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Dougie's POV.
Around a week went on and we could not find any help. I tried to keep my mind bussy because I didn't want to think about Danny up there in the mountain, bleeding, without help... I couldn't handle it. Instead, I kept my attention on Vicky and Tom... And, if I had to be honest, on Alex too. We spent most the day together as we tried to make them spend time together. Tom and Vicky always went to look for food together before any of the rest woke up and they always came back smiling. They also slept next to each other, just like me and Alex. I'd realized Alex talked on her sleep. She said my name twice one night in a very soft sigh, then again one night. That left me a lot to think about; did she dream about me? Why would she dream about me? Tom always say we dream about the stuff that worries us or things we think about a lot. Did she think about me? What did she think about me?
I certainly thought about her, though I wasn't quite sure I wanted to. She was all tiny and cute, afraid of the dark and the woods, fierce but scared, and I wanted to be there for her. I had the feeling I didn't want to spend time with her just only for our plan, but because I wanted to be there with her... And I wasn't quite sure how to feel about that. As soon as we found help -if we ever found help at all!-, we would all get in another plane and follow our lifes in different ways.
Vicky was very worried about the wolves, Rick and she had found loads of tracks near the place we'd been and they both thought they were already hunting us, waiting for the perfect time to take us unprotective or alone, so they didn't ever let us be on our own... We even had to go to the 'bathroom' with someone else, which was seriously uncomfortable.
We were walking and walking, as usual. It had been snowing all night long and our feet were buried in the snow, making it very hard to walk, that also made us get tired faster.
I looked at my little Alex and felt confused; did I truly have feelings for her? After what'd happened last night, I was beginning to think I did... I mean, the way I reacted, I was so afraid she may be gone...
-flashback-
It was one of the coldest nights, every day seemed to get colder and colder. It was snowing and I woke up alone. Confused, I opened my eyes. The rock were Alex was supposed to be sitting on, next to me, was still warm.
"Alex?" I said with a sleepy voice, way more quietly than I wanted. I looked around but it was way to dark for me to see almost anything. I saw Vicky with her arms around Tom and her head resting on her chest. I smiled for a moment. I saw Chris and Rick both still sleeping aswell, but I did not see Alex's tiny figure. "Alex?" I called again, louder, I recognized the worry in my voice. I stood up and stumble several times as I tried to find her in the dark "Alex!"
"What's going on?" a sleepy voice, Christopher's voice, asked.
"I can't find Alex!" I told him desperately.
"Relax, Poynter!" Alex's voice said from the dark and I turned around to see her walk in the cave "I'm fine"
As soon as she was near me, the urge to hug her won over my senses and I put my arms around her.
"You're so stupid, you shouldn't have left like that! You know it's dangerous" I told her.
"Dougie, I needed to go to the bathroom, alright? I'm fine, see? No wolf ate me, not tonight" it the darkness, I saw her smiling and that was it for me, I knew I liked her.
-back to normal-
Now she was taking my hand as we walked... Only because she needed help to walk. It was very cold and extremely pale, but somehow still soft. That's when I started hearing something weird, I didn't not know what it was. Then I noticed the rest of the group had stopped walking.
"Is that-" Tom was about to say, but Vicky cut him off.
"A helicopter" she said, completely sure of what she was saying.
"We're safe!" Alex shouted.
"No, they won't see us, there are too many trees" Christopher said.
"Then let's hurry up! There's a clearing right there!" Alex said and started running surprisingly fast. She started shouting for help really loudly.
"Alex, stop, they can't listen to you!" Christopher shouted as he ran behind her.
"Dougie, go get her!" Tom shouted at me.
"Be quiet, you all, the wolves will find us!" Vicky shouted too. Suddenly we were all shouting at each other until a noise as loud as a thunder, or even louder, made all of us be quiet. I waited for a second until Vicky shouted again, so loud that her voice broke at the end "Alex, get out of there!"
Alex was several meters away from us and turned around confused.
"Avalanche!" Rick shouted "Everyone climb up a tree!"
But Alex was already in the clearing, meters away from the trees, as the rapid flow of snow quickly slid down the mountain towards her. She just stood there frozen, afraid, and I, completely brainlessly and without thinking, ran towards her.
"No, Dougie, come back!" Tom shouted, but I did not stop. I ran towards her and grabbed her hand, pulling her towards the trees, but the snow reached us before we were even close to a tree and I managed to pull her in my arms before the snow completely covered us. Then I was sure about it, we were dead.