Boney Island's Secret

Week 1, day 6+7 mountains

Pov change: bold
Thoughts: (encircled and bold)
Flashback: bold and italics

                   Mal pov
When he woke up he felt something snuggling up against him, he looked down and saw Zoey. (Why is she in my sleeping bag, oh wait last night she asked if she could sleep with me) he placed his hand on Zoey's forehead and noticed that Zoey wasn't running a temperature. (Funny I'd thought she'd be sick, but she doesn't feel like she has a fever or cold, then why was she freezing last night, in fact her lips are still a little blue) he cupped Zoey's chin in his hand and rubbed his thumb over her lips.
                    Mike pov
"What does Mal think he's doing?" He asked.
"Well he's either planning to kiss her or just warm Zoey up." Vito answered.
"Zoey's lips are rather blue." Svetlana commented.
"Don't we have other things to worry about than Mal keeping Zoey from turning into a popsicle?" Chester asked.
"Yeah, we're lost." Vito replied.
"Mike you shouldn't worry about Mal and Zoey, and Vito's right Chester, we're lost." Manitoba said.
"Fine." Chester grumbled, while he just nodded his head.
"I get to lead." Vito said, then started to walk ahead of everyone else.
"Shouldn't we talk about what happened yesterday?" Svetlana asked, as they walked.
"Why, Mal explained it to Zoey." Vito said.
"Yes, but why?" Svetlana asked, confused.
"Svetlana as far as this show is concerned, Chris will do almost anything to get the ratings and views he wants." He said. (I won't tell them I'm getting this feeling that I think something else is going on)
                     Zoey pov
The first thing she noticed when she woke up was that she wasn't as cold as before, and second was that she felt a thumb rubbing against her bottom lip. When she opened her eyes she saw Mal and she realized that it was his thumb on her bottom lip, neither of them said anything because neither of them knew what to say. She eventually got nervous and went to lick her bottom lip but she forgot that Mal's thumb was there, so she ended up licking the top of Mal's thumb, she blushed and Mal quickly pulled his hand away.
"Sorry." She whispered.
"It's fine." Mal whispered back.
"Mal?" She asked.
"Yeah." Mal said.
"Can I sleep with you again...... tonight?" She asked, her blush growing, Mal looked at her in shock then he smirked.
"Is that what you want?" Mal asked, his voice was deeper than normal, she paused for a minute then nodded her head.
"Then you can sleep with me." Mal said.
"Thanks." She whispered, Mal only nodded his head and since neither of them were talking she decided to watch Mal, suddenly she realized something. (He's handsome, I mean not that Mike isn't handsome..... but Mike seems to be more cute, it probably has something to do with his personality, Mike is really gentle and sweet, I guess you could attribute those traits to being cute. While Mal radiates chaos and possible destruction, I guess a more dangerous traits could be more appealing. It helps Mal's case that his voice is deeper and the day before yesterday while he held my chin, his hold while strong and firm, it was also gentle)
            Third person pov
"What are you doing?" Zoey heard Mal ask, Zoey was confused until she realized that while she was thinking, one of her hands slipped under Mal's shirt and had lifted the shirt just enough to see the just barely there abs. Zoey also noticed that sometime during the night Mal's jeans had slipped down just enough to where Zoey could see his v-line. Zoey blushed and ripped her hand away from under Mal's shirt like she been burned.
"See something you like?" Mal asked, teasingly.
"Let's just go." Zoey mumbled, Mal smirked and unzipped the sleeping bag, when they got outside they made their way to the mountains, around noon Zoey stopped walking.
"Mal can we stop for a minute?" Zoey asked.
"Why?" Mal asked, still walking but stopped when he saw the look of pain on Zoey's face.
"What's wrong?" Mal asked, and he would deny it later that he was concerned. Zoey sat down on a rock and looked at her right leg, she touched it and winced.
"My leg, it feels like I broke it." Zoey answered, Mal frowned and knelt down next to Zoey, Mal placed his hands on Zoey's leg but despite the fact that Mal was being gentle Zoey still whimpered in pain.
"You couldn't have broken your leg..... your leg isn't even swollen." Mal said, looking at Zoey's leg in confusion.
"Well, what do you suggest?" Zoey asked.
"We'll wait a few minutes, see if the pain goes away." Mal said, sitting down next to Zoey, not long after that Zoey cried out in pain. Instead of saying anything Mal pulled up the leggings on Zoey's right leg to see what was wrong, and he found nothing. Zoey's leg was perfectly fine, it wasn't swollen, anything that would indicate a broken leg wasn't there, so Mal pulled the legging back down and sighed. Mal wasn't a doctor and he never played doctor because the only person he cared about was himself.... until Mal met Zoey, that is. Mal couldn't deny that he was starting to care about Zoey, not that he would admit it. A few minutes later Zoey stood up which confused Mal, Zoey saw the confused look and smiled.
"My leg doesn't hurt anymore." Zoey answered, the silent question.
"And here I thought I would have to carry you back to the cave." Mal replied, smirking which made Zoey blush.
"Are you ready to continue?" Mal asked, Zoey nodded her head and they continued their search, fortunately or unfortunately depending on how you looked at it, they didn't find anything and like last night Zoey and Mal shared the same sleeping bag.
                    Mike pov
"Vito we're lost." He said.
"No we're not." Vito denied.
