Surviving

I ran/limped into the jungle of the island I will have to grow to love, the twigs and thorns and vines grabbing and pulling at my skin. I heard multiple voices calling after me, but I didn't stop running. My stitches on my ankle from the car accident were getting tugged at a lot, and they just gave out and ripped. I screamed in agony and pain, but didn't stop running.

I eventually came to an idea, my childhood skill of climbing trees will finally pay off. I grabbed the lowest limb of a close by tree, hoisted myself onto it, and repeated with the next highest. I was sitting roughly 15 feet off of the ground. Not enough to go unnoticed, but enough to not get touched by anyone following.

I took in a deep breath and swung my ankle onto the branch with me. I winced in aggravating pain when it bumped on the tree limb. I pulled my pant leg up and poked at the stitches. My ankle was throbbing and bleeding heavily.

As my leg released dark liquid, I began to loose my vision slightly, I could barely hear the people below the tree shouting my name, everything was feint. My body parts were numb. I managed to say something.

"...stitches were...pulled...get me down fast..." I croaked out. My vision returned slightly and I saw Melissa reaching to grab me from the tree. I fell when she pulled at my arm and was caught by Liam's muscular arms.

He ran like a track star back to the plane wreck and he was saying something to soothe me but I couldn't hear a thing.

We reached a parting from the jungle and I took in my surroundings. Nothing had moved from where we left it when I ran off. The three girls sat on a fallen log in the middle of our camp site. The plane crash off to the left where the sand and water meet, the end of this side of the island. Everyone was arriving to the camp after us.

Liam sat me down in front of the girls on the sand. A pretty girl with blonde hair bent over me.

"I'm Paige, I studied medical in a college program during high school. What happened?" she sped out of her petite mouth.

"Stitches are ripped, I'm losing consciousness, not the first time this happened," I stuttered.

She breathed in a heavy sigh and pulled my jeans up.

"The stitching is screwed up, I need to shorten and tighten the stitches. Anyone have a knife of scissors?" she yelled the last part.

"I'll check the plane," My Irish blonde friend Niall said.

He ran off and returned a moment later with a pair of scissors, probably from the pilots part of the plane. He ran to us and handed the scissors to Paige. She cut off the end of my jeans and began to snip at the ends of my stitching. I was still out of it, but I could feel someone grab my hand.

"Don't worry, you'll be okay, I'm Alexis Stines, 19," the red haired girl said. She seemed very nice. She caressed my hand, calming me.

"So, what's your name? Tell me about yourself." She was obviously trying to distract me. I thanked her in my mind.

"I'm Toni June, 21, I got in a car wreck a while ago and these stitches are from it, Melissa Craig is the girl over there," I pointed to Melissa who was next to Zayn, with a pissed look on her face."And that's Zayn, Liam, Harry, Louis and Niall." I pointed to each of them.

"All done!" Paige joyfully said. Finally, and almost pain free because I wasn't thinking about it.

I stood and fell immediately. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. You're gonna have to stay off your feet for awhile. You'll need help if you must walk around." Louis said as he caught me.

Louis was like a big brother to me. Actually, they all were. Except for Zayn, of course.

"Thank you, Lou boo," I smiled. He smiled back.

I limped over to the fallen tree with the help of Harry and Niall and they picked me up and set me down on it. I layed back. Soon I found myself falling into a deep sleep.
I woke later to a more dark sky, but it was light still that it looked about 5. I stood and my ankle barely hurt. Everyone was near the start of the jungle where the sand and grass meet. I assumed they were going to search for food. I limped my way to them.

"She's awake!!! Toni!" Zayn yelled running over to me.

He got close and went to hug me but I pushed him off.

"Do u really think you can just cheat on me with my best friend and then hug me and expect me to forgive you?!" I screeched in his face.

"You don't know what happened that night, Toni, if you just listen and let me explain-'' I cut him off.

"No need, Melissa did for me."

I started to drag fire wood to the middle of our camp. I walked over to the wrecked plane and was playing with a sharp piece of glass that could cut skin easily. Should I? No, Toni, bad. I was twiddling the glass through my fingers when suddenly the fire wood caught on fire.

"Guys! Guys!!! I made a fire!" I cheered for myself jumping up and down on my injured ankle, then sat in front of the fire, hands out.

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