Chapter Five: Teams E and F:

Team E

“How long has it been?” Sapphire asked. Victoria looked at her phone.

“About two hours,” she said. “Why?” Jun rolled her eyes.

“This is so lame,” she complained. “Why are we doing this?” The other two girls looked at her. Jun put up her hands in a shrug.

“What does he even want with this flower anyway?” she asked. The girls didn’t have an answer either. Jun rolled her eyes.

“Where are we even going?” she asked. The girls didn’t have an answer.

“So we are just going to keep going north?” Jun asked.

“I guess,” Victoria said. “Do you have any better ideas?” The Japanese woman frowned.

“Fuck if I know,” she said. “We can just quit for all I care.”

“I don’t think that’s a good idea,” Sapphire said. Jun raised her eyebrow.

“Why?” she asked.

“Don’t know,” she said. Jun groaned and rolled her eyes.

“So stupid,” she muttered. But Jun kept walking with them as they looked through the flowers on the island. She wrinkled her nose.

“This island is so big anyway,” the Japanese woman said. “How are was supposed to find one stupid flower?”

“Part of the adventure, I guess,” Victoria said. Jun groaned and rolled her eyes.

“Lame,” she muttered. Sapphire and Victoria said nothing. They just kept walking.

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Team F

Katie couldn’t stop picking flowers. Bemmer and Amber just let her be. She wasn’t going to listen anyway. Katie had armfuls of flowers.

“So pretty!” she shouted.

“Uh-huh,” Bemmer said.

“Look at them!” the Finnish girl said.

“Very nice,” he said. Amber swatted away a bug flying by her ear as she screamed. Bemmer and Katie looked up.

“Are you okay?” Bemmer asked.

“No!” Amber said. “Can we please get out of here?”

“And go where?” he asked.

“I don’t know!” the French girl whimpered. “Can’t we go back to the house?”

“But we can’t!” Katie said. “We have to find the Butter Flower!” Amber groaned as she swatted away for more bugs.

“I don’t like this!” she wailed. “There are too many bugs out here. And it’s too hot!” The French girl frowned as she folded her arms across her chest. Katie looked annoyed as well.

“No!” she shouted. “We can’t go until we find the Butter Flower!”

“I want to go back inside!” Amber shouted.

“No! We’re finding the flower!” Katie shot back.

“Inside!”

“Flower!”

“Inside!”

“Flower!”

“Inside!”

“Flower!”

“Inside!”

“Flower!”

By now, Bemmer walked off. He couldn’t take this shit anymore. Plus, two more days of this hunt? No thank you! They wouldn’t even notice if he were gone or not. Who cares? He just wanted to get away from them.

Two hours and eighteen minutes have passed in the hunt for the Butter Flower.