Tangled Strings

Chapter 16

Ashley

The lectures went well and in my English AP lecture, which I shared with Bryan, I told him my plan about going geocaching with him. Of course I had to make it up to him sooner or later. And the sooner, the better. We decided to meet at Central Park at five o'clock. That was the perfect time for geocaching.

By the way, geocaching is a sport or you can say an activity in which the people playing it using GPS and other such techniques to hide and then find containers called caches that are marked as Official Geocache. A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook and a pencil or a pen. The geocacher enters the date they found it and sign it with their code name. It contains items for trading usually a more sentimental item. The coordinates along with other details of the location of the cache is posted on a listing site. The finding geocachers take the details from the site and use GPS to find the cache. They are free to take the items present in the cache in exchange for leaving something of similar or higher value, for the next geocacher to find.

It's actually pretty amazing and you get a lot of time to play it and going with Bryan will make our bond even stronger.

"So, Bryan, you up for it today?" I sneaked a peek at him as he zealously skateboarded beside and round and about me. Yup, he had one in his locker. My question didn't seem to bother him as he kept staring at the ground, skateboarding.

"Yes." he replied, coolly.

"You sure?" he snatched a glance at me and flashed his worth-dying-for smile.

"Absolutely." and then continued with what he was doing.

"So meet you at five in Central Park?"

"Yeah, sure."

"Ok, byee." I waved at him. Nevertheless, he followed me to my car on his skateboard. I will also learn to skate someday!! Then I too will not look at him but the ground!

"You bothered by me looking at the ground?" Bryan smirked lifting his eyebrows.

"Oh! Holy shit! Did I say that out loud?"

"Yeah, totes."

"But it did bother me!!" I argued.

"Sorry about that! Well, I could teach you how to skate like a pro! What say?" he said excitedly.

"Really?" I widened my eyes like they were going to pop out any second.

"Yeah."

"Aww! Thank you, Bryan! You're the best!" he deserved a hug and so he got one. When we pulled back, I saw his eyes gleaming.

"So when do we start?" I asked curiously.

"I'll tell you that, maybe on Friday. I'll let you know."

"Sure thing." I waved at him the second time today and drove off to home, sweet home. On the way, I couldn't help but think that Bryan was the second person today whom I'd complimented as the best. First being my brother. Well, what could I do, everything was rainbows and unicorns for me today. But it won't be long when the dark clouds would hide the rainbows and instead of unicorns there'll be dragons breathing fire. I just shrugged the thought off. I shouldn't be thinking evil when everything was going fine, should I?

I steered my way through the crowd and entered the driveway. I hopped out of the car and went inside the house, hoping to grab something worthwhile to eat as I was dying with hunger. Exaggerated.

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I came downstairs at half past four. I was wearing a tank top, khaki shorts and converse. Well, I couldn't find better clothes for geocaching. Edward was engrossed in the story of Rachel and Ross, but as soon as he heard my footsteps, his head snapped back towards me.