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Shannon looked over at Charlie, she swear she heard him sigh, like a big little girl. Trying to take her friend away.

"SHOVE!" Oh, Claire was going to get it.

"SHOV-" Interrupted, again.

It was Hurley, "Dudes, bad idea, Jack is going to blow a gasket. He's all stressed out cause he thinks Kate is 'avoiding' him." An eye roll, "I'd avoid him too if he was always this moody." With that, Hurley turned and went back to whatever he was doing, Shannon suspects that he spend the majority of his time hunting down Twinkies in the wilderness… or not. She didn't much care.

Shannon noticed that Claire was off in her own world. Probably thinking of that VH1 has-been. Oh god, she was sounding like Sawyer. Crap, crap, crap! She didn't want to sound like a hick! She looked back at Claire, who was near drooling, and sighed. Why had she yelled at Sayid? He just asked a simple question... but she was so tired of his questions. He treated her like some fragile little girl. She wasn't going to break if he treated her like a real person.

Claire heard someone sigh and looked up, it was Shannon. As her eyes scanned the cave she caught sight of Charlie, who was talking to Hurley. He was probably trying to convince Charlie to go Twinkie hunting or something… she shook her head. She needed to talk to Charlie.

Charlie looked up at Claire and in a moment of dark spontaneity, she motioned for him to come over. He raised his eyebrows, looked around, and mouthed the word 'Me?'. Claire laughed and nodded, 'you' she mouths, pointing at him. He smiles. As he walks over, Claire remembered why she didn't like the spontaneous darkness, it was, for lack of a better word, spontaneous.

"You called madam," Charlie said.

Claire looked up, "Sit."

"Be all bossy then," Charlie laughed as he sat down on the ground.

"Ummm, well, Charlie.," she said, closing her eyes and taking a deep breath, "Ijustwanttoknowwhatishappeningbetweenusandwhathappenedbacktherewiththekisswhatdoyouthink?" Claire opened her eyes to a very confused Charlie.

"What?"

"Well, um, Charlie, how you've been?" She responded, embarrassed, how else was she supposed to say it? The characters in movies always understood when the other people talked in long sentences.

"Good, Claire if this is about earlier-"

"Charlie, I know I may sound like an idiot, but where are we going? I mean, I have Aaron, and Thomas left me, maybe I don't want to go anywhere," Claire looked up, biting her lip, "maybe I don't want to go anywhere."

Charlie looked up, how could she say something like that? "What, but Claire, we can go slow its just-"

"I don't know what I want Charlie. Maybe this isn't the best idea right now."

"Please Claire, lets try… you've talked yourself into a corner, c'mon Claire.." Charlie pleaded.

Claire looked at him, got up, and walked away. Charlie looked down at his hands, Claire gone. He had nothing, not even a fix, he needed something, anything at a time like this. He leaned back against a tree, closed his eyes and sighed, biting his fingernails his thoughts drifted off to a blond haired blue eyed lady's smile, and her laugh…

Shannon's eyes followed Claire as she walked away from Charlie. She had heard the whole conversation, and felt a little bit sorry for Charlie, just a little bit. A movement out of the corner of her eye caught her attention. She looked up, it was Sayid, with Kate. As they emerged out of the jungle Shannon felt a wave of jealousy, more like an ocean of jealousy, wash over her. How could Sayid be with Kate, has he replaced her that fast? She scoffed, Kate, how could he do that to her, give her up for a girl who doesn't event know the meaning of a brush.

Shannon got up and sat by Charlie, she noticed Sayid's confused look and she smiled to herself.

"What d'you want? You cynical litt-"

"Nothing you idiot," she snapped, "just go back to moping or something."

Charlie looked at her and decided to ignore her. Shannon hoped Sayid was jealous, then maybe he would come over here and beat Charlie up. She smiled, now that would be a win-win situation. Then she would know that Sayid thinks Kate is just another ugly troll and the VH1 has-been might stop annoying people with his whole 'I'm in a band, yadda yadda.'

"You're sorta scaring me.." Charlie interrupted her from her thoughts, "with that whole, 'I'm a creepy vampire who will suck your blood look…"

"Oh shut-up you VH1 has been."

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