I would like to thank everyone that had reviewed, this is the second chapter, Please review, i like to know what you think and it helps make corrections. First chapter will be reposted with some minor grammer corrections as well.. Please Keep up them reviews. As for thos who have PM'd me about this sotry i really on update/write on Tuesdays and Wensdays, sorry about that the Life happens, as well has 2 kids 2 1/2 and 6 months. So it is time consuming..
Again, than kyou so much for the reviews, Pleae let me know what you think about htis chapter. Next chapter will be a bit of the shower and bedroom scene then time for a shift.
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Chapter 2 – Beach
The drive to the beach was mostly in silence except for the occasional really bad singing when a popular song came on the radio. John was concentrating on the road ahead it would still be another 20 minutes till they hit the beach but he was enjoying this time. He had been trying to ditch His parents by weaving in out of traffic but doing that and staying safe it was impossible to ditch them, not that he wanted to, he was just having fine.
It further fueled his competiveness when his dad called his cell phone, Cameron had reach dip into his pocket, deeper then she really had to but he didn't mind to get out the offending object. After a brief conversation she hung the phone up and stuck it back into his packet smiling.
"Dad said that if you are trying to ditch them, nice try but he isn't that old yet to let a young boy like yourself out drive him." John just smiled, for a moment but was brought out of his moment when a horn beeping made him look to the left of the truck to see his Mom, and Dad shooting past them.
"Did he just flip me off?" John asked turning to Cameron and looking at Allison in the rear view mirror. No one answered they just started to laugh hysterically.
"Ok, where'd they go?" John asked looking around for his parent's car. Both the girls were looking around as well.
"Oh shit, they ditched us." Cameron was just shaking her head in disbelief.
After 15 more minutes on the road, they had gotten off the highway and made there way to the parking lot to the beach. As they pulled into a spot, they noticed there parent's car was there.
Both Kyle and Sarah were sitting on the trunk of the car drinking a soda waiting.
As John stepped out of his truck, Kyle spoke up trying to hold back the laughing.
"What took you guys so long?" Kyle just smiled.
"We would have been here sooner a car full of old people was driving like crazy, we wanted to be safe, so we stayed back a bit." Cameron had come up next to John and wrapped her arm around his as she answered the question.
Now it was John's turn to smile. "Yup, those old people can't be too careful anymore."
Allison had gotten out of the truck and was failing at keeping her giggles hidden but it wasn't working.
Everyone just turned and looked at her; Cameron tilted her head to the side and smiled.
She looked at John. "You sure she is your sister? I mean she seems off in a way."
John turned to his parents with a questioning look. "Yup, you were both born on the same day, hence why you are called Twins." Sarah responded, starting to the get the stuff out of the car.
John turned to Cameron and shrugged. "Let's get our stuff and pick out a spot." John stated heading towards the back of his truck. Allison had already gotten her bag and beach chair out.
John reached in and grabbed the bag he and Cam had packed as well as the cooler that had somehow gotten in there.
"Cam, where'd the cooler come from?" Cam looked up from grabbing the beach chairs.
"You had practice today; your mom always packs a cooler full of drinks and sandwiches for us. Usually, Allison, mom, and I go with you, When dad isn't working he comes too. Mom just threw some more stuff in there so it last the whole day and not just 4 hours."
John smiled to himself. He thought about what had happened that day why they were on there way closer to the shore line. He was not being hunted by killer robots from the future, he had a normal mother and he actually had a father, He had a twin sister names Allison, his girl friend was hot and stayed with him a lot. His parents liked her, his sister and girl friend were best friends, and the most important thing was his life was normal.
"John, John, hello John?" Cameron brought John out of his thoughts by waving her hand in front of his face.
"What? Sorry, I was lost in thought there for a second." John looked over at Cam and smiled.
"You ok?" She asked, wanting to take his hand but both of them had there arms full of stuff.
"Yeah, just thinking about all that has happened today, and what other things I have forgotten, I only can still remember up until this morning when I woke up. I can't remember anything of my life before that, well this life any way."
