Chapter 7 Our stubbornness
Miley
Talking with Demi felt so good. It felt so good to have someone who gets you. It felt good talking with a girl like me. It felt good to have a true friend. I really appreciated it when she didn't judge me and understood my reasons; that she just talked to me like I never lied to them.
Unlike Nick.
He kept giving me the cold shoulder, and I was following him around almost begging for forgiveness for about two hours until I finally gave up and he didn't give in! I mean, sure I was wrong, but he was being so damn stubborn. But from now on, if he doesn't want to talk to me then I won't talk to him… and if he wants to keep treating me like this then he will be treated the same way.
I already apologized tons of times; not my fault that he's not a forgiving kind person. What was I thinking when I thought I liked him anyway? What's there to like? I mean sure he's cute, his brown curly hair fits him perfectly, he's such an idiot sometimes, he likes his job and is serious about it AND he thought that Miley is cute and beautiful.
I don't get how when he thought that I was dead he said that about me… and now that I'm alive, in front of him talking breathing and everything, he doesn't even talk to me! I'm starting to think that he's sane.
"How did it feel to act like a guy the whole time?" Demi asked me casually.
"Weird, different, and hard… but once you get used to it, it's not a problem." I answered her.
"And how does it feel that now you're suddenly a girl again, I mean you weren't even ready to tell us." Joe asked.
"Well, it feels better… now I can be truly myself and I'm not hiding anything from you… so it's all good." I said and from the corner of my eyes I saw Nick roll his eyes.
"Guys, I guess it's gonna rain." Demi noticed looking at the cloud sky above us.
"We're n trouble." I said as I looked at the sky and I could tell it was going to rain heavily.
"What should we do?" Joe was thinking loudly.
"Run and hide?" I suggested.
"Good idea." Demi said as we got up and started walking quickly to hopefully find somewhere to hide before it starts to rain.
"I think this could do the job." Nick said pointing to a huge tree, probably the hugest we have seen but this wasn't tall like the others, it has more branches, thicker and its branches are tall… the tree itself was still tall just not like the others! I guess it was another kind than them…
Not longer than ten minutes after we got under the branches of the tree that it started raining. Heavily. The water still got us but it was better than standing completely in the rain.
"It's getting chilly." Demi commented after a while rubbing her arms trying to find heat to her body, just like we were all doing.
"And it doesn't seem to be stopping soon." Nick said.
"God, we're going to die from the cold!" Demi exclaimed and huffed.
I got closer to her in a try to help each other with our bodies' heat which was already low but it still helped a little.
"We need a place for times like that." Joe pointed out.
"What do you mean?" Nick asked him.
"We need a house… more like a hut." Joe told us and I agreed with Demi nodding while Nick showed his agreement by silence. "We can start it after this storm." Joe said and once again we nodded but this time Nick joined us.
When finally the rain was done, and we nearly froze… we got out from under the tree and walked for a whole so we can gain heat again. Then the boys started to search for any fallen down trees or big branches so they can make a hut or a small house as Joe preferred to call it because hut will be too small for us.
While they went on their search I stayed with Demi getting the chance to know her more and more… and just like what I thought we became best friends soon.
For hours we watched as Nick and Joe was working on the little house. They were sweating making their exposed skin glow under the sun which decided to show itself a few minutes after the sky stopped raining, also it made them get their shirts off to be able to work and deal with the sweating at the same time.
When we offered help they looked at us up and down then focused again on the job completely ignoring the question. Fine, if they think we can't do it then let them do the whole work!
As a paying back, me and Demi watched their every move making fun of them loudly.
"Stop. We're trying to focus here." Nick snapped, "We're trying to make it ready before another storm comes."
"If you let us help, it would have ended faster." Miley shot back as Demi looked at me amused.
"Yeah, like you'll be able to carry these woods and tie it up together. Yeah, that totally makes sense." Joe said sarcastically and Nick chuckled shaking his head. "Nick, don't put this here."
"Why? It's the same, Joe."
"No, it isn't."
"First, we sure can do this. Hello, you're talking to the girl who fooled you for days and you totally believed she was a guy." I reminded.
