I watched Raleigh scan the scenery with his eyes. He looked so serious, so intense, so in to the fact that he was on the edge of the Grand Canyon. He smiled at it and looked back at me, "I know why you like this place so much." He said walking towards me.

I crossed my arms over my chest, "Why."

He stood next to me, his figure towered over mine, "No ocean, no jaegers, no Kaijus... nothing. Just a beautiful canyon no where near anything bad." He suggested.

"Clever boy." I joked with him.

He shouldered me playfully, "So, what are we going to do today?"

I shrugged, "Anything you want to do, I've been here for 6 years. Seen everything."

He looked at the guide that I gave him, "Well, I want to go on that red trail..."

My eyes widened, "That's like a few kilometers up towards the peak."

He nodded, "Sounds fun."

I gave him a nervous laugh, "I went up there by foot once. Trust me, it is not fun if you don't like hiking."

He shrugged, "I like hiking."

"Bu-"

"No buts." Raleigh smirked at me, "We'll start this late afternoon and we'll walk up."

I groaned, "Raleigh, you are killing me."

He nodded, "Indeed."

He started walking towards the visitors center and I potted and followed him. The visitors center was a long walk. Around 2 kilometers, it wasn't so bad because most of the walking was flat. My shirt was drenched with my sweet and my shorts stuck to my thighs. Raleigh, on the other hand, seemed perfectly fine. His back was still up straight and he just smiled at the Canyon. Fit jerk.

We walked into the cool room. The air-con went through my pony tail and I sighed. Raleigh looked at me like I was crazy, I gave him a glare.

"No one's as fit as you." I stated.

He nodded in agreement.

He went over to some animal displays, rock displays and read about the first boat on the Colorado river. Around 45 minutes of reading and observing everything, Raleigh wanted to go to the short film that was filming in a few minutes. I nodded and walked over to the theatre. Raleigh noticed some of the quotes about the Grand Canyon that was on the walls of the theatre room.

"The Grand Canyon is the land of song." One quote stated.

I found us two chairs that were the best spots of the theatre and sat down. Raleigh was still looking at the few quotes on the walls. I rolled my eyes and looked down at my phone. My mom left me a message.

"This place is amazing! Would you like to have dinner with me?" She wrote.

"Can't. Going to hike tonight." I replied.

A few seconds later, my mom wrote back. ":( Okay then. I guess we'll see you tomorrow."

I sighed and locked my iPhone. Raleigh was coming towards me. He grinned at me and I gestured him to sit down. He did. He let out a long sigh and let his arm rest on the back of my chair. I realized that he had a habit of doing that.

"This place is amazing." He whispered to me.

I nodded, "Love this place."

He smiled at me. God that smile. That fucking perfect smile. It always gave me those weird tingly feelings down my spine. STOP SMILING AT ME! I gave him a shy smile back. The lights dimmed and the screen turned white. The movie was starting.

The movie was a short documentary about the Grand Canyon. How it all started, and what was it's history. It lasted around 15 minutes until the lights turned on again. I stood up and walked outside, Raleigh followed.

I looked at my watch. 4:25p.m. Damn it. Our long hike was going to start any minute. I looked down at what I was wearing. Nike shorts, addidas shoes and a dry fit shirt. I was good to go.

"Ready for our hike, Caroline?" Raleigh said with a smirk.

I sighed, "Let's just do this. Get it over with."

He nodded, "I like your attitude."

I shoved his chest and he chuckled.

The hike was devastating for me. I started to sweat badly in the middle of the hike and I was starting to get thirsty too. "I need water..." I whined between pants. Raleigh laughed, "We're almost there... I think..." I looked at him, sapping him a glare. It was getting dark and I looked down at my watch. 6:57 p.m. More than 2 hours we've been climbing this giant rock. I looked up at Raleigh, he was sweating a bit but he didn't seem tired. Again, fit jerk. Then he stopped. I groaned, "Why did you stop?" I asked.

"Wow..." Raleigh breathed.

I walked up next to him and gasped. There was a little spring and a water fall to the right of us. We were apparently somewhere near a forest that was on the Canyon. Many trees were wildly growing all of the place and no one was here. I looked at Raleigh, "Are we lost?" I asked.

He looked at the map and shrugged, "I guess so..."

I shoved him, "You idiot..." He chuckled while I walked over to the small spring, "I am not going down back to the route and restart this whole journey again." I said while I took off my shoes.

"What are you doing?" Raleigh asked me.

"Don't look." I warned him.

He turned away and I stripped down to my bra and underwear and went inside the pool of fresh water, "I'm taking swim." I said to him. He turned around and smirked at me. I walked over where I left my shirt, shorts and shoes and stripped of to only his shorts. I had to hold a gasp when I saw his exposed upper body. He had those toned abs, perfect chest and tanned skin. God, why.

