Falling

chapter ten

DISCLAIMER- all of these ideas are the wonderful JAMES DASHNERs. I am not capable of coming up with such a great book idea. I only own willow:) hope you enjoy

I sat waiting in the darkness for Gally to come back with whatever he ran off to get. He claimed he had to show me something.
It was getting colder and darker and I was just sitting on the damp leaves. He had been gone a good 10 minutes. What in the world is taking him so long?! I thought to myself. I decided to get up and either go find him or get a blanket, I hadn't made up my mind. I started crunching through the leaves when I heard another pair of feet shuffle through the leaves. I froze in terror praying it was just Gally. It started to get louder and the padding of the feet got harder as if they were running. Gally jogged past me and when he saw the place where I sat before he left, he snapped around and finally spotted me. I let out a small giggle.

"You alright Gally?" I asked as I walked towards him. He let out a breath of relief.

"Yeah, I thought you left." He said looking down.

"Well yeah. I got up to see if I could find you. You were gone for like 10 minutes you know." I said with a smirk on my face.
He let out a deep chuckle and looked back up at me. I let out a sigh and walked over to sit down.

"So what did you want to show me?" I said as he slid down the concrete wall to join me on the moist leaves.

"Ok, you have to promise me you won't make fun of me."

"Of course I won't Gally," I said, meaning it.

He opened his hands to me to reveal a small star that was crafted out of sticks and twine. It was sloppily made but he seemed proud of it. It looks like a boy made it. I thought to myself.

"Gally, did you make this yourself?" I smiled at him.

"Yeah, I recently made it actually." He had so much pride in his voice and looked like a little kid at show and tell. I laughed at him at the thought of Gally looking like a child, and he heard me. His eyes hardened and he glared at me.

"What was that for?" He asked with anger beginning to lace his voice.

"I... I was just laughing because you looked so cute and proud when you were showing me your star" I stammered "Kinda like a little kid" I smiled gently at him feeling my cheeks heating up.

"Oh, so you think I'm cute?" He questioned with a smirk growing on his face. I knew what he was doing, he was trying to make me uncomfortable. I punched him in the arm.

"Stop," I said in a joking tone. My cheeks flushed and looking down at his knees and he let out a laugh. "Thanks for showing me," I said lightly, my eyes getting heavy.

"It's no problem, Willow. Are you getting tired?" He asked.

"Yeah a little bit" I yawned "But I'm okay" I stated.

"Ok. You want to stay out here and talk a little more?" He asked and I nodded my head.

He had asked me something else about who I had become friends with within the glade, but I was already drifting off into slumber, leaning into Gally's chest.