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Melissa Wu sat with her back up against a palm tree plotting to kill Taylor and Jackson. The tree was uncomfortable and was starting to chafe her skin. She tried her best to get comfortable but her attempts were in vain. She would have gotten up and simply found a comfier spot but she couldn't walk for fear she'd fall on her face. Her whole entire body felt like Jello. It wasn't even the delicious raspberry flavour of Jello. No, it was the mango flavour of Jello, the kind that made her stomach turn. So in addition to feeling anything but poise she also had an uneasy stomach. Her mind kept running through the events as if they were a series of pictures. The first picture was Jackson, politely asking herself to talk and bringing a smile to her face but the very sight of him. The next picture was Jackson hesitantly jumping around a subject and herself trying to grasp was he was trying to tell her. The picture after that one was when everything went wrong. When Taylor popped into their conversation and asked Jackson if he had told her about 'them'. Melissa mentally ripped up that picture in her mind. After ripping it up she burned the pieces. She then took the ashes and buried them in the back of her mind. Just forget Melissa.
"Hey, are you ok?" A voice asked disturbing her thoughts. She looked up and saw Lex towering over her. He offered her a smile and sat beside her ready to hear a detailed response.
"Yeah, I'm ok." Melissa sighed refraining as long as she could from telling the truth.
"Why was Taylor chasing after you?" Lex asked clearly not giving up easily.
"Something happened between me, her, and Jackson." Melissa answered vaguely. Although Melissa believed she was giving out as little information as possible, her answer proved all of Lex's theories.
"It's gonna be ok Melissa," Lex cooed patting shoulder. "It'll all work out."
"Yeah, I guess so." Melissa said quietly. She didn't quite believe it yet. Lex felt horrible for Melissa because he knew how much she liked Jackson. He always stood up for Jackson but he was mad at him for making Melissa upset.
"You're strong, you'll get through this." Lex stated with absolute belief in his words. He was pretty convincing because Melissa started to believe him too. She nodded and gave him a weak smile. Lex got up and headed back to camp. He felt he did a good job.
Nathan walked towards camp with purpose. He spotted Daley and headed towards her. As he got closer he saw the confused look on her face. Daley was not some one who usually let her expressions show on her face. Nathan knew something was up. He approached her cautiously and tapped her on the shoulder. She looked at him and smiled.
"Oh, hey Nathan." She breathed, pushing a way all her thoughts and focusing on her boyfriend.
"Hey, are you ok?" He asked her, relieved that the confused look on her face had gone away.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Daley assured him.
"Good. I was just wandering if you'd like to, ah, collect some fruit with me?" Nathan asked Daley, of course meaning if they could go make out in their secret clearing.
"Yeah, sure." Daley beamed, hoping this would keep her mind off of her brother's odd behavior.
Jackson watched the two lovebirds set off into the jungle together and couldn't help but feel a ping of jealousy towards them. They were so blissful and worriless. They were so Taylor-less. He and Taylor had become friends on the island so he felt guilty for thinking such thoughts. Friends. That's what they were! Taylor had taken it a whole other way and had screwed everything up with Melissa. Right now they were probably biting each other's heads off in the jungle. Jackson had taken over Melissa's water filtering job knowing that she probably wouldn't be back in a while. After all, this whole situation was his fault. No, it had not been his idea for Taylor to barge into their conversation and ruin everything but maybe he made her think he wanted her to. Flirting with Taylor had been short lived and only under the influence of utter confusion. Jackson was too scared to face how he felt about Melissa because what he felt was too strong. He decided to take the coward's way out and hang out with Taylor. He had now come to terms with how he felt about Melissa and feared it was too late.
"Hey Jackson!" Taylor exclaimed walked out of a cluster of trees. "So I talked to Melissa and she's totally cool with us!"
"Us? There is no us, Taylor!" Jackson couldn't help raise his voice out of frustration with her. There was no one in camp so he took the liberty of being completely truthful and a little brutal.
"Wha-what do you mean?" Taylor asked him astonished at his sudden rage.
"I mean we're not a couple! I mean that I don't like you, in that way." Jackson shouted despite the hurt look on Taylor's face.
"Then why'd you tell Melissa we were?" Taylor shot back annoyed that Jackson had the nerve to talk to her like that.
"I didn't tell Melissa that, you did!" Jackson yelled. Taylor was quiet for second trying to process the information Jackson had given her.
"So if you weren't telling her about me and you, then what were you gonna say?" Taylor asked confused out of her wits.
"Nothing, it doesn't matter anymore." Jackson replied in defeat. With that he stormed out of camp not looking back once.
A/N: Sorry it took me so long to get this chapter up! I'm kind of mad at myself for being so mean to Taylor but I guess that's just karma. Please review and tell me if you think I should add something or have ideas. Or you could just rave about how good this story is and my wonderful writing, that works too.