A/n: sorry it took so long. Update on Forgetting You is coming soon. This chapters a little cheesy...sorry about that. Anyways, thanks for the wonderful review!!
If I thought day time was bad.
It was nothing compared to the night.
Even though it was supposedly summer, it was freezing when the sun fell. Luckily, all my clothes had dried out by then. And my jacket, which apparently had stayed on me but was not on me when I woke up, was dry. So I felt a little warm.
But the freezing air coming off the water and the freezing wind gusts were horrible. Not to mention the cold, dry air made us even more thirsty.
"I-I saw this show once," Jake said as his teeth started chattering, "on Storm Stories. These two guys were stuck in the middle of the ocean and they drank their own urine."
My stomach heaved at the thought.
"There is no way I would ever drink my bodily fluids!!" I exclaimed.
"If you were dying..."
"Nuh uh, it comes out for a reason. If it was supposed to be in us, it would stay." I said stubbornly.
It was terrifying in the dark.
We had no light. At all. The only thing that provided light was the moon and stars. All around us was silent, dark water. It was eerie. Especially when a fish would jump above water and make a splash, it scared the living crap out of me.
"Jake," I whispered in the dark. All the former anger had disappeared as soon as the sun went down. All we had was each other to brave this freezing darkness. It was no time to fight.
"Yes?" He asked, his voice also a whisper. I didn't know what about darkness that made us talk quietly. No one was around to hear us, so why whisper? I guess it has something to do with our fear.
"I'm scared." I whispered in a small voice. I realized just how much I sounded like a little girl at that moment.
"Me too." He said truthfully. I felt the boat move as he cautiously scooted over and wrapped his arm around my shoulder. My skin tingled at the contact but I tried to ignore it. I needed a hug right now. I gently wrapped my arms around him. We hadn't hugged in two years.
And what a dreadful two years it was.
I felt better when we were touching. At least I knew someone was there with me, and I wasn't alone in this darkness by myself.
What's even worse than darkness...? Darkness and silence.
I had to break it somehow. So I said the first thing that came to my mind,
"Did you fix my wig when I passed out?"
"Yea."
"Thanks." I whispered.
Silence came over us again.
"It was many and many a year ago in this kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of Annabel Lee--"
"And this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love, and be loved by me." Jake said. I looked up at him,
"Since when do you know poetry?"
"It was part of my "try and be normal" thing." He shrugged it off.
"I was a child, and she was child in this kingdom by the sea--"
"But we loved with a love that was more than love-- I and my Annabel Lee."
I sighed. This was my favorite poem. Poems and music-- my weaknesses.
"With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven coveted her and me."
"And this was the reason that, long ago, in this kingdom by the sea--
"A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling and killing my beautiful Annabel Lee." I whispered so quietly that I wasn't sure he had heard it. At that point, a cold gust of wind blew through. Creepy. Jake tightened his arms around me, as if to shake off every bad thing.
We both fell silent again.
"For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee," Jake sighed in a way that suggested he was finished reciting the poem. He skipped half of it.
"What are we going to do?" I muttered as I squeezed my eyes shut.
"I don't know." He whispered, fear evident in his voice.
"We could just hope a boat passes us."
"Before we die of hunger and dehydration."
It was even worse seeing as though we didn't eat our last meal (potato soup).
That fat witch.
"Surely...they will find us...I mean, your Hannah Montana!"
I closed my eyes, "I wrote a letter and left it in my room. It explains that I jumped off the cruise ship. They'll be searching under the water for my body. But you, they'll come looking for you."
"True. How long do you think it's gonna be before they find us?"
"I don't know. I really don't know." I whispered. I didn't want to be scared, it seemed pointless to me to be scared. I had wanted to die, right? That was before I was with Jake. I don't know what it is about him that makes me feel and follow my heart instead of my head. If I was smart, I would jump off this boat and kill myself before I got too used to Jake. But my head was no longer in control, and my heart wanted nothing but to stay here with him forever in his arms.
