Capewood (Book I) *Completed*

Julian

There's been a noticeable tension between Katherine and Alicia. Granted, I would have killed her if she slammed the door in my face when I needed safety I would probably want to kill her too. This game has shown me a lot about the human mindset and how it works.

One of them being: Girls are still a mystery.

I've felt like I was in some weird dream. I wouldn't quite call it a nightmare because Autumn is here, but it definitely hasn't been a good dream. I don't know if I would have been able to get through this had it not been for her here. She started off as just another hot girl that I met, but she's become so much more over the course of this "game."

Katherine and Alicia have been sleeping for a long time now. Autumn lays on my lap just looking at the ceiling. "I wish we could see the stars," she says softly. "I've always found something about the stars so romantic. So many ancient cultures and people based their mythology off of them. That's pretty epic."

Her eyes light up when she talks about the stars. There's a fire that she gets in her when she talks about things she's passionate about. She sits there and becomes this little ball of excitement, and the changes in her face when I watch her makes me smile. I wish I had something in my life that made me that passionate.

Maybe she could.

"Can I tell you something?" she asks me.

"You can tell me anything," I say bending down and placing a kiss on her forehead.

"I've been so grateful for you over our time in this game. You've given me a foundation to stand on when I didn't think I had anything to help balance me, and I will always remember that. I'm-" She gets cut off as tears start to well up in her eyes. "I'm so scared of losing you," she barely manages to choke out. "I know this sounds so cheesy, but I don't think I could go on with life as normal if you died."

She wraps her arms around my neck and straddles me. We begin to kiss, but then I remember that there are two other people in the same general area and we stop. She pulls away from the kiss but continues to hug me as she places her face into the crook of my neck. I wrap my arms around her waist and give her a light squeeze, and we sit like this.

I wish I could freeze this moment forever.

"I want this plan we have to work," she says with a frown. "I don't even know what the plan is exactly, but I'm hoping that staircase is the answer to all of our problems. If we could both get out then maybe we could be together on the outside."

"We would be together on the outside," I say with a cheesy grin. "You think a game of life or death could break this apart?" We both laugh, and she looks at me with concern. I can tell she's wanting to say something but is not exactly comfortable saying so.

"What is it?" I ask her. I try to mask the worry in my voice, but I'm not very good at hiding what I'm feeling.

"Have you...uhm," she begins to talk, but stops trying to find the words.

"Have I ever what?" I ask

"Have you ever been with a girl before, Jules?" she asks me. She turns a deep shade of red, and I can tell she didn't want to ask, curiosity just got the better of her. I was dreading the day that this conversation would happen to come up.

"Yes," I whisper. "I have been,"

She looks down, and I can tell she's trying not to frown. I don't know why, and I sure as hell wouldn't tell her this, but I thought that she had been with someone before. At my school its just kind of something that everyone does. It was never a taboo topic.

"How many?" she asks.

"Two," I say to her honestly. "They were both very serious relationships too. They lasted a long time."