Doll Island: Part 2.1

*** 6 or 7 in the morning ***

Odette and the rest were confused and concerned on how these dolls even arrived onto their campsite in the first place.

Odette wasn't scared and went closer to the dolls. She casually picked up one of the dolls to inspect it. She noticed that the doll that she picked up look uncannily like one of the guys. The same face, eyes, ears, hair, body proportion, and clothing. It was extremely detailed to the bone that it gave Odette chills on her back.

Even though, she was a bit scared. She was interested in how someone can make a doll with such quality. She turned her back to the group and showed them the doll.

The girl and guy who screamed already know how the dolls looked liked. They didn't want to see the dolls any further and hid behind the backs of their classmates. They probably have a superstition about dolls.

There were several expressions on their faces, ranging from: disbelief, shock, extremely frightened, calmness, or interest in how someone can make such a detailed doll.

Odette tells everyone, "Even though this dolls are cool or creepy to anyone. We should probably listen to the note's instruction. I have bad feeling to what would happen to these dolls."

Bjorn laughs at Odette, "Heh, I bet it's just a prank."

Bjorn grabs one chubby, looking guy doll and played around with it. Bjorn touches the dolls hair and used his finger to slap the doll's face many times.

"See nothing happened."

A few seconds later, after Bjorn did all of that, the chubby guy felt his hair being tickled and his cheeks stinging with pain. He laughed a little before crying out, "Ow, ow! Bjorn stop it, it hurts!"

Bjorn and the others heard and turned to see the chubby guy screamed aloud. Bjorn had a skeptical look and said, "Really? It actually works? Hmm, this must be some high leveled voodoo sh*t!"

The chubby guy asks Bjorn with his cheeks still having a burn sensation on them, "Can I have my doll-look alike back?"

Bjorn was thinking deeply and looked back at the chubby guy for a bit. He answers to the chubby guy with a playful smile, "No~"

The chubby guy was horrified on what Bjorn was going to do with his doll figure. He rushed towards Bjorn to tackle him down, but Bjorn saw this coming a mile away. Once, the chubby guy came close enough, Bjorn sidesteps a little making him miss his target.

The chubby guy falls onto the ground chest first and had his hands already there to protects his head. He turned around to see Bjorn in front of his face. Bjorn was using scary face, which made the chubby guy flinch.

Bjorn looks at him and answers in a whisper, "You disappoint me, so I'll be keeping the doll for now. Is that okay with you Chubby?"

The chubby guy didn't answer to Bjorn verbally and just nods his head.

Six people had enough of what Bjorn was doing. Three came to help the chubby guy and the other three confronted Bjorn.

They were Odette, another girl, named Maya, and Hugo helped Luis up.

The rest were Leon, Omar and Theresa stepped in and ganged up against Bjorn. Omar tells Bjorn calmly, "You know what Bjorn. We have only been here on this island for one night and I'm tired of seeing trash like you. Now give back that doll to Luis already and kindly Fu*k off somewhere else."

Theresa smirks and punches her fist into her palm, "Wait Omar don't let him go just yet. I think I found some free, but old real estate that no one has taken yet. Plus, it needs a bit of demolition and renovation here and there."

While, Leon showed a "really" face while, eating some popcorn for the drama to unfold. He didn't expect that there would be such an extremely toxic person. Leon stops eating his popcorn a bit and speaks to Bjorn, "Come on Bjorn, you should know better."

Bjorn shrugged his shoulders and said, "Okay, okay. I was just curious if the message was true about these dolls. I had my fun."

Omar, Theresa, and Leon stepped aside to allow

Bjorn to walk to Luis. Staring at his back if he were to try any funny business.

On the other hand, Odette, Maya, Hugo, and Luis were somewhat tense as Bjorn walked towards them. They didn't know if Bjorn was going to do anything else to them.

Bjorn stops infront of Luis and gives him the doll. "There are you happy that you got your doll back, hmm~"

Luis nodded his head like a jack hammer. Bjorn walks back to his original position and waited for something else to happen. Odette and the others looked and asked Luis if he was okay. Luis replied to Odette and the rest with a pale face, "I'm fine."

The atmosphere was still tense with Bjorn's little stunt. Odette got everyone's attention, "Okay, everyone, we know for sure that these dolls are dangerous. Be extra cautious on how you all handle them, okay~ Everyone, we should find our doll-look alike."

After ten or so minutes, everyone found their dolls. Odette was puzzled to why her doll even more intricate than everyone's dolls. She puts that behind her mind. She was looking forward to play and study her doll from time-to-time.

