Sorry this has taken so long. But this chapter is super long so I hope it makes up for it. I'm thinking I'm just going to post a chapter every Sunday from now on, that way ill have all week to do it and the chapters will be longer. I'm also thinking of have Bethany and one of the boys kiss in maybe not the next chapter but definitely the one after, that way we can start on some drama. [There's officially going to be either a love triangle of square in this story- I'm thinking Bethany-Ralph-Simon- Jack love square] But please let me know if it's too early or not and which guy she should kiss. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the chapter.

I must have fallen asleep at some point because I hear a soft voice whispering my name and a hand gently touching my arm and suddenly bolt upright. I look in front of me to see a startled Ralph, his hand is no longer on my arm and his eyes are wide from surprise. I look up to see that the once light blue sky above me has changed to a pitch black starless night. I look across me to the opposite side of the fire and see Piggy and Simon sitting there. Piggy is silently drawing pictures with his fingers in the dirt and Simon is watching me, his usual serene look on his face.

I quickly rub the sleep out of my eyes and then put both hands behind me for balance. Last thing I remember was lying down to get more comfortable; I must have decided to close my eyes for a minute and fallen asleep.

I look at Ralph again and say sleepily, "Does this mean I have to do fire watch again?"

A small smile creeps up onto Ralph's face and he chuckles lightly. "Nah, if I had really wanted to I would have woke you back up, but you needed sleep you looked exhausted. Besides Piggy and Simon are here to watch the fire now.

I return his smile and mutter a quick thank you before standing up and beginning to walk back down the mountain. But I don't walk more than a step past Ralph before I realize I don't even know where I'm supposed to sleep. "Er… where am I sleeping?" I ask him while turning to face him.

He chuckles again like he was waiting for me to ask that, which he probably was. "Follow me, I'll show you."

He walks in front of me, starting down the mountain without waiting for me, I quickly wave goodbye to Simon and Piggy before following after him. We walk in silence as we did on our way up the mountain, but I don't really mind it because for some reason silence is not uncomfortable with him. This time as we walk though there are no little boys walking around and I figure they must all already be asleep. "Ralph?" I whisper suddenly thinking of a good question to ask him to break the silence. It may be a comfortable silence but I'm the type of person who prefers there to be conversation going on.

"What's up?" he asks quickly looking over his shoulder at me and then slowing down so he falls into pace with me.

"I was just wondering, who's watching the kids right now?"

"Jack and his hunters, which is why we need to get back." He says with a smirk.

I laugh quietly in response and we walk the rest of the way in silence. We finally make it to a quiet section of the island with two forts that the boys must have put up while I was unconscious. In them are all the boys sleeping soundly. At our approach Jack opens his eyes and sleepily looks up at us, "You can sleep next to me if you want." He says to me, apparently not too tired to come on to me or to make his signature smirk.

I look at Ralph pleadingly. "Actually Jack, I already asked her if she wanted to sleep next to me, and she agreed." He says giving me a reassuring smile.

"Alright, maybe tomorrow then." He says before falling back to sleep.

"Fat chance." I mutter not loud enough for anyone to hear, though Ralph appears to as a small smile creeps up on his lips.

"We'll sleep over here." He says lying down in the fort that Jack wasn't in.

I nod my head and lay beside him. I take a quick look at him; he seems to have already fallen asleep. He's real cute when he's sleeping; it makes him look very young. I smile to myself before closing my own eyes and falling into a peaceful slumber.

I recline back in a throne, closing my eyes with a smile on my mouth as I sit in paradise. I am the queen here, wherever here is and I am enjoying the peace that doing nothing all day but sitting back in a throne as people do your bidding brings a person. I can feel something dangling above my mouth and open my eyes so see that its grapes, but not just any grapes, the greenest juiciest grapes I've ever seen in my life. I look up to see who's holding them and meet a pair of familiar light blue eyes, Jacks eyes. "This is how things are supposed to be." I whisper and nod my head, grinning ear to ear at the thought of Jack serving me. I look down towards my feet were someone is giving me a foot massage and see that the someone is actually someone's, SamnEric.

I'm about to open my mouth to except the grape Jack is offering me when Ralph enters the room; Piggy and Simon following close behind him. Piggy is holding some type of shell in his hands and looking at me with a sad expression on his face. Simon is standing behind him with the same exact expression. Ralph walks over to me standing on the opposite side of my throne as Jack and surprises me by leaning into me, his face mere millimeters from my own and slowly he closes the gap between them, pressing his lips softly to my own. The kiss only lasts a second before he pulls away and as my eyes are still closed and my lips still pursed he whispers, "Choose me, my queen."

He starts to walk away but is stopped by a furious Jack, who now holds a stick sharpened at both ends to Ralph's neck. But before he can make a move to hurt him Simon steps between the two of them and this is when I realize what is particularly strange about this dream, apart from my words and the four words Ralph said to me, it is completely silent. I mean, if you dropped a pin on the floor I wouldn't be surprised if the sound was deafening.

