Devil's Island (Preppers Fiction): Indecision is Worse Than Fear (Preppers Fiction - Island Fiction - Survival - Apocalyptic Fiction) by McBride T. W

Author:McBride, T. W. [McBride, T. W.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: On and On Publishing
Published: 2015-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

The morning sun rose, unforgiving and Josh thought once more how he worried that there wasn’t any rain at all since everything got caught up. What if we’re going to go through a drought? He thought, worried about it, but before long he put the thought out of his mind. Instead, he looked at the kayak that he had in front of him and his backpack. There were two seats to the kayak, and he decided he’d nestle his backpack in one because otherwise it’d just get a little too heavy on one side.

Listening for people, he waited a moment. That’s when Josh heard them. They had found the unconscious body, and he knew that someone would probably come looking for him. Scum like that travel in numbers. He thought bitterly, thinking about Tommy and Caroline and how they had to fend for themselves because good people just didn’t find others.

Josh decided to go over to the other side to launch the kayak because he’d still be covered by the sand dunes so that no one would see him. He was lucky for that, as Josh didn’t want to deal with any confrontation. He was determined to get to the mainland and find his family, but that’s when a tremor started once more and the waves began to get rocky.

Josh started to fall, and he landed face first in the sand. He heard others cry out from where the shed with the kayaks as well, but Josh couldn’t go look no matter what. He worked on sitting there and securing his backpack into the seat so that he wouldn’t lose his supplies. Other than that, Josh sat there waiting for the tremors to subside. In the distance he could hear people crying out again, and he couldn’t help but wonder what building had fallen this time. It only made him feel even more determined to start getting this journey underway.

He took something from his bag before he went, to make sure that he had energy for what he was about to embark on. Taking a few pieces of dried jerky and a little bit of water, Josh made sure that there was something on his stomach since he didn’t eat much last night.

Once the tremors settled he waited a minute, knowing the waters probably wouldn’t calm all too quickly and even if they did, this was the perfect time to go. So he did. He got in, and he started off. Josh thanked heaven that he was still in good enough shape to feel as if he could cross this without a ferry, but he knew that it wouldn’t be too easy.

The waters weren’t too hard, even though they were choppy at the beginning. Josh made sure to circle around and avoid any area that was too shallow. The hardest part was really getting out there without anyone noticing or making too much noise. However, he finally managed to do so. Once he was out on the waters, it felt like he was leaving everything behind with the hope of starting again in whatever was left.

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