Chapter 33

Day 10 – Late Afternoon

Kelsi's VD:

I finally got Trent to let everyone know his secret today. Everyone freaked out at first, which I assumed would happen. But then Troy stepped in and stood up for him and now everyone doesn't seem to upset about having him around. It's all normal again. The only thing is, I can't seem to find him. I knew he had walked away from the arguing, but it's been hours now and I haven't seen him. I'm a little worried. He wouldn't leave for good, would he?

Night

It was now completely dark out and everyone was slowly filing into their designated tents to go to sleep. All but Kelsi, who sat in her pajamas, staring out into the jungle. She jumped when Taylor came up from behind her and tapped her shoulder.

"He's gone Kelsi," she told her, "Just let him go. He just confessed a lot. Give him some time. If he wants to come back, he'll come back. If he wants to stay wherever he ends up, then we'll leave him be. We can't force him to stay with us."

Kelsi simply nodded.

"C'mon, let's go to sleep," Taylor said. She stretched out her hand to Kelsi and pulled her up. They walked to the girls' tent in silence.

Day 11 – Late Morning

Jason was sitting on the beach taking a break from the monotonous chores he had been doing all morning. He was really getting sick of this place.

"I wish we'd just get rescued already," he muttered to himself.

Then as if someone had heard him, he saw a speck in the distance. He squinted his eyes, trying to make out the object.

"Is that… oh my God!" He jumped up and ran to camp.

"There's a plan in the distance! There's a PLANE!" he yelled. He searched through camp randomly grabbing bright colored objects.

Troy emerged from the jungle, "What's up Jason? Why are you yelling?"

"THERE'S A PLANE!"

Troy's eyes opened wide in shock and joined Jason in grabbing bright colored objects. Soon Gabriella, Martha, Ryan and Kelsi had joined them, too. The others were probably too far into the jungle to hear them.

They all scrambled on to the beach flailing their arms, waving beach towels, and screaming at the top of their lungs. But soon the plane disappeared. Out of sight, but definitely not out of mind.

They all stood there with blank expressions.

"We missed it," Gabriella whispered, "Our first chance at rescue." She dropped the towel she was holding.

"We've gotta be prepared next time," Ryan muttered before walking away.

They all followed Ryan back to camp, except for Jason, who just stood there speechless, staring out to sea.

Eventually, he turned around and went with the others.

Afternoon

It was lunch time, and Jason decided this would be a good time to inform the others of the plane.

"You guys all probably know this by now, but we saw a plane today. A plane that could have easily been rescue. A one way trip back home. But it wasn't. It didn't see us. Because we hadn't even thought about what to do if by chance we saw a sign of rescue. I think we need some sort of plan or invention so that if rescue does come in sight again, we can be sure it'll actually be our rescue."

He looked around at the group, all who were gathered around the fire.

"Does anyone have any ideas? At all?" he asked.

Taylor slowly raised her hand, "I think I could try something. I'm not sure what exactly. I'm thinking some sort of fire signal. I'm just not sure how to get it lit up quickly."

"I think I have an idea," Gabriella chimed in.

HSM HSM HSM HSM

A couple hours later, the girls had collected a giant pile of sticks on the beach.

"So what's all this for?" Troy asked, who had offered to help.

"Were going to pour some gas from the plane all over it," Gabriella explained, "And then if we see a plane or a boat or some mean of rescue, we'll light it on fire. Easy right?"

"It's a great plan," Troy agreed, "But what if it rains?"

Taylor walked up behind them, "Already covered. We've got a tarp."

"This is great!" he exclaimed even though he was unsure how well a tarp would work. But it wouldn't rain for awhile, right? That's when he saw the clouds rolling in.

A/N- Hee hee, I kinda took the signal fire idea from Flight 29 Down. I couldn't think of anything else so I tried to change it up a little. Reviews please!!