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Chapter 21

"Wait you have to stay in Narnia when we get back home?" Caspian asked. The night wind was blowing lightly as the two of them stood in the crow's nest.

"Tell me you knew that" Madi said.

"I'll admit, I did" he replied.

"Was I the last one to know?" she asked desperately.

"I'm so sorry Madi" he said.

"That's what Taylor said" she mumbled, wiping her face.

"How did you find out?"

"I overheard Edmund and Taylor talking about it" she replied. Madi stood up and she stared out at the sea. "I don't understand why you guys would keep this from me, make that I don't understand why Taylor kept it from me. We never kept secrets from one another unless if it was someone else."

"Maybe she had good reasons to why she did it" Caspian said.

"True but it still doesn't give her an excuse" Madi said.

"Did you ever think she was trying to protect you from getting hurt?"

Madi only looked down at her feet before she felt a callous finger underneath her chin. She looked up and she saw concerned and worried eyes boring into her wet eyes.

"I don't know" she said. "I don't know how to be mad at her. I've never been mad at her for anything. I mean we have pissed each other off on some occasions but never mad at each other."

She looked up at Caspian before she rested her head on his shoulder. "I guess you're going to get a new permanent guest since I'm staying" she said.

He only held her closer as he nodded his head. Madi had to believe this was some crazy dream but it was slowly starting to sink in as her new reality.

"I've never seen her that mad and upset at the same time" Taylor said hoarsely as she and Edmund sat on the floor, their backs against the wall, Edmund holding her with one arm around her and his hand stroking her hair to calm her down.

"You didn't know how she was going to take it" he said.

"But I should've told her" she said.

"And what if it wasn't you two that was mentioned?"

"I still would've told her. I feel bad enough that I didn't tell her" she said.

"Oh and what difference it would've made?"

"It would make a big difference" she replied coldly as she stood up. "You don't get it. Madi and I hardly kept secrets about one another unless if it was about someone else."

She looked over back at Edmund who was still sitting in his spot. She took a deep breath before she continued her little speech. "Madi would do some stupid things that I sometimes question her stupidity level and I would be pissed off and she would feel the same about me" she said.

Taylor looked sadly at Edmund as she fought to fight back the tears. "Now with me hiding this, it was ten times worse and it's my fault" she said.

Edmund stood up from his spot and strode over to Taylor in a few steps. He stood in front of her and grabbed her hands.

"Did she say it was your fault?" he asked.

"No" she replied.

"Did I, Lucy or Caspian say it was your fault?"

"No but Edmund where are you getting at?" she asked.

"I'm doing this because I want you to know that it's not your fault that you didn't tell her. I'm so sorry that I've practically forced you to hide it" he said.

"It's not your fault" Taylor said.

"But-"

"But nothing Edmund. It just happened for a reason" she said. "If I was to tell her before, who knows what the outcome would've been."

She rubbed her eyes after she let Edmund go. "Who knew this whole thing can be so tiring?" she asked.

"Come on let's get you to bed" he said.

The two of them walked out of the training room and headed towards her room. Taylor's mind was swarming with thoughts on tomorrow. She knew how upset her friend was, but she was only afraid on what tomorrow will bring.

"Hey" she heard Edmund's voice as she was driven out of her thoughts. "Are you sure you'll be okay?"

"Oh yeah I'm sorry I just spaced out" she said.

"Okay but remember my room is just down the hall if you need anything" he said.

"I know" she said softly.

Edmund pressed his lips on to her softly and she returned the kiss. They pulled apart as he glided his fingers on Taylor's cheek and caressed it before she headed inside. Taylor closed the door and walked over to her bed as she collapsed and tried to fall asleep.

Meanwhile Edmund just stared at the door and sighed heavily. It felt like it was a long day considering what Taylor was going through just awhile ago. He felt bad for making Taylor hide something this big from Madi. He would hope that the girls would be back to themselves like it was before.

He started to head off to his room when he took one last look at Taylor room before he headed down the hallway to his room.

A knock on the door made Taylor jump a little this morning. "Come in" she called out to whoever it was on the other side.

To her surprise, Madi opened up the door. "Hey, can I come in?" she asked.

"Yeah of course" Taylor replied.

Madi came in the door and shut it so it would give them privacy to talk. "How are you after well, you know?"

"I should be asking you that" Taylor said. "But I'm alright."

"I just want to talk about last night" she said.

"Okay…"

Madi took a deep breath as she started to talk. "I know you didn't mean to hide about me while we've been at sea. I know that it hurt me to find out like I did" she said.

"What you're trying to say?"

"I'm trying to say that if I was you, I would've done the same thing. Am I still hurt? I am but that doesn't mean I don't hate you."

"You don't?" Taylor asked astonished.

"Taylor, if you had a crazy idea of thinking that, then you're wrong. I don't think I could hate you for something like this" she said.

"But I feel so bad" she said sadly.

"I know and while I'm still a little hurt that you didn't tell me, but I don't know how to be mad at you. I know it sounds weird but I don't think you've ever did anything to make me mad" MAdi said.

"How the hell are we going to get past this?" Taylor asked.

"I don't know but I think we'll find a way" Madi replied.

"I'm kind of glad you came in here" Taylor said. "There's something I need to show you."

Taylor got up from her spot on the bed and grabbed her notebook. "A few nights ago, I started to have these dreams about some location and last night this dream was more vividly than I ever seen. I drew it down from the best that I could remember" she said.

Taylor gave her friend the notebook and Madi stared at it for awhile. "Where do you suppose this is?" Madi asked.

"I think the Lone Islands. I'm not sure yet" she replied. "But I think this is where you have to help defeat the White Witch."

"Then we have to tell the others" Madi said.

"I don't know" Taylor said.

"What do you mean you don't know? They have to know" Madi insisted.

"I know and that's why I was thinking that you and me should do this, alone" Taylor said.

A/n: Sorry this chapter is short. I promise it'll be longer next chapter.

Will Madi agree to Taylor's idea? I know that these two are on a rocky point at this point but I think they're slowly coming to realize this will happen when the adventure is over.

I posted a picture on my blog of what I imagined Taylor looking like so you can head on over there. I'll try to update next week seeing how the past few weeks have been crazy for me with work and all.

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