Hello Angels!

*scans the horizon for any current lord of the flies fans*

Oh brother, I can't believe I am actually publishing something XD. Lockdown is driving me crazy - as it is most people - and I have come to the conclusion that life is too short right now to have regrets so I decided to be brave and post this little fic I've been working on for a while. If you're out there reading my story and you have the time, please let me know what you think! But be kind please, this is my first published writing piece and I am terrified. Yes, that little anxiety monster is a pain, isn't he? Constructive criticism is very helpful, but I beg you please do not obliterate my confidence.

*nervous laughter*

Anyways, I love these island boys (uh, don't we all) but I am also a raging feminist so that's that. I wanted to say hi at the start of this, but from now on I will leave authors notes to the end of the chapters because I know none of you are here to listen to my warbling hehe. Ramblings over for now.

Please give my little story a chance, and enjoy!

- Angel :) x

Chapter 1.

Kate sighed with relief as she stumbled out of the stuffy old school bus. She wasn't fond of sitting still for too long, and after having spent the last three hours on a bus of noisy school children, her back was now awfully sore and she was in desperate need of a good leg stretch.

She was closely followed by her best friend, who rolled her shoulders back and pulled a face as she heard multiple bones pop back into place.

"Oohhhh, that felt nice" Reyna breathed out deeply in contempt.

"Seriously, rush hour traffic is ridiculous! What a waste of a good morning" Kate huffed, her Scottish accent becoming more prominent as it always did whenever she was annoyed.

"Kate! Wait for us!"

Two other girls came racing up to them.

Kate laughed as they practically screeched to a stop beside her.

"Calm down Hazel, of course we wouldn't go anywhere without you!" Kate smiled down at the younger girl.

Hazel grinned back.

"I can't wait to see an airplane up close!" Hazel's blonde friend twittered, almost dizzy from excitement. Her green eyes sparkled with anticipation.

"Oh! Where's Poppy and Georgia?" Hazel said suddenly, looking around for the final members of their friend group.

As if by magic, the dark haired pair appeared beside them from the throng of school children.

"Who's ready for an adventureee!" Poppy squealed.

They giggled, she was always like this. Crazy and optimistic about absolutely everything.

"Alright everyone, let's head inside but please do try not to wander off" their teacher said in a tired voice, already regretting his agreement to lead this trip.

The girls giggled amongst themselves as they fell into step behind their teacher and entered the huge building in front of them.

Everywhere they looked there were people rushing around with varied amounts of luggage. Out of seemingly no where, a bubbly tour guide appeared carrying a board that said 'East Park High School' on it. She had very blonde hair in corkscrew curls and was dressed in a dark blue blazer, white blouse and matching skirt. Her heels clicked on the floor as she approached the group.

"Welcome to London Heathrow Airport! My name is Angela and I'll be your guide today!" She said with a wide smile.

The tour started and the girls stared around in amazement at the vast airport. They had never been anywhere like this before.

After an hour or so of touring the airport, Angela allowed them to wander around the little gift shops near one of the numerous security gates.

"Ugh, it's so warm in here!" The blonde girl began to shrug out of her heavy blazer.

"CHARLOTTE GALLAGHER! You keep that blazer on or so help me God I will superglue you to it!" The grumpy Physics teacher, Mr Garrington, bellowed from just outside the shop.

Several heads turned and Lottie went bright red before reluctantly shrugged herself back into her blazer. She couldn't entirely blame the teacher for being angry, she would feel the same if she worked at a rundown public school and had been put in charge of thirty school children for the day.

Kate and Reyna giggled to themselves as they browsed through some travel magazines.

Hazel picked up a snow globe with the Eiffel Tower inside it.

"From Paris, with love?" She screwed up her nose as she read, "so cheesy eww, and London does not look like Paris to me!"

Lottie snorted and picked up a similar one with the Empire State Building inside, "New York City doesn't sound quite right either!"

They laughed and shook the snow globes, watching the 'snow' inside fly around the miniature landmarks.

"Do you think we'll ever get to see these places in real life?" Lottie wondered out loud.

"Maybe, if we get a good job some day-or marry a rich man!" Hazel said with a dreamy expression.

"Pfft, rich boys wouldn't pay us any attention at all. Their too busy trying to find trophy wives to appreciate girls who actually have brains!" Kate scoffed from behind them, "you don't need a rich man to do well your both-"

"Strong independent woman-we know!" Hazel sighed and put the snow globe down.

"Here look at this, how does anyone look this good!?" Georgia held up the magazine she was flicking through to show a woman modelling bikinis on a sandy beach somewhere in the tropics.