"Vito just admit it we're lost." Svetlana said.
"We are not lost." Vito replied.
"How about a deal Vito, if you haven't found the tower by tomorrow I'm going to lead." Manitoba said.
"Deal." Vito replied.
"Should we discuss what happened yesterday?" Svetlana asked.
"Why, nothing happened?" Chester asked.
"Well there was I guess you could call it a phantom pain Zoey felt in the afternoon, then in the morning Zoey tried to undress Mal." Vito commented.
"Zoey wasn't trying to undress Mal." He said.
"Mike, we know you're not dumb...... she was undressing him." Vito replied, bluntly.
"I don't think she was meaning to." Svetlana said.
"Does that make it any better?" Vito asked.
"It probably doesn't, but it makes me feel better." He replied.
"Don't worry Mike, nothing will happen." Svetlana said.
"What about Zoey's phantom pain or whatever that was?" Manitoba asked.
"I don't think we'll be able to explain that." Svetlana replied.
"There's a lot of things we're not able to explain." He said.
                    Mal pov
He woke up to a very sharp pain in his left arm, he looked down at his arm to see what was wrong and found nothing. (If this is anything like what happened to Zoey yesterday then the pain should go away in a few minutes) a few minutes later the pain disappeared, he sighed in relief and moved his arm to see if there was any lingering pain, he sighed in relief again when there wasn't any lingering pain. At that point he realized that something was cuddling up against him, he looked down and saw that it was Zoey. (It could be just me but the further we get in this challenge the later Zoey sleeps in. It probably has something to do with the fact that we keep finding fake skeletons of the other contestants, it's probably stressing her out. Speaking of skeletons other than Fang and what's left of the 'Fun Zone' I don't think we've seen any other remains of the animals that lived on this island.....wonder where they went)
"Mal, you alright?" He snapped out of his thoughts and realized that while he was thinking Zoey had woken up, and now she was looking at him concerned, at least from the worried look on her face told him Zoey was concerned.
"I'm alright." He reassured her, Zoey nodded her head with a small smile, then laid her head back on his chest. (Why am I letting her do this, I don't let anyone hug me and I definitely don't hug anyone... so why am I letting Zoey hug me and why is my heart beating faster than normal)
                   Zoey pov
When she woke up she realized that she was cuddling up against Mal, then realized that Mal was staring at her.....yet at the same time wasn't, which concerned her.
"Mal, you alright?" She asked him, when Mal answered he reassured her that he was alright, she nodded her head and gave Mal a small smile before laying her head back on his chest. (Why am I cuddling him, I should be cuddling Mike.... but for some reason now that I think about it, it seems more natural for me to be cuddling Mal than the idea of Mike and I cuddling. Speaking of natural, it's not natural that we haven't found any animals, well other than the remains of Fang and the 'Fun Zone')
We better start searching the rest of the mountains." She snapped out of her thoughts and realized that Mal had unzipped the sleeping bag and was now waiting for her to let go of him. She nodded her head and got out of the sleeping bag with Mal following after her.
            Third person pov
As they searched the rest of the mountains they hadn't found anything except for Beth's glasses, but no sign of a fake skeleton and neither one of them knew if that was a good thing or bad thing.
"We haven't found anything except for those glasses." Zoey said, when it got around noon.
"Yeah, but forget about whatever it is we have to find, I'm more concerned about the lack of animals....dead or alive." Mal replied.
"I'm worried about that too, where could they have gone?" Zoey asked, Mal just shrugged his shoulders indicating he didn't know. They continued their search but by the time they finished searching the rest of the mountains they hadn't found anything, since it was getting dark they went back to their cave. Once there Mal grabbed Zoey's hand and led her to his sleeping bag, Zoey looked at Mal in confusion and Mal rolled his eyes.
"I just don't want to hear you ask me if you could sleep with me, so we'll be sharing a sleeping bag for the rest of our stay here." Mal said, and got into the sleeping bag, Zoey chuckled and got into the sleeping bag. A couple hours later Zoey was still awake, she knew the reason but she was worried about Mal's reaction.
"Why aren't you asleep?" Mal asked, Zoey blushed and looked at Mal apologetically.
"Did I wake you?" Zoey asked, instead of answering Mal's question.
"No, I wasn't even asleep yet but you tend to fall asleep as soon as we get into the sleeping bag, so what's keeping you awake?" Mal asked.
"I'm freezing." Zoey whispered, but she knew Mal heard her.
"So that's why you're acting like a boa constrictor." Mal commented.
"Sorry." Zoey apologized and loosened her grip.
"What do you need me to do?" Mal asked, then smirked when Zoey blushed and tugged on his shirt, he took his shirt off and was about to hand it to Zoey when she quickly wrapped her arms around him and laid her head on his chest. Mal was going to tease Zoey about her only wanting to see him shirtless, until Zoey hugged him and Mal could actually feel her body temperature. Zoey was actually freezing, to Mal it felt like someone put Zoey in a freezer and left her there for a day. So Mal just sighed, put his shirt down and rubbed Zoey's back and arms until she relaxed and fell asleep, not long after Zoey fell asleep Mal did too.