Well, um, hello peoples. Yes, I've decided to show my ugly face here again (well not literally of course). Anyway, I'm sure you all just want to kill me for not updating. Yeah, November/December are like my busiest time of the year and most of the time I just had too much other stuff to do or I had writer's block. That's why I wrote Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus, because I had writer's block and needed to write the other story to kind of give me a break from this one, if that makes any sense. Plus, the Christmas one wouldn't get out of my head. Anyway, I'm sure you've all forgotten what was happening with stranded lover. I know I did. Lol. I had to reread a lot of it before I could continue. Anyway, here ya go. Hope it doesn't suck.

Chapter 14

Lilly woke feeling the island's cool breeze. She opened her eyes and smiled as she saw Oliver curled up in a ball in the raft, sleeping with a big grin on his face. He obviously thought he was at home in his bed. Lilly yawned and looked around. She stood up and shook her sleepy friend, well actually, boyfriend. She still couldn't believe it.

Oliver stirred and opened his eyes.

"Good morning, Sunshine." Lilly said sarcastically.

Oliver yawned.

"Hey Lils." He said back.

"Come on. We're going now." Lilly said, grabbing Oliver's hand and pulling him up.

"What? Where are we going?"

"How easily we forget. To that one dude's house with the beard and the crazy eyes."

"His house has a beard and crazy eyes? My that's quite special." Oliver said, grinning.

"Shut it. You know what I meant. Let's just go and get it over with."

Oliver shrugged and followed Lilly through the forest to the other side of the island. He spotted Naners following close behind them and cringed. He still didn't like the thing but he wanted to make Lilly happy. He then spotted another bunch of bananas up in a tree.

"Hey, look Lils. There's some more bananas." He said smiling.

"That's great, Oliver. But you're not going to climb up there now, are you?" Lilly asked.

"Why, sure I am. Naners stopped me last time and I have to prove to you that I can climb that tree."

"Oliver, you don't have to prove anything to me. Now don't even think about it." Lilly said frowning.

Oliver put both hands on the tree trunk and began to inch himself up.

"Oliver…Stop it." Lilly whined.

Oliver continued to inch his way up the tree. He slid back down and inched back up again.

Lilly closed her eyes.

"I can't watch this." She said.

Oliver inched farther up the tree and it began to bend. He continued to scoot up it until the tree had actually bent over into an arch-like shape. Oliver was upside down hanging onto the tree for dear life.

Lilly slightly opened her eyes, but then immediately closed them again when she saw Oliver clinging to the tree.

"Oliver, don't fall." Lilly pleaded.

"Oh, come on, Lilly." He said. "I'm not going to fall. Just how uncoordinated to you think I am?"

"I don't think you're uncoordinated, Oliver. I just don't want you getting hurt. Now get down here. I don't care about any darn bananas!"

"Whatever." He said before getting a strange look on his face, like he was deep in thought.

"What are you doing?" Lilly asked, hands on her hips.

"Pondering." Oliver said, smirking. Lilly rolled her eyes.

"On how to get down?"

"Maybe…"

"Need help?" She asked.

"What? No! I am a mature adult. And I am perfectly capable of getting down myself." Oliver declared, holding his head high.

Lilly sighed again. Boys could be so stubborn. She walked over closer to where Oliver was and stood near the tree.

Oliver then continued up the tree. It bent more and soon he was almost at the very end of it. He then grabbed the bananas and threw them down. The next part was harder. He had to somehow get off the tree before it sprung back up and sent whatever was still on it, flying through the sky to who knows where.

He inched forward farther and did a somersault as he rolled off the tree, sending it flying into the air like a catapult. He landed face-first into the sand with his arms and legs stretched out.

"Man down! Man down! Get a paramedic! I think I'm dying!" He yelled squinting as he turned over.

"Oliver, you fell about a half a foot." Lilly said, kneeling over him.

"Oh." Oliver said before jumping up and brushing himself off. "What'd I tell you? Piece o' cake. And look, Oken, The Great Provider, gives you food!"

"You donut…" Lilly said sighing. "You're nuts."

"Don't you mean bananas?"

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It wasn't long before they saw smoke rising in the sky, just like they had seen a couple days ago. They walked closer until the "bearded, crazy-eyed" house was in view. They hid behind a tall plant and gazed at the house.

"Well, there it is." Oliver said, staring at it.

"Yeah, there it is." Lilly said. "So, uh, any idea how to go about doing this?"

"Well, we could just go knock on the door." Oliver suggested.

"Knock on the door? That's it? That's your brilliant plan?" Lilly loudly whispered.

"Well yeah, unless you've got a better idea…"

"Eh, fair enough." Lilly said sighing. "Um, you go first."

Oliver shrugged and quietly walked up to the door. Lilly followed close behind him with her hands on his shoulders. Oliver bit his lip before reaching his shaking hand up and knocked on the door.

He took a step back and cringed, wondering what would happen next. Lilly squeezed the back of his shoulders causing him to grit his teeth. He couldn't see Lilly, but she had her eyes closed.

The wooden door creaked as it slowly opened, exposing a man with a beard. And crazy eyes.

Ok, cliffy. Sorry 'bout that. I thought this chapter was ok. Nothing special really… pretty short. Um, I'll try to update soon, well, sooner than last time obviously. I'm shooting for the next three days at least, but we'll see. Sigh You used to be able to trust me for updating. Well, review please.

XOXO

Andrea