Simon appears to be saying words of protest to Jack, his hands waving around wildly but by the look on Jacks face and everyone else's in the room nobody else can hear what he's saying either. Jack, now ignoring Simon snaps his fingers and all the boys in the room apart from Ralph and Piggy, who simply watch the scene in silence, charge towards Simon and begin to attack him in any way they can.

I try screaming in an attempt to stop them, but when I open my mouth to, nothing comes out. They back away which allows Simon to fall onto the floor face first with a thud, dead. Then they turn towards Piggy I try again to scream in protest and this time water is thrown in my face.

Wait, what?

I wake up in an instant, my face now freezing to chuckling and a familiar arrogant voice saying "good job." I slowly sit up wiping water off my face with one hand while giving the blonde boy in front of me a look of pure hatred. "Really?" I ask rhetorically with venom in my voice.

He puts his hands up as if to surrender. "Ralph told me to wake you up. I was going to do it myself but what can I say, Rogers a mean guy, he insisted in doing it himself. But if you need, I don't know a shoulder to cry on, I'm here."

"..fine." I say each word separately. Then I jump to my feet and yell, "After I kill Roger!" He lets out a fake girly scream (or at least I think it's fake) before running as I chase after him. I'm laughing now as I jump onto his back, the sudden addition of weight causing him to tumble to the ground.

"I win!" I scream straddling his back and giving him a noogie. Let's just say, I've hung out with mostly guys all my life, I know how to play rough.

"Actually," Jack begins with a smirk," I think he wins." He says while looking at Roger who is sporting a similar smirk.

I sit beside a tree as Piggy scolds some boy, whose name I don't know, about eating berries here. I agree with Piggy 100% but think he could be a little less 'I know everything' about it. Across from us Jack and a couple other boys are putting up a third fort which in all honesty we definitely need, it's pretty cramped in the forts. I wonder for a second were Ralph is, I heard him yelling at Jack about needing to help build forts, but I haven't physically seen him yet today.

"Listen to Piggy." I say to the boy in the tree. "He has a point, and we don't want anyone dying on us, except maybe Jack." I say with a smirk. Jack hears this and looks my way, rolls his eyes quickly, and makes a typical boy sound in his throat that clearly says 'whatever' but doesn't say anything out loud.

"Yeah, we gotta take precautions, or it won't matter." Piggy continues causing me to give him a 'just let it go' look.

"What won't matter?" Jack chimes in continuing his work on the fort but turning his head our way. I have to admit, it may be the expression he's making, or the way he is doing manual labor with only his school pants on, drops of sweat scattered across his face. Or the way he seems to get in a serious mood as he works, but he definitely looks cute right now.

I must have zoned out cause the next thing I hear is Piggy's voice raising a bit as he says, "What are you talking about?"

"Just being logical," Jack begins in response, "a plane goes down in the middle of nowhere, there's no wreckage, whose gonna find us?"

"Why don't you just shut up?" Piggy says in response, surprising the hell out of me.

Apparently Jack to because he looks taken aback for a second before he says," Are you telling me to shut up?"

"Ut oh, here comes the battle of masculinity." I mutter but don't think anybody registers it.

"What we need around here are positive people, not people trying to scare other people." Piggy continues.

"What we don't need around here is you, shit brains."

One of the twins (don't ask me which) chimed in with, "His names not shit brain!" and together the both of them yelled, "Its Piggy!"

"Yeah Piggy!" Jack yells pointing and laughing at him before giving each of the twins a high five.

At this point I'm getting really angry, I know even I have been calling him Piggy but I now realize for the first time that that probably really upsets him. Where stuck on this island for god knows how long, there's no need for name calling. The look on Piggy's face shows complete sadness. He looks like he's about to cry and something about that strikes a chord in me. I am about to stand up and get in Jacks face when Ralph's voice stops me.

"Shut up! Everybody just shut up!"

He takes Piggy to the side and tells him how the only reason they are treating him poorly is because he is new. Which is bullshit, but at least he's being nice. What Piggy says in response though breaks my heart. "No its not, it's always like this." He says the last part softly in a sad tone.

This is when I lose it; Jack is really pissing me off. I jump onto my feet and charge towards Jack, slapping him across his face. His face whips to the side with my hand and then he puts his hand on his cheek, turning his head slowly to face me with a surprised look.

"Jesus Christ!" I scream, "What the fuck is wrong with you! What the hell did Piggy ever do to you, huh? All he did was tell you to shut up because there are little kids on this island who don't need to hear things like that, that might scare them. You guys are so selfish and immature, I'm sick of it!" I scream before turning around and walking off.

