I've Found What I'm Looking For

Chapter 4

The lights of the city twinkled all around him, her.

The two were in a private limo driving through the city full of such life and vibrancy.

Calloway only watched it all from his side of the limo, his window tinted black so no passer-by could look in and see it was him. He knew that wherever he went, if the general public knew, he'd be swarmed by eager fans.

He just couldn't handle that anymore. He had not the strength to write his name on paper, and really mean it at this time in his life. And he was sorry inside about this reason, he had just been secluded and beaten up inside for so long.

Ash was sitting on the other side of the limo, and turned her eyes nervously over to him, smiling shyly and a little awkward as she remarked, "It almost looks like night from how dark these windows are."

"Yeah, I suppose," He uttered back, sighing heavily as he rested his large lion head on the window in sorrow and deep tiredness. Tiredness about everything.

Ash still looked at him, biting her bottom lip nervously before saying the words, "You'll be alright,"

He huffed a small lying laugh at that, mocking her in a sense and she screwed her lips up one side coyly, as she added.

"You're not calling me a liar, are you?"

"No, never." He replied, still with a small patronizing grin on him. She smirked a little back, and slowly slid down her window a little, letting in the cold crispy air and the chill of the snow.

"Ash-"

"Just letting in the Christmas air,"

"Hmpth," He huffed again, shaking his head in disbelief, but something in his heart, cried for him to do the same.

So he obeyed.

He nervously slid down his own window just a crack, and gazed out to the colourful bright city full of so much noise and cheer.

Ash turned her eyes away from her own window, back nervously over at Calloway, and said, "Where we're going... it's gonna be buried deep in snow."

"But aren't you city girl?" Clay asked and Ash shook her head quickly, her blush skimming her cheeks as she said in a small soft voice.

"N-no," a giggle being hidden in her speech, "I come from a suburb just outside my city, a very big suburb with forests and lakes and-"

"In other words," Calloway interrupted her, with a grin, "The countryside, like where I was."

"Not exactly as secluded as you were, Clay," She replied, still laughing nervously and the two startled back suddenly when firecrackers were heard being lit just outside the limo.

The two quickly rushed to each one of their windows, peeking out instantly, and could see there were young teenage animals lighting the crackers and letting them pop off in the parks across the way.

"Teenagers..." Calloway said with a roll of his eyes, and Ash looked at him, surprised by his words.

"I'm still technically a teenager." She said, her hands thumping to her waist, as she glared at Calloway offended.

"Don't worry," He said back to her, winking weakly, "You're nearly out of it."

"Ha!" She laughed back at him bitterly, shaking her head as she chuckled, "Next, the roaring twenties..."

"It just keeps getting better and better till you reach my age," Calloway said, his cheery voice now lowering to one of sad pity for himself. He tilted his head down, his eyes falling to the ground, feeling as pathetic as ever.