Song: Sweet little lies by Bulow

"I so need a shower." I tell him as I walk into the cabin.

The cabin is just as warm inside as it is outside. It's that time of year where it's just warm but the humidity is yucky causing your skin to me all sticky and your hair...haywire. We go around and rise up all the windows to let what little air will come in taking out some of the stale air. I also turn on a few of the ceiling fans. I hate being sweaty...I mean seriously if I don't have to get hot...I don't.

In my apartment I would always keep it around sixty-eight. It's not too cold but for sure not hot. Kade doesn't say anything about the temperature and it makes me wonder if he ever gets freaking hot because he didn't even break a sweat really.

"So take a shower." He says as he walks into the kitchen to get himself a drink.

"I don't think there are any towels." I start to tell him but then he points over to the hall closet. I walk over and open it up and to my surprise there are several towels rolled up and put away nicely. I take one out and head to the bathroom.

I peel off my jeans along with my panties, then my shirt and bra, tossing them on the floor. I start the shower and try not to pay attention too much to all the moldy stuff that has a ring around it and the rust that I noticed earlier. The water is at the right temperature, so I step in and let the water beat down on my body.

 "Ahhhh! God that feels good." I wash my body with the little bar soap and then my hair; however they don't have any shampoo, so I assume the renters must provide that. Either way...the water feels amazing and my skin soaks up all the wetness. When I step out I dry off and then wrap the towel around my body.

 I head out of the room, back to the bedroom where my backpack is and I pull out a few clothing items. As I am getting dressed I hear a grunt and then him clearing his throat.I jump around and the freaking towel falls to the floor; I hurriedly scramble it back in my hands and pull it back around me.

"What the hell...Kade close your eyes."

"It's not like I haven't see a naked girl before you know."

I roll my eyes at him. "Still...you haven't seen me...turn around....PLEASE!" I wait for him to turn around.

He starts to turn around slowly. "Seriously...Sophie...I have seen plenty of girls and they are all the same."

I rush to put on my spandex shorts and a baggy t-shirt. "Ok...you can look now."

"You know we are going to be here a while...you might as well get use to me catching a glimpse of you."

"Kade..."

"What...I'm just saying. You should not be ashamed of your body...you are one pretty lady."

I slap him against his arm while rolling my eyes at him. Then I head back to the kitchen where the fish sit in the sink waiting to be cleaned and filleted. Luckily I know how to do this. I grab one fish and place him on the counter and start gutting him out. Yes it's gross but it has to be done if we plan on eating it.

"How did you know how to do that?" Kade looks at me with a smirk.

"This...my dad use to clean fish. But I think I might have seen it on one of those cooking shows you know...it's really not that hard you want to try?"

He shakes his head and starts laughing. "Looks like you got it."

"Do I have to do everything...I mean hell I caught most of the fish and now cleaning them...I assume you want me to cook them too...hell might as well eat them all too."

"Wait now...I don't mind the eating part."

I smirk back at him. "I'm sure you don't."I cook the fish and then we sit down at the small table and eat all five of them.

"God you are amazing you know that?"

"Why....because I know how to clean a fish and cook too."

He nods his head and then he takes another forkful of the fish.

"Well...I would hate to know that is the only reason that I am amazing."

"Oh...I'm sure that I will come up with a hundred more reasons." He clears the plate and then empties the bones into the trash.

"Just a hundred....darn."

"Yeah...don't push it sweetheart." He picks up the candle...and holds his hand out for me. "Well are you ready to go to sleep."

"Not really but I don't think I really have an option do I?"

He shakes his hand and waits for me. I follow him into the bedroom and he sits the candle on the small bedside table and waits for me to climb in and then he blows the candles out. Guess what I forget to take my meds...and I am up all night tossing and turning and even though there is a cool breeze coming in the window all I feel clammy and the sounds of the crickets should put me to sleep but the constant noise is driving me crazy. I don't know how long I can do this for.

Another night waiting on my eyes to adjust to the darkness and then counting the stupid spots on the ceiling. I look over and he is out cold...snoring and that too annoys the hell out of me. After laying here what seemed to me like forever I get up.I make sure that the floor doesn't creek to much under my feet. I make my way to the front door and then I step outside to let the full nights breeze cover my body. I sit down on the porch swing and let the night consume me.

