The Island

Chapter 1~ "How Did We Survive?"

11:30 a.m.

"United Flights J 194 will be boarding in 20 minutes." The lady over the speakers says. I sit in the terminal looking down at the book currently sitting on my lap. I'm a military brat, i'm originally from St. Dizier, France but my dad always gets deployed to many places. I'm heading to Mexico for 6 months with my father. I snap out of my thoughts and look back down at my book and start to read. 

11:50 a.m.

"United Flights J 194 will begin boarding." Her voice booms over the speaker. I grab my carry on and quickly tuck my boarding pass into my pocket, I look at my father and he gives me a reassuring smile. We get in line and it's finally our turn, I put my pass into the machine and it processes my information to be put on the planes manuscript. My father does the same and we head down the hall that leads to the plane. We climb on board when my breathing starts to thicken and my heart starts to palpitate. My father looks behind himself knowing of my frequent anxiety attacks. "Comment va tu?" (How are you in french.) He asks. I look back up to him and I nod indicating that I was fine. We soon find our seats, putting his carry on by his feet he sits down and I do the same. The plane starts to fill up with passengers and we soon start to take off. 

Mid- flight

The plane starts to shake under our feet. The seat belt icon clicks on the bright orange luminating. My father Puts on his seatbelt, while I already had it fastened. I feel my lungs fill up with air and I feel that similar feeling of them collapsing. Not collapsing but its just to explain how it feels. I look at my father knowing that he knew what was going on. He looked around trying to find a first aid kit, and a raft. He already knew where exactly the tranceiver would be. I grab my backpack and throw it over my shoulder, my father doing the same. That's when we hear the sound of metal ripping apart. The Cockpit. My father leans back into his seat getting ready for what will soon come. I copy his motions then feel the pressure of the water hitting the cabin of the plane.

"I will grab the first aid kit, tranceiver, and raft. The cabin will fill and we will sink in about 20 minutes. Get out of here while you can." He yells. The plane starts to dip and lifts up to a certain angle. I run to the closest exit and pry it open.

I jump out of the sinking plane and swim as hard as I can to escape the water around the plane which was pulling me down with it. I kick my feet and move my arms towards safety. I turn around when I am safe enough and see my father jumping out of the same exit as I did with a two other survivors. One being only an infant and and the other a boy around the same age as me. He paddles out of the current and activates the raft. I swim over to him and climb in and help him get the infant in as well as the boy. My father climbs in after everyone is in the the raft and starts to paddle towards an island that was only a few kilometers away. 

A/N

I wanted to make a survival story based of some of my family members. I being potrayed as Iris, My father Jean Louis, and one of french cousin Oliver.

Pronunciation of the names because they are french. 

Jean louis  Jon-loo-i 

Oliver o-li-vi-aye

Je t'aime my beasties!

All the love xx