Young Writers Society

Colt:

Colt looked at Ryder. Ryder looked back. "What's wrong?" he mouthed the words.

"I need to talk to you." he mouthed back.




MAry anne:

Mary anne watched as teh two men exchanged words silently. "Dusty, would you7 mind walking outside wtih me, I think it's a perfect day to find wildflowers."

"Oh yes, that woudl be delightful." Dusty replied. They walked out together.

Dusty:

Dusty smiled as the two little ones followed them too as they walked to a near by feild where they had seen some flowers. It was a beautiful place, this island, Dusty wouldn't mind being stuck her forever.

"You look love struck." Annie teased. She smiled t her.

"you look teh same." She smiled back. "I love COlt, I really do, I barely know him, but it's like I know him so well."


Ryder:

Ryder looked at Colt and leaned against the wall. "What's wrong?"

"Well, nothing to serious, it's just....I need to ask you something?" Colt sighed.

"Well, ask." Ryder laughed. "Spit it out, it's always easier."

Colt:


He tooka deep breath. "I think I'm in love with Dusty. I want to marry her, I've already asked her and she said yes, but we can't get married, because there's no preist. Even if we found one, there would be no where for us to live." Ryder gestured to teh house. "I know that. It's just, I want a house of my own. I was wondering if you would help me build one, but nto where the girls can see it. What do you thinnk?"


MAry anne:

"Yes I'm in love. And by the looks of it, your in deep." Kelly adn Peter had pollped down on the ground playing in teh dirt. They walked over to teh logs and sat down.

Ryder:

Ryer thought abotu it and smiled. "Long as you help me make somewhere for Annie." HE smiled.

"What abotu the big house?" Colt asked.

"We'll use that for anyone we find. We need the houses kinda close to gether, maybe in the feild east of here. That way we'll see the houses from the others, but we won't be to close." eh smiled.


Dusty:

"I am, I really love him. I've never had feelings for anyone else, but him. He's so sweet and caring." She sighed watching the kids. "And he's so good with those two."

Colt:

"Yeah, I think that may work. Why don't we make teh design plans and then go outside. I can't stand beign away from Dusty for too long." Ryder laughed.

"I know how you feel."


Annie:

"He really is. So is Ryder." Tehy watched as Kelyl picked up a handfull of mud and threw it at Peter. It hit him in the side of teh head. Peter grabbed two handfulls walked over to her adn dropped it on her head. She threw some more at him and so the fight began.

Annie adn Dusty where laughing until a big asplatter of mud landed on Dusty. Annie looked at her and burst out laughing. Dusty reached down, her fist squishing in teh mud, and rubbed it in Annies face. Dusty squilled, runnign away from Annie, who had a big hadnful of mud in her hand.

Ryder:

After they had everything drawn up and then hidden they walked outside only to find everyone covered in mud.

"A mud fight without us!" He laughed running to Annie and picking her up. She was covered in mud so he got covered to. HE buckled his knees and then rolled int he mud with her. They came up laughing.

Dusty;

Dusty grabbed mud and walked over to Colt hiding it behind her back.

"That doesn't wor..." He started. She covered him in mud then turned and laughed as she ran towards where all the mud was.

Annie:

Annie stopped laughing, lookign into Ryders eyes. Seh raised her hand nad laid it gently on his cheek. He turned his face into her cheek, before lowering his mouth to hers.

"Ewwww.....Mommy....Daddy....Go inside." Kelly laughed, throwign mud at Ryders back. Annies eyes went wide when she heard what Kelly said. Seh looked at Ryder. He nodded.

"I heard it too." she smield before kissin him ruffly. Seh rolled over, pushign him down in the mud. He laughed and splattered mud in her face.



Colt:

Colt spluttered when Dusty smacked him in the face with mud. He tackled her, rollign around in the dirt.

"I love you." slipped from his mouth, before she covered his face with mud, again.

"I know." sh ekissed him, laughing.

