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English paper due. Short tale.
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English paper due. Short tale.
by Le_LH Wed May 23, 2012 5:46 pm
So I wrote this story for my english. I just felt like I wanted to post it here. Read it if you want haha. Enjoy!
- Spoiler:
- Lifeboats don't save you
Chapter 1 – Me, Tom and the intruder
It was too hot outside to go out, so I just sat there watching Tom playing video games. He always does, and I can't even try! He says I can't.
Tom was my best friend, and my brother.
I decided to come with him when he moved out.
We two now live in an apartment in Edinburgh in Scotland.
Suddenly Tom turned to me and said with his beautiful accent
“Hey Jordan, we are going on a cruise trip to this town called Oslo. It's in Norway, a country in Scandinavia. Not for too long, only 2 or 3 days. My friend Rose will be joining us on the trip.
She will come over tomorrow around 5 pm for dinner. She will be sleeping over and and is going to travel with us to the harbour.”
I was confused, yet still a bit excited.
I had never been on a cruise trip before and was curious about what you could do there, but I was too late to ask.
Tom had already went back to his game.
I was a 11 year old boy. Short cut hair, blond. A not so rare look.
Tom was 27 years old. He had pretty long, dark brown hair.
He usually was alone with me in the apartment, when he didn't was out with some friends.
I was also wondering about this Rose. Who was she? Were she going to take Tom away from me? It felt like she was an intruder.
The next day I heard the doorbell. I ran at the door but did not get there before Tom.
I had already forgot about Rose until now.
“Hello there little fella, I'm Rose! Nice to meet you!”
Then she patted me on my head and Tom led her to the dining room where the food were done.
The rest of the evening I mostly walked around giving looks to Rose.
She was an intruder who was going to take Tom away from me. It can not happen!
The next day I woke up early and went into the bedroom to wake up Tom and Rose.
After they had dressed and we were sure we had all that would be needed, Tom locked the apartment and we all went down to walk to the subway.
There was only a few minutes to the harbour, I heard Tom say. To Rose of course. I had been forgotten.
When we finally arrived at the harbour there was a huge boat there. Several hundred meters long and really tall also. It was amazing.
Tom said that the boat name was S.S Nirvana. That name sounded cool. Really cool.
We had to go through a lot of weird places with people checking through Tom and Roses bags and such. Tom claimed it was a so called “tull”. I guess its correct.
After all that crap, we went up some stairs and on-board S.S Nirvana...
Chapter 2 – What starts as cool, ends up in tragedy
When I first went through the opening to the boat I was amazed.
Everything was shining in all kind of colours and everything was so clean and nice!
It was big. Very big. It would take so long to explore the whole ship. We staid in the first room for a while, taking it easy. Making sure we got everything with us.
“Let's check the boat out a bit. We should start on the floor lower down and make our way up! I also heard they had a lot of gambling machines and poker tables and such on deck 3” Tom said. I agreed, I had never heard of gambling machines or poker tables before, so I was excited.
At deck 1, 2 and 3 there was cabins. Large ones and small ones. We had a big one!
When we got the the gambling section, 2 hours had already passed and the time was somewhat about 6 or 7 pm. Tom said he was going to test his luck at the poker table.
It did not go well, and he had lost almost 100 dollars in another 2 hours. He looked quiet pissed, if you asked me.
We walked for a while before I heard Rose and Tom started fighting about something.
It turned out Tom didn’t gamble away 100 bucks. It was more something like 800...
Rose was yelling, shouting that we would have no money to continue the trip!
Tom pulled out his wallet and said.
“Don't worry, I have around $700 on my credit card. We will be fine, we just have to spend a little less. I will send a text to my mom and tell her to add some to my card. Just in case.”
Rose seemed happy to know that they would have enough money, however she did not realize that Tom's mother didn't get the text message...
Hours went, as they were in the bar most of the time, drinking quiet a lot.
Tom had met a few of his male buddies which joined us for drinks.
I was unaware how much money that was spent, but I could guess it was quiet a lot.
They all were really drunk and decided to walk out on the deck. I thought it was a bad idea, but had not much to say about it. They were already ahead of me and way too loud.
I heard one of them say something about a Lifeboat-race. I froze.
“WHAT!? THAT IS MADNESS!” I thought. I did not dare to say anything or make resistance when they put me in one of the lifeboats, together with Rose and Tom. The others went over to the other one.
I was really worried when they started lowering the lifeboat into the ocean. It was very dark and you could barely see anything.
As we almost was at the water level sirens started shouting from the cruise ship. People looked surprised and horrified down at us, and there was nothing I could do but look up at them with my sad eyes, hoping this only was a dream...
Chapter 3 – Sand, water and forgiveness
I heard the water splash against rocks. It sounded beautiful, but unfamiliar.
I slowly rose and spat out the sand I had in my mouth. It tasted like... Sand.
It smelled wonderful. Like in that garden Tom had taken me to before, with a lot of flowers and plants.
