Ewald Island

The Flight

It was July 15th, the sun was out, the birds were singing and Madison was getting ready to leave her house. She is a short, blue-eyed, brunette girl who recently started her 20s. She lives in a penthouse in New York City with her parents. They're always either working or when they were in the house at the same time, fighting, which causes Mia to have a hard time. She feels trapped whenever she's home, she doesn't have many friends so she just spends her time alone in Museums and coffee places or walking around Central Park. Her parent's attitude is what got her to book a camp on a deserted island in the first place. Such a nice way of escaping from the drama. How she got them to actually say yes? She doesn't know, maybe they wanted her out of the way for a while, but she doesn't really care. She was almost in the taxi that would take her to the airport when her mom came rushing, her father behind the woman.

'Honey! You almost forgot your journal.' The woman gave her daughter the notebook. 'I know how much you like to write your thoughts.'

'I like it, yes, but it's mainly because it's what the therapist recommended mom.' Madison left it on purpose, she just wanted to relax, there would be another time to plaster her thoughts into the journal when she got back.

'Ah Mandy, leave the girl, she just wants to relax wherever she's going.' Her father was as annoyed as the 20-year-old.

'Yeah, of course, I'm always the bad guy huh? You don't even know where your own daughter is going? You just pay and that's it! Do you not care at all?' The woman was rising her voice in the middle of Manhattan, which was making Madison and her father nervous.

'I do care! It's my daughter! But maybe you care too much, you always have to manipulate others and make everything about you.' The man started with his voice raised but got calmer mid-sentence. Madison was flustered and looked between both her parents; she couldn't believe it was happening again.

'Clearly, I'm a monster, while you David'

'Mandy, we'll talk later, I'm not doing this right now with you. For God's sake, we're in the middle of the street and our daughter is leaving.' He interrupted his wife and his daughter, Madison, gave him a look. This told him all he needed to know.

'Yeah, right.' She turned once again to Madison 'Have you got everything you need sweetie?' Mandy hugged Madison as if they would not see each other in years.

'Yes mom, I'll be gone for two months, I'll be okay. It'll be fine.' She gave both her parents a soft smile and got in the car, but not after hugging her father.

Once in the car, she looked out of the window, right then her parents were waving at her while smiling. When the car moved, she looked back and saw that they were walking into the building and to her not so much surprise, they were fighting again.

A couple of weeks back, Madison was told to get in a plane directly to Australia, where on July 16th another flight would take her, along with the rest of the group from camp, to Wellington, New Zealand. It all came in the form of an e-mail, every detail of the journey to the island was well explained in all detail, so the girl shouldn't encounter any kind of trouble.

About the way to get to Wellington she knew everything, she also knew they would take a boat to get to the deserted island. About what they would do once they got there, she knew pretty much nothing, it was very nerve-wracking and brought up her anxiety. All she knew about the place was its name, Ewald Island. She would have plenty of time to think about what to expect from the voyage, it was her first time traveling alone, but that didn't seem to be a problem, it was more the uncertainty of not know where she was actually going. The day she booked the camp, she searched the island and all it came up was that a tribe used to occupy the place until they just vanished about a hundred years back. In the fifties, a resort was built, but it never got many tourists, so it closed and forty-eight years later the camp started and got completely booked each year, after all, there are only six spots.