ANYA'S POV
I could vividly hear the sound of waves of the sea and the humming of different birds from a distance. I could even feel the raging heat of the sun against my face as water keep hitting on my feet.
Does being dead really felt this way? Felt like I am still alive?
When again, I felt some water splashed through me, I jerked out into wide awake.
When a sudden blinding light greeted me, I groaned and tightly squeezed my eyes out as I began to cough the salty waters out of my lungs.
And when my coughing finally subsided, I looked up with squinted eyes.
And for awhile, I just stayed there motionless. Just staring at the clear blue sky above in bafflement.
Is this heaven? Am I already dead so I'm seeing this beautiful sky now?
Did I really die from that plane crash with Jul? Did I----
I stopped with my thoughts when another wave of water splashed through my legs. Pulling me out of my thoughts and back to reality.
I quickly got up into a sitting position and then I groaned when a swarming ached welcomed me. Telling me that I am not dead yet since I could still feel pain right now. Probably by the impact I received from that plane crash earlier.
Carefully flexing my limbs, I tried to relieve the pain.
Oh God. I felt like I was hit by some rock!
I just kept doing that and when I think I was fine enough, I blew out a deep breath and just began to scan the place around.
Water, water, water, rock, rock and trees----
My eyes widened in surprise when my gaze landed on the green bushes behind me. Though my body was still aching right now, I forced myself to get up on my feet and gaped at the scenery before my eyes.
There was no doubt I'm in an island right now! I'm in an island right now and I'm miraculously alive!!
Just the thought of that, my eyes instantly heated up with tears. Crying as I felt too happy to realize that I'm still alive.
Wiping the hot tears off my cheeks, I continued gaping at the view before me.
It's a small island covered with thick green trees, mostly coconut trees. Gigantic rocks stood proudly like a wall with sharp edges on it while white silica sands surrounded the island.
In just one look, I'm quite sure that no one had ever inhabited this place yet as this place was so obviously untouched. And anyone who could see this now would undoubtedly call this as a paradise.
A perfect place to stay for the summer... It was so perfect...
But then again, I wasn't here for that.
The joy I felt a few seconds ago suddenly turned into sadness.
I was actually here because of miracle. Just because I was lucky enough to survive from that plane crash with Jul..
With Jul----
I stiffened when I suddenly remembered something--- I mean someone. Someone like my friend!
Oh God! I almost forgot about Jul!
Just the thought of him, worry instantly filled me.
With bated breath, my gaze hastily searched for any sign of him around with desperate eyes.
And when I couldn't find any, my eyes instantly heated up with tears.
Oh God please, no. Just let him be alive, please!
I kept mumbling that like an idiot as I began to walk and search for him along the shore. With my legs still a bit wobbly, I stumbled on my first few steps. But the will to find him now was just too strong to mind that.
I continued to walk slowly to search for Jul.
"Jul? Jul??" I kept calling that out with my weak voice.
But when after a few minutes of searching him and still, I couldn't find him, more tears came out from my eyes as the little hope that I have in me began to lose.
And I think I'd go out of my mind anytime. Jul might possibly didn't survived from that plane crash like----
My thoughts were interrupted when suddenly, my eyes caught something just nearby.
I straightened up on my feet and then sniffing and wiping off my tears, I tried to look at that way closely with narrowed eyes.
It was---my heart almost leap out of my chest when it wasn't just 'something'. It was actually 'someone' laying unconsciously on the white sands.
Someone with same fatty physique and clothes like Jul's!
At the sight of him, happiness filled my heart as I quickly ran to his way and kneeled down beside him.
With bated breath, I checked his breathing first by sticking my index finger on his nose. For a moment, I tried to feel if he was still breathing and I was able to release a loud sigh of relief when he was.
"Jul? Jul? Wake up Jul!" I attempted to wake him up by shaking him off by his shoulder.
And for a few moments, I just kept doing that. Shaking him off just to wake him up. But when Jul didn't even budge after I thoroughly shake him off, I began to lose the little patience I have in me for him.
