My celebrity crush

Chapter 2 : into the woods

     He is silent for the first time in his life , he's usually blabbering about some new app he's programmed or taunting me for not being as smart as he is , but this time he sits there quietly . His face shows no emotion at all and I start to wonder what's going through his mind .

    He realizes that my gaze is on him and tries not to look at me. I could tell he wants to but he keeps fighting the urge , eventually he gives up . He puts on an annoyed look and turns to me.

   But from all my years of not caring about people , I learnt to not be intimidated by anyone , in normal cases a girl would look away when she is caught staring but I firm my gaze on him , making him even more uncomfortable.

    Soon enough we're both bored of the staring game . He turns on the radio and in his off key voice , starts singing along to bruno mars' songs. I know I'm not the best person, but honestly , who would be able to ignore someone who's sitting not more than an inch away , singing so loudly ?

    "I wanna wee" , a voice says from the back . It kinda creeps me out cause normally in horror movies they would be a cute little kid who talks sweetly and the next thing the kid is a monster .

     "Your sister was here the whole time?" , I ask once I confirm she's not a monster and just his sister from earlier.

   "You look startled , are you okay?"

    For someone as tuff as myself , I don't like horror cause they scare the hell out of me and I've only ever watched one , but I'm not going to admit I was scared of a kid so I ignore his question and continue daydreaming about what's going to happen when Asher and I finally meet .

    Next thing I know , the car smells like a toilet that hasn't been flushed in ages . We both turn back simultaneously and see the small girl looking at us innocently , a look kids make when they want you to believe it wasn't them who did something .

    "Hazel!! , Did you just wet yourself?" , He shouts , his face all wrinkled up . Her face changes from innocence to sad , tears slowly gathering up in her eyes .

     "Robert! , Don't yell at her , she did tell you she wanted to go ", I roll my eyes at him . I've never seen him this angry , it doesn't seem like he's angry because she wet herself , it seems like there's a lot going on on his mind . He sighs and his face goes back to normal , a look of sincerity in his eyes .

    "I'm sorry , but next time please just try to hold it in okay?" , She nods and he looks at me , sorta like asking me for confirmation on whether he did it right this time . And I smile in approval.

     We start moving again , the pee smell even worse than it was once it's finally filled the whole car . We've been driving from 10 hours straight and I feel suffocated.  We can't open the windows cause it's dark and bushy outside and we obviously don't want a creepy animal to attack us in the middle of nowhere .

The road is dark and scary , it's a moonless night with no one in sight , only trees and long grass , the road isn't broad either it's only 2 small lanes .

After a long boring journey of looking at the horror of the road we drove through , he stops the car . There's no building in sight , no light , no nothing , just trees , trees and more trees and what's that right at the end , oh right another tree.

    "What happened?" I ask .

   "There's supposed to be a small building right about here", he says , not even sure about what he's talking about . Oh boy we're lost , 3 kids in the woods , one as dumb as a person could ever be , the other as smart as a super computer and the other sitting in wet , stinking underwear .

That's what my family will hear on the news when they find our skeletons some years from now , cause it feels like no one ever comes around here .

        "We're not lost" , he says as though reading my thoughts . He gets out of the car and with his hands in his pockets starts to pace around looking in all directions like the lost cause that he is . I lift hazel to my chest , supporting her skinny legs with my right hand and her long , silky ,  golden brown hair with my left . Her hair as soft as her brothers .

    "I see something" , he shouts and starts running deeper into the bush , through the tall trees where who knows what could be sleeping on them .

  "Who!" I hear , probably just an owl but it still freaks me out so I shut the car door and run after him . I run in the same direction he did , but seem to lose sight of where he went . I think of heading back but the trees look even scarier from this angle and panicking is not an option as I am also the only hope of the smelly kid in my arms and if I panick  the kid panicks which just leads to a couple of kids attracting attention from wild animals that lurk in these woods .

    "Utuke? ( What do I do) " , I say to myself finally finding a good opportunity to use the only korean word I know. Relief comes our way , when Robert heads in our direction with a flashlight in his hands . I've never been so glad to see this freak of nature until now .
He carefully takes Hazel off my hands wrinkling his nose as he feels the pee stench. 

    "The building is in that direction , just get what you need to sleep with or you could sleep in what you're wearing. Not that I care ". He tries to battle with his own emotions , not knowing whether to act like he cares or just continue being the rude jerk he's always been .

    We walk for what seems like an hour through the woods and next thing I know something is on me. It feels slippery and sticky . "Hurry " , he says once he feels I'm no longer right behind him.

    I try not to , but it's just the right thing to do in the situation . "Ahhhhhhhhhh!" , I scream at the top of my voice , I swear I could hear bats fly away from their tree after I screamed .

     "What now?" , Annoyance in his tone of voice . He looks back and when he sees me he smiles , more like a laugh or both but he does it .

      "Don't move , it'll bite", he moves closer towards me while I squeeze my face as though that can help prevent whatever is on me from finding me delicious enough to eat . Once he's less than a metre away from me , he bends his knees a little, putting his hands on them .

   I'm waiting for him to take out whatever it is that's on my shoulder but he does nothing , he starts laughing uncontrollably as though he'd just seen a clown .

    "You're the clown" , he says once again reading my mind . I don't know if being smart comes with powers , but what I do know is that this boy has always been able to read my mind ever since he was not yet identified as a nerd .

    "There's nothing on you ", he reaches his hand over to my shoulder and holds something up to me . "It's just a chameleon", he says like it's nothing. 

      We stay there for a while rekindling memories of our childhood , from the time I put a snake in his bed when he came over for a sleep over , to the time he got bitten by my dog , looking at the chameleon made us go back to all the funny moments we've had with all sorts of weird creatures.

      This being the first time talking to him normally , it kind of feels awkward in the beggining but as we go on it becomes a natural feeling .