Ryder felt a sense of meaning flow through him when Kelly called them mommy and daddy. He liked it.

"I don't think I mind either." He smiled kissing her again.

"STOP!" Kelly cried jumping on his back and putting her hand on his mouth covering it in mud. She then covered Annie's mouth. He laughed and pulled her off his back kissing her cheeks. "STOP!" She laughed.


Dusty:

"I love you too." Dusty msiled and him before covering him with more mud and wiggling away grabbing more mud waiting to see what he would do.

Annie:

Annie laughed, as Ryder pulled Kelly off his back and spun her around. He wound make a really great father...



Colt:

Colt stood there, waiting for her to make a move. Neitehr of tehm moved, just stood there tense waiting for the other to make a move. He laughed. She aimed and fired.

Ryder:

Ryder kept kissing Kelly's face until she covered his in mudd again. "STOP DADDY!" She said tears rolling down her face from laughing so much. "Please stop!"


Dusty:

Dusty squealed as he grabbed her around the waist and dropped her in the mud. Peter walked over and joined in the fight.

*tears, short*

Annie:

A loud boom made everybody freeze. She looked at Ryder, who was holding a now trembling Kelly in his arms, mud dripping off his face.

"What was that?" she asked, her voice breaking.

"I don't know. Annie, take Kelly and Dusty you take peter and get inside. Colt can come with me. I want to know what that was." Cotl nodded adn pushed Dusty adn peter towards the house. Annie walked over to Ryder, kissing him adn takign Kelly from him.

"Be careful." she whispered before hurryign into teh house.




Colt:

Colt nodded as tehy both picked up spears the used for fishing. Heading silently in the woods, they looked for what seemd to be an hour befoer they stumbled upon a clearing. There was a small hut, but it was on fire. A man lay on teh ground outside of it. He looked old. Colt and Ryder rushed over to him. Colt checked for a pulse. There was one. He looked up at Ryder,

"Looks liek we got our wish." he showed Ryder the rosary. "Let's get him back to camp." Ryder helped him heave the man up, who thankfully was still unconsious.

Ryder:

"It looks like he exploded something. That's why his house is on fire. The boom wasn't a gun, there is no wound, and it didn't sound right." He said as they carried the man to their house. "I want to know if there are more people. I don't think he could've built that hut on his own. I could be wrong."

"Let's just get him fixed up." COlt replied. Ryder nodded as they got to the big house.



Dusty:

Dusty gasped when she saw the man and quickly fetched water to help clean him up. They worked on him all night hoping he would live.

Annie:

Annie kept the children in her room, away from everyone else. She sighed as she rocked Kelly. Kelly was trembling, but Peter just sat ther, no expression on his face.


Colt:

After they fixed him up, Ryder and Colt lifted him and carried him to the guest room, layign him on the bed. They decided to take shifts, just incase he woke up. Colt had it first. It was a long three hours, but nothign happened. When Ryder walked in, he smiled and trudged off to the bedroom. Dusty was already asleep, so he crawled in huis own bed adn feel into a deep sleep.

Dusty:

Dusty woke up the next morning to someone moving around their room. She sat up and saw Colt.

"How is she?" She yawned. He glanced over at her and smiled.

"Awake." he replied. "Hungry." She nodded and got up hugging him and then kissing him softly.


Ryder:

"This food is good." The man said. "Not had anything good sense the wreck."

"How'd you build the house?" He asked.

"Always had a nack for stuff like that." The man shrugge.d

"I'm Ryder." Ryder smiled.

"Reverand Thomas." The man replied sticking his hand out.

Annie:

Annie gasped as she roundedd the corner and heard the man introduce himself as a reverend. A reverend? Who would have thought that a reverend woulsd end up here? She put on a smile and walked in to join Ryder.


Colt: Colt laughed to himself as he watched the reverend eat. Well they found one after all. How nice.

The reverend had finished and was scrapping the last few crumbs off when he looked at Colt.

"What's your name young man?" He frowned.


"Colt. Colt Jenkins."