He must've really want me to use force on him!
Glaring down at him, I waited for him to wake up but still, I received no response from him. He'd gave me no choice but to use force this time.
Yes. Force indeed. As in a brutal force.
Without wasting a second, I quickly raised my hand on air and then slapped his chubby face----pretty hard---using all my remaining strength.
And I think that was effective since he had finally woke up and coughed some water out of his lungs.
Thank God!
"Jul! You've finally woke up!" I exclaimed as I was tightly hugging him.
"Thank God, we're both alive!" I muttered with tears forming in the side of my eyes.
"Ouch..."
That got me released him instantly when I heard him grunted that.
"What? Do you feel any pain right now?" I queried in alarm while checking any injuries in his body.
But instead of answering me, he just cupped his red cheek while stroking it with a grimace.
"Oh God. Did I happen to hit my face while I'm unconscious, Anya? It just felt like I've been slapped hard by some bitch!" he complained while still stroking his cheek with frown on his face, wincing at the same time.
And just seeing his reaction now, I quickly clamped my mouth shut to stop the laugh that was threatening to escape from my mouth. Knowing him, it should be better if I'll just keep it to myself than face his ire.
"Yes Jul.. You've unfortunately hit your face while you're unconscious. Good thing it wasn't your head. What a relief!" I lied.
He didn't answered and just kept hissing while still nursing his cheek. Probably buying my lies.
"Anya, we might have manage to survive from the accident but how can we survive in this island??? "
He asked worriedly at me with a defeated shoulders. I frowned at that. Not liking his negativity.
"What if there are a group of terrorist hiding in this island, Anya?? What if---"
I held up my hand to stop whatever nonsense he'd been spouting. I got up from his side while Jul followed suit.
"This is not the right time to lose hopes, Jul. We can survive here together. We've survived from that plane crash so we have to survive here. And!" I looked at him pointedly before I continued.
"There's no such thing as terrorist hiding in this island, Jul!"
"Then what about wild animals like crocodiles? Dinosaurs, Anaconda or sharks perhaps? Or--"
"Or a killer perhaps?" I cut him off with bared teeth.
"Yes. There could really be a 'killer' in this island and I'm willing to be that 'killer' if you won't stop spouting some nonsense now, Jul!"
When I shouted that in a growl, his mouth snapped shut while sending me an apologetic look.
Heaving up a deep breath, I calmed myself though I was closed to bald him out now in annoyance. He could really be this annoying once he'd start to use his dumb imaginative mind. He's my friend but someone just need to smack his head sometimes so he'd come to his senses.
"Enough with your negativities, Jul. I don't want any of that right now. I'm tired and we must survive in this place no matter what." I muttered dismissively, wanted to leave that topic now though I myself was doubting as well if we could really survive in this island.
He just sent me a smile then nodded at me, now with a determined look in his eyes.
"Yes, Anya. We can survive from this. And no terrorist, wild animals or sharks."
I nodded at him and sent him a tight smile.
"Yes. That's the spirit, Jul. Let's go search this shore, now. Let's search for any survivor like us or maybe anything useful thing we can use here. Anything. Come on!" I answered as I got up on my feet while motioning him to stand up.
I expected him to agree with me but I frowned when he just looked at me with puzzlement.
"Anything? What do you mean by anything, Anya? Are you suggesting that we'd go there and search for stones along the shore?"
Hearing that from him, my annoyance for him returned in an instant.
Can I kill him now?
Oh God! I think I'd die here in frustrations with him and not in starvation!
I know he had the lowest IQ back in college and so I must understand him lacking in knowledge for survival means. But if he won't stop being this dumb, I could really throw him back to the sea now.
"Yes. Stones. We must find for that so we could survive from this island. Maybe we would use that to make us warm." I sarcastically agreed with a nod and began to walk to the right.
"Warm? And how do you suppose to use stones to warm us up, Anya?"
When he was kind enough to ask that again, the gritting of my teeth tightened while heaving up with shaky deep breaths.
