Note: Heya guys. This took me longer then normal to write, seeing as I didn't go on my computer till after a while. I think this is longer then most of the chapters I write, 3,128 words, and woah! 9 pages. Wow, lol I didn't know I could write that much, anyway I hope you like it, I guess I wanted to make up for the really sort chapter yesterday. REVIEW! :D
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Chapter Seven: Caved Nights
The relationship with Shea and me grew after that day, I never really noticed it growing but it did.
He'd come down to my ranch, which at the moment was doing very well, a prize-winning cow, and an adorable chicken, of course, that wasn't all I had though, I had 4 cows, and a baby calf, 3 chickens with two chicks on the way, and a beautiful horse. Don't forget my little dog, Ruff.
As I was saying though, Shea would come down to my ranch, this may sound very peculiar and the sort of thing that only happens in fairytales, but he would swing to my farm by vines over the river.
I had always wondered how he crossed the river, the day I found out was enough to make me faint.
Vines? It's dangerous!
I gave him a massive lecture that day, he shook it all off though, making excuses such as;
"Shea can handle it, Shea's jungle boy!"
Ha, he had stolen my little nickname, Jungle Boy. Surprisingly though, that was the first time he used it, probably trying to cheer me up. But not even Shea can get off the hook of one of my lectures, I was not amused. I asked him what I would feel if I saw him floating on the river, dead. He just laughed it off. Humph.
Sometimes, I visited him though, to save him the trip, well more for my sake then his, I hated to think about him swinging over here. What if one day he tripped or something distracted him? Too much responsibility. Today is one of those days. I told him last night I was going to his. He had nodded enthusiastically.
"I'm going to yours tomorrow so don't do your Tarzan thing, okay?"
He nodded, "Shea can't wait!"
I chuckled at the memory, Shea was always so enthusiastic. Made me sound like a pessimist.
I had just fed my special calf, Little. Ciara was doing well, but then again, a prize-winning cow always has to look good.
I was to meet Shea at the bridge by the jungle at 12'oclock, it had never crossed his mind to actually walk over the bridge, he feared the village. I had been tempted so many times just to drag him by the arm through town and introduce him to everyone. I had overruled those plans every time though, if he wanted to stay secret, he can stay secret.
I hadn't realised I was rushing to the bridge till Lanna had called out to me,
"What's the rush? You late for a date, or something?" Lanna smirked.
I rolled my eyes, "Yeah, yeah, something like that."
Lanna's coffee-coloured eyes watched me eagerly as I scurried off in the direction of the jungle.
I heard her huff and groan, "Who has a date in the jungle?" she sighed, "There's no way anyone can pay me to go in there."
I chuckled at her words, if she actually saw the jungle she'd change her mind, it was so peaceful and beautiful, I found it hard not to come here everyday.
I had slowed to a walk, will I was at the bridge, I'd never noticed before, but the bridge in itself was actually quite pretty, it had green ivy wrapped around the edges, the bridge being stone, gave it a fairytale-feeling.
I lent against the edge, careful not to touch the ivy and watched the water flow peacefully under my feet. Someone sat next to me.
I was expecting Shea, since he was the reason I was here, so I peered to the side, and I almost jumped out of my skin when I saw Julia.
She chuckled at my reaction, "Any particular reason you're here by yourself?"
"Uh, uhm…"
She raised an eyebrow, "Did your date stand you up?"
My eyes widened.
"You're probably curious to how I know about your date?"
I nodded.
"The word gets around in a matter of minutes, especially if you get a silly, little girl such as Lanna for example, running in shouting 'Chelsea's on a date! Chelsea's on a date!'"
She imitated Lanna waving her arms around.
I chuckled, "That's definitely the Lanna I know."
"So, since he hasn't turned up, why don't we get the girls together? I'm feeling a particular need to be around whiney girls!"
Giggling, I said, "Yeah, I guess, you go ahead, I'll catch up," I paused, "Where's it going to be?"
"Mine, of course. We can't go to Lanna's- too pink, yuck," she gagged.
"Or Sabrina's- scary father, ah!" she pretended to faint.
"Neither Natalie- cute boy listening in," it was my turn to gag.
"Or yours, too smelly!" I whacked her.
"Oi you! Don't be mean to my poor little home!" Though I was laughing hard.
"Haha, okay well, I'll go gather the girls, I'll see you there!" she jumped to her feet and headed to Lanna's.
