Bouquet of Lilies

Chapter 3

The movie was great. We laughed almost the entire time and ate popcorn.

"where to next," I ask as I brush my brown locks away from my face. Aideen glances in question at Luke who just shrugs. 

"Its only a little past lunch so we can stop somewhere and snack or we can do something suicidal until we're famished." He smiles and wraps an arm around his girlfriend. Luke whispers something in her ear and i watch as Marie giggles. I feel a dull pang of slight jealousy and whip my head back around. Get over it Kalin. Pull yourself together.

The wind picked up speed and howled in our ears to the point of becoming deaf. I kept tossing my hair back over my shoulder but it continued to tickle my nose and cheeks. Aideen's short hair billowed around her pale face and she swatted at it in frustration. "Lets hurry and get to the truck. Before I tear all my hair out," her voice was carried away in the strong breeze, but i managed to catch her slightly accented comment and i picked up the pace to a slow jog. Before long my fingers brushed the warm surface of the red truck. 

"i cant believe we have to sit out in this," Aideen grumbles loud enough for everyone to hear and she jams her foot on the back bumper  then hoists herself over the side. She disappeared in a ball of brown hair and pale skin over the edge and doesn't reappear. I let out a soft chuckle and repeat her actions into the truck. When i plop over the other side i landed on top of something much softer than the expected truck bed. 

"GET OFF!' 

Suddenly I'm being attacked by Aideen. She slaps and kicks from under me. I cant help but laugh as i roll off of her. She growls, "why werent you watching where you were going?" 

"i wasnt expecting you to make your home right against the edge!" 

"you could have killed me," she reaches over and smacks me.

"but i didnt," i smack her back. 

"dang you Kalin! Stop laughing."

i cackled even harder. When Aideen gets angry or frustrated her Irish accent hits its max. I could barely understand what she was saying, she was talking so fast. She fake pouts and turns her back to me then crosses her arms. 

"aww Aidie! Im sorry."

i can tell she rolled her eyes from the exaggerated sigh she let out. 

i was considering tackling her in a bear hug when the truck lurched forward and left the parkinglot. 

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 Intelligent teenagers are we.

Instead of stopping for a meal, we decided to hike around and take turns biking. Then as we were about to leave Zack got us lost. 

"I could have sworn left was the right way," he defends himself while we grumbled our way back where we came.

"well it obviously wasnt," Luke growls and kicked at the gravel path, "now we're starving and wasted about an hour wondering around."

Raven comforted her boyfriend, "its okay. Its easy to find our way back. Besides we need the exercise." They smile at each other and he drapes his arm over her, "you're a great girl RaRa."

She smiles, "i know."

 I turn away, for the second time, from a happy couple.

----------Derek POV------------

I hide in the shadows, sheilded by trees, watching her.

There was no way I was giving Nick the chance to destroy Kalin. I had made an promise. After I ran Nick off, I followed her to the theatre. I watched her trample around the trails while I scrambled from tree to tree. Now she was only a few feet away from the treeline where i was camoflauged close to the ground.