Forsaken

Air full of colour

"W-where are we?" I yawned rolling my eyes across the windscreen as I woke up.

"At a place where nobody knows us and nobody can find us." Alec sighed taking off his tie. He opened up the car door and gave me an encouraging look to do the same. I rubbed my eyes and got out yawning into my hand.

"S-sorry." I grumbled waking myself up before I was deemed rude.

"It's okay. How you feeling?" He asked looking to my chest.

"It's okay, tender but no real burns. Thank god."

He smiled gently "Guess that is something, look if you wanna send Aaron a text and let him know I've taken you out of wor-"

"No. No it will just lead to more questions and right now? I don't want to deal with them." I answered feeling a little selfish and guilty.

He nodded before moving to the back of his car and popping the trunk. I watched as Alec took off his jacket and laid it down before rolling his sleeves up on his crisp white shirt.

Despite the last couple of days with Aaron, I couldn't help but shamelessly gawk at Alec's forearms.

I couldn't be the only woman who thought shirt sleeves rolled up was hot... Right?

Undoing his top button he rubbed his neck and rolled his head before closing the trunk. "God it feels so much better.."

After that, he came over to me and guided me towards the large glass building with his arm on my back.

It wasn't until we got into the building that I realised it wasn't just a glass building, but a botanical garden.

"Oh woah.." I whispered feeling the humid temperature on my skin and the bright sunshine gleaming down on all different types of flowers and trees.

"I know right?" Alec whispered.

I turned to see a small smile on his face, he gently guided me on forwards on the cobbled stones. The walkway marked out by small wooden pillars with rope barriers. I had noticed a few lights placed by each of the pillars for the later hours where I presumed the lights would turn on giving a softer glow.

"I had no idea this place existed." I whispered in amazement.

My hands couldn't stop slapping onto Alec's arm in excitement as I noticed frogs on the plant leaves. "Look!"

He chuckled softly "There's a lot more than frogs here. But you have to keep your eyes open."

My hands went to my chest before I frowned. "Hurting?" He asked.

"Camera..." I muttered. Feeling the bitterness, I continued around slowly with him making a mental promise to myself that I would return with a camera.

"Look.." Alec whispered into my ear pointing to a gecko.

I grinned and watched it run away, I looked around to see a tortoise moving slowly across the ground.

"This place is amazing." I replied crouching down to watch the tortoise for a while.

I marvelled at the plants, flowers and trees of all different varieties that thrived in the warmer greenhouse climate, how the animals kept here were free to roam around and now kept enclosed behind glass.

In fact, Alec has stopped us from walking at one point as we stood at a tortoise pavement crossing. The Botanical gardens had even put up a small warning sign for people to watch their footings. Once happy that no tortoise was gonna jump out, we continued walking along until we reached the end.