But that would never happen. We were both going to die out here slowly or we would get rescued and Jake would leave me.
Even though being with Jake has made me fear of dying out here, dying with him wouldn't be so bad. Maybe...maybe if I just stay here with him we can go to sleep and slip into another place where it's just us. Nothing to make Jake not love me or want someone else. Just a place where it's him and me. Together forever.
Hmph, yea right. Too bad though.
"Did you find a girl "as terrific as me"?" I asked, using my fingers as quotation marks around his former words. He sighed,
"No, but I obviously looked. That's why I'm here in the first place."
"No, you are here because you wouldn't let me jump off the ship." I corrected.
It fell silent.
"I'm scared." Jake said, sounding like a little boy himself.
"I know," I muttered. If he was scared, I knew it wouldn't be a good idea for us both to panic. He's already been proven to be quite the panickier...so I'll just have to act brave for him.
"Things'll work out," I said quietly, "we'll make it through this."
I didn't believe it.
We stayed cuddled up most the night, but spoke basically nothing. Personally, that was okay with me. His steady heartbeat was all I needed to feel calm and collected. The sunrise was gorgeous in the morning, but brought with it what I knew was going to be a pattern.
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"I'm unusual, not so typical, way to smart to be waiting around--" I sang as I fanned myself with my hand. It was around noon it seemed by the intense heat of the sun. I longed to jump into the water and cool off.
" tai chi practices, snowboard champion--"
"Hey, tai chi practicer," Jake snapped in annoyance, "why don't you meditate us back to the ship?"
I smirked, "I would, but your STUPID vibes are in the way." No use explaining to him that tai chi wasn't a meditating thing, but a type of Chinese karate.
"Well sor-ry, Miss Montana!" He exclaimed holding up his hands. As soon as it had gotten light, the fighting had begun again. I think we both secretly liked it.
"Your the zombie slayer, why don't you get all your freaky little zombie friends to save us?" I said.
"Because they will deteriorate in the water." Jake said seriously.
"I was kidding."
"Whatever."
I sighed and continued my singing of Hannah's second CD, "Turn this park into a club--
"TURN THIS BOAT INTO A MCDONALDS, THE HAMBURGERS ARE SO YUUUMMYY, ICE COLD COKES ALRIGHT SO GOOD, LET'S ALL GET ONE AND DRINK AWAY..!" Jake sang extremely off key.
"Sweet Niblets," I muttered.
"Nobody's perfect, I gotta work it, again and again--
"Jesus, sweet Lord in Heaven," Jake screamed, looking up at the sky, "make her shut up!!"
"--till I get it right! Nobody's perfect, you live and you learn it--"
"Please, please, please, please, please stop!!"
"Sometimes I work a scheme, but then it flips on me--"
"If you don't shush your mouth, I'm gonna flip you out of this boat!" Jake threatened. I guess I felt kind of bad for him, he's heard these songs about a thousand time today.
I shrugged, "Fine by me, I'm hot anyways."
He glared and I went back to singing, "Who said, who said I can't be superman--"
"I did now be quiet! I'm trying to relax!"
"You can't relax, we are going to die out here. So shush up and let me spend my last few hours living doing what I do best!"
"What, looking at my gorgeous face?" Jake asked. I looked at him and replied dryly with,
"Ya know that "normal" thing you tried?"
He nodded.
"It didn't work out too well, egoistical prick."
"You know that "emo thing" you tried? Yea, it didn't work out so well either."
I blinked.
He growled and said, "Okay, well, maybe it did but the happy...thing you tried to do didn't work because you...ugh leave me alone woman!"
"I always win." I said smugly.
"Be a lawyer." He spat.
"Maybe I will!"
"Fine!"
"I can be your lawyer when my Daddy sues you for abandoning me in the middle of the ocean!" I exclaimed.
"Okay there are two things wrong with that," Jake smirked, "One, I highly doubt he'll sue be for saving your life, two, why would you be against your father who was suing for you? I mean if you were my lawyer you would--"
"Oh put a cork in it!"