Everyone stood in an awed silence around us. I guess this was the first time Jack had been yelled at, especially by a seventeen year old teenager. He just pushed Kris off of him and walked away into the bushes.

I resisted to follow him and sat down. More than anything, all I wanted to do was cry. Weslar nudged her head up to my leg to try to make me feel better. Yet the tears fell anyway. I was sick of being stuck on this island, sick of how I treated my cousin, my cousin! He almost hurt Kris. It'd be a long time before I let go of that. But maybe that's why I was on the island, maybe this was a time for everyone to learn how to forgive.

Sawyer sat down next to me and put his arm around me, I started to cry harder and leaned on him. For the first time on the island, though I would have never believed it, I felt safe.

After a while, I looked at him though my teary eyes. "I'm sorry Sawyer, really I am." I stood up and started to walk away. "Thanks." I whispered so only he would hear.

Weslar followed me out to the beach. She knew that I felt better than I had been in a while. She barked happily and I started to run, she almost skipped running after me.

On the way to the beach, Charlie ran past me, grinning like a madman. "Charlie!" I yelled, grabbing his shoulder. "What's up?"

He looked at me, grinning (if it were possible) more, now that he'd seen me. "Claire! I think they've found her!"

"What? Oh Charlie that's awesome!" I kept back my thoughts of if that was not true, since, well, a lot of people on this island were NOT to be trusted.

Charlie grabbed me in a big hug.

I mean, it was a really nice hug, besides the fact that my windpipe was being crushed at his ecstacy. Though all I did was hug him back, from what he had been through, I think he had the right squeeze all the air out from me.

Weslar barked then and Charlie stopped hugging me and started petting Wes, giggling madly. I'd always love Charlie, he was crazy, worse off than me.

And we just sat there, talking about Claire. Right when we were in the middle of the conversation, Kris came stumbling toward us. She looked really pale, "Kris? Are you alright?" I went over to her and she fainted into my arms. "Jeez, Charlie! Help me please!"

Charlie got up and ran to me, taking Kris tenderly out of my arms. Poor thing, it's a lot to happen to someone in one day, finding a long lost cousin and getting mad at a friend. She came to. "You alright Kris?"

She looked at me oddly and then to Charlie. "What do you mean?" She asked me, brushing her hair out of her eyes. I saw a fresh wound on the side of her head, it was bleeding pretty bad.

"What happened? Why are you bleeding?"

She looked at me weird, obviously not knowing that she was bleeding. "What happened? I was just coming toward you and then I got all dizzy." As she said that, I started to walk her over to the beach, her wound needed aid.

I couldn't help that! This actually really happened between Kris and I the other day!