Iris

Chapter Thirteen

[A/N: Hi guys....here is chapter 13. I hope you enjoy it. Please let me know what you think! ^_^ Have a great day]

I glanced around at all the unhappy faces of my competition. We had been woken up early this morning and told to change and meet James in the drive-way. Of course we were all completely confused. We did as we were told and got dumped in the forest. My favourite getting-lost-in forest! God damn it! I worked out that I failed at reading maps so I hoped it wasn’t something like trying to find our way back to the mansion. We had already done that anyway, right?

“You are to stay out here for one day and one night. You are all allowed to call for the mansion on this phone. If you do call you will be asked to leave the competition. You will only be given food and some material to work with. I suggest some teamwork of some sort. Its time to see if you can survive without your designer clothes, ay?” James smiled encouragingly at us all. Ok now I understood the rules for being here but that didn’t explain why we were here in the first place. I guess it wouldn’t be too bad except for the fact that James had mentioned teamwork. I was guessing that Jamie didn’t understand that “I” wasn’t in team. I’m sure Sabrina, Raven and I would be able to think of something. We may even join with Alison if need be. I had to talk to Alison more without Jamie knowing. What I couldn’t understand was why Blade had been so familiar with Jamie. She had called him darling as well. It was all too weird. I silently cursed the gods as I walked over to Raven and Sabrina who were discussing plans for a tent.

“I think it might be too short though…” Raven sighed.

“Guys what’s up?” I asked trying to sound as positive as I could.

“We are thinking of what we can do to keep us from getting soaked, look up I think its going to rain and soon.” Raven pointed above us. I followed her finger and gazed at the dark grey clouds rolling towards us. Great, just what we needed, rain. I wasn’t too worried though. I had lived on the farm my whole life. Getting dirty was never a problem for me. I scanned our materials and got an idea. I tied my hair back into a lose ponytail and stood on a fallen log that was near-by.

“Hey guys!” I called to the girls. Our numbers were slowly decreasing and I was almost missing the large amount of us. There were only 145 of us left. It was odd to think we started off with so many more. As I scanned our surroundings, I noticed that a lot of arguments were starting to break out. This wasn’t the way we were going to use teamwork. “Hello?” I called again, once again nothing. “HELLO!!!!!!!” I yelled. 144 eyes stared at me with surprise. I guess they didn’t know I could yell like that, then again neither did I.

“What do you want?” Jamie called out from the crowd. Oh shut up Jamie, honestly!

“Just like James said, we really need to work as a team to complete this task. We all want to stay so why not help each other out instead of bickering amongst ourselves? We have to make shelter for ourselves due to the oncoming storm but don’t worry we have time but we must work quickly, ok?” I gently instructed.

“What do we do first?” Raven asked.

“Shelter” Sabrina replied looking at the material.

Everyone understood that we needed to work together to avoid getting soaked. I bet the Deans hadn’t planned for the rain. Or if they had and they threw us out here anyway, I would not be a happy camper. Raven and Sabrina got the girls moving and showed them how to make a large tent. I ran back and forth between groups to make sure everything was running smoothly. I observed that a couple of girls weren’t dressed for the wilderness at all. Couldn’t we have known what to wear instead of us being told to “put something on”?