Stranded

Chapter 1, Learning

   I love not in a mansion, nor in a house but on a island far away from any other land. Two years ago my sister, Isabelle, and I survived a shipwreck and have lived on this island ever since. When we first got here, we barely had anything to live on.

I was only 14 when I went on my first fishing trip. Little did I know that the first time I got on a boat I would end up stranded with half of my family missing. One life skill I learned on that boat was how to fish, which kind of makes sense since it was a fishing trip, and from there I haven't been fully hungry for too long. Even if it took a little too long to learn how to build a fire.

I keep thinking that there should be some people who should live on this island, come out of nowhere to help me and my sister survive. But there isn't. I've walked around our little island's beach too many times to know that that is probably not gonna happen.

I also keep thinking that I will probably never get the high school experience that my sister got a piece of. She got her first boyfriend the week or so before we left for my birthday trip and I feel so bad. She tells me she's ok every time I ask her, but every once and a while I catch her having a lost look on her face and her eyes are so sad.

Sometimes though she uses this as an excuse so I will think that she can't do work for a day and I do it all. Of coarse there is always that one part of me that does wanna do it so I know it will be done right. That is more of my personality than hers.

I don't think that it is possible to be more different than me and my sister. I love to roam around our island and I always invite her to come. When she roams the island, she has one way she always goes and I think she's only asked me once to join her. I tend to do most of the work while she does her own thing. The one thing we have in common is our love for swimming, which we've had since we were ages 4 and 6. And honestly that is the main thing we do here.

We also both have a love for decorating pretty much anything. I used to only be invited to some birthday parties for my gifts. But now that energy is put towards our tree house. It's actually only a house that is next to a tree but I don't have anything else to call it.

Like every other girl I have a dream, quite simply it is to get off this island. But I would like a boat to come and crash and stay with us for a while and on that boat preferably one with a cute boy on it but I will take whatever I can get at this point. There is also this part of me that doesn't want to leave here because I would go into high school being behind in every type of schooling imaginable. And according to Isabelle, high school isn't as easy as everyone says.