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The Lady and The Man
I was traveling on my boat to go see my grandpa who lives all the way on the other side of the world. As I was traveling I had noticed that I hadn’t packed very much food. One night there was a terrible storm. This storm wasn’t like any other storms, it was like the ocean was mad at me. It rocked my boat back and forth making it twist and turn in all kinds of different directions. All of a sudden lightning struck, I hit my head on something it was probably the mast of the boat. The next morning I wake up with this terrible headache and find myself on this Island in the middle of nowhere.
I started to explore and found all sorts of interesting things. I found a whole big forest and some of it is split into two parts by a river. It is so awesome but I was determined to see if there was any food here. I found a waterfall where I could finally shower but first I had to keep exploring, showering would come later in the day. So as I was exploring I also found a volcano it looked like it hadn’t erupted in years there was no molten lava anywhere so I just decided that if it hadn’t erupted in years I could climb it. I was wrong it was burning, it felt like the sun was trying to kill me.. It was probably because it’s always so sunny here. As I kept exploring I found loads of mountains I had never seen so many mountains in a singular spot. It felt as if I was dreaming.
I wanted desperately to come back to them but I knew I didn’t have time.I made a pact with myself that I would come back to them. The caves passed me as I explored their tunnels and it dawned on me that they would be a fantastic place to give e shelter and to sleep tonight. Going up to look in them. They were glistening with crystals as clear as the sea. They were unlike any other crystal, diamond, jewel or ruby I had yet to behold. . Walking back down to go and check out the mountains. I soon discovered that it turns out that they weren’t to bad some were really short and some were really tall they were amazing. I turned back to go and look at the river some more to see if it was acceptable to drink. It turns out the water was perfectly fine to drink and it tasted so good I had never felt so good. I went back to the waterfall and I took a shower I had never felt so clean before the water was so refreshing.
I had to keep exploring. So I was exploring and I found some more caves or where they the same ones? I believe it was the same ones so as I was exploring the caves I figured out they all had different crystals one with what looked like Sapphires. I was exploring and I was pretty sure that I had just found another waterfall because I was just at the caves I just don’t get it, I was going back and I didn’t end up at the caves I ended up at the river. What had just happened? I believe something really weird here is going on it just doesn’t seem right.
I was walking back to the waterfall and all of a sudden I hear a woosh and then I look around and I see someone they seem scared, and take off running as they were running I was determined to find out who they were and how they got here.While I was running I had to figure out which way they went and it was kind of hard considering I didn’t get a good look at their clothes or their face but then I heard something I looked toward the sound. Sure enough I see a person sitting there with their back to me. I go up to them and say, “ Hello my name is Tanya, what is yours?”The person looks at me and speaks some foreign language. “Mi nombre es Hunter.” I didn’t quite understand it but I think what he said was, “ My name is Hunter.”
I know some spanish so I ask him, “¿Habla usted Inglés?” He replies with a simple yes.”
I ask him if he would like to walk with me again he replies with a simple yes and then we walk together side by side. I ask him a few questions and one was, “How did you get here?” Hunter then says, “I was flying my plane and all of a sudden a storm starts and it rages like it was angry at me, I lose control of my airplane and it ends up crashing here, I started to walk around and noticed that there was another person here because I heard a boat crash I want to go look and saw a blood trail leading into the forest.” I interrupt him and ask “ Wait I’m bleeding I didn’t see blood as I was taking my shower at the waterfall, am I still bleeding?” Hunter then says “I don’t know I would have to take a look.” I then say to him “ Okay we'll do it later, I don’t think I am any more it could have been just a cut.” We start to walk again without talking all the way till we get to the waterfall then I finally ask him “Did you crash here just today?” He then replies “Yes.”
I say “I didn’t hear a plane crash here earlier.” Well it wasn’t earlier it was probably before you got here.” He says. I tell him I need a shower again and ask him if he needs to take one first he simply says no. I then ask him to do something else while I take my shower and he simply says okay.
Once it comes closer to nightfall I ask him,”Where do you want to set up camp and do you have anything to eat?” He says to me, “I was thinking we could set up camp at my airplane.” I tell him that would be fine, we do, and then we fall asleep.
Once I wake up I notice that Hunter is gone I get up and look for him I notice then that he is in the water taking a shower. He has no clothes on whatsoever. It is so weird though I have never seen a guy without clothes on. He then looks toward me and I take off back to camp. He comes back and I act like nothing happened and so does he. I all of a sudden see smoke rising up from the volcano and my face goes as white as a ghost. I then say to Hunter, “ Look at the volcano it’s smoking do you know what to do?” He then looks at the volcano and tells me, “No I don't know what to do but we should probably grab our stuff and start heading towards higher ground.” I then ask him if he can help me pack some of the stuff we used last and he just simply says yes. So we pack up our stuff and head towards the caves there is one there that is big enough to fit both of us so we start heading towards that one.