Odette stops looking at her doll and tells everyone, "Okay, everyone put your dolls at the main campsite as we will have people to watch over your dolls."

"We won't have a stunt like that again, alright?Just like yesterday, we need to gather some more stuff in the forest or just try to find anything useful for us to survive."

Bjorn, like a dictator, made all of the guys in his group to find any type of supply in the forest that can be of use for all of them. While he went back to the shelter to sleep.

Only Omar, Leon, Hugo, and Luis were the ones who stayed behind the campsite. Even some of the braver girls, other than Theresa, and Odette's crew went into the forest to help find some supplies.

Apart from Odette, Omar, Theresa, Hugo, Luis, and Maya; there 15 or so people that stayed behind. Leon grabbed a bag that kept full of protein bars and another bag of trail mix from his camping backpack.

Leon walks and talks to everyone, while opening and splitting up some of the protein bars into pieces, "I guess everyone is on the edge, huh? Maybe you all are hungry too, since we had nothing last night."

"Here have some pieces of a protein bar. I can't give you too much, otherwise you will need more water to digest the food."

"Not to mention we need to find any type of water source here on the island. We are going to need a lot of strength to overcome this dreadful situation."

Odette, and the rest thanked Leon. They still can't believe that Leon has almost everything they needed to survive.

Odette couldn't help but ask Leon, "Leon, I never got to ask you last night. How do you even got all these things prepared?"

Some people knew that Leon was carrying a lot of things in his backpack, but they did expect him to carry that much. He was practically a pay to win player. If they didn't have Leon they would have died faster then they expected.

Leon stopped passing some of the protien bars, while furrowing his brows, he looks at all of them with a "what" face.

Leon still replied to Odette with smile, "Well, isn't it obvious. I just bought these stuff from our tour in Europe."

"Though, I couldn't decide what to buy at first. All of a sudden a kind, old man came out of nowhere and started to help me.

"We had a long nice conversation and went from store-to-store searching for the right items. He even had a feeling that I was going to be far away from home."

"I got to say, he was better than my boy scout leader and me who packs our stuff to camp."

"So, I don't know what kind of image all of you have given me, but I'm just an average guy who wants to buy souvenirs and have a nice relaxing time away from home. Anyways, here are the stuff inside the backpack."

Leon takes his backpack and shows it to everyone. Inside the backpack there were: his flash/headlight; extra rope for two shelters; a smaller water canteen, which can hold about 2 quarts; a hat; sunscreen; insect repellent; 3 life straws; 3 SOL emergency blankets; Platypus water filter; a small first aid kit; 2 handkerchief; 2 small belts; 1 pocket knife; 1 signal flare; flint & steel and a lighter; a small whetstone; a mess kit with 4 pieces of utensils: 2 spoons, 1 fork, and a small cutting knife; and some clothes that will last for 2 days.

Leon closes the backpack and told everyone in the main campsite, "The flash/headlight, smaller canteen, flint & steel and lighter, pocket knife, hat, sunscreen, and clothes belonged to me."

"The rest was what the old man helped me picked out. I did not expect the old man to be right off the bat for being stranded on an island."

Leon continues to pass pieces of the protien bars to others who have gotten it yet. After Leon was finished passing the protien bars to everyone, he puts away the trail mix back into the backpack.

Odette and the rest thought that it was a coincidence. Odette then speaks, "I agree that old man is pretty good. We can probably wait for a week or so until help comes by the island."

Everyone agreed with Odette and finished their small pieces of the protien bar. Odette got up and said to Omar, Leon, Theresa, and Hugo and the rest of the group, "Now that we are done, we should go help the others too. The rest can stay behind to watch over the dolls."

Odette left and headed into the forest. Omar, Leon, Hugo, and Theresa followed suit.

Maya, Luis, and the other 15 people nodded at Odette before she left agreeing that they will watch over the dolls.

*** Four hours later ***

Odette and everyone who went searching, except for a few people who either told to stay or lazy to move, found quite a bit of things in the forest to help them out.

First, they brought back the typical things such as: branches, logs, and dry leaves. Second, Leon and some lucky few spotted food sources such as: rabbits, turtles, birds, snakes and edible insects: grubs, crickets, centipedes, and cockroaches. Third, the others found coconuts trees, cactuses, and two types of edible mushrooms: parasol and chicken of the wood mushrooms.

The group also brought back, instead of the typical things, were about twenty grubs, seven coconuts, and two handfuls of mushrooms back to the main campsite.

