Moonlight

In the Moonlight:Deserted

Stuck on a deserted island. This is not the summer vacation that I hoped...

You might be wondering how I am at the position I'm in. Honestly, I don't really know either. What I can remember is that, I was with other people when I woke up. Atleast that's what I thought. I believe I've been stuck here for 9 days, with food and shelter ofcourse. Granted, my only food sources at the moment are coconuts. But hey, we make do with what we got right?

That's what I've been telling myself.

Man, the moon sure is bright tonight. I might go explore the island for a bit. Who knows, I might stumble upon resources that could help me get back.

Back where exactly.

Before exploring, I gathered an ember and use that ember to make a torch. I debated with myself on whether or not, I should turn off my camp fire. And thought to myself, "maybe I should, I don't want to go back to my camp burnt. down." in which gave me a reason to put out the fire.

After packing, I went exploring. Up and down the rock formation whilst trying not to slide and *bonk* my head. The jungle here is dense which makes it hard to navigate. But since I've been here long enough, I have probably memorized this jungle.

Probably? Have I become delusional?

As I tried to navigate myself through the jungle, I could hear, "Music?!". I said out load. And here I thought this island was deserted. Clearly not.

Or so I thought...

I went towards the music that I heard, as I got nearer and nearer I could see light- no, fire. There were people dancing. And having the time of their lives. I person noticed me from the bushes, a female. A little older than me, maybe 2 or 3 years older. She was sitting beside the camp fire waiting for her fish on a stick to cook. She beckoned me to come. In which I hesitantly followed. As I walked closer to the crowd they started to notice me. To which they reacted in a very hospitable manner; offering me food and water. I politely accepted and sat down beside the girl that originally noticed me earlier.

Maybe even being deserted doesn't stop people from being socially anxious.

I sat there, very quietly. Until she talk to me. I guess she had enough of the awkward air surrounding the both of us. She started asking me a lot of questions like who I am, what is my name. All those basic stuff. Of course I answered them, as all normal people would in a conversation.

Her questions kinda got weird the more she asked. Specially that one question she asked. "Would you rather stay here forever?". That one question stunned me. I didn't know what to say. But then she just jokingly brushed it off. Which kind of creeped me out.

She stood and suddenly pulled me to her. "Sitting and chatting is boring. How about we dance the night away?". I winced, did she just say dance? But I don't even know how- and before I knew it we were dancing. We were having fun and completely made me forget about my own camp just the other side of this island. We danced and danced till the brake of dawn. Exhausted, me and her decided to rest as the other of her camp mates searched for food.

I woke up to food in front of me. They were already eating and when she say me groggily walked towards them, she motioned me to sit beside her. We chatted and ate. Having our stomachs full, one of them asked us to play on the shore. Not scared of having cramps, we ran towards the beach and, like little children, we hurried and splashed around the waters. We played around there for hours. So long that it was actually sunset before we decided to get out and get back. Not a moment from leaving the beach, I noticed something in the distance. It was big, white and very metallic. But before I could focus to clearly see what it was, the called me to hurry back as, we need to get back as soon as possible to set up the camp fire.

And with that, I hurried back to the group excited to dance the night away once again under the moonlight on a deserted island that I call paradise.