Living on the Wild Side

Chapter 3

The bright sun and tweeting birds were the first things Cecilia noticed when her eyes fluttered open. Then Brad's blurred face appeared in front of her.

"Cecilia, wake up." She blinks a few times and let Brad pull her up.

She shakes her head to get rid of the dizziness and takes a look at her surroundings.

"Oh my God!" She yells eyeing the helicopter.

It was totaled. It's front half was bashed into a wall of.. wherever we were.

A wall? We are surrounded by dirt walls. We were in some kind of a ditch. A huge ditch.

"Are you hurt?" Brad asks Cecilia.

"Nope, are you?"

"I'm fine."

"Where's everyone else?" Cecilia asks worrying a bit.

"Xander and Mason are over in the woods trying to find something useful. Everything in the helicopter is ruined. All of our stuff. My phone's shattered. Hopefully someone's phone works." He explains.

Cecilia pulls out her dumb, flip phone. It won't turn on, still. Cecilia's phone has never worked. She shakes her head.

"Bonnie and Erika.. Haven't woken up yet." Brad sighs.

"Oh my! Where are they?" She asks full of worry.

"Mason and I laid them down in the grass over by that pond over there." Brad gestures to the small pond.

"Only a few scratches and bumps. Nothing serious. Must've bumped their heads harder than we did. I'll go and check on them." Brad concludes.

Brad jogs over to where Erika and Bonnie lay. Erika's phone lay shattered next to her. Bonnie's phone was in perfect shape still grasped in her hand. Brad walks back over to the helicopter and searches for some type of cloth. He finds a piece of what looks like a shirt and brings it back to the pond. He dips the shirt piece into the clear water and dabs it on Erika and Bonnie's foreheads and over some of their cuts. Eventually, Erika's eyes flutter open. Bonnie's not far after. Brad explains what happened with the helicopter. Xander returns from the woods and walks over to where Brad kneels by the girls.

"Any luck with your phones?" Brad asks him.

"No, mines done for. So is Mason's. You?"

"Nah man mines broken. Same with Cecilia's and Erika's." Brad shrugs.

"Hey, mines fine." Bonnie says in her regular monotone voice.

Xander grabs it out of her hand.

"Hey give that back!" Bonnie screams lunging for it.

"Great I need to call my girfri-" He pauses and bursts into laughter.

Bonnie's screen was unlocked and she was still on her bible app.

"You read the bible? For fun?" He cracks up.

Bonnie grabs the phone and tugs at it. Xander keeps his grip on it. Eventually Xander lets go and Bonnie rolls backwards into the pond, with the phone.

"Dude, not cool." Brad shoves Xander back.

Cecilia shakes her head.

"Sorry." He says sarcastically.

"Out of all people." Xander snickers and waltzes back to the helicopter.

Brad helps Bonnie out of the pond.

"Ignore Xander, he's being a bi—idiot." Brad rolls his eyes.

"Oh no! My phone!" Bonnie checks her pockets for her phone.

She drops to her knees to search inside the pond.

"Forget it." Brad shrugs.

"The water is clear, we would have already seen it. Plus we don't have any rice. The water has already ruined it."

"I'm going to kill that piece of—!" The last part fades away into the air as she dashes towards the crashed helicopter.

The sun is setting and Mason brings his gathered wood that he got from the woods and carries it to a clear spot near the crashed helicopter. He sets them down in a pile and uses some more of the cloth Brad had found. He tosses the pieces onto the wood and strikes a match. The cloth catches fire and eventually the wood starts to burn up too. Xander crouches down and sets some large stones around the wood pile to form a circle. All of a sudden Bonnie jumps on his back punching his back furiously. He stands up and tries to push her off. She holds on strong.

"You ruined our only chances of using a phone!" She screams and jumps off his back.

She punches his stomach and face until Brad bravely yanks her off.

"Bonnie, calm down! It's okay. We can figure this out." Brad calms her down.

She struggles in his tight grasp but eventually calms down. He lets her go and she dashes off into the woods.

Xander lay on the ground holding his jaw.

"Damn that girl can punch, what the hell?" Xander admits holding his jaw in obvious pain.

Mason keeps the fire going as Brad searches for some type of food in this place. Cecilia went with him to help him out.

Brad and Cecilia return holding a variety of berries. They join the others at the fire and sit down.

"We found some berries. They'll tide us over until tomorrow." Cecilia says as she pops one into her mouth just as Erika approached them. She noticed the basket of berries Cecilia had and yelled.

"NO! Cecilia spit that out!"

Cecilia's eyes went wide and she spit it out.

"Why?!"

"Those are poisonous! Did you bite into it yet?" She asks panicked.

"No I hadn't yet."

Erika calms a bit. "Good. One bite and you would've been dead."

Cecilia freaks out.

"WE'RE STRANDED IN A STUPID DITCH WHERE THE ONLY SOURCE OF FOOD IS POISONOUS BERRIES?!" She sits down and begins to cry. Brad comforts her.

"How did you even know that those berries were poisonous?" Brad asks Erika as he pours them into the fire.

"I have my ways." She mumbles embarrassed as Xander mumbles "Smarta—."

"Xander." Brad says sternly, cutting him off.

Erika flips Xander off and waltzes away.