"Huh, wish we could go someplace like that! Warm sand, the sea..."

Poppy trailed off in a day dream.

Georgia frowned at the flawless model and threw the magazine back on the shelf.

"Can I have the East Park students back out here please?" Angela called from somewhere outside.

The small group left the shop and weaved their way back to Angela, the teacher and their classmates through the busy crowd.

"Mr Garrington, please can I go to the toilet?" A young boy asked.

"I need to go too!" Another said.

Before long, every boy on the trip was asking to use the toilet.

The old teacher sighed.

"Fine, if you all must go. I guess I better take you there so none of you get lost" he grumbled and lead the boys off to the toilet.

Reyna rolled her eyes as the twenty or so boys disappeared into the crowd.

The girls talked amongst themselves for several minutes before Hazel interrupted them.

"Hey, where did Angela go?" She exclaimed.

The older girls looked around, realising that their guide had indeed gone.

"She must be around here somewhere!" Lottie replied.

The airport seemed to have become busier as the morning went on and looking through the mass of people all moving in different directions quickly proved futile. Swear words were thrown their way by adults as they stepped around the small crowd of girls in their rush to get to various places.

"And just where have you lot been?!" A voice shrieked from behind them.

Kate turned in surprise to face an older woman who was scowling at them from behind small round glasses on the edge of her nose. Her greying hair was pulled off her face in a tight bun and she looked positively livid. Dressed in airline uniform with high heels, she towered over them and everything about her screamed 'no nonsense'.

"Well don't just stand there, you're going to miss your flight!" She screeched hysterically.

Kate jumped about a foot in the air from shock but before she could say anything the woman and taken a rather tight hold of Hazel's wrist and began to drag her off towards one of the gates.

"Come along, we do not have all day!" The woman barked as she marched Hazel through the crowd.

The other girls began to run after their friend, unsure of what else to do. Seconds later, another woman appeared who spoke briefly with her superior before she began to heard the younger ones along to make sure they kept up.

Kate and Reyna exchanged confused glances.

"Um, excuse me M'am but I think there has been some mistake-" Kate started.

"QUIET!" The beastly woman bellowed with blazing eyes, "you'll make the whole trip late and we have a schedule to keep to, that's enough talking from the lot of you!"

The girls looked frantically between each other, trying to decide what on earth to do.

They suddenly realised to their horror (or excitement, in Poppy's case) that they had been lead through one of the gates and were now being taken down the narrow corridor to board a plane!

When they reached the end of the corridor a rather irritated looking pilot exchanged hushed words with the stern old woman, and she then shoved them forwards into the plane, her colleague making sure all the younger girls were there too.

"Go and sit down, and don't you dare cause any more trouble or you will be sent straight home!" She yelled at them before the pilot slammed the plane door shut.

Well, shit! Kate thought.

They were now on a plane that was actually going to take off to go somewhere and there was nothing they could do about it.

How could this possibly get any worse?

She turned to speak to the pilot but he glared at her and pointed towards the seats before turning round and marching into the cockpit, slamming the door behind him.

Kate took a deep, calming breath.

"Huh, well that escalated quickly" Reyna said from beside her, "that woman is such a cow!"

Kate snorted, "too right"

"What happens now?" Lottie asked quietly.

A voice cleared their throat from behind them. They turned around to look down the isle of the plane and each girls eyes widened. Staring straight back at them was a sea of faces, young male faces.

"Kate, what should we do?" Hazel whispered.

Kate swallowed. Then she spotted the spare seats at the back of the plane.

"Go up the back" she replied, choosing to ignore the whispers now flying around the boys, "Rey, you go first"

Reyna nodded and began to walk up the isle of the plane closely followed by the others. They all tried to ignore both the stares they got from the boys and the hushed whispering as they walked past.

Once they reached the back of the plane, Hazel began to direct the younger ones into seats furthest from the boys and fastened their seat belts for them. Eventually all the girls were seated safely, and Hazel took the spare seat beside Kate.

"What's going to happen to us?" Lottie asked from across the isle where she was sitting beside Reyna.

"I guess...we're going on an actual flight somewhere" Hazel said.

"How exciting!" Poppy clapped her hands in glee,"none of us have ever been on a plane before, and now we're going on a free trip!"

Lottie looked worried.

"How on earth are we going to explain this when we land? And what's with all the boys? Our parents will think we have been taken hostage by terrorists!" She babbled anxiously.

"Calm down Lottie, it's not even our fault this happened! We might as well enjoy it, we probably will not get the opportunity to fly again in our life" Reyna countered.

"Well that's all well and good but we don't even know where we are going!"

"Well, ask someone!"

