Luis realized what he had done. "Look, C.G., I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to... I understand if you never want to see me again!" Luis exclaimed.

C.G. looked at him confused. "Luis. I would never want that! On the contrary, I want to be with you every second of the day!" Luis started to say something, but C.G. put her finger on his lips to shush him. "Luis, I feel the same way about you."

"S-s-seriously?" Luis asked. C.G. nodded. This caused Luis to jump out of his seat. "Wahoo!" he exclaimed, spinning around.

C.G. laughed. "Your enthusiasm amuses me," C.G. said. She was sitting at the edge of the seat.

Luis pulled her out of the seat and spun around with her. "You'd be excited if you had been in love with the most beautiful, most perfect person of all time forever and then you learned they liked you!" Luis stopped spinning, cause he had said the 'L' word. Of course, some people read 'in love' different than 'love'. Though he was sure he did love her, he wasn't ready to say it to her yet. Mainly he was scared to ruin they're relationship.

C.G. smiled at him. "I'm learning this feeling this very minute." C.G. said as she flung her arms around Luis's neck. They stood there for a while. Happy to be together.

So many things happened the following week that one can not sit around writing chapters about each one! Darrin had left the crew, because he had actually only been their to drop Lucy off and make sure the time flyer had all the parts it needed. They had moved from the Bengal swamp to the North European Ice of 5,000,000 A.D. Apparently they would be doing a lot of place hopping until the team of scientists felt the need to test a place out. Okay, so that's all that really happened. It's still an overwhelming amount of information for a crew of teenagers with cabin fever.

It was breakfast. At the table C.G. was sitting beside Emily. Lucy sat somewhat in the middle and Ethan was beside her. Luis sat almost directly across from C.G. "So," Lucy said, after taking a bite of her porridge. "what's here in the North European Ice?"

"Well," Ethan said, as he took a couple pieces of toast, "we could sight see through Paris, adopt a giant hamster, or freeze our butts off."

Emily rolled her eyes. "It isn't that cold Ethan."

"Um, it's an ice cap. Yah it's that cold." Ethan said, taking a bit out of his heavily buttered toast.

"How do you eat like that?" Lucy asked, making a scrunched up face.

"Like what?" Ethan asked with a full mouth. Some of his food paste sprayed on Lucy's face.

Lucy wiped it off, disgustedly. "Like a giant hampster!"

While they bickered, C.G. and Luis were in their own world. Every once in a while they would look up from sifting through their porridge and smile at each other. While Lucy and Ethan argued Emily observed this. They had been acting strange for a while. She didn't poke her noise in though, because they seemed happy. She'd give them at least one more day of this happiness before she just had to figure out what was going on.

Their world was penetrated when Ethan shook Luis's shoulder. "Tell her, Luis!"

Luis frowned. "Tell her what?"

Emily cut in before Ethan could reply. "How stupid Ethan's acting!" There were some chuckles.

Lucy looked at Luis. "Luis, you okay man? You hardly touched your breakfast!"

Luis looked down at his practically full bowl of porridge. "I guess I didn't..."

Lucy looked over at C.G. "You to, C.G. Are you feeling sick?"

C.G. looked up from her food. "Oh yes, I'm fine." She and Luis smiled at each other from across the table. "I could not be any better."

As everyone started cleaning up, Squibbon jumped on Lucy's back. "Um, I think Squib wants to go on a walk." Squibbon made an 'Eeee' noise in agreement.

Emily rapped up Luis and C.G.'s breakfasts for the next day. They had to save their food. "That's a good idea, Squibby! Cege, can we go on a walk after we clean up?"

C.G. was washing the table. "I don't see why not." Luis was drying the table as C.G. was wiping it with soap. Their hands collided on the table and they looked up at each other. They smiled warmly.

So after cleaning they went on their walk. It wasn't Snowstalker season so that was one think they didn't have to worry about. As soon as Squibbon got out of the ship he ran ahead. "Squibby! Come back here!" Emily said, chasing after him.

The other followed in a sprint. "Squibby!" Ethan was the first to get to Squibbon. He made a dive for him and slid across the snow. "Got yah! Wait..." he had just missed Squibbon.

"Smooth," Lucy said as she and Emily continued running.

Ethan spit snow out of his mouth. "That girl is really starting to bug me." Luis and C.G. had stopped running. They figured Emily would catch him. C.G. helped Ethan up. "Thanks." Ethan said as he wiped cold snow off his yellow jumpsuit. The three of them walked far behind the others.

