Chapter 3

This is one of my fav. chapters, because I am a big Nathan and Daley fan !

29DWN

Everyone had gathered around the fire pit. They were all waiting for Taylor and Eric to bring back the fire wood.

"Taylor, wait." Eric shouted.

Everyone looked at each other, and then they turned to look at the direction the voices were coming from. Taylor ran out from behind the trees looking exhausted.

"Taylor." Eric said running up behind her. He was just about to reach for her hand, when he noticed everyone was looking at them.

"What are you two doing?" Melissa asked.

"Nothing!" Taylor shouted. "We aren't, . . and weren't doing . . . anything." She looked over at Eric.

"Yeah," He said, looking into Taylor's eyes. "We weren't doing anything." He gave her a sharp look, and walked off.

Everyone watched as he walked away. They all looked at Taylor confused.

"Well, did you get fire wood?" Daley asked, breaking the intense silence.

"Well we were going to, . . and then. ." Taylor looked around for Eric. "I was. . .

"Just forget it, Taylor!" Daley shouted, standing up. "I'll go get some." Daley stormed off into the jungle.

Nathan felt Melissa pinch him. "Oww!"

"Nathan." She whispered. "Go with her."

Nathan stood up, escaping Melissa's pinches. "I'll go with you!" He shouted running to catch up with Daley.

Once he caught up with her, they walked off in the jungle and started to look for fire wood.

"Hey," They both said simultaneously.

They both started to smile.

"You go first." Nathan said relieved that he didn't have to say what had been bothering him all day.

"Ok, . . Nathan," She sat down on a near by stump. "I'm . . . scared. I know I try to hide it, but I just . . sometimes I just can't take it. I don't know what to do anymore," Daley looked up at Nathan, who was looking at her puzzled. "I feel lost. I don't want to eat anymore fish. I don't want to find firewood, and I'm tired of hiding my feelings about y-." She stopped herself."Never mind. I just wanted to say that I'm scared, and thanks for worrying about me."

Nathan's eyes darted to her quickly.

"How did you know I was worried about you?" Nathan asked confused.

"Melissa told me." Daley answered blushing.

"Oh. Is that all she told you?"

"Yeah," Daley said turning and looking at him. "Is there anything else she should have told me?" She was looking straight at him.

He looked in her eyes and gathered up the courage to tell her how he felt.

"Daley, I like you." He said reaching for here hand. "I really like you. I know that we argued. .a lot in the past, and I don't know how or when. But somewhere and sometime, I started to fall for you."

Daley looked at him and smiled. She lifted up and kissed him on the cheek. Nathan smiled back relived. "I like you, too. I realized Nathan, what a great guy you are." She smiled into his eyes. "I guess one good thing came out of this whole thing."

They both gave a sad laugh, thinking that nothing else was good about being on that island.

They stared at each other for awhile. Then they realized they couldn't fight the attraction anymore. Both of them leaned in to kiss each other.

They held the kiss for while before deepening it. Nathan began to wrap his arms and Daley, as she reached for his neck. They reluctantly pulled apart for air.

"Wow." Daley said, in between smiling.

They both began to laugh.

"It took us this long to get together." Nathan said laughing.

"I know!" She said back to him laughing just as hard.

They both stopped laughing, and smiled as they looked in each others eyes.

"So . . ," Daley said. She looked down. "What do we do now?"

He noticed the sudden sadness in her face. He lifted her chin so that she looked in his eyes.

"I don't know,but let's not worry about that. At least not for right now."

"Ok." She said, smiling.

They both continued to smile, until Nathan leaned in to kiss Daley. They held the kiss longer than the first time. "They're probably wondering what's taking us so long." Daley said, interrupting the kiss.

"Probably." He said, but neither one of them let go of their grip. They both almost began to laugh again.

"I'll let go when you let go." Daley said.

"No. I'll let go when you let go." Nathan teased.

"You want to know a secret?" Daley asked.

"What?"

"I don't want to let go."

"Me neither."

She smiled and then kissed Nathan. He responded with an even deeper kiss. Which made neither one of them ever want to pull away? Nathan was pulling Daley closer to him, when they heard something behind them.

They both jumped apart quickly, looking around.

"Have you two collected any fire wood yet?"