"That's why you're not even welcomed in that house." Nick muttered under his breath and I ignored him.
"Second, you can't even work together. You're not cooperating."
"Yes, we're."
"Really?" Demi raised an eyebrow, "You were arguing about where to put a piece of wood just now." She said.
"You know what, that's none of your business. Just talk together or gossip about someone. I'm sure you'll have more fun." Nick said.
"Oh yeah. You know what we're gonna do? We're building our own little house. Keep that lovely one to you two." I said getting and folding my hands over my chest. A loud laugh escaped their throats looking at me.
"You're right, Miles. Let's go search for wood."
"Oh, how cute! She even got her a nick name. And now they're going to do their hobby together… embarrassing their selves in fronta us." Nick said faking awe.
"You'll see how cute it will be." I said and with that we turned around and disappeared between the trees. After walking for a while Demi saw loads of branches together, and of course branches coming out of trees like those are huge!
We walked over there, but before even having the chance to get one of them we saw something in the middle…
"What's the hell is this?" Demi asked pointing at the three white with soft pink dots balls. And I have to admit I had no damn idea about that.
"Guess your question got answered real quickly." I said hearing the same squeal I heard yesterday with Nick but this time something blocked the sun rays from us as we looked over and saw the mother of those eggs! Of course eggs with this size will be out of a mother probably twice our size! What kind of a bird is that?
We backed away quickly holding on to each other's hands. She first went to her unseen babies first and made sure they're all okay… before facing us again. This… um, bird? Well, that could describe her, she was soft yellow and had a blue line around her neck with big purple eyes.
"Have you ever saw something like that?" I whispered to Demi with my eyes not seeing anything but the mother in front of me.
"Absolutely not." Demi answered me.
She soon softened probably figuring out we're not harmful, and sat in her nest. Yes we should have figured out that a bird that huge will have a nest of branches not straws!
"What do we do now?" I asked Demi as we both were watching her never getting our gazes away from her.
"I guess we're in the safe zone; she could have hurt us earlier." She said, "We can continue searching and ignore her?"
"It'll be hard, but let's try." I said slowly walking away with Demi as we started looking for wood again. She let out another noise making our heads snap towards her direction. It wasn't that terrifying squeal this time, though. It was what I guessed her normal sound which sounded like pigeon.
"What now?" I groaned watching her again. But she looked at us as if wondering what were we doing. Once again Demi ignored her and went back to searching while I followed but glanced at her every once and a while.
She did the same thing a couple of times more before freaking me out by standing up again. She slowly walked towards us and picked a branch from Demi's hand.
"No." she screamed, "I need this." Demi groaned. As if understanding her words she left it as Demi looked at her oddly but picked the branch anyway.
Suddenly she speared her wings and flew up in the sky disappearing between the trees. "What is that?" I asked wondering almost annoyed by our clueless selves. But before I could even think of something, she came back and landed in front of us.
I got surprised by the next action of her as she dropped some branches from her beak and looked at Demi expecting her to pick them up like she did with the other one.
Demi just stared at her, I got the hint and picked them up and patted her neck in amusement. "You're one smart bird, aren't you?" I said as Demi looked at me oddly, "She's helping us, Dem." I said and the facts seemed to sink in for her.
"You know what, we can take advantage of that." she smirked and I glanced at her questioningly…
Demi
One hour or so later, we made it back to the boys who were still working on their hut sweating like every atom of water out of their bodies, still they didn't stop.
Me and Miley got a lot of useful branches with the help of Picky – we called her that, you know she's picking out the hints easily, and she picked us the branches we needed – so, we were back with all we needed to build our own hut.
Picky even got us few strong ropes. We heard the boys' constant laughs at us; not believing we can make it. Well, we'll see who laughs at the end.
But sure we weren't able to finish it that day since we started way too late and we were already tired. But we tied few woods together. While the boys did a good job, but still they didn't finish for sure, it wasn't that easy.
Next day, I woke up to Miley shaking me, "Wakey, wakey, we need to finish that hut or they'll harass us for life."
For hours we just worked on the hut until we reached the point they reached the day before. That's when they woke up and looked at us stupidly.
"What are you doing?" Joe shook his head.
"A hut?" I answered him.
"You were actually serious about that?" Nick asked.
"Did we look like we were kidding?" Miley sent him an eye roll. I don't get why he was treating her that way. Eventually she gave up and treated him the same… again! But I still know that it's annoying and bothering her, after all she admitted that she has feelings for him, maybe not that strong, but still.
"Ugh, whatever." He rolled his eyes.
Two days passed with us working on out hut and them working on theirs. Finally we finished. Wow, we must be amazing; finishing something like that in two days was hard enough let alone we're girls!
"Now, what do you think?" Miley smirked looking at them.
"It won't last for long." Joe said trying to convince all of us including him himself.
"Joe, honey, just admit it, babe." I told him with a smirk.
"Actually, I didn't think you'll make it."
"Still, ours is better." Nick argued.
"In what way?"
"It's larger."
"We don't need a lot of space, dear." Miley told him. "An enough place to sleep."
"Fine, you sleep in yours and we'll sleep in ours. Which is more comfortable."
"Whatever you believe, Nicolas." She shook her head.
When the boys sat down satisfied with their job, I walked over to Nick and sat next to him while Joe was getting us something else, or at least trying to. And Miley was walking along the shore watching the waves.
"Hey." I said.
"Hi."
"Hey, Nick," I called to get his attention as he did so and looked at me, "Why are you treating Miley like that?"
"She lied to us." He shrugged simply.
"Remember when you got that fever and she stayed with you until you got better?" I tried.
"That was Mark." And failed.
"They're the same person, Nick."
"Well, that's the problem."
"Ok, remember when you were gushing about her?"
"Did I ever?"
"Yes, when you saw her picture, you were like you just saw a Greek goddess."
"That was when I thought she was dead." He tried to reason. Ha, not with me, lover boy.
"And what? When, she's there in front of you, alive, you hate her, while you were almost drooling over her when you thought she was dead?"
"I was not."
"Yes, you were."
"Demi, just because I thought she was beautiful, cute and felt like I knew her doesn't mean that I liked her. I'm not crazy to like a dead girl."
"She's not dead." I exclaimed.
"Back then she was for us all."
"You're complicating things so much, don't you realize?" I rolled my eyes, "Nick, we're stuck on a weird island, we don't even know where we are, the last thing we need is more drama."
"All you care about is the drama?"
"Of course not. What I mean is, you know you have a spot for her, and I know that too. You were so close to Mark. Why don't you be the same with Miley?" I told him but he stayed silent, "Do you wanna know why you felt you know Miley?"
"Why?"
"Because he just showed her real character, she didn't pretend or hide herself, and you already knew why she just used another look. It was all just another look, but everything else is the same." I paused, "And you already spent too much time with Mark, so you actually know her."
"I guess I do." He shrugged.
"And? Didn't you like her personality?"
"I did."
"Then what the hell is your problem?"
"I just don't think we can be like we were, Demi."
"Tell me honestly, Nick. Do you feel anything towards her?"
"Of course, no. I barely knew her." Even though his voice was strong and sure, I heard that doubt behind it.
"Then you should talk to her. It bothers her how you're treating her."
"I don't know…"
"Look at how innocent she is." I looked over at Miley now collecting shells for God knows why. "You liked Mark, now it's just Mark is Miley and with longer and lighter hair."
"Do you think I should?"
"I'm sure you should." With that he sighed and I watched him walking slowly towards her…
I knew he had feelings for her, just that he didn't realize it and it's not that big of deal yet. He might just like her, I mean he has already approved her saying she's cute and beautiful. Maybe that's why he doesn't want to talk to her? He's not ready to face her after babbling those things to her about her? That would be an understanding, but it also meant he liked her, just like I'm assuming from the beginning.
So? You like that? I like Picky :)
I guess the name fit all the events of the chapter? I mean, It used to be according to one of the POV's, but this one suits both POV's right?
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But until now nothing happened after eating the large fruit, do you think something will?
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