By Antonia (Toni)

Kate loved staying on the beach.
She could feel free and she had enough time to think about her, Sawyer… and Jack.
She was in some kind of tunnel and it seemed like she wouldn't be able to find her way out soon.
She was torn between her past and her future. Not between bad and good. Not anymore.
Jack and Sawyer had changed a lot since they crashed on the island.

Actually she was thinking about Sawyer but it was unavoidable not to think about Jack. Kate knew that she had to make her choice soon.
Her heart was ready to choose but what about her mind? She felt like a soldier in the war of hearts and minds.
And she didn't know which side she was fighting for.
She knew what had to be done but she didn't know how to do it.
For the first time in her life, Kate had nowhere to go, she couldn't run.

Engrossed in those thoughts she failed to notice that the day had already come.
Almost everyone on the island was awake although it was early in the morning. Kate wasn't an exception. She took a look along the beach as she was looking for somebody. After she couldn't find what she was looking for she started walking towards the beach.
Kate was looking for Sawyer.

No sooner had she reached his tent and she suddenly stopped.
"Okay, what am I doing here?" -she asked herself and she got that desperate look in her eyes. "This time I don't have a magazine with me and I don't need a gun." he said that and her face broadened out into a grin. She was shaking her head as she wanted to get rid of all her thoughts.
'Maybe I'd better go. He is probably still sleeping?'-she said and she made one or two steps back.

'Or maybe I'm not!'-said Sawyer with no doubt while coming out of his tent.
Those words made Kate feel more confident.
'Oh, you are…you are awake?'
'Yes, I am, so is everybody else!'
She smiled.

'Something tells me you couldn't get to sleep either.'
He said, and he looked at Kate as he was able to read her mind.
Sawyer knew why she wasn't able to sleep the previous night.
'Look, about what happened last night…'

'Kate!'

She couldn't finish her sentence because Jack interrupted her.
'Jack?'-she said with a reprehensible look in her eyes.
Sawyer said nothing.
'Kate, I want to talk to you.'

She was amazed. After everything he told her only an hour ago. Now he wanted to talk to her. She thought that everything had already been told.
'Jack… maybe later. I can't talk to you right now.'
'Oh…!'-that was the only word that came out of his mouth.
He didn't expect that.
She had just hurt his feelings…again. Jack looked at Sawyer but he couldn't meet his gaze.

'Does this mean that she has already made up her mind?' –Jack asked himself with some hesitation.

Their nerves were strung up to the highest pitch. They found the silence depressing. They all knew that one of them was unwanted.

One of them had to leave…