Stranded

4: Moving Forward

~Misha POV~

I wake up to a pounding headache.

"Ahh! What happened?", I say as I roll over on my stomach.

"Oh. It's about time your awake!",I hear Rich's voice. "Here!" he says. I slowly open my eyes and sit up to see him holding a makeshift cup of water in front of my face.
"Regular water this time.", he says.
I drink and then ask, "So what happened?"
"Jensen had to knock you out cause you were acting so insane from drinking that salt water and dehydration."

"Right.", I say as some of it starts to come back.

"I'm sorry.", I say pointing to the gash above his right eye.
He waves me off. "It wasn't really you. Just no more saltwater. Come on, I'll show you where the little lake we got this from is."
I get up and look around and notice that the sun is just starting to set and that me, Rich, Jared, Matt, Jim, and Mark are the only ones on the beach. Jared and Matt are once again spearing fish.

"Where's everyone else?"

"Searching the island again. We didn't get a chance to get a good look around last night and today everyone was looking for you until a couple hours ago. I stayed to get a good fire started back up and to make sure you didn't do anything else crazy when you woke up since Jared and Matt are busy and the other 2 haven't hardly moved from that spot since they sat down there."

"Ah.", I say.

~Mark POV~

"Bullocks!"
"Balls!"
"Bullocks!"
"Balls!"
"Bullocks!"
"Balls!"

~Ashley POV~

Me, Sydney, Gil, Jensen, and Rob have all been exploring some areas of the island that we didn't get a chance to search last night. We are now heading back to the beach with a bunch of fruit carrying them in Jensen and Gil's button-ups that they had on over their t-shirts. It's amazing how well we have all bonded in just three days of knowing each other, especially in the face of a disaster like this. Gil and I have developed a very good friendship and Jensen and Sydney seem to have gotten pretty close as well. It could have worked totally opposite and made us all hate each other.

We emerge on the beach to see Rich and Misha just coming out from the path to the  lake. Jared and Matt one again have fish lined up on our little makeshift table.

"Hey guys! Looks like you had some luck this time."

"Yea.", Gil says. "We got a bunch of fruit."

"Cool.", Misha says.
"Good to see you back to normal Misha.", I say.

"Yea.", Jensen speaks up. "I'm sorry about clocking you man but there didn't seem to be another way to stop you."

"Don't worry about it.", Misha smiles. "I probably would have done the same thing if the situation was reversed."

Jensen nods and they man-hug then we all get started preparing to eat again.

After we've ate-we once again had to take Jim and Mark some food- were all sitting around talking when suddenly a voice speaks up from behind us. We turn to see Mark standing over us.

"So, now that everyone is sane and we're all back together, what's the plan for getting off this bloody island?"