I decide to make it my goal to ask Piggy for his real name at some point within the next few days. I don't like to tell people it, but I know what it's like to be picked on. All throughout elementary and middle school I was practically the least popular kid at school, and while I'm not picked on (that much) anymore and I have more friends (though I'm far from popular) I still remember what it feels like to be made fun of, it sucks.

You see, when I was younger I was short and fat, my dark brown hair lay in a frizzy heap on my head, I put on way to much makeup and to add on to the humiliation my parents made me get braces in sixth grade. Of course over the summer coming into 9th grade I went to fat camp and got my braces off. I worked my ass off at fat camp (unfortunately not literally) and now have a relatively curvy figure (though I could use more in the boobage department). I became friends with this girl Lexy at fat camp, she was one of those girls that were still drop dead gorgeous even though she was heavy and you hate to think how pretty she would be thinner. She was a makeup and hair expertise. She taught me how to do my makeup, bringing out my chocolate brown eyes which she claimed was my best feature and trying to draw attention away from my lips which are kind a thin. Every day she would straighten my hair and by the end of the summer I could even do it on my own.

When I got back from camp I bought my own straighter and even figured out how to leave my hair wavy without it getting all frizzy. But back to my point, I know what it's like when everybody calls you names and you can't speak your opinion without being laughed at. So I feel for Piggy and definitely want to befriend him.

"Hey Bethany." I hear a soft voice say and look over my shoulder to see Simon sitting beside my father, an adorable green lizard in his hands.

I respond with a simple hi, trying my best not to let my bad mood make me sound angry. I take a seat beside my father, lightly kissing his forehead and then sit beside Simon and stroke the lizard in his hands. "Isn't he just adorable?" I say in my voice which I reserve for talking to babies and cute animals.

Simon smiles a small smile. "You like lizards?" he more states than asks but I still respond to him with a yep. "That's good, most girls don't."

"Well I'm not most girls." I say with a smirk.

He blushes before whispering, "I know."

I laugh lightly. "So can I hold it?" Realizing what I just said I start to crack up. 'That's what she said.' I think but don't say out loud, not wanting to embarrass Simon.

"Why are you laughing?"

"Oh nothing, I just thought of something that happened yesterday. Can I hold the lizard?" I ask again, this time rewording it.

"Sure" he says passing it over to me.

I pet it while thinking of something else to say, Simon doesn't seem like the type to fill the silence. Finally thinking of something I smirk and turn my head towards him. "What did you name it?"

He laughs quietly, a softer laugh than Ralphs but still a nice one. "Why would I name it?"

"Don't you think it should have a name?" I ask. "Otherwise it will never know who it is, and I don't think we should confuse the poor guy."

"I see your point but I don't think he will know the difference."

"Well that's just inconsiderate; lizards have feeling to you know." I say fake defensively.

"I guess so" he says, but I can tell he just is sick of arguing about it. "You can name it if you want."

"Ok, do you think it's a boy lizard or a girl lizard?"

He laughs again, only this time a little bit louder. I think for a second I may be actually getting him out of his shell but change my mind when he stops laughing and puts that same serious look he usually wears back on his face, but I swear I still see a twinkle in his eye. "It's a lizard; I don't think it's possible to tell."

"Can't you use your imagination a bit?" I ask jokingly. "I think it's a boy because he definitely seems to be taking a liking to me." I say pointing to the lizard that has positioned himself on my shoulder, and shows no signs of moving any time soon. "And I think he looks like a Chester."

"Chester?" Simon questions.

"What? You don't like it?" I ask him making a pouty face.

"No, it's just that that isn't a typical name for a lizard."

"Now Simon, what have I said about generalizing things like that, Chester is not your typical lizard and he would appreciate it if you stopped treating him like he is. Isn't that right Chester? Geez when will people stop discriminating against lizards. When I get back to civilization I'm definitely going to have a rally."

"Bethany!" a soft voice calls and I turn my head to see Ralph running towards me.

"Oh, hey Ralph." I say, faking a smile as he sits beside me and Simon moves closer to my father, seeming uncomfortable for some reason. He smiles at me and then nods at Simon. "What's up?"

"Not much, I just wanted to make sure you were ok, you know after the whole Jack thing. Jack really deserved it but you seemed pretty upset. You ok?"

"Yup."

"That's good." Ralph says with a smile. "I'd love to talk with you some more but I gotta call an assembly. But maybe tonight if you wanted to talk about things we could." He says with a nervous laugh.

What I do is mutter, "Definitely." But what I really want to do is break into a happy dance. 'Ralph wants to talk to me!' My head is screaming over and over again as Ralph gets up and picks up a big shell from on top of a rock. The same exact shell I saw in my dream.

Thanks for reading, I had more I wanted to put into this chapter but I've decided to move it to the next one. Let me know what you think please. = ] Oh and Piggy's real name will be in the next one, promise.