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Whoop Whoop! Loving the reviews people! You guys rockkk! :) alskhdfisdlfkj I promise this is not a Josh/Skye fic:) I'm adding tension and suspense! Haahaha I'm sorry! I just need Josh in it with a love connection to Skye. I promise you, Josh irritates me too:) And because you guys are all worried, I thought I'd post this next chapter so I could tell you all that you're amazing and not to worry. Plus, I recieved many loving reviews on it:) So thankssss:D Now read away!

Haaaa so I know I rushed the Lucas part the last chapter, but I'll make up for it soon, mmkay? :D But this chapter is once again Josh's... I know. I'm kinda shipping both, but I like Lucas better:) They're like... Polar opposites and it gets me excited:) I can't even contain it! I wanna jump to the good parts, but I want it to be at least somewhat more realistic. I need to keep it at a steady pace and in good time, the better parts will come.

And to T: No review every annoys me! :) I love every review!:) I just appreciate the fact that you did review! Haha It made me laugh:) So keep it up, mmkay?:P

Yeahhhh so I'll get to the story now:)

~NumberSixteen

There was a knock on the Shannon household's door. "I'll get it!" Maddy called and jogged to the door. She opened it up to see none other than Skye standing wearing short shorts and a loose grey shirt that hung off her shoulders and dipped down all the way to her stomach. She wore a yellow tank top underneath.

"Uh... Is Josh here?" Skye asked breathlessly. She'd run here all the way from the clearing.

Maddy smiled, "He might be." She leaned against the doorframe as Skye caught her breath and started to breath a little more normal.

"Can I see him?" Skye asked.

Maddy shrugged, "I dunno. Why do you want to see him?"

Skye gave Maddy a look of irritation. "Could I please just see him?"

Maddy laughed and called for her brother. "Have fun." She whispered to Skye before Josh showed up and she walked back into her house.

"Hi Skye. What's up?" Josh asked.

Skye shrugged, "Just wondering if you wanna hang out?" She used her fingers to emphasize quotation marks aroung 'hang out.'

Josh smirked, "Sure, I'd love to." He grabbed his jacket and ducked outside with her. "What do you have in mind?"

Skye shrugged, "Anything is fine with me. You lead the way." They began to walk down the path from Josh's house.

"You bet." Josh said and grabbed her hand. He led her down the street and to the center market place. All the stalls were still open and bustling with life. The market didn't usually close down until eight.

He led her through the market place where they got many looks from passer-by's. There were still holding hands and Skye was extremely aware of it at first, but soon grew accustomed to it.

'I've been spending too much time with Lucas,' She told herself.

He stopped and grabbed a fruit off a shelf. He paid for it dutifully and handed it to her. "Here."

She looked at the fruit, "Is this what I think it is?"

He nodded, "Yep. It is one of the same fruit that you cracked for me the day I got here."

Skye recalled the thought and laughed, "Oh yes, I remember now. You nearly threw up at first because you weren't used to it."

Josh shrugged, "That's what you can expect from a fresh, right?"

She nodded, a smile tugging at her lips. "Right."

She led him by his hand over to the same post she cracked it open on all that time ago. She smashed the fruit against it and released his hand to pull it apart and give him half. He took it and they bit into the fruit together. Their eyes met and both started giggling. More people turned to look at the pair, but they didn't care. Josh's eyes sparkled at her, his messy hair brushed across his face in the evening breeze.

She slowly came closer to him, never taking her eyes off his. She put her half of the fruit down on the table of the closest stall and slowly reached up to him. Suddenly, she jabbed him in the chest. "You're it!" She spun around and ran off.

"Hey!" Josh called, slamming his fruit down next to hers. "Not fair."

She called over her shoulder, "All is fair in love and war!" She kept running. He shook his head once and took off after her, full speed.

"You'll never catch me!" He heard her call over her shoulder. She veered off to the left and he followed suit, a few yards behind her.

"I could beg to differ!" He called back to her. She disappeared again, veering off to the left again and heading back toward the market. He shot around the corner and pushed himself to catch her. Her hair flooded out behind her.

She dodged around people in the market and darted past. He followed her more clumsily. She left the market crowd and went back toward Taylor's hut. She ducked under the stairs and continued toward the gate. Once she was in front of the gate, she took a hard right. He was getting closer to her and now he was absolutely determined to catch her. She was about to duck under some branches of a tree and run through the neighborhood, but he grabbed her wrist, stopping her in her tracks. There were plenty of people around him, but he didn't care. She whirled around to him and slammed into his chest from the force of stopping. He caught her in his arms and staggered backward a few steps. She looked up at him as he looked down at her.

They stared at eachother for a minute, searching eachother's eyes and taking in the moment. The world was suddenly blocked out beside the pair entangled in each other's arms. They seemed to be alone now. After a few more seconds, Josh simply couldn't take it anymore. The flushed look on her face, her forehead beaded with sweat, her breath ragged. She looked so tempting and he couldn't hold it in any longer. He bend down and pressed his lips to hers. She kissed back. Her hands in his long hair and his were in hers. They embraced for only a moment before they had to pull apart and catch their breath from running. Skye didn't pull away, but stayed in his arms.

She did grow flustered and irritated though, "I should go.. It's late and I'm dead tired." She really was. She'd been out far too late the previous night with Lucas and all the running she'd done that day wasn't helping.

"Yeah.." Josh responded, reluctantly letting her go. People were glancing at them, some with soft expressions and others just looked for a juicy piece of gossip. "I'll take you home."

"No." Skye shook her head, "I'll be fine. I have to do something anyway." She squeezed his hand one last time. "Thanks for the good time. It was short, but I had fun."

Josh nodded, "Me too. Can we 'hang out' again soon?" He winked at her playfully.

She smiled and nodded, "Sure. Whenever I can, okay?"

Josh beamed at her. "Deal. Thanks to you too, Skye." He kissed her cheek for the third time that week and started to walk home.

She bit her lip and started heading home herself.

Chapter is short, but... I think it turned out okay. Don't you think? Haaa so lemme know how you think it turned out, okay? I want to knowwww!

I'm on a roll tonight! I can't stop writing! I've written four chapters today and I've posted two of them. Woo! I'm gonna keep going with this writing streak! I just have so much inspiration right now! :D I watched like five Terra Nova episodes earlier and now I have some fresh new ideas fleshing out in my brain. :) Gonna keep it rolling now:) Thanks guys!

~NumberSixteen