Drifters

The island

I have no idea what I am doing. Boats are not my thing. I know how stare but how am I supposed to help them if I don't know what the buttons and leavers do. All these buttons are staring me in the face but I can't for the life of me understand what they do.
"Ryan do you know much about boats?" I know Liam and Callie won't be any help, they are just as useless as I am. When ever we use the boat Spencer is always the one to play captain, we never needed to know how to. Until now.
"Sure." Ryan's giving me that look. The look that says I know you need my help but you are going to have to ask for it. Dang.
"Ryan, sweetie, now is not the time for games. You see we, you included are stranded in the middle of the freaking ocean right now. So please don't be a douche and help a girl out." My voice stays calm as I ask for Ryan's help. If you haven't guessed I'm not the most out going person in the room, I tend to stay in my comfort zone but I do now how to know how to get my way. Living with Spencer has taught many tactics to command attention and win the war. Metaphorically speaking of course.
"Of course I'll help. Sweetie." His eyes lit up and a smirk made its way onto his face as he starts towards me. That smirk normally has any other girl falling to their knees, begging for his attention. I know what lies underneath it. Just a boy trying to win a game. A stupid game where every heart gets broken along the way.
Keeping my face forward and my hands on the wheel I refuse to acknowledge they boy next to me. Out of the corner of my eye I see him adjust levers and push buttons that seem to be helping the boat move in the right direction.
Outside I can see Spencer and Josh on the dingy trying to stare the boat in the right direction. I know it's probably not going to help much. I just want to get off this stupid boat and onto land. It could still take hours, but we are getting to that island no matter what.

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Hours have gone by. I wish I could say we have made it to the island, unfortunately the tide does not want to make this possible. I can see the island, it's less than 150 meters away. Somehow the low tide is making it feel like miles.
We have no way to anchor the boat so we are currently trying to gather as many supplies to take in on the dingy. Our bags are over stuffed with blankets and food. The dingy is loaded with all the excess. Spencer has already done two loads to the island, taking and dumping as much as possible. The cabin of the boat is now bare, we can't all fit in the dingy so I'm waiting with Ryan.
As we got closer it was obvious that we are no closer to the mainland. My phones in my hand but I still have no signal. It's pretty clear that we are going to have to wait for someone to find us. Even though we have the dingy it wouldn't get us far enough to find help. We are utterly screwed.

"How long do you think we will be out here?" Im not asking out of curiosity. I'm so scared.
"I wish I had the answer, trust me when I say that. But I'm honestly not sure. Days maybe.. weeks possibly. I'm just-" he pauses unsure of the right words. "I'm just glade to have an amazing group of people with me."

I don't know what to to say to that and instead I wait for Spencer to come back and get us.

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Straightaway we had started to build a makeshift shelter, it's not much but now that it's nightfall I'm glad we have something to keep us dry.

We used big leaves to create a barrier between us and the ground, it certainly was no mattress but right now with our blankets and pillows layer out it looks better then the best of the jungle. With our limited resources the space we had made isn't the biggest and we are practically lying on top of each other yet somehow it makes me feel safe.

Callie is on one side of me and on my other side is Josh, I don't know how I ended up next to him but at this point I'd rather him then Ryan. Rain started to fall on our makeshift camp, we are still dry but I can feel my anxiety levels rising. Sensing this Josh graves my hand. He doesn't say anything but rather draws circles on it with his thumb. I let him continue to do this closing my eyes and willing sleep to come.

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In all seriousness I don't know how many people are actually invested in finding out what happens in this book. I started writing it a while ago and just lost my passion for it but something made me want to continue it.

I don't know how consistent my updates will be but I'm going to try :)

Any way enjoy.