Waves

• Hunter Mcilveen, Grade 6
• Short Story
• 2018

Waves
At first all I hear is the boat crashing in to waves, I got up out of bed and go to the deck. As soon as I saw the sight before me, I knew what to do. I ran as fast as I could and jumped off the boat but as soon as I jumped it was too late I had been grabbed by the collar and pulled on to the boat by my crew mate, my old crew mate actually, his name was James. He was holding a gun when I saw him standing over the rest of the dead crew. I didn’t know what to do, so I kicked him and jumped off the boat. He must’ve started shooting at the water because when I got on to dry land I had cuts, scars and bruises all over my body.
Doing everything on the boat has given me the lack of being unbelievably tired so I took some palm tree leaves and used them as a pillow and blanket. When I woke I saw something staring right at me it looked a bit like an ocelot from the books I used to read. I got up to say hi but I must’ve scared it a bit because it started to slowly walk away I got up wondering what I should eat for breakfast, just at that moment I saw a bush of berries they were blue all I was wondering at that moment was if they were poisonous. They couldn’t be because if they were they would all still be there but it looked like a few had been taken and eaten, so I decided to take a handful I almost instantly put them in my mouth at that moment I realised that the thing that ate them could have been immune to the poison and then I started to feel nauseous and dizzy. I fell to the ground and my eyes closed.
When I awoke I found myself lying in the exact same spot where I fell unconscious in I wondered how long I was out for 1 or maybe 2 days, I was just happy that I hadn’t been found by James because by now I would either be dead or floating in the middle of the ocean and if that happened something probably would have been eating small niblets or big chunks of my flesh. I can just imagine myself in the ocean guts and organs dangling out of my body. I gag and shiver thinking of the picture myself, then I wonder if James thinks if I’m alive or dead whatever he thinks I just hope he never finds me on the deserted island. Actually I should start looking around the island to see if this island really is deserted. But then I hear something a cannon fire someone’s near and I have a feeling its James and then out of nowhere I hear a bang. Last thing I remember before I woke was seeing a person.