JJ panicked "Kie? Kie, please wake up" He was shaking her lightly.
She had bruises on her face, and a huge cut on her left cheek. JJ knew how it felt to have such injuries on your face, but never would he have wanted Kie to have them.
"Kie? Please, tell me you can hear me. Kie, Kie." He sobbed.
Kiara grunted. "Jay?" She said weakly.
"oh my gosh Kiara Carrera, you scared me" He whispered, smiling. JJ immediately took her in his arms.
"I'm not dead yet" She smiled, still weak. Her head was resting against his bare torso. His arms wrapped around her. She hugged him back, as tightly as she could, although that meant not very tight.
"I'm so sorry, I should have never left camp" She cried,
"No it's my fault, I should have gotten up when I heard a shriek."
He landed a comforting kiss on the top of her head. This gave Kie the same weird feeling as when he helped her fish. A good feeling. Yes, she felt safe in JJ's arms, but it wasn't that. Her stomach was suddenly filled with bubbles.
After a few minutes of holding each-other tightly, JJ let go.
"We should start heading back. Whoever this was knocked you out, and can do the same to anyone else."
JJ got up. He reached his hand towards Kie's to help her get up.
"Come on, the others are probably still looking for you" He smiled
"And that guy is going to take them too" She winced as she got up.
"Are you okay? Can you walk?" JJ was concerned
"I guess there's one way to find out" She said, spreading her arms apart to keep her balance.
JJ laughed "Screw this" He picked her up, and started walking out of the cave.
Kiara giggled, and when they got to the end of the cave, the sunlight was so overwhelming, they both closed their eyes for a long time.
~
He had been walking with Kie in his arms for the past 20 minutes, but somehow his arms were not tired.
Kiara and JJ had been debating wether or not they wanted to stay on this island, and how they could get out. "If I go home, my parents will definitely send me to wilderness camp." She had said. "I don't have a home to begin with" JJ had laughed back.
As they got closer, he put her down, and they stoped talking. They both knew the guy who had kidnapped Kiara was still around, looking for the others.
"How are we going to find the others while avoiding creepo dude?" JJ whispered, half to himself
"We'll figure it out" Kiara whispered back, smiling.
JJ ducked and grabbed Kie's arm to duck with him when they saw a figure running in the distance.
Kie shot him a death glance, and he made a face to show her he was sorry.
"That hurt!" She mouthed dramatically.
JJ almost immediately loosened his grip on her arm, and started rubbing his thumb on it. Kiara wanted to think, what could they do next? But JJ's thumb was very distracting as it gave her the same feeling she had earlier.
"He's alone for now, meaning the others have not been taken yet" She managed to say
JJ nodded, and let go of her arm. "I'm going to go this way, you go that way. If anything goes wrong, yell or something." He whispered.
Kiara nodded before realising "No. You're going in that dude's direction, you might get taken too"
"Exactly, you go find the others while I follow him, making sure he gets no one. and if he does, I'll be right behind him, and it'l be 2 against 1." He stated. "Don't worry, I'll hide behind him and try not to do anything stupid" JJ added when he saw Kie's worried eyes.
They then got separated.
Kie felt a stab of disappointment in her chest, as she loved JJ's company. She shook her head, she needed to find the others.
