Counting Stars

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Angelina and Bean kept walking, not exactly sure where they were going.

"So, where exactly do you come from, and where are you going?" Angelina asked Bean, her heavy Scottish accent made it hard for Bean to understand what she was saying.

"Why should I tell you?" He muttered as he dragged Cobalt forward. "Oh, I don't know? Maybe because we are traveling together and I'm not going to continue doing this bye the way if your attitude is going to be like this the whole time." She said stubbornly.

"Uh, you are so unendurable. Anyways, I come from my home, and I'm going to London." He said as they walked. "Ugh!" Angelina groaned frustratingly. "What, what are you upset about now?" Bean said, getting annoyed with her. "Great, I'm going to London as well!" She groaned, once again.

Bean sighed and continued walking without another word.

"Is that an English accent?" Angelina asked, stepping over a tree stump. "Yes, my family is originally from London. My parents died last year and I was forced to come here and live with my Aunt, Uncle, and the two most vexatious cousins ever known to the human race." He shuddered at the memory of his terribly irksome cousins.

He looked at Angelina who had seemed to be lost in thought as she walked. Bean reached his arm over to her and poked her shoulder once. Angelina seemed unaffected by the gesture. He poked her again and again until she finally snapped out of her trance. "WHAT?!" She shouted, rather loudly at him.

He pulled back and held his arms up in defense, something he did a lot.

"Sorry, you seemed lost in thought. I was just seeing if you were okay, jeez." He said, putting his hands down and grabbing Cobalt's reins.

Angelina rolled her eyes, clearly annoyed and continued walking.

All of a sudden the three found themselves at the edge of a river, a fairly large one.

"What now?" Bean asked, turning towards Angelina who was starring across it. She pointed a finger out across it. "Looks like the forest ends here. And then it starts up again over there." She said. Bean nodded in agreement. "Well, how do we get across it?" He sighed, looking down at his reflection in the water.

Angelina turned her body around so she was facing him, and smiled. Bean looked up at her face, "What?" He questioned. Without a word, Angelina lifted the end of her dress up to her waist and began to trudge through the murky water.

"Are you crazy?" Bean shouted at her questioningly, watching her walk through the water. Angelina stopped walking and turned around. "Maybe a little." She smirked, and pinched her fingers together as a demonstration showing him how little. Bean sighed, slipped his shoes off, and rolled up his pants then began to walk into the water, dragging Cobalt behind him.

Angelina began to walk again, Bean behind her trying to catch up. The next thing Bean knows, he's falling into the water, face first. Angelina turned around when she heard the splash and laughed. She held her stomach laughing the hardest when Bean got up again and spit out lake water. "It's not funny!" He said, leaving Cobalt behind him and attempting to run towards Angelina in the water. But because of the water it looked more like he was a turtle trying to speed walk towards her. She laughed even harder, trying to breathe and hold in the tears in her eyes. "Yes it is." She laughed, but her laughing was cut off when Bean tackled her, causing both of them to fall into the water.

Angelina came up, gasping for air. Then Bean came up, laughing at her and pointing. "You little-" She said but stopped and smiled. She stuck her hand under water and scooped up and hand full of mud. Bean stopped laughing when he saw her about to throw the mud at him. "Wait!" He shouted. Angelina halted and listened. "Angelina don't you dare, these are the-" "Too bad!" she screeched and threw the mud at him. He closed his eyes and braced for the mud to hit his face, but instead it hit him right in the crouch.

He opened his eyes and glared at Angelina who was having a laughing fit and enjoying Beans reaction.

He came at her once again and tackled her into the water. And when she came up he pelted her with mud, multiple times. They both laughed at each other and continued to throw mud. Angelina scooped up another handful of mud and Bean watched her and waited for her to throw it. But the mud never came. When he opened his eyes, Angelina was starring wide eyes at something behind him.

He turned around and saw a man on her horse starring at them with a pissed-off look on his face. And boy, did he look angry! He was wearing silvery, shinning, armor and had multiple silver weapons that looked dangerous secured to the side of the horses saddle. Angelina dropped the mud in her hands as she watched him, fear in her eyes.

"I found her!" The man shouted behind him. Angelina's heart raced as Bean turned around and gave her a questioning look. "Bean, we need to go now!" She demanded as she kept starring at the man, who just starred right back.

Bean turned around again and looked at the man, but now the man wasn't alone. He was joined by about three other men, with the same armor and weapons. But the next thing he knew the sound of horse hooves against the dirt filled his ears and he saw a heard of about fifteen other men.

"BEAN, WE NEED TO GO, NOW!" She screamed again, picking up the ends of her soaked dress. Bean and Angelina ran towards Cobalt. And Bean being closest to her got to her first and pulled himself onto her back, then Angelina on behind him.

He grabbed the reins and off they went, the sound of Cobalt's hooves galloping through the lake was met by the sounds of twenty other men on their horses trying to catch up to them.

Cobalt reached the edge of the lake and jumped back onto land. The sound of them men behind them shouting made Angelina scared. They galloped through the forest the men following not far behind.

"What do we do!?" Bean shouted at Angelina. "I don't know just keep going until we lose them!" She shouted back, hoping that that would work.