Not So Insane After All

Chapter fifteen (Mark)

Me and dan went to chop wood in the morning we walked and talked. But he soon brought up chloe.

"So are you going to kiss chloe?" i was surprised at his question.

"Um i don't know, why?" i asked

"Well it's obvious that you like her and she likes you."

"Well yeah but what about jack?"

"He'll be ok."

"Well what about you and phil? You gonna kiss him?" i asked trying to change the subject.

"Already did" he said to me i was shocked.

"When? He's only been here a day!"

"Well i did it last night after wanting to do it for five years, it was kinda the best moment." he said kind of shyly

"Well i can just go up to her and kiss her!"

"Yes you can! Just do it." he said all of a sudden i had the motivation to do it. I grabbed my wood and aex and ran. I don't think he realized i did so. I got to the camp set my stuff down.

"Chloe" i walked up to her and started to confess "chloe. I really like you... and i couldn't find a way to say it to you before, so i just didn't but um-" she cut me off by putting her hand to my mouth. Once she moved it away i leaned in and kissed her. I don't really remember what happened after that but we just kissed and kissed. Then i heard dan, phil, and jack all talking. Then they left, i broke the kiss.

"Um, well then" she said after. "That was nice."

"Yeah it was... wait was that your first kiss?" i asked thinking about it since she's spent over half of her life in the asylum, and her the only boy she ever talked to was jack, or the garudas.

"Oh! Yeah i guess it was. Huh." she said as she started to laugh i just stared at her. Realizing that she has missed so much in life being stuck in that place.

"Well the first wanted one, at least." she said as her eyes went sad.

"What do you mean?" i asked as she stared at the fire.

"You don't know what happened? About zeke?" she asked me confused. Was i supposed to know?

"No i don't! What happened? Am i supposed to know?"

"Oh well... it was about a year ago, it was testing day and i got stuck with zeke. We never really talked up to this point. An occasional 'get in your sells' or 'time to take your pills' kind of thing. So once it was my turn- i was the last one called for some reason- i went in to find zeke sitting on the small metal bed waiting for me. "Come in!" he said as he hopped off and patted the bed i walked over and sat down. So he did my basic vitals and my sanity test. Then he got close and he had this- this smile on his face..." she started to softly cry. "Well he did things to me and i'm not happy about it. It's been hard to even look at him without wanting to throw up." she paused for a second. "Let's stop talking about this, ok?" she asked me

"Of course." we sat in silence for the next little while until jack, and, and phil came back and sat down. Jack didn't seem bothered at all by us. But instead took it all as joke. We laughed until jack said goodnight and went into our tent and to bed. The two lovebirds went to bed as well. I was off to bed as well until chloe grabbed my arm.

"Hey, why don't you just stay in my tent? It would be nice to have someone else and not be alone." she asked with huge puppy dog eyes. I couldn't say no.

"Yeah of course." i said as chloe stood up and walked to the tent. She asked me to stay outside and wait for her to get changed. I waited for about 30 seconds- wow she changed quick- then in walked into the tent. We laid down side by side with her in my arms. It felt nice. I haven't had a girlfriend since high school. As we laid there i leaned down to give her a kiss on the forehead, but she leaned up and kissed me. I gave in to the kiss. It soon got more heated and passionate. As our lips seemed to move perfectly in senc i climbed on top of her. I could feel her blushing. She moved her hands through my hair. She pulled away and gave me- telling me enough- one last short but sweet kiss. I moved off of her, and she crawled on my body and set her head on my chest. I got the guts to ask,

"Chloe? Will you be my girlfriend?" she sat for a few seconds obviously thinking.

"Yes" and with that and a dumb-boy-in love smile i fell into deep slumber.