Lost

Falling...

Laura hugged me close.

  "Goodbye dear." She whispered in my ear while she held me in her arms. Honestly, I didn't want to leave.  Though I didn't want to over stay my welcome. I loved the short time we'd been here.

  The short time I'd felt safe.

  Harry placed his hand gently on my back and I released from Laura's embrace.

  "Thank you." I said with a smile. These people had shown us such kindness. Kindness that I'd never known before. For that. I was ever so grateful.

  Harry and I walked out to my car. It was early morning. George and Laura had convinced us to stay another night before leaving. I was really going to miss them. Laura gave us their phone number and told us to call her and check in every now and then.

We pulled out of their drive way and back out on to the dead highway. I gazed out the window as Harry drove. Flowers were beginning to bloom everywhere and the grass was becoming greener.

A few hours passed and I'd fallen asleep. Soon to me shook awake by an excited Harry. "Baby, we're in Minneapolis now!" I jumped up excitedly from my slumber, trying to ignore the fact that Harry had just called me baby.

"Wow." I said.

"Yeah. Not as great as people make it out to be." He chuckled. He was wrong though. It was amazing. It was so different from the east coast. My eyes getting caught on old buildings and church like structures.

"Are we going to the mall?" I asked.
He nodded.

"Of course." He looked over at me with a sweet smile. He was acting odd.

Soon enough we were parked in a massive parking garage and entering the mall. We explored every level. It was big. Very big, but honestly it wasn't all that exciting. Finally we found ourselves in one of the many food courts.

"I'm hungry. What's good?" I asked Harry. He laughed at me.

"Anything is good."

I sighed. "You're no help." We scanned our options for a bit. Finally deciding on Panda Express. After getting our food and taking a seat I mentioned that I'd like to ride a ride.

"Okay. You're going by yourself." Harry said.

"What? Why?"

"I don't like rides. They make me sick." He replied.

"Oh come on!" I pleaded. "These rides are small. Please!" After much more begging I convinced him to go on the sponge bob roller coaster with me.

He squeezed my hand as we stood in line. He kept running his fingers through his hair nervously. I almost felt bad for him, but it was so funny.

"Harry, look at the little tiny kids going on the rides." I laughed. He just rolled his eyes.

We took our seats and strapped in. He kept his eyes closed, still clutching my hand. I swear he was cutting off circulation to my poor fingers. The small roller coaster climbed the incline.

Then with in seconds it was over. I looked over at Harry. His eyes were still shut as we came to a halt. I just stared at him for a moment. I hated myself for thinking it. But, my god. He was handsome.

"Harry it's over." I giggled, as I climbed out of my seat. He nodded slowly and opened his eyes.

"Never again." He said. I laughed.

...

"It's eight o'clock. We should hit the road." Harry pried. We were still at the mall. I sighed. I was so tired of sitting in the car.

"Or..." I began. "We could get a hotel room!" He curled his nose and bit his lower lip. Once again, God he was a hotty.

"Sam. You do realize we're kind of pressed for time. We've already wasted three days." He responded. He was right. I know that. Instead of agreeing, I stuck out my lip and gave him puppy eyes.

"I'm so tiiireeeed though!!" I whined. He rolled his eyes.

"Fine." He acted angry, but there was a smile forming at the corner of his mouth.

We ended up getting a room in the hotel that was connected to the mall. It was a little spendy, but totally worth it. We walked into our room up on the third floor. It was unlike anything either of us had seen. It was luxurious.

I flopped down into the big fluffy bed and let out a large sigh of satisfaction. This was heaven. I never wanted to get up, I could feel sleep overcoming me.

"We should hit the pool!" Harry declared and shook me from my almost-sleeping state. I didn't want to move, but a hot tub sounded nice. I agreed and we got ready to head down stairs.

There was no one at the pool. Just Harry and I. I stood there wrapped in a towel. I didn't want Harry to see me in my suit. I don't know why. I just felt self conscious. Especially because of my scars and bruises.

Harry on the other hand, had no problem throwing off his shirt and jumping in. He created a huge splash. He bobbed up from under the water with a big toothy grin. He was like a small child.

"come on baby! The waters fine!" He yelled. There he goes, giving me pet names again. I smiled uneasily. "If you don't get in, I'm gonna come throw you in!" He threatened.

"Calm your tits! I'm coming!" As the words escaped my mouth I dropped my towel exposing my little black bikini. Harry's eyes widened at the site of my nearly naked body, he looked completely shocked. I'm not sure if it was a good shock or bad. Either way I needed to get into the water and hide.

I ran and leaped into the pool. Drenching Harry with my splash. I emerged laughing. Harry laughed too and we ran around and splashed in the water for a good hour.

Once we'd exhausted ourselves, we retired to the hot tub. We sat extremely close to each other. Instead of it being awkward though it was really comforting.

"Sam?" Harry broke the silence.

"Yes?" I looked over at him.

"You're beautiful." He simply said in his deep smooth voice. I could feel the heat rush to my cheeks.

"Thank you." I whispered. His hand made its way to mine and we intertwined fingers and sat there in silence. I think I'm falling for him. Was all I could think.