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Chapter Four..."Claire meet Lily, Lily, Claire."
Claire is sitting in her tent, writing in her diary. She sighs as she looks over at Charlie and Lily. "What is she always laughing at? That little tramp. I bet she's over there now 'oh Charlie, you're so funny' gag me. 'Charlie? Can you get that? I seemed to have dropped it'." She shook her head and continued to write.
"You are too funny Charlie." she said playfully slapping his shoulder. He blushes.
"Yeah well..."
"You should have become a comedian..."
"I'm not that funny." he said smiling and blushing at the same time.
"Yes you are...did you want to eat with me tonight?" she asked turning a bit more serious.
"...Ugh...sure yeah...why not?"
"Great then...it's a date." she said smiling.
"...A date?"
"Oh...I meant that in a you know...friend like way of course." she said getting up.
"Right...sure." he watched her stand up. "See you tonight then?"
"Yeah...see you tonight." she smiled and walked away.
Charlie watched her walk away to her tent. He smiled the whole time, and then went over to Claire's tent.
"Hey Claire. Writing in your diary again?" he asked slowly entering.
"Hey...yea...what else to do?" she said half smiling. "Here, sit down." she said moving away some things off her bed. He sits down as she puts away her diary. "why is he here when he could be with his little girlfriend."
"So...what did you want again Charlie?" she asked looking at him even though he was avoiding looking at her.
"I can't just come and see you anymore?" he asked laughing. "there always has to be a reason?"
"No...it's just...I've seen you around that...um girl...what's her name again?" she asked even though she knew.
"Lily." he replied quickly.
"Right...I've seen you with Lily a lot lately and it just seems like...maybe...you like her more...or something." she said looking away. He smiled.
"...Are...you jealous?"
"What? Me? No! No way! I don't get jealous. I'm not the jealous type." she said so quickly he barely could catch all of what she said.
"Okay...it just seems like you"
"Charlie. I'm not jealous of her..." saying it unconvincingly.
"Right...okay I believe you."
"I have bigger things to worry about...like when this baby is going to come out!" she said laughing.
"Yeah..." he laughed.
"Oh...oh I think he just kicked!!! Charlie feel. There it is again." said grabbing his hand and plopping it on her bloated belly.
"He's kicking!!!"
"Yeah he is!"
"He?"
"Yeah...I'm pretty sure it's a he." she noticed he still had his hand on her belly. He did too and quickly removed it.
"Have you decided on a name yet?"
"...No. I haven't."
"Hey there you are Charlie!" Lily says as she enters the tent.
"...Oh Lily! Hi."
Claire sits and watches as the two go to greet each other. They shake their hands. "Respectable...maybe they're not together?"
"Oh Lily...I want you to meet someone."
"Oh? Who's that?" she just notices Claire sitting on her bed. Claire waves at her. She waves back.
"Claire, meet Lily, Lily, Claire." he says backing away. Claire stands up and waddles the three feet to where Lily is standing.
"Nice to meet you, Lily." she says taking her hand.
"...Nice to meet you...C..Claire" she says shaking her hand. They drop hands and stand in an awkward silence staring anywhere but at each other or Charlie. Finally Charlie breaks the silence.
"So...Lily...why don't you tell Claire what you do?"
"...oh yeah...umm...well...I'm a musician." she says finally looking at her.
"Really? Wow." she says trying her best to act surprised.
"Yeah...ugh...I met Charlie here when he was playing his guitar. Over there." she said pointing to the beach. Again, Claire tries to act surprised.
"So...when was it again...that you met Charlie?" Claire asked trying to see if she remembered...or to see how dumb she was.
"Oh...we met just a week ago...6 days...the ugh...7th? At 4:37...about...right Charlie?" "Damn...she's smart too? This just isn't fair."
"You remember the exact time?" she asked half laughing.
"...yeah." she replied uneasy.
"...I've ugh got to go...do some laundry." Claire said starting for the door. "It was nice to meet you, Lily."
"Yeah...nice to meet you too." she replied turning her direction. Charlie watched them both exit and then got up and stood at the exit looking in left at Claire and right at Lily. He wanted to go right but, he decided going left would be best.
"Claire! Wait up!" he said running after her.
"What do you want Charlie?" she said quickening her pace. But then stopped once she reached the washing station.(something I made up btw).
"I'm sorry for doing that to you."
"Doing what?" she said starting on her laundry.
"Letting her in your tent...it wasn't right."
"Why wouldn't it be? I mean...it's not like I was never going to meet her."
"Yeah but...it still wasn't fair...to you."
"Hey Charlie?" Lily walked up. "Can I talk to you for a minute?" Charlie turned surprised to see her.
"Lily...yeah...sure...just a second." turning back to Claire. "I'll talk to you after dinner, alright?"
She nodded. Charlie left with Lily.
Lily and Charlie walk in silence until they reach a far corner of the beach where they can't be seen. Lily sits down on the sand. Charlie follows.
"Why doesn't she like me?" she asked fiddling with the sand.
"...Claire?" she nodded. "Oh...ummm...she likes you...it's just...it takes her awhile to get adjusted."
"...I don't think that's why."
"What do you think?"
"...I think she doesn't like me because...I'm with you now...more anyways." "I'm with you now, what's that supposed to mean?" He likes Lily, but he likes Claire in a different way then he likes Lily. He considers Lily his friend, but Claire...maybe more.
"I don't think she's that selfish."
"Well maybe you know her better then I do." she said with a chuckle.
"Yeah...maybe."
Later that night...
"Did you want to grab some food now?" Lily asks Charlie as she enters his tent.
"Sure. Let's go."
They get some food and sit down by a fire, away from the rest of the group.
They start to eat their food in silence.
"So...how's it going?" Charlie asks as he finishes his food.
"How's it going?" she mimics with a laugh. "Good."
"That's good...good."
Now she is done eating. He takes their plates and sets them aside. Charlie turns around and looks at Lily. She smiles and he smiles back.
Claire's POV:
Claire has her food and looks around for Charlie. She spots him and starts to head towards him even though Lily is there when she sees something she wished she never saw.
Lily leaned in and kissed him. And it was no quick peck on the lips...it was a long needy kiss. She immediately turned around and went to go sit by Hurley.
Back to Charlie & Lily:
She leaned in and gave him a kiss. He didn't want to kiss her so he tried to pull back but she wouldn't let him. She wrapped her arms around his head and pushed him forward. He felt her tongue at the edge of his lips but he wasn't going to let her in. He quickly pushed her back.
"What the hell are you doing?" he asked rubbing his lips with the back of his hand.
"I don't know what got into me I...I guess I just wanted to kiss you."
"Well I can see that!" He looked beyond Lily to see Claire walking away. "Oh man! Did she see this? Now she'll never trust me!" He frowned at Lily and got up and left. He headed straight for his tent and didn't even bother talking to Claire. He just went to sleep.
Back to Claire:
"Hey, Hurley." she said sitting down next to the large man.
"Oh, hey dude, you scared me. How's your...ugh...baby stuff going?"
"Good. Jack says he could come any day now so...I guess I'm just getting ready for that."
"...and how's Charlie?"
"...Charlie and I...aren't really talking anymore."
"...why's that?"
"Because he kissed Lily."
"Dude...I'm sorry."
"Yeah...well...he can do whatever he wants...it doesn't bother me."
"Really...cause...if that were me...I'd...kick his ass..."
She started to laugh. "Thanks Hurley...I needed that."
"Anytime dude."
"Well...goodnight then Hurley."
"Goodnight." he replied as she got up.
Once she got back to her tent she laid down and started to cry.
End Chapter 4