Treasure

Velna----

"He's up by the stern." Velna heard Chris reply. "Why?"

"No reason." Amber left without another word.

"Women." Chris muttered under his breath.

"Quite annoying creatures, aren't we." Velna laughed continuing to scrub.


Colt---

Colt folded and unfolded his hands while he looked over the ocean. He heard someone coming but ignored them. Well, at least tried to. When he saw Amber out of the corner of his eye he couldn't very well ignore her.

"Did you need something?" He asked trying to sound like he didn't care.

Amber approached Colt and saw him looking her way. "Did you need something?" he asked. Amber nodded and opened her mouth to speak, pointing her finger in his face. He raised his eyebrow. "Yes?"

Amber cleared her throat, lowering her finger. "Colt." she began. "I need to know." Colt furrowed his eyebrows, generally confused.

"Need to know what?" he asked. Amber took a deep breath. I need to know how you feel about me. How you feel about me.

"What are your feelings towards me?"

Colt----

Colt looked at her surprised. "Well, your a pretty cool person. Harder worker....."

"That's not what I meant." She said cutting him off.

Colt crossed his arms leaning against the railing. "What I feel about you." He ran the question over and over in his mind. Oh he knew how he felt, but he wanted to watch her squirm. It was mean, he knew it was, but she was beautiful just standign there looking scared of his answer. "Your beautiful, kind, and sweet." He replied standing up straight and walking towards the bow of the boat letting his words sink into her brain.

Amber ran her hands through her hair, not knowing how she felt at the moment. Beautiful, kind, and sweet. Those were traits, not feelings. So she's a cool person, is she?

Amber sighed and Colt looked at her. "What are you feeling?" he asked.

"Irratated." she responded. "It's just..." she laughed, trying to make the conversation light-hearted. "While I was, you know, alone with Velna... she told me that.." Colt stared hard into her eyes. "You..." she trailed off.

"I...?" he repeated.

"Had feelings... for me. Stronger... feelings than what you just stated." she quickly continued before he could say anything. "But I see that was false."

Colt---

Colt laughed softly and walked closer to her. "She has a knack at noticing how people feel." He replied looking down at her. "Guys don't like to admit to their feelings." He tapped her nose gently and smiled. "She was right." He wanted to kiss her, but he refused himself that pleasure. He just stepped past her towards the cabins then stopped and turned around. "Did she say how you felt?"

How she felt. How did Amber feel about Colt? She'd only known him for a relatively short while, but he was so sweet, so charming, so ubsurdly handsome. But she wasn't in love with him - attracted to him, more than anything.

There was Cook, too. He was just annoyingly attractive, and one of her greater friends. She'd had mixed feelings about him lately too. Ambers eyes drifted to Colt, who she could see was eager for her answer. If Colt found out she was attracted to Cook, well, that would probably be the end of him.

Amber scratched her head thoughtfully and before she knew it, had taken Colts long, graceful fingers and entwined them with hers. "Colt." she breathed, looking away. "I really, really like you."

Colt---

Colt shook his head laughing softly, "If that's what you tell yourself." He untwined his fingers and tapped her nose. "Keep tellin yourself if you want." With that he turned and walked into his cabin closing the door. He sat down on his mat and ran his fingers through his hair. Why was she scared to tell him the truth? She didn't care for him. He could tell, she wouldn't look him in the eye. He sighed, he wasn't bout to let this get him down.

Cook walked in and handed him some food. "Figured you'd be here, when I didn't see you at dinner I thought I'd bring you something."

"Thanks." Colt nodded taking the food. He had always liked Cook, he was easy to talk to. "Wanna join me? You can go get your plate."

~ Cook

Cook shrugged and nodded and Colt. He went back down to the kitchen and snatched his plate from the wooden counter. "Hey." he greeted, once he got back up to Colt's cabin.

"Hey." Colt greeted, giving him a half-smile. Cook watched him pick at his food while he stared out, a look of forlorn spreading across his expression. "Something the matter, Colt?" he asked.

~ Amber

"If thats what you tell yourself. Keep telling yourself that if you want." Amber grabbed the railing of the ship before she dropped down onto the floor. She had told him how she felt - why didn't he believe her? Now that he had said that... its amazing how one piece of dialogue can escalate ones feelings for somebody.

Colt----

Colt shook his head, "Nope, nothings wrong." He replied popping some food into his mouth. Cook laughed.

"Your a pathetic liar." Cook smiled.

"I've been told that." He frowned looking at his food. He looked up at Cook. "What do you know about Amber?" He asked.

Cook scratched his head and shifted his gaze down to his plate, scooping some corn into his mouth. "Amber?" he swallowed. "We've been pretty good friends since she came onto the ship, I suppose. Real pretty girl."

Colt nodded. "Yeah.." he agreed.

"Sort of have a thing for her." Cook laughed again, retrieving more food from his plate. "Why do you want to know? She get in any trouble?"

Colt---

Colt shook his head. "Nope, she's not in any trouble." He replied eating some more of his food. He ran a hand through his hair and took a deep breath. This was way to confussing.


*tears, sorry it's short*

Cook raised his eyebrow, pushing his plate off to the side and dipping his spoon into the soup. "So whats the deal with her? What do you want to know?"

Colt sighed, running his hand through his hair again. Why did he do that so much? "You.. have a thing for her, do you?" he asked, turning to Cook.

Cook blinked, taken aback. "Nothing big." he reassured. "She doesn't distract me from my work, if thats what you mean. We're just really close friends, you know? We can share things with each other."

Colt---

Colt nodded, "Your not going to get in trouble." Colt smiled. "THis is from a friends perspective."

"Oh." Colt laughed and smiled.

"You like her though, right?" HE asked looking back up at Cook. He wanted to know the truth.


*tears*

Cook lowered his head, becoming bashful. "I suppose. I mean, when you use the term "like" loosely." Cook told him. He looked up, into Colts eyes; immediately he saw hints of envy sparkling within them.

"I see." Colt mumbled. Cook gently splashed his soup with the spoon.

"I don't wish to seem rude Colt, but why do you wish to know?" he asked. "Don't say there wasn't a reason."

Colt:

"I want to know whats going on." He said finishing his soup. "Velna has big eyes and a small mouth, but when she talks she makes sense." He replied. He looked down at the food and thought about it. He had to find a way to get the attention off him again.

*Tears*