LIES AND SPYING

Jackson woke up suddenly from a deep sleep. It was the middle of the night and looked around expecting to see everyone sleeping soundly. (AN I'm setting this after Scratch so they only have one tent left over from the storm). To his surprise Melissa wasn't in her sleeping bag, in fact she wasn't in the tent at all.

He got up slowly, moving carefully through the tent. After exiting the tent he ran into Melissa almost immediately.

'Mmmmphhh' came the sound of Melissa's muffled scream. Jackson had covered her mouth to avoid waking up the others.

'What are you doing out so late?' Jackson whispered suspiciously, dragging her further away from the tent.

'I…um…I just had to go the bathroom' Melissa replied very unconvincingly, with a nervous smile on her face.

'Uh huh, sure' said Jackson too tired to ask any questions, but he made a mental note to talk to her in the morning.

The next morning Jackson awoke lazily he looked around to see that he was the last one sleeping. He slowly got up and stumbled out of the tent, he looked over to see Eric and Taylor sitting by the fire.

'Morning chief' said Eric sarcastically.

'Morning' He replied ignoring Eric's jab.

'Hey, do you know what's up with Melissa?' Taylor asked 'She looked kind of worried, or something, and then went off somewhere with Nathan'

Jackson immediately woke up 'When was this?' he asked now remembering the encounter they had had last night.

'A while ago' said Daley who had obviously overheard their conversation 'It was weird, me and Nathan were about to go collect fire wood and then Melissa comes up, whispers something to him then he totally ditches me' she finished looking a little hurt.

Jackson couldn't help but notice Eric was sitting still not saying anything, which is very unlike him. He would've questioned him if he didn't at that exact moment get up to leave.

'Well I think I'll go lug some water' said Eric as he quickly grabbed a water jug and went off into the jungle.

Jackson, curious to see what this was all about, followed him quietly hiding behind trees. He wasn't completely surprised to see Eric stop in front of Nathan and Melissa. Jackson stooped beside a tree, hidden from sight so he could hear what they were saying.

'Guys they were just talking about you back at camp' said Eric hurriedly 'Mel! I can't believe you told Nathan I thought we weren't going to tell anyone!'

'He's my best friend I had to talk to someone' Melissa said, obviously upset, then turning to Nathan she said 'No one can find out about this'

'I can't believe you guys did this' Nathan replied.

'It doesn't matter now as long as we keep it in a safe place no one will find out' Melissa said warningly

There was silence for a while then Jackson heard Mellissa's voice.

'If Jackson finds out he'll hate me!'

What! Jackson thought, what could she have possibly done to make me hate her

Jackson walked back to camp his head filling with thoughts about what they could've done. Just then Taylor walked up to him.

'I saw you spying on them, what were they doing?'

'Taylor! Why were you spying on me?' asked Jackson angrily

'Hey you were spying on them. Any ways I was bored, besides don't you think it's weird'

Jackson sighed and decided to play along 'What's weird, Taylor?'

'All of them hanging out, I mean Nathan and Melissa I'd expect. But what could Eric possibly be doing with them?' Taylor smiled 'Wow, I never realized how much I missed gossip!'

'Taylor you can't tell anyone about this'

'I won't tell if you tell me what you heard them saying.' Taylor said coyly.

'AHHHH!' screamed Jackson annoyed 'Fine, but you can't tell anyone I was spying on them'. With that Jackson told her everything he had heard.

'Wow, that's good. I wonder what they could've done' Taylor said 'We have to find out! Right now we have to promise that if either of us finds out anything we have to tell the other…deal?'

Jackson didn't really feel like making any deals with Taylor but didn't want to be denied information if she found out anything 'Ok…deal' he replied defeated.

Later that day, out by the water well, Melissa, Nathan, Eric were talking in hushed tones.

'Eric, this is all your fault! If you hadn't been so stupid this would've never happened!' Melissa whispered through gritted teeth

'My fault' Eric scoffed, 'if it wasn't for Nathan over here we'd still have his tape and be able to delete the evidence.' (AN earlier when Melissa was saying "keep it in a safe place", she was talking about the tape)

'Hey it was your fault the camera was on in the first place, plus you're the idiot who recorded over Jackson's tape instead of you own' said Nathan 'any way, no offense Mel, but you were the one that entrusted me with the tape in the first place'

'But that's only because me and Eric didn't know how to delete it!' she said defending herself 'plus if it wasn't for Eric we wouldn't even have a secret!' whispered Melissa furiously.

'Guys what's done is done, I'll admit it was probably mostly my fault, but what Me and Melissa really need to worry about is getting that tape away from Jackson before he watches it, and Nathan now that Mel has "confided" in you your going to help us'

Nathan and Melissa exchanged nervous glances then nodded at each other in agreement.

Meanwhile a figure moved swiftly out of her hiding spot, back to the campsite. She giggled happily swinging her blonde hair, eager to make good on her promise.

AN Hey guys this is my first fic so I'm not really sure if it was ne good…pleaz be nice! I'm still debating on the secret but I def have sum ideas...

AN (another one) In case you were wondering this story does have pairings, mostly MJ, and a lot of drama wit that particular pairing!

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