Chapter Four

He held me all throughout the night. Our bodies fit perfectly together. His skin was warm up against mine, and all felt right in the world. Alone or not, we had each other. And that was enough for me.

I woke up before him. Hoping I could sneak away and find some fruit or something so that we could enjoy breakfast together.

“Where do you think you’re going?” 13 said to me.

“I wanted to go out and find us some breakfast.”

“I’m not ready to let go of you yet. Five more minutes.”

So I stayed and he held me for a little while longer. Not a lot of things made sense to me when it came to emotions or feelings. But him and I made sense.

I remember watching the shows The original watched as part of our mandatory daily routines and some of them spoke of love. There were lips touching, and hand holding, and people wrapping their arms around each other in some sort of embrace and I never understood it. If they didn’t teach it we didn’t learn it. What was love? Was that what I was starting to feel towards 13? My mind just wandered for those few minutes.

“I believe your time is up 13.” I said to him.

“How about five more minutes?” He said back to me.

“If we don’t get up now we will never get up.”

“Would that be such a bad thing?”

“No, but we should start our day. We can do this whenever we want now. It’s just you and me.”

“I like the sound of that.” He said and he got up with me.

I wandered off to try and find some fruit. It was a nice day, hot and humid, but nice. I stumbled across the waterfall and the little stream and figured it might be a good idea to get clean. I hadn’t showered since we escaped. I put my stuff down and undressed, rinsing my clothes off in the water first.

The water felt amazing. It wasn’t too hot or cold and I decided I was going to stay here for a little while.

*13’s POV*

“What is taking her so long?” I said to myself and with that I got up to go and find her.

“The island isn’t large and making your way around or through it hardly takes any time at all.” I said to myself again growing a little more concerned as I stepped through the trees. That’s when I saw her, naked, standing under the waterfall. She was beautiful, I always thought so.

I decided not to creep around and make my presence known. I stepped out from the trees and she looked over her shoulder at me and smiled. God, that smile. I couldn’t even tell you what it does to me because I don’t understand it myself. I had to be near her.

Without even thinking twice I went into the water and walked up to her.

“Why are you still wearing your clothes silly?” She said to me tugging at my clothes.

“I honestly wasn’t thinking. I just had to be close to you.” I said brushing my hand across her face as she bit her lip and looked away. “You’re stunning.”

“Take off your clothes and get clean with me. I doubt you have had a chance to since we escaped either.” She said to me and she was right.

I did as she asked and I couldn’t help but to notice how she was eyeing up my body and taking everything in.

*Back to 216’s POV*

He was pure perfection. I couldn’t take my eyes off of him but I also didn’t want him to know I was staring so I tried to focus on my main objective and that was cleaning myself.

When we were done we got out and got dressed in our damp clothing and made our way back to our shelter together. Myself completely forgetting what I even went out for in the first place. All I could think about was him and his body and how he looked standing under the water. I wonder if he was thinking about me too.

“You’re pretty good looking yourself, you know.” I said to him.

“I don’t compare to you. Not even in the slightest.” He said walking back over to me and holding my face in his hands.

“You’ve got to stop doing that.” I said, biting my lip and looking up to him meeting his eyes.

“Doing what?”

“Touching my face like that… It makes my stomach feel so funny.”

“You don’t like it?” He asked, seeming genuinely concerned.

“I didn’t say that…” he cut me off, grabbing my face again and making me look at him.

“I want to try something if that’s okay with you.” He said.

“Okay.” I replied and in that moment his lips met mine.