Karen+K

Karen K

= __The Last Hope__ = ==

What happened to us?
The cold feeling of water splashing over my feet wakes me up. Nothing around me seems familiar. I look around but all I can see are trees and water. I start to panic. The sound of the plane when it started to shake is all I can remember. The pilots were screaming commands to the crew. Everyone was running around not knowing what to do to help. I remember three other people on the plain with me screaming when the tank combusted and the fire started. The plane crashed down in seconds. There was nothing anyone could do. I had to watch when everything started to catch on fire. The next thing I remember is lying in the water, thinking, this is my last chance to survive. I have to take as much as possible with me, so I can somehow live on the island that I saw close to the plane until someone would come to save me. So I grabbed everything close to me and swam away from the plane, leaving everything I had behind me. I hear voices coming closer to me. They sound familiar but I am not sure where I know them from. Then I see faces and suddenly I can remember that I wasn’t the only person who survived the accident. There had been more people in the water after the fire. Maybe there is a chance for all of us to survive. They start talking to me but I can’t hear them. It is like I am in a bubble, and I can’t break free. I want to stand up and talk to them, but I can’t. Maybe I hurt myself during the plane crash, and my brain is damaged or I am still in shock. I am scared; I don’t know how to react. And finally I can feel my emotions, my movement, my thinking, and my speech coming back. So I start to talk.

“Hi.” “Hi,” says Keira. “Are you ok? Are You Hurt? Can you stand up? “ That’s when I noticed that something was wrong with her arm. So I asked her: “What happened to you?” “I hurt myself during the crash. At least that’s what I think I did. I don’t have very good memories from what happened.” “I am Brett, by the way,” says the guy standing behind Keira. “And over there is Jessica. She is a little bit shy but really nice. We just found each other on the other side of the beach when we saw you lying over here and not moving. When something is wrong with you then better tell now so that we can take care of you I could grab a first aid kit before the plane vanished in the waves. “ “Oh no, I am fine; I am more worried about her and her arm, which does not look healthy. Does it hurt?” I ask in Keira’s direction. “Yes a little bit. I hope it is not going to infected, otherwise, I am not going to be here very long.” “So we landed on an island?” "At least that’s what we think it is “means Brett. “ I hope we will find food here or we will have to live from coconuts and bananas” “I think I heard some noises coming out of the forest. "Maybe there are some animals living on the island,” says Jessica. “You could be right and I definitely hope you are I am already staving,” comes from Keira. That’s when I realize that all of this is really happening. I am stranded on an island somewhere by Chile, where we were supposed to land, and no one knows that we are here. I am just happy, that I am not the only one who landed on this island. I know that I could never survive here on my own, since I have never hunted before, and have no experience with living in the nature. I just hope that Keira, Brett and Jessica know more about living outside and can help me survive. I miss my life already. I miss being able to just take a shower and then going to the refrigerator and take out whatever I want. Surviving here is not going to be easy. “Don’t worry; we are going to make it ,“means Keira. “How did you know I was thinking that?” I ask her. “I was just thinking about it too. Everyone is. Let’s just try and make the best out of it.” Finally I stand up to really look at the people talking to me. These might be the last people I will ever see. Hopelessness comes back to me. How will I ever leave this island and go back to my old life? How will I ever win against this nature? Even with help. This seems almost impossible. There is no chance for me. But thinking about this situation makes it only worse. I have to look forward and try to survive. I need to somehow go back. I am going to do whatever it takes to go home, even when that involves killing animals with my hand, or fight against the water. I am going to do it. It is worth it. I just know. “Come on, let’s take a look around and find somewhere where we can sleep it is getting dark and I am tired from swimming in the ocean.” Brett takes a few steps towards the forest when we all can hear the sounds of bird. “Maybe we should stay close to the water so that nothing will happen to us. We don’t know what really is in the forest and I would rather not find out right now.” Jessica grabs her wet sweater and just lies down where she is standing. First we all just stare at her but then we realize how tired we all are and lie down to sleep. Let’s hope none of the animals like to come to the water. Then I can’t resist my sleepiness anymore, close my eyes and sleep.



