1.1.1.1 Chapter 3
The rest of the day dragged on slowly. The woodpile didn't seem to be losing any wood, but gaining more. David stopped and looked around. His eyes fell on Sophie, who was now watching him. She held up a hand with five fingers extended.
"Five more minutes." David thought and lifted another log onto the block. He decided to slack off for the last few minutes before dinner. He had barely chopped the log he had just put on the block when Sophie came over.
"Time for dinner, David." Sophie said and David nodded. "You know, I'm sure if you just apologize to Peter, he'll take some months off." Sophie said and David looked at her.
"I'm not apologizing. I did nothing wrong." David said and Sophie hesitated.
"But David, you did. You disrespected him. If you had only gone along with group then this wouldn't have happened." Sophie said and David shook his head.
"You don't know what it's like to expose your feelings to people you barely know." David said taking off the gloves after putting up the ax.
"Maybe you're right about that, but you still didn't have to do what you did. Peter was very close to kicking you out of Horizon. I'm sure he would have called your father then and there if you pushed him any farther." Sophie said and noticed David's expressing.
"I think I'd have a choice of who I'd want to go home to." David said and Sophie slowly shook her head.
"No, I don't think you would have." Sophie said and slowly walked off. David stood perplexed at what Sophie had said. He would talk to Peter when he had his one-on-one with him after dinner. David slowly walked to the lodge.
Kristen had been in the lodge with Shelby burst into the lodge. She didn't look too happy to be there either.
"It's dinner now." Shelby said and Kristen said 'okay'. Shelby left while Kristen slowly put down her journal and followed Shelby's quickly departing figure. Reaching the lodge Kristen walked over to the diminishing line. While she waited she looked around the room for any sight of David. She really had to talk to him about that day's events. Seeing him seated at a far table by himself, Kristen frowned. He looked so sad by himself. Unfortunately, Roger was seated in front of him. It looked like Kristen would have to catch David some other time, without someone watching his every move.
"Hey Kristen, are you going to sit with us tonight?" Juliet asked in a happy tone.
"I guess, I mean, I have no where else to sit." Kristen said in a disappointed voice.
"Ooh, cool!" Juliet squeaked. "Hey, do you like David or something? You seem to be with him a lot." Juliet asked.
"I don't know." Kristen told her. Juliet didn't know what else to say so she shrugged and bounced over to the Cliffhanger table. Kristen had walked slowly to the table and sat down next to Ezra. She ignored most of what the group was saying and had to have them repeat what they asked her. She couldn't concentrate on anything but the depressed looking boy sitting at the corner table.
"Are you done, David?" Roger asked after five minutes of David just poking his mash potatoes.
"Yeah, I guess." David replied getting up, tray in hand.
"On to Peter's office." Roger said and David nodded. He threw out his food and was led to the administration building.
Kristen had begun to eat her food and hadn't noticed David depart. She looked up hoping to at least make eye contact with him but was disappointed to see an empty table where there was once a lonely boy.
"Well, David. You've made it three weeks, are you going to talk now?" Peter asked as David sat in the chair placed in front of Peter's desk.
"Blah, blah, blah." David said forgetting about what Sophie had said.
"David, come on. If you just tell me why you did what you did and you'll only have to do the rest of this month." Peter bargained. David shook his head. At that moment Sophie walked in.
"Peter, here's those papers you needed for the girl from the Sundogs." Sophie said and David remembered why he would talk to Peter today. After Sophie left, Peter looked through the papers.
"Um…" David started and Peter looked up at him.
"Yes?" Peter asked setting down the papers.
"Is it true that if you sent me home I would go home to my dad?" David asked hesitantly. Peter paused and then nodded.
"Why?" he asked.
"Why couldn't I choose who I wanted to go home too?" David asked confused.
"Well, I guess you should know." Peter sighed. "When your mother had brought back here she told us that she wanted you to go to your father next time you acted up." Peter said and watched David's expression.
"B-But why?" David asked his face had fell at hearing that his mother didn't want him.
"She said she couldn't handle you." Peter said softly. David looked down at his hands.
"I still don't want to go to my dad's if I do get kicked out." David mumbled.
"Why?" Peter asked and David looked up.
"I hate him." David said simply.
"Well, I think our meeting is well past, so get to your dorm." Peter said which shocked David.
"Aren't you going to ask me why I hate him?" David asked confused.
"If you wanted to tell me you would have continued." Peter said and David nodded.
"I guess I would have." David said getting up. Peter nodded.
"Oh, you just have to do the rest of the months wood." Peter said and David thanked him. David silently left Peter office and slowly walked over to the gazebo. He had spotted a figure sitting down reaching out their hands to the warmth emitting off of the crackling fire. David at once recognized the figure once he got within five feet of the gazebo.
