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Authors Note: Sorry, I was trying to get this just right, I started and stopped a million times. I hope you like this.
Chapter 3: Common Room Confessions…Almost
Z turned around startled. Sky was standing in the doorway. Great. Just who she didn't want to see right now. He walked in and went over to where Z stood. "Are you okay?" He asked with what Z thought sounded like concern.
"Yeah, just have a lot on my mind." Sky pushed a button and got a mug of something. "Anything you want to talk about?"
For a minute Z said nothing contemplating the thought. She could tell him but what if he just mentioned rules or something stupid like that. She wanted to tell him, but no, she couldn't. "Why are you up?"
He put his cup on the counter. "I've been thinking about different stuff. Everything that has happened really." He went over and sat down.
Z picked up his cup and looked in—it was hot chocolate. She brought it bver and sat next to him and handed the cup to Sky.
He looked at her and smiled. "Thanks." She loved his smile, he should smile more.
"What specifics of what's happened?"
"Well…" He stopped. Z just sat there. Her heart was beating faster just sitting next to him. She hoped he couldn't hear it. Then after a couple of minutes he spoke. "I guess seeing how different things are—I am."
Z looked puzzled, he was different but did he realize that, "You are?"
"Well like with Bridge, I couldn't stop him from being taken."
"Sky, you're still worried about that?"
"Syd—I couldn't break that spell she was under. Jack—well I was afraid he wouldn't come back because I couldn't do it, I couldn't stop him from staying there. And you…" He trailed off and just sat there.
"First off Sky, you don't need to name yourself for those things. We all made it through. Jack found Bridge, Bridge broke the spell, and Jack did come back. Everything's fine for now."
"I now. It's just if I were a little—"
"What? Better? Come on Sky, you're amazing." Sky raised his head and looked at Z. Z could feel her cheeks starting to flush. She looked into his blue eyes—the same comforting, steady eyes she had come to trust and turn to whenever something happened. Okay so his eyes didn't have their own personality—but they were a part of him. Z finally managed to speak as she turned and looked at her mug. "What about me?"
"What?" Sky asked with a quizzical expression on his face.
"You were going to say something about me."
"Oh." He stared quietly in the dark. "what were you thinking about?"
Z shrugged her shoulders, "Stuff."
Sky raised an eyebrow. "Okay."
Z smiled. "I just don't want to talk about it, okay?"
"Okay. Fair enough."
They sat there in silence—it was a comfortable one. She liked being here next to Sky—just the two of them. No Bridge, no Syd, no Jack. It seemed like Jack might have an idea, but she didn't want to bring it up because nothing was going on with her and Sky. I only.
Z woke with a start. She wasn't in her bed. Where was she? The common room. It was then that Z realized that her head was leaning on Sky's shoulder. She silently and slowly moved off hoping not to wake him—he woke anyway.
Z smiled at him. "I guess we fell asleep."
"Yes." He looked at the time. "It's 2, we need to go to bed."
"Right."
They stood up and headed back to their respective rooms. Z went to sleep with a smile on her face.