Luis remembered something he had to do. "So when are you going to get together with Emily?" Ethan was surprised. He hadn't expected that coming from Luis.

"Yes, you to seem so... close!" C.G. added.

This freaked Ethan out even more. "Whoa whoa whoa. What are you guys talking about."

Luis laughed, but before he could say anything more Emily called out to them. "We caught Squibbon!" The three of them ran up to Lucy and Emily.

The group walked for a while, when Luis saw C.G. shiver. "Are you cold, Cege?"

C.G. shook her head. "N-n-no!" She hadn't meant to stutter, she just shivered when she replied.
Luis rolled his eyes. She always tried to seem strong. She really needed to give in sometimes. He did think it was cute though. Luis took his hat off. "Here," he said holding it out to her.

"No, I am fine." C.G. said, pushing it back to him. "C.G.!" He exclaimed. He tried to put it on her head.

C.G. tried to push it off her head. "Luis!" She said through laughter. "Stop!" she laughed! Through their struggle they fell down into the snow in fits of laughter. They landed on their backs laughing. Luis's blue knit hat ended up over C.G.'s eyes. She pushed it up.

Ethan, Emily, and Lucy watched this and all shared a look of 'told-you-so' almost. "What has gotten into you guys?" Emily asked.

"What do you mean?" Luis asked, helping C.G. up. He new exactly what she meant, but he and C.G. didn't really want to tell the others.

"C.G. is acting so playful. It's not like her." Ethan said, crossing his arms.

"And there is always that," Lucy added, tiling her head down. Luis was hugging C.G.'s lower back. Luis dropped his hand, He hadn't realized he had done that.

C.G. laughed. "You three must be hallucinating. There is nothing different between Luis and I!" C.G. wasn't completely lieing. They had the same feeling's they always had for each other, well apparently Luis had these feelings for her for a while.

Emily laughed. "You're in love!" She laughed and danced around as if she were in a disney classic. "You finally told each other, didn;t you!" She hummed 'True Love's Kiss' from Enchanted and danced around. Luis and C.G. blushed.

"Basically..." Luis said quietly. He and C.G. smiled at each other.

Ethan was happy for them, but he didn't feel like showing it. "Great, they're in the Honeymoon stage!" he complained. Luis had his hand gripping the back of his head and C.G.'s face had turned rosy red! "Nerds are funny when their embarrassed though!"

"I think it's adorable!" Emily exclaimed. She went back to singing. "She's been dreaming of a true love's kiss, and the prince she's hoping comes with this!" She sang as she pranced around.

"This is exactly why we didn't tell you..." Luis mumbled. C.G. was sad that Luis seemed so upset. Maybe he thought he would be teased. Maybe he didn't want to make a big deal out of it because he knew that in the end they would have to be separated. Maybe he was just ashamed to have feelings for such an ugly girl. She didn't know. Either way, she decided that this conversation would end quickly.

"Um, I'm getting cold. Can we return to the ship?"

"Of course!" Emily squealed as she skipped of in direction of the ship. "There's something there that wasn't there before!" She started to sing. The others ignored her.

"You know, I was surprised it took you guys so long," Ethan said, letting Squibbon jump on his back.

"I was surprised they weren't already together!" Lucy said. "They seemed perfect together since I arrived on the ship." C.G. and Luis smiled. "I'm going to catch up to Em," Lucy said as she ran forward.

C.G. held onto one of her arms. She had her head down. Luis looked over. "You okay, Cege?"

C.G. looked up. "Affirmative... I'm just a bit... cold." She said, pulling Luis's hat down over her ears and keeping her hands on it. She didn't do that because she was cold.

Luis half smiled, and put his arm around C.G.'s upper back, trying to keep her warm. He rubbed her arm. C.G. had never realized how much Luis comforted her. She put her head on his shoulder. Luis was a bit surprised, but quickly he gave away that feeling and traded it for happiness.

Ethan rolled his eyes, to compress his smile. He walked in the very back of the group for the whole walk back to the time flyer.

That night C.G. was thinking in her bunk. She hadn't fallen asleep and it was probably after midnight. She heard Luis make a moan sound and turn over. She looked below. He seemed to smile in his sleep. C.G. smiled. His hair was brushed completely over. She started thinking about Luis. Then she thought about she and Luis. Then her thoughts finally drifted to one unavoidable, grim subject. She sat up fast and actually said this allowed on accident.

"What will I tell my father?"

TO BE CONTINUED