Chapter 14

Day 37

Taylor POV

When I woke up that morning everyone was outside the shelter. Everyone except Miley. I sat up to go out of the shelter when Miley stopped me.

"Taylor, can I talk to you?" She asked.

"Umm, sure." I said sitting back down.

"Do you like Jackson?" She asked me.

"What? No, why would you think that?"

"I don't know it's just you, Lilly, and him hang out a lot so I was just wondering."

"Wait why do you want to know?" I asked her.

"Well, I think I kinda like him. He so strong and cute and he's sensitive." Crap. I can't tell her Lilly and him are going out and I can't tell her Lilly likes him so what can I tell her?

"Umm, Jackson has this no couple thing on the island." I said.

"Well, maybe when we start hanging out, he'll make an exception." She smiling and getting up and walking out of the shelter. Oh no. This is not good. Not good one little bit.

Lilly POV

I was doing much better that day. I could walk, I could pick things up, and I even went with Taylor to pick up clams. Everyone was happy for me. Melissa, Nathan and I were walking to get water when we got to the spot where I passed out. I remember how I felt and got nervous extremely fast.

"No, it can't happen again, it can't! I can't be here! It can't happen again!" I shouted loudly. I was looking around frantically waving my arms around.

"Lilly, it's okay your fine" Melissa said with worry in her voice. That didn't help I just kept remember that I was on the verge of death from that spot.

"No! It can't happen!" I shouted again.

"Lilly, your okay, let's go back to camp." Nathan said trying to calm me down. It didn't work either. Next thing I knew I was crying a little and Mel and Nathan didn't know what to do. I felt some hold my arms down and spin me around to face them. I had my eyes closed so I couldn't see who it was.

"What's wrong with her?" I head Jackson say. When I realized it was Jackson I took a little step closer to him.

"I think she went into shock or something." Nathan said.

"Lilly, you're alright. It's me, Jackson. Nothing happened to you. You're fine." He said pulling me in to hug him. When I felt his hug I did snap out of it. I took a step back from Jackson and said to all 3 of them,

"Oh my god. I'm so sorry. I don't know what happened."

"It's fine. We're just glad your okay." Mel said.

"I'm going to take her back to camp." Jackson said.

"Okay, we'll get the water and be back soon." Nathan said. Jackson loosened his grip around me until they were gone then he tightened it.

"Are you sure you're alright, baby?" He asked me while walking back.

"Yeah I'm fine, I don't know what happened back there." I said when we were almost to camp he let go of me and we walked out to the fire. We sat down and Miley, Taylor, Lex, and Eric were all sitting around it already. We sat down on an empty log and Jackson put a log on the fire. When I looked up Miley stood and walked over to us.

"Jackson can I talk to you?" She asked him. I glanced up at Jackson and he glanced down at me saying it was okay.

"Sure." He said standing up. They walked down the beach and out of sight.

Miley POV

Jackson and I walked down the beach and when we got out of sight I stopped him. I looked into his eyes, his gorgeous eyes and stared at them for a moment. He was so cute. Almost too cute. I finally spoke,

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be mean to Lilly I was just worried about her. I didn't mean to be mean to you either. I'm sorry. I will try to be nicer to Lilly and try to help her out, I just want to be friends with you." I said.

"It's okay. As long as you and Lilly try to be nice to each other." He said.

"Of course." I said. There was a moment of silence. "Do you wanna go for a swim?"

"Sure." He said. I took off my shoes and my t-shirt so all I had on was my shorts and cami. He took off his shirt and boy, did he have abs. He had a major six pack plus his arm muscles were huge and he looked so incredibly strong. I wish I could have his arms around me. I ran down to the water and dove down. He did the same thing. We were swimming for about 5 minutes when I looked out far into the water. That's when I saw it. There was a shark.

"Shark." I said in shock because it was coming closer really fast.

"Oh my god. Let's go!" He shouted turning around and swimming back to shore. I think I was in shock because I didn't move I just looked at the shark and froze. "Miley, let's go!" Jackson yelled and grabbed me by my waist and started pulling me to shore. The shark was about 20 feet away when Jackson pulled me. When we reached shore I stood up and so did he.

"Oh my goodness. Jackson you saved my life! Thank you so much." I said.

"Oh it was nothing." He said.

"Thank you." I said. I hugged him and he hugged me back. I loved having his strong arms around me. We both pulled back and we just looked at each other. Until suddenly, I don't know why, but I pulled him in and kissed him.

Lilly POV

Jackson and Miley had been gone for a while so I decided to go looking for them. I came down the beach to find Miley and Jackson kissing. It felt like a knife had been stabbed in my back, like someone took my heart and stepped on it, like I was walking on a million pieces of shattered glass and like my heart broke in half. I stood there for a minute my eyes tearing up when Jackson looked up and saw me.

"Lilly." He said. I turned and ran back up the beach. I ran past everyone at the fire pit and back in the woods where there was not a path. I was breathing heavily and my eyes had lots of tears in them. I didn't know which way to go so I kept walking. I got to an open prairie land and I sat down there. I heard footsteps behind me and I knew whose they were. Jackson.

"Lilly," He started to say and turn me around but I pushed his hands off of me. He just squatted in front of me. I never looked at his eyes, I just looked down. "Lilly, I never kissed her. She kissed me. There was a shark and I saved her life and then she kissed me but as soon as she did I pushed her off because it felt nothing like you." He said. I didn't look up so he took his fingers and tilted my chin up to face him. I still didn't look at him, I looked down.

"Lilly, look at me." He said. I still didn't. "Lilly, please look at me." He said again. I agreed and I looked up at him. "You're the only one for me. No one else can ever compare to you." He said. For some reason I believed him. So, I did the only thing I could do, I kissed him.