Mystery Island

    Swish! Swoosh! The turquoise ocean grabbed me and Lillian from beneath our feet. Screaming we were pulled out to sea. We struggled to get to shore, but the riptide was too strong. Before we knew it we were miles away from safety.

  “Where are we?” I asked shocked. “I – I think we were in a riptide!” Lillian commented almost to tears. We decided to swim to the nearest island. It took us about an hour to get there. When we got to the island we plopped on the white sand, exhausted.

I guess we dozed off because the next second it was extremely hot and sunny, but something was different. very different. Lillian was gone!

Desperately, I called her name over and over, but no response. Worried, I searched left and right. On the opposite side of the island is where I found her, on the shore, lying by a raft. “Lillian, why are you here?” I asked calming down. “I made a raft so we can go home!” She explained. Lillian pushed the boat into the water then she hopped on, and I was right behind her. “To civilization!” she shrieked.
We paddled with our hands. Everything was going great until… the waves changed direction pulling us toward the island like a rope. “How can waves do that!?” I questioned. Lillian looked terrified.
Five minutes later we were back at the island.

We tried a million times to leave, but something was holding us here, something very mysterious, something horrifying. Out of everyone else why did it choose me and Lillian?