When I finally opened my eyes I saw I was on a island. I could not see anything except water as far as I looked. The island looked amazing from where I stood. A pretty big shore surrounded a landscape of forests and big mountains. I could not see any more from my position.
Then I spotted Tom and Rose. They laid fairly close to each other a bit away.
After trying to wake them up, I instead decided to go explore a bit of the island. It would be fine. Every since I moved with Tom I had been more and more independent.
I started walking along the shore and peeked in through the forest but did not see so much more. There were a lot of trees and I did not want to go in there alone.
After taking a trip around the island I knew that it was totally deserted, far away from civilisation, and had a lot of trees and fruits, berries and other eatable things.
I decided to go back to Tom and Rose. They had gotten up now and stood and argued.
I ran up to them and Tom hugged me.
“I thought you were dead! Thank god!”
I didn't say anything. I just hugged him back.
I showed them where I had found the berries and a banana tree.
They picked berries and they got a few bananas, even thought it was hard to get them down from the tree. It was kind of fun to see Tom fall down, I wont lie.
After picking all the fruit and berries we sat down in the sand, watching out over the ocean. I thought we all were homesick.
Tom rose and said.
“This island I find, very beautiful and kind. Provides us with food and we have not seen a flood. This place might not be so bad after all, to mom and dad, I was not able to call.
The view from here have gotten me amazed, I really would like a steak which is glazed.”
Then he started laugh, as we other did. It was a cool poem. It felt good to laugh everything off...
I think we fell asleep on the shore, because I woke up early next morning and woke up Rose, who had spoken awkwardly little so far.
Tom had woken up and went scouting the area I suppose.
“Let's find him!” Rose said and started to walk towards the forest.
“Tom! Hello!? Tooooommmm!” She yelled.
We hear Tom yell back. “Hello! I am over here! At the big tree!”
Tom had found a really big tree with low-hanging branches, which he had thrown banana leaves at, as a roof. It looked like a tent, but with many holes.
“Have you been here all night working?” Rose asked.
“No, just a few hours. I woke up early and couldn't go back to sleep and I did not want to wake you guys up, so I went around looking at the area and decided to make a shelter here. We would need one sooner or later.” Tom replied.
“Yeah. Did you find anything interesting, except forest?” Rose said and smiled.
“Actually, I think I saw an abandoned shelter at the mountains. It looked like someone had been stranded here before. Anyway, I tried to send a message to my parents but the phone have no service out here, which is no surprise. We have some paper left and I found a bottle, so we could try to make a letter and put it in the bottle and hope for the best.”
“Another shelter? Hmm, we need to go check that out later. Yeah, that’s probably a good idea.”
The letter went something like this:
“Hello!
We are trapped on a deserted island somewhere between Great Britain and Norway.
If you read this try to get help. If you can talk to the police they might be able to trace my cellphone number. It is: 070 174 0412.
Also, you can contact my parents home number: 145 34
Tell them Tom, Rose and Jordan are stranded on an deserted island from the cruise ship and show them this message.
Thanks for your help!
Tom, Rose and Jordan.”
I thought it was a good letter. It might actually work.
Chapter 4 – New friends. Or enemies? Or friends?
It had been approximately 3 or 4 days now. Our shelter worked fine. We had taken some loose branches and built like a frame for the leaves. It was bigger and more sustainable.
We slept there during night. I often woke up and walked around the island, and also saw the abandoned shelter. It did really look like an old shelter
The very day we went to explore the shelter, which we concluded a person, or more, had lived in. As we had. After scavenging for resources there we gave up and headed to the mountain area, which we had not looked at yet.
When we arrived we saw this cave. It looked really epic so I ran ahead to enter it.
“JORDAN! COME BACK HERE! JORDAN!!” Tom yelled after me. I could not stop, I just had to explore this.
Right inside I met two females. Such as Rose. However these looked to be around 20 to 23 years old, a bit younger than Rose, who was 26.
They looked surprised and scared when I ran in and stopped and looked at them.
They looked even more surprised when Tom came after. Then Rose.
In a while we all stood there and looked at each other, before one of them rose and said: “Hello. My name is Angelica, and this is Karin. We come from Sweden and was on a trip when a storm started. There were a lot of waves also so we fell of the boat and now we ended up on this island.
We had watched a lot of survival shows on TV so that helped us. Who are you and how did you get here?”
It was quiet an awkward story, but we told all about us and how we ended up here then we spend the night in that cave. We had decided to survive together. The more, the better.
When we woke up the next day we decided to get some “tools”.
We tried a lot of different things but the best was to bind a sharpened piece of stone to a stick and use it as an axe. We chopped down a few small trees and cut them into branches. I mostly watched, since Tom said I was not suited to use the axe.
Here out in the sunlight you could see the new girls better. They both were blonde, but Karin had slightly darker hair. Both wore shorts and some sort of T-shirt.
Angelica was the tallest. She was strong and looked really cute but I did not say anything about that...
