"I could still get away if I want too" just then another loud crash of thunder rolls in causing me to jump, I didn't even realized I had jumped right into his arms.
"Your it" he whispers looking into my eyes.
Wow, you guys are fantastic. Ok I have come up with a decision, there will be talk about BDSM but Christian and Ana will not partake in it with each other. I wanted him to have some kind of dark past and I had thought up of a few things but it just didn't give me the same feel as BDSM does. Ana needs to help him and bring him into the light sort of speak. Hard to explain but you'll see as the story unfolds a little more.
His lips are dangerously close to mine, his tongue lightly brushes up against my lips as he licks his lips that's how close he is. My breathing is at a standstill I have no clue what he is going to do next. I close my eyes waiting almost praying that he'll kiss me, and he does but not where I thought he was going to. Instead he plants a soft delicate kiss on my cheek. I open my eye in shock, here I thought for sure he would have kissed me on the lips like before.
I give him this confusing look and he frowns a little before he looks at me and says "I want to kiss you so bad" I tilt my head just a little a lean in, but he stops me. "Like I said I want to kiss you so bad but that might change things for us and if things go sour I would lose you as my friend, so I think it's best if we just stay friends"
I let out an un-ladylike huff and roll my eyes. "Ana you can't get mad at me, you said it yourself you can't be any more than just a friend to me"
"I did" trying to question myself if I really said that. Because right now all I have is this urge to just kiss him.
"Yes you did and I want to respect that, you don't know what friendships mean to me. I don't have many and I want ours to be special" I hang my head. He puts his fingers under my chin and lifts my head so that he can look at me.
"It's not that I don't like you, it's just I don't know if I could be the man for you. I'm very dark and I want to keep you far away from it as possible. I'm not doing it to hurt you, I'm doing it to protect you" I raise my eyebrow how could he possibly hurt me? He has been nothing but kind to me. Whatever he's right we should just be friends.
"I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me to think that there could have been something between us" why am I feeling like this all of a sudden, I want to burst out into tears at the moment. This has to be the effects of last night still coursing through my body.
"I'm going to go back inside, I'm still a little tired" he closes his eyes and nods his head, I slowly make my way to the double doors, I look of my shoulder just before open the door, his elbows are resting on the cement railing and his head is in his hands, his eyes are closed and I can see he is whispering something to himself.
After I get back inside I change into a dry pair of clothes. Everyone is still fast asleep. My eyes start to feel itchy and I know this is a sign that I still need sleep. I walk over to my half deflated air mattress that Christian and I shared last night. I grab the foot pump we have and begin to fill it. Almost spending ten minutes pumping the mattress is firm again. I plop myself right in the middle of the bed, I can still smell his scent on the mattress, it's a mixture of CK obsession and fresh linen, oh so heavenly.
A couple of hours later I wake up. I can hear everyone talking about something. I get up from the mattress rubbing the crust out of my eyes and listen to their conversation.
"I think it would be best if the six of us stay together as a group tonight"
"I agree after what happened last night with Ana we don't need anything like that to happen again to her" They all turn to look at me waiting for me to say something.
"Yeah I'm ok with that, but honestly guys I don't think that's going to happen again"
"You don't know that Ana, it's better to be safe than sorry, Kate and I know the signs it would be best if we all stick together"
"Ok fine, I don't want to argue about it. We will all team up, but can we at least spend some time in the waiting room? I really want to find out what or who the hell that was and who it is that needs help"
"2 hours" Kate puts her two fingers up in the air "That it just 2 hours Ana"
"That's fine I can live with that" I tell her with a smile and she smiles back but it doesn't reach her eyes. I know she doesn't like the idea of me going back in there but I really need to find out what this spirit wants from me.
"Well we have a few hours to kill, what do you all want to do?" Jen asks
"Well I know something we can play, but you might think it's childish" Elliot says
"Oh god, I could only imagine what Elliot has in mind" Christian said while rubbing his hands over his face.
"Hide and seek" We all turn to look at Elliot like he is crazy.
