I'M BACKKKKK. Sorry it took me so long to update guys, this week has been hectic! I feel bad, but what can you do?

Well anywho, work has been awesomeeee and the Fourth of July is coming upp! YAY! fireworks and cookouts and parties...

What could be better?

So, I'll let you start reading now, love ya! REVIEW

P.S-all of the characters besides Hayley and any random newbies I decide to add in are STEPHENIE MEYERS, not mine. Get it right, get it tight people.

It had been a week since I had come the caves, not including the time I had spent sleeping. Everything was beginning to fall into place for me, the chores and the back-breaking labor and even the all-consuming darkness, which had scared me to tears my first night here. (I got lost, I'm not a cry baby or anything.)

Anyway, Jamie and I have become really close, and not just in a you-are-the-only-one-my-age-left-on-the-Earth-without-a-bug-in-your-head-let's-be-friends sort of way, but in a…well yeah, kind of in that way.

Since the first day he had led me around though, it almost seems like he is trying to be careful with me. Like, I'm going to break or break down and need to be committed careful. Does he think I'm weird? Am I not pretty enough for him? Not tall enough?

It makes me feel weird to worry about such a shallow thing as looks when my world is on the brink of collapse, but it also makes me feel almost…normal. And normal is good. Right?

I need to stop guessing myself. I've been this way ever since I realized that whether or not Jamie and I liked each other, we'd be stuck-together-more alone than even Lily, who lost Wes, because she has people her own age to be friends with. There is no one else for me or Jamie, just each other. And the weird thing is, I really want him to like me. I've never felt that way before.

Well, it is far past time to take matters into my own hands, I decided. Tomorrow we are both working in the cornfields without Mel or Jared or Wanda, so there won't be anyone to stop us if we start to get…but will he want to? What if I am totally wrong and he doesn't like me at all?

Oh, shut up!

XoX

"Hey Hay!" I heard Jamie call for me in his stupid little joke that he had made up the second day I was here. I turned around, hoe in my hand from weeding and smiled at him. He looked fresh, his shirt new and unstained and his hair cutely tossled from bed-head and his eyes sparkling- oh g*d, I'm hopeless!

"Hey, Jamie," I said as he jogged over, bending over in the dirt to help me weed the row of corn I was on. I tried to nonchalantly wipe some dirt off of my face that I had wiped on there while trying to dry my face of sweat, but I felt myself making it worse as my wrist was covered in dirt as well.

"Don't even bother, we are going to be so covered in dirt by the time we are done it won't even matter," Jamie said, smiling at me.

"Yeah, you're right," I agreed. I smiled, trying to be a little flirtatious as I added, "or we could just get really dirty right now!" And I picked up a handful of dirt and threw it at his face.

"You did not!" Jamie fake-shouted, laughter gleaming in his eyes. "You are so dead!" He grabbed a much bigger handful than I did and threw it at me, it hit me square in the neck, flinging up to my face and down my shirt.

"AHHH!" I shrieked, reaching for the bucket of water I had gotten to irrigate with and upending it over Jamie's head. Sopping wet, he shook his hair at me, and then tackled me to the ground, his head jamming into my stomach. We mock-fought until we rolled to a stop against the wall, me laying across his chest, my hands in his hair, pinning him down while his hands were wrapped around my upper arms, trying to get me off.

It wasn't for a few seconds that we both realized our faces were only inches apart, and slowly our smiles faded until we were looking solemnly at each other, our eyes asking silent questions that neither of us had the courage to voice.

I bit my lip nervously, unsure of whether he wanted anything, wanted me to do anything. He looked back and forth from my mouth to my eyes, seeming just as unsure as I felt. Finally, someone else in the room coughed, very dramatically, causing me to remember we weren't alone at all. When I could finally pull my eyes away from his, I looked into ten pairs of curious, mischievous human eyes.

"Erm…" Jamie muttered from under me, and I blushed several shades of dark red before getting up onto my hands and knees and standing, angling my body slightly away from his.

"The corn ain't gonna weed itself," I heard Jeb mutter from the back of the room, and slowly all of the humans around us got back to work, muttering and laughing and throwing quick little glances our way.

"Well…" Jamie said, standing and brushing caved dirt off of his clothes. 'Well' I thought 'that didn't go as planned at all…'

"Better get back to work."

XoX

Three hours later, Jamie and I left the cornfield sweaty, tired and disgusting but thankfully done for the day.

"This almost makes me miss school," Jamie said, looking at his ruined shirt and pants. "But not really."

"Aren't you glad I convinced Wanda and Mel that we were old enough to start working, so we didn't have to go to school?" I teased, looking up at him while angling my head and smiling.

"Definitely. Come on, let's go wash off," I startled for a minute. Yeah, it wasn't odd to bathe with other girls, because none of us could see anyway, and I had even bathed while Ian had washed dishes in the dark pool room with me, but never together with a guy. With Jamie!

"Yeah, uhm…sure," I said. We walked in silence to the bathing room, and once we reached it found it completely deserted, no line at all.

"That's odd, usually everyone gets off at this time," Jamie stated. I just shrugged.

"Maybe they are working late." I was still frazzled by the idea of bathing with Jamie, even if it was pitch black. Jamie smiled at me, menacingly, and before I could even react he tackled me again, picking me up this time, ran into the pitch black room and threw me into the cool pool of water.

I didn't even scream. Once I surfaced and managed to choke out all the water I had inhaled, I said in a monotone voice, "I hate you so much, you don't even know."

"No you don't, Hayley-Bailey. You love me," Jamie teased. I could here him pulling off his clothes somewhere to my left.

"I don't think you understand, Jamie. I hate you."

"That isn't very nice," I could hear the fake pout in Jamie's voice as he swam back my way.

"Well then, earn my love," I teased, not really paying attention to what I was saying anymore. I loved the feeling of floating in the lake.

"Maybe I will," Jamie said, and suddenly I felt a pair of strong arms wrap around me from behind. I gasped, a small one, before leaning into the embrace, loving the feeling of his strong, warm arms.

"Is this ok?" Jamie asked in a whisper. "I don't want to make you feel uncomfortable, or like you have to do this because we are the only teenagers left ever or-" I cut him off with a hand over his mouth (though because it is pitch black, I accidentally slapped him on the nose in the process.)

"This is perfect, Jamie. I want this." And I did, so much.

YAYY! Chapter Four. Ow-oWwwww

So, are they together together now? What's going onnnn?

Stay tuned to find out ;)

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