4 Senses

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Jake's POV

She tried turning around to run away, I guess, but my senses were quick enough to notice that.

"Wait!" 

I was quick enough to catch her arm.

She turned around and gave me a confused look, asking me solely with her eyes why I stopped her from leaving.

"Don't leave. I'll just go. You were here first anyway. And you might need your privacy. I can just come back another time," I told her, a small smile forming on my lips.

I was slowly forgetting my worries and troubles just being at the cliff.

But then a thought suddenly went in my mind. One that slowly started to bother me.

"I came here to forget all the sadness," I confessed. I really just felt like I needed to tell someone and Riley seemed like the perfect person for that.

"But this is not about me anymore. It's about you and why you're here. What is a beautiful girl like you doing at an equally beautiful place like this?" I asked.

Her eyes widened and a faint blush formed on her cheeks once I finished talking.

She started to sign but I could not understand so I took out my phone, unlocked it, and gave it to her, opening the note app. She was a smart girl and she knew what I wanted her to do.

So she started typing. And typing. And typing.

After about thirty seconds, she gave me back my phone and I read what she was trying to tell me.

I just wanted to stay in a calm place and I've been coming here since I was a little girl. There are some problems at home and I needed an escape. From everything.

If she came here when she was little, how come we never crossed paths?

I ignored my question and turned my phone off, keeping it back in my pocket before I did what my instincts told me. My mind tried to convince me that it wasn't right but I just had to do it. It wasn't like I kissed her. I just pulled her into a hug.

It just felt like the right thing to do. When I read what she typed, I felt the pain she felt. And I saw the pain in her eyes when I looked at her right after.

I eventually pulled away and at that exact time, a tear fell out of her eye. It broke my heart seeing her like that. She always was a jolly person and that was the only time I saw her smile vanish.

I haven't known her for such a long time. Only a few short days but I felt like she was slowly getting pushed into my life.

She immediately wiped the tear off her face, and as if nothing happened, a smile was back on her face. But her eyes never went back to the vibrant shade of green they were before.

"Well, I think it's best you head home and I get back to my house too, okay? And if you want, I can bring you to your house. My car is parked just by the side of the road," I volunteered.

Her eyes widened and she shook her head at what I said.

I can manage.

She mouthed.

"You sure?"

She nodded and headed off to the opposite direction of the road before I could even stop her.

Maybe her house is just close. Don't act like a boyfriend. You're not one. A voice in my head told me.

I walked to my car and went in, still thinking deeply about why Riley went to the other direction.