Survival Island

Risk

I opened my eyes in tears to find the knife laying on the floor, I looked around and saw no one. Tears kept rolling and the knife made me despise myself for thinking selfishly. They needed me to survive and because things got tough for me, I was going to quit. Mina hadn't been talking to me like she did and I guess she didn't want to latch onto someone so unstable. Amanda was now in my camp and I guess she was aloud to stay by the other members but the whole idea killed me.

I sat on the shore for hours, just me and my thoughts until the sun began to rise. When I knew I couldn't kill myself, and I would have to deal with things was when I began to keep everything inside once more. Jason had always told me that emotions were weakness and that we should hide them and though he took those words back, I think he was right the first time. When I got myself together, I snuck into the hut and woke up Mina. When she woke up, she looked at me in confusion.

"Swimming lessons you slacker, let's go!" I whispered and she stared at me, trying to read my emotions before nodding and getting up. We went down to the shore and I got in before she did. We began to use different techniques and then we ended with her swimming while I held back her shoulders to make it feel like she was swimming against a current. I had been watching her closely and she could swim better, but then I saw something in the woods and looked over.

Sage stood at the edge of the woods on the far side of the left and watched me with no expression as I did back to her. We had a stare down before she nodded to me and I glared and nodded back, before looking back to Mina and my heart dropped when I didn't see her. "Mina?" I frantically searched the water and looked around before I heard a laughter behind me and turned back to see her standing in the water, laughing at my panic.

I was angry with her, it was a cruel trick and it wasn't one she should have done. "Were done with lessons for today, go back inside." I said as she looked at me in innocent shock. "What? Why!" She didn't get it and when I didn't answer, she mumbled under her breath and swam away. I got out of the water and walked along the shore to clear my head of all negative thoughts. I couldn't keep living like this, I think that maybe the island had already gotten to Amanda and she was now getting over it; yet, I feel like now it is starting to effect my mind.

I had been walking for a bit when I heard twigs snapping in the trees and stopped. I knew this would end up with me getting attacked and so I slowly headed back to camp, watching the trees. I heard a weird, high-pitched noise and turned to the trees to see what it was and found that something had made contact with my skin.

It hurt badly and I saw a letter attached to the string which was attached to the small arrow that had been launched into me. I quickly pulled the object out of me before looking at it confusingly and taking off the letter. As soon as the letter was released, the arrow was lined back into the woods. I put the note in my pocket, held my wound to slow the bleeding and headed back to the base. I made a small fire and held the knife over it before burning closed the wound.

I heard someone heading down and quickly tied the seaweed over my wound and looking back. Ricky slightly smiled at me and sat down next to me, staring at my wrap. "What happened?" "Nothing I just fell after you were shot." I lied and he nodded, he wouldn't have known what I looked like once he passed out. "Why are you up Mr.? Shouldn't you be resting your arm?" He smirked at me and shook his head before looking away. "Some girl once told me to walk things off and it will be okay." I smirked and nudged him as he laughed and we watched the sunrise.

"Listen..... Jason and Amanda weren't hooking up like we thought." He said and I rolled my eyes. "They left for a couple hours alone in the woods and didn't hook up." I laughed in disbeleif and he looked at me seriously. "They were trying to make you a promise ring." He said and the lies just didn't add up. "So where is the ring and how come it took hours to make?" He had no explanation for that and so we sat quietly for a bit longer. I don't think he believed my lie about my wound, but I didn't need him too. He would stare at it occasionally before he eventually got up and walked up to the people who started coming out.