"I wish I could help you John, really I do, but the only thing I can do is be by your side, forever and always."
John smiled at that, having Cam by his side filled his heart with warmth he never thought he would experience. He looked up in to her beautiful blue eyes and smiled.
"I know, and that's all I ask." There was a brief pause. "I love you Cam. I always will, no matter what."
She just smiled as they found a nice spot near where his parents had set up, Allison had dropped her stuff between them, there was only like 3 feet between everyone so it was exactly secluded but it kept them together.
Once there stuff was set up Cam came over and embraced John into a hug, trying to relay her love for him in the hug. She whispered into her ears. "I love you to John, I always will." I always will was something they started to say to each other, it was there phrase.
The beach was wonderful, it was in the 80's but the water was a little too cool to swim in, John didn't care though once everything had been set up his parents decided to go for a walk along the beach and wouldn't be back for awhile, Allison was reading a book, he foot tapping to some song she was listening to on her IPod.
John was stretched out on the blanket they had brought with them, the chairs still folded up. Cameron had stretched out next to him her head on his chest listening to his heart beat. John's hand slowly drew circles along her bare back, just enjoying the feel of her skin under his finger tips.
John's eyes never stopped looking around for threats though, something told him he wasn't safe there, and always be ready to run. His mind was fighting with it's self. He was safe, his life was perfect, maybe to perfect. He was looking around the beach at all the people walking or running by him, something didn't feel right though.
John was brought out of his thoughts once again by a low grumbling sound. He looked down at the back of Cam's heard and notice her breathing was slow and steady, she was sleeping. He heard the noise again and felt it as well. It was his stomach telling him he was hungry.
"Once of us is hungry?" Cameron said form her position on his chest.
"That would be me since someone ate my waffles this morning." He gave her a little tickle on her side.
She squirmed under his assault, trying to not to laugh. "You want a sandwich, and something to drink?"
John nodded, as Cameron sat up John made a move to go to the cooler, Cam rolled over and straddled his waist, leaning down, she kissed him on the lips, a deep passionate kiss. One that if they had not been on the beach would have resulted in the remaining clothes being removed.
Cam slowly released her lips from his and sat up. "You stay here, I will get us something." She said he checks flushed from the kiss, John just nodded, still on cloud nine from that kiss and Cam straddling his lap.
"John, you two really need to get a room or something." Allison had finally come out from her little world and sat next to him as he sat up.
"What can I say, she makes me feel hot." John said looking at his sister. "Besides, you're just jealous because you have to live your romantic life through me and Cam." He smiled.
"Hey just because I choose not date any of the mutants that go to our school doesn't me I don't have a life. I still hang out with my friends. Cam and I hang out a lot when you two aren't sucking face or other things."
John just buried his hands in his head. "You know way too much about Cam and my relationship."
"Well with that being said, here. You asked me to hold this for you till you thought I would think the time is right." She looked over to Cam who was getting the drinks out and closing the cooler.
"I think this would be the right time, especially after what happened this morning." Allison handed him a small velvet box and watched as he opened it. There was a diamond ring inside, nothing huge but just enough to sparkle when the sun hit it, engraved on the inside he could see were the words 'I always will' John smiled and wrapped his sister up in a big hug.
"Thanks Ally, you are the best." He hugged her a little tighter, and then let go.
"Mom and dad are coming back there up by the dune over there, can you stall them for like 10 minutes, tell Dad his shorts are on backwards and inside out.
"Gross, that's why they were gone for so long. I will." With that she got up and ran over to intercept there parents. He couldn't tell if his shorts were on inside out but it would be funny as hell.
Cameron came back with lunch and just plopped down next to John with the food.
"Where is Alley running off to? She's not hungry?" Came asked opening up her sandwich.
"She is going to stall mom and dad for 10 minutes for me." John smiled at Cameron, he would have thought he had something planned maybe he did he just couldn't remember it at the moment.
