A/N: I am not positive yet, but I think that this might be the last bit of fluff for a while, so enjoy it! Oh, sorry for any grammatical errors or spelling errors.
FSI: Thanks for the review!:)
kiwifox: Thank you, I'm not that great at m/m, but I'll try!Thanks!
Chapter 2: Secrets Revealed
After they talked for a while and kissed for a while Alex finally said, "You think we should go back now?" as he looked up at the darkening sky. "I wish we could just stay like this forever." Isabel stated as she squeezed Alex's hand. "Me too Iz, but don't worry so much. I mean we have our whole lives in front of us still. We have forever together." Alex says standing up and pulling Isabel up next to him. With that, Isabel turns Alex around and gently pushes him against their rock and starts to kiss him, Alex willingly kisses her back for a moment, then pulls away.
"What's wrong?" Isabel asks as they both stand up and straighten up. "It's getting pretty dark; Max will have my head if I don't get you back." Alex said laughing along with Isabel. "You had me worried there for a minute." Isabel adds in. "What do you mean?" Alex asks confused. "I thought you didn't want to kiss me." Isabel said shyly smiling. "Never." Alex says confidently as he put his arm around her neck and they walked back to camp.
When they got back Max and Liz were doing the usual, making out. Isabel made a coughing sound to get their attention. They immediately broke apart and sat up straight look down in embarrassment. "So, Alex and I thought we'd have to hurry back, you know because we thought that you were worried since it is after dark already." Isabel begins trying to stop a laugh from creeping up her.
"Oh, I…. um… well I was… worried." Max stutters out. "Oh, really? Yeah, it looks like you were really worried." Isabel says finally laughing. "Don't do that to me Iz, I thought you really were mad!" max calls out. "I know, I love to tease you like that." Isabel says patting Max on the back.
"So what's going on with them?" Alex asks looking at where Michael and Maria are in the tent. "Yeah, they seem to be only talking." Liz says smiling. "Oh, really?" Isabel asked. "I think that's a first." Alex adds in. "Well, why don't we just have them come out here so that we can all be out here together." Max suggests. "Yeah." Isabel said as she walked over to the tent.
"Hey, you guys want to come out here with us?" Isabel asks. "Yeah… we're coming." Maria said from inside the tent. They came out and Max started a fire so that they could all keep warm. The four logs that were surrounding the fire pit were now occupied with three couples.
"So, what's on the agenda for tomorrow?" Maria asked. "Well, I was thinking maybe we could go for a hike or something?" Max offered. "Yeah, a hike would be nice." Liz agreed. "So then that's okay with everyone?" Max asked as he received five nods from the group.
"How about a game? There's really nothing else to do." Isabel suggested. "What do you have in mind?" Maria asked. "Well... I was thinking about that one game where I'd ask a question, and then everyone would have to answer that question. Then it would be Alex's turn to ask and everyone would answer his question, and then it just continues on in the circle." Isabel explains. "But what if someone asks a really personal question?" Maria asks. "That's what you get one pass for, anytime you want to use it, you can." Isabel finishes explaining. "Okay, I'm up for it." Maria says with everyone else shaking their heads in agreement.
"Okay, I'll ask first, and by the way you do answer your own question, just after everyone else does." Isabel adds in quickly. "Okay so… my question is what are you most afraid of?" Isabel states as she looks over at Alex. "Umm… I guess I would have to say losing you." Alex says shyly as they heard everyone say 'aww'. Isabel laughed as she leaned over and gently placed a quick kiss on Alex's lips. Then she whispered in his ear, "It's never going to happen." A huge grinned suddenly appeared on Alex's face.
"I don't even want to know." Max stated as he tried to shrug his sister and Alex off. "I guess my biggest fear is that the FBI will come back and find us. Nasedo may have stopped the special unit for now, but we still don't know what's out there. We don't know who or what might still be after us." Max says as if he were warning them to be careful. "Well, my biggest fear is of dying." Liz states. "Really?" Maria asked. "Yeah, well after I got shot that day at the Crashdown it's kind of just made my skin crawl." Liz admits. "Interesting." Alex says. "Yeah, well that's the whole point of this game, to get to know each other even better." Isabel says smiling.
"Spiders." Maria says. "Spiders?" Alex asks confused. "Yeah, I'm afraid of spiders." Maria says. "You're afraid of spiders? What kind of fear is that?" Michael asks. "It's my kind of fear." Maria says getting angry. "Whatever." Michael grumbles. Everyone rolls their eyes to their bickering, once again. "That's typically you Michael you just shrug me off and say 'whatever'. What's your fear Michael? Come on, I'm sure we're all very interested. " Maria asks sarcastically. " I don't have any fears." Michael says quickly. "Oh, that's original." Maria spats.
"Come on Michael. At least play the game right." Isabel says getting slightly annoyed. Sensing this Alex quickly wraps his arm around her as he feels her intenseness lessen. He loved that he could do that to her. Just by touching her he could get her to calm down.
"Fine, I'm afraid that the big FBI agents are going to come and attack us and then we'll die." Michael says rolling his eyes. No one had an answer for that comment; they all just figured it was the only answer that was going to come out of his mouth.
"Okay, and lastly, I'd have to say that I am afraid that we will get the chance to go home, because I wouldn't want to have to pick… you know…" Isabel said. She secretly knew in her heart which one she would pick, she just didn't want to say it out loud. Just in case one day they really did have to go home. She wasn't making any promises to anyone. "That's understandable." Liz said leaning closer to Max for comfort. The group all nodded in agreement, that is everyone except for Michael.
"Okay, so I ask the question now?" Alex asked. "Yes, sweetie." Isabel replied. "Okay, umm… what's the most regretful thing that you've ever done in your life?" Alex asked. "Oh, that's a good one." Isabel says smiling at her boyfriend.
"Okay, I think the most regretful thing I did, was actually something that I didn't do. I regret not saving that man at Christmas two years ago." Max said with sorrow. Liz gently touched his leg to comfort him. "Umm… the most regretful thing I did was probably that time when I couldn't find my journal, I should have been more careful." Liz said smiling at Michael. He gave her a half smile back in thanks. The two friends smiles went unnoticed by the rest of the group. Three years later no one knew that Michael had taken her journal that day, and they would probably never find out.
"I'd have to say that the most regretful thing I've ever done is when I went out with James Jenkins even though I knew Liz liked him." Maria says. "Oh my gosh Maria, I totally forgot about that. That was the most regretful thing you've ever done? That was the ninth grade Maria." Liz said laughing.
"I know, but I felt so bad, that caused us to not talk for 3 months!" Maria said in a high pitched voice. "Oh, Maria!" Liz said still laughing. "Do you forgive me?" Maria asks sweetly as she put on her best frowning face. "Umm... I don't know..." Liz paused for a moment, "Of course Maria! I had totally forgotten about that years ago!" Liz replies.
"There are a lot of things that I regret in my life. A lot of stuff I'm not really proud of, but the thing I regret the most is the way I treat you." Michael says turning to Maria. "I honestly do regret it, Maria. I am sorry for the way I treat you some of the times. You don't deserve it. And I don't realize how badly I've treated you until it's too late, so I am sorry Maria." Michael says as he holds her hands. "Michael… you don't have to say that." Maria says softly. "No, I do have to say it." Michael says as he sees a tear shed down Maria's soft cheek. The couple was totally oblivious to the other two couples that were around them watching in amazing as Michael actually apologized. "I hate to make you cry." Michael states. "These are good tears." Maria says as Michael holds her closely.
When the young couple was finished with talking they turned to face the others, and the whole gang started to clap as if they had just seen a really good movie. "Oh my gosh, I forgot that you guys were there for a minute." Maria said as she laughed. "Obviously." Alex said as he lifted his eyebrows up goofily.
"Enough about us, it's Isabel's turn to answer the question." Maria replies so that all eyes would leave her and Michael. "Oh yeah, I'd say the thing I regret the most is pushing you back." Isabel says to Alex. "I can't even believe that I ever dated that Grant guy." Isabel says as she shudders a bit. "Well, then I guess the thing I most regret is letting you push me back, I should've tried harder than I was to be with you." Alex says. "Everything is okay now though." Isabel says as she moves even closer to Alex, if that was even possible, she was practically on his lap already.
"Okay, my turn to ask." Max says. "Umm, my question is…what is your favorite thing about the person that you're with?" he says as he looks into Liz's eyes. "Well, my favorite thing about you Max, is that you are so caring, you would give up your own life for me, and that's special." Liz said confidently as Max smiled at her.
" My favorite thing about Spaceboy over here is that he does make himself like a jerk, but no matter what he always apologizes to me, and it makes everything worth it." Maria says. "Well, I guess that means that my favorite thing about Maria is that she is has always taken me back, no matter how big of a jerk I am being. I love that about you." Michael says as he grins.
Isabel turns to Alex and says, "Well, my favorite thing about you is that you have always accepted me. No matter what, no matter how badly I treated you, you were still always there for me. I've never had anything like that with anyone but you. I love you Alex." Isabel said as she got teary eyed and put her head down. Alex lifted her chin up with two fingers and said, "Isabel, nothing that you have ever said or done could have possibly turned me away from you. You are so loving and caring. I don't care about your past, all I care about is how you treat me now, and you treat me with nothing but love and respect. And that's why I love you. And I even though I wish that we could… we are too young to get married, but I want you to have this." Alex said as he pulled out a gorgeous silver ring with red diamonds attached to it. "Oh my god, Alex!" Isabel said excitedly as tears silently ran down her cheeks. Alex slid the ring on her finger. "Alex... I... love you." Isabel said struggling for words.
"I promise to wear it forever." Isabel said as she put her hand over her heart. "Good, because it's a promise ring, I do promise to marry you Isabel. Just not yet." Alex said lovingly. All Isabel could do was wrap her arms around Alex and kiss him.
Their game continued on that night. Each of them revealing secrets about themselves, and learning secrets in return about their best friends. After the game was over the three couples said goodnight to their respected partners, and went to bed. The three girls went into the first tent, and the three boys went inside the other tent. They went to bed thinking they would be having good dreams and more wonderful days to come; little did they know that this was just the beginning. The beginning of the end.
A little past 3:00 am Isabel sat up screaming, " ALLLLLEEEEXXX!!!!" she yelled. Liz and Maria automatically sat up to hear their best friend screaming her boyfriend's name. "Isabel? Isabel! What's wrong?" Liz quickly asked as she started to rub Isabel's back to get her to calm down. "Alex… no… help me… Alex… please…" was all she kept repeating. Liz motioned for Maria to go get the guys, especially to get Alex.
"Isabel, please, sweetie, you need to talk to me, tell me what happened." Liz said slowly as she was now hugging her friend. Isabel slowly started to calm down. "It was just a dream?" she asked. "I don't know Iz, you started to sit up all of the sudden and scream." Liz explained. Isabel's breathing was heavy and rapid. "Liz, I think we're all in danger." Isabel said quickly. Liz's eyes grew big. 'We're in danger again?' she thought to herself.
To be continued?
That part was kind of weird, sorry. Everything will get explained later on.
FSI: Thanks for the review!:)
kiwifox: Thank you, I'm not that great at m/m, but I'll try!Thanks!
Chapter 2: Secrets Revealed
After they talked for a while and kissed for a while Alex finally said, "You think we should go back now?" as he looked up at the darkening sky. "I wish we could just stay like this forever." Isabel stated as she squeezed Alex's hand. "Me too Iz, but don't worry so much. I mean we have our whole lives in front of us still. We have forever together." Alex says standing up and pulling Isabel up next to him. With that, Isabel turns Alex around and gently pushes him against their rock and starts to kiss him, Alex willingly kisses her back for a moment, then pulls away.
"What's wrong?" Isabel asks as they both stand up and straighten up. "It's getting pretty dark; Max will have my head if I don't get you back." Alex said laughing along with Isabel. "You had me worried there for a minute." Isabel adds in. "What do you mean?" Alex asks confused. "I thought you didn't want to kiss me." Isabel said shyly smiling. "Never." Alex says confidently as he put his arm around her neck and they walked back to camp.
When they got back Max and Liz were doing the usual, making out. Isabel made a coughing sound to get their attention. They immediately broke apart and sat up straight look down in embarrassment. "So, Alex and I thought we'd have to hurry back, you know because we thought that you were worried since it is after dark already." Isabel begins trying to stop a laugh from creeping up her.
"Oh, I…. um… well I was… worried." Max stutters out. "Oh, really? Yeah, it looks like you were really worried." Isabel says finally laughing. "Don't do that to me Iz, I thought you really were mad!" max calls out. "I know, I love to tease you like that." Isabel says patting Max on the back.
"So what's going on with them?" Alex asks looking at where Michael and Maria are in the tent. "Yeah, they seem to be only talking." Liz says smiling. "Oh, really?" Isabel asked. "I think that's a first." Alex adds in. "Well, why don't we just have them come out here so that we can all be out here together." Max suggests. "Yeah." Isabel said as she walked over to the tent.
"Hey, you guys want to come out here with us?" Isabel asks. "Yeah… we're coming." Maria said from inside the tent. They came out and Max started a fire so that they could all keep warm. The four logs that were surrounding the fire pit were now occupied with three couples.
"So, what's on the agenda for tomorrow?" Maria asked. "Well, I was thinking maybe we could go for a hike or something?" Max offered. "Yeah, a hike would be nice." Liz agreed. "So then that's okay with everyone?" Max asked as he received five nods from the group.
"How about a game? There's really nothing else to do." Isabel suggested. "What do you have in mind?" Maria asked. "Well... I was thinking about that one game where I'd ask a question, and then everyone would have to answer that question. Then it would be Alex's turn to ask and everyone would answer his question, and then it just continues on in the circle." Isabel explains. "But what if someone asks a really personal question?" Maria asks. "That's what you get one pass for, anytime you want to use it, you can." Isabel finishes explaining. "Okay, I'm up for it." Maria says with everyone else shaking their heads in agreement.
"Okay, I'll ask first, and by the way you do answer your own question, just after everyone else does." Isabel adds in quickly. "Okay so… my question is what are you most afraid of?" Isabel states as she looks over at Alex. "Umm… I guess I would have to say losing you." Alex says shyly as they heard everyone say 'aww'. Isabel laughed as she leaned over and gently placed a quick kiss on Alex's lips. Then she whispered in his ear, "It's never going to happen." A huge grinned suddenly appeared on Alex's face.
"I don't even want to know." Max stated as he tried to shrug his sister and Alex off. "I guess my biggest fear is that the FBI will come back and find us. Nasedo may have stopped the special unit for now, but we still don't know what's out there. We don't know who or what might still be after us." Max says as if he were warning them to be careful. "Well, my biggest fear is of dying." Liz states. "Really?" Maria asked. "Yeah, well after I got shot that day at the Crashdown it's kind of just made my skin crawl." Liz admits. "Interesting." Alex says. "Yeah, well that's the whole point of this game, to get to know each other even better." Isabel says smiling.
"Spiders." Maria says. "Spiders?" Alex asks confused. "Yeah, I'm afraid of spiders." Maria says. "You're afraid of spiders? What kind of fear is that?" Michael asks. "It's my kind of fear." Maria says getting angry. "Whatever." Michael grumbles. Everyone rolls their eyes to their bickering, once again. "That's typically you Michael you just shrug me off and say 'whatever'. What's your fear Michael? Come on, I'm sure we're all very interested. " Maria asks sarcastically. " I don't have any fears." Michael says quickly. "Oh, that's original." Maria spats.
"Come on Michael. At least play the game right." Isabel says getting slightly annoyed. Sensing this Alex quickly wraps his arm around her as he feels her intenseness lessen. He loved that he could do that to her. Just by touching her he could get her to calm down.
"Fine, I'm afraid that the big FBI agents are going to come and attack us and then we'll die." Michael says rolling his eyes. No one had an answer for that comment; they all just figured it was the only answer that was going to come out of his mouth.
"Okay, and lastly, I'd have to say that I am afraid that we will get the chance to go home, because I wouldn't want to have to pick… you know…" Isabel said. She secretly knew in her heart which one she would pick, she just didn't want to say it out loud. Just in case one day they really did have to go home. She wasn't making any promises to anyone. "That's understandable." Liz said leaning closer to Max for comfort. The group all nodded in agreement, that is everyone except for Michael.
"Okay, so I ask the question now?" Alex asked. "Yes, sweetie." Isabel replied. "Okay, umm… what's the most regretful thing that you've ever done in your life?" Alex asked. "Oh, that's a good one." Isabel says smiling at her boyfriend.
"Okay, I think the most regretful thing I did, was actually something that I didn't do. I regret not saving that man at Christmas two years ago." Max said with sorrow. Liz gently touched his leg to comfort him. "Umm… the most regretful thing I did was probably that time when I couldn't find my journal, I should have been more careful." Liz said smiling at Michael. He gave her a half smile back in thanks. The two friends smiles went unnoticed by the rest of the group. Three years later no one knew that Michael had taken her journal that day, and they would probably never find out.
"I'd have to say that the most regretful thing I've ever done is when I went out with James Jenkins even though I knew Liz liked him." Maria says. "Oh my gosh Maria, I totally forgot about that. That was the most regretful thing you've ever done? That was the ninth grade Maria." Liz said laughing.
"I know, but I felt so bad, that caused us to not talk for 3 months!" Maria said in a high pitched voice. "Oh, Maria!" Liz said still laughing. "Do you forgive me?" Maria asks sweetly as she put on her best frowning face. "Umm... I don't know..." Liz paused for a moment, "Of course Maria! I had totally forgotten about that years ago!" Liz replies.
"There are a lot of things that I regret in my life. A lot of stuff I'm not really proud of, but the thing I regret the most is the way I treat you." Michael says turning to Maria. "I honestly do regret it, Maria. I am sorry for the way I treat you some of the times. You don't deserve it. And I don't realize how badly I've treated you until it's too late, so I am sorry Maria." Michael says as he holds her hands. "Michael… you don't have to say that." Maria says softly. "No, I do have to say it." Michael says as he sees a tear shed down Maria's soft cheek. The couple was totally oblivious to the other two couples that were around them watching in amazing as Michael actually apologized. "I hate to make you cry." Michael states. "These are good tears." Maria says as Michael holds her closely.
When the young couple was finished with talking they turned to face the others, and the whole gang started to clap as if they had just seen a really good movie. "Oh my gosh, I forgot that you guys were there for a minute." Maria said as she laughed. "Obviously." Alex said as he lifted his eyebrows up goofily.
"Enough about us, it's Isabel's turn to answer the question." Maria replies so that all eyes would leave her and Michael. "Oh yeah, I'd say the thing I regret the most is pushing you back." Isabel says to Alex. "I can't even believe that I ever dated that Grant guy." Isabel says as she shudders a bit. "Well, then I guess the thing I most regret is letting you push me back, I should've tried harder than I was to be with you." Alex says. "Everything is okay now though." Isabel says as she moves even closer to Alex, if that was even possible, she was practically on his lap already.
"Okay, my turn to ask." Max says. "Umm, my question is…what is your favorite thing about the person that you're with?" he says as he looks into Liz's eyes. "Well, my favorite thing about you Max, is that you are so caring, you would give up your own life for me, and that's special." Liz said confidently as Max smiled at her.
" My favorite thing about Spaceboy over here is that he does make himself like a jerk, but no matter what he always apologizes to me, and it makes everything worth it." Maria says. "Well, I guess that means that my favorite thing about Maria is that she is has always taken me back, no matter how big of a jerk I am being. I love that about you." Michael says as he grins.
Isabel turns to Alex and says, "Well, my favorite thing about you is that you have always accepted me. No matter what, no matter how badly I treated you, you were still always there for me. I've never had anything like that with anyone but you. I love you Alex." Isabel said as she got teary eyed and put her head down. Alex lifted her chin up with two fingers and said, "Isabel, nothing that you have ever said or done could have possibly turned me away from you. You are so loving and caring. I don't care about your past, all I care about is how you treat me now, and you treat me with nothing but love and respect. And that's why I love you. And I even though I wish that we could… we are too young to get married, but I want you to have this." Alex said as he pulled out a gorgeous silver ring with red diamonds attached to it. "Oh my god, Alex!" Isabel said excitedly as tears silently ran down her cheeks. Alex slid the ring on her finger. "Alex... I... love you." Isabel said struggling for words.
"I promise to wear it forever." Isabel said as she put her hand over her heart. "Good, because it's a promise ring, I do promise to marry you Isabel. Just not yet." Alex said lovingly. All Isabel could do was wrap her arms around Alex and kiss him.
Their game continued on that night. Each of them revealing secrets about themselves, and learning secrets in return about their best friends. After the game was over the three couples said goodnight to their respected partners, and went to bed. The three girls went into the first tent, and the three boys went inside the other tent. They went to bed thinking they would be having good dreams and more wonderful days to come; little did they know that this was just the beginning. The beginning of the end.
A little past 3:00 am Isabel sat up screaming, " ALLLLLEEEEXXX!!!!" she yelled. Liz and Maria automatically sat up to hear their best friend screaming her boyfriend's name. "Isabel? Isabel! What's wrong?" Liz quickly asked as she started to rub Isabel's back to get her to calm down. "Alex… no… help me… Alex… please…" was all she kept repeating. Liz motioned for Maria to go get the guys, especially to get Alex.
"Isabel, please, sweetie, you need to talk to me, tell me what happened." Liz said slowly as she was now hugging her friend. Isabel slowly started to calm down. "It was just a dream?" she asked. "I don't know Iz, you started to sit up all of the sudden and scream." Liz explained. Isabel's breathing was heavy and rapid. "Liz, I think we're all in danger." Isabel said quickly. Liz's eyes grew big. 'We're in danger again?' she thought to herself.
To be continued?
That part was kind of weird, sorry. Everything will get explained later on.