Unforgiving Sea COMPLETED

Chapter 17. Noah

"Kyle, is it you?" Kat had began interrogating Al and Kyle. Poor guys, pressured by her like that. Noah yawned.
"I'm off."
Kat grabbed Noah's wrist. "Not yet. I am going to find which it is." Noah's eyes widened and he nodded quickly. "Good." Kat let go of his wrist.
The cactus had sprouted again. "Al?" Al shook his head. The plant fell and sprouted.
"Al, your gay?"
"N-n-no."
"Is it you, Kyle?" Kyle did the same thing as Al. The plant fell. "What does that mean?!" She swiveled to face Al. "Tell me!"
"I-it means that whoever answered is lying."
"And it fell for both if you." Noah could practically hear Kyle and Al's gulps. Al nodded. "So... you're both lying." Al nodded. Kat smiled. "Consider it match made!" And with that, she went to the grotto and crashed.
Al and Kyle were looking at each other in awe.
"Me?" Kyle nodded.
"Me?" Al nodded. Kyle's eyes widened. "I am going to die. How long?"
"S-since a week ago. Since when?"
"Thirteen." Al's eyes widened now.
"Ok.... imma go..." Noah edged out the door. He went to the grotto.
Kat was propped up on one elbow staring at him. "What?"
"Nothing." She looked away and swiped at her eyes. She looked back to Noah and forced a smile. She patted Noah's sleeping bag. "Come here." Noah laid down beside her. He yawned.
"Are you ok?"
"Yeah. Why would I not be ok. I'm fine. Totally ok."
"Kat, you're a terrible liar."
"Well, they just remind me of- nevermind. It's not important."
"Of who?"
"Justin and Alex."
"Oh." Kat's brothers. They were twins and were always joking. Kat loved them to death, but they left for college. Alex graduated and went to the military. He died last year. Justin started a candy shop, which was robbed and Justin was shot and ended up paralyzed. Kat didn't have the best home life. She usually stayed with Noah or Kyle.
"Like I said-"
"You should talk about them more often."
"No." Kat, then, socially shut off. She laid her head down on her pillow and face away from Noah, pretending to sleep. Noah sighed. He put an arm around her and pulled her closer to him. He felt her shoulders shake as she started to cry. She turned to Noah and buried her face in his chest.
"I love you, you know that?" Kat nodded, still crying. "Good." Noah kissed her head and laid his head down. Noah fell asleep way before Kat.

Noah awoke to Kat sneezing. "Sorry," she muttered, then fell asleep. Kat had bags under her eyes, which were puffy from crying. He cheeks were pink and she looked kinda sick. Noah got up. He put his blanket over Kat to cover her shoulders. She was shivering.
Noah shook her. She cracked her left eye open. "Hm..."
"Are you ok?" Her teeth started chattering. She shook her head. "Kyle!" Kyle and Al ran over. Kyle looked like Kat, only he didn't look sick. Just tired. "Uh, did you sleep at all?" Kyle yawned and shook his head. "Ok... make the air around Kat warm and Al, grow some kind of plant that's good for sicknesses." They did so. Kyle stumbled. Al wrapped his arms around him as Kyle passed out.
"Right. I'm just gonna take him to the hammocks so he doesn't catch anything..." Al stumbled off, Kyle in his arms.
Noah sat down at the edge of the grotto.

"Noah!" Kyle shook him.
Noah opened his eyes. His head was resting on his knees and his arm hung limply by his sides. "Yeah?"
"Kat. Is. Gone." Noah jerked his head up.
"WHAT?!" Kyle smiled.
"Just kidding." Noah glared at Kyle. "She's worse." Noah stumbled over to Kat and Al.
"Don't!" Kyle grabbed Noah's arm. "Al touched her and he's caught it." Noah pulled his arm back. "She has welps on her skin now. And her skin is turning pale. Like paler, which I didnt think was possible. "
Noah sat down. "Ughhh... how are we gonna fix it?"
"We can't. " Kyle's voice broke. Noah patted his shoulder
"But we can..." Noah and Kyle turned at the voice. It was a distant and deep voice. A girl and four guys stood behind them. The girl looked about twenty. She had bright yellow hair and pink eyes. Her eyes were surrounded in black. She wore a black tshirt and pink Jean's. The guys on her right had black and blue hair. One was wearing a yellow shirt and the other was wearing a green shirt. They both had on white jeans. The left guys both had pink hair. One had a black shirt and the other had a purple shirt. They both had black jeans.
"Who are you?"
"I am Lyla, Jakuxian queen. These are my brothers, Zac, Jon, Jay, and Ken, Jakixian Kings."
"How can you help?"
"Herbs. But we only have time for the girl before she dies. The boy may be able to wait." Noah gasped. Kyle made a weird sound.
"May?!" He sounded like he was about to cry. He looked like he was about to strangle Lyla.
"Yes. May. Get to work!" Zac and Ken, the boys with pink hair, started to feed the herbs to Kat. Zac pintched her nose and Ken put the herbs in her mouth. He held her mouth open. Jon waved his hands around and the air started to do weird things. Kyle sat and pulled Noah down with him. He put his face in his hands. Noah kept watching, but they were taking hours. Noah and Kyle ended up using each other for pillows as they slept during the procedure. Noah didnt really trust Lyla and her crew, so he told Kyle that they could sleep one at a time.