"Hey Kristen." He said sitting down next to her and reaching out his hands to the fire.
"Hey, I was just thinking about you." Kristen said and smiled at him.
"Ooh, first time someone's ever thought about me." David said but in a joking voice. Though, he wasn't joking. Kristen giggled a bit.
"It's really cold." She commented and David nodded.
"You have to expect that in the mountains." He said and smiled at her.
"I know, but still. It doesn't have to be this cold." Kristen said shivering.
"Then control the weather if you're so picky about it." David smirked.
"I wish I could." Kristen said and inched closer to the fire.
"I know a better way." David said and Kristen looked at him.
"What is that then?" she asked and David scooted closer to her and wrapped an arm around her shoulders. Instinctively, Kristen leaned into him and sighed.
"Warm?" David asked laughing a bit at her content sigh.
"Oh yes." Kristen said and smiled. They sat there for a few minutes in silence, watching and listening to the fire crack. The moment was crushed once someone cleared his or her throat. Kristen jumped and David let his arm go to his side.
"That's what I thought." Sophie said. "Off to bed now, it's pass lights out." She added and David got up. "I'll take you to your dorm David. Kristen I'm sure I can trust you to find yours."
"Yes." Kristen said softly before slipping a piece of paper into David's hand. David wrapped his fingers around it and slowly placed it in his pants pocket.
"Come on David." Sophie urged.
"I'm coming." David said getting up and following Sophie.
"Night David." Kristen said as she pulled ahead.
"Night." David replied.
"So, you and Kristen are getting along fine." Sophie said casually.
"Yeah, I guess." David said looking at the sky.
"You guess? You seem to be with her more often then with any of the Cliffhangers." Sophie said and looked at David.
"Yeah, well, she's nice -- and I mean that in the non-physical way." David added quickly.
Sophie laughed a bit, "Okay."
"Oh, but I don't mean she's ugly, cause she's not." David said seeing an error in his first sentence.
"It's okay David." Sophie laughed, "I understand."
"Good." David said in a "that was close" tone.
"I'll see you tomorrow bright and early!" Sophie said and David groaned.
"Night." He said climbing the steps to the door.
"Good night David." Sophie said walking away. David ambled inside and to his bed. Lights off hadn't officially been announced so the lights were on and everyone was on their beds talking.
"Look what the cat dragged in." Ezra said seeing David walked in.
"What did you did you do?" Auggie inquired.
"If you must know then I must kill you." David said and plopped on his bed, flicking on his reading lamp. He pulled out the note Kristen had slipped to him.
"What have you got there Davey boy?" Scott questioned seeing the folded piece of paper.
"Nothing." David said opening it up and ignoring Scott. He started to read:
Dear David,
I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to talk to you tonight or not. Roger sure does keep a strict guard. I wasn't able to convince him that I needed to talk to you. Anyways, I was thinking that maybe we could meet somewhere tonight. I heard Shelby talking about how she and Scott would sneak out and stuff. So, I was wondering if you would like to go to the docks tonight. We could talk. I really need to talk to you, so please come. Well, I have to go now. I'll see you tonight, at mid-night.
Love,
Kristen
David set down the note and smiled. Kristen liked him. Perhaps even loved him. David was ecstatic. Of course he would show up, why wouldn't he? David grinned to himself as he got up and walked into the bathroom, ignoring Scott's comments on what the paper said. He brushed his teeth and washed his face then went back to his bed and shut off the light. Peter came by a minute later and told the rest of them to turn the lights off. David couldn't fall asleep, course if he did he might not be able to get up, so he stared at the digital numbers of his clock turn to the next number very slowly. It was torture!
Finally twelve o'clock came and David shot out of bed. He made sure he didn't wake up the other guys and carefully slipped into the darkness. It was very cold now and David was shivering as he walked to the docks. No one was there when he reached it so he sat down on a bench and waited.
Kristen had fallen asleep but shot up at twelve-thirty. She cursed herself in her mind as she quickly got on her shoes and jacket. She wasn't as careful as David, but no one woke up. Kristen sprinted to the docks just as David was leaving. Kristen stopped him.
"Sorry, I fell asleep." Kristen said apologetically.
"No sweat." David said as they walked back to the docks. They sat down at the same bench David had just sat at. "So you said you wanted to talk?" David asked after a moment of silence.
"Oh yeah." Kristen said remembering.
"Well?" David said after Kristen didn't say anything.
"You know today, when we kissed…" Kristen trailed.
"Yeah." David looked down. "Sorry about that."
