A/N: Well not bad for the first day of summer. So glad you guys responded and wanted more because I wanted to write more! So, of course, when I got up the morning I started writing it and got in down within the hour. Hope it does justice! Anyways, I don't know if I can update in the next couple of days (being that it's summer I can update more) because I'm going away to Michigan with my cousin and grandparents for the weekend. Maybe I'll update more today. I'm kind of feeling it. lol

Rock Walls (Part 2)
(Gale/Madge)
(Modern Day)

Ever since that day, you know that day. Gale couldn't keep his heart rate at a steady pace, and Madge could hardly focus on her up and coming biology test. The other always seemed have effects on one another constantly, and they weren't even together. They could never be together. Gale would not allow this.

He weaved in and out of the crowd every time Madge made an appearance. It made it difficult between classes because they shared the same hallway by the bathroom. So Gale started to carry two classes worth of books. Madge was hunting him down and he wanted nothing to do with it.

But now, in advance placement Calculus, Gale was in a jail cell, right next to Miss Madge Undersee. His heart pounded so hard he could hardly hear the voice of the teacher explaining the lesson. Usually Gale had no problem with Calculus, usually Madge would ask him questions from time to time and he would answer. But today, that wasn't the plan, he couldn't focus and all she wanted was answers about Camp Rocky Mountain. But neither got their wish.

The slow class period lingered towards the beginning of class than the end of it. Gale has never wished more in his life than to go to bio chemistry. He couldn't take his pencil slipping from his sweaty left hand, or the way he perspired. He didn't want to feel this way. He didn't ask for it. But Madge sure knew how to make his body do funny things.

The bell rings and Gale's chair about topples over. He rushes for the door in seconds' time and was plopping down in bio chem with a minute and half left to go, unusual for him. His best friend, Thom, sat down next to him in the back.

"You know, you can't avoid her forever." Thom says under his breath. Of course he knew, he was Gale's best friend, "She's a nice girl, I don't know what holding you back."

"She has money, Thom, M-O-N-E-Y." he spells out for Thom.

"So what!? That's never stopped you before!" he whispers yells. Gale can see the vein sticking out in Thom's forehead. His hand is crumpled into a fist and he was sure if he could he would punch the table. But Thom knew the time and place for that.

Gale didn't answer Thom. He didn't have an answer for him. Madge was a mystery, a nightlock pill. And he didn't know how to handle it.

She had money and a rich Mayor daddy. He had no father and no money. There was big difference. He was weak pretending to be strong. Let's face it, a small rock falling freaks him out. Madge on the other hand, even if she didn't see it, was bold and strong and full of life. They were polar opposites that would only hurt the other. Or more like Gale would hurt her.

And he didn't want that.

He wanted her. He did. She was brave, smart, and strong. Everything he wanted in a girl. But not Undersee. Undersee was Undersee. He couldn't explain to you why that made all the different. Just like he couldn't explain to you why she made him feel the way she did. She got under his skin, and he hated it!

He'd look at her and all he wanted was to shove her against her locker and kiss her senseless. He wanted to feel the warmth of her lips against his. He wanted to feel that electricity no one has ever made him feel. He wanted everything about her. He wanted to know her, to learn from her, to understand her, to be with her. But he couldn't. So he acted like an ass.

"Because." He answers lamely.

"Gale, I see the way you look at her. She makes you feel something no one has before. She makes that wild side come out a little be more. She makes your heart pound, Gale, you check your heart rate every time she's around."

So Thom was observant, apparently. Or at least observant to all things Gale's life…

But wasn't that what Best Friends were for?

"Be with her, Gale." And no one said a word about it again during class.

Gale could actually think in this class. But he always found himself wandering back to the girl with cornflower blue eyes and that midnight blue sundress on that made her look spectacular. Those golden curls lingered in his mind and he wondered what they felt like. The feeling of her waist from that day lingered on the tips of his fingers. But he pushed it away.

Classes seem to run on and on all day and Gale couldn't decide whether or not it was good. At the end of the day, Gale was halfway across the parking lot with his siblings in tow, Posy in his arms with her birthday crown on. Of course that's when Madge Undersee wanted to talk.

"Gale Hawthorne!" she screams.

He started to turn but stopped when he saw blonde hair. He sped up his pace to his beat-up old car. He didn't want to talk to her because he was afraid he'd kiss her right there, right now.

"Gale!" she screams again.

"Gale, look it's the pretty princess!" Posy laughs.

He sets Posy on the ground and helps buckle her in as quickly as possible. Rory hops in the back with his headphones on, blaring Rock and Roll Jesus. Vick lingered by the passenger's side door, hoping to catch some action.

Madge's hand gripped Gale's bicep roughly, spinning him around. His butt hit the car with a bump.

"What, Undersee." But she didn't leave him time to finish.

That sense of electricity filled his every sense. His stomach coils and squeeze, hot against his skin. His toes curled in his boots and his hands gripped the car. She cool hands felt like ice against his cheeks. They slide now to the sides of his neck.

Their shoes were toe to toe, their chests, chest to chest. Gale's body was on overdrive. That feeling from the camp came rushing back at him. His hands moved attentively to hold her waist. Their bodies were flush against each other.

His entire body responded to hers. It felt alive in ways it hasn't in years. He almost groaned when her fingers twirled the longer pieces of hair at the nape of his neck, but then he remembered his siblings were there. But their lips stayed locked.

By now, Gale was sure fellow classmates were watching. He knew his siblings were. Posy clapped from the backseat and Rory called up to Vick, "It's about time."

When they pulled apart, they stared into each other's eyes. The blue of her eyes were like a magnet. He couldn't look away. It felt like they were the only ones in the world, but he knew they weren't.

His heart pounded against his ribcage like a jack hammer. His lips craved to mold against hers again.

"Meet me somewhere." He whispers just so she would hear.

"Where?"

"Anywhere."

"Be at my place in an hour." He nodded and they pulled apart. That feeling filled his body again that Undersee was right. She was good. And he needed more.

Now, he just had to get his siblings home first. Take a well needed shower. And go explore this new found "relationship" with the girl that drove him mad, with the girl, which even if he didn't know it then, held his heart.

His heart was her hostage and he never found it until it was too late.

A/N: Thank you , NurseKelly, and of course Gabbeatriz (my #1 reviewer!)