AFTER TAKING SOME time to herself, isa walked over to where ivan was. he was sitting in the sand looking around and everyone else. everyone was quiet and in their own arenas after everything that happened in the past few hours. "do you wish you never came on this hell of a trip?" ivan said and isa nodded.
"yeah. i was looking at all the different retreats and i just had to pick to one where we'd get stuck on an island. the funny thing is that my ex told me that i shouldn't go and i went anyways...and here i am. i was supposed to hang out with him this summer before he went to college." isa said pulling her knees to her chest.
"you have someone back home?" ivan asked and isa shook her head "no. do you?" isa asked.
"no, not anymore. uhm—hey, i'm gonna check in on henry. do you wanna come with me?" ivan asked.
"yeah." isa said as they both got up.
ivan and isa walked over to henry, who was sitting by himself in the dark. his head was down as if he were crying, and he was. they both sat across from him bundled in a blanket. "seth, he like—he, like, used to have these insane night terrors. my mom, she had to, like, hold him till he stopped. the dark...the dark is what makes them worse." henry's said and isa could see the tear stains on his cheeks.
"so mom put, like, a little shoji lamp in the corner of his room to sleep with, and they never happened again. and i—i can't stop thinking about him. there's not even a moon, and he's just in the dark. just scared and in the dark." henry sobbed and isa and ivan pulled him into a tight hug as he cried.
seth and henry hadn't got along the best on the island. isa could tell they didn't get along at home too. after this isa knew that henry and seth really did care about each other. isa could tell how worried henry was for his stepbrother.
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isa walked over to the tent where some of the boys were sleeping. she laid down and stared up at the top of the tent. ivan and kirin were talking by the fire, isa couldn't hear anything they were saying. all she saw was ivan walking away with a candle looking thing he made. she assumed he wanted to take a walk on the beach or something.
kirin entered the tent and laid next to isa. she moved to put her head on his chest. "where did ivan go?" isa asked looking up at him. he looked down at her "he went to give more things to the enemy, he's not coming back." he said.
"oh. so you kicked him out?" isa asked.
"yeah, he kinda left himself—uh i was wondering if you wanted to go back to the waterfall tomorrow? we can get more water and we can have some time to ourselves." kirin asked running his thumb over her sunburnt lips.
isa nodded "okay." she said.
she was thinking if she made the right choice to stay with them and not help the other boys. isa wanted to go help them. she felt bad that they had nothing. she didn't want to starve them to death and have to do what they did that first night.
sometimes the first day plays in her head. how one moment she was on a plane to hawaii and the next she was on a deserted island with boys having a funeral for one of them. she still sees dj on the ground all torn up with his flesh torn off. it traumatized her, it probably will for the rest of her life.
"are you okay, isa?" kirin asked kissing the top of her head. she nodded looking at the stars in the sky. "yeah, just tired." she said closing her eyes.
"okay, goodnight, isabelle." kirin said closing his eyes.
"night."
↷ ·˚ ༘💌 AUTHORS NOTE heyy it's been a bit i was working on my conrad book! check it out if u wanna!
