They lapsed into silence again.
Then Staci said, “Knowing our luck this place will be inhabited by cannibals.”
“I doubt it, Stace. This is the twenty-first century. They don’t exist anymore.” Lou said.
“You said that about the sharks, Lou,” Jim teased.
“It’s not as if I could forget them. Am I ever going to live that down?”
Jim shook his head. “Nope.”
“I’m tired,” Staci yawned. “I’m going to turn in.”
“Sounds like a good idea,” Lou said.
“I’ll come too,” Jim said, forgetting there was nowhere to go. They lay close to the fire, under the stars.
Staci shivered.
“Are you cold, kiddo?”
“Not really.”
Jim lay awake for a while. By the turning and tossing, he knew no one was getting much sleep. The loss of Avon was very much on his mind. As with most deaths, it had happened swiftly, with little or no warning.
Both girls seemed to finally cry themselves to sleep, but Jim lay awake.
He too shed a tear or two, being careful not to let the girls see, having been told from an early age that big boys don’t cry. He did thank God for the fact that their lives had been spared, although he couldn’t work out why they needed to be shipwrecked.
Lying on the sand wide awake in dawn’s early light, Jim realized that they must have been stranded here for a reason, and it was not up to him to question why.
He just had to find a way home. But he’d failed in his quest to find his parents. And he’d failed to keep his sister and his best friend safe. Because of a decision he’d made, they were stranded without chance of rescue.
Ironic.
He’d set out to rescue his parents, but now he needed saving.
Who will rescue me?
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