Into The Wild……

CHAPTER 23:

Sam’s Woods, 12:13 pm:

Edward and Gabrielle jump up at once. “Where the hell is she?!” Gabrielle then says. “You two check around the area, I’ll run back to camp in case she went back. We need to find her and fast before she gets hurt” Edward says to Gabrielle and Dee now running back to camp. The girls then walk around the whole lake and even check behind the bush’s, but no Jessica. Edward comes running back to them a half an hour later with the same news, no Jessica. “Ok, this has got me really worried now!” Dee says shaking her head. “Lets check near the rocks, she might have left something there and went back to get it” Gabrielle says. Then she, Edward and Dee go running off to the rocks.

Minutes later Jessica herself comes walking out of the deep side of the woods by the lake and then walks up to where the others were sitting awhile ago.“Hum wonder where they went off to?” Jessica says to herself sitting down on the ground. Then she un-zips her book bag she brought with her when she went out and then she takes out a small blue bird with what looks to be a broken right wing a out of the bag and then she slowly sets it down on her towel she used to dry off after swimming. “There you go little guy. I’ll have to find the other’s and see what we can do with that messed up wing” Jessica then says petting the bird in the back of he’s head, and the bird loves every minute of it.

A little while later Dee, Edward and Gabrielle come walking back up to the lake. “Oh god where the hell is she?!” Gabrielle says. “I told her just like I told you guys before we set out here, not to wonder away from the group!” Edward says shaking his head. “I know! Something must have had her wonder” Dee says. As they walk back over to where they were sitting, they then see Jessica sound asleep on the ground laying next to the little blue bird. “Jess!” Dee yells now running over to her. Jessica wakes with a start, then she gets up and walks a little over to the others and then hugs Dee. “Don’t walk over here, I found a little bird with what I think has a broken wing, and I don’t need him stomped on” Jessica says. “So that’s where you went?!” Gabrielle says. “Yeah. I heard him chirping like crazy and it did sound like he was in trouble, so I got out of the water and dried myself off and then went looking for him. He was just right over there” Jessica says now pointing over to the deep end of the woods. “Right there just behind where that tree is” she then says meaning the big oak tree right dead in front if them. “Of course, right where we didn’t look!” Dee says laughing a little. The girls then go over to the little bird, where Edward is already looking at him. “ Some feathers of his right wing are broken, must have fallen out of a tree” Edward says holding the bird and looking at it more closely. “Good thing you found him too Jess, he might have been lunch for a fox or something” he then says. “That’s what I was worried about” Jessica says. “You know, it would have been nice to tell us where going so that way we didn’t have to go crazy looking for you with worry” Gabrielle then says to Jessica. “Ha I know, sorry. But I wanted to get to him as fast as I could. Before, just like Edward said, he could become lunch” Jessica says. “We can fix him up at camp, clip his wings together and all, make him heal better” Edward then says. He then gives the bird to Jessica and then she puts him in her book bag again. Then they all get their stuff together and then they go back to camp.

Sam’s Woods, 2:20 pm:

Edward just got done taping the three messed up feathers of the right wing of the bird that Jessica found. Then he gives him back to Jessica and says to her. “He’s going to need care and all for six weeks” “Ok, then, looks like I have a new pet!” Jessica says. “Cool! So what are you going to name him?” Dee asks her. “I donno, gotta think on it a little. Maybe Tommy or something” Jessica then says holding the little bird on her hands. “Do you think it’s ok for Jess to keep him? He is a wild bird” Gabrielle says to Edward out of ear shout of Jessica. “Should be ok, he is just a blue bird, not like a hawk or anything” Edward says nodding his head. Then after a while of resting, Edward and Gabrielle go hiking while Dee and Jessica stay with the little bird, he needs to be watched 24/7 so he doesn’t get even more hurt, even more so here in the woods.

A few hours go by then Edward and Gabrielle come back before sundown and they brought with them a fish Edward got at the lake before they walked back here for dinner, and Gabrielle has some bits of wood for Jessica to make a little nest for the bird in her tent. While Edward cooks up the fish, the girls make up a little nest for the bird now names Timmy. Then they have dinner. After a few more hours of talking and telling story’s and laughing at little Timmy running around trying to catch a fast moving worm on the ground. They all head to their tents and go to bed.

Sam’s Woods, 6:44 am:

The girls are suddenly awoken by Edward yelling his head off. “Girls you better get out here!” he yells.