Walking Danger

Chapter 16

The sparks,the heat, the pull. My eyes focus and Ace comes into view. Ace. Why is he kidnapping me? Should I even ask? Yes of course I should ask.

Who wouldn't want to know why they were getting kidnapped. I can't talk with this thing in my mouth so the best I can do is give him a look. Ace realises this and goes to take the material out my mouth, then he hesitates. "You can't scream, okay?" I nod like a good victim.

"I'm not trying to hurt you, I just wanted to check if you were okay." I nod again. " I'm sorry I hurt you" he says this will so much emotion, like he committed a crime. A bad big crime.

He sounds so sincere that I almost believe him. Almost. I look him in the eye and nod. He removes the material from my mouth and the first thing I ask is "What the hell are you doing?" He looks slightly frightened and apologetic.

"I'm sorry" he says, "I wasn't trying to hurt you I just needed to check if you're okay."
"Why would I not be okay, where did you come from, I thought..." Stop Zee-Anna do not let him know that you're crazy,how do you tell a person that you went into a house with a gun because you had a feeling they were in there he's going to think you're crazy,so many people already think you're crazy don't make it easier for them to put you in an institution. But am I really crazy?

The feeling, the pull, the spark. Everything that I felt in that house, everything that I've felt since I met Ace I am feeling in this moment. I can no longer deny this feeling but I can't explain it.

I don't know what it all means, my heart pounding,my body getting warm,the tingles all over my skin and where he touches me, it feels like I'm too close to the Sun. He's looking at me with his head tilted. "What did you think", he asks me.

His pupils get bigger like his trying to tell me something and I want to tell him the truth, there is hope and longing but one of these don't feel like they are my emotions. But the longing gets stronger the longer Ace and I face each other but it doesn't belong to me but I feel connected to it. Like it's mine but it's not really mine.

And as the longing gets stronger so does the urge to tell him everything I feel. To tell him  that I thought he was in danger that I would have jumped into a fire to save him. But I can't do that, so I do that opposite.

"Get off me Ace!" He looks slightly hurt by my sudden outburst.
"Promise me you won't run, I don't want to hurt you." The son of a bastard! Who does he think he is? Acting all innocent he kidnapped me! Of course I'm gonna run. Your  crazy but once more I look him in the eye and nod.

He gets off me and I get ready to run but then I ask "Why did you want to check that I'm okay?" What does he think is wrong with me? So instead of running I sit up and look at him. He looks hesitant like he's not sure what he can say. He looks down and runs his hand through his Aurban hair. That colour, I've seen it before. No I'm crazy, it can't be, I must be imagining things.

"What is it? Why did you think I was hurt?" I ask him. He doesn't look at me. His hiding something. I can feel it. He stands up and I get up with him. His not going to say anything so I make a move to leave. He grabs my hand and turns me around. He looks at me with something in his eyes. Again his trying to tell me something. Why won't he just say it. "You'll understand soon." He says.

He lets go of my hand and I feel slightly cold and hurt. I don't want to go to the cold I want to stay in the warmth and the only person that can keep me warm is Ace, but he walks away from me. And for some reason I can't let this warmth get away from me. I can't let it go. So I follow him. We head back in the same direction we came from. His walking fast and I can't keep up.  So I start running.

"Ace!" I call out. I trip over a branch and land on my hands. I can't lose him. So I get up and continue. I can't lose him. I just can't. I'm less aware as I run though the forest. My hair gets tangled on a branch and my arms get scratched. But I carry on, I must get to the warmth. We run out of the woods. I'm just getting into the ally when his at the end. I can't lose him. I can't.