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follow me

Torra

"Torra?" Nala asked, still avoiding my eyes. I answered practically immediately.

"Yes?"

"I need you to follow me. All day." Nala finally met my eyes, with every bit of sincerity they could possess. "I do not want to be left alone with any one of them." Nala admitted.

"I will."

"Thank you so much." Nala said with sincerity. Andi and Sasha came back quickly, followed by a troupe of young Rockline adults running. "What the hell?!" Nala yelled. At the front, Jonah bent onto his knees, panting. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" Nala yelled again, this time advancing on Jonah.

"Just having some fun in the last hours of bachelor life. That's all." Jonah shrugged while turning around, angering Nala. She grabbed his shoulder and pulled him back, slapping him across the face.

"I'm over here busting my ass to get this wedding together while you and your band of bro-tards are messing with two of the most important women in this city? That is some major bullshit. Go get ready. Now." Nala bossed. Jonah cowered backward and out the door, his troupe of stupid friends trailing behind him. "Good Ana. He is a child." Nala rolled her eyes in disgust before walking through the doorway. "Are you coming?" Nala asked facing me, but Andi and Sasha immediately went after her. It was still clear that Nala was talking to me.

She walked down a tight hall until it opened into a cafeteria. Workers had passed coins back and forth, sitting on benches discontinuing small talk when Nala walked in. "This is great." Nala said through gritted teeth.

"What are we doing?" Andi asked quietly.

"Breakfast." Sasha moaned halfway to the concessions. Nala sat down at an empty table, me next to her, Andi across from me. Sasha came back with an apple and some sort of drink. Andi took a sip of the drink as Sasha sat down, immediately gaging on the liquid.

"Babe, it's nine in the morning." Andi nudged Sasha and sat the cup down.

Nala and I, however, were surprised by the pet name. She touched my knee to me under the table, I returned the gesture. Her knee rested against me, the awkward touching becoming more and more familiar. The medium chatter of the cafeteria seemed to go silent as her hand drifted more towards mine.

The end of her delicate finger finally touched mine. Finally. My finger laced with hers, loosening as her hand slipped into mine tightly. My skin was on fire. I was absolutely covered in goosebumps.

"Nala!" Sasha yelled like she was repeating herself.

"What?" Nala responded, pulling my hand from me.

"Don't you have, like, a billion meetings today?" Sasha babbled with a full mouth.

"Yes. Loads of meetings. You stay here. I'm sure I'll be fine." Nala excused herself before rushing out of the cafeteria.

"So who's going to follow her?" Sasha swung her apple around.

I pushed back from the table and down the hall Nala went, though it wasn't the same one she came out of. I walked down it a little further, recognizing it as the one we ran through last night. Nala did stop until a large staircase. She stepped out of beaded slippers and ran down the stones in sheer stocking, holding the abundance of white fabric in hands. Nala opened and shut the door at the bottom, proceeding to the dirt paths surrounding the city.

Nala ran much further than I would of expected while barefooted. After hurtling over a fallen tree, she finally stopped when the end of her dress was caught on a dead limb. "Damn it!" Nala yelled, trying to unhook the dress without ripping it.