Fearless?

Fearless? - Chapter Thirteen

‘Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear,’

- Mark Twain

Chapter Twelve

Azelie refused to believe Cole, right up until the moment he pulled up outside of her house in his car. And even then, she still couldn’t get over the idea. He was taking her sky diving! Was he actually serious about the entire thing? 

“He’s outside!” Ted shrieked from downstairs as Azelie sat upstairs on her bed. Everything had just gone back to normal between Ted and Azelie, with only an extra appointment between Azelie and her therapist arranged earlier than planned. “You know, I should really ask what his intentions are with my niece, you know, just to check that he’s not going to take advantage of you or anything!” Ted added as Azelie ran down the stairs, desperate to stop him. 

“It’s fine Ted! His intentions are all innocent!, the most he wants to do is see me jump out of a plane,” Azelie replied, reaching the bottom of the stairs just in time to stop Ted sneaking out to talk to Cole. 

“I’m still not cool with the whole skydiving thing. I mean, what kind of first date is that!” Ted cried, throwing his hands in the air! “Chivalry is dead. I’m telling you now!”

“It’s not a date - trust me on that,” Azelie smiled as she slipped her converse on to her feet, attempting to tie the laces as quickly as possible.

“That’s what you are saying now! Next you will be coming home and announcing that you’d actually ran off to Vegas, and got married by an Elvis impersonator,” Ted cried, “Besides, skydiving ain’t my idea of a sunday afternoon activity. What if something happens like the parachute doesn’t open fully, or the rope snaps, or something!” He ranted on and on. Azelie just sat there rolling her eyes at her worrying uncle.

“Ted, you are more scared than I am! Honestly, it will be fine. Nothing's going to go wrong,” she replied, trying to comfort her uncle. She was about to add something else when she was cut off by the high pitched squeals from her uncle.

“OOH! He’s coming up to the house! Maybe I do get to meet him,” He cried, jumping around like a loony. Azelie swore under her breath before tying her second shoe. She sprinted ran over to the door, stopping for a brief second to say goodbye to her uncle before opening the front door and stepping out of the house, slamming it behind her. 

Cole was halfway up the drive to her house, but he stopped as soon as her saw Azelie stepping out of the house.

“Hey,” She smiled as she walked out of the house and noticed how he smiled back before taking in his appearance. His hair was in that crazy just-rolled-out-of-bed look which seemed to suit him perfectly, along with what he was wearing a light blue hoodie and a pair of dark denim jeans. Only now did it dawn on Azelie that every time she saw Cole, he seemed to look hotter and hotter! She wasn’t interested in dating him or anything, it was just something she noticed. 

“You do know that your uncle is watching us with a pair of binoculars right?” he questioned, a huge grin spreading across his lips as his gaze floated past Azelie. She whipped her head around to look back, and sure enough, Ted was standing at the window, close to the curtains, holding a pair of binoculars in Azelie and Cole’s direction while grinning like a loony. She shook her head slightly before turning back around.

“Yeah, he was recently released from the mental institute... god knows why they let him out early!” Azelie smiled, looking back up at Cole. Cole just nodded his head slowly, a look of confusion forming on his features as he turned back around to walk to the car. They walked back down the drive and slipped into Cole’s car.