"You can leave...he would never know...you know?" Says Emily on the other end of the porch swing.

"And go where...Em...besides it's not that bad...I think I like it here. Well if it was a little cooler...or maybe if those freaking crickets would shut the hell up."

"I told you....she would like him." Ava sits in the rocking chair across from us.

I roll my eyes.

"Girl...don't you roll your eyes at me...I knew the moment I saw him that you would fall for him."

"I'm not falling for him...it's...it's...just that he seems nice."

"He kidnapped your ass...that is not nice. No normal guy is just going to jump in your car and make you drive with a knife at your throat."

"He did not have it at my throat."

"Well...he might as well have. Sophie...you need to go home now. He will understand."

I shake my head again. "No...I don't think I can...besides the car is over a mile away and he has the keys so..."

"So what...walk? Isn't that what he said earlier...you have two feet...get your ass up and leave."

"I know you think it is that simple but it's not...Em...please just let this play out."

"Yeah...Em...let the girl live a little."

Emily glares at Ava... "Easy for you to say...she forgot to take her meds..you know what that means...we both know what that means."

"Guys...I will be fine...you will see. I never needed them anyway."

"Yeah...sure...you tell yourself that. He will see the true you and then you think he will stick around...nope just like all the rest. He will look at you and think you have lost it...just wait its coming."

I run my hand through my hair and tuck it behind my ear. The two of them together causes me enough anxiety. "He knows about my condition."

"Yeah...I'm sure he knows...but does he really know what is going to happen when you stop taking it?"

"Guys...I will be fine do you mind."

"Do I mind what?" His voice comes through the screen door scaring the crap out of me.

"Shit...you scared the hell out of me."

"What are you doing out here?" He opens the screen door and steps out onto the porch. He stretches and then sits down beside me on the swing. Emily is gone...well sort of.

"I couldn't sleep...how you just do it like it's nothing. It's so freaking warm up in there."

"I close my eyes and then I just drift off to sleep." He smiles. A few seconds later he shivers and I start to laugh. "So who were you talking to?"

"Myself." I tell him. I see the look in his eyes and he already knows. "Ok...look...I told you before that I talk to myself...and I do...but..."

"But...you really hear voices don't you?"

I nod my head. "Yes...and I see them too."

"The ones talking to you?"

I nod my head again. "Emily and Ava have been with me from the beginning. I don't know how it all happened, it just did and even when I take my meds they are still there."

"So then why are you on meds if it doesn't work?"

"Because without it the other voices come...the ones who get me to do bad things. Or even Ava she gets angry over little things. Once when I first started driving she jerked the steering wheel from my hands and caused me to wreck. When the paramedics came I kept telling them about her and they looked at me like I was crazy...I was the only one in the car."

"That's got to be scary...my dad killed himself in front of all of us when I was sixteen. I will never forget him standing there on the edge of the cliff. He was talking out loud but no one was there. He kept saying everything was going to be alright..." he pauses for a second and then looks back at me. "Then he just turned and jumped. My mom kept screaming but it was too late. At the funeral, I heard people talking about how he was not right in the head...never was. I thought about all the times growing up and how he would be just talking out loud the way you do...and maybe he had the same thing you know."

"Maybe...he was never diagnosed?"

"I don't know; my mom never mentioned it and like I said all the family members just said that it was bound to happen sooner or later he was not right."

"I'm sorry to hear that...that must have been hard on you watching your dad jump to his death."

"Yeah...I try not to think about it too much. So just the two voices uh?"

"Yes...well...for now. Depends on if we get back in time to get my refill."

"What if we just see how it goes? I mean you are doing well so far aren't you?"

I look up at him and give him a half hearted smile. "Sure...whatever."

"Look it's getting late, let's try to get some sleep and see how things go tomorrow." He stands up and reaches for my hand. I take it and follow him back to the bedroom and we lay beside each other letting the cool air in the window comfort us.

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Author's Note: Sorry if this is boring...if it is let me know. There is going to be a huge twist later...I just need her to be off her meds, which is happening very slowly.

Also what do you think about Kade? Good...Bad?