"Nothing, Jul. Let's go now." I answered im between with gritted teeth.
"Yeah, yeah, sure."
I just shook my head when he finally answered that. And then blowing out a sigh, I resumed walking ahead of him in silence.
We just stayed like that. Just walking silently along the shore with drenched clothes.
And the more I've scanned this place, the more I realized that this place was indeed like a paradise. A perfect place away from toxics.
From the toxic people like Sharon---my bitch of a step sister and Nacho---- my ex-boyfriend who had cheated with my sister!
When I was being reminded by those people, hurt and betrayals instantly crept up inside me. Causing my eyes heated up with tears again.
"It wasn't my fault if your boyfriend find me 'more' interesting, Anya. I can give him sex that he really enjoys while you can't. Such a plain and dull virgin you are..."
"The prim and proper girlfriend. Don't you know that Nacho hated you for that, Anya?.."
When her insults echoed through my head, my hands consciously balled into a tight fists as I just keep walking without really looking at where I was heading to. Tears began to blur my sight now.
It had been days now since their betrayals but until now, I still couldn't get them out of my head. Bitterness still creeping up inside me everytime I'd thought about them.
Shaking those thoughts of my head, I grudgingly wiped my tears off my cheeks and just kicked the sand under my feet. Imagining that I was kicking those cheaters' faces right now.
I hope they'd live happily ever after in hell! So what if I'm the plain and dull virgin?? Is being a virgin a mortal sin? I'm reserving it for my husband damn it so why should I---
"OHH--MY----GAWD!!"
That pulled me out of my frustrated thoughts, snapping my head to Jul's way when he suddenly gasped that out.
"What is it, Jul?" I queried with pointed look.
And instead of answering me, he just grinned at me with his wide eyes. Excitement was glinting in his eyes as if he had seen something so interesting just now. And then a perverted smile crept up on his face which deepened my frown.
"What? Did you just see some ghost right now?"
"Oh no, Anya! It was something else!"
My brow raised at that in confusion.
"Something else? What do you----"
"SHIT! SHIT! TRIPLE SHIT!" came out a few curses from the man in a sudden.
I stiffened and looked around to search for that voice.
"Did you hear that? That's what I meant by something else, Anya!" He exclaimed before he hastily ran to the slightly submerged rock just a few meters from us and hid himself behind that. Wondering what the hell it was, I followed him out of curiosity and hid myself behind that rock with him.
And from where we were, I could see the man heaving up with frustrations and grudgingly sat on the ground with hands covered his face.
"Oh! God is indeed so good for bringing this Adonis here with us! Bless you, God!" Jul exaggeratedly exclaimed with dreamy eyes on his face while maliciously eyeing the poor man at the distance.
I shook my head then looked again at the man's way. Now I don't think I'd be the only one who'd probably die in frustrations here because of Jul.
Tsk, tsk.. I pity this man.
Just the thought of Jul pestering the man in every way brought a smile to my face.
Oh atleast, I won't die here with boredom.
As I was in deep thought, I didn't noticed Jul was already approaching the poor man.
He was approaching the man like a lover running towards the man of his dreams with an open arms.
I narrowed my eyes, not knowing what he was about to do. And when realization struck me in my gut, my eyes instantly widened at that.
Holy shit!
Oh no, no, no, no, JuI. He couldn't possibly be thinking about hugging this stranger now!!
In alarm, I quickly got up on my feet and followed Jul to stop him from his plan.
But before I could even stop him, Jul had already came close to the stranger then without any shame in his fatty ass, he hugged him from behind in a bear hug.
"Thank God you are here-----" Jul happily exclaimed but before he could even finish whatever he wanted to say, came a hard shove and a raging punch straight to his face from the startled man.
Jul staggered at the sudden impact and as a matter of seconds, he dropped to the ground unconscious and with a bloody nose.
"WHAT THE HELL!!!!!" I shouted at him in horror as I ran to Jul. Shocked with how hard was the blow Jul had received from this stranger.
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