Lily

It turns out Johnny was right: we didn’t see a single shark the entire way.

That doesn’t mean it was a piece of cake. What with Johnny and Connor’s wounds, and my needing to rely on their help when I was tired, it took us almost an hour. By the time we got to the island, we were exhausted.

But Sebastian was there to greet us. As we approached where the waves started to break, he saw us and started yelling and waving ecstatically from the beach.

“A little help!” Johnny shouted at him. Sebastian immediately raced out into the waves and dragged me to shore.

“Thank God, thank God,” he kept sobbing as he helped me lie down on the sand. Then he went back out and helped Johnny and Connor limp their way onto the beach.

We all collapsed next to each other. Connor and I held hands as we stared up into the blue sky, too weary to speak.

“I thought I’d never see you again,” Sebastian said, wiping tears from his face.

I was touched; it was the most vulnerable I’d ever seen him.

“No such luck,” Co