"Why did you pull back? Am I a bad kisser or something?" Kristen asked.
"No, no! You're not a bad kisser it's just something else." David said pausing before saying "something else".
"Well, what is that something else?" Kristen asked and David looked away.
"Kristen… I can't say. Not yet anyways." David said giving her an apologetic look.
"It's okay, I guess. Just as long as it's not me." Kristen said and David looked at her.
"It's definitely not you." David said and wrapped his arms around her, giving her a nice warm hug or well, as warm as he could give her.
"You're warm, as usual." Kristen smiled.
"Really? I feel cold as hell though." David said and Kristen looked at his pink cheeks and nose.
"Then maybe we should switch." She said and David smiled.
"Sure, why not?" he laughed a bit. So now David was leaning into Kristen. "Ahh, comfy." David and Kristen laughed silently. "So that was the only thing you wanted to talk about?" he asked after they stopped laughing.
"Well, yeah. It was bothering me." Kristen said, "I thought I had done something wrong." She added.
"Sorry. I really didn't want you to think that." David said softly.
"It's okay now though." Kristen said pulling back. "Warm enough?"
"Aww that was unfair." David whined and Kristen laughed.
"Nothing in life is fair." Kristen said and smiled.
"Yeah, you're right." David agreed after thinking.
"I know, I'm always right." Kristen said nonchalantly.
"With that I'd have to disagree." David said and Kristen gawked at him.
"You dare to wrong me?" she asked in a joking tone.
"Yes, I do. Here's my reasoning. You thought that you had done something wrong when I kissed you when, in fact, it was something else. Oh, got you!" David said and smiled triumphantly.
"I never said that." Kristen lied and showed it.
"Oh, come off it." David said and smiled. Kristen laughed.
"You're so weird." Kristen smiled back at David.
"So I've been told." David replied leaning in a bit.
"You promise not to pull back?" Kristen smiled at him.
"I'll try not too." David said and leaned in the rest of the way.
A/N: Okay, bad place to end I know, don't kill me! I wanted to get this chapter out fast so, that's it for now. Don't worry though, that's not all! I think I'll actually finish this story! But right now I have to go study for two more midterms. God, they suck! So, I'm sorry this one is shorter then the rest of them. I promise they'll be longer. Anyways, hope you all enjoy this semi-pathetic chapter. See ya
The rest of the day dragged on slowly. The woodpile didn't seem to be losing any wood, but gaining more. David stopped and looked around. His eyes fell on Sophie, who was now watching him. She held up a hand with five fingers extended.
"Five more minutes." David thought and lifted another log onto the block. He decided to slack off for the last few minutes before dinner. He had barely chopped the log he had just put on the block when Sophie came over.
"Time for dinner, David." Sophie said and David nodded. "You know, I'm sure if you just apologize to Peter, he'll take some months off." Sophie said and David looked at her.
"I'm not apologizing. I did nothing wrong." David said and Sophie hesitated.
"But David, you did. You disrespected him. If you had only gone along with group then this wouldn't have happened." Sophie said and David shook his head.
"You don't know what it's like to expose your feelings to people you barely know." David said taking off the gloves after putting up the ax.
"Maybe you're right about that, but you still didn't have to do what you did. Peter was very close to kicking you out of Horizon. I'm sure he would have called your father then and there if you pushed him any farther." Sophie said and noticed David's expressing.
"I think I'd have a choice of who I'd want to go home to." David said and Sophie slowly shook her head.
"No, I don't think you would have." Sophie said and slowly walked off. David stood perplexed at what Sophie had said. He would talk to Peter when he had his one-on-one with him after dinner. David slowly walked to the lodge.
Kristen had been in the lodge with Shelby burst into the lodge. She didn't look too happy to be there either.
"It's dinner now." Shelby said and Kristen said 'okay'. Shelby left while Kristen slowly put down her journal and followed Shelby's quickly departing figure. Reaching the lodge Kristen walked over to the diminishing line. While she waited she looked around the room for any sight of David. She really had to talk to him about that day's events. Seeing him seated at a far table by himself, Kristen frowned. He looked so sad by himself. Unfortunately, Roger was seated in front of him. It looked like Kristen would have to catch David some other time, without someone watching his every move.
"Hey Kristen, are you going to sit with us tonight?" Juliet asked in a happy tone.
"I guess, I mean, I have no where else to sit." Kristen said in a disappointed voice.
"Ooh, cool!" Juliet squeaked. "Hey, do you like David or something? You seem to be with him a lot." Juliet asked.
