Filed to story: Loving You In My Final Days
She was speechless. Was he thinking about those things all this time and was that why he was not responding at all? She couldn’t believe him! How could he still think about those things when the view up here was this spectacular? He didn’t know how to appreciate the beauty of nature at all!
“Like for example -” Before Alex could finish his sentence, Abi’s palm flew over his mouth, stopping him from saying anything else.
“Alex, t-that’s not nice. We can’t do something like that here,” she scolded and Alex’s face beamed in amusement. A little lamb was actually scolding him…
He grabbed her wrist and peeled it away from his mouth.
“Why not? Are you shy? Don’t worry, Abigail, we are in the best place right now and no one will see us from here,” he assured her but Abi became even redder.
“What are you saying… the moon and stars are up there, watching us right now! A-and it’s too dangerous to be doing n-naughty things up here!” she covered her face with her palms as if she wanted to shrink and disappear.
“. . .”
Before any reaction could register on the man’s face, Abi peeked through her fingers to look at him when suddenly…
“Ahhh!!!” she yelled excitedly as her eyes turned into huge circles. Her arms suddenly wrapped around his neck as she pulled him down to move his head out of the way just to have a better view of what she just saw.
“I’m going to make a wish, Alex!!” she exclaimed and before Alex knew it, the girl let go of him and slipped away from under him, and stood up.
She closed her eyes and cupped her hands together as the wind blew, gently lifting her hair so that it looked like they were floating behind her.
When she opened her eyes again, she looked at Alexander with a smile. The man was already lying back on his spot, looking back at her with a look of wonder and bewilderment as he gazed up at her.
Abigail was so happy.
“Alex, you make a wish too!” She urged excitedly, but the man just closed his eyes as if to avoid seeing her face.
“I don’t wish, Abigail,” he mumbled but Abi’s expression didn’t change.
“Okay, I’ll make another for you then, Alex,” she said and the man abruptly opened his eyes. When he looked at her again, she was already facing the horizon, with her hands cupped together, and her eyes closed while her long silky hair was dancing gracefully with the wind.
Alexander fell silent watching her.
When she was done, she looked down at him and smiled before she spread her arms out and looked up at the sky. Alex just continued watching her. He seemed curious about what she wished for him but he didn’t ask. An indifferent look just flashed in his eyes as he watched her.
But suddenly, an unexpected strong gust of wind blew by. Abi was caught off-guard and her body wobbled from the force. She tried to regain her balance but it was useless. The wind had pushed her body backwards so unexpectedly that all she could do was flail her arms round trying not to fall down. Alex saw what had happened and he instantly moved, as fast as lightning, wrapping his arm around her waist and pulling her close to him into the safety of his embrace.
“The girl who was actually brave enough to bargain with the devil was about to be defeated by the wind so easily… I can’t believe you, Abigail!”
“I… I’m not that weak. I just wasn’t expecting it to blow so strong at that moment,” she told him. Her heartbeat was drumming in her ears and her breathing became a bit shallow. For a second there she had thought she might have been done for! Luckily for her, her boyfriend had quick reflexes.
“Yeah, yeah. We’re going,” he said succinctly.
“Can we stay for another hour?” Even though she had a scary experience just now, she didn’t want this experience to end yet. She wanted to imprint this magical feeling of being on top of the world with Alex by her side.
“Do you want me to let go and drop you from here, huh, Abigail?” he playfully asked and Abi’s arms suddenly wrapped around his neck as tightly as she could, as if she was clinging on for dear life.
Alex had his answer and her reaction made him laugh.
“Good girl, that’s what I thought,” he said before he carried her towards the ladder.
Alex placed her down by the end of the ladder.
He turned to her and said, “I’ll go down first. Make sure you hold on to the ladder so the wind doesn’t blow you away again,” he almost sounded worried about her but he was wearing a mischievous smile again as he said those words.
He quickly made his way down and the moment his feet landed on solid ground, he looked up and motioned for her to follow.
Abi swallowed. It was easy when she climbed up but looking down now, she felt a little scared. Thankfully, seeing Alex down there calmed her heart.
She then placed her feet on the first rung and Alex immediately noticed her feet were slightly shaking. He twitched as he became alert. This girl was simply unbelievable. How could she talk so tough and all that when she was trembling over something like this?
As Abi carefully climbed down, Alex didn’t realise it but he had been holding his breath the entire time he watched her and only let it out when she was finally at arms reach.
Abi jumped down to the verandah and clapped her hands together and beamed in satisfaction. ‘One more thing to tick off the list!’ she celebrated inwardly.
They headed back to the dining hall where dinner was already laid out on the table. She was surprised to see Mr. Black Leather Jacket sitting there, casually chatting with Alex’s latest visitor.
“Alex! What took you so long? Were you exercising or something?” Xavier said as he saw the two enter the room.? He accompanied his statement with a couple of winks, clearly indicating what kind of ‘exercise’ he was referring to.
Kai nudged Xavier like a big brother does when their younger brother was being naughty and he went up to Abi and finally introduced himself.
“Hello, Abigail. My name is Skyler, but you can call me Kai for short.” He paused and looked at the guy next to him and introduced him also. “This guy here is Xavier… You can call him Zee or you can just ignore him, that’s fine too,” he said with a quick smile and a twinkle in his eye.
