The Long Boat Trip

Day 5

Everybody woke up early the next morning by the waves. And the howling wind outside. It was a really shitty weather, and the boat litterally discared from side to side by the hard waves.

Agnetha snuggled closer to Björn, who wrapped his arms around her. "It's okay. It will be over soon..."
In Frida and Benny's cabin both had been clearly awake since in the middle of the night because of the storm.
"This isn't good..." Benny mumbled. Frida was sitting in the little armchair weith her chin resthing on her knees. Benny could see the fear in her green-brown-blue-yellow eyes. "Are you afriad?"
"No..." Frida said silent and jumped up a bit when she heard the thunder.
"Yes, you are... You know, it's okay to be afraid. You don't have to play cool and independet all the time... It's okay..." Then Frida began to cry. "I hate thunder!" she screamed and ran to Benny and sat down in his lap. He stroked Frida's back and sang the Hep Stars song "Sunny Girl" with deep soft voice.

After a while Björn came into Frida and Benny's cabin. "We maybe should go and check out if averything's fine out there."
"Yeah" Benny said and walked out together with Björn. And what they saw wasn't a nice sight. The waves had been, and still was, so high that they came into the boat. "Damn..." Björn said and both started to scoop out water with their small dunks. "Fuck it! It's too much water!" Benny said. "I never thought I would say this, but I think we will sink... This is terrible!" Björn said and fought against the tears. Would they sink? And die? And never meet their kids again? With all those thoughs in their heads they decided that they had to leave the boat. But where would they go? The little island of course!

A lot of water had been collected in the boat's stern, and made the boat lean a bit forward. "Holy shit!" Björn exclaimed and ran into the cabin. "We have to leave the boat now! It will sink!"
"In this weather?! With all the thunder?" Frida wondered with a shaky voice.
"Okay, if you wanna stay here and drown together with the boat you can do it if you want!" Then Frida rushed up, and out and then into the water. Benny had already jumped he too. He had two dunks with water, and Frida went up to the boat again to get one too.

"Come here darling" Björn said and helped the terrified Agnetha up from the bed.
She cried hard. "Will we die?!"
"Of course not... There are just five hundred meters to the little island we went to yeterday. We'll make it!" Björn lifted Agnetha up and then both jumped in the water. Even if Agnetha was a better swimmer now than a few days ago, she was still not that good. Björn helped her as much as he could, and let her sit on his back when she didn't had the strenght. But he wasn't that good either, but they did it anyway. Benny and Frida worked hard with the dunks. The waves were high, and sometimes got over their heads. And the rain was sticking their eyes.

After the longest five hundred meters in their lives, they crawled up on the beach exhausted. Agnetha was white-blue in the face when Björn laid her down. "Is Agnetha alright?" Frida wondered and walked with slowly tired steps against Björn who sat next to Agnetha and tried to get life in her. "No..." he said with panic in his voice. "She's not breathing! And she's fucking blue!" Björn started to cry hysterical. Frida gave Agnetha mouth to mouth resuscitation before she started to push on her chest. And suddenly some water came from Agnetha's mouth, and she coughed bad. Björn wrapped his arms around her, burried his head in her wet blonde hair and cried even more hysterical than before. But of relief. Agnetha started to cry too. "I'm sorry!" Björn said between the tears. "For what?" Agnetha asked confused. "That I couldn't keep you over the water! You were fucking dead Agnetha. DEAD! Because of ME!" Frida laid her hand on Björn's shoulder. "No, it wasn't you... None of us could get here without getting water all over the face. Agnetha just wasn't prepared in that time..."

Björn cried and kept holding Agnetha. And she held back. "I'm cold..." she said tired. "Me too..." Frida said and looked down on her white short nighdress, which now was completely translucent. Agnetha was at least wearing a longer red nightdress, which did't become translucent. "Benny... And Björn by the way. No staring!" Frida said and pioned at her nightdress.
"You requires the most impossible..." Benny said with a quiet laugh. Frida sighed and gave him a kiss.

"And now then?" Agnetha asked and looked at Björn and then the others with eyes full of tears. "I don't know..." Frida mumbled, and then she also started to cry. And Björn still cried too. And Benny did everything not to cry. "Okay, now we try to think. And don't cry..." Then Frida started to cry more. Agnetha began to feel a big panic. Frida was the only one who could give her peace and make her think logical and in a good way. She gave her peace of mind, in other words. And now, Frida cried and showed her "weak." Had to calm down herself, when Agnetha needed her wise words and her consolation the most.

Suddenly Agnetha screamed. In pure panic. Björn held her tight and laid her head against his chest. He stroked the back of her head. Agnetha's screams turned into hard crying after a while. Benny sat on a bigger stone with a silent crying Frida in his lap. Benny decided not to cry, even if he wanted. He would be the strong one the others could rely on.

"What to do now?" Frida asked when she had calm down a bit. "Wait for a boat here" Benny said and stroked her back. "But we don't have any food, and the water is gone soon..."
"A human can survive without food in more than three weeks. The water is worse. We just have to not drink too much, and share. I promise, someone will come and help us..."
"Why couldn't we be shipwrecked in some other warm country. Like Australia?!"
Benny laughed, which made Frida laugh. "Because God maybe wanted something bad happen to us... I mean, we won Eurovision. Now it's our turn to get some bad luck!" Frida actually laughed.

Benny and Frida went to Agnetha and Björn who still sat on the beach. "Come here! Let's get some sleep under a tree or something" Frida said, and they both walked slowly up to the little collection of trees. "What time is it?" Frida wondered.
"Don't know. Probably around lunch time, but it feels like I've been awake for many days!!" Björn said. The others agreed.

They found a quite big tree and laid down under it close to each other. "This is horrible..." Agnetha whispered. "I know..." Frida answered. "We will handle this. Together?" Benny said. "Always" Frida said. "Always" Björn mumbled. But they didn't hear the last always. Björn sat up at once and shook Agnetha's body. "Stop it... I'm asleep, can't you see that?" Agnetha said with a little smile. The others laughed tired. Some minutes later everyone were asleep. And the pictures in their heads and their dreams were horrible...