Here is the next chapter. I wanted to write this earlier but I had 2 presentations due in and 2 essay type things due in the same week along with going to college open days (I'm British so it's one of the routes for 16-18 year olds) and I can't write on Monday's and Tuesday's (But I do finish school on earlier on Wednesday's). There is also a reference to a TV show in here so let's see if you can figure it out.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Kickin' It or anything else I mention
Kim POV
I woke it to sounds of raindrops on the roof and twigs snapping. I get up and look out. I see that it's still quite early and when I walk out of my room I hear Jerry and Eddie snoring away. Milton's room is quite and Jack's door is open so that means he is awake. I look out as the tree is slippy and don't really want to climb down and I spot him sitting on a branch on the tree just a bit lower down. I go down to where he is sitting. He looks up at me and moves along the branch.
"Morning" He whispers to me
"Morning, what's the time?" I ask him as he has the best knowledge of all this stuff.
"It's hard to tell with the rain but I would say about 6ish" He replies back
"Do you even sleep?" I ask as whenever I wake up he is awake and looks like he had been awake for hours
"Yes I do. I reckon I beat you guys to sleep as when my head hits the pillow I'm out like a light bulb." He says
"Do you think there will be a challenge today?" I ask
"Not if this rain stays like this as it's highly likely it will turn into a tropical thunder storm and those you are better not travelling" Jack says.
"How did you know that? We don't get many tropical storms?" I ask
"Let's just say that I have been in a tropical storm and it wasn't pretty" He said very bluntly
"Is there anything you haven't done?" I say with a slight chuckle
"Apart from being blown up by a volcano wait I have been by a lava flow so no" He says and I laugh "I'm serious. I woke up and there was a lava flow about 500 yards away from our tent but I guess that's what you get when you camp on Hawaii" I carry on laughing so I almost fall off the branch but Jack holds onto me.
"You know we might be safer in a room so your or mine?" He asks
"Erm yours mine is a mess" I say and he chuckles a bit
"You haven't changed once have you" I just shook my head.
"I see you have" I tell him
"In what ways?" I laugh at his tone
"Well I can see you have a lot more muscle for starters, you're a lot stronger and you look a lot hotter than what you used to" He laughs at me
"Well you missy have just admitted I was hot back then and even hotter now" I know I'm blushing as he said that
There was a loud rumble of thunder and I jump into Jack's arms. Only Jack knew I had a fear of thunder as he accidently found out when I was his house when there was a storm and he figured it out. I made his swear to secrecy but then he moved 2 weeks later so it never bothered me who he told if he did tell anyone because they hopefully didn't know who I was.
"It's ok its just thunder" Jack whispers in my ear. We then hear some of the wood creaking meaning that someone else was awake. I got out of his lap and sat on the bed when Milton appeared in the doorway.
"Did you hear that?" Milton asked and we nodded
"It's like one of those tropical storms I've read about. I doubt that there will be a challenge" Milton carried on saying. He then turned to begin to walk out the room and turned back
"What were you guys doing in the same room?" Milton asked
"Well we were sitting on a branch but then Kim almost slipped and the rain got heavier so we came into the room to be safer" Jack explained to him
"Can I join you? I'm bored and the others are still asleep I think" Milton asked and we nodded
"So Milton what do you think of the island so far?" I asked him
"Well there is a very unique species living all over here which I want to see more but to be honest I miss home a lot" He said
"But weren't you supposed to be a summer camp which you would be away from home" Jack said
"Yes I was but it was only a phone call away from home so I felt happier but here I have no communication what so ever"
"That's very true" I said in response
"Don't you miss home Kim?" Jack asked me
"Yes a lot but to be honest I'm actually doing something because otherwise I would be helping at the dojo in the morning twice a week but that is about it. I just keep thinking of my mum and how she doesn't have me around at the minute and my dad is away as well" I'm sure I saw Milton hold back a few tears
"That's sad. Your mum lost both people at the same time" Milton said "What about you Jack?" I turn to look at him
"I don't have a home to miss if anything I'm probably safer here" he said like it didn't matter
"What you mean?" Milton asked
"I'm not ready to tell you yet but I will in time" Jack says
We looked out and we see that the rain had lessened and Jerry walked into the room with his hair a complete mess and me and Jack started laughing
"What?" Jerry questioned and Jack pointed to his hair. I saw that Jack had a spoon in his room for some reason and showed him and Jerry screamed quite loud and very girlish and ran out the room.