He jumped into the pool and swam towards me. I giggled, "Get away from me. I'm only in what I was the first time you saw me here." I heard him chuckle. I rolled my eyes and backed away, he still didn't stop, I splashed water onto his face, that didn't stop him before he got me. He grabbed my waist and I screamed. He laughed and held me tight. I smiled at him then everything went silent.

I looked at his beautiful face. His turquoise eyes, the color of the pool. His red lips that made me want to kiss him and everything about him was perfect. I ran a hand through his wet hair. He pulled me closer to him. My legs were dangling around his waist under the water and my arms were coiled around his neck. He didn't seem to notice my sports bra, he only seemed to notice my face. He looked down at my lips and I tilted my head a little and made our lips collide.

The kiss was soft, slow. His lips were lingering over mine. I could taste the salt from his sweat and feel the slimy spring water on his lips. His hands ran up and down from my waist down to my thighs. It tickled a little, but it felt good as well. I pushed myself up a bit to deepen the kiss. My wet hair stuck to his cheek and my hands cupped his cheeks. I slowly sat down on his lap and he broke the kiss. I whimpered a bit when he let go, I didn't want it to stop. Raleigh was looking at me intensely, those eyes of his piercing through my own, trying to look through me.

I let him go and stood on the muddy ground of the spring. I looked down at the water, my arm held my other arm. "I'm sorry..." I whispered to him. "Couldn't really help myself..." I explained. I felt his hand touch the bottom of my chin, forcing my head to look up. His lips came crashing down on mine. Raleigh pushed me to the edge of the pool. Mud, moss and roots tickled my back. His kiss became urgent, not like the last kiss, slow and tender, but instead, urgent and violent. I held his shoulders and his hand slipped down to the small of my back another hand behind my neck, pushing me towards him more. Raleigh licked my lower lip. It tickled. I opened my mouth give a little noise that came from beneath my throat and I felt Raleigh's lips form into a smile. We let go, our foreheads touching, the tips of our noses connected and we were gasping for air.

I smiled at him and he held both sides of my hips. "You're something else, Oakley." Raleigh said with a smirk. I rolled my eyes, "You too, Becket." I poked his chest with my second finger. We both laughed.

"I'm starving." I said while I ate my pasta.

After we left the spring, we found a bus that took us down to the hotels. People were staring at us because we were soaking wet and we were ruining the chairs, so we stood. The moment we got back, I went to the restaurant and ordered myself a pasta. I ate and ate and ate. I was so hungry, thanks to that nice exercise, I ran out of fuel. Needed to reload.

It took a few minutes until I swallowed my whole plate of pasta down my throat. Raleigh was looking at me in surprise. I groaned, "What. Never seen a girl eat like this?"

He shook his head.

I rolled my eyes, "Well, lucky me. You saw me first. Besides, you forced me up that mountain, can't blame me."

Raleigh tilted his head in agreement.

It was late at night after we finished dinner. I walked outside and gasped. Raleigh paused too. There was a deer right in front of us, eating grass. It was a male deer. It was very big. He didn't seemed scared of the people surrounding him. I looked around and spotted a few female deers with their babies following behind them.

"Aww..." I whispered to them. I looked at Raleigh, "Look how cute they all look."

He laughed, "Yeah. They are pretty neat."

A waitress came outside one of the restaurants and shouted at us, "Do not approach this animal! Stay 50 feet away from it! I repeat, Do NOT approach this animal."

I stepped back, "Sheesh... look who's mad."

Raleigh gave a nod of agreement and shook his head, "I'm going back." He said.

"What? Why?" I asked him.

"It's like almost 11 in the night. I'm tired." Raleigh stated.

I shrugged, "Okay, fine. I'll be up there in a few minutes too."

I watched Raleigh jog off to our hotel.

I sat on the edge of a rock that had an amazing view of the Grand Canyon. I looked at the shades of red that different layers of rock formed and I looked at the dips and turns of the Canyon. I thought about what happened today. Raleigh seemed fascinated by the Grand Canyon. He thought that this place was amazing, which was good. We went on the wrong path towards the peak but instead we swam in a little spring that magically appeared out of no where. I had never seen that little pool of water before. I kissed him, I couldn't help myself. He was so close to me... I felt like he was teasing me. Coming over so close but just looking at me, waiting... teasing. When I thought of the kiss, I blushed. How could he just forget about it. Walking back to the route and finding a bus, he thought it was nothing. He didn't say one word about the kiss or the second kiss. I, for one, thought about the whole day. I kept it in, but every time I thought about it, my cheeks started to warm up. It was embarrassing but yet, I am glad that I kissed him. I had to, for myself. It seemed like that I was falling for him. The feeling felt weird, when ever my stomach makes a little swish when he smiled, when ever my heart skips a beat when he walks towards me, when ever I start to shiver when his laugh vibrated through my own body, when ever I thought about him... I feel tingly feelings erupting through my soul, I never felt like this before...

So... this is the new chapter. Mmmm, I don't know... I thought it was okay? Gah, let me know what you think, write a review :3 Chapter might be coming a little late now, I'm going to be busy. Sorry about that. :P