I waited for a few minutes, absorbed in the water's current, watching the little fish swim and swim.
I took a glance at my watch, 1'oclock, I sighed.
He's obviously not turning up, go to the party.
Ugh. For once I agreed with myself. He's obviously not coming. I swung round and slumped. Damn Shea.
I headed over to Julia's, listening intently to the conversation they were having.
"You gotta feel sorry for Chelsea," sighed Julia, "The poor girl got stood up."
Lanna snorted, "I think she made him up, all the guys on this island are taken by us."
Huh, I'm going to break this conversation before they say anything more. I know they haven't said anything mean yet, but with a load of girls by themselves of course they're going to say something mean if I don't stop them.
I knocked on the door.
"Coooooming!" sung Julia, yanking the door open. She almost pulled it off the hinges… "Oh hello Chelsea!"
She took my hand and dragged me into the circle of girls. I glanced around, all the girls had made it.
Lanna, Sabrina, Natalie, Julia.
Lanna looked drunk.
Sabrina looked evil, maybe I'm just biased?
Natalie looked angry.
And Julia… well she was just Julia.
I sighed, "What's wrong with you guys?" I turned to Lanna, "Who gave her alcohol?" I glared at Julia.
Lanna rolled her eyes, "I'm aloud to drink alcohol!" she hiccupped, "I am a superstar!"
"Julia?" I turned to her, "why did you give her alcohol?"
Julia frowned, "Sorry, I thought maybe she could take it…"
I chuckled, "She never can take it!" I hesitated, "but whilst she's drunk we can get information about her relationship with Denny…"
Julia raised her eyebrow and smirked, "Good idea Chels!"
"Uh, guys," Sabrina muttered, "Isn't that kind of mean?"
Natalie snapped, "Would you rather we got
Julia raised her eyebrow and smirked, "Good idea Chels!"
"Uh, guys," Sabrina muttered, "Isn't that kind of mean?"
Natalie snapped, "Would you rather we got you drunk and found out what you've been doing with Vaughn?"
My eyes widened. I hadn't thought about it actually, what had they been doing together? Had they done it yet? I mean, they were married…
Sabrina gasped, "Oh goddess," she shook her head.
"Then shut the hell up," growled Natalie.
Ouch, harsh.
Sabrina hesitated then nodded, "Okay…" she mumbled.
I smirked, "Time to roll."
"Lanna?" Julia said gently.
"Mhm? Hic!" Lanna hiccupped, but still smiled.
"Have you done anything with Denny yet?" I smiled sweetly.
"Hm? Denny and me? What about Denny? I don't like him…" frowned Lanna.
I was shocked, "Whadda you mean? You're dating him, aren't you?"
"Oh yeah… sorry I forgot," Lanna giggled.
Julia's eyes widened, "Are you sure you're dating him? You can't be if you don't remember him."
Lanna hesitated, "Well, I like all the guys, even Elliot," she giggled.
"Vaughn's totally hot, oh goddess I remember when I-" she was interrupted by Julia, because Sabrina had gone red.
"What about the other guys?" Julia asked.
"Well, Pierre's cute," Lanna giggled, "He cooked a delicious meal for me yesterday."
Natalie was scorching red, "Ugh, that's why he doesn't like me," she growled.
"Elliot?" She couldn't say he was hot.
"Oh yeah! Elliot, he's so sweet! Giving me yoghurt everyday alongside a rose! He gets so shy he leaves it on my doorstep."
Oh crap, Lanna's in for big trouble tomorrow, not only will she have a massive hangover, she'll also have no friends.
Julia frowned, "He never did that for me," Julia scowled at Lanna, "You said all the guys are to share!"
Lanna thought for a moment, "Well, I didn't come to them, they came to me, I've haven't given a guy a thing for years!"
I rolled my eyes, "I saw you sharing your chocolate doughnuts with Elliot yesterday."
"Well, whatever. Elliot doesn't count!" She snapped.
All the girls looked pretty much depressed, someone's gotta cheer them up… ugh. I can't believe I'm going to say this…
"Anyone want to play truth or dare?" I sung.
Julia raised an eyebrow, "You hate truth or dare."
I growled in her ear, "Shut up."
She widened her eyes, then nodded, before giggling.
"Sabrina?" I smiled at her sweetly, she seemed surprised I even noticed her.