"Guys I would say it's almost 8ish. I'll go down and get the food and top up our water bottles" Jack said
"I won't let you go down Jack. You could get injured" Milton says
"I have done much worse such as scrambling up a waterfall in winter when the water is beginning to freeze and I didn't have any safety ropes or netting" Jack said
"Fine but don't blame me when you hurt yourself" Milton said in a grumble
"Kim come and work the ropes" Jack shouted after he had left the room and I walk over to where the rope pulley system is
"Oh so the great Jack Brewer wants ropes" I joke with him
"Nope just to pull the bag up so I don't have to"
"You are lazy aren't you" He just nods his head.
Jack climbs down to the bottom of the tree in record speed and just as his feet touch the ground the horn sounds and the bag is delivered. Jack walks over to the bag and picks it up and attaches it to the rope which I pull up with help from Jerry. Jack then goes and fills up our water bottles including Eddie's which he stole from his bedroom while he was sleeping. Jack then climbed back up the tree without any problem but being slightly slower than usual. He walked back into his room which is where we were and Eddie followed him in behind.
"Morning guys, have you seen the rain?" Eddie asked
"This is nothing compared to a few hours ago" I said
I looked into the bag and there was a note on top with some bread, butter, cheese and ham under it.
"Kim read the note" Milton asked
"Morning Team Water, I hope you all slept well. There is no challenge today for 2 reasons: 1- There is a storm warning so we are keeping you safe by not coming out. We say remain in your shelter and 2- Some teams don't know how to cook Chicken and have food poisoning so we have to let them have a rest day. I would recommend that this day is used wisely as you never know when the next rest day is or even if there is one" I read out
"At least they care" Jerry said breaking the silence
"I wasn't to know which team didn't know how to cook chicken. It's been taught in school for as long as I remember that chicken has to be fully cooked with no pink bits" Milton says
"Chicken isn't supposed to be pink. No wonder I failed food tech" We all laugh at Jerry and go back to finishing our sandwiches.
"So what are we going to do today?" I ask
"I have a few ideas. We could either or do both I suppose. We could get to know each other better so we trust each other more or we could explore other parts of the tree-house to see what other teams have left behind and if they are any use to us" Eddie says
"I like the idea of exploring the other areas" Jack said
"Of course you would" I sat to Jack
"I don't. Someone could get hurt" Milton said and Jack went over to the window
"It looks like that there is some wire all above the old section like as a safety feature" Eddie walks over to the window
"Jack but isn't the connectors on the other side and the plank between them has gone" Eddie tell Jack
"But we do have spare wood which could be used" Jerry says
"We can use that and hold with rope for platforms for today" Jack tells us as it looks like he had some sort of plan going in his head
"Jack the wood is heavy and it would get slippy in this rain" Milton said. He was beginning to annoy me with his overprotection on us.
"Look Milton there isn't much rain getting through at the minute and also it look likes the clouds are getting lighter so less rain" Jack tried to reason with him
"I don't really want to go on wood when it's wet" Milton said
"Well you can help us get the wood in place and if the safety rope system is good enough you can come over on that. It's a strong wire" Jack said to him
"Fine but I will go if I feel safe" Milton says to us all
After that we got to work. We moved some of the wood into place and Jack walked across before it started lashing it down again so we couldn't carry on but Jack had brought over a locked box which Milton was trying to open, some notes written in some form of symbols which me, Eddie and jack were trying to translate and Jerry was working on the ropes to attach some more planks of wood for when the rain eased off again.
"This is soo frustrating" I said as I chucked the book down. We had decoded about 3 pages in total and it still didn't make any sense.
"Guys I got it open" Milton yelled as he ran into the room the rest of us were in
"What's in it?" I asked as I was excited. He brought the box in. It was the first time I had seen it. It was a goldish sort of box which you could tell had been clearly rusted over time with a few jewels on it which you could tell from the way they were are also fake. He sat down in the circle we were sitting in and held out a diary, a necklace, bracelet, some tins of beans, a spare key along with some charms which must have fallen off something. Eddie get's given the diary and I get the necklace which looks familiar to me. We passed them round so we all got to see everything.
