Once Upon A Nightmare

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[ if you can.. listen to the 2 songs that are in here while you're reading the story. The A Team by Ed Sheeran & Let Her Go by Passenger. Thanks.. ]

: l o u i s :

I wake up to hear Zayn packing up already humming Viva La Vida by Coldplay. I smile and close my eyes and fall asleep again.

" Hey.. Louis.. You have to get up now.. " Someone is lightly shaking my shoulder and I open my eyes to see Zayn almost inches from my face. Me opening my eyes must've scared him cause he jumped as if he wasn't expecting it.

" Morning. " I say to Zayn.

" Morning Louis. " He says sitting down on the side of the bed.

" So.. What's planned for today? " I laugh. Knowing we have no plan at all of what we're doing or where we're going.

" Just drive as far as we can get I guess. Have some fun Louis. I'm not just going on this trip for the heck of it. Adventure is what I'm looking for. " Zayn says.

" Well, you won't get much adventure if you can't even say hell. " I look at him as he blushes knowingly.

" Hell. Happy? " He says with humor in his eyes.

" Very happy. "

" So let's go. " I say jumping up.

We leave the hotel and get in the cab. I start to drive.

We drive for 4 hours just telling each other more about ourselves. Zayn Javaad Malik has a lot of things he hasn't told me, but now I know more about him at least.

We drive past a sign and I see Zayn read it.

Beuhmont National Park hiking trails and camping and cabins NEXT LEFT

He smiles.

" Hey Louis. Take the next left. Sounds adventurous. " He laughs.

" I'm not sure you even know what adventurous means Zayn. " I say making a left.

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An hour later we're leaving the cabin we rented for a day to go hiking. I've never been hiking before. Obviously since I'm a taxi driver who doesn't leave New York and hasn't left New York in  8 years. I'm not going to lie and say I wasn't worried.

I'm at this point worried I could

· Get eaten by animals

· Fall off a cliff

· Be taken hostage

· Eaten by cannibals

· Fall into a river and drown

· Lose Zayn

· Get lost

The list goes on.

" Come on Louis. " Zayn yells from ahead of me.

" I'm coming! I'm coming. " I run to catch up.

" You look a bit nervous. " Zayn says as I'm now walking in pace with him.

" No.. I'm fine. " I say standing up straighter.

" Okay. " Zayn smiles.

We walk up to a sign with a map on it showing what trails are the easiest and what ones are the hardest.

" Which trail? " Zayn asks.

" The hard one. "

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