AUTHORS NOTE: I AM VERY FRUSTERATED WITH SOME PPL WHO COMENTED ON HEAR LAST TIME AND IF I CAN FIGUER OUT HOW I WILL BE BLOCKING ANY ONE WHO SWARES (ESPECIALY CONSIDERING my personal morales)! Also SOME OF YOU PPL WILL BE HAPPY TO KNOW THAT SARA HAS RETURN TO BETA if you remember she checked allot of my draco storey (that i took down because it had a tracted some extremly bad comment and nobody like it) and also check chapter 5 of this storey. \

Chapter 21: Shaundrah is Confused

Shaundrah had gotten into a good routine. She got up in the morning very early. She went and prayed for a while. She took a bath in the river far away that the boys could not look at her. She cooked some food for the boys. Then she read her Bible for a while. Then she went and got some vegetables and oysters. Icheb and Chackotay and Harry would go out and they would catch crabs and fish. They would also shoot bears and deer and other forest animals. Then Shaundrah would make dinner with that stuff.

Shaundrah noticed that a lot of the time, Icheb and Chackotay and Harry would not talk. They were quiet. Shaundrah thought maybe they were like depressed because Voyager had totally ditched them on the planet. But then she realized that they all were happy to talk to her.

There were lots of storms on the planet. After 2 weeks, Shaundrah counted 11 storms. They were really big storms and there were thunder and lightning that were way bigger than any she had ever seen in Wainfleet. Every time she sat in the shelter with the other boys with only the candle to keep the light and they listened to the wind and cracking noise, afraid that the shelter would be blown away. But it wasn't.

She went into one of the other rooms so she could get a snack. It was some berries that tasted just like straberry twizzlers. Then she heard the sound of footsteps. It was Harry! He looked really shy and he smiled at her and in the candle light, she thought maybe he was even blushing.

"Um hi, Harry." she said shyly.

"Hi, Shaundrah." He looked down and he scuffled his shiney starfleet shoe on the dirt ground. "I just wanted to come in and say something I wanted to say for LOTS of months now."

Shaundrah couldn't even eat the twizzlers berry she was so startled by him. "What... what is it Harry?"

He swallowed and Shaundrah could hear it. You could hear a pine drop.

"Shaundrah I think you are so smart and so easy to joke around with, you are just so intelligent, and just the kind of girl I have always liked!" He looked up into her crystal sapphire eyes. "Shaundrah, I am getting to the age where I really need a wife, one who will be a brilliant person and I am looking for a girl who is serious in her intentions!"

She could not answer. It was all too much for her. Was Harry really asking her to court him? Wow! She had no idea! I mean, he was cool, and he loved lots of the same things as she did, and they joked around a lot, and ate lots of lunches together, and he was cute and really considered a good guy in the crew, but she had never thought that he might be interested in her!

"Harry, I need to... to think..." she said, but then it was all too much for her, and suddenly, she swayed and passed out.

Shaundrah opened her eyes in her bedroom but it was the bedroom of their metal shelter on the planet. When she opened her eyes she saw Icheb leaning over her staring into her ocean blue eyes with his own dark ones.

In the background, Shaundrah could hear arguing. It was Chackotay and Harry!

"What the hell did you do to her Ensine Kim?"

"Nothing Commander I just had a conversation with her and she seemed a little overwhelmed and she passed out and hit her head!"

"Shaundrah is a strong girl she would not just randomly pass out, I think there is more to this then what your saying to me, but at this point, I think we both better get some sleep since Shaundrah is okay. We can talk about it in the morning when I'm less mad!"

"Okay Commander good night."

Then the arguing stopped. Icheb sighed.

"You have a bump on your head. You hit it on the counter. But with my borgeyes I can see better than most people and I can basically work like a tri corder and I analyzed you. I put some ice on your head and you'll be okay."

"Wow thank you Icheb. You saved me."

Icheb blushed. "You are a very good friend to me, and you are probably the most beautiful girl in the ship, Shaundrah. You must know that every guy thinks you're so cute..." He paused... "Including me!"

"Icheb... you know I can't just date around! That's not what the Lord wants from us!"

"I know that, Shaundrah! I... I'm serious about you! I am a serious person! You are more beautiful than anyone on the ship and you deserve and will get my TOTAL loyalty!"

"Oh my... I don't know what to say, Icheb..."

Shaundrah could say NOTHING. She had no idea that Icheb also was interested in courting her! He always seemed so serious whenever they worked in engineering together or ate dinner together or studied scripture with her. After all, he was a bog, and they were very serious because of their implants and collective brain. That's probably why she didn't guess his feelings!

"Don't say anything, Shaundrah. Just pray about it," he whispered.

Then he stood. He looked back at her from the doorway painfully. Then he left. She was SO confused! What to do? Who to choose? They were both such totally cool guys!

Then she blew out the candle and went to sleep.