Cam looked at him slightly confused why he would want to stall his parents she didn't know, yet. But had a feeling she would be finding out soon enough. He heart was starting to beat fast with excitement and anticipation.
"Cam, I can't remember how long we have been together, a week, month years. But I know in my heart we belong together. We are finishing up school soon, and well. Oh hell…" John knew he had faced bigger things then this before, he felt it in his gut. He looked into Cam's eyes.
"Will you marry me?" He felt like a complete idiot, he slowly placed the ring he had gotten onto her finger; the sad thing was he didn't even know where he had gotten the ring or how.
Cam was shocked, surprised, elated, all in a single moment. Time seemed to stand still for her as she felt him slide the ring down her finger were it fit perfectly. She could see the sun reflecting off the diamond. It was the most beautify thing she had ever seen.
"Yes…" It came out almost as a whisper
"What was that I didn't hear you?" John asked knowing what she had said.
"Yes! I said Yes, I will marry you…" Those were the only words John needed to hear; he grabbed Cameron up in the biggest hug, stood up and started to swing her around. He could hear her giggle with excitement, He slowed the spinning around and kissed her, trying to put everything into the kiss he had.
Neither of them noticed Kyle, Sarah, and Allison had walked up to them, they had seen the whole thing and knew what had happened. Sarah had known about the ring for almost a month now, John had shown it to her the day he bought it. He assured her that he was only giving her the ring as a promise to marry. They were going to wait till after high school and depending on collage too.
"So, I take it she said yes?" Kyle asked his son as they walked up to the happy couple.
"Yes she did…" Cameron held out her hand so they could see how the ring looked on her figure. She was practically beaming.
"You're going to wait right?" This came from Kyle as he wasn't put in on the plan yet.
John smiled wrapping an arm around Cameron's waist. "Yes, least till we are out of high school, that way Cam doesn't have to get parental consent."
Cameron just nodded. "The less time I have to go back to that house the better, I will tell my mom, and she is invited but only her." She felt John give her a re-assuring squeeze.
Sarah had come up to her and brought her into a great big hug. After releasing her from the hug, she still kept a hold of her hands. "You don't have to go back there you know that right? You can stay with us for as long as you like, you are part of our family, this will just give us a piece of paper."
Cam nodded. "What about the school, parental consent, insurance, and other things kids need there parents for?"
No one spoke for a few minutes while they all thought about it.
"What if they got married now before spring break was over. I mean since only her mom has to consent to the marriage, they can get married now, and then since she can legal change her last name to Reese."
It was Allison that had spoken up with this plan first. This had gotten Kyle thinking as well.
"I see where you are going with this Alley, since she would still be a minor, and would have our name; we could get full custodial rights as if she was our child. Would your mom have a problem with signing a married certificate, and singing over her parental rights?"
Cam tilted her head to the side for a second thinking about it. "I don't think so, but I think we should talk to her away from Mark, he won't have any say in the matter since he never legally adopted me." This plan was starting to make her feel better and better.
She was going to be with the man she loved more then life itself, with a family that loved her in return. It felt so right, John was defiantly going to get thanked tonight.
"John lets go for a walk…" Cameron asked, grabbing one last sip of her water before they left.
John nodded as he finished off the last of the water she had just had. "We will be back, oh and dad your shorts are now on backwards" John and Cameron ran off before they could be hit with anything.
They had walked for about 10 minutes, hand in hand, enjoying each other. When Cameron spoke up, her voice was soft and caring.
"How bad was this one John?" It was a simple question, one she knew he would understand. John had always talked to her about the nightmares in sure detail; she sometimes had dreams about what he told her too.
John breathed inward he didn't want to talk about it, afraid that all this would come crashing down on him. But he felt like he had to talk about it.
Letting the breath out slowing, he began. "I'm guessing you know the whole story, My dad coming back to protect my mom, me being conceived, then another one coming back to kill me, but future me sends a 800 series back to protect me. Well the dream I had was further in the time line then that. I was a teenager, we had decided to stop running, and bring the fight to Skynet." Cameron nodded to him letting him know she knew all this, so he didn't have to fill her in.
