Skylox - Nearly There

Chapter 14: Blushes And Vines

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Blushes and Vines

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~Jordan's POV~

After me and Fire's little disagreement, I decide to just be quiet and show them the way to our camp.

We have it all set up pretty well by now. We've been working on it for almost 5 years now. And by we, I mean my friends and I.

We call ourselves the Trees Men.

Because we live surrounded in trees.

The ones who decide to be friendly toward us, and don't get killed as easily as the rest of them.

The ones who are brave enough to come this far to FIND the camp, but the ones not brave enough to go all the way to the kingdom of Azikar.

They will be loyal, but not to cocky.

I wondered about Fire.

I've never seen her around the jungle before, yet she claimed she grew up here. Trees Men have done a 1 mile perimeter search for survivors, every month.

We haven't seen anyone new since we got here.

7 years I've been here.

Still don't know why I'm here,

Or how I got here.

Nobody knows.

I was pulled from my thoughts when Fire stumbled on a rock and bumped into me. Her hand brushed mine slightly, I'm sure it was simply accidental.

Warmth spread up my arm and throughout my whole body. I felt myself blushing, and I don't even know why!

"Jordan, why are you blushing?" Asked Jeromiah as he stopped walking.

"I'm not!" I countered, sounding like a five year old.

"Yeah you are! What just happened here?" He said, glancing at Fire.

Her eyes turned that brilliant shade of red again, and danced with flames.

"Sh-she bumped into me and she's burning hot so I got all warm and that's why blushing happened. I'm hot." I made a lame excuse.

"Hot? Eh, your like a 4." Said Adam nonchalantly. Ty pushed his shoulder, then ended up laughing for like 2 minutes straight.

"And besides," Fire cut in.

"I'm not even hot right now."

"Well actually you are kind of-" Adam started, but was cut off with a jab in the side by Ty.

"I haven't used flames in like an hour, I guess somebody just blushes a lot. It is common to occur more frequent if it ran in your genes do to sizing of blood vessels in your cheeks." Fire said awkwardly. Science much?

"*cough NERD *cough*" said Jeromiah jokingly.

"She's not a nerd she's just intelligent and you would understand if you actually focused on what a girls personality is like rather than what she looks like." I barked at Jeromiah.

Where'd that come from?!

I continued walking ahead when a few minutes later I heard a slight giggle beside me.