A week or so passed. We had figured out how to plant seeds and get more fruit and berries. We had cleared land and such so we had lots of place. We still slept on leaves and such in the cave. It worked.
The only problem is that I got really homesick. I missed the apartment. I miss the delicious food. I miss the cosy fireplace. I miss the toys I had. I miss waking up in a bed.
My daydreaming broke as I heard Karin and Rose fighting.
“You're doing it wrong!”
“I'm not!”
“Yes you are!”
They started fighting. It seemed like Karin thought Rose had made something wrong with the new shelter.
Angelica ran in to grab hold of Karin as Tom did the same to Rose.
“Calm down you too” Tom said. “We can't fight like this. We need rules.”
Everyone agreed so we wrote down a few rules. It looked like this:
Rules:
Don't be rude
Don't complain
Share all food and material
Choose one “King/Leader” who is suppose to make sure everyone follow the rules
Voting is if everyone don't agree on something
The rules were good everyone thought, but who was suppose to be king or queen?
“We should vote!” Angelica said. The rest nodded.
“Al-right.” Tom said. “First of all, who is willing to be king/queen?”
Angelica, Tom and Rose raised their hands. Karin didn't, and I knew I had no chance. I was not suitable.
“So, who votes for Tom?” Angelica said. I started jumping and waving. Rose and Karin also raised their hands.
“Thats fine for me.”Angelica said. “You seem like a good leader.” She smiled.
“Thanks! I will make sure this works out well. However, we need a certain thing...” Tom said.
“What?” the rest said almost at the same time, and looked confused at Tom.
“A flag” He said, and grinned big.
We took 4 of the papers we had left and taped them together with some left over tape we had with us. On that we all drew something we wanted in each corner. Tom drew the middle, since he was the king.
“How about a motto for our king?” Rose said, mostly for fun I guess.
“What about, >Don't drown<?” Tom said and grinned huge! I assumed he was in a really good mood today. Maybe because he was our new king!
“Haha! Sure!” Rose said and grinned back.
Weeks past and things worked out okay until “it” happened...
Everyone was working with something. Angelica with moving around some stuff, Tom was fishing with his home-made fishing rod, by branches and rope from the boat. It was quiet impressive actually.
Rose was working with adding some more leaves to the shelter, since some had fallen of during the storm last night.
Karin was out in the forest getting some more wood.
That was when we heard a sudden scream. It was Karin. Everyone dropped what they had in their hands and ran. I followed. When we got there we saw that one tree had dropped right on top of her!
Tom and the others tried to lift it of her. It was a big tree. I tried, but didn't really accomplish a lot...
Chapter 5 – Who are you? Who am I? Living Charades.
Karin was all bloody and close to passing out when we carried her back to our shelter. The flag was hanged up on top of it, and it was close to blowing down. A storm was on its way.
We made our way into the shelter. Tom yelled to someone to go the first-aid pack from the boat. Rose went.
I was speechless. I couldn't move or say anything.
Rose came back and they started to wipe off the blood as they saw that a branch had went straight into her ribs. She was unconscious.
Angelica put her hand against her throat. Then she slowly removed it, looking sad at her.
She was completely still. She is dead Angelica said and started crying. So did Rose.
Tom looked at me. He looked really sad. I was also sad.
For a moment we all sat silent until we noticed our flag flew down, and landed in the sand.
We all went out to see. The wind blew really hard. I almost fell over, as the others.
We looked around confused as everything was surrounded with sand. It was like a sandstorm.
After a few minutes it had calmed. Then we saw it.
A giant wave. Like a tsunami, but not as big. Several meters high.
I got scared, everyone else also. Rose and Angelica cried more. I believe I even saw Tom drop a tear.
“So this is how it ends...” Angelica said, a bit loud since there were a lot of background noise.
The wave got closer and closer. I realised this was the end.
Tom went around and kissed Rose. Then he went to hug Angelica. Then he came to me.
He sat on his knees beside me and hold me.
“I love you Jordan. You've been with my almost my entire life. We grew up together and now we'll die together.”
I started barking.
“This is no good way for a dog to die. I wish you had lived longer buddy.” Tom said. Those were the last things I heard before the wave hit the shore and then it was all a blur.
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Re: English paper due. Short tale.
by shock132 Wed May 23, 2012 6:45 pm
Holy crap you guys got chapters haha
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by Le_LH Thu May 24, 2012 6:44 am
HAHAhamaham wrote:Bedtime stories! YAY
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by Knights Of Blue Thu May 24, 2012 8:46 am
Do you want feedback for ur assignment?
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by hamaham Thu May 24, 2012 9:58 am
Le_LH wrote:HAHAhamaham wrote:Bedtime stories! YAY
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- ... Why did I read it so late?!... I had to hug my dogs afterwards!
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by Le_LH Thu May 24, 2012 10:12 am
Already got some and updated it.Knights Of Blue wrote:Do you want feedback for ur assignment?
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