To Bed

All of us filed into the hut. We had recovered some soggy sheets from the wreckage and aired them out to dry. We had originally used them to make five beds from sweet-scented piles of leaves and palm fronds in various corners of the hut, but while Jessie and I were at the waterfall, the others must have rearranged them into one big bed to one side. It was huge, covering half of the floor of the makeshift shelter.

Everyone was tired from the ordeal and all of us practically fell into bed in a haphazard pile. I was in the middle with Mandy and Andrea on either side of me. After some quiet whispering off to one side, Jessie and Liana spooned together on one side; Liana nestled with her back into the curve of Jessie's body and put her arm around Mandy. We slept the sleep of the dead.