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Spinks Alternate Ending

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I take in my surroundings, as I feel my body getting numb from my toes on upward. After floating for hours, I spot a woodsy island I decide looks about a quarter mile away. I wade over to CJ and Jacob, noticing they are the closest people to where I was at. I watch as CJ pathetically hugs his only remaining plane carry-on, his baseball glove. He mopes the entire time it takes me to swim over to them, until he notices me, and he gives one last whimper before wiping his eyes and putting on a brave facial expression. Jacob smirks, knowing I had already seen CJ previously crying. My first instinct would have been to laugh at him, but now was not the time for that. We had fallen into the seas and had no idea where our luggage was, let alone where …show more content…

My thoughts are interrupted by Jacob. “Ding dong, the Spinks is dead. Which old Spinks? The-” he begins, singing. Annoyed with his poor Wizard of Oz parody, I cut him off. “Hey Jacob? If you don’t knock off the tunes, I’ll knock off your head.” A few snickers follow, but I don’t care much. Working my hardest to look as my usual self, I secretly think about how worried I actually am. Although his jokes are dumb, and he can talk way too much, Spinks did teach me several things. One of those things was morals. And that not everyone has the same ones. But right now, mine were telling me Spinks is kind of important and we should put some focus on the situation of his disappearance. What if he was dead, though? How could he have possibly survived those treacherous waters longer than what we did? Surely he would have gotten sick or possibly got injured as his body broke the surface of the …show more content…

I knew from the very start when Spinks told us about this field trip, that this would not end well. Now we have crashed a plane into waters, and I can’t wait to tell my parents that I need a new phone, and it’s all their fault for sending me on this awful “vacation”. All I wanted to do was tell mom and dad that I was right all along. Some of the freshman begin to applaud, glad to be rid of the corny jokester. Most, however, seem genuinely concerned, myself only somewhat

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