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Chapter 8

Troy and Gabriella walked through the jungle, eating the last of the berries they had picked. Troy approached another tree and scratched his X. He looked up, "It's getting dark."

Gabriella looked up as well, "It can't be dark already, we haven't been walking that long." A cold, heavy wind began to blow. A drop of water fell from the sky, hitting her right in the face. "Oh no," she said, "not now!"

Troy wrapped his arm around her and led her to a tree to sit down, "Just sit. If we're lucky, it'll be just a quick shower, nothing big." He noted the look of worry on her face. "Look on the bright side," he said trying to cheer her up, "we can use the rain as drinking water."

The two sat under the tree watching the heavy rain fall down. They were collecting it in their hands to drink. They were soaked, but weren't worried about a storm. Yet. The down-poor eventually turned into a light drizzle. "See, I told you everything would be fine," Troy said helping Gabriella up.

"I guess you were right," she said, but at that very moment a flash of lighting cracked right in front of them, and the thundered echoed loudly through the jungle.

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As Taylor and Chad approached the new X, Taylor ran her fingers through the soil in front of her. A big raindrop fell in front of Chad, but he didn't notice. He was busy watching Taylor. He stuck his hand into the soil too. "It's wet," he said.

"Wet?" Taylor question, "it feels dry."

"I swear, mine feels wet."

Taylor put her hand where Chad had felt the soil, "You're right, yours is wet. How can that be?"

Another raindrop fell and hit Chad on the arm. "I think I know."

HSM HSM HSM HSM

Zeke and Jason were playing with the new basket ball hoop they had made. It had broke a few times, but they were able to fix it. While playing, Zeke noticed a dark spot in the sand. He looked up to have a raindrop fall on his forehead. "It's raining!" he yelled, "Jason, go grab as many empty containers as you can. We have water!" Jason did as told and ran to the plane.

He began looking in the compartment he had seen Taylor digging through. It was filled with plastic containers, and to his luck, Taylor had emptied most of them out while looking for a tent. There were a few cardboard ones but he ignored them. But the one labeled electronics did catch his eye. "I'll check there later," he thought.

He dragged the boxes away from the plane and took the lids off. At the same time, Zeke came running to him with Sharpay, Ryan, Kelsi, and Martha following behind. "Ok," Zeke yelled, "go find as many things that can hold water as you possibly can, and stick them by these big ones. We need this water!" he pointed to the containers Jason had pulled out.

"Um, excuse me, why would we waste our time doing that?" Sharpay asked, looking at her nails.

"To… get….water." Kelsi said slowly, restating Zeke's words.

"And why would we need that?"

"Just do it!" Martha yelled.

"God, you didn't have to yell," and she headed towards the tents. The group rolled their eyes and then began searching.

A/N- I'm on a quick updating streak, but don't get used to it. I just found out yesterday I made my school basketball team, so that means I'm now on two teams. I don't have basketball this weekend, so I'll try to update once or twice before Monday. Oh, Happy Thanksgiving!