Clay and Kylene's Island (ON HOLD)

Prologue - Kylene's POV

A/N

The chapters will be longer, more than 1,000 words, but the prologues are going to be in the hundreds. So don't stop because you think it's too short. We promise this will get longer. (=

And Kylene doesn't meet Clay in the prologues, but they will meet SOON! :D

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Prologue

- Kialee

KYLENE'S POV

All I felt was a pain at the back of my head and the blue ocean before everything went black. I saw black, felt black, fell into the darkness. I couldn't breathe. My hands touched the harsh, rough edges of something, and I grasped it desperately. What was happening...? All I could think was 'I have to survive, I have to save myself.' Finally, I couldn't feel anything at all anymore. I was just...there. In some strange existence. 

I don't know how long later, but when I could feel, aching and hurting, I opened my eyes. I saw blue. I had always liked the color blue. In fact, it was my favorite color. That's why I had always considered my eyes my best feature.

Everything was a bright blue. I blinked. I watched the waves rock and wash to the hot white sand beneath me.

Wait. Sand? Water?

I blinked a few more times, and weakly managed the strength to push myself up into a sitting position. My lunges burned, my throat hurt, my arms and legs ached, and I was absolutely miserable. I felt like I had been through hell and back again.

I didn't remember anything.

How did I get here? Where was I specifically? I looked around, squinting against the bright sun. I was at a beach, and behind me was a forest of trees. I looked out at the water, and the blue seemed to stretch out forever, endlessly. An ocean?

I placed my hands against the hot white sand and pushed myself up onto my feet. I wobbled unsteadily, but I managed to stumble to a rock under a tall, shady tree. I wasn't sure what kind it was. I climbed onto it, resting. I realized I was wearing a pair of khaki shorts and I was wearing a tank top with a hoodie. No shoes. I shrugged off the hoodie, shook sand from it, and tied it around my waist.

Then I noticed the locket around my neck. Slowly, I raised the chain over my head and held the silver heart in my fingers. Gingerly, I turned it over in my hands and brushed sand off it. Inscribed on it was: for my beautiful Kylene, love Mom and Dad.

I blinked. I hadn't realized I didn't even know my name. So...I was...Kylene? What an odd name. I opened the delicate locket. Surprisingly, there wasn't any water or sand in it. There was a picture however.

A picture of me, smiling. I had long light blonde hair, and my eyes were a bright blue. My arm was raised as if it was wrapped around someone. I wondered who it could be.

I snapped the locket shut. I realized I felt stronger, so I pushed against the big rock and landed in the sand. I felt a little light headed, and I still ached, but I felt much better.

Was I shipwrecked on an island like I had watched in television shows and read in exciting action books? How horrible could that be, if I really was? Maybe I just had some sort of amnesia and I actually lived here with someone. If I could just find somebody to help me out, I could get everything sorted.

Feeling determined now that I had a goal in mind, I walked into the trees, letting the coolness envelope me as I set out to explore.