They were pretty productive, since there were a lot of people looking for things. They all understood that this island has quite abundant of resources for them to live off. A lot of people didn't need to worry about searching for food, just finding a water source for them to drink.

It made people feel slightly, more relaxed that they were playing on the beach before they eat in an hour or so. One of the guys near the beach, even found a nice enough rock that could be used as a small cutting board. He gave it to Leon and went back to play in the water.

Still Odette, Leon, Theresa, Omar, and Hugo were not going to let down their guards knowing that anything can happen to them on this island.

Leon was the "chef" as no one wanted to cook the grubs. The some of the girls and guys even lost their appetite when they heard about eating grubs and mushrooms.

Leon with newly aquired rock cutting board, he places the grubs on it. He cuts off all twenty of the grubs' head and skewers them to a clean enough sticks. Leon also skewers the mushrooms to sticks as well.

Omar asked for Leon's permission for his axe and flint & steel. Leon said, "Sure" and Omar starts helping Leon straight away by preparing the fire.

After the fire was prepared, Leon starts roasting all the prepped food with Omar's help as well.

Odette, Theresa, Hugo, Luis, Maya, and the fifteen people were talking to each other near the campsite. From time-to-time they would look over to see Leon and Omar's cooking progress.

Odette asks Hugo, "Hey, Hugo is there something between you and Omar? We never got to talk to each other on the yacht. If you don't want to share that's okay."

Hugo looks Odette without saying a word, while Odette looks at Hugo. The atmosphere was being awkward as they were having a staring contest.

Odette breaks that awkwardness, "Is there something wrong that I said Hugo?"

Hugo, with his face strunched up and tensed/shivering body, starts to talk to Odette with an uneasy voice, "Can you move at least one arm's length away from me? I get the same feeling as when I see a flying cockroach. Then I'll start talking."

Odette was kind of hurt when Hugo said those words. She still shakes it off and moves an arm's length away.

"Is that better for you, Hugo?"

Hugo replied with apologetic face, "Much better. I'm sorry Odette it's just that I have a slight gynophobia along with misogyny for women that's all."

Odette shows a look of understanding and replies, "That's okay, Hugo. I bet it has to be that story that you're going to tell us, huh?"

Hugo closed his eyes and sighed heavily, "Yeah, it is."

Hugo clears his throat and begins to speak, "I have been captivated by this girl, named Lauren, ever since I was in seventh grade. She was a wholesome girl-- a dazzling sun to my eyes, and I was the sunflower who watched her in silence. At first I didn't know what to do to approach her."

"It is not because of the reasons such as: I was shy, her friends were there with her, or anything like that. I just didn't know where to begin, otherwise if I approach her, she would have thought of me as a weird boy in her eyes."

"Maybe I'll embarrass myself and she and her friends would call me names."

"So, the best action I could do was trying to ask advice from Doodle. I couldn't ask my parents, my older brother, nor my friends as I felt that they wouldn't be able to keep a secret. I'm pretty sure you all of understand, right?"

Everyone was looking at Hugo who was covering his face. Anyone would understand that his family revealed quite a lot of things about him when he was younger.

Hugo uncovers his face after a minute and talks again, "Yeah, my parents and brother would love spreading the news about me liking someone other than family and friends-- or talking about how I would get to marry at a young age."

"My friends are immature boys at the time, so they will say that girls have cooties or question me how can I like a girl?"

"Doodle gave me the answers and instructions that I have to be myself. I had start out small and go with the flow, which would be by being friends."

"I got the courage to talk to her the next day from Doodle's advice and we became friends that very day. I was pretty satisfied with myself too."

"Though I couldn't keep it as a secret from my mom. She had a scary intuition for these type of things."

"Two years passed, we are in ninth grade and my interest in Lauren became stronger. It became love. We enjoyed each others' company during those two years. Our parents allowed us to play in the park, amusement parks, and so forth from time-to-time."

"One day, I just blurted out to Lauren that I loved her."

With gentle look plastered on his face, Hugo paused and chuckled a bit, "You should have seen her face when she looked a bit shocked."

She starts to question me, "since when Hugo?"

"Ever since I met you, Lauren. No one seemed to notice your qualities, not even your parents can tell."

"Boys at my age were either talking about lewd stuff behind your back. Even the girls thought of bullying, because you stole their crushes."

"But I didn't want them to labelled you like that and sort of protected you too. Even though, you can protect yourself just fine."

'You are a hidden gem, Lauren. The hard work and dedication you put in everything you do from: sports, helping others, etc. To get some recognition from friends, family and school-- I noticed them all with my own eyes.'

