maybe there is. I slept in a hut last night! Whose hut was it? Are they still alive, maybe they know something about the jumping problem? I find the coconut tree on my way back to hut and grab a couple and eat them immediately. Now refreshed with fruit and new knowledge I jump back to the hut. I immediately do a brain scan, but this brain scan was different from all of the other ones I had done. This time I could tell that no one had lived here for years. Is this new power the reason I can’t walk? Or is it this island? But something tells me this is not because of my new power, that people all over the world are doing this exact same thing. But who would do that? I have to find out. I plop down in the sand and then it literally hits me. Not even joking, a life raft slams right into my body, carried by the waves. I jump over to it and see that there is a note on top.
“Penelope,
Use this to get back to the boat, I need your help.
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Fat chance Captain... wait a minute! It was him! This was his big idea! Making
people jump everywhere, how super idiotic! There is no way I am going back to that boat. I am going back to the mainland, but wait, I have to stop him, so I have to go back to the boat and see what he wants. But if I go back to the mainland I could turn him into the cops and they will find him and get the problem fixed. Even with my two sides at war, they both agree to getting off of this island, so I climb into the life raft and start paddling, not really caring where it takes me just somewhere that isn’t this island. I paddle off into the sea and all of a sudden, not to far away, I hear the horn of a ship, and then it comes into view and leaning on the upper deck of the ship is none other than the captain.
10 Magazine/May 2014