Six

Chapter 7

Sam Pov

"You wanna bet?" She challenges.

"Bring it on."

She giggles. "There is no way you're gonna win." She states.

"Six, I've lived here practically my whole life. Why do you suppose I wouldn't know a place you do? I mean no offence but you've been here for less than a month." I say.

She shrugs and goes back to looking out of window of the car. And not just any car....a Saab 9-3!

I'm being driven around by a chauffeur in a bloody Saab 9-3!!

Six told me that this place is somewhere she ended up accidentally. She claims it's some place I have never visited. She says it's deserted....so I'm guessing it's the abandoned park near the city limits because that's where we seem to be heading.

We near the turn which leads to the park and I smile at Six in triumph. Ha! See? I know all places. Her expression os impassive.

Slowly a smile creeps up her face as she realises that I know where we're going. My grin widens.

And then my triumphant joy magnificently crashes as we ride on leaving the turn to the park far behind us and Six bursts out laughing.

"You thought it was the park, didn't you?" She laughs. A clear, genuine, open laugh. Nothing like the mundane, controlled, pathetically high pitched giggles that some girls try to pass off as laughter.

No, Six's laughter was pure...real. And I was caught in it's spell.

"So...umm how far is this place?" I ask. I don't know of any place beyond where we are.

"We'll be there in a minute." She says. Okay. I don't understand.

"You're sure we're going right? Cuz in a minute we'll be-"

"In the middle of nowhere." She completes. My eyebrows shoot up. "I know. Just trust me on this."

After a while she tells the driver to stop the car. I look out the window. We've stopped on a long deserted rows. The sides of the road are lined with rows of tall snow covered trees and with only forests beyond them.

"Theo.." she adresses the driver as we climb out of the car. "You can go back. Father will need you today. I will call you when we're ready to leave." She says.

Theo drives away after giving her a curt professional nod. It's really funny how she calls her dad Father...

After Theo leaves, she leads me straight into the midst of the trees. She seems pretty confident so I wordlessly follow.

Five minutes later, we're still walking and now I'm getting a little worried.

"Erm...Six? We're not lost, are we?" I ask.

"Nope. We'll be there in a minute." She reassures shrugging her huge backpack. I offered to take it a while ago, but she refused.

Just when I'm starting to panic, she stops.

I look around quizzically and I notice what she's doing. She pushes through a bunch of dense bushes.

"A little help?" She calls.

I try to get her through gently but she's kind of stuck. I give her a light shove and she loses balance holding on to my hoodie taking me down with her.

Oh man... I've fallen on top of her. I can feel her body heat seep into me. Our faces are inches apart. Her eyes are wide and she's lightly panting because of the fall. Her lips part as her breath hitches and I almost lose it right there.