Rue's Mad World

Chapter 2

A/N a bit shorter than before but enjoy

-abby

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"Watch where you're going!"

"Sorry," I mumbled back. Usually I would have said something "unlady like"  to egotistic jerks who think they own the sidewalks, but I was too upset that Pax and I had fought. Gosh I hated it so much. Seriously, the closest thing we ever had to a fight before was when we had to decide which concert we were going to see over the Christmas holiday. But that was easily ended with a coin flip (we ended up seeing Pax's choice of Kanye over my Buble)

"One ticket please." I said meekly to the person at the ticket centre for The Eye, when I had finally reached it.

"£2 is your change!" the girl at the counter said a little too cheerfully for my liking. I grabbed my cash and my ticket without saying thank you, before making my way to the long line in front of The Eye. I had to squint my eyes from the bright sunlight; It was starting to get really really hot. I tugged at my black skinny jeans as I walked, silently cursing myself for wearing them and tied back my wildly curly brown hair into a messy bun before finding a spot at the back of the line.

"Dave stop it!" I heard a shrill voice giggle. I turned around to see an annoyingly affectionate couple who had just entered the line behind me 

Great. Now I have to watch them makeout the entire time we're in line.

"Only if you stop being so beautiful." he replied. He took off his red baseball cap and placed it on his girlfriends head, but not before gently stroking her face. I thought I was going to barf. Didn't they realize that eventually they were going to end up like Pax and Edward?! I was hoping sooner than later so that my post fight pity party could continue undisturbed by their PDA.

I placed my headphones in my ear and pressed play on my iPhone. The sweet voice of Brandon Flowers came blasting through. It was a nice replacement to their sounds of a grossly loved-up couple. I had only gotten through about half of Mr. Brightside when another shrill voice disturbed my peace. This time it came in the form of an excited scream, so I took one headphone out to listen.

"OMG GUESS WHAT?" said one of the girls from the group of three in front of me. They all looked about my age, but were extremely well dressed. A little too over dressed for a Ferris wheel, might I add.

"Someone just said that they spotted Ash Valentine right near Westminster Bridge!" The girls erupted into a fit of squeals. They were so loud that I had to turn my music off completely in fear of going deaf.

"Shutup! Are you Serious!?" another one of the girls piped up, her eyes wild with a mixture of disbelief and excitement. "Then we have to go find him, we can go on The Eye another time!" Her friends eagerly nodded in agreement and the three girls quickly left the line.

I slid over to take their place ahaead, slightly amused that the girls had actually left. What type of people pay good money to go on the world famous eye to  go stalk a boy. Even if that boy was Ash Valentine.

I was a little surprised he was here to be honest. As the lead singer of the very popular boyband Mad World -- and I mean very popular,  it was surprising that he had allegedly decided to grace us mortals with his presence and roam the streets of London.

I'd be slaughtered for saying this in front of any teenage girl, but to be honest, I really didn't think Mad World was that great. I didn't hate them. I mean if their songs came on the radio (and they did often)  I wouldn't change them, but I certainly wasn't like Pax who had posters of them plastered on her wall and their song "Downtown Love" as her ringtone.

Dammit I was thinking about Pax again. I was tempted to text her and tell her what I just had overheard from the three girls but decided against it. After all, she did ask me to leave her alone.

The line slowly started to dwindle as I got closer. It looked like more girls were leaving to answer the call for "The great search of Ash Valentine". I checked twitter to see if the spotting of Ash wasn't just a rumor and was surprised to find out that it wasn't. A blurry picture of Ash Walking on the bridge posted 15 minutes ago, had already gotten 10,000 retweets. I felt kind of sorry for him. The guy was about to get mobbed by crazy teenage girls. At least he could at least count me out, there was no way I was wasting good money to go moon over a boy. 

"This way miss." I slipped my phone back into my purse and followed the worker's directions onto The Eye. As we started to ascend I forced a smile on my face and promised myself that somehow I would find a way to turn this horrible day into one of the best days of my life.

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"Watch your step Miss."

I stepped off the eye feeling happier than when I first got on. The 30 minute ride was surprisingly just as good the second time around. Nothing like a little site seeing 400 ft off the ground to clear the mind of the days events. I dug in my purse to find my car keys to go home. Even though the ride was nothing short of breathtaking I was kind of tired, I'd just wanted to go home and drown my sorrows over ice cream and a batman marathon (I couldn't have watched Gossip girl because it might have reminded me of a certain someone). Plus I wanted to get out of my clothes and into a really big tshirt. It sounded so relaxing that I quickened my pace to get to my car.

I can see my car. come on Rue you're that much closer to an evening with Christian Bale.

Wait..what...who is that?? 

I was about 10 feet from my car when I noticed a black figure crunched beside it. My heart instantly started beating faster. It looked like someone was trying to break into one of the vehicles! 

What should I do, should I call the police? 

I wanted to call in the creep more than anything but I wasn't 100% sure that they were actually going to steal anything. They were just sitting there, as if they were hiding from something.... or waiting to attack someone.The mystery person had an outline of a male body from behind and was wearing a black hoodie and black jeans. I couldn't see his face at all.  I decided to suck it up and go inspect the figure. In normal circumstances I would have hid and cried in the corner  until they left, but Batman was waiting and I just really REALLY wanted my bed. I gripped my purse a little tighter preparing myself to use it as a weapon.

Oh gosh What if he has a knife or even worse a gun. 

I had a feeling my purse wouldn't do well in a gun fight but there are a lot of crazy things you'll do when you just want to go home.

" HEY WHAT ARE YOU DOING BY MY CAR" I said loudly. Before I knew it the figure grabbed my wrist and  pulled me down beside him. I started screaming and hitting him with my purse violently. There was no way I  was getting kidnapped before I had the chance to see the second Avengers or apologise to Pax!

"SHHHHHHHH, please can you just be quiet. I'm begging you. I have no intention whatsoever of hurting you."

Since when did kidnappers say please?

I instantly stopped, curious to why a kidnapper would have such a kind voice. I also noticed how gently he was holding my wrist.

"And what the heck do you have in there?" he rubbed the place on his head that I had hit him. " Wow you really know how to hurt a guy!" he laughed.  The figure pulled off his hood and for the first time, looked me straight in the eye. I let out a small gasp. I found myself starring face to face with none other than Ash Valentine.