Love From The Past

Chapter 7

Chapter 7

" Hey, hey! Wake up!" he shouted. I slowly opened my eyes. There he was, looking at me.

" What happenned ?"

" We fell," he said.

" I got that," I frowned. He leaned me his hand. I held his hand and got up. I looked to my feet. One of my shoes was gone. I moved my eyes to see where it was. As I saw it, I moved towards it.

" So, what's your name?" he asked me.

" Why do you care?" I said while trying to wear my shoe.

He frowned. " Why would I not care?"

" I don't know, maybe because you nearly killed me!" I yelled.

" Look, I didn't want it to be like that, sorry I, well, nearly killed you, I guess. But, I tried to save you, at least," he said. That was true.

" I've noticed," I said quietly. I looked him in the eyes.

" I'm Made- Riley, call me Riley," I told him.

He smiled. " I'm Noah,". Oh no. He even had a cute name! Damn... I didn't want to like him anymore.

" So, who are you?" I asked. I really wanted to know.

" Well, I'm a... criminal, you could say," he told me. I lifted my eyebrow. " A criminal? What made you go there though? Why were there so many guards and stuff?"

" You ask too many questions," he told me.

I laughed. " Oh, really," I frowned, " You owe me at least answers after almost killing me."

He sighed. " Okay, okay, I'll tell you," he said slowly.

" But if you tell anyone,"

" Will you kill me?"

" I'm not that cheap," he told me.

" What is that supposed to mean?"

He sighed again. " Can I just tell you the story?"

" Okay, go on then,"

" So, I'm well, umm from another place, well, a group let's say. And this group... Borrows things from people,"

He clearly didn't want to tell me. " You are bandits, aren't you?"

" Yeah,"

" Well, why did you take me with you?"

" Because... I don't actually know,"

" Oh, so this was all for nothing," I frowned. " You've got to be kidding,"

" Oh, it's not so bad, you didn't die, at least,"

" Didn't die? Are you serious?"

He sighed, again. " Follow me,"

" Where are we going now?"

" We are going to find the bandits,"

I laughed. " Yeah, we are,"

" I don't joke," he said.

I frowned as he held me from my elbow.

" Why don't you let me go? You don't need me," I told him, though I wanted to stay.

" You know too much,"

" Too much? You didn't tell me anything!"

He looked at me, " No,"

We continued walking. I looked at my feet. " You know, what you are doing is called 'kidnapping',"

He didn't say anthing and kept walking. I followed him. After a while, he stopped, and looked upwards. I realised it was getting dark.

" Where are we going?"

" You ask too many questions,"

I frowned. " And you, are too annoying,"

He turned around and looked at me. " Look, missy. If you have a better idea than following me, than go ahead."

I narrowed my eyes. I didn't have anything to say.

" I thought so," he said and kept walking. Now the stars and moon were watching us. "Here," he said. We were near the ocean. We had walked the whole island, and gotten to the end. " We spend the night here,"

I widened my eyes, " What! I thought you had a better plan! Why did we even walk this far?"

" Well, if you care to listen, first, this water is not salty, we can drink from it, second, there are wolves on this island, but there is just a little chance they'd come to the beach,"

I opened my mouth, but didn't say anything.

" We should get a fire going, I'd imagine," I finally said.

He nodded. " I'll collect wood, you look for food," he told me. Just as I was going t tell him not to give orders, I told myself not to.

I looked up to a palm tree. I saw a kind of fruit, hanging down, and I smiled. Though there was one little problem. I hadn't ever climbed a tree in my whole life.

I sighed and gulped. I put my legs around the tree, and founds some branches that I could hold on to. While making weird noises, I slowly climbed up. I reached to the fruit, and felt it in my hands. I smiled with joy. I had done it! I had-

" Grrr..." I heard a weird noise. I looked down and... It was watching me. A wolf as big as two people. It had anger in his grey eyes. He jumped towards me. I panicked, and I let go of the branch I was holding. After I heard my own scream, I was down, near the wolf. He came running at me and tried to attack me. I was exhausted, and my leg hurt, but with my last power, I pushed him away. I limped towards the tree, and tried to climb it, but I couldn't. I looked backwards. As I saw the wolf running away, I was shocked, but relieved.

" Are you okay?" he shouted at me. I smiled. He was here.

" Noah?" I called, " Is it you?"

" Yeah," he came closer to me. "What happenned?"

I told him the whole story. Than I realised, my leg was bleeding.

" Ouch!"

" Okay, okay, don't panick, I will find some sort of bandage," he told me. He walked to the tree, and got a leaf. Then, he got some water and he poured it on my leg.

" Ouch! It hurts," I said.

" I know," told me and he tied the leaf on my leg.

" It's better, I suppose," I smiled. He looked at me, and walked to the logs he had collected. He layed them on the sand, and he pulled a lighter from his pocket. He lighted the logs on fire, and added some leaves. I slowly limped to the fire, and we sat down.

We remained silent for awhile, and I spoke.

" Thanks, you know, for helping me,"

He didn't say a thing.

I looked at his eyes. " Who are you?"

" I already told you who I am."

" No, who are you?" I said. " You only told me you were a thief, I want to know who you are, not what a thief is,"

" You want to know who I am? Well, why would I tell you? Oh, because I risked your life?"

" No, because you saved it," I smiled, " Maybe there is something I can do to help you,"

He looked into my eyes. " Maybe there is," he came closer to my face. My heart started to beat really fast. I moved my face closer to him as well. I sighed. Did I have the guts to do it?

Just as I was having a million thought in my head, he rushed to me and his lips touched mine.