We found Simon’s dead body. Just seeing him lying there was horrifying. Everything has been so crazy lately, so I decided to get away for a little bit so that I could hear myself think. After seeing Simon like this I immediately thought about my mum and daddy. They died on a few years ago. We were taking a trip to visit my auntie for Christmas. My daddy had just gotten a new car. My mum and I were so excited when he brought it home. This would be the first time we would take it on a long trip. My auntie lived about 2 hours away. The air was freezing, the windows were frosted, and the roads were icy. I was trying to show my daddy the drawing I made of us. He looked back at me. My mum screamed. We crashed into an oncoming car. I woke up in the hospital not knowing what happened. Everything was blurring and my body felt horrible. My auntie was sitting there with me holding my hand. She told me that my daddy and mum had died. I just went completely numb after that. I started eating a lot and I gained a lot of weight, and that's when the kids at school started calling me piggy. I don’t really think about my parent’s death a lot. I’ve tried to erase it from my mind. Just being on this island is bringing all of these emotions back. Jack has been bullying me a lot. Every time I try to talk he just yells at me and calls me fatty. The one time that I tried to back up Ralph about the fire Jack just yelled at me and slapped me in the face. Now my glasses are broken, I need my glasses, without them I can barely see. The thing that makes me even madder is that he didn’t even acknowledge what he did or say sorry. I don’t know how much longer I can last on this island. I need to go home. 

One of the littluns has gone missing! It was the boy with the mulberry-colored birthmark. He was trying to tell us all about the beasties that he’s seen in the forest! No one even really listened to him. They all thought that he’s just some little boy having nightmares. I don’t know though, it seems like all of the littluns are seeing this beastie. Well now he’s missing! If we were organized like I said we should have been, we would know where everyone is.  I wanted to get everyone’s names and to take attendance, but no one listens to me. They listen to Jack who all he thinks about is the hunt, or they listen to Ralph who just cares about the fire. Speaking of the fire, some bad things happened with this. Jack and his choir were suppose to be watching the fire to make sure that it doesn’t burn out, but instead they decided to go off and hunt. Meanwhile, Ralph, Maurice, Simon and I were swimming in the stream when all of a sudden we saw a ship. Ralph noticed that the fire had gone out and there was no smoke! We all were running like crazy trying to reach the fire to relight it, but it was too late. The ship was now out of sight. I saw something in Ralph when this happened. He looked as though all hope was gone. Ralph and Jack got into this huge argument over the fire. I tried to back up Ralph, but Jack just told me to shut up, and he slapped me and broke the lens out of my glasses. This was the last straw for Ralph. He decided that he was going to call a meeting tonight, no matter how dark it is. I’m heading to the meeting right now. Hopefully this goes well.

Piggy Journal: Deserted Island Day 1

Well, the plane that was supposed to take me to safety ended up crashing…and this is where it landed. Yeah it looks nice and all, but there are no grownups! I don’t know what to do without my auntie! She’s probably worrying about me. Well actually she probably thinks the plane arrived safely where it was suppose to go. Oh! This is just not good! This island is filled with creeper things and them fruit! Them fruit… they’re delicious but a huge regret later. Luckily I met a really cool kid named Ralph. He’s got fair hair and he’s pretty tall. I guess his dad is in the navy, which is super cool. My daddy and mum are dead… but I don’t really want to talk about that. Anyway, ever since then my auntie has been taking care of me. She’s awesome! She owns this candy store and I get tons of candy anytime I want some. She’s always getting on me about my asthma though. I’m not supposed to swim or run. I guess you can say that I’m not the skinniest kid. I shared my secret with Ralph about how the kids at school call me… piggy. Ralph isn’t much of a talker so he hasn’t really asked what my real name is, so I guess he’ll just stick with piggy. Ralph is pretty certain that his dad will come and rescue us. I’m just not too sure about that. How will people even know that we’re on this island? The rest of the kids just keep listening to him though. I guess I would listen to Ralph to though…he’s the coolest guy I’ve ever met. I just wish that he wouldn’t let the other boys pick on me so much. This kid named Jack keeps telling me to shut up every time I talk! I’m worried that Jack will make Ralph not like me anymore. Ralph keeps listening to Jack's ideas and not mine. They’ve got it all wrong though! We should be getting organized and taking names and building tents, but no instead everyone goes chaotic trying to build a fire! This was Ralph’s idea. Maybe soon he’ll realize that my ideas are better than Jack’s.