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(!) "Andre and Jade go out to find Little Beck who wandered off during breakfast, while searching for him, Andre brings up the topic of their night together."

Chapter 9: Blank Memory

Sunday

1 July 2012 8:30- Morning

Camping Area

Waiting for Jade outside the motor home was a plate that had scrambled eggs, a few sausages and a few strips of cooked bacon. Right now Andre was in the bathroom taking a shower, it never crossed her mind, but he's already seen her naked. She didn't have much memory of what happened between her and Andre last night. She knew that she woke up in his tent, she allowed him to glance at her naked by mistake, but anything that happened before that was a blank memory.

When she had time and when the subject arose, she would have to ask Andre what exactly happened between them. Right now, all she had on her mind was breakfast.

Bathroom

Scrubbing himself all neat and clean with men's body wash, Andre couldn't keep one big happy smile off his face. He sang a few songs to help pass the time, it's been such a long time since he's felt this way for anybody. Normal girlfriends were a dime a dozen. But Jade was special, dangerous, weird and truly one of a kind. All of this was coming to an end, and he knew anything that happened inside of Angeles National Forest could not be displayed outside of it. It was sort of like being in Las Vegas.

He turned the shower faucets off, stepped out of the bathroom to get a change of clothes. He wanted to do something together with her for an activity, they could destroy ant hills, capture birds or do whatever she wanted to do.

When he was dry and fully clothed, he had only his shoes left to put on.

"Andre! where the hell is little beck!? I don't see him in his cage or outside here."

"He should be walking around out there, and why does it matter If he's gone. He belongs in the wild, Australia actually, but you know what I mean."

Andre's snappy remark pissed Jade off. She went inside the motor home and grabbed Andre by his shirt, she tosse him from side of the home to the other.

"He's what I plan on bringing back home with me Andre, I need something to remember my time here when we go back home tomorrow. Help me find him!" she commanded.

"But Jade what about what happened with … WHOA!"

The Forest

Jade lead the way into the forest, she moved the brush aside with one hand. The other dragged Andre by his shirt, he watched his stepped and tried to warn Jade about her step also, only to get an "I don't care" remark from her.

"Jade wait a minute, he's not a d-"

"Little Beck! Little Beck Momma's calling you! Answer your Mother!" she yelled out into the forest.

"Jade I don't think he's coming back, ow. Did you hear me? He's not a dog Ja-"

Jade pushed him onto the ground and straddled him. She pinned his hands on the ground and spoke.

"You did this all on purpose, you knew I loved that capybara so much that if he went missing you would drag me with you. Trying to get us alone again."

"But jade you dragged me here, and we were always alone to begin with. Besides he's not a capybara, he's a Wombat. Jade I'm sorry that he ran away but it's like I said, he's not a dog he doesn't … wait a minute. What makes you say get us alone again? You don't remember anything that happened last night?"

"Whatever happened was just…a mistake on both our parts. It's not like my love for Beck has changed, I still love him so much. When we get back everything will return to normal. Now get up and help me find that rabbit."

"But Jade I thought…Jade wait a minute, can we talk first." he pleaded with her.

"NO, now help me find Little Beck."

Two hours had passed after Jade and Andre left to go find the wombat, they were so far from their motor home it only struck Jade when she made Andre climb up trees to see if Little beck was up there.

"Like I was trying to tell you Jade, Wombat are ground animals. Their not squirrels, their not birds and their not…oh forget it. Why bother."

"Yo Andre…do you remember the path we took, I don't know where we are."

Andre looked down at the ground and made sure to fall far from Jade, he hopped off one branch and down another. The sound of thunder in the distance caught both their attentions, Jade told Andre to climb higher and see if he could see where the motor home was at.

"Let's just retrace out steps Jade."

"No, just keep climbing and see if you can spot the motor home."

"It's dangerous Jade, I'm coming back down."

"You better not come … you know what forget it, I'm coming up."

Camping Area

Returning back after eating some wild grasses in the hills, Little Beck returned to an empty camp. Jade and Andre were nowhere to be seen, he checked the inside of their tents and saw that they were empty. The motor home door was left open which he saw as a chance to get in and see if there was food. He climbed up the small stairs with his stubby little legs, left leg, right leg.

Inside, he scratched at the refrigerator door trying to get it open. He scratched, bit and bumped his head on the door. A familiar scent coming from Jade's bedroom made him move his stocky little body run over there. He came to a stop to sniff Jade's shirt that she wore yesterday, it was on the floor from when she took it off early to take a shower. It's scent was Andre's and it was strong.

Images of Andre feeding him and speaking to him were being processed in his little brain, his nose wiggled and his small pupils dilated. He charged on out of the motor home and followed the scent that lead to Andre. he needed to hurry before rain fell and washed away the scent trail.

The Forest, Again

Little beck would have some trouble finding Jade and Beck, it started raining fifteen minutes after he went searching for his food givers. Sitting close together under a tree, Jade tried not to get to close to Andre. but Andre had the exact opposite on his mind. He was worried that Jade would ignore him the rest of the time they had left here. He moved in closer to her only to have her push him away.

"Jade what's wrong? I thought you were having fun…aren't you having f-"

"What's so fun about this Andre!? no one wanted to come, my only girlfriends' who I thought cared about me bailed on me. My boyfriend is off somewhere in Canada, even Robbie who I can't stand, I would still allowed if he wanted to come. So no I'm not having fun! As soon as this rain stops were packing up and going home!"

Andre moved over and stood quiet, he chose not to say anything until the rain stopped. Words that Tori once told him when he had that crush on Jade a while back, echoed loudly in his head. Maybe he had her all wrong, and that feeling of wanting to go back home, he shared with her. He hugged his knees and tilted his head downward. Jade looked over to him and didn't know if he was crying or if it was because of the rain. But he looked really sad.

He wasn't Beck, he couldn't just brush it aside. He didn't know when she was being serious or when she was really mad. She looked around to make sure no one was around to see them, she moved in closer and sat down next to him. Quietly she whispered "I'm sorry Andre" to him. His eyes looked over at hers and then looked over to her hand. He grabbed her hand and gently gave it a squeeze.

She returned his small form of affection with a gentle squeeze of her own.

(!) "Continued in Chapter 10."