"I don't know." Kristen told her. Juliet didn't know what else to say so she shrugged and bounced over to the Cliffhanger table. Kristen had walked slowly to the table and sat down next to Ezra. She ignored most of what the group was saying and had to have them repeat what they asked her. She couldn't concentrate on anything but the depressed looking boy sitting at the corner table.
"Are you done, David?" Roger asked after five minutes of David just poking his mash potatoes.
"Yeah, I guess." David replied getting up, tray in hand.
"On to Peter's office." Roger said and David nodded. He threw out his food and was led to the administration building.
Kristen had begun to eat her food and hadn't noticed David depart. She looked up hoping to at least make eye contact with him but was disappointed to see an empty table where there was once a lonely boy.
"Well, David. You've made it three weeks, are you going to talk now?" Peter asked as David sat in the chair placed in front of Peter's desk.
"Blah, blah, blah." David said forgetting about what Sophie had said.
"David, come on. If you just tell me why you did what you did and you'll only have to do the rest of this month." Peter bargained. David shook his head. At that moment Sophie walked in.
"Peter, here's those papers you needed for the girl from the Sundogs." Sophie said and David remembered why he would talk to Peter today. After Sophie left, Peter looked through the papers.
"Um…" David started and Peter looked up at him.
"Yes?" Peter asked setting down the papers.
"Is it true that if you sent me home I would go home to my dad?" David asked hesitantly. Peter paused and then nodded.
"Why?" he asked.
"Why couldn't I choose who I wanted to go home too?" David asked confused.
"Well, I guess you should know." Peter sighed. "When your mother had brought back here she told us that she wanted you to go to your father next time you acted up." Peter said and watched David's expression.
"B-But why?" David asked his face had fell at hearing that his mother didn't want him.
"She said she couldn't handle you." Peter said softly. David looked down at his hands.
"I still don't want to go to my dad's if I do get kicked out." David mumbled.
"Why?" Peter asked and David looked up.
"I hate him." David said simply.
"Well, I think our meeting is well past, so get to your dorm." Peter said which shocked David.
"Aren't you going to ask me why I hate him?" David asked confused.
"If you wanted to tell me you would have continued." Peter said and David nodded.
"I guess I would have." David said getting up. Peter nodded.
"Oh, you just have to do the rest of the months wood." Peter said and David thanked him. David silently left Peter office and slowly walked over to the gazebo. He had spotted a figure sitting down reaching out their hands to the warmth emitting off of the crackling fire. David at once recognized the figure once he got within five feet of the gazebo.
"Hey Kristen." He said sitting down next to her and reaching out his hands to the fire.
"Hey, I was just thinking about you." Kristen said and smiled at him.
"Ooh, first time someone's ever thought about me." David said but in a joking voice. Though, he wasn't joking. Kristen giggled a bit.
"It's really cold." She commented and David nodded.
"You have to expect that in the mountains." He said and smiled at her.
"I know, but still. It doesn't have to be this cold." Kristen said shivering.
"Then control the weather if you're so picky about it." David smirked.
"I wish I could." Kristen said and inched closer to the fire.
"I know a better way." David said and Kristen looked at him.
"What is that then?" she asked and David scooted closer to her and wrapped an arm around her shoulders. Instinctively, Kristen leaned into him and sighed.
"Warm?" David asked laughing a bit at her content sigh.
"Oh yes." Kristen said and smiled. They sat there for a few minutes in silence, watching and listening to the fire crack. The moment was crushed once someone cleared his or her throat. Kristen jumped and David let his arm go to his side.
"That's what I thought." Sophie said. "Off to bed now, it's pass lights out." She added and David got up. "I'll take you to your dorm David. Kristen I'm sure I can trust you to find yours."
"Yes." Kristen said softly before slipping a piece of paper into David's hand. David wrapped his fingers around it and slowly placed it in his pants pocket.
"Come on David." Sophie urged.
"I'm coming." David said getting up and following Sophie.
"Night David." Kristen said as she pulled ahead.
"Night." David replied.
"So, you and Kristen are getting along fine." Sophie said casually.
"Yeah, I guess." David said looking at the sky.
"You guess? You seem to be with her more often then with any of the Cliffhangers." Sophie said and looked at David.
"Yeah, well, she's nice -- and I mean that in the non-physical way." David added quickly.
Sophie laughed a bit, "Okay."
"Oh, but I don't mean she's ugly, cause she's not." David said seeing an error in his first sentence.
"It's okay David." Sophie laughed, "I understand."
"Good." David said in a "that was close" tone.
"I'll see you tomorrow bright and early!" Sophie said and David groaned.
"Night." He said climbing the steps to the door.
