Lost

Chapter 5. The Vote

I'm watching Sawyer and Hurley play ping-pong.

"Son of a bitch! All right, come on, let's go, one more." Sawyer says after Hurley wins again.

"Sawyer you said best of five" I say

"I know Shor-, I mean Hayley. Now we are going best of seven"

It's going to be a long week for Sawyer without the whole nickname thing.

All of a sudden Nikki comes out of the jungle.

"Are you okay?" Hurley says

Then she collapsed.

Then she stops moving.

"Dude Nikki's dead"

"Who the hells Nikki?" Sawyer says

We need up finding Paulo in the same state as Nikki and we bury them both together with the diamonds they had on them.

*

Hurley and I have noticed that Sawyer doesn't really get along to anyone in the group but me.

So we decided to tell him that the group was going to vote whether to banish him or not.

Hurley and I planned it out perfectly.

We walk over to where Sawyer is reading a book.

Hurley kicks his foot.

"What the hell are you two doing?"

"Don't look at us and pretend we're not talking" I say

I told Hurley to tell Sawyer the actual lie because Sawyer can always see right through my lies.

"Dude, you need to know that there's been some chatter. After Paulo and Nikki and everything well, tomorrow there's gonna be a vote"

"A vote for what?"

"To decide whether or not to banish you"

"Banish me? Is this true Hayley?"

"Yep"

"Where?"

"There's some debate about that. But the consensus was half a mile down the beach" Hurley says

"Consensus?"

"I'm only saying this because there may be a way to fix it, to like, make amends."

"I don't do amends"

"You might want to ask yourself about all the good stuff that comes from being a part of this society" I say

"You can't even feed yourself. You use our latrine, drink the water Steve brings every morning to the trough" Hurley says

"Banish me? Well if they do banish me you'll come with me, right Hayley"

"I'll come to visit you"

*

Hurley and I are putting the clothes we just washed up so they can dry when Sawyer walks or more like stomps over.

"All right. Let's do it" He says

"Do what?" I say

"I'm ready to do it. Make amends. Change the vote. I don't wanna be banished okay? Happy?"

"Dude, you stink" Hurley says

Sawyer looks down at his shirt.

"What is that? Fish? Hurley says

"No" he says not very convincing

"Did you try to gut one yourself? How have you not learned that by now? We've been here for three months" I say

"Could we just do this?" Sawyer says a little frustrated

"Do what?" I say once again

"Make nice?"

"Apologize for calling my friend Hugo here all those names"

Sawyer sighs "I'm really sorry I called you "rotund"

"Really?" Hurley says

"Oh, God. You're worse than a girl. Come on lets spread the love."

*

We are looking over at  Claire's tent as shes putting Aaron to sleep.

"I ain't kissing no damn baby" Sawyer says

"Claire's really influential" Hurley says 

"She votes for your stay, your home free" I say

"Why wouldn't she vote more me? It's not like I've ever done anything bad to her"

"No, but you never did anything good for her either" I say

"And have you ever even asked how Aaron is?" Hurley says

"Well I know how he is, he cries loud and he smells"

"See that's what we are talking about. You're sarcastic, people don't like that" Hurley says

"Alright, so I go over and do what?"

"Moms love it when you show interest in their babies" Hurley says

"So go over there, says something nice, call her "Claire" and give her this" I hand him a blanket.

"I know you can do it dude" Hurley says and pats him on the back

He walks over there and starts talking the Claire.

From far it look like its going well. He walks away and look back at Hurley and I and we both give him a thumbs up.

*

Hurley and I are eating some of the bore Desmond and Sawyer got this morning when Sawyer comes over.

"You two lied, there was never gonna be no vote"

"Right" Hurley says

"But wasn't it nice, being nice?" I say

"You guys tricked me into being decent? That's gotta be the lamest of cons in the history of cons"

You would know, I think to myself

"It wasn't a con Sawyer, If you're gonna be our temporary leader you need to do damage control" I say

"Leader?"

"Jack's gone, Locke's gone, Kate and Sayid, you'll all we got"

"When Paulo and Nikki died, we all looked to you, you totally tried to steal the diamonds, but we wanted to look to you" Hurley says 

"Look around, you made everyone happy. Just for today they can eat bore, laugh, and forget that they are totally screwed and you did that for them, Sawyer, you" I say

"What if I don't want to be the leader?"

"I don't think Jack wanted it either" Hurley says

I see Desmond sitting alone so I walk over and hand him some food he smiles and I smile back.

It feels good to be nice.