"Reyna...I can't..."

The only people she could possibly ask were the boys.

Reyna nodded realising her mistake, and promptly kicked the back of the seat in front.

The boy turned round and raised his eyebrows in surprise. He recovered quickly and grinned at the two girls sitting behind him.

"Hullo" he said, turning around properly to face them.

He had blond hair and the bluest eyes ever - which reminded Lottie of the ocean - and his soft features stretched into a charming smile. For lack of a better word, he was probably the prettiest boy she had ever seen.

"Where is this plane going?" Reyna said, realising how stupid the question sounded given the situation.

He just smiled warmly at her.

"We're going to Florida!" He said smoothly, blue eyes sparkling.

Lottie and Reyna blinked at him.

"Uh, Kate?" Lottie asked, panic mounting in her gut again.

Kate looked over at her.

"Where is Florida?"

"Oh Charlotte, what sort of question is that for a time like this, a geography lesson is not really-" Kate's face paled, "oh my lord, you're joking!"

Lottie gravely shook her head.

"We're going to America?! Jesus Christ we'll be gone for ages before we can get home! I mean really of all the places we could go it had to be the other side of the Atlantic!" Hazel whisper-shouted in frustration, which was unusual since she was usually the calm one.

"Calm down, both of you! There's no sense in becoming hysterical, it won't get us off this plane any faster" Kate said evenly, turning to speak to the boy herself.

"What are you going there for?"

"It's a school trip, we're staying for a few weeks" he replied, "by the way, how did you end up on our plane?"

"We got separated from...the other people from our school" Kate explained, "for some reason, that cow of a flight attendant decided that we were supposed to be on this flight so now we are stuck with you lot"

The boy frowned at her, then widened his eyes. "Here, let me see your school tie!"

Reyna was closest so she held up her tie and he did the same. The colours were exactly the same, dark blue and silver stripes. Only the stripes sloped in opposite directions. The boy gasped.

"The old hag must have thought we were at the same school!" He said.

"Ugh, well at least we won't get the blame for this" Reyna sighed, laying back in her seat.

The boy was about to ask something else, but one of his classmates started talking to him and he turned back around.

When the plane took off about ten minutes later, most of the girls were rather enjoying the experience as none of them had ever flown before. Some of the younger ones shrieked in delight as the plane ascended through the clouds above London. Unfortunately, this was the first occasion where Poppy was able to fully realise the extent of her fear of heights, as it hadn't crossed her mind that airplanes fly very, very high in the sky, and she spent most of the time sobbing in terror or whining dramatically about the absurd idea that a huge piece of metal could soar like a bird above the clouds.

Hazel and Kate checked over the back of their seats to make sure the littler ones were safe and behaving themselves, which they were. The same could not be said for the boys however, they were very loud and were causing quite a ruckus, but at least they had left the girls alone as they were too busy acting the goat to talk to them.

Several hours passed, and Lottie observed the ocean below them change from a stormy grey to a bright, luscious blue as they presumably approached the equator. It really was lovely.

Reyna had gone for a nap, however she was rudely awoken by a loud bang and the plane shuddering.

"What the bloody hell?" She mumbled with a frown, rubbing sleep from her eyes.

"It's just a bit of turbulence, that's very common on planes right?" Lottie replied, looking to Kate for reassurance.

Kate nodded, but the clattering noise did not appear normal at all. She wasn't so sure that everything was alright.

The plane continued to make strange noises and shudder for several minutes. Just when the girls thought it was over, a shout went up from the boys.

"The plane's on fire!"

Kate's stomach dropped and Hazel turned pale. They looked out the window, and sure enough the left wing of the plane was in flames. To make matters worse, they could feel the plane starting to dip as gravity took over. The younger girls started crying and clung to each other as the plane began to fall faster and shake more violently.

Hazel, who was shaking like a leaf, buried herself in Kate's shoulder. Kate panicked. There was nothing she could do, nothing she could say. As much as she tried her best to look after and lead the girls safely through life's challenges, no one could always know what to do, and right now she was lost for words. She looked across the isle at Reyna, her best friend, her partner in crime, her sister. She was holding Lottie's hand tightly - the small blonde had her eyes screwed shut in terror and tears falling rapidly from her eyes. Reyna met her gaze, but there was no chance for words of comfort or goodbye, all she could do in that moment was nod her head down in farewell as the plane continued to plummet towards the ground.

The captains voice came over the intercom,

"BRACE, BRACE, BRACE!"

Kate closed her eyes and thought of her family. Then the plane made impact with the earth. Her head was thrown forwards, colliding with the seat in front and rendered her unconscious.