Exploring The Caves (First Kate than Open)

[Charlie Pace]

Finally it was Sunday, which meant there were no classes, which meant Charlie could spend the day exploring and playing his guitar. Since getting to the island Charlie had only really been in the school and to the beach, well one of the many beaches. After waking up and getting ready for the day Charlie grabbed his backpack, filled with foods, water and a torch, which they were told to take with them on walks just incase, his guitar, and the strap around him so the guitar was on his back, and a little something which he stuffed in his left shoe, and headed out of the school and into the jungle.

Once in the jungle Charlie pulled a compass out of his pocket and looked it but immediately felt confused, okay so he wasn't the best person to give a compass to but it was a nice gift from his brother before coming here. Since he knew the beach was east Charlie decided to go south. About ten minutes into the walk Charlie spun his guitar around and began playing Layla by Eric Clapton, and singing it, all while walking.

After what felt like an an hour or so Charlie came up to something he didn't expect, a cave, a cave that seemed rather long and quite dark, lucky he had a torch with him which he took out of his backpack. Charlie stopped playing his guitar, took a deep steadying breath to calm his nerves and entered the cave. He clicked the torch on and looked around, immediately he noticed a stream of fresh water and that the air was a lot cooler, but not exactly cold which was good

Charlie sat down on the rock and took a water bottle from his bag and drank some before playing his guitar again a little but suddenly he had the urge for that little something he had in his shoe. He slipped his left shoe off and took the little bag of heroin out. Charlie looked around and then opened the bag, he was about to poor some on his palm until he heard the sound of a twig snap. Feeling nervous Charlie quickly closed the bag and stuffed it back in his shoe before slipping his shoe on just before a figure appeared from around the corner.

[Kate Austen]

Kate had been following someone's tracks for quite a while, this was what she did to keep herself from going crazy inside the school grounds. She had found herself stumbling across a cave, and was surprised to actually find someone in it.

She peered around the side of the cave, cautiously, "Hello?" One of her hands was on her knife in her pocket.

[Charlie Pace]

The second a voice rang through the cave, with a hello, Charlie felt himself get nervous, what if they saw him with the heroin, what if they already knew and was following him to confront him about it, he was so not ready to have that conversation with anyone, especially a stranger. As she turned the corner Charlie noticed two things, one was that she was quite beautiful but looked like a bit of a flirt, like she was she could any guy and would play around with it. He also noticed she had her hand clenched to something but couldn't figure out what.

As she got closer and began to face him, Charlie stood up and smiled slightly "hi there... I didn't think anyone else was here" he said in his normal cheerful tone. He dusted his right hand on his hand on the side of his pants quickly and extended it to the girl "I'm Charlie Pace" he said. He glanced at the girls hand which was still clutching whatever was in her pocket.

[Kate Austen]

Kate smiled softly at Charlie, shrugging when he expressed he hadn't realized she was about. "I followed you," she said pointedly, any affection in her voice was a negligible amount. However, she was smiling, and eventually, as she stepped into his view, she released her hold on the hilt of the knife in her pocket. She offered that same slender hand for his taking, "I'm Kate, Austen."

She took a lazy seat upon a nearby boulder as he released her hand, she continued that lofty, but beautiful smile, "So, drugs, huh?"

[Charlie Pace]

Charlie couldn't help but feel a little taken aback when the girl said that she had been following him, he thought that she was either good at tracking or hiding in the shadows because he had no idea that she was following "huh... I had no idea." Although Charlie didn't really pay attention to her tone of voice he did smile back at her, as she smiled at him. Charlie shook her hand before leaning back on both his hands.

As he looked at her smiling he couldn't help but think she was quite beautiful. If Charlie was standing when Kate mentioned the drugs he would've fallen straight on his ass, he couldn't see how she knew, after all the heroin was in his shoe and he wasn't high. Wondering what to say Charlie decided to play it dumb so he said "what are you talking... I don't have drugs, I've never even used" sure it was a blatant lie but he wasn't about to spill about his addiction, especially not at a new school and to someone he had never met before.

[Kate Austen]

Kate giggled softly at his denial, "Okay," she said, again pointedly. And as his eyes lingered over her, she felt slightly uncomfortable, like he was imaging her naked. She shivered softly in her heeled boots, looking at the ground.

"Sorry about the tracking, I used to do it a lot when I was younger," she said, still refusing to look at him. She wasn't going to mention the nice little anecdote about how she had learned it from her father, it didn't seem like the time or place. Talking about her father made her, uncomfortable. Talking about herself at all made her uncomfortable. And understandably so.

[Charlie Pace]

Charlie raised a curious eyebrow when he heard her giggle after denying the drug use, he wasn't sure if she giggled out of thinking she was wrong or out of knowing he was lying but either way he didn't push the subject. When Kate shivered Charlie frowned slightly not sure why she did it but than he realized he had been staring at her for a couple seconds, well okay he wasn't exactly staring. His mind had drifted after he thought she beautiful, and before he could look away, but of course she wouldn't know that. Charlie quickly looked away and muttered "sorry about that."

As she apologized for the tracking Charlie just shrugged and smiled, although he didn't look at her either, "it's alright, it was just... unexpected." Charlie leaned back on his hands a little before glancing at Kate, still feeling rather bad about the absent-minded stare. "So how come you came to Oceanic High?" he knew people had come here for different reasons, he, for one, got expelled from his old school for partying too much and showing up high on more than one occasion.

[Kate Austen]

Kate smiled softly at him, deciding to be brave and try to make eye contact, her voice soft and gentle, "I'm not here by choice, if that's what you mean." She contemplated the repercussions of telling him the truth about herself. She actually considered expanding on her history, but, her mom had sent her here for a new start. And telling Sawyer hadn't exactly ended well. She decided quickly that telling him the horrible things she had done would serve no good purpose. No one needed to know.

"How about you?" she asked, prodding carefully. She didn't except him to open up to her either. You have to give a little trust to get a little trust.

[Charlie Pace]

As Kate "answered" his question Charlie sat there and listened, and then waiting for more. When he realized there was no more he was about to ask why she was forced to come here but her question drove it out of his mind. Like Kate, and probably many others, Charlie was forced to come to Oceanic High but he was sure his reasons were different to Kate's.

He thought for a couple second on how much he should tell her. He wasn't going to tell the whole story to a stranger. "Like you I was forced to come here after being expelled from my old school for things I'm not necessarily proud of."

((sorry for the major delay my muse is kinda shot but I promise to not be so late from now on haha))