Chapter 4
"I'm so bored" Justin has been complaining for how bored he is for the past two hours.
"Well you could help me gather materials to build shelter." Dad suggested.
"Nah maybe something else."
"Wanna help me collect fruit?" My mom offers. Justin thinks it over.
"The fruit that I pick can I eat it?"
"Justin, its for the whole family. If you eat everything we collect then what will everyone else eat?"
"I don't know bark from the trees. I heard that's very nutritious for some animals." Terry heads over to Justin and shoves him off the rock he was laying on.
"Do we look like animals to you?" Justin looked him and me over.
"Your breath smells like a wet dog and Riley's hair reminds me of a lion so yeah I think you do resemble animals."
"Um excuse me? My hair looks like this because it's a tropical island and with the air all humid it making my hair frizz."
"Then I'm guessing you wish you packed a brush." Oh that's it. I'm gonna kill him.
I tried getting up but my head is still sore from the cart hitting it. So I get dizzy and lose my balance.
"Ha you can't even fight. Your an embarrassment to your kind." Justin gets up from where Terry pushed him and head into the tropical forest. "I'm going to find something fun to do."
"I hope he gets lost." I tell Terry.
"Me to." Terry and I try to help dad collect some sticks to help with the hut.
JUSTIN'S P. O. V
"Who needs them? I can have fun all by myself."
Now I have never left the beach so this kind of my first time venturing off. Plus I was alone so no annoying older brother to bother me and no annoying twin sister to tell me what shirt she bought at the mall.
This place is actually really nice, it has a mysterious sense to it.
Man, I would kill for a phone, a camera something. I mean I could dress up as Tarzan and finally win over Michelle. Tarzan always seems to get the ladies.
I could take a picture of my heroic moments out here. Now I just have to find something heroic to do.
"Who needs saving?" I shout into the air. But the sounds I hear are the swaying of the trees, the chirping of the birds and the sea waves crashing against the rocks near the shore.
Then a loud ear piercing scream echoes through the jungle. I ran towards the sound to save whoever needs me.
When I get closer it's a wild pig caught in a net hanging from a tree. A net?! Maybe there's someone on this island, unless that animal trap has always been there.
Maybe I should go get my dad, if there's people they might can help us.
I was about to walk back but the bushes start moving. The pig screams in fear. If I leave, whatever it is that set the trap will kill the pig.
GO GET HELP JUSTIN?!
My mind tells me. Well whatever is in the bushes is starting to get louder. Sounds like more than one voice. Maybe I should go back and get help.
Nah... I start to climb up the trees and try to set the pig free but once I get to the branch the rope is hanging on. A group of people with paint on their bodies come out the bushes with spears in hand.
"You dare steal our supper." One of them says. What the heck?!
"No I come in peace. I am Justin from America. I no John Smith, but if you do have pocahontas around here somewhere then I can totally be her John Smith." Confusion washes over the painted people faces.
"Justin?"
"Yeah. In America we say what's up" I hold out my hand after I climb out the tree. They hesitate in shaking my hand but eventually take it. But then they violently shake my hand then one of hits me on my head with the end of their spears.
Well that's one way to say hello.
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RILEY'S P. O. V.
"This is starting to look cool." Our hut or house is kinda looking like the beach houses in the catalogs. Just a little rugged though.
"Yeah honey I agree and look at all the food I found." On top of a giant leaf was all types of tropical fruits and nuts. "Look Justin, now you can eat." But Justin is nowhere to be seen.
"Oh my goodness, Justin! Where's my baby?" Mom started to panic and dad tried calming her down but it was no use she was already in full panic mode.
"Justin must've got lost when he went exploring." Terry and I explain to my dad. The look on my dad's face became angry.
"YOU LET YOUR BROTHER GO OFF ALONE?!" He was livid.
"Well dad-"
"Well dad nothing, after the series of events that just occurred you think that can just let him go off alone. We all could've have lost each other, that would've brought us all even more closer together." I felt so guilty now. Dad was right. We almost died.
"I'm sorry dad, we both are. We have to go find Justin."
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That was chapter 4. I will be showing the book in different point of views. This is not just a book about Riley, it's about the Smith family. Most of the viewing is gonna be Riley's though.
I hope you all enjoyed this chapter though. I tried to add a bit comedy but also some seriousness. Now you have learn about Justin.
Speaking of Justin, what happens to him next?
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