop, let's just walk home." Beth said grabbing her arm.

"Yea, We can get some ice cream or something" Sarah added. Nikki, still had her eyebrows low, bent down to pick up her books.

"Tommy! Oh my poor little baby!" the mother crooned over her son, turning to Nikki, "You rat! Go home, you have no business starting fights." Turning her attention back to her son,

"He needs to pick on someone his own size" Sarah muttered to Nikki.

The mother continued.

"I told you to keep away from them, anybody who has cons for parents have got to be absolutely…out of their mind!" She started helping Tommy up glaring at Nikki, Beth, and Sarah, who were walking away.

(END FLASHBACK)

Nikki stared at her food, "You should really get back, people will start to be looking for you, and it's pretty dark, shouldn't you be in bed?" Nikki said suddenly. Walt looked at the sky,

"Yea I guess… are you always in this tree?"

Nikki nodded,

"Sometimes I jump from tree to tree, you know, exploring, or finding food." Nikki started to hand back the leftover fish, Walt pushed it back.

"No, you can keep it, we have lots of fish back at camp."

Walt got up and started heading back. Nikki suddenly called out.

"Wait! I… Uh, I don't know your name."

He turned around,

"It's Walt" Nikki looked at the fish,

"Well.. thanks 'Walt' for the fish".

Walt smiled, "No problem".

Nikki turned around, and started climbing up the tree. Walt watched her for a couple seconds, then turned and left.

Micheal and Charlie were sitting at the campfire, watching the flames flicker. A rustle in the bushes, near Walt and Micheal's tent, startled them.

"Who's There?" Charlie cried out.

The rustling stopped. Micheal instantly thought about Walt. He ran over to the tent and peered inside. There lay a sleeping Walt. Micheal let out a sigh of relief. Vincint trotted into the tent and lay near Walt. Micheal returned to the fire.

"Did you find out what it was?" Charlie asked, poking the fire.

Micheal shrugged,

"I checked on Walt, It was probably Vincent because he came into the tent afterwards."

Charlie relaxed a little. "I hope your right…" he replied nervously, Glancing over into the Jungle.