A/N: Yay! 10 chapters already!! Oh and I fixed chapter 9... I kept calling the cow a guy... Thank you for pointing that out... But the next chapter is up! Sorry about all the time jumps but I wanted to write about Skye...

Today was the day…

Three weeks ago he left for a business trip and would finally come back today! The three weeks have been long, but now I was exploding on the inside with cheerfulness. I attended to my farm and Coco and then rushed to find my best friend.

"Rock!" I called to him. He smiled at me and we talked for a while. "What are you doing tonight?" He asked raising his eyebrow making a questioning look. "I'm meeting someone at the beach at 10 o'clock." I felt comfortable telling him… "What about you?" He grinned. "The guys and I are going to the bar tonight to… uh… discuss something…" His grin went bigger than I thought was possible. We parted ways and I went to pick some herbs for shipping at 5:00

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4:30…

I dumped all of the shipping items into the shipping box and headed to the goddesses pond. I put in a small flower that often bloomed in Forget-Me-Not and prayed to the goddess.

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9:40…

I raced from my little farmhouse to the beach humming in excitement. As I passed the bar Rock stumbled out obviously drunk. Not wanting to be rude I said 'hello' to my friend and quickened my pace. "Wait! Claire!" Rock wobbled after me grinning like a fool. "I won!" He caught up and a foul stench escaped from his mouth.

"W-won what Rock?" I stammered recovering from the smell as we both started down the path towards the beach. "The contest with the guys!" For some reason I got an unsettling feeling in my stomach. I ignored it thinking it was because of the odors.

"W-what contest?" I asked as we stopped by a plot of land near Cody's home. "Oh! Right you don't know…" Rock giggled uncontrollably and I looked at my friend with that same unsettling feeling bubbling inside me. He continued.

"Ma- Me and the guys…" He laughed between some words. "H-had a contest… to see w-who could… date you the most!" He shook with laughter as I looked at him with disbelief and shock plain on my face.

"You did what!?" I yelled at him tears brimming in my eyes. Rock blinked as a confused look overtook his amused one. "A-are you mad for some reason?" He asked obviously oblivious. "Duh! Rock you betrayed me!" I couldn't help a hurt look from creeping onto my face. I felt torn; I felt sad because all of the boys in the valley wanted to date me for the soul reason of winning a contest, and angry that my best friend was in on it, and the fact that he won wasn't helping… and I didn't want to yell at Rock because for a while I thought we had become good friends. Fat tears rolled down my cheeks and I felt my eyes change color to a deep green.

Rock scoffed at me and told me "It's no big deal! I won you should be happy for me!" Agony gripped at my sides as I let out a painful cry saying "Rock! You pretended to be my friend so you could win a bet!" My knees sank into the ground as I couldn't bear holding myself up anymore. "A-all those times we've been together… you counted those as dates in a contest?!" I couldn't seem to stop crying.

My best friend used me to win a contest. I felt like a trophy that was supposed to be won. I cried harder; I cried for me, I cried for Rock. I cried a lot. But a nagging thought in told me to go to Skye. I decided it was best to listen to the voice and got up turning to the beach.

"Hey! W-wait where are you going?!" I turned and sobbed. "I'm going to meet my date! Someone who really cares about me! Hey likes to be around me for a reason! Not because of a bet!" I spun around to leave again, but didn't get too far until I felt Rock's cold hands on my wrist.

"No! You're not going anywhere! I won the contest your mine!" He roared tears flying off of his face. I let out a startled gasp because I was actually surprised he was crying. I've never seen Rock cry. And now I never wanted to.

Rock twisted his hands making my wrist burn and his grip tightened. I let out another painful cry, then something dark flew into Rock's side.

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Skye's POV

She was usually never this late… It was 10:14 and I started to get worried. She usually came on time or a few minuets late… Its fine there's probably some work on the farm that had to be done. I told myself. Yet the feeling in the pit of my stomach overruled my brain as I stood and exited the entrance to the beach.

I followed the strange feeling as it brought me to Cody's metal shop. There I heard yelling. I found her. She was with a young blonde boy. The one I saw before when she fainted. I felt a little heat edge onto my face.

She and the boy were arguing about something and she turned to leave. I noticed that when she turned tears flew off her face. I stepped forward to go to her but the blonde grabbed her wrist and spun her around.

My fists balled up at my sides. I felt more heat being welcome on my face. But when he said "Your mine!" and made my angel cry I'd had enough. I lunged myself at him and kicked him in the side hearing a crunching sound. I prayed to the goddess that I would have broken a couple of ribs and ran with my angel to the beach.

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Claire's POV

A warm hand entwined with mine and we fled from the drunken boy. The shadows covered who I ran with but my heart kept telling me I was safe. As we entered the beach the moon allowed vision of my rescuer. It was Skye.

We continued to run until we reached the water. If there was no water there I'm sure we would have kept running. We both collapsed at the shore and I sobbed into Skye's chest.

I told him all that had happened in the last three weeks as he stroked my hair and my cheeks. When I was done staining his shirt with tears he kissed my salt stained cheeks and told me he loved me. I cuddled into his chest and softly told him. "I love you Skye."

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Skye's POV

After we reached the shore we both collapsed and she buried her head in my chest crying. I felt grateful to her; because if she wasn't there I would have gone back and pummeled the blonde boy who I found out was named Rock. Then I would have gone to jail… for murder and stealing.

She told me stories of when I was gone and I silently thanked her for keeping me distracted. While she spoke softly I stroked her soft-sweet smelling strawberry-blonde hair and her angelic face. When the pain in the air seemed to melt I kissed her cheeks and told her "I love you."

And I didn't care who in heaven knew it. I was prepared to be struck by lightning right there on the spot, but I couldn't care less. I loved her so much. "I love you Skye." I heard her tell me softly. That sentence made my heart accelerate and I felt as if I was invincible. And it made me aware of something. I just robbed heaven of an angel.

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A/N: Hey it was longer than the last one! I know, I know... Your all going to bite my head off because its so late... Sorry!! But I'd kinda like to keep my head if thats okay... Well how about that review button? Huh? Isn't it lookn' pretty snazzy? You wanna click on it? Go on it's free!