Island Cruise By: Anika Gupta

As the cold ocean breeze hit my face, and as my hair rustled in the wind I saw the sun setting behind the ocean. “ Maya, come look at this!” I called out, and as soon as I said my six years old sister's name she came running out from her room, and jumped up and down trying to look over the railing of the cruise.

  As I was grabbing a chair for Maya to stand on, she started to yell something about a big rock, and the cruise ship sinking because of it, and it sounded like the Titanic, but then when I came back to her she looked like she had seen a ghost, and was turning white. “ MOM, DAD SOMETHING HAPPENED TO MAYA!”  I yelled out , and my parents came in with a worried look on their faces. Then Maya started to mumble “ Look over the railing.”

Then as we looked over the railing there were jagged rocks coming out of the ocean, and the cruise was going to hit straight into the rocks. “ CREAK!” the ship moaned, as my dad grabbed Maya, and my mom took a hold of my hand, and squeezed it tightly. My mom and dad both raced to the rafts, and placed Maya and me into the bright orange raft.

 Then they also tried to get into the raft, but the ship slowly inched its way closer to the rocks and my parents ran to get another raft. My dad started to place a second raft in the water, and then my mom came up to me and told me “ Stay safe and I promise I will find you.” and pushed the raft away. As I took a small glimpse of them on the raft trying to push away from the boat, as the ship hit the sharp black jagged rocks and began to sink. Crying I yelled out “ MOM, DAD WHERE ARE YOU!” I said as I scanned the across the dark blue waters, but then suddenly I spotted a bright orange object bobbing up and down.

  I tried to wave them over, but they couldn’t see me. I just couldn’t express what I was feeling. It was like I got sucked into a black hole, and had no way out. After a while as I was trying to find land I saw Maya wake up. “ Maya, are you ok ?” I cried out joyfully and kinda worried.

“Yeah I'm ok, but where's mommy, and daddy?” she said curiously. As I told her about everything that happened. After we stopped talking I caught a glimpse of a tree, but I thought I was hallucinating, but after some time passed a whole island came into sight. As soon as we got closer to the island we got out of the raft, and then pulled the raft onto the island, and put it in a place where it couldn't pop.

As Maya and I started scavenging for food, we heard someone calling out our names, and ran to the front of the island, and there we saw our mom and dad. As they started hugging us in a cave we heard rumbling and rocks on the top of the cave started falling down, and as I was the big sister I clenched Maya’s hand tightly and ran fast.

As the dust died down I was still holding Maya’s hand but I couldn’t find mom and dad anywhere. As I saw Maya trying to breathe properly, I gently took her to sit. I went off to find some food close by, and I found 2 mangos, and a lot of dragon fruit. When I came back I saw Maya was standing screaming out for our parents. 

“ Here Maya lets us eat and then we'll go search for mom and dad, ok.” I told her.

After a while Maya and I set out to find our parents, and for a while we searched around the cave, but then it was getting dark Maya and I decided to sleep in the cave for now. 

When we woke up we found out that our parents also decided to sleep in the cave to see similar minds think alike. So once we found each other we figured out that an importing ship was coming to get some wood. So later that day when the importing ship came wwe all quietly tiptoed onto the ship and hid in the back where tons of more wood was stored so we hid behind some dark brown, pokey wood. I have no idea why my parents decided to hide behind wood but who knows. 

So as we hid some men started coming in and placing large stacks of wood, and then I heard a. BANG! So then the ship started moving. As the ship went on it finally stopped with a huge bang, and then the door where we were opened and water started gushing, and then we all toppled out into the ocean. As we plunged into the ocean we all pushed upward and saw a city with tall buildings, and then I just noticed we were in New York City. After a while of swimming we finally got to the dock, and we climbed up.

“Wow, I never knew you both were that good at swimming!” my mom exclaimed. As we walked around, so the sun would dry us I thought that since we didn’t have any money and the phones probably died from the water. “ Mom, dad, how are we going to buy anything if we don't have any money so what are we going to do?” I asked.

“We are going to have to walk then, and try to find some ways to earn money.” they both said in unison. After a while, no not after a while AFTER THREE DAYS OF WALKING ENDLESSLY, so as soon as we started walking again I swore to myself that I would NEVER EVER GO ON A CRUISE AGAIN!! So after that traumatic little moment we FINALLY reached Santa Clara but I live in San Jose so this is what I did “ AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” so you can see how frustrated I am.

After another round of endless walking and screaming we finally reach home but only to find out that we locked our own HOUSE. CRASH! So what you just read was my dad breaking the window. “ I am NEVER EVER GOING ON A CRUISE AGAIN!” I raged, and that was the last my vocal cords could handle.