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[merlot]

she should stop running. really she should. everleigh wasn't allowed to run this much anymore. everyone was afraid of a relapse, but everleigh knew what she was doing. she would be fine, all she had to do was make it to the clearing. four miles is perfectly fine.

breaking through the last round of slight trees everleigh smiled and rested her hands on her knees, loose strands of hair fell around her face. after a minute like that she'd recovered and walked to the edge of the water. the clearing was one of her favorite places. peeling off her socks and shoes took only a few seconds, and finally her feet could relax.

a noise behind her made her jump, "hello?" when no one answered, she laughed and shook her head. everyone was so paranoid now. but she heard the same noise again, then louder as someone came into the clearing at a run.

she screamed.

[jack dominic sinclair]

Jack had gone on another of his runs, he liked to play off that he was just trying to keep fit but it looked pretty dodged that he was going so often, at least twice a day to the beach or the woods, more the beach recently since more and more rumors had been spread that he had something to do with Abby going missing. It just seemed better to stick to the beach, it didn't look as dodgy, he didn't need to give people anymore reasons to suspect him.

There was only so many times he could run the beach though before it got a little samey and it was too bust to go running there today so he decided to risk a little critasism just to get his run and opted to leave his dog at home this time, milo could hardly handle one run a day and he didnt look too happy at the idea when he saw Jack putting on his runners.

He didn't really care where he ended up and just ran and let his legs lead the way while he let his head wander off else where. It was to think that he really came running but the excersise couldnt have hurt either.

His feet finally lead him to the opening and he was quite happily lost in his thoughts until he was rudly snapped out of them by a ear piercing scream that stopped him in his track and made him go to a walk as he entered the opening and cast eyes on Everleigh "Shit girl, calm down!" He said holding a hand to his ear. He didnt quite comprehend how someone could get to such a rediculously high pitch.

[merlot]

with a hand at her chest, everleigh kicked a splash of water towards jack. "well, i didn't know what the hell you were...a freaking bear or something." she mumbled this last bit to herself and shook hjer head, careful to mind her words. she just as easily could have said murderer with all that had happened. but they hadn't found a body, and although everleigh had made her own assumptions, she wouldn't dare voice them allowed. what would come, would come.

"you'd make an awful spy." she admitted finally letting her hand fall to her side, she laughed, "i could hear you a mile back." it wasn't that he was trying to spy on her, or that he was clumsly, it was the fact that cracked leaves and branches were all over the place here!

"have a good run?" she asked him curiously, leaning back on her elbows she smiled over at him. "i freaking love it out here. so quiet, when no ones screaming. and no one can bother you." she pointed out with a nod. the clearing was great.

[jack dominic sinclair]

It was no wonder everyone was on edge and even though Everleigh said bear, Jack could kind of tell that wasn't what she was actually thinking. He was quite sure that Abby wasn't coming back, after being gone for 2 weeks he didn't want to believe it but in his heart he already assumed the worst. She hadn't got in touch with anyone, he knew he well enough that he was sure she wouldn't scare people like this for a laugh or attention or anything else.

Jack guarded his face with his hands when she splashed him and shook his head "Well I'm prettu sure if I was a bear there's no way I'd come after you with a scream like that." He laughed walking closer to the water now she knew he wasn't some wild animal or a physco. "Well maybe I wasn't trying to sneak up on you, I'd hate to see what you'd do if I just jumped out of the bushes like 'Surprise!'." It was probably not a good idea to being doing anything like that in the predicament he was in right now, what looked dodger than stalking though the woods?

"Yeah it was good until my ear drumbs got burst" He smiled, it had been good though, he liked the quiet of the woods over the beach, there was always someone there to judge him at the beach if it wasnt people on the beach there was always some nosy body looking out their window. "'No one can bother you?' is that your way of hinting that im bothering you?" He laughed "I know what you mean though, it's just, calming, like you can get away from all the shit back there." He said refering to home as 'back there'

[merlot]

everleigh laughed and rolled her eyes, "damn right, lungs of steel, i could have kept going but the way you jumped like a girl was just too funny!" she teased him lightly, smiling goofily so he'd know she was joking. "you'd probablly be taken to jail on charges of pedophelia, if you tried that on anyone." she said seriously, her eyebrows knitting together. she was so naive it was comical.

she laughed and shook her head, "nah, you're not bothering me. the company makes me feel a bit better actually. it's not as scary." she was kind of a scaredy cat--in the clearing at daytime? hardly scary, even by yourself! "it is really calming, i run here all the time. i didn't realize you were a runner. we can be running buddies!" she said enthusiastically, snapping her fingers like she'd put together something great. everleigh wasn't trying to sound forward, that was just how she was, most people knew that.

just like most people knew she shouldn't be overexercising or eating any less then 1,200 calories a day. but who followed the rules anyway? and who was going to set her straight again besides annabelle or her parents who saw her when she went home for vacations only. or parents weekend. but, with all that was going on in jack's life, she didn't really expect him to know that much about her. he might remember her passing out around school when he'd been there but that was about it.

not everything had to be about her eating disorders now... did it?

[jack dominic sinclair]

Jake pulled a face at her with a shake of his head, girl, pfft. He was the wimp when she was the one that had started screaming just because she heard footsteps, sure thing chicken wing. He managed to laughed when she said he'd be taken to jail, it would look pretty dodgy in any case but especially when you were under as much scrutany as him, even a trip into the woods looked dodgy when it was him taking it, never mind stalking around trying to sneak up on people. "But I'm pretty sure the defonition of a pedophile is an old man going after a young girl so nerr" He said childishly, it was the only come back he could think of, a childish one at that.

Jack scoffed a laugh "And you call me a girl, pfft" he teased, only joking of course, he didn't really blame her being scared. It may not have looked that scary but they were miles away from anyone in hearing distance, even with a scream like hers, if someone came after you there was no shouting for help, it wouldn't attract anyones attention anyway.

"I didn't know you ran either" He shrugged and smiled when she said they could be running buddies "You sure you'd be able to keep up with me though?" He joked, he didn't doubt that she could really, he didn't exactly go tht fast, he went more for distance than speed.

A lightbulb did go off in the back of Jack's mind but he wasn't sure what it was about, he hadn't known Evaleigh that well back in school so he didn't know that much about her past, he had heard about her eating disorder but clearly not enough for him to remember otherwise he wouldn't have agreed to run with her. As much as he would love the company, if it was going to hurt her, make her relaps then he never would have. Unfortunatly, he didn't remember, not yet.

"What have you been doing with yourself recently anyway? I haven't seen you for ages." He smiled pushing the thought that something was up to the back of his mind, he'd think about it later.