"Whoever this was must have left in a rush. She never finished her last entry" Jerry said as he flicked through the book
"Let's see" Eddie said while grabbing the book off him
"He's right. Its mid sentence and also only half a page unlike the usual page" Eddie says while looking through the book
"Guys I recognise this necklace" I tell them
"What do you mean Kim?" Jack asked me
"It's almost like I've seen it before" I say
"Well in that case let's go back over and see what else we can find" Jerry says getting up
"I'm going to stay here and see what I can decode" Milton tells us and we nod
We see that when we go out that the rain had reduced and that we could go across. We had attached a rope onto the safety device so we could pull it back over. Jack went first and I was behind him. We had some wood over there from this morning but we hadn't checked all the room when we found the things and the rain. We began checking some of the other rooms and realised that whoever stayed at this camp last all left in a rush. I walked back into the room which we found the box in earlier and I looked in the draws. In the bottom one I found another book which had some more pictured in. One of the girls still looked familiar. I heard Jack walk in as I turned the page onto the last page. What I saw shocked me.
"Kim are you ok?" Jack asked me getting worried
"I've seen this picture before" I said showing him the picture
"She kind of looks likes you" He says while looking at the picture
"In what way?" I asked him clearly not seeing how we look similar
"You have the same pretty eyes" I look away because I know I'm blushing
We sit in a silence then we get up and start looking around for more things. We don't find anything more but we do end up landing in an awkward position when I turn around and Jack is there so we both tumble to the ground with me landing on top of him.
"Sorry" I mumble and looking away to try and cover my blush.
"No prob. I think we need to get back" Jack says looking out the window
"Good idea" I reply to him as we walk out the room. It's raining heavy again and I think it's getting late afternoon so were better off getting back. We walk over to where the others (apart from Milton) are currently sitting.
"So what have you found today?" I ask them and Eddie begins to go on about a different diary he found. We had decided that whoever was here last had left in a rush as they way the rooms were left and also the other diary had been left mid sentence as well. Milton then came back into the room.
"I've found out more of what the diary is telling us" Milton says showing us the decoded message. It was saying about a great danger controlling the Island Master and to keep our wits about us. It was also going on about a great evil who want world domination and how not everyone will escape.
"What else did you find?" Milton asked
"I found this picture which I'm sure I've seen somewhere else" I decide to tell them so I pass the picture round
"I reckon this picture is about 50 years old which would link with the diaries so is it a Grandma maybe" Milton said while looking at the picture. As soon as he said Grandma I knew where I had seen the picture before
"Thanks Milton I now know where I have seen this picture. It's in my Grandma's photo book" I told them
"So that leaves the question of how is your grandma's picture on this island" Jack said. We didn't talk anymore on the topic as the horn then sounded for dinner and Jack went to get it. He also then remained down to cook it as he found some dry land and he then brought it up for us. There wasn't a note yet according to Jack we had more food then yesterday but not as much as the first day so that means we got the 2nd place food so we were left how they decided who got which food.
At dinner we talked about what made the people who used to stay here leave so quickly. Jerry suggested that that either they all went for a toilet break at the same time and got kidnapped or a dinosaur came out of the jungle and ate them all. Eddie said that a plane come and saved them so left which I suppose is reasonable. Milton just said that the Island Master called them. Jack said that he didn't know because with this island you never know. I was too busy thinking about the photo to answer.
After we finished our meal we all went to our rooms as we were all tired from the days findings. I got given everything from the room which we have lead to believe that is my Grandma's so I was reading the diary. Some of the things in there were very surprising. My Grandma faced similar things to me with them having challenges every day, a massive tropical storm blowing through about halfway through and having a member of their team captured for 6 days. I hope that not everything which happened to her happens to me or my team. She then also mentions having a crush on a guy called Sam Crawford back at home and now I think that she married him as my Grandfather is called Sam. Only as I finished the book did I realise how late it had become and which I looked out I saw that all the lights were off in the other rooms and decided that I should get some sleep and maybe things will make more sense in the morning.
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