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"Jackson!" Melissa yelled walking through the jungle with Lex. "Where are you?"
"Do you know what way he went after you talked to him?" Lex asked.
Melissa shook her head.
"We'll find him don't worry." Lex said.
They kept on walking though the jungle, calling for Jackson.
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"Why would he go off by himself?" Daley asked as she and Nathan walked through the jungle. "That's just stupid. I mean what if he gets hurt?"
"Daley, don't worry we'll find him," Nathan said smiling at the worry in her eyes. "You know, you look really cute when you're worried."
"Nathan this is serious." Daley said, trying not to smile.
"Well then what are we doing let's find him." Nathan said taking Daley's hand he led her further into the jungle.
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"Eric, I'm board." Taylor wined for the umpteenth time since the others had left.
"What do you wanna do?" Eric asked for the umpteenth time.
"I donno."
"Do you wanna go for a walk?"
"No."
"Do you wanna go swimming?"
"I suppose we could." Taylor said taking off here pink tank top revealing a polka-dotted bikini top. "Last one in the water's a rotten egg!"
"Hey, no fair, you got a head start!" Eric yelled taking off his own shirt and running after her.
"Ha, I win!" Taylor said standing knee deep in the surf.
"Oh, yeah?" Eric ran over, picked her up and threw her into the deeper water.
Taylor came up sputtering. "Hey that wasn't very nice." She started stopping to the beach. Before she could get there Eric stopped her and kissed her.
"Does that make it all better?" He asked.
"No, but this might." She said kissing him back.
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Melissa kept walking through the jungle, Lex had turned back a while ago she was by herself.
Am I hearing things? She thought. I could have sworn I heard waves. Listening hard she turned towards the sound and soon she was standing on a stretch of beach. She looked around; there were footprints in the sand.
"Hello?" She called quietly. "Is anyone there?"
When no one answered she stared following the tracks down around a small grove of trees. When she came around them she gasped. On this stretch of beach were…. shelters.
In awe Melissa walked towards the shelters. They were made of wood and bits of metal. There were six of them, arranged in a half circle around a fire pit. She wandered around, wondering who built these shelters. She walked around each shelter, wondering who built them, how old they were, and what could possibly be living in them now? As she walked around the last shelter she saw a figure sitting on the sand. Melissa gasped, who was it? She took a few cautious steps forward then realized it was Jackson.
"Hey," Melissa said when she got closer.
Jackson nodded, still staring out at the water.
"Are you all right?" Melissa asked kneeling down next to him. "It's okay, you don't have to tell me."
"Reverse physiology," Jackson said. "Very clever."
"It works with my sister." Mel said blushing. "But I guess it won't work with you."
Jackson nodded.
"Well, do you want to head back to camp?" Melissa asked.
Jackson shrugged, and then nodded. "Hang on I want you to see something."
He limped off towards the trees.
"Jackson are you all right?" Melissa asked. "You're limping."
"I twisted my ankle. Come on." He led her threw the trees to a clearing. Melissa gasped; the circular clearing was a graveyard. 21 wooded crosses with names carved in them were pounded into the ground.
"Wow," Mel whispered, she turned looking at all of them. "Is….?"
"Yeah," Jackson said he pointed to a cross towards the back of the last half circle. "He was the first."
"I'm sorry."
"Can't do anything about it now." Jackson said. "It's in the past."
She studied his face and saw tears forming in his blue/gray eyes. She went over and hugged him. "It's all right."
Jackson stepped away wincing as he stepped on his sore ankle "It's not though, I can see this happening to us Mel, it scares me."
"It scares me too," Mel said.
They stood staring at the crosses for a while. "Come on it's getting late, we'd better head back." Melissa said looking at the setting sun.
Jackson shook his head. "We won't make it back before dark."
"We could just stay in one of these huts."
"That's what I was thinking." Jackson said leading the way back to the huts.
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"Where are they?" Daley asked looking out the tent flap.
"They'll be fine." Eric said from where he was sitting with Taylor practically on his lap.
"Hey," Nathan said quietly, pulling her away from the flap down next to him. "It'll be all right, we'll go look for them tomorrow."
"I know, but what if one of them is hurt, what if it rains, what it…."
"Daley," Nathan interrupted her, "If you 'what if' anymore…"
"Sorry I can't help it." She said smiling worriedly at him
"Nathan's right Day, they'll be fine." Lex said, yawning. "I'm going to sleep, night everyone."
"Night Lex," Daley said. "I think I'll turn in too," She crawled into her sleeping bag and closed her eyes.
Eric and Taylor had already fallen asleep in each other's arms. Sighing Nathan lay down next to Daley.
"Night Daley," He said kissing her cheek.
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