Lauren's eyes seemed to sparkle a bit and she blushes before saying to me, "Is that a confession to me Hugo?"

Hugo looked back at her and closed his eyes. His heart was beating faster and faster. He took a deep breath to calm himself down and opened his eyes before saying, "Yes, yes it is. Lauren, do you want to be my girlfriend?"

Lauren laughed and kissed Hugo on the cheek. After the small kiss, she giggled and gazes at Hugo with a content smile on her face. She replied back, "Well, you sure took your time Hugo. I was waiting to hear an answer from you and I finally got it."

While talking to everyone in the campsite, Hugo closed his eyes with a smile remembering his sweet childhood. He did not talk for awhile.

Odette and the rest of girls were giggling how lovely the romance is.

Though, Hugo ignored the girls' giggles with his eyes still closed and continued talking about his story, "From that day, she became my girlfriend for four years throughout my highschool days. We loved each other very passionately. Talked about plans of the future and so forth."

"I had a plan that after we finished getting our associate's degree that we would get married. But none of the rings at the jewelry store looked special enough for Lauren. So, I made my own custom ring that took me two years to finish."

"The design was took most of time, since I wanted to make everything perfect for her. The destined day arrived and I wanted to show the ring."

Hugo's face broke into anger and said, "Instead of a happy moment it become every negative emotion that I know: rage, disappointment, disgust, sadness, etc."

"I saw my dad, my brother, and some unknown guy having s*x with her. She enjoyed every single bit of it.

They heard a thump by the door as I dropped my ring box. Those bast*rds saw me. Lauren came up to me and said to me, "Did you enjoy the show, Hugo?"

She was really laughing at me with her mocking face.

I uttered a single word, "Why?"

"Because of money, I had to play an act with you Hugo. You lower your defenses and I strike where you're vulnerable.

She looked on the ground and saw the ring box. She picked it up and looked inside of it's contents. She said, "Did you really thought I was going to marry you? Still this ring is really pretty. You must have put a lot of work into it, hmm~ I'll gladly take it."

I couldn't hear a single thing anymore as my heart and mind shattered. I thought to myself, 'All of things, we have been together was nothing but a lie? Only for money?'

Hugo looks at everyone, "You all know the rest of the story, right? It's pretty cliché. But they revealed everything to me, but I couldn't hear a single word. My mom heard the news and had a huge fight with my dad and brother. My mom and dad divorced and I lived my mom in a rented apartment that day too."

"I also lost my job of her, because they spreaded rumors that I r*ped her and so forth. The judge dismissed the case, because there was little to no evidence."

"My mom had a lot in her hands, but I couldn't help her. I saw her being stressed out with rent, work and constantly drinking her sorrows."

"One day, I went back home late, since I was gathering bottles for money. I didn't see my mom anywhere in the apartment, so I walked towards the balcony to sit down on a chair. Before I could sit down, I noticed some rope tied to the rails and looked down. My mom was just hanging there lifelessly."

"I just kept on losing many things that's dear to me and wanted to join my mom to the afterlife."

Hugo's face had no more anger, but was replaced with calmness. He later talks about his story, "It was Omar who saved me from committing suicide and that became my turning point in life."

"Then I got therapy. Lauren and whoever was involved with her got karma, and I found someone else who I can depend on and love. A real hidden gem and not some fake/man-made replica."

Hugo ends his story and looks over at Omar who was still helping Leon cook grubs and mushrooms.

One random girl asked, "How did Omar saved you from committing suicide?"

"Well, I didn't know that Omar was my neighbor at the time. Basically, he was right there at the right moment. He grabbed me from behind and I was just an inch away from death."

Another random girl asked, "Where was Omar in this story, like why was he told at the end, huh?"

"Well, I was too focused on my love life that I didn't pay close attention to surroundings. But he has been there from beginning to end, even before I loved Lauren. I guess he noticed me more than I noticed him, huh?"

Leon and Omar walked over with the food and said, "Everyone seems to be enjoying themselves? What did we miss?"

Hugo and girls looked at each other with their eyes. Hugo says, "You guys missed nothing and we are discussing about stuff."

Leon and Omar looked at each other first, then looked back everyone else, "Come on, tell us what you're all talking about."

"We're not telling you anything~"

"Okay then. It's time to eat! So, who's hungry?"

Some girls and guys gagged at the sight of the grubs. While others hated mushrooms, even though one of them looked like chicken. They forced themselves to eat it to have some energy to continue searching the forest. There is still some light for them.