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" Jack, can I ask you something?" Brianna asked in her usual high speed manner.
" Snail pace, remember?" Jack said, pointing a finger at his chest. Jack only responded because his name was the only word he could identify at 100 miles per hour.
Brianna repeated her question: slower.
"That was a question." Jack pointed out, still the big know-it-all he was when Brianna first met him. Brianna found that cute; she still does.
"You know how we've been friends for so long..." she trailed off, Brianna, for the first time was nervous. Brianna who had fought so many battles, who had raced a speeding bullet was nervous of asking a question.
Jack nodded to her encouragingly.
" And how you've been living in my house for so long…" She gave up on trying to approach this gently. Brianna couldn't break things in slowly. After all, everything she did nowadays was at breakneck speed. "Jack, do you think of me as a sister?" she said abruptly before adding "because I don't think of you as a brother, I think of you as…"
" Brianna, slow down." Jack reminded her before going on to answer her question. "Brianna, Breeze, I don't think of you as a sister, or even a friend. This feeling I have is more than that, it's deeper, stronger, more persistent."
He sighed. Brianna knew now what he thought of her, so asked the inevitable question, though Jack said the same words at the same time, "Will you go out with me?"
They fell into each other's arms laughing, before collapsing in front of the fire: happy.
The FAYZ is a strange place. Of course a world without adults is strange, but it's strange that everyone seems to have found a soul mate within the wall, well almost everyone. It's strange how no-one has a true love the other side. First it was Sam and Astrid, then Caine and Diana ( the only people who don't live in town, preferring to stay at Coates, but the people of Perdido Beach bring them food and water regularly: an act of kindness, peace and brotherliness off Sam). They were the first, but then other people started to find love: Quinn and Lana and now, at long last, Jack and Brianna. Everyone has found a love, even Orc. Everyone has found love but Dekka, and Flick (the Psychic girl) but she only hasn't found love due to the simple lack of boys within the wall. But Dekka is a nice enough girl but Dekka won't find a love within the wall because Dekka is the only Lesbian, anyway, someone needs a straight head: a mind that isn't clouded over by love and romantic wishes.
"Astrid?" Sam whispered, breaking the silence that hung around them.
"Yes?" she replied.
"I was thinking about another possible law…"
"Sam, it's our day off," she interrupted, "don't. Tell me when we get back tomorrow"
"Astrid, I don't want to wait and tell you, I want to tell you now…"
"But we can't approve any new laws without the rest of the council." She said, sounding irritated.
"I know that" Sam continued, "I was thinking about marriage- or an alternative to it. With so many people finding true love" He was struggling, the words in his head not falling off his tongue the way he wished. "They want to take it somewhere, somewhere serious. Quinn and Lana have been together for eight years, Edilio and Taylor for six, us for ten. It's a long time…" he trailed off not knowing how to put the next thought into words.
"I understand" said Astrid, "you want the option to become 'legally bound' to someone?"
"Yes," Sam said whilst pulling Astrid to her feet and then kneeling in the sand before her, "I would like something like that…" he hesitated, unsure of what she would think, but the look in Astrid's eyes urged him to continue. He took a deep breath and said " I would like it even more if you would become 'legally bound' to me- though we'll have to get Howard to think of a better name"
" Is that a proposal?" Astrid asked, shocked
Sam stood up so his eyes were level with hers. He moved a stray strand of blond hair from her face and kissed her before whispering in her ear.
"Yes"