AND ABILITY TO CALM EVERYONE DOWN.TRACI STOOD UP AND BRUSHED THE SAND FROM
         
         HER FACE AND HAIR.SHE WALKED PAST LAURI AND SAW LAURI WAS SURROUNDED
         
         IN A CIRCLE OF BOYS.TRACI ALSO NOTICED THE COY SMILE ON HER SLEEPING
         
         FACE.
         
           “SLUT.” TRACI HISSED.SHE WALKED INTO THE FOILAGE AND KEPT STRAIGHT.THE
         
         FLOWERS WERE BEAUTIFUL AND SHE PICKED A FEW.SHE CARRIED THEMGENTLY AND
         
         WENT ON.A SWISHING SOUND CAUGHT HER ATTENTION.SHE JOGGED FORWARD AND CAME
         
         ACROSS A FRESHWATER STREAM.SHE KNEELED BY IT AND TOOK LONG AND WELL DESERVEL
         
         GULPS.THERE WAS A GOOD SIZED WATERFALL AT ONE END AND SHE WALKED TO IT’S
         
         EDGE.SHE SAT ON A ROCK AND WASHED HER LONG HAIR.SHE BRAIDED IT AND ENTWINED
         
         THE FLOWERS AMONG HER HAIR AND STOOD UP TO LEAVE.SHE WALKED BACK TO THE CAMI
         
         AND DISCOVERED EVERYONE WAS GROGGILY WAKING.EXCEPT CLAE.CLAE HAD TURNED
         
         A STRANGE PALE WHITE AND HER HAND WAS FRIGID.TRACI PLUNKED DOWN BESIDE HER
         
         AND STOLE THE ONLY BLANKET FROM THE SAND IN FRONT OF THEM.SHE TUCKED IT
         
         AROUND HER FRIEND.SHE STOOD UP AND TOOK CLAE’S HEELS.SHE DRAGGED HER FRIEND
         
         IN FRONT OF THE DYING FIRE AND THREW A HANDFUL OF BRAMBLES ONTO IT.SHE
         
         PUT HER HAND ON HER FRIEND’S FOREHEAD.IT WAS HOT.TRACI CHEWED HER LOWER
         
         LIP THOUGHTFULLY.SHE LOOKED TO THE SKY.
         
           PLEASE LORD,DON’T LET HER GET SICK.JACK CAME UP TO HER,HIS BONY CHEST

         BARE.
         
           “FIX US BREAKFAST.” HE SAID COLDLY.TRACI,WHO WAS ON HER KNEES,LOOKED

         





         
         
         UP TO JACK.
         
           “GO FIND IT.” SHE RETORTED.