"Good night David." Sophie said walking away. David ambled inside and to his bed. Lights off hadn't officially been announced so the lights were on and everyone was on their beds talking.
"Look what the cat dragged in." Ezra said seeing David walked in.
"What did you did you do?" Auggie inquired.
"If you must know then I must kill you." David said and plopped on his bed, flicking on his reading lamp. He pulled out the note Kristen had slipped to him.
"What have you got there Davey boy?" Scott questioned seeing the folded piece of paper.
"Nothing." David said opening it up and ignoring Scott. He started to read:
Dear David,
I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to talk to you tonight or not. Roger sure does keep a strict guard. I wasn't able to convince him that I needed to talk to you. Anyways, I was thinking that maybe we could meet somewhere tonight. I heard Shelby talking about how she and Scott would sneak out and stuff. So, I was wondering if you would like to go to the docks tonight. We could talk. I really need to talk to you, so please come. Well, I have to go now. I'll see you tonight, at mid-night.
Love,
Kristen
David set down the note and smiled. Kristen liked him. Perhaps even loved him. David was ecstatic. Of course he would show up, why wouldn't he? David grinned to himself as he got up and walked into the bathroom, ignoring Scott's comments on what the paper said. He brushed his teeth and washed his face then went back to his bed and shut off the light. Peter came by a minute later and told the rest of them to turn the lights off. David couldn't fall asleep, course if he did he might not be able to get up, so he stared at the digital numbers of his clock turn to the next number very slowly. It was torture!
Finally twelve o'clock came and David shot out of bed. He made sure he didn't wake up the other guys and carefully slipped into the darkness. It was very cold now and David was shivering as he walked to the docks. No one was there when he reached it so he sat down on a bench and waited.
Kristen had fallen asleep but shot up at twelve-thirty. She cursed herself in her mind as she quickly got on her shoes and jacket. She wasn't as careful as David, but no one woke up. Kristen sprinted to the docks just as David was leaving. Kristen stopped him.
"Sorry, I fell asleep." Kristen said apologetically.
"No sweat." David said as they walked back to the docks. They sat down at the same bench David had just sat at. "So you said you wanted to talk?" David asked after a moment of silence.
"Oh yeah." Kristen said remembering.
"Well?" David said after Kristen didn't say anything.
"You know today, when we kissed…" Kristen trailed.
"Yeah." David looked down. "Sorry about that."
"Why did you pull back? Am I a bad kisser or something?" Kristen asked.
"No, no! You're not a bad kisser it's just something else." David said pausing before saying "something else".
"Well, what is that something else?" Kristen asked and David looked away.
"Kristen… I can't say. Not yet anyways." David said giving her an apologetic look.
"It's okay, I guess. Just as long as it's not me." Kristen said and David looked at her.
"It's definitely not you." David said and wrapped his arms around her, giving her a nice warm hug or well, as warm as he could give her.
"You're warm, as usual." Kristen smiled.
"Really? I feel cold as hell though." David said and Kristen looked at his pink cheeks and nose.
"Then maybe we should switch." She said and David smiled.
"Sure, why not?" he laughed a bit. So now David was leaning into Kristen. "Ahh, comfy." David and Kristen laughed silently. "So that was the only thing you wanted to talk about?" he asked after they stopped laughing.
"Well, yeah. It was bothering me." Kristen said, "I thought I had done something wrong." She added.
"Sorry. I really didn't want you to think that." David said softly.
"It's okay now though." Kristen said pulling back. "Warm enough?"
"Aww that was unfair." David whined and Kristen laughed.
"Nothing in life is fair." Kristen said and smiled.
"Yeah, you're right." David agreed after thinking.
"I know, I'm always right." Kristen said nonchalantly.
"With that I'd have to disagree." David said and Kristen gawked at him.
"You dare to wrong me?" she asked in a joking tone.
"Yes, I do. Here's my reasoning. You thought that you had done something wrong when I kissed you when, in fact, it was something else. Oh, got you!" David said and smiled triumphantly.
"I never said that." Kristen lied and showed it.
"Oh, come off it." David said and smiled. Kristen laughed.
"You're so weird." Kristen smiled back at David.
"So I've been told." David replied leaning in a bit.
"You promise not to pull back?" Kristen smiled at him.
"I'll try not too." David said and leaned in the rest of the way.
A/N: Okay, bad place to end I know, don't kill me! I wanted to get this chapter out fast so, that's it for now. Don't worry though, that's not all! I think I'll actually finish this story! But right now I have to go study for two more midterms. God, they suck! So, I'm sorry this one is shorter then the rest of them. I promise they'll be longer. Anyways, hope you all enjoy this semi-pathetic chapter. See ya