Chapter 4
Jake
We've been on the ground for a month now, and it's a lot better than I could of every hoped for. My daughters happy she finally knows how to shoot a bow and arrow, and Lexa is her best friend.
Anya has been teaching me and Clarke a lot, like how to hunt and cook the meat that we find, and which nuts an berries we can eat an which ones are poisonous. I almost died the first time we went gathering for berries because I almost ate a Tooka berry, but before I put it in my mouth Anya slapped it out of my hand saying “Do you wanna die, because you will if you eat those types of berries.”
Anya is really starting to grow on me. She was angry at first, but she’s slowly started to except me and Clarke now. I so happy Clarke has Lexa to play with while I'm fixing up our home so she isn't lonely all day. Lexa is a pretty kind and caring girl after getting to know her.
“Jake come on we need to go hunt for dinner tonight it's our shift.”I hear Anya right outside the door of my house. I'm really starting to like like Anya, and I don't know if I can because of Abby. I know I won't see Abby for at least ten years, and she probably thinks I'm dead so I think I can give it a try with Anya.
“Let me put on my jacket and get my bow an arrow, and I'll be right out.” I say back, then run trying to find all of my hunting gear. After I get everything I grab my satchel on the way out the door to put any small mammals I kill in it. I open the door and Anya is standing right outside about 5 inches from my face. I look into her beautiful brown eyes and my breath catches in my throat my eyes flicker down to her lips and then back up to her eyes. We both start to lean in and...
“Jake. Anya. Come on we need to leave for the hunt!” A young tracker yells to us. We jump apart and she looks at me and my cheeks flush. I shut the door behind me, and we start to walk into the forest. I look at her, and ‘accidentally’ brush my hand against hers before we finish our journey into the woods for dinner.
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We've been looking in the woods first on the ground then from the trees but we can't find anything more than a rabbit each, and that's no where near enough food for the whole village. Anya and I paired up to look for bigger animals, but we haven't had much luck either. I look over at Anya and she looks like she's concentrating so hard to find food. She's so beautiful like this her brown scrunched up, she just looks so in her element right now. I don't realize that I'm staring at her until she clears her throat to get my attention. So I turn my head to look in her eyes.
Before I think anything through I take her face in my hands and I kiss her. She tenses at first so I drop my hands from her face. I'm about to pull away when she puts her arms behind by neck, and then kisses me back.
I didn't know if Anya actually liked me or if she was just being nice because she was training Clarke. I bite her bottom lip and she gasps giving me the chance to slop my tongue in. It's not a demanding kiss just a soft push and pull. You wouldn't think that Anya would kiss so gently by her rough exterior.
I swipe my tongue in the roof of her mouth wanting to dominate the kiss, but Anya being Anya nips at my tongue making me gasp and she puts her tongue in my my mouth instead as we make out. We could have been making out for 5 minutes or 20 minutes I wouldn't be able to tell you. All I know is that my head started to get dizzy so I break the kiss and lean my forehead against hers, and we both breathe in and out very deeply.
“Wow” I say after catching my breath, and she chuckles at what is most likely the wide grin on my face. We stay like that for a little while before she tenses and tilts her head to the left like she's listening for something. Then I hear it a loud roar belonging to what has to be a bear. I haven't seen a bear yet the time I've been here, and I never really wanted to but I guess today is my lucky day.
“We need to slowly and quietly climb up that tree.” She says pointing to a very large tree a few feet in front of us. We both cautiously walk over to the tree and I make Anya climb up first, but when I'm about climb up the ground starts to shake and I fall over. I stand back up shakily but I do stand up, but I see a giant brown bear charging toward me. I hear leaves rustle above me, and when I look up I see Anya jump down from the tree in front of me.
Anya unsheathed her sword and takes a stance, and when the bear is right in front of us it stomps its feet making me fall down again and Anya loses her balance. When Anya's feet shake the bear charges her and knocks her to the ground, and she is pinned under a fully grown bear ready to eat her. I don't know what happens to me, but later on Anya will tell me that I started shaking very wildly. Then before I know it I am standing on all four feet, no not feet four paws. I bound over to the bear and swipe at its face to get it off Anya. After getting it off of he it roars in my face, so then I roar back louder. It starts to slowly back away when Anya runs up to it and stabs it in its head killing it quickly.
“Hey Jake I'm safe it's okay you can turn back now.” Anya says to me with her hands raised. I slowly calm down and I can feel myself turn back into a man. I'm naked so Anya gives me a pair of pants that was in my pack. “I thought you said you didn't have a spirit animal.” Anya says
“I didn't know I did, I mean Clarke’s the only person on the Ark who's every had a spirit animal before. I would have never thought I had one as well.” I say to her, then I look down at the humongous bear and think ‘how in the world are we going to get that back to camp’.
“We have to make a pallet to sit the bear on so we can drag it back home.” Anya says, she must have saw me staring at it. After taking about 10 minutes to build it, then we set the bear on it and start dragging it back to camp. The most prominent thing on my mind on our journey back to camp is what is going to happen between us after that very heated kiss we shared.