To Find A Shelter

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Della's POV:
Day 2

"JUSTIN!" Eugena and I yell in unison as Justin falls towards us, breaking branches in his way. He comes hurdling towards us, growing nearer and nearer. After a second or two he latches onto a branch, holding himself up with one hand. Cameron, Nolan and Maggie have made their way to our side, watching Justin.

"Are you alright?" Maggie shouts up at him, fear sounding in her words. Justin nods slightly before pulling himself onto another branch. I relax slightly until an identical snap sounds. Justin once again comes falling towards us. He falls to his feet, collapsing immediately.

"Justin! Are you okay?" Eugena questions, rushing to his side. I run over, Nelia, Nolan and Isabella by my side. He's holding his ankle in his hands, looking as if e lets go of it it'll fall off. Justin throws his head back and hisses in pain.

Everyone stares at him, we've never seen him in this much pain. He normally acts stronger.

"How bad is it? His ankle?" Izzy asks, in a voice barely over a whisper. I look at Justin as his eyes start to water slightly.

"Eugena... How bad is his ankle?" I ask, noticing that no one but myself heard Isabella. Eugena does this side-glance at her brother before unlacing his shoe and removing it from his foot.

She pulls the shoe off of him and throws it over her shoulder, taking his sock off quickly. Eugena looks at her brothers ankle before looking at him and patting his head. I glance at it, noticing it's reddish-purple color and that the bone is almost protruding from his skin.

Gagging, I grab onto Izzy's arm and pull myself to stand up. She stares at him then glances up at the tree, obviously surprised that this could happen.

"Maggie, bring someone to go get bandages with you." Eugena commands, pulling Justin closer to her.

"Some Tylenol would help too." Nelia mumbles, still staring at his swelling ankle.

Maggie nods, looking at Izzy and Cameron. I glance at Isabella as she shrugs me off of her and goes with Maggie. Cameron follows them both as they all start making their way to camp.

Izzy's POV:

I shrug Della off of my arm, walking over to Maggie. Cameron follows after us. We don't get a chance to say a quick 'goodbye' to our friends before we start jogging back to camp.

"Bandages, Tylenol. Bandages, Tylenol. Bandages, Ty-" Cameron rambles, repeating the two things over and over again.

"Cam, you can stop that." I mumble as Maggie leads us back to the group. As soon as we walk into the open area, where our tents and the picnic tables are there's a different feeling. An undeniably bad one.

"Vena? Where's Wesley?" Maggie questions quickly, no time for catching up.

"Talking with Michal, in his tent. Why? Where is everyone else?" Maggie doesn't answer, instead she marches over to where Wesley's tent is.

"What's up? Where is everyone else?" Vena asks, looking at Cameron and I.

"They're in the woods, with Eugena." Cameron answers quickly. She starts asking a million questions, all of which I tune out.

"I'm going to get the Tylenol.." I mumble before walking off to where Mahalia's tent is.

Veronica is sitting outside of the tent, like some sort of guard.

"Izzy? What're you doing here?" She asks, seeming to be made happy by my presence.

"We need some Tylenol.. Can I go get it?" I ask, motioning towards the opening of the tent.