I wish Julia hadn't invited her, I hated the girl. Why couldn't she just leave my Vaughn alone? I would have him if she'd never come to the island. How disappointing. Stupid life.
She hesitated, then slowly nodded, and I turned to Natalie, "Nat?"
She rolled her eyes, "Why not?"
I smiled gratefully and took a deep breath, "Lanna?"
She nodded enthusiastically.
"Yesh, yesh, yesh!" Goddess… she really is drunk.
"Okay then, who's first?" I grinned.
"Me, me, me!" hopped Lanna, excitedly.
I rolled my eyes, "Okay then, truth or dare?"
Oh how I hated this game.
"Dare, dare, dare!" Had she drunk more when I wasn't looking?
Julia smirked, "Hehe, okay then. Run outside topless."
We all knew well that she would, she was drunk after all.
"Okay!" grinned Lanna, pulling her top off, "I'll see you losers later!"
When she walked outside we laughed out loud, rolling all over the floor.
"Ha- I think hehe- we should eheh- go see- tehe- her!" Julia giggled.
"Y-yeah!" I chuckled.
We all ran outside and popped our heads round the house, and sure enough, there was Lanna, running wildly in the centre of town, screaming "Topless! Topless!"
She had attracted a lot of attention by now, all the people staying in the inn came outside, guess what? All male, Elliot had come outside, and was gawking at her, and Charlie was pointing and staring.
Ha, life on this island is about to get a lot more entertaining.
"Lanna!" I called, "You can stop now!"
Lanna nodded, and ran back inside Julia's house, I heard all the men sigh, and head slowly back inside.
"Who's next?" Julia smirked.
I glanced to the right of Lanna, "Natalie."
"W-what?" stuttered Natalie, "I'm not going to run outside topless like Lanna."
"Oh come on," smirked Lanna, "I bet you got a well good body."
"Ew, you lesbian."
"Shut up guys. Truth or dare Nat?" I asked.
"Truth," Natalie said, instantly, "Definitely."
"Okay then, are you really into Pierre?" smirked Julia.
Natalie flushed red, "Uh, uhm, do I have to answer t-that?"
"Yep," I grinned, we all she did, but it was a matter of her agreeing with us.
"Y-yes?" Natalie mumbled.
"AW!!!" cooed Lanna, oh goddess, I think I know what's comin-
"Natalie and Pierre sitting in a tree! Doing something they shouldn't be! It starts with S and it ends in X! What does that spell? SEX!"
Natalie turned even redder, if that was possible, "SHUT THE HELL UP LANNA!" she growled.
The drunk Lanna shrunk into a ball.
"Okay, next up…" I glanced round, oh crap. It's me.
"You!" grinned Julia.
"Truth or dare?" Finally, Sabrina said something.
"Uh… truth?"
"Oh boring." Julia grinned, "Who were you meeting with earlier."
Crap, crap, crap! I'm not aloud to say that, Shea's identity is at sake!
"I'm not aloud to say," I said firmly.
"Aw, man! Okay then, you have to do a dare!"
Oh no.
"Go up to every boy in the town and say you like them," Julia grinned.
Natalie added, "You can tell them you don't actually afterwards, it's the face you want!" she grinned, "I can't wait to see you do it to my brother!"
Lanna smirked, "You have to give them a kiss on the cheek!"
Why did I agree to this?
"Aw, man. Dammit, okay. Who's first?"
"ELLIOT!" smirked Natalie.
"Ugh, ok."
***
I knocked on the door. It swung open in a matter of minutes.
"Hello?" Taro answered.
"Uh, is Elliot there?"
Please say no, please say no!
"Why yes he is!" Taro grinned, "Elliot! Chelsea's here to talk to you!"
He gestured to me, "Do come in!"
I frowned, "No, no it's okay, I'm only going to be quick."
Taro nodded, "Fine."
"Chelsea," I heard Elliot's warm voice, "What did you want?"
"Uhm, I need to tell you something."
"Uh, ok? What was it?" He folded his arms.
"I-I have a crush on you," I blushed, "I don't know when it started, probably when I-I first met you…" I peeked up to see his face, it was completely blank.
"Elliot?" I called, no response, "E-elliot?"
"Do you mean it?" he whispered, barely loud enough for me to hear.
I kissed him on the cheek and he turned scarlet.
I could see Julia's jealous face from the corner of my eye, she was walking over, what was she doing?
"Hey Elliot, you know Chelsea's joking right?" Julia said hastily.
