Chapter 4 The Island

"Happy Birthday Dear Sarah, Happy birthday to you" The birthday song being sang by people all around her Sarah blew out the candles and made a wish.

"What'd you wish for?" Asked one of the guests

"Well I couldn't tell you that, or it wouldn't come true" She replied with a smile across her face. One person was missing thought, she looked around at all the faces and couldn't find him "Where's Max?" She asked getting up from the picnic table. "Did anyone see where he went?" Everyone looked around at each other. Had no one seen where he had gone? That's when Max's best friend showed up, Alex. Sarah had known him forever. "Alex!" she shouted to him and went over

"Uh…Sarah…I'm so sorry I tried to stop him from going he said it'd only take a minute and sent me over to watch you" Alex looked solemnly up into her eyes

"What?" Sarah panicked, she hoped so hard it wasn't what she thought it was.

"Some of Bill's boys came by, said they needed to talk to him"

"No" She said bluntly "No he said he was done with them, that the dirty business could rot in hell. He promised he'd never have anything to do with them again" She stomped off into the woods looking for Max.

"Sarah Wait!" Alex called after her but she took off to a sprint.

Looking and looking she couldn't find him. Why would he do this to her? On her birthday of all days after he promised he was done with those crooks. He was sure going to get an ear full when she found him. "Max!" she called out but no answer. She heard rustling in the bushes and footsteps running, she fallowed them until she could hear fait voices.

"I can't do it man" Said one low voice

"We have too, Bill said to get both of them." Replied the other

"Come on it's her birthday, she's just a kid. We got Max alright; she didn't do anything lets just leave her alone"

"We gotta do this man, the boss said"

"I don't care, I'm not doing it."

"You've done it to a ton of other guys"

"Well not her alright she's a sweet kid, a little messed up but she's sweet"

"Fine, well let's, just get out of here. Leave the mess for the feds" That's when the foot steps quickly took off into the woods. Sarah stepped out from behind her bush and there was Max. Sitting up against a log, the men must have just been talking to him.

"There you are! God I've been looking everywhere for you! You promised me you wouldn't have anything to do with those guys anymore! How could you!" she stood behind him shouting. There was no reply "Alright I'm sorry, but I still hate them, they almost wrecked everything we had going, our whole lives were nearly torn apart" again no reply "Okay, But as long as you promise that this is it, the end of you dealing with them. Since it's my birthday I guess I could let this go" Sarah went up behind him and hugged him tight from behind. Something was strange he wasn't hugging her back, was he really that mad at her. She opened her eyes to see red, everywhere. She jumped up and she was covered in blood. She took a few slow steps and faced her brother in horror. She screamed, and didn't stop.

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Sarah woke with a start the next morning after only having slept for less then an hour. It couldn't have been later than six in the morning and already the sun was blinding her. She rolled over putting her back to the sun and faced Charlie, who looked to be very much asleep still. She was slightly surprised that he had stayed with her all night, which was more then Sawyer had done. Sawyer hadn't even checked on her once, not even when she had her attack on the beach last night, but he must have a good reason. She focused on Charlie again, up close he seemed less handsome then before. Big bags hung under his eyes and Sarah could see veins running thought his face and neck like a map of this inside. She decided right there that he wasn't handsome, he was more, he was completely gorgeous to her. His imperfections meant more to her then his actual beauty. She grazed her fingers gently down his neck, tracing a vein all the way to his collar bone

"That tickles you know" she said suddenly making her jump

"I'm sorry" she said pulling away from him quickly, turning bright red with embarrassment. "I didn't…" she started to whisper but didn't finish. She got up and left wandering down the beach. She was too embarrassed to stay.

It didn't take long for Sarah to find a nice quiet place to sit, the beach was full of them. She sat just up the beach slightly tucked into the forest so she could hide from everyone, who by now must think she's just a complete freak.

"For someone who'd hiding you were real easy to find" Sarah heard and instantly got up and turned to Sawyer.

"Where were you!" she shouted

"Quite down Blondie, just listen" he began but Sarah was furious with him

"How could you just leave me like that? After a freaking plane crash! After I couldn't walk! After hearing the monster! After I had an attack you just left me! I didn't know what happened to you, I couldn't find you anywhere! I was so scared! Do you have any idea how abandoned I felt?" Sarah sobbed and seemed to be breaking down in front of Sawyer

"I never mean for you to be scared, or worry about me. I'm sorry" Sawyer grabbed her arm and pulled her towards him, swallowing in up in a tight embrace "I'm sorry" he repeated.

"I was so scared…" Sarah held onto him tight "I still really am" Sarah looked up into his eyes "What are we going to do?" she let go of him and sighed, trying not to start crying again.

"I'll tell you what, we're going to sit on this spit of land and wait a day or two for a rescue crew to get here and take us all home…I promise you'll be save." Sawyer smiled his charming smile and Sarah instantly trusted his words and felt much better "But, we still gotta stay safe, there was a marshal on the flight, bow I don't know why he was there but just in case I don't want anyone taking you away, so we don't know each other. We just play it cool."

"But I'm really scare" Sarah repeated.

"Just stick around with someone, that boy you were with yesterday and the doc that helped you. You're a cute one, I'm sure anyone would help you out if you need it."

"You saw them?" Sarah clicked into the fact that the only time he could have is when she had the attack.

"Yeah, course I did. Just because you can't see me doesn't mean I'm not keeping an eye on you. You get into too much trouble for me not to"

"Why didn't you come help me?"

"I went to get this" Sawyer held up Sarah's green messenger bag. "I knew I had to find your meds"

"You found it!" Sarah smiled and took the bag and looked though it.

"It was still on you when I pulled you out of the wreck yesterday." Sawyer explained "I held onto it just in case and hid it so no one would try to take anything from it"

"Everything is here…Thank you" Sarah gave him another hug

"No problem, now go on before anyone notices you're gone"

"No one will notice. Sarah admitted.

"Oh really? Well that boy is over there looking for you." Sawyer pointed a little ways down the beach at Charlie who was looking around and talking to various people "You'd better go, don't want to worry the poor boy"

"Alright…But…I am going to be able to see you once in a while right?" Sarah's voice was a little shaky

"Of course Blondie" Sawyer put his hand to her face and turn towards to forest and began to walk away

"And Sawyer"

"Yeah?" Sawyer turned to her

"He's not a boy." Sarah smiled and turned and sprinted down the beach

"There you are!" Charlie called as Sarah skipped up to him "I've been looking everywhere for you"

"Why?"

"I just …didn't want you to take off just over something silly. I didn't mean to freak you out. I feel bad about it"

"Don't. I was being weird." Sarah tired to explain

"No you weren't…"

"Let's just drop it" Sarah cut in "We can just say it never happened…Now let us go find something on this stupid spit of land to eat." Sarah didn't wait for him to reply she just walked past him down the beach. Charlie quickly caught up