After we got up there we waited and then we took cover because the volcano started to erupt he took my and hand, pulled me into his body and covered me. I was so scared that I was shaking. I could feel the island shaking and I could see red stuff spewing out of the lava I had guessed it was red but it was really orange lava. After the volcano was done erupting Hunter let go of me and then looked at me like I had just done something incredible and I realized that I had kissed him on the cheek and he was looking at me with big eyes to. I felt all tingly inside and then we were kissing. As I kissed him I realized we had no way of getting off the island now and that I would be spending the rest of my life here with Hunter and I felt very happy about that but I don’t quite know why. That night me and Hunter laid in the cave and fell asleep with me laying on his chest and as I was drifting asleep I could her the steady rhythm of his heart thump, thump, thump. I then drifted off to sleep and wondered what the tomorrow would bring us especially since the volcano had just erupted. Was there any life left? Would we be able to build a house? We would find out tomorrow. Right now it was the time to sleep and enjoy our time together.
We woke up the next morning and looked outside there was a whole new world out there well I was the only one to see it right now Hunter was asleep. I decided to go exploring and I found that not even half of the island was destroyed but still it looked really cool. All of the lava was cooled but I decided that I should start heading up towards the cave and when I got up there Hunter wasn’t there. I called out his name and then I looked toward the ocean and I saw him and he saw me, he beckoned for me to come and join him and I did.
After our shower we ate breakfast and today’s breakfast was coconut milk and it was surprisingly good. We took a walk through the Island and everything from this morning was fixed ;like the volcano hadn’t even erupted and then I suddenly look to my right and Hunter isn’t there I call out his name and he doesn’t respond I call it out again and I say out loud, “Okay Hunter this isn’t funny you’re scaring me please come out.” He still doesn’t come out so I go back to the cave and everything is gone and then I hear a voice talking in the cave next to mine and Hunters. I listen closely and it’s Hunter and….. ANOTHER GIRL! The girl is giggling I accidently make a noise and the giggling stops and I say to myself, “Oh shit, what have I done?”
Hunter comes over and ask, “What are you doing here, I thought I told you to stay down there.” I tell him that didn’t hear him say anything and asked who the girl was. He told me that she just got stranded here to. I told him,”That’s bullshit, it seems like you've known her forever.” I start to cry. Hunter says,”Hey don’t cry, I don’t even know her name okay Tonya, I love you I’ve known this girl for about 2 minutes and she just starts giggling, okay?” “Ok,” I say. We then go over to the cave Hunter came from and what surprises us is the girl that was just there isn’t there now. I start to wander what's going on with this Island.
We go take another bath and then we eat dinner. After dinner we both snuggle up close and fall asleep. In the morning again Hunter isn’t there.He calls out my name,”Tonya!” I look to where he called my name and it startles me he’s on one of the mountains that's not very far from here.I wave and he waves back at me I yell back “I’m gonna go explore,ok?” He then yells back, “Ok but be careful I don’t want you running into that girl again ok?” “OK!” I yell back ok.
We had spent the last week sleeping in the cave when we finally decided that it was time that we tried to build a home for us to live in but it would be a small home just for the two of us or maybe three.I didn’t know when I was going to tell him but he had to find out soon that I was pregnant and I already know what his reaction is going to be. He is going to be really shocked or pissed.It wasn’t a matter of what I told him it was a matter of when I told him and how mad he was going to be, I knew I should have told him but I just couldn’t find the right time or the courage to tell him that I was pregnant. Right now e have enough on our hands and that if I were to put any more pressure on him it would probably make him go crazy.
The next morning I wake up and dash outside and started puking, ugh I don’t know how much more morning sickness I can take, it feels like it could go on forever, in the vent of me puking I wake Hunter up he comes over and asks, “Hey you okay baby?” I respond back, “No I’m not okay I can’t figure out what's wrong with me and this has been happening for the past week, do you know what it could be?” He looks up at me and gasps, I ask him what's wrong and he says, “I think I know what’s wrong, your pregnant!” I look at him and tell him, “Yeah I am but I didn’t want you to find out this way I didn’t know what your reaction would be like and I was afraid of you going nuts or making me do this alone.” He looks at me like I’m crazy and says, “Now why in the world would I do that to you, I mean, I’m just found out I’m going to be a dad.” I look at him with an astonishing face and say, “Your not pissed because lately you’ve been sex crazy and I couldn’t figure out why, is it because you want a child?” Hunter looked at me blankly. His eyes looked away from me. Did he not know what to say? I was unsure of what he was going to say so I changed the subject. “Do you know what we have left for food?” I asked him. He looks at me and says that we have plenty of food to last us 2 weeks, if not 3.
He starts to walk away, I ask him,”Where are you going?” He looks at me and says, “I don’t know, I need to take a walk and clear my head, ok I should be back in a little while okay?”
After a while I start to worry it’s been 3 hours and he hasn’t been back.I start supper, tonight is eggs and coconut milk with some homemade salad. He finally shows up and he looks better than he did when he left.I look at him and ask, “Are you hungry?” Hunter looks at me and says, “ No I’m thinking about taking a shower do you want to join me after your done?” I look at him and I know something is wrong but I say yes, you see we just installed our own shower system and it works great. So after I eat I leave some food out for him to eat later and go join him in the shower, he looks more relaxed and happy now, he looks at me and kisses me, after we are done with our shower we go to bed.
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