"Uh, uhm, she was?" he whispered.
I nodded, "Yeah, stupid dare, sorry mate, I'm sure Julia's willing to date you though," I gave him a wink.
"Ugh! Chels! Let's goooo," she towed me away as I laughed watching a pretty stunned Elliot.
"That was a bad idea," sighed Julia, "That's ruined it for me, I'm going home, you guys might as well too…" I nodded.
"Night guys," I'd probably go see Shea quickly before I left.
Natalie, Lanna, and Sabrina headed off to their houses as I toddled over to the jungle.
What if he didn't want to see me? He hadn't turned up, maybe he was trying to show me he didn't want to see me anymore. I can't think why, I hadn't done anything. Maybe he was angry about the mud I threw on him yesterday. But he should be used to mud…
Ugh, stupid life. Yet I'm standing outside Shea's house, ugh. I might as well go in, I've come all the way here after all.
I pushed the door open.
Wada spun round, and I raised an eyebrow, "Where's Shea?"
I quickly glanced around the room, nope. Not here.
"Shea…… on…… quest…… to…… find…… the…… green…… haired…… woman……!"
"W-what? The Goddess! He'll never come back with her! She's too powerful! If he attacks her she'll probably kill him or at least badly injure him!" I shrieked.
"Shea…… will…… not…… come…… home…… till…… he…… got…… woman……!"
"Ugh, fine I'll go get him myself!" I growled, storming out.
What's wrong with that man? He's sending Shea to find the Goddess and forbids him to come back till then? Shea's going to die. I have to find him!
Where to look? What would I be doing if I were Shea…?
I wondered aimlessly around the woods, watching leaf after leaf finish it's life, I listened carefully, ignoring the rustling of leafs, the pattering of rain, the animal calls, the evident storm roaring…
A storm's coming?! Oh crap, find shelter, find shelter!
Thunderous cackles came roaring down, crashing with my throbbing ears, the sky flashing with colours in rage. Clouds stormed the red sky, but it wasn't the clouds I knew, they were grey in colour, not fluffy but large, and reckless, not carefree in a good way, but in a bad way.
I had to find some sort of shelter, anything would do in this situation, storms had never been in my good books, I remember the memories of me crouching under the staircase, fright running through my veins. Brother would always protect me, hold me in his arms.
I knew one day I'd be in a storm without him there, but I had hoped it wouldn't be so soon. The thunder scared me out of my thought, pointlessly panicking me, as I frantically glanced around. There was a grey structure behind the shaking trees, I narrowed my eyes for any small details seen by the eye. Another boom panicked me out of my mindless thinking.
Go check it out, it might be a shelter.
I hesitated but the storm roared around me, I found the strength to force through the dangling branches, some whacking me right in the face, I couldn't say this was the best feeling in the world. A particular branch, which I have now named 'the Perv-de-Branch' whacked my ass.
All in all, not a great experience. Up ahead I saw a sort of cave, kind of eerie, made of boulders. A felt a splatter of freezing cold water on my red nose. I forced my head up and almost gasped. Alongside the raging storm, was snow. Actually snow. I almost did a happy dance when I remembered exactly what I was doing. Okay, shelter from storm. Take deep breathes.
Enter the fucking cave already woman!
Okay, okay. Calm down.
I scrambled inside the darkened cave, not much to my surprise, the cave was colder then outside.
This is going to be a painfully cold night, I sighed.
I studied the cave, nothing usual, I couldn't feel any heat at all, so a dragon couldn't live here, no bad smell, well, really bad smell, so no bear. And it wasn't completely silent, so no evil snakes. Couldn't say the same about spiders though.
"Ugh," I groaned as I sat on the cave floor, my butt took most of the cold, but still, tonight was going to be very long. Let's just hope I don't get caved in for the night.
I curled into a tight ball, using all the heat in me to spread around the body.
"I take a house for granted," I moaned, lying my head on the floor, which may I add, froze my head.
Better get used to it, you're going to be here allllll night.
Thanks a bunch. Anyhow… night.
So, what do you think guys? Not much Shea in this, in fact, not one appearance but sh! That'll be all next chapter, I've planned out what's going to happen in the next few chapters so I'll be just writing them :) you might be unaware but in most of my stories I just make it up as I go along, you should try it, it sometimes makes really good stories :O (sometimes!) Review and tell me what you think (:
