Day 5 continued

So being washed up on the beach like when we first go to the island wasn't so pleastent. It was a rude awakening that's for sure. I flashed back to the time Mai and I first washed on shore. The cold water overtaking us. The uncirtenty if we'd live or die. The relief of feeling sand benath our feet. But instead of being happy we were back on shore, I was Mad. Mad that we couldn't leave. Mad that it was crowded. Mad that I didn't know what to do. Then I started to cry. Mai just looked at me. She seemed to know I needed alone time cause she did nothing. I cried for a good ten minutes then I stopped. "So what do we do now?" Mai asked. Sniffleing I said "W-well we go back to the tree house eat get some more supplies, and try to help everyone else." I finished. Mai nodded. "Sure." we returned to the tree house. Mai went to go milk Nutmeg and I went up to make fruit salad. She came up with the milk just as I finished making lunch. I had to admit it was a good meal. I made copies of the map I drew for each pair of girls who came. Mostly I did that so we didn't have to worry about showing them around. It was nice not having to explain everything to them. Most of our trip was in solitude. Just Mai and me. We'd run into the other girls sometimes but it wasn't all bad. We'd help each other get the juciyer fruits at the top of the tree or help carry the heavier coconuts filled with more milk to their houses and our tree house. So we met up with Valda and Julia in the wheat field we went a little farther then usual and saw another grove of citrus fruits. "SCORE!" Mai shouted at the top of her lungs. We kept going further into the grove and came upon a bee hive. "Honey." Julia said happily. There was so much honey it was flowing out of the hive. I beamed. Today was looking up. We didn't have any smoke to make the bees drowsy at the moment so we gathered what we could of the overflowing honey and split it evenly. We even saved some for Sky and Katori. "Wait" Valda said "How do the bees make honey if there's no flowers?" she concluded. Valda was right how did they make their honey. We searched for a little bit till Julia cried "Hey guys come over here!" we rushed over to see Julia's discovery. We was pointing to an open field filled with flowers and herbs. "Hooray!" I cried. Roses, lavender, poppies, parsley, marigold, cabbage, carrots, strawberries, any fruit, vegetable, herb, and flower you could imagine was here. It was one big garden. "One big garden." I said dreamily. Julia sprinted back to get Sky and Katori. They came back really fast. We gathered plants, berries, coconuts, honey, and citrus fruit together until the sun started to set. Before I wanted to get away from everyone. Wanted to go home. But today changed that. Even Mai seemed happy that everyone was working together. Mai and I made our way back to the tree house and before we parted we invited everyone over for dinner. Everyone went home to make a food to bring for our feast. I gave everyone a recipe of the foods Mai and I had made over these past 5 days here. Mai went to milking the cow again and I set off to make our famous coconut stew this time with a couple of herbs to give it a little kick. I set the table and put a vase of flowers in the center. It was perfect. Soon after Mai brought up the milk everyone arrived. Sky and Katori made fruit salad and brought some regular salad but no dressing cause well we didn't have any. Valda and Julia brought a platter of fruits and veggies and made bread to cut and also brought the honey they collected to spread ontop. Mai and I also brought out our honey to share and use as dip and stuff. I whispered to Mai "You know we could make butter for the bread now." Mai smiled and playfully punched me. "You're right." she said and we all sat down to eat. I raised my glass to toast. "Toast to everyone here and an awesome day with our findings." I toasted. "Toast!" everyone echoed back. Dinner was so much fun. Laughing, talking it was really sad when we all decided we had to go to bed. We said our good byes and got ready for bed. While we were doing so I talked to Mai. "You know it wasn't as bad as we thought." I said and Mai surged her shoulders. "I guess your right." she replied and we got into our hammocks. I pulled the sheets up to my neck and closed my eyes. Things were actully starting to look up.....