.swayla.stranded.

.TEN 🏝.

Griffin's P.O.V
I was watching Anthony and Kio down by the water when the gunshot sounded.

It was loud and everyone froze. Even the silent boy looked up in confusion.

"Who the hell is that?" Tayler said standing up.

"Should we go see or..." Noah said coming back over to us.

"I don't know. What if they just shot someone it's dangerous." Tayler replied.

"They could have been hunting? Like if they were also stranded then they would need food right?" Anthony wondered aloud.

"No they couldn't have because where would they get the guns." I said.

"Fair point."

"Noah, Tayler, Bryce, Anthony come with me. We'll go see. The rest of you stay put." I instructed.

"What? Why can't I come?" Kio asked.

"Because you're injured." I said sharply.

"It doesn't affect me-" Kio tried but I cut him off.

"No kio."

"I'm not injured." Quinton said.

"Listen the two of you need to stay here with Jaden and..." I trailed of looking at the boy on the sand. He was watching us curiously.

"Fine." Quinton said sitting down. Kio sighed and sat on the opposite side of the fire to Quinton.

"Let's go." Tayler said and we all set off towards where the gunshot came from. There hadn't been any more which could be either a good or a bad thing.

We came close to the corner and stopped crouching to look through the trees.

"You guys see that right?" Bryce asked.

"Yeah." Anthony replied.

There was a boy standing on the sand. He had brown hair but his back was turned to us. There were four others facing him. Two of them had guns pointed at the boy but he was unarmed. The appeared to be talking but we were too far away to hear what they were saying.

"Do you think he's shot?" Noah whispered.

"He doesn't seem to be injured so it was probably a warning shot or something." Tayler replied.

We watched them for a few moments but nothing really happened until one of the guys started moving forward. The boy started to back away but froze when one of the guys with guns shook his gun threateningly. The guy grabbed the boy harshly and started to pull him towards the others.

"Should we do something?" Bryce whispered but before anyone could respond Anthony was already standing up and walking out of our cover.

"Anthony!" I hissed but he ignored me.

"HEY!" Anthony yelled.

"No you idiot!" I said before running after him exposing myself in the process. I heard footsteps and soon enough the others where beside us. I would have asked them to stay but that way we would be outnumbered so I suppose it was for the best.

The group looked at us and raised their guns again. "Who the fuck are you?!" One of them yelled at us.

"Give us that boy and you won't need to know!" Anthony retorted. I raised my eyebrows at him. I hadn't know him for long but I didn't take him for the confident type.

"And why should we do that huh?" The guy called back. Anthony hesitated, thinking of something to say. "It's our island after all."

"What?" Tayler exclaimed. Well that confirms our suspicions of this being an island that we had washed up on. Great.