Now what?
I wake up and all my memories are there. I am still on a lonely island with three other strangers, and have no idea how to survive. So I get up and wake everyone else. “Let’s go and explore the island,” suggests Keira. “Yes that’s a good idea ,“we all agree. “We should figure out first what kind of an island this is and who or what lives here. We might even find something to eat. ”So we start to walk through the beach to the forest that is blinking behind the big stones at the beach. There are birds singing and the wind is going through the palm trees, shaking the coconuts that are growing on them. The sand hurts my feet with all the rough stones in it. I can hear the sound of the waves clashing against the cliff. It all seems so in tune with the nature, so peaceful. “Hey, I think I can see something over there. I wonder what it might be,” says Brett. “Let’s be careful. Maybe it is something dangerous,” means Jessica with a scared voice. So we continue to walk in the direction that Brett pointed at. Coming closer, I can feel the tension in the air, similar to an electric field. Everyone hopes that it is just a piece of plastic or something from the airplane and not something that might be dangerous for us. “Maybe it is something that we can use to survive and nothing bad. It might actually help us. “Keira tries to get our moods up. It didn’t exactly help, so when we finally reach the mysterious thing, we all think the worst that can happen. “It is only a piece of metal from the plane. It is good for us It can help us. Nothing bad will happen, you can all relax,” says Brett. “Why don’t you all help me and carry it back to our sleeping place. ”So we walk back with the metal piece in our hands to the beach. “What are we going to do now?” asks Jessica. “I am starting to get hungry and maybe we shouldn’t sleep just on the beach this time. I am not sure if that is really safe. ”“How can you just think about your stomach instead of how we are going to come home? That is way more important,” I scream at Jessica. “I just want to go home. I have no interest in staying on this island.” “Calm down,” means Keira. “We all want to go home. But in order to go home we have to survive first. We have to figure out a way to escape this island, or do you already have a plan?” “No but I will as soon as possible. There is no way that I will go hunting, and I will have to when we stay here longer. Believe me I could never kill an animal even if I would want to. I wouldn’t know how.” “But I know how. I will go hunting. I have done it before,” responds Brett. “Can anyone else here hunt?” “I’ll help you. I don’t really know how, but I think I would be good at it,” says Keira. “See there you go. It is all going to work out. I am sure they are already searching for us. Maybe we don’t even have to find a way away from the island, maybe they find us here.” Jessica tries to make us all feel better. “How about we build some shelter, where we can sleep at night. I don’t really want to wake up to some dangerous animal standing over me.” I say. “Jessica can you help me with that? Then Brett and Keira can go hunting.” “That is a good plan. We can use the rope and the knife to kill something. Whatever we will find,” means Brett. “Then let’s not waste time. I think I had a compass somewhere in my jacket. Maybe that can be helpful too, “tells us Jessica. “Yes I think I have an idea. Why don’t you take the compass and Brett and I take the whistle, so that we can blow it when something happens. Than you can come and save us. Thanks to the compass we then can easily find our way back to the beach.” “I like that idea. Come on Jessica lets go search for wood, so that we can start built the shelter. Thank god it is warm enough here so that we don’t need a fire.” “We should go now before it gets to dark. Whish us luck.” The light already starts to get darker and orange reflects in the sea. When this would be a vacation, I would be sitting in my chair and watch the sun go down, but instead I have to work for my life. I never wanted to be in this situation. Why did I go on that flight? Why didn’t I stay in Boston for a week longer like I planned? This all wouldn’t have happened to me. I would still have a normal life, and would be talking to my best friend right now. I don’t want to have to figure out how to survive. I don’t want to be here at all. We finished the shelter just in time. The sun changed into the moon and soon Brett and Keira came back. They didn’t find any animals that they could hunt Day two ended. How is it all going to end? I am scared again. Will we all survive this island, or are we all going to end up dead with no one to find us I don’t know the answers to my own questions. I feel helpless.

Will we get away?
The sun is shining warm in my face. I am happy, believing that I am at home in my room sleeping and waking up, to another normal day in the office, but I am not. I am still trapped on the island with three other random people that I don’t know and do not understand. I can’t stay here any longer I have to get out of here away as fast as possible and never come back. When I ever escape this trap of an island I am not going to go on vacations in the Pacific or on any island. It would be way too risky. I wake everyone up to tell them my idea how to escape the island. “What exactly do we have, that we can use to get away from here?” I ask, hoping for something useful to fulfill my plan. “We have a knife, a rope, a compass, a first aid kit and a whistle. What are you planning to do? “, they curiously ask. “I don’t really know yet, but I am going to come up with something. I can’t stand the sight of this island anymore.” “Maybe we can help, or at least get some fruits so that we have something to eat, while you figure out how to save us,” means Keira. “Ok, why not. I am getting hungry anyway, and then I can think in silent here and might actually come up with a good plan.”

***** When they come back with mountains of coconuts and bananas, I already have a plan. “We are going to escape this island the same way we came here, flying. We are going to build a helicopter and everything we need we already have. The metal from the plane that got washed on the island is going to be where we sit, and we will make wings with wood. We will put the roper around the wood, so that we can wind up the wings. When we let go of the wood the helicopter will fly. The compass will show us the way back, and the whistle we can use to make people notice us. That is all I could come up with. I hope it will work. When not, we are going to have a problem. Especially when we are on the open ocean where no one can save us. I just can’t stand the thought of staying here any longer. I would rather die out in the ocean than here on this island.” “I don’t really like the idea, but I don’t have a better one either, so let’s do it,” says Keira full of enthusiasm. “Good, so let’s start so that we get away from here as fast as possible,” Brett motivates us. So we all go to work. Jessica and Brett start to get the metal in shape, and Keira and I start looking for wood. The Helicopter starts to really look like something that could work. When we finally put all the pieces together, it seems like it should be able to fly. Everyone gets their own personal things that they could save from the plain, and we are heading towards the only way to survive this nightmare. We are all sitting in the helicopter when I start to pull the rope to make the helicopter fly and it works. We are really leaving this island. We are all going to go home, back to our families and friends. To everything, that I have missed so much in the past couple of days. We already reached the Pacific Ocean, and the island is starting to look smaller and smaller, when I can hear the sound of wood breaking. I look up and can see how the top of my construction can’t bare the weight of all of us. We are going to fall down from the sky into our own cold wet death and we all know it. “I am so sorry; I really thought it would work, but…” I couldn’t even finish my sentence, before we reached the water. It was so cold, and swimming was not my favorite sport either. I am still standing to my word from before. I will rather die out here, than back on the island. It seems as if the universe wanted to make me happy in some kind of way. *** "Hey, can you see that piece of metal over there swimming in the see? I wonder if it belongs to the plane, which crashed here a week ago. It is amazing that we could save almost everyone from that flight, except four people, but there are always losses. I wonder what happened to them.”