Island Secret

Chapter 3: The Dead Cave

Astyr snapped back to reality when she vaguely heard Chase and Luke screaming.  "Dude!! I see it!!" screamed Luke, while Chase was smiling like a wolf who was just given a hundred pounds of raw meet to munch on.

By this time, Chase was also flipping out about the small distance between them and the island.  "I no man!! You know what I think?" he screamed over the wind and motor. 

"What?"

"Well, I talked to Vanessa."

"Wait...The Vanessa?" asked Luke, knowing perfectly well which Vanessa Chase was talking about.  Vanessa was the school slut, who practically asked guys to follow her into a bedroom or bathroom stall. Basically wherever she could get some action.

"Ya man!" Chase was now grinning hugely, obviously proud of his accomplishment.  "She was talking about how her and Mark came here" he gestured to the island now becoming very clear.  "Anyways, she said Mark wanted to impress her, so he brought her here after...you know... having fun."  Chase wiggled his eyebrows like a pervert while Luke just  tossed his head back and laughed.

"Moving on." he said

"Ya, sorry" said Chase.  "She said that after they... I'm skipping the details...after they... you know what?

" Skip like ten nasty sentences." he hollered, not knowing how to avoid the "bad" conversation.  "She said Mark took her to a big cliff thing on the island.  And they cliff dove!  How sweet is that?" said Chase...now very excited.

"Oh my god" yelled back Luke, but having to a lot softer now because the boat was slowing down as we now approached the shallow waters around the island.  "Guys, we are SO doing that!"  Chase laughed and nodded, while Astyr smiled.

"Totally, I'm all in!"  Astyr laughed, actually very nervous; trying, but not succeeding, to put Uncle Jimmy's story behind her. 

They now were about 100 feet off the sandy shores of the island.  Astyr observed it, carefully taking in all the small details.  There was a ring of sand surrounding this side of the island, and the small, white particles took up approximately 50 feet.  When Chase pulled the boat onto the sand, since it was too shallow to anchor, he jumped off at once to haul it up more so it wouldn't drift away, he yelled "well, here we are guys!  Lets take a hike, then go cliff diving okay?"  They all agreed.

As they unloaded from the boat, Astyr could feel the intense heat from the sun soaking into her pores.  Not wanting to end up and old lady with horrible skin, she stopped for a minute on the sand and yelled to the boys, "guys, sorry but I'm going to throw on some sunscreen really fast.  Wait for me, okay?"

Luke, being nicer then Chase, yelled "Ya sure, just hurry up before Mr. Excited here" he shoved a finger in Chase's direction, who was now jumping on his feet yelling 'lets go' over and over "pees his pants with anticipation." Astyr swore, that kid could get away with being a two year old any day.

After spraying her body with sun screen, Astyr threw the bottle back in the boat's glove compartment and took off down the beach to catch up with the guys.  As soon as she got there, Chase yelled "whoop whoop, lets go!" and took off jogging towards  the forest. 

The three of them ran for a little while, deeper and deeper into the heavily wooded forest. After a while they all slowed down to a casual walk taking in the beautiful scenery. Astyr was amazed with all of the incredible vegetation, flowers, birds and the occasional mysterious fire beetle that buzzed by that lived on the island.

 After a few minutes in a comfortable silence while observing the mesmerizing island, Luke finally spoke up. "This is too good to be true."

"What is?" Astyr inquired, falling into step alongside Luke.