The Limit Is The Sky

Chapter 3 - Nuts

Are you nuts?!

No I prefer almonds instead actually....

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The two strangers sat side by side by the curb of the sidewalk. People passed by them with hurried paces as their luggage was dragged behind them harshly. The cuff keeping the two youngsters together was secured tightly and glistened in the sun that arose from the grayish sky.

Abbeline turned over to the boy she had captured and studied him. His head was hung low and his hair was in a mess as he ran his free hand through it madly. Her stomach grumbled and she reached into her huge jacket's pocket to pull out an unopened sandwich.

She started unwrapping it when she felt an odd burning on the side of her face.

She curiously turned to her left and saw the boy glaring daggers at her.

She flinch involuntarily and looked at him with wide eyes.

"Whaaaaat?!" she whined at him as she chewed a piece of her sandwich.

"How the hell can you eat when we're cuffed together?! And don't you realized that now that we're stuck together, the chances of me killing you are much greater than before," he said, eyes shooting lasers out.

"While that may be true, I'm sure you wouldn't be willing to carry dead weight around now would you?" she asked with a full mouth.

"I wouldn't. But you have the key so it makes it easier for me to take it out of your decaying body," he said rolling his eyes as he watched the passing people.

Abbeline remained silent as she chewed on her food, looking up at the sky as she hummed a random tune.

Eden turned to her direction and bore his eyes into her face and she tried her best to ignore the invisible holes that were forming on her face from it.

"You DO have the key...right?" he asked slowly.

"Uhmm," she contemplated on what to say but couldn't find the right words.

"GOD DAMN IT. TELL ME YOU HAVE THE KEY." shouted Eden, causing even hurried passengers to slow down and watch the scene.

"Whoopsies?" she said as she shrugged her shoulders in an apologetic manner.

He refrains from strangling her, especially now that his plan is ruined in terms of escaping. He huffs out a strained sigh and gets up, causing Abbeline to jump up.

"Hey! I dropped my sandwich!" she yelped as she looked the one-time-bitten sandwich on the floor.

He turned at her and glared angrily.

She squirmed and shrank under his gaze and looked away, muttering, "I can get another one,"

He started walking slowly and looking constantly at people that passed by them, giving them dirty looks, although he was doing it subconsciously as he thought about his failed plan.

They strolled along slowly by the grassy field that was created to make the airport look nice from the outside. To any passerby, they would look like a teenage couple. But with the cuffs in the presence of it all, it ruined the young love ambiance as people looked at them with wide eyes and muffled whispers.

But both Abbeline and Eden ignored them as they had questions and thoughts that occupied their minds.

The silence, at some point, became unbearable for Abbeline.

"Sooooo, where were you headed?" she asked, cutting into the awkward silence.

Eden's eyes land on her for a split second but slide away as soon as it had come.