Dark Clouds || Rafe Cameron || OBX

S.3~ twenty four

**Valerie as the narrator**

Was the treasure an escape? Or was it a trap?

Three months have passed on the island. Kooks versus pogues, it was always the way. Here, there were only pogues.

POUGLANDIA, was what we called it.

It was beautiful. I couldn't ask for anything more. The island was so peaceful, it was just us. Me, sarah, Kie, Cleo, JJ, pope and John B. It was all we needed, and a game of truth or dare, with a hat made out of leaves and sticks.

This was our home now, there were no signs of return to the OBX. Everyday for the past few months, all of us sat late up, talking and laughing. We body surfed until the waves faded out.

It was our lifestyle now, this is the way we survived.

Each day we would split up, four of us would go searching for food and the other two would stay at the beach. We mostly ate coconuts, but sometimes we'd be lucky and catch our selves some fish.

This was the pogue life we wanted. We were finally happy. It was just us and this island, which we explored each day. It never got boring. I cant help but wonder what's going on back at home. Are people looking for us?

Some people with everything, some with nothing, and that's how they'd want to keep it. Some people make the best of it, and some people fight against it.

We were stranded on a island. Our island. Paradise.

What would pogues want more than this?

**Narrator**

Obviously, those were just deeper thoughts. In reality, Valerie was depressed for weeks, she couldn't get herself to be happy again, even though she deserved it more than anything.

The whole time she's been on the island was like another day of suffering. She was happy for the first few days. The longer they were trapped here the more depressed she felt. She missed Rafe. She wanted to go back home.

JJ tried helping her but she refused, she mostly sat alone while the others laughed and talked about memories.

She knew she should have been grateful for this, but something inside her broke the moment they got to the island, and it began to shatter everything inside her.

Was this it? Was this hell?

She didn't know why or how she felt the way she did. It was like episodes, one moment she's happy, but for the next few days she would barely eat or say a word to the others.

They had no idea what was going on with her, they tried to understand, but after it repeated for days, they gave up. She didn't let them help, she didn't want help. So they gave her what she wanted.

Short chapter but I though it would be good if it was a fill in chapter!