Stranded

Chapter 16 ~ Rachel

I walk through the forest. I want to find Jack. He deserves to be the leader over all of us, this is long over do. The other girls don't understand his brilliance, he just needs the right tools, witch Cassie has kept from him. I will be greatly rewarded for helping him. I will never half to do work again.It's after noon know, and I've been trying to find them for most of the morning, I even left before the end of the meeting

The clothes I'm wearing snag again and I carefully undo the shirt from the thorns. I'm wearing a uniform again. I wish to look presentable, and I don't think the other girls will be missing it.

I'm not much of a tracker or else I probably would have found him by now.

I continue until I start to hear voices, one of which is Jack's.

I follow them to a clearing where Jack's group is, a body of a dead pig, and a pig's head on a stick. Gross.

"Oy! Look at this Chief!" one of them says. Several sticks are now pointed at me. Jack turns and looks at me. He is in the boy's version of paint, and he's handsome.

"What's a girl doing out here," he asks.

"I was looking for you," I say doing a quick curtsy. "I am Rachel, and I want to join your group."

"Girls aren't welcome," he replies.

"I think you deserve to be Chief over everyone on this island, and I know things. Things that can help you rain over the other girls. All I want is to show you my loyalty."