Stranded

Chapter One: The Unexpected Death Wave

The sun was shining brightly over the crystal blue ocean, whilst the waves in the ocean viciously lashing out against the defenceless rocks on the coastline of nearby islands which surround the coral reefs, changing it's emotions from violent to calm and peaceful. Emma and Justin has invited a group of their friends to go a lovely cruise to celebrate their marriage proposal and starting their new life together.

They hadn't travelled more than halfway into the beautiful coral reef when they realised even if they did notice in time that they have left it to late. Turn back, keep going, it didn't matter - they were never going to make it to the shore before the wave struck. A huge lone rock of the reef was pointing out from the ocean floor, this was the only thing that could be seen outside of the ocean for miles more than a hundred miles away.

Within seconds not leaving any time to radio for help ..... out of nowhere a wave came and tipped the yacht over, throwing Jasmine, Emma, Justin and all of their other friends overboard. About what felt like five minutes, Emma and Justin exploded out of the water like their life depended on it to catch a breath. They looked and looked for their friends, but they was nowhere to be seen which caused Emma starting to panic and having negative thoughts that no one has survived.

Justin was able to calm down Emma to control her emotions and thoughts that was building up throughout her mind, Justin swam ahead slightly to get a better view even though they are in the middle of the ocean with nothing round them was miles of ocean, when in a split second he noticed their yacht in the distance. Justin manged to get Emma's attention and they swam over to the boat, Justin knew they didn't to get of out the water they may not survive, so Justin tried to boost Emma on top of the boat which has capsized and however no matter how many times they tried she kept slipping down and couldn't get a grip on anything because there was nothing to grab and was too slippery, so all they could do was hang on for however long it took till the boat fully submerged or they was rescued.

What felt like eternity to the young couple, the boat was nearly fully submerged Emma and Justin had no choice but to let go of the now submerged boat, with nothing to save them for miles unsure how far the current has taken them from the accident.

Justin knew without having done a mayday call or having time to activate the Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) nobody could possibly would know their location or knew they was in danger they began to swim across the open sea, feeling the whipping wind hitting against their bodies in the direction that they believed would get them to the island they was travelling to for the celebration.

They swam, swam like the devil himself was chasing them, like all hell was biting at their ankles. The powerful current in the crystal blue waves and coarse seaweed preventing their movements making it difficult to swim, wrapping around their arms and legs, but they wouldn't let it pull them under.

After swimming for what they felt like was forever they looked around to see if they could see an island or something that could help them. Unfortunately, there wasn't but in the corner of Justin eye he saw something yellow lifejacket about a foot away knowing his fiancée was getting tired he put his arm around her like a lifeguard rescueing a swimmer.

Emma got on Justins back and he swam as fast as a cheetah chasing his prey and threw themselves at
the lifejacket as the whirling wave pulled them under for round two, but this time they had trouble staying afloat, in a distance they saw their yacht that they first met and had their first date, in a distance tipped over and sank to the bottom of the ocean
never to be seen again.

Twenty minutes past and the waved has stopped and they saw a figure in the distance floating as it got closer Emma screamed and cried as the figure got closer Justin noticed it was Jasmine. They swam over to her and remembered they havent seen her for forty minutes as soon as they got to her they saw a wound, and she was bleeding out fast, as well as a knife in her pocket which Justin took for protection because there was no way that Jasmine was going to survive and it made him wonder what happened to the rest of his friends.

They noticed a blood trail and pushed the body away and started crying as they found out she has died, they had no choice because they live in America it would attract shark. This now made Emma worry if she messed up coming on this trip. Should she have revealed the happy news to Justin? Or is it to late?