AN~ Don't own DP. Okay so this story is now my top priority since Kiss me love me is done, well mostly done.
Also I know that Chloe and Derek have been mostly ooc, I APOLIGIZE for that. From here on I'm going to try really hard to make them seem more Chloey and Dereky.
I reread the last chapter...wow, that wasn't my best chapter. This one will be, hopefully, better.

(It's night, somehow)

""F-fine." I say standing up with a smirk playing on my face just knowing that he had some feelings towards me. "Let's go Mr. Souza." I look down to see Derek looking stunned. I start walking away, stop and look back. Raising slowly and shook his head to himself just followed. "Lead us to the others please."

"Mmhm." He just murmurs and leads us towards where we had been using as a camp site. I sit down on a log as Derek starts a fire. Closing my eyes I feel my cheeks warm as I replay the events that had just occurred this morning and evening. 'oh God. That was an awful things that I said and did.' Once the fire got going I scooted closer to the fire warming my arms.

"Let me see the cut." Derek say snapping me out of my thoughts. I just nod as I pull up my pants legging up over my knee. My cut had cleaned up some in the stream but it still wasn't completely healed. "Does it hurt?"

"N-not really. I-I'm s-sorry about this m-morning and y-yesterday and how baby-ish I have b-been a-acting." I apologize. He just nods as he pokes and prods my wound that is no long a big gapping hole but a small circular wound. He rips his sleeve and ties around my leg similar to how I had mine last night.

"Whatever. Just go to sleep and get some rest. We're moving out to find Simon tomorrow." He plays it off as cool and calm.

"W-what about y-you?" I ask. "I-I'm not s-sleepy." I say trying to stifle a yawn. "How about you get some sleep?" He gave a small laugh.

"Nah, you need it more." He says. I just shake my head and walk over by a tree where I would stay warm but I won't be to close. I curl into a ball wrapping my arms around my legs.

I close my eyes but I can't stop replaying all the events that took place within the two or three days that I have left home. I drifted off into a dreamless sleep. I would have guessed I only had slept for an hour or two. It was still dark out. The fire was still crackling, I roll over so I was facing the fire. I rub my eyes and see Derek standing looking out into the forest.

"D-D-Derek?" I yawn as I struggle to sit up. He jumps and whips around to see me sitting.

"Chloe?" He gasps. "What is it?" He looks somewhat worried.

"Get some sleep. I got some, now it's your turn." I offer with a smile. I stand and walk over and sit next to him. We just sit there for a few minutes just watching the fire crackle.

"What time is it?" I ask quietly.

Few more minutes pass before he answers, "Around five. Want to start our hike?"

"S-sure." I answer stifling another yawn. He stands and puts out the fire with some dirt. I stand up and stretch my arms and legs. I look over at Derek who I'm guessing that he was looking at me quickly whips his head around to looking the opposite way.

"Ready?" Derek says kicking the logs around to make it less noticeable that we had been here. I walk towards him, following him down the trail. I just hum a little tune to myself as we walk.

"So, Chloe why did you run away from home?" Derek ask probably just to make small talk but I just shrug my shoulders to it.

"B-because I was a-alone. If not all of the time then just a good majority. My father is a big business man and my mom died a few years ago. My aunt watches me but she usually tries to block me out. I-I wanted t-to be wanted but I j-just didn't feel l-like I w-was. I knew my dad did love me but after my mom died he pretty much busied himself into his work." After my whole story I felt like I could cry. I felt like a baby, a selfish little baby. I was met with a long silence.

"Wow. That sucks." He mumbles. "We're close to them. Just a few more minutes and we'll be there." Just as he says this we walk out of the forest and see a small fire. The sun was still not quite up but just enough that we could see a silhouette of a person sitting next to the fire. I stay a few feet behind Derek as we walked closer to the person. Once we were just a few feet away the boy turned reveling it was Simon.

"Hey! Tori wake up." Simon shook Tori, who was laying next to the log sleeping. She rubbed her eyes and looked up and saw us.

"Hey they back. Thought we lost you two." Tori says sleepily. "Nice to see ya' girly."

"Yeah," I mumble and walk with Derek and sit next to the fire on a log adjacent from Simon's log. I sat between Derek and Simon.

"How was your time alone?" Simon ask with hints of jealousy. I bit my bottom lip.

"Interesting." Derek said as he tries to get warm by the fire. I nod.

"Well it's nice to see you Chloe." Simon smiles at me as his hand slowly creeps over so it's touching mine. I can't help but to smile at the irony of this.

"N-nice to see you too Simon." I say. Maybe Derek was right, maybe I should give Simon a chance. So I turn to face him and give him a big smile. Which makes his face tint a pinkish.

"Um I should go look around for some more wood. Do you wanna come with Chloe?" Simon asks. I bite my lip and nod. He stood up and I follow in suit. Once we were far enough that Simon breaks the silence. "So Chlo, what do ya' like to do for fun?"

"Watch movies and I was writing a small movie script. I want to become a movie director." I smile as I share my hopes of the future if I get that far in life. He smiles as he walks closer to me and goes in to hold my hand. I allow him to hold it but not to interlace our fingers. It felt nice that someone wanted me. I look over my shoulder to see if Derek had noticed. But sadly he wasn't even looking this way so I sigh to myself. Fine, forget him. Simon is nicer anyway.

I'm hoping this is better than the last few chapters. Please R&R!