Chapter 3

Olivia screeched, as she finally, after two full days of work, finished the raft. “JAMES! JAMES! IT’S FINISHED!” screamed Olivia, James suddenly heard her shout and immediately ran towards the lake in utter excitement. As he stopped right beside the raft, he stared at it with a glimmer in his eyes. He kneeled down to carefully touch the masterpiece. The raft looked amazing, it had a wooden base with small princess stickers stuck onto it, his sister must have put them on. When you looked at the front of the boat you would see a long flat stick, resting there for them to paddle with. Then at the back James built a small motor from some of the leftovers that had broken off the sky ship when it had crashed, but the best part was the small messy writing reading, ‘JAMES’S AND OLIVIA’S RAFT’ that his sister must have written on with his pen. James looked astonished, he gave Olivia a massive hug and told her to pack her rucksack.

Two hours had passed, James and Olivia leapt onto the raft. Without even thinking about it, James grabbed the paddle and started to move it back and forth into the water. “James where are we going?” asked Olivia with a worried look in her eyes, He told her how they’re going to the other island and how its going to be an adventure, Olivia nodded and gripped onto his shoulders, ready to leave.

“AHHH” they screamed as the raft suddenly tipped over, what happened? Why did they tip? “HOWDIE I’M JOINING YA’LL” an American cowgirl accent came from behind them “Sorry I tipped your boat over,” the girl said whilst staring at the raft as it sinks into the water, “Who are you?” James asked whilst staring at her angrily. She told them how she had lived on the island for two years and now she’d found them. James angrily ran towards camp and sobbed in his hammock, “My name is Sammy by the way, and I apologize for making you upset…” she said before sitting cross legged on the bark ground in their camp. James told her to go away, and then he climbed out of his hammock, he needed to find Olivia and tell her that they’re building the raft again. James couldn’t see her though…

“OLIVIA! OLIVIA! WHERE ARE YOU?” he yelled whilst rapidly searching the desert. Olivia was nowhere to be seen. As James stormed back towards the hammock, he sat deeply in it and rested his face into his hands. Where was she?

He sadly lifted his head up and stared at Sammy with an angry look in his eyes. Then, he jumped up and explained to Sammy how he was going to find her. Sammy immediately sprung up and happily skipped toward him, but he didn’t want her to come. Without warning, he shoved her with all his might and she flopped into the painful bark laying on the ground. He sprinted off in pure anger. James’s hair pulled back as he sprinted out into the desert, his dirty brown hoodie drooped down as it pulled up his arms. His heart was pounding aggressively as his body felt as sour as ever, he had never run this fast nor had he ever felt this exhausted before. He stopped. He breathed. And he felt all dizzy.

Worried, he flopped himself over to a nearby palm tree and rested himself next to it whilst rubbing his leg in pain. James suddenly saw a small pocket knife sat next to him, he reached for it, grabbed it and slipped it into his pocket. As soon as he could he pulled himself up, he started to drag himself along the ground. He had found it; the number one main object he needed. James thought for a second, he could use this knife… but he can’t tell anyone he had it.

He heard a loud bang! He couldn’t stop he had to carry on further, James stared up at the bright pastel yellow sun and feared going further, he felt like he was going to faint. But this was his sister he was rescuing… he shifted himself up whilst sweat was running of his face like an ice mountain, its snow almost erupting as it falls. He took almost five seconds taking each step one by one, his legs were jelly and his arms felt like lead, there was nothing else he could do but walk. Suddenly he heard a scream, it sounded like his sister! She has a high pitch scream and it slowly dissolves into a sudden burst of breath, and that was the scream he just heard, it must have been Olivia!