Next chapter done already! My stories go in directions I can't imagine at the beginning! And thanks to AkatsukiNightwing/HottieWingzx, LiveLoveWrite-93, Lauren Kassidy, and living for others for reviewing. More Jack/Katie is coming up, and more of the other boys will be coming up.

Jack: Why the hell do I have to sing "Katie" in this chapter?

Me: Come on, your girlfriend likes it!

Jack: But I don't!

Katie: So you hate my name?

Jack: No, I hate songs about pathetic little girls who drown themselves, that's all!

Me: Tough, I like them. Just be grateful you don't have to sing "The River" as well as "Katie". I'm sick of reading out the disclaimer. Anyone wanna do it for me?

Abby: You are so lazy! SideshowJazz1 does not own anything out of Lord Of The Flies or any of the songs mentioned in this chapter.

Me: By the way, what happened to Simon before? Like, he reminded me of the disclaimer for two chapters and then-

Georgia: Hello! He's technically dead!

Me: I wonder if I can change that...

Bella: Just leave it! He's kind of shy, you know!

Me: Cool it, Bel. Oh, and can I just say I dedicate this to one of my friends that I haven't seen since April. I hope you'll be over here for the summer holidays when I'm actually in the same country.

It got to morning. Both Katie and Jack had fallen asleep in the clearing. After their very heated make-out session, Katie had been totally relaxed anyway. Jack wasn't quite as dreamy.

Over the years, Jack had secretly practised singing occasionally, not wanting to lose his range. He had once been the amazing choirboy that proudly stated that he could sing C sharp. Over the years, his voice had deepened after he turned fourteen, but he'd still tried to keep up singing, and now he was used to it, and could still sing pretty well. A song had drifted into his mind that was one he decided to sing as a lullaby that would help Katie reach actual dreams, with only her subconsious awake. He remembered the song "Katie".

"Katie was a little girl," he sang, "Who said 'I'll find a way',

Katie was a little girl, who said 'It'll be OK."

Katie opened her eyes again and sang "Then one day, she found a little bit of something she used to drown." She scowled. "Is that a joke?"

Jack turned on his most charming smile. "No. The song just shares your name and has the right pace and tune for a lullaby."

Katie thought that was romantic, and closed her eyes again. Jack kept singing softly into her ear "She said 'I'm alive and I am free, but you see I have control over me.'

But will you draw the line?

Turn a blind eye to all the faces that you know?

And she said 'go.'"

Jack had finally fallen asleep, again with his arms around Katie.

"Yeah, will you draw the line?

And she said 'go'

And she said 'go'

And she...said..." Jack had barely finished the last "go" before his eyes had closed.

When it got to morning, they were still in the clearing. They awoke, and smiled at each other.

"Do you know any other songs like that?" Katie asked. "I know, like, so many."

Jack grinned at his girlfriend. "Well, sing one."

Katie looked shy, but began to sing "Sugarcane" in a quavering voice. "Baby ballerina's hiding somewhere in the corner,

Where the shadow wraps around her, and our torches cannot find her

She will stay there till the morning, crawl behind us as we are yawning

She will leave our games to never be the same."

Jack began to join in, recognizing the song.

"So grow tall, sugarcane." both sang.

"Eat the soil, drink the rain.

But know they'll chase you if you play their little games.

So run, run fast, sugarcane."

"How do you know those songs?" Katie asked. "You were in choir, right? We never sang songs like that in my choir. How can you remember the words so easily after all these years, anyway?"

Jack didn't really want to admit it, but he knew Katie well enough to know that her view of him wouldn't go down if he did. "I practise my singing occasionally. I didn't want to lose my range." he said. "The songs...they were popular when I landed here."

"Was Avril Lavigne popular?" Katie asked. She knew the Canadian pop singer wasn't so popular since she released her third album, The Best Damn Thing, but Katie still loved all of her songs, whether Complicated style or Girlfriend style.

However, Jack grimaced. "Maybe. I don't listen to bubblegum pop music, so I wouldn't know."

"But you like these sad ballads and things?" Katie asked. "My favourite AL song is a ballad." She began to sing.

Waking up I see that everything is OK

The first time in my life and now it's so great

Slowing down I look around and I am so amazed

I think about the little things that make life great

I wouldn't change a thing about it..."

Katie's favourite AL song was called "Innocence" and while it wasn't sad, it was very much in the style of the song "Katie". However, Jack didn't like it that much. He liked the other music for the lyrics, not the style.

Jack interrupted "Much as I'd like to stay here with you, I do have a tribe to lead."

"Do I have to be tied back up?" Katie asked pleadingly.

"Are you going to run off with those seven other boys?" Jack replied.

Katie was quiet for a moment. She didn't want to leave. She sincerely adored-though not quite loved-Jack, and she didn't want to leave the girls. But she hadn't forgotten how scared she had been that night when she and the other girls had been kidnapped. She missed the other boys too.

"...I won't run away." she answered.

Jack smiled back at her. "OK, I guess you can be free. For today at least."

"Everyone, this is Ralph."

Mike had untied the boy he'd found in the jungle after quickly recognizing that he was the original leader in Lord of the Flies, sensible Ralph. He was now counted as the newest member of their group, even though he had been one of the original boys stranded.

As they had walked back to the beach, both of the two had explained their stories, Mike having left out the fact that some of them already knew the details of when Ralph and the others landed on the island. He had only got to the bit when they first met with the tribe.

A couple of the boys inwardly gasped. They had thought Ralph was dead, although now it struck them as strange they hadn't seen any traces of what the tribe had planned to do to him.

Quick-thinking Taj was the first to say "Hey. Welcome to the group."

Ralph answered "Hey. So where are the girls?"

"I didn't get that far." Mike said quickly.

"Those other boys kidnapped them." Jacob explained, staring at the ground.

Ralph's eyes flashed with anger. "That's a new low for them, kidnapping girls. I suppose they took them for their own purposes, if you know what I mean?"

"Probably." Ace said. "Although, I was walking through the jungle last night and I saw Katie-"

"You saw Katie?" the other boys exclaimed.

"Yeah." Ace answered. "She was in a clearing with Jack, and she was smiling with her eyes closed. I thought I heard Jack singing something. They were both lying down, embracing."

The boys thought for a moment. Then Jude said "I know Katie would never smile if someone had forced her into something. I of all people know how moody she can get."

"I would never have thought Jack would treat a girl decently." Ralph murmured. "There's nothing to say the others would've though." He suddenly spoke to the others. "Wait a second, how many girls, and who are they?"

Mike began to give him a description of the girls. "Katie, who we were talking about, she's small with golden-brown hair and looks younger than she really is. She has very pink cheeks. Then there's Abby, she's tall and blonde and quite pale. Carly's small and freckled with brown hair. She's half-Asian. Then Bella is...there's so many. That's a third of them. Basically, there's twelve of them, and after Katie, Abby, Carly and Bella, there's also Jessica, Nikki, Vicky, Sara, Georgia, Blossom, Rosie and Heather."