On an Island

The 2nd Day

In the morning, Don went hunting, Mike and Lucy took care of little things like tidying up the fort, and starting to garden, and Frankie watched Yulia. She was becoming like Yulia's mother.

"Put down the stupid child, and come actually help with something!" Mike snapped at Frankie.

"I am helping! Yulia needs watching!" Frankie countered softly, cradling Yulia.

"Lay off, Mike!" Lucy shoved him away. They went into another round of arguments. Frankie sighed, and went to the edge of the island, where the wreckage had been. They had used the old boat scraps to make a fort, and now there was only an imprint in the sand where it had been. She went back and left Yulia with Lucy, so she could be alone for a moment.

She was expecting to start crying, but she didn't. Instead of crying while sitting down and staring wistfully into the ocean, she felt a strange hollow emptiness. She did nothing but think. She came out of her trance four hours later, and was very surprised. She rushed to save Yulia, for Lucy and Mike were probably fighting over her.

They were. Frankie grabbed Yulia from where she was laying at their feet, and ran off with her, mothering her once again. Mike and Lucy didn't even notice, and kept on arguing on whether to throw Yulia into the ocean or not.

Don had many adventures hunting for those four hours while Frankie had been sitting at the beach, and while Mike and Lucy were tending to normal household stuff, and Yulia crying at their feet. He had run into a bear, and ran through the forest, the bear nipping at his heels. He was hunted by the bear for at least an hour, until he did the stupidest thing possible in that situation.

"Don't fail me now, biceps." He stepped out from behind a tree, and punched the bear in the nose.

He returned to camp with a viciously scraped and bloodied arm. Frankie fainted, which made Yulia start crying. Lucy turned up her nose, and Mike scoffed.

"What did you do, Don?" Mike asked, arms folded.

"I braved the dangers of the wild!" Don knew that was not what happened, but he lied through his teeth. No one believed him, anyway, and they all ate acorns from the forest that night.

Mike's brown hair flowed in the wind as he sat on a tree stump, eating acorns. His skinny figure straightened up, staring at the sky. He saw Lucy's curvy figure some distance away, walking towards the beach, red hair also whipping.

Don's black hair whirled around too, but instead of staring off into space, he tried desperately to wrap a bandage around his arm.

"My biceps are too big to wrap!" He complained. No one listened to him, and eventually his muscled silhouette disappeared inside the fort.

Yulia's darker complexion and black hair made her absorb more sun. Her chubby figure crawled towards Frankie, who was finally waking up. She picked Yulia up with her stick-like arms and went into the fort also. Eventually everyone followed them inside, hoping for better days ahead.