Lovewrecked by Halle Karina

Author:Halle, Karina [Halle, Karina]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-04-24T16:00:00+00:00

Thirteen

Daisy

Our first day on the island passes by somewhat comfortably, given the circumstances of us being shipwrecked.

Other than the fact that Richard is still giving Lacey the cold shoulder, and that makes her mad at him, for some backwards reason.

And Tai, of course, is still mad at me. He’s not ignoring me completely, but I can tell he tries not to address me, and he definitely doesn’t want to look at me. There have been numerous times that I’ve wanted to pull him aside and apologize profusely for what happened, as well as talk about his sister, but I know when to keep my distance.

Besides, he can’t ignore me forever. Where is he going to go?

Actually that’s a stupid question. I can’t really tell how large the island is, but I know that it’s big enough (and phallic enough) to show up on my phone. I suppose if he wanted to, he could head down to one end and create a separate “No Redheads Allowed” camp. That is what happened on Lost, isn’t it? Half the people stayed on the beach, the other half went into the jungle. Live together, die alone?

At any rate, we’re stuck together for now, having just finished eating heated up cans of beans. We weren’t spared Richard doing an overly dramatic “I have made fire” Tom Hanks impression after he created the fire, but it’s easy when you have a lighter.

“How long was Tom Hanks on that island in Castaway?” I ask.

We’re all on the beach, sitting around the small, crackling fire. The sun set just a few minutes ago, a beautiful golden show, and it’s still light enough to see, with the first stars starting to appear above.

“He was stuck there four years,” Lacey says. “God, I hope that’s not our fate.”

“It’s not,” Tai tells her sternly. “Tomorrow I’ll set out to explore. For all we know, there’s a resort on the other side of the island.”

“Can you imagine?” I sigh happily, hugging my knees to my chest. “Like, a Four Seasons or something? They’d have Egyptian cotton sheets, and turn-down service, and those little bungalows over the water.”

“That’s not too different from this,” Richard says.

“Uh huh,” I tell him. “We just ate beans out of a can, like a bunch of hobos. The only reason we have something even remotely nice to sleep on is because Tai went back to the boat and managed to get two sleeping bags. For the four of us. We don’t even have pillows.”

“Or toilet paper,” Richard says.

“Just use leaves,” Tai mutters. Then he adjusts himself and winces.

“Are you okay?” I ask.

He clamps his mouth shut and nods. “I’m…fine.”

I frown and then exchange a look with the other two. They shrug.

“You know the first thing I would do if there turned out to be a resort?” Lacey asks.

“Complain to the manager?” I quip.

She rolls her eyes. “No.” Then she smiles. “I would order the biggest, juiciest cheeseburger they had with loads of fries. McDonald’s fries. And then I’d wash it down with an ice-cold glass of white wine.

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