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Sarah and | struggled with yet another doomed attempt to weave the bamboo together and even though | was
irritated and exhausted, a part ofknew this was only only option. | needed to get back to Jess. | needed to
get Josh to a hospital. | needed... Fuck - | needed so many things.
| was gripping the bamboo too tightly, my fingers aching, my knuckles white, raw cuts traced my palms from
weaving these
strands. They felt like cable wires at this point. Sarah sat quietly across from me, her hands working
methodically, but even she looked more fragile each day, her skin drawn tight over her cheekbones.
"Hold that end tighter," she murmured, but it just felt like noise. This whole situation was one big, endless loop of
failure. No. matter what we tried, we'd end up right back here, desperately clutching at scraps and false hope.
| yanked the bamboo strand tighter, but it slipped from my hands, the entire piece unraveling, days' worth of
work wasted in an instant. | looked down at my bleeding palm. Sarah reached out to help but | pulled it out of
reach, wrapping a piece of torn material from my pants "Look-l know we got off on the wrong foot. What | did, at
the waterfall... What | said... I'm sorry." She murmured and | grunted a response.
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Something insidesnapped. Without thinking, | hurled the bamboo into the waves, watching it skim the
surface before sinking, pulled away by the relentless tide.
"Fuck this!" | shouted, standing up, hands clenched into fists. Sarah looked up, startled, but | couldn't stop. The
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"We're never getting off this forsaken island! And even if we did, we'd probably drown out there fucking anyway.
We're stuck, Sarah. We're stuck, and we're just fooling ourselves if we think there's a way out." | was breathing
hard, my chest tight, my fists still clenched. For a second, Sarah looked like she might say something, but I didn't
wait for her to.
| turned and stormed off, trudging along the shoreline until they were both out of sight. The jungle loomed on
one side, dense and green, but even that felt like a cage. | dropped down onto the sand, feeling the sting of tears
start to blur my vision. It wasn't liketo cry; | ha past the point of pretending to be strong.
"Why?" | muttered, pressing my hands against my face as the tears slipped down, hot and relentless. "Why did
this have to happen?"
Jess's face filled my mind, her smile, the way she'd laugh at my. terrible jokes even when they weren't funny.
What must she be thinking now? Four months-
it had been almost four months since we were stranded here. Did she think | was dead? Had she moved on? |
tried to imagine her going through the motions, maybe even... God, maybe even burying sempty coffin,
assuming the worst.
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It was impossible to shake the thought, to ignore the ache deep in my chest, the way my heart twisted when |
pictured her face, the look she'd have had if she knew where | was. Did she have someone
else to turn to now, someone who didn't get stranded on a godforsaken island and leave her wondering? The
thought madesick.
My fingers dug into the sand, the gritty texture groundingjust enough to keepfrom losing it entirely. Four
months-
we'd been out here longer than we should have been able to survive. Josh's leg was getting worse by the day,
red and swollen. Sarah had lost so much weight it was starting to scare me. And I... | was barely hanging on,
barely keeping it together. Sometimes, | wondered be over.
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"Luke!" he yelled, voice frantic. | ran the last few feet, my heart pounding as | got closer.
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