"It was my birthday, Cameron went out to get me a cake, mom came in and we were talking, then all of a sudden we heard an explosion, the jeep Cameron started up was rigged to explode. We ran out to see the jeep on fire, nothing was moving, we quickly ran into the house when the person we were tracking and who set the bomb, got a hold of us, he managed to lock mom up to a radiator, and was beating me to get info, had nothing to do with judgment day, just a computer we were after, he was part of the Russian mob. When he thought I was unconscious he went towards mom. I managed to get the handcuffs off me and I jumped him, strangling him to death."
John took a deep breath trying to steady his breath. "Cameron managed to survive explosion, but her chip was damaged, she went back to her Core programming. Terminating John Connor, I did what I was trained to do I ran. Long story short, Mom and I managed to pin her between two trucks, before I pulled her chip, she looked at me telling me she loved me and that everything was fine, she was better, she loved me and I loved her, not to deactivate her. I pulled the chip out and we took her body to destroy it."
"I manager to get the chip repaired, we were in an alley or something, Cameron's body lay in a shelled out car with thermite spread around her. I went to put her chip in, Mom and Derek tried to stop me I pulled my gun on them. I told them if she kills me then it is fate."
"When I put her chip in she came online, I asked you going to kill me?" John smiled slightly. "She said no, I handed her the gun and said prove it. She pointed the gun at me and handed it back."
They had stopped walking by now; John turned and looked at Cameron. "Then I was woken up by Dad yelling about practice, and I was really confused… Still am confused, I still don't know any of my life before today."
Cameron's heart went out to him; she pulled him into a hug, wrapping her arms around him. "I'm sorry baby, I wish I could make it ok for you. I really do…" It felt like they had stayed like that for hours, finally they released from there hug, John looked at the sun and noticed it was much lower in the sky then it was when they started there walk.
"Wow, look at the time we had been out here for 3 hours, Mom and Dad are probably wondering where we are. We should start heading back."
Taking Cameron's hand in his they started there journey back to there spot on the beach, John felt better that he had explained his dream to Cameron; he figured he does this after every dream. It did make him feel better, more focused.
John and Cameron got back to there parents just as the sun started to dip below the horizon, they had stopped to watch it as it lit the sky up in bright red light it looked like the whole sky was on fire.
"You kids ready to go?" Sarah asked as she saw John and Cameron approach them. "We got everything packed up and in car already we were just waiting for you guys to come back."
Cameron nodded, as john grabbed her shirt and keys from his sister. "I'm going to ride back with Mom and Dad, so you guys can have some time to your self."
"Alley you don't have to do that, but thank you." John gave his parents and sister a quick hug goodbye, as they made there way off to his truck. Cameron took the keys out of his pocket and smiled.
"I'll drive, you can ride shotgun." She smiled as he started to chase her to car, letting her win.
As they got into the car Kyle ran up to the window. "John, Your mom and I are going out to see a movie and dinner, Alley is going to stay over at Riley's house tonight, You guys are on your own till about 11 or so. Don't make a mess, be safe."
Those last two words conveyed a lot of things to stay safe about. John wasn't going to think about them at the moment, he was just happy to be here.
"Pizza for dinner, then desert will come later." Cameron looked at him as she started the truck up. A wicked grin spread across her face. She pulled out of the parking lot and made her way to home as quickly as she could.
All John could think about on there ride home was that grin Cameron had given him. It normally took 90 minutes to get from the beach to home, Cameron had made it in an hour, and that was also stopping to pick up a Pizza when they hit Palmdale too.
They each had two slices of pizza, when they were finished, they put the remaining pizza in the fridge and headed up stairs to get out of there suits.
"I'm going to grab a shower, care to join me?" Cameron asked as she peeled off her suit and headed to the bathroom.
John thought about it for .001 seconds, he was stripping down while following Cam out the door.
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