One Last Time

12

I'm gazing out the window of Katherine's car. She's been driving for almost an hour. The city buildings slightly far behind us. All that's left is just highways and mountains. "Shit bitch where we going?" My head tilts to Katherine.

"What's a surprise if I tell you?" Her eyes are focused in what's in front of her. After ten minutes the car stops. I was too busy zoned out to realize there's really nothing around us anymore. Just dirt and in the distance more mountains. Katherine steps out of the car and so do I. "Here we are!" She exclaims.

I turn to her side and see a gate stretching alongside almost as far as the eye can see. It's night so you can't see much. Katherine pulls out her phone, turning on her flash light. I come over to her and she walks towards the gate. As we approach it a sign is visible "No Trespassing"

"I don't think we should be here." I tug on her sweater and she scoffs.

"Relax. I know where we're going. Trust me." There's a hole in the ground right beneath the fence. Katherine bends down and lifts the gate just a little enough for someone or something to go through. "Go!" She waves her arm. In discomfort I bend down as my hands feel the crumbled surface. I crawl through the hole and I'm on the other side. Katherine follows afterwards. Once she pops back up to the surface she pats her clothes and rubs her hand together to get any dirt off. I do the same thing as well. "Okay now we're just going to walk up here." Her light lands on a trail way that's leading up a hill.

I grunt looking up. "I didn't come here for a hike."

"Oh shut up. You'll be fine. It isn't the end of the world." She teases and starts walking uphill. After several minutes we reach the top. "Here we are." As I finally stand at the top the scenery is lit up with the city of Los Angeles. The stars are so visible and on the sides there's the mountains leaning against one another. It looks truly mesmerizing.

"Wow." I whisper and Katherine chuckles.

"This used to be my place of peace and solitude when I was a teenager. I went through that "rebellious phase." My so called group of friends led me here. We used to come up here and do the craziest shit. Once I realized or knew that this little phase was destroying me. I came back up here alone. I stared out into the city for hours just thinking. I'm passing this secret place onto you now. I know you're troubled. I want to help so here's my lending hand." She pauses as her head turns to the scenery. Her fingers continuously rub against each other and she takes a deep breath before facing me again.

"I trust this place. This little place will soon enough trust you as well." She faintly speaks.

"I didn't know you went through that."

"Yeah. I was very messed up in the head. But there's always recovery. Take that road here. You can never do recovery alome though which is why this mountain is like a person. It can't breathe though, or talk, or eat, you can't even make out with it." She lightly laughed. "You can write your songs here's, express your feelings, even shout from the top of your lungs!" I laugh and she does too.

"I love you so much Kathy thank you, thank you, thank you!" I hug her so tight. "I trust you as well. For now on I'll tell you if I ever feel a certain way." We let go and she smiles.

"Just make sure to confine on this mountain. Good things will come."

"Of course. It's just a mountain."

"It's not just a mountain. But whatever. Now let's get you back home. It's getting windy up here." We go back down the mountain, under the fence and back in the car.

I take a deep breath as the car starts moving again.

Maybe it is time for recovery.

It's time to move on.

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