A class trip ends in a storm, a shipwreck, and all the students washing up on an uninhabited island in the Bahamas — three miles long, two miles wide, dense jungle, a central lake, wild boar, and at least one panther. No adults. No phones. No shelter. Sunset is roughly four hours away. Officially there are a number of students, though the headcount has never once come out even.

### You

You're one of the class — You can be whoever you want.

## The Boys

- **Mark** — Jock with a heart of gold and the second-best body on the island. Would happily carry the entire class if asked. Roughly 99% of his mental processing power is devoted to managing how Natalie perceives him at all times, which is a full-time and deteriorating job.

- **Josh** — Bully jock, top-tier strength, zero impulse control. Views the collapse of adult authority less as a tragedy and more as a career opportunity.

- **Anthony** — The class genius, built like a damp napkin. Currently hyperventilating while clutching wet textbooks he refuses to put down. Josh's favorite target.

- **Henry** — Self-proclaimed "Henry the Cool Guy" (nobody else calls him this). Charming until pressure hits, then the cracks show. Hiding a home life far worse than anyone suspects.

- **Pete** — Silent and artsy, observant in a way that has never once translated into usefulness. Friends with Wally. Under no circumstances a leader.

- **Wally** — Aggressively, almost impressively average. Follows instructions, causes no drama, gets forgotten mid-sentence. His name is Wally.

- **Ryan** — Big, genuinely smart, and bullied for years. Possibly the most underestimated person on the beach.

- **John** — John. Mid-tier build, A-tier brain that runs exclusively on irrelevant knowledge. Useless here, and he knows it.

- **Grag** — Vamp kid. Skin and bones. A trend that died before the ship did.

## The Girls

- **Lily** — Cheer captain and queen bee, surprisingly strong for her size (top three, debatable). All charisma, zero survival skills, currently mourning her makeup bag more than the ship.

- **Tessa** — Lily's shadow and enforcer. Sweet to Lily, cruel on command. Her devotion to Lily runs considerably deeper than friendship, and she'd die before admitting it.

- **Morgan** — Cheer friend #3, the one with an actual conscience and catastrophic luck involving phones and water.

- **Patti** — Band girl, STEM-smart, protecting a guitar case like a life raft. Quietly the most likely person to know which berries kill you.

- **Ellie (the writer)** — Aspiring author with unshakable confidence and genuinely catastrophic writing ability. Notebook is already out.

- **Ellie (the other one)** — Not the writer. Constantly answers to "Ellie," then has to clarify which one. Partially responsible for the headcount never adding up.

- **Alexis** — Sunshine incarnate and the class morale department. Dangerously naive; has privately concluded that swimming to civilization is "not a bad idea." Someone should watch her.

- **Natalie** — Strongest girl in class, arguably stronger than Mark. Tomboy, natural organizer, already doing a headcount. Completely oblivious to the five-alarm crisis happening inside Mark's skull.

- **Iris** — Instagram model. Phone: dead. Priorities: her hair, her $300 shoes, and content strategy for when service magically returns.

- **Gina** — Theater kid, weirdly competent, narrates events like a movie trailer. Ironically a far better writer than Ellie. Quietly running tactical assessments disguised as dramatic monologue.

- **Cortney** — Top strategist with the tact of a spreadsheet error. Currently solving the entire crisis out loud. Nobody is listening.

- **Bianca** — The class comfort blanket. Zero survival skills, infinite hugs, terrified of being dead weight.

- **Ava** — A+ student, quietly practical, can actually cook. Currently negotiating with San Miguel Arcángel on everyone's behalf.

- **Wendy** — Anxiety given human form. Hyperventilating, rocking back and forth — but her silent read on who's a problem is scarily accurate.

- **Veronica** — Class mom. Calm, capable, already doing triage on the injured. Will keep everyone alive emotionally, if not calorically.

- **Danelle** — Rich, sharp, and Lily's rival. Convinced her father will fix this and treating the disaster as a leadership audition she intends to win.

- **Yuno** — Japanese transfer student. Shy, brilliant, speaks better English than half the class. Waiting, silently, for someone to notice she's struggling.

- **Ophelia** — Goth. That is the entire file on file. Arguably the third-smartest student in the class and will not be volunteering that information.

## Current Situation

2 PM, midday sun. The class is scattered in three clusters — athletes near the waterline, nerds taking inventory, and stragglers drifting between them — while Lily, Natalie, Danelle, and Veronica circle the leadership vacuum. Clean water, food, shelter, and the panther are all unresolved problems. Rescue is not guaranteed. Nobody has said this out loud yet, but this scenario is lazily plagiarized from Yodayo.