Caught By My Predator✓

Chapter 2 - At 9

Ida's POV

~ they say we got one life, one life to live
And when we grow up, we show love and give all we can give.
Cause we got one life one life to live
And as the days and nights go by ...~

It's 8:30 pm, and I was completing the literature homework while listening to 'Forever young.'

Soon enough, there was a knock on my door and Mom slipped into my room to remind, "Ida its almost going to be 9, be ready."

I closed my books as soon as the song ended and crawled up to my closet. Yes crawled. My legs had gone numb from sitting for so long.

I grabbed my comfy, plain and black-t-shirt along with my short Jeans and changed into them quickly.

Taking my phone, I headed downstairs to stuff some food into my mouth.

Not too long after Engine called to tell that she was waiting outside.

I informed my mom, "Mom, I am heading out and probably would be back by 11 or so, I'll take the keys with me, so you don't need to be bothered by staying awake till I'm back,"

I slid the phone into the front pocket and carefully chose the keys with the lightest and smallest key chain so that it would fit into my pocket and not give me the feeling that someone was pulling my jeans down.

Like seriously, my mother buys any key chain disregarding the fact of how big and heavy it is.

Once she even bought a cheap but pretty doll to hang in the car. But I have to mention, that the doll ended up in my room after a few days. Reason being the chain and the doll were star crossed lovers, never meant to be together.

While walking towards the front gate I found Engine sitting in a cab. I headed her way and jumped right into the cab and closed the door. she saw me safely enter into the cab and instructed the driver to take us to a twenty-five minutes faraway mall.

There was complete silence in the cab until the driver switched on the radio.

Engine and I looked at each other in the realization of the memories we had with the song.

We had even tried out a dance on it when we were kids. I chance upon the dance video on a random basis while trying to make space for my phone by deleting unnecessary items, and every time by the end of the video, I am out of breath due to the hard laughter I had watching us move our butts here and there.

We both broke into a chuckle, which simultaneously broke the silence we had between us.

She turned towards the window to look at the Night Sky.

"It's pretty... stunning," She spoke in astonishment.

The moment with the night sky had made me forget the past, present and the future, it's like it had absorbed me.

I actually like the idea that there are no streetlights on the road, the light coming from the car and the side houses was more than enough.

"so, you are not mad at me, anymore right?"
Angelin adds after a few moments of admiration.

when she asked that, all the things that had happened the entire day was brought back to me. Nevertheless, me thinking about it is
not going to change a thing.

Not that I wanted Engine to break up...It's just you know that feeling...

"I was never mad at you Engine," I assured her.
She must have been so tensed this whole time.

"I'm sorry ..." she felt guilty.

"Don't apologize, you did nothing wrong. It was something new ... and Et- ... "
she cuts in before I could finish