"Um how about not!" I said
"Oh come on, we have this huge ass building with all these places we can hide. You mean to tell me you wouldn't have fun"
"OK I have to admit that does sound kind of fun" Sawyer comments on Elliot's idea of fun.
"Yeah I'm going to agree too that does sound like fun" Kate says. I feel like I am losing the battle of this not being a good idea.
"Ok everyone who wants to play hide and seek raise your hand and say I" Elliot says and then raises his hand.
"I" Kate's in
"I" Sawyer as well
"I" Jen says with a smile on her face while looking at Sawyer.
"Looks like we're out voted" Christian turns and says to me.
"Well isn't this just fucking great" I say in return
"Ok let's sets some ground rules first" Christian states
"Are you sure about that bro, remember what happened about the ground rules the girls set. Yeah that never happened" Elliot laughs before kissing Kate on the cheek.
"Not those kind of rules ass hole!" he rolls his eyes at Elliot "We need to stay on the concourse floor only, there are plenty of rooms and cubby holes for everyone to hide in"
"Alright, alright. Who's going to be it" Elliot asked and Christian smirks at me, it takes me a few seconds to figure out why he is smirking but then I remember the two of us outside playing in the rain. I bite my bottom lip and Christian's eyes are glued to it.
"I'll do it" Christian said.
"Ok you know what to do count to twenty then come find us"
"I know what to do Lelliot!" Why did Christian just call Elliot Lelliot? I wonder if that was Elliot's childhood nickname when he was growing up. Make mental note to ask about that later. Shit time to hide.
"1…2…3…4…5…" Christian closes his eyes and starts to count, we all run around in circles trying to get out of everyone's way. The three of us girls are giggling like there is no tomorrow because Elliot and Sawyer just chest bumped each other trying to get out of the room.
"6…7…8…9…10…" I manage to get out of the room and head into the concourse, I know I only have second left before Christian exits the room. I do a quick look around and run all the way across the concourse to where the old ticket booths used to be for passengers to buy their train tickets.
Very faintly I can still hear Christian counting "19…20…ready or not, I can't believe I am fucking doing this here I come"
I quickly duck down behind the ticket counter, I can hear the hard souls of his sneakers walking across the marble floor of the concourse. I'm trying to get my breathing under control as I am still panting from my run from the room to the ticket booth.
"Come out, come out where ever you are" Christian chants to himself while looking for the 5 of us.
I can feel the adrenaline coursing through me of the fear of getting caught, I very slowly I start to stand trying very sneaky to look over the counter without being seen. I look straight ahead down the concourse. I see nothing, I look towards my right which is the old baggage claim. I see what I think might be Jen but I can't be too sure. Then I look towards my left and there is no one there. I slowly sink back down so that I am out of sight.
About a few minutes later I her little pitter patter of feet coming my way. SHIT! It's Christian he found me I know it. Still crouching down I slowly move to the far corner of the ticket area, there is a tiny room from what I can see. Just as I am about half way there I hear a whisper "Hey"
I turn to look and it's Jen, she waves for me to come over to her and I do.
"Where's Christian" she asks, with my eyes bugged out I shake my head as if I am saying I don't know.
"Where have you been hiding?" I asked her and she point in the direction of the baggage claim.
"I was in the baggage claim, but then I saw your head pop up and down and figured I come hide with you"
"Yeah I was looking to see where Christian was but I didn't see him" I tell Jen
"Do you think he has found the others?" Jen asked me, and I can tell she is waiting to know where Sawyer is.
"What's the deal with you and Sawyer?" I whisper to her trying not to get caught.
"I don't know, it's freaking weird. I don't think I can explain it, it's like there is some kind of force pulling us together. I know this might sound crazy but I think he's the one Ana" I look at her with my mouth dropped open, I really can't believe what she just said.
"Come on Ana, Kate has already told me that she and Elliot caught you and Christian kissing up on the second floor. Not to mention the way he looked at you last night while the three of us were doing….well you know" I nod my head.
"There is something going on in this terminal and I don't think it has anything to do with ghosts" I state
"But you have to admit Ana we have never had this much fun while ghost hunting"
"I know" we both giggle but quickly put our hands over our mouths.
"I heard that Ