OMG! I'm really sorry. it's been like a week since I've updated. Sorry again. I've been really busy and I lost track of time. (sigh) here's chapter 9…

Chapter 9

"O-Oliver…" Lilly whispered quietly. "Where do you think that's coming from?"

"I don't know, but there's only one way to find out." Oliver replied, grabbing Lilly's wrist and pulling her in the direction of the smoke.

"Oliver! Let go of me!" Lilly yelled, dragging the ground, as Oliver continued to pull her.

"Come on, Lilly! Don't you want to see what it is?" Oliver yelled, not letting go of his grip on her wrist.

"No! Now stop it!" She yelled back.

"Lilly, you have to come with me. We shouldn't split up." He said back.

"But I don't want to."

"Fine, then I guess I'll just leave you here, all alone…" he said, stretching out the word 'alone'.

Lilly looked around nervously.

Then Oliver started making sound affects.

"Hoo, hoo! Caw caw!"

"Oliver, stop that." Lilly said, frowning.

"Lilly, you have five seconds to come with me." Oliver said. "Four seconds… three seconds…"

"Or what?" Lilly asked, putting her hands on her hips.

"Or this!" Oliver shouted, picking her up.

Lilly flared around and yelled, "Oliver, you put me down this instant!"

Oliver laughed and heading toward the smoke, carrying Lilly in his arms.

After many attempts to get away, Lilly finally gave up and enjoyed the ride, although, it took a long time for the frown to leave her face. She looked behind her and saw Naners following close behind.

Once more, she had another thought where she thought of Oliver as more than a friend. She tried to think of something else, but it was difficult, considering Oliver was carrying her like a prince carrying Snow White.

Oliver suddenly laughed.

"Why are you laughing at me?" Lilly asked, frowning.

"I don't know. 'Cause you gave up on getting away." Oliver replied.

"I'm just too strong for you." Oliver continued, trying to show his muscles without dropping Lilly in the process. Lilly rolled her eyes.

"Yeah, well, I figured I might as well save my energy. You know, for when we're RUNNING FOR OUR LIVES WHEN WHOEVER'S OVER THERE PULLS OUT A BUTCHER KNIFE AND ATTACKS US!" Lilly yelled, hurting Oliver's ears.

"Gee Lilly. Don't freak out on me." Oliver replied, squinting from the pain his ears had endured.

"Sorry…" she mumbled. "Can I get down now?"

"What? You don't like me carrying you?" Oliver said, in a pretend, pouting voice.

Lilly laughed.

"Oh, no." she said sarcastically. "I love being carried away toward unknown territory against my will."

Oliver laughed again.

"Ok, but you have to promise to come with me, ok?" Oliver then said.

"Fine…" Lilly replied, sighing.

Oliver smiled and set her down. Lilly put her hands on her hips and sighed again.

"Now what, Lilly?" Oliver asked, in a slightly annoyed voice.

"I just miss my family and Miley and everybody." She replied. "They all probably think we're dead."

"Oh, come on now. They wouldn't give up that easily." Oliver assured her. "We'll try to signal a plane when we get back to the beach, ok?"

Lilly nodded before slowly walking toward the smoke again. She still couldn't believe how calm Oliver was being about all of this. Didn't he care about his family and friends?

After what seemed like forever, they finally reached the source of the smoke. Lilly's eyes widened when she saw a little house with smoke coming out of the chimney.

"Oliver… it's a house." Lilly said, making a weird face.

"I-I know…" Oliver replied, looking at the strange thing.

"What the heck do you think it's doing here?" Lilly asked, the confused look never leaving her face.

"I don't know, but there's only one way to find out." Oliver said, heading toward the smoke.

"Oliver… stop saying that. And we can't go over there. I'm telling you, there's a guy in there with a butcher knife and a hunger for human flesh!" Lilly exclaimed.

"Lilly, you watch too many scary movies. Now come on. Stay low and be quiet." Oliver said, crouching down.

Lilly sighed and did as Oliver said. They crawled closer to the little house and hid behind a few trees.

It was a small, dinky little house that looked like it only had two small rooms inside. It actually looked more like a shack for garden supplies than a house, the more they looked at it.

Oliver suddenly stood up and started to approach the house. Lilly gave him a 'what-are-you-doing' look and tried to pull him back down.

Oliver shook his head and slowly walked over to the door. Lilly stared intensely as he opened the unlocked door and stepped inside. Lilly braced herself for any sound of terror she was about to hear and slowly stopped cringing when she didn't hear anything.

Oliver soon appeared and gestured for her to come too. She shook her head and Oliver continued to wave his arms around, signaling for her to come over.

She finally stepped out from behind the trees and slowly walked toward Oliver.

"Well?" she asked. "You got me over here. Now what?"

"See for yourself." Oliver said, grabbing her wrist and pushing her inside.

To Lilly's surprise, the inside looked quite nice. There was an old fashioned stove and a bed and even some pictures and things hanging on the wall. Lilly cringed when she looked over at the wall of the kitchen a saw lots of cooking knives hanging on it.

"Oliver, it looks like someone still lives here and is coming back real soon." Lilly said, backing up.

"Yeah, I guess so, but don't you want to see if they can help us?" Oliver replied, his eyes wide with excitement.

"Not if they're going to kill us." Lilly replied, backing up a few more steps.

"Oh come on Lilly—" Oliver started to say, before stopping because of what he saw in the doorway behind Lilly.

"Hey!" A tall, mean-looking man with a beard yelled from the doorway. "What are you damn kids doing in here?!"

Lilly eyes widened and she turned around. She let out an 'eep' and her eyes got wider when she looked up and stared straight into the eyes of the strange man. She then ducked under the man's arm, which was against the wall, and ran out the door as fast as she could.

Oliver yelled 'Lilly' and ran out after her.

The man turned around, shook his fists at them, and cussed them out as they ran back through the trees, toward the beach.

Oliver ran as fast as he could and finally caught up with Lilly. His face was red and he was out of breath. He'd forgotten how fast Lilly could run, especially when she was scared.

Lilly wouldn't stop running until Oliver grabbed her around the waist from behind and refused to let her go until she calmed down. She finally stopped struggling after realizing that either she had gotten weaker or Oliver had started lifting weights. He was definitely stronger than she remembered.

"Lilly. Lilly, calm down. It's ok." Oliver whispered into her ear.

"No it's not, Oliver!" Lilly shouted. "I told you not to go in there and now that guy's going to come kill us!"

"Lilly, please calm down. That's not going to happen." Oliver tried to assure her.

"Don't tell me to calm down!" She continued to shout. "We're stranded on a freakin' desert island in the middle of no where, where we'll probably be some wild beast's dinner! Or more likely, thanks to you, that evil man's dinner! Then he'll use Naners as a toothpick!"

Oliver gave Lilly a weird look.

"Ok…" Oliver said, not knowing whether to shut the heck up or laugh at the thought of his 'evil monkey rival' being some old man's toothpick.

He decided he'd better shut up before Lilly wouldn't talk to him anymore.

"I'm sorry…" he mumbled, looking down at the ground. He cautiously took her hand, wondering if she was still mad at him and would start yelling again, and began to walk back toward the beach. Lilly walked with him but didn't say anything. By then, Naners had caught up with them. Oliver rolled his eyes. He just couldn't ditch that monkey no matter how hard he tried.

A/N: (yawn) I'm like really tired. Not that you care. Um, review please. Sorry it took so long for me to update. Hope this chapter was ok. Oh, btw, I posted to link to my picture for this story in my profile if you want to go see it. I don't think it's that good cuz I suck when it comes to computer graphic-type stuff. So yeah… but, none the less, let me know what you think please. oh, and there's some other loliver pics i made and junk if you care to look...

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