Disclaimer any products or companies such as sonic or Walmart I do not own. Also, this is a work of FICTION so it will not be accurate with today's days or history time frame. Also, this is my story I and I alone have copyright right so do NOT copy this or write something extremely close the same. I have been working on this story since I was 16 so no one take it from me. also these characters are mine and mine alone.

Sapph! come on! no one is going to steal you story because they cant steal me. Now come on and get typing! -Evie

Alright I will , don't get your tail in a knot. - Sapphire

Well, can you hurry it up I wanna get to see Leo at some point! - Evie

Shhhh!! Are you trying to ruin your story! Go back to him and I will get to you when I can. -Sapphire

Okay fine, goodbye you lovelies until next time! -Evie

Finally! Now, where was I? Oh, yea! -Sapphire

Prelude:

"Adam!! I am NOT sharing a tent with him! He's your best friend, why can't you do it?" Jasey asked her older brother. She was looking at him like he was insane; it had been his idea to have this camping trip since she hadn't seen him or his friend, Derek, in the 4 years. Actually, since they had run away. Then out of the blue on her 18th birthday, they showed up at her door, as if they had just gone to the grocery store or something. Now it was a month later, since they had shown back up in her life, but had still refused to be alone in a room with Derek, scared that she might break down and cry or that she would kill him for leaving her.

"Come on Jay, please? We only have one tent that is big enough for two and the other one is barely big enough for me and it's my old one from when we would go on those trips with Grams' and the other one is the one that you and Grams would use. So since I'm keeping mine, you're going to have to share with him." He could tell that she knew that wasn't the only reason he was practically forcing her to sleep in the same tent with Derek, so he tried a different way, one that would hopefully work on her compassionate side that he knew was a big part of her.

"Okay Jay you got me, I could easily give you the smaller tent and us 'men' as you seem to think, take the larger one, but I'm not going to do that, and I know that you already know why don't you? Jay if you won't talk to him then I'll talk to him for you, at least on the parts that are the same thing that happened between the both of us, but, sis, you have to give him a chance, because we didn't know what was happening to us. The reason we left was that we had no idea how to cope with what was happening to our bodies, we went through some kind of change, and that's hard for me to explain. But we found a camp that helped us, and once we got everything that we could under control we had to come back and see you. It was serious pain being without our light, without our happiness. We missed you and we just can't live without you." He told her some of the truth, but not all of it, and he knew that she could tell as much.

She knew he was keeping something from her but it didn't seem like it was all that important to what she figured he was trying to tell her without being so obvious about it, he knew that she had always had a crush on Derek. He was the only one other than Grams that knew about it, and she had never told anyone about it. Thinking back to the two days before they had run away; she had felt like there was something they were keeping from her but, she didn't pay attention to it because they were having so much fun at the lake that she ignored it. She remembered that she had let Derek throw her multiple times into the lake and they grilled chicken skewers and laughed and danced and just had fun. The one thing she knew would stay with her forever was that night, when Derek said he wanted to go for a walk with her, she remembered feeling so giddy like a child on Christmas morning, she knew that with her being 14, her brother wouldn't let them date even though the both of them were just 3 years older than her. But the one thing that never made sense was when Derek was walking with her through the woods, by the lake and he stopped all of a sudden and said that he never wanted to leave her because she was pure happiness that she was a bright light in the darkness of the world. Even when he and her brother would do something stupid, or would play jokes on her, she would be mad at them for a minute top, and then she would burst out laughing with them. She, unlike other siblings that were annoying and you never wanted around, was the best friend or the one you know that you could live forever with.

When he said that she was confused, trying to figure out what he meant by it, but when they ran away she told herself that he had lied to her. And now that they were back, and with what her brother had just told her she could kind of see what he had been trying to tell her all that time ago and she could see the double meaning behind her brother's words clearly. She knew Adam was right, but she wasn't about to admit it to him, she thought he was stubborn enough as he was. She made a mental note to herself that she would talk to Derek on the trip, but hopefully not before it if she could avoid it.

"Fine!, I'll do it, but you had better make him believe that he's sharing a tent with you so that way I can cope with it better, and he had better not say anything about my sleep talking. Then I'll do it." She said with a shrug not really all that excited about it, but glad that she could turn the tent into a two-bedroom tent. Although she had to laugh at Adam when he pumped his fist into the air and screamed "Yes!!" He thanked her then kissed her forehead, and promised that she wouldn't regret it and that he would take her shopping for some food and more clothes to take on the trip since they didn't know how long they would be camping and that he would make a list of things she would most likely need.

A couple of hours later she was in her room packing and sorting through her shirts when she heard a knock on her door. "It's unlocked!" she yelled, "Come on in." She heard the door open and thinking it was her brother she asked, "Should I take long-sleeves or short-sleeves? Cause you never really were specific when you just wrote down 'shirts'; oh and do you happen to know what the weather will be like?" not bothering to look up from what she was doing at all.

"Well, I believe it calls for a hundred percent chance of 'I'm so sorry I left' sentences." Answered a masculine voice that she recognized all too well. Still refusing to turn around and face him.

"Really? What would the sky have to be sorry for, Derek?" she replied. When she got the courage to finally look at him, she turned and repeated herself. Since she had been ignoring him for a month she finally got to look at him, and see how much he had changed. His eyes were still a warm and soft honey-brown, but they seemed edgier now. His natural bronzed skin was now a couple of shades darker like he spent most of his time outside in the sun, his hair was longer than he usually had it but it was still his same haircut. His usual clean-shaven face was prickled with dark facial hair, almost the color of his dark brownish-black hair. He was a lot taller than she remembered him being, and it was obvious that he had been working out because she could tell his muscles were more filled out than they used to be. When she gathered enough inner strength to look into his eyes she felt her stomach do a funny little flip and the emotions she saw there, although her gaze never wavered from his, the emotions she saw in his eyes; she was too scared to name them.