Susceptible

Chapter fifteen

We spent three days at the hotel. We didn't do a lot in our time. We lounged around in our room in the mornings, and Alex was always watching whatever action movie was playing on the tv. In the evenings we would go out into the town to do whatever was around. We played putt putt one night, walked around a beautiful lake another, and stopped at the fanciest restraunt in town the last night.

We had a good time together as it felt like a mini vacation for us. There was no talk of supers and superpowers, instead we just hung out like old friends. Alex seemed so happy, his smile never faded as we went out into the town. He talked to me about his childhood and times he got in trouble with his sister. He made me laugh so hard at the restraunt I was afraid he was going to get us kicked out.

I felt light and free being out in the world again, and I was happy by Alex's side. He always was making sure I was happy. He carried me the rest of the way when my feet got tired by the lake, he got down on his knees and pretended to worship me when I beat him by four strokes on putt putt, and he ordered me the dessert on the menu I was eyeing but would never admit I wanted.

I had forgotten all of my problems existed. For once I was not worrying about my family or Sam's, I was just living. I hadn't remembered a time even before Alex took me when I felt so carefree. It was a break from the super world and a break from my own mind.

This perfect little bubble was popped though when on the morning of what would've been our fourth day Alex's phone rang. It woke me up and I sat up in bed to look at him. He grabbed his phone and looked at the screen which illuminated his face in the early morning. He sighed running a hand down his face then cleared his throat before answering.

"Hello." Alex said. There was a muffled reply on the other end I couldn't hear.

"I told you that it would." Alex replied to the person on the other end.

"You're right." Alex said after a few seconds then moved into the bathroom closing the door. I strained my ears but all I could hear was Alex's muffled voice.

I was now wide awake with no chance of going back to sleep, so I pulled back the covers and stood to my feet. While I was stretching Alex came out from the bathroom and was off his phone.

"Good morning." I said smiling at him. He smiled in return and flipped on the lights. I bit my lip to keep from asking about the phone call hoping he would bring it up.

"So this gig is up." Alex said abruptly bending over by his suitcase.

"What?" My heart pounded. There was so many different things that could mean.

"We've got to go back. There's no need for us to stay here any longer." He replied.

"Oh." I said and my heart stopped racing. I went over to my bag and slowly started packing away my clothes which were mostly laying about. I didn't want to leave quite yet. It was weird, I knew I should be wanting to go back, but I just didn't.

I walked past Alex to the bathroom and gathered my toiletries in there stuffing them in my bag. I went back into the room to see Alex zipping up his suitcase.

"Ready?" He asked turning to face me. I nodded my head not wanting to speak. He glanced over the room once more to make sure we didn't leave anything then we headed out the door. It was 6:45 in the morning and when we got downstairs they were still laying breakfast out.

"C'mon let's put our bags in the car first." Alex said looking back at me. I nodded my head and followed him outside.

The sun had just risen and it was slightly foggy. It was too early to be hot yet and the cool morning air felt good waking me up. We walked to his car, a black sedan, and he popped open the trunk. He placed his bag inside then took mine from me and put it in.