Chapter 2: Planning
Jackson took the water jugs to the spring and put them down on the ground. He turned around as he heard footsteps on the leaves. Nathan came around the tree. "Morning, Jackson."
They walked through the trees and came to the clearing where they were setting up. Jackson had already set up the canopy that they had used for Taylor's Chilloween celebration.
"Do you think all this is going to work, Jackson?"
"I hope so? It's going to be great. Everybody knows their job, right?
"Yeah. This is really great, what you're doing here?"
Jackson nodded his head and walked back through to the spring. He and Nathan filled up the jugs and lugged them back to the fire. By now everyone else was up and doing the chores. Lex and Eric were coming from the jungle with fruit. Daley was boiling the water and Taylor was on the beach fishing. Melissa was nowhere to be seen so Jackson took that to mean she was still sleeping. He put the jugs down next to Daley.
"Melissa still sleeping?"
"Yeah. It was kinda hard to sneak out of the tent. Taylor is such a klutz. She almost woke Mel up but she didn't. This is really great what you're doing. So are you going to do it tonight?"
Jackson shrugged his shoulders and then said, "Yeah I'm almost done. It's going to be perfect."
Jackson got up and went to assist Taylor with the fishing. Ever since the Chilloween celebration almost three and a half months ago Melissa has thought there was something going on between him and Taylor. He had to prove that wasn't true. It had taken him three months but he had finally figured it out.
Tonight is going to be perfect.