It was a hot day of August, I was with Mike
and his two boring sisters, we were in the way to Australia by the airplane, we
were hearing from time to time confused conversations come from the workers’
crew and seeing a strange looks in the flights attendant’s eyes. Suddenly Rosa
said: “This trip looks boring! I wish if something exciting would happen. ”,
Mike looked at her nervously and said: “We don’t need any excitement, all we
need is to go and come back safely”, Mike is always tense in highs.
I was trying to sleep when I heard a high
voice saying: “Ladies and gentlemen, we have to tell you that the airplane
engine is on fire, we are in the middle of the ocean, we’re trying to land
safely in an isle, open up your seat belts, and be ready for the urgent
landing.”
Crying and shouting voices spread, I didn’t
understand what’s happening, Scarlet started crying telling us: “Please! Tell
me that I’m just dreaming.” Mike was
frozen, he didn’t say anything, fume was spreading around us, we were getting
down slowly, but far from the isle! The high voice told us again: "Empty
the airplane; we’re drowning in the water!”
Some people started jumping into the sea,
others were able to divide the flight’s wings and hold on to them, I was still
sitting in my seat when Mike told me: “Hurry! Come ON!!!” Mike and I were able
to swim but his sisters weren’t, I told him: “The bags! What about the bags?!” We tried to bring them but we succeed
to bring just two back bags. Rosa and scarlet found places in the wings, Mike
and I started swimming, we were far from the land around 1 kilometer. I was
cold and tired, but I didn’t stop, after 30 minutes we stand finally on earth,
I was shivering. When finally all people arrived, someone screamed: “The pilot,
he drown!” another cried: “No! My father” he was a 12 years old child, the poor
son is stuck in an unknown isle lonely! After an hour, I remembered that our
clothes are wet and we have others in the back bags, we changed them and
started searching for something to eat, we found some coconut, it was crusty
but we were hungry enough not to notice. We built a small ugly tent using
tree’s papers.
At night, we got together in our tent, Rosa
told us: “Wow! We’re gonna live like Robinson Crusoe!” Scarlet replied: “If you
can shut your mouth Rosa..” I asked Mike: “What’s we’re gonna do? The island is
desolated and maybe there are wild animals, besides, how can we get back to
Canada? I’m worried” He was stray in the void, barely listened to me, he
answered succinctly: “I don’t know”.
At the morning, I met one of our flight’s
mates; she showed me an edible plant there, so I prepared some salad using it.
When I come back to the tent I found Rosa still excited but Scarlet was sad, I
was sure that she was thinking about her PhD defense that should be set up next
week and it’s clear that she will miss it.
We started to prepare equipment as burning
fire and setting a big white flag to draw airplanes and ships passing near the
island’s attention.
In the days that followed, I used my hobby
in drawing to push boredom; thank God I bought my pens and colours in my back
bag. One day I was in my way to bring some water from a stagnant river when I
heard babbling voices, they were monkeys! Climbing in the trees, I left the
water bucket and followed them, I enjoyed spying on them, until I arrived at a
huge cave, and what I saw made me shouted, 2 yellow ugly eyes started getting
closer, It was a tiger, no! it was a strangely shaped tiger, with yellow eyes,
pointed leather, nasty smell getting out of his mouth, notable yellow fangs,
the word “ugly” is not enough to describe it! I unleashed my legs!
I was gasping for
breath when I told Mike: “You won't believe what I saw!” I told him the
complete adventure; seemingly, he wasn’t listening, he yawned and told me:
“This island started affecting you, you are hallucinating, or maybe this is
daydreaming!”
Another day, I was painting as usual when I
heard voices screaming, I got out quickly, It was a big ship in sight! My heart
started beating strongly, are we going home? Unfortunately, they didn’t see us,
many people were in tears, Scarlet was one of them, I told her tenderly: “Sure
that’s what’s happening to us got to the media, don’t worry, someone will
rescue us.”
One week later, a voice was calling for us:
“Wow! Come and see!” We ran out, we saw many journalists with their tools and
many helicopters! The noise was widespread and people were happy. I could hear
one of the journalists saying: “This island should have a special name!”;
another said: “they will made you a legend”; a third said: “It will be a
tourist island par excellence!” Some people were screaming; others were taking
pictures, and some were narrating their experience and the story of their
resistance as heroes in front of cameras. Suddenly, I heard a voice: “Helene!
Helene!” I turned to see who is calling for me, It was my mom’s voice telling
me: ”Helene! Wake
up! It’s 10 am and you’re still sleeping, wake up, now!”
Oh, I was in my room in my
parent house in Toronto, The sun was shining from the window, and I’m 18 years
old girl, non-married, and I will pass my final exams this week, I hate this
fact!
I searched in Google about
the weird tiger, he’s real! His name is thylacine and he lives in Australia! At
least my dreams contain something real.
I was still lying down in my
bed, thinking about the strangely shaped tiger, the blatant monkeys, and the
dreams island.