Very, Very, Very far away

Chaper Six

No.

Not the end.

Not yet.

Not dead.
I'm not dead.

I'm alive.

I know because heaven is much more comfortable then whatever I'm on. My skin was cold and scratched and my skin was rubbing against plastic.

My eyes slowly opened.

Raft.
I was on the raft.

This wasn't clear. How did I get here?

Was I here with Jeremy?
I sprung up to see if Jeremy was there.

No such luck.

But I did see a familiar face. There was only him and me in the raft.

His eyes where closed and he was resting his head against the edge of the raft, his arms where out, leaning against rocks.
The sky was dark, meaning it was nighttime.

I'm not dead.

I'm not deaf either!
I can clearly hear the sound of the waves.
Shit.
Waves.
Ocean.
Stranded.
Lost.
Survivors.
Jem.
I tried to remember what happened.

I slowly pieced everything back together.
The only flaw was how I got on the raft.
I was dying in the plane.
Did this boy come save me?

His face was familiar, he cared enough to risk his life to save me,
It has to be Jem, right?

I dragged my body next to him and looked at him to make sure it wasn't Jeremy.

Still not Jem.

But now i knew who it was.

Nicolas.

He saved me.

He brought me back to land.

Land?

I got up and looked around me.

Nicolas had brought me and him to a small cave, where we used the raft as a mattress/bed.

I got out of the raft and slowly walked my way to the beach.
I let out a sigh.

I looked at the waves rolling towards me.

I kept walking along the beach, blindly, still in shock.

Then I stubbed my toe on a rock.
I looked down and saw the SOS
Nicolas had probably put on.
Wait, how long was I sleeping? It was the middle of the day when we crashed.
Hours maybe.

And Nicolas was taking care of me.

I sat down in the sand and looked at the ocean.

Half an hour passed.

I just sat there watching the tide go low.

The one good thing on this island was The stars.

They where so clear and beautiful.
Then I heard footsteps coming towards me.

I turned to see Nicolas walking to me.

He sat down next to me, not sure what to say.

I haven't known Nicolas that long, I've only met him in junior high, unlike Jeremy.

But he was always friendly to me.

I knew what he was going to say.
Something negative, for sure.

When he doesn't know what to say, it comes out super harsh, but he doesn't mean it.

He's done it before.

"Why the hell where you just lying there, waiting to die?!?" He yelled to me.

"Because I have a very sensitive stomac, and when the plane started to fall, I couldn't feel anything and I fell too. It hurt too much to get up, so I just made peace with death." I Said, calmly.
" oh, I'm so sorry, Penny." He said, turning red.
"I didn't mean to be, well, mean." He told me.
"I know"
There was a small silence before I broke it.
"Why did you save me?" I asked.
"I...I don't know,...I just couldn't bring myself to jump without you."He Said heroically.
I smiled.
"Thank you. You saved my life" I Said, while giving him a hug.
Only now I realized he was only wearing his pants.
I let go of the hug as fast as I could.
"Yeah, sorry about that, is just really hot during the day, here" he said, worried.
"It's okay." I said.
Another silence, also broken by me.
"Where's Jeremy? Did he make it on a raft?" I asked, hoping he would have seen him, jumping off too.
"Um, yes, i think so, but the last time I saw him he was swimming.not very well either" he said.
Is he dead?
"I think he might have drowned" he answered my question.

That hit me like a truck.
Overwhelming sadness took over me, thinking that I broke my promise with Jem.
A silent tear rolled down my face and it triggered a cry.
Nicolas hugged me tight and telling me it would be okay.

I don't think he knows what happens after I bawl.

I go crazy.

I talk to myself, and say things I don't mean.
I tried to warn Nicolas, but he wouldn't budge.

He it comes.
Normally there are five stages.
1) running away
I escaped from his grip and ran towards a tree and started to climb it.

2) screaming
Yelling like à lunatic.

Nicolas was obviously confused.

" what are you doing?!?" He yelled as loud as he could over top of my harsh voice.

3) mean comments
" AHHHHHHH!!!!! Nothing matters!!!!! We're gonna die annyways!!!!!!!! Jeremy was going to die' he's a big baby!!! We're gonna die too!!!!sorry to say but you and your heroic ness makes no difference in my survival." I was going joker mode.

4) joker mode
Then I started to laugh.
Creepily.

I need help.
I don't mean it! I tried to tell Nicolas with my eyes.

I'm sorry!

5) breaking point comment
"I'm not sorry!!!! THEY THOUGHT THEY COULD. SUGAR COAT IT BUT OLIVIA DIED ANNYWAYSSSSSASS" I screamed. I was a little greatful nobody else could hear it.

Nicolas almost cried to my comment.

"Olivia has nothing to do with this..." he said looking down.

Olivia was a girl in our class. She got cancer and died. Simple. But extremely sad. Our whole class got depressed. That was the other reason they let our class go on vacation.

I started to cry again.

I almost fell out of the tree.

"Penny, it's okay. "He told me as I tried to climb down the tree.
"I heard rumours about your joker voice, but that's just crazy" he mumbled to himself.

I gave him a huge hug.
"Nicolas, I'm so sorry. I cant control it, I really didn't mean what I said." I whispered in his ear.

"Don't worry about it. You can call me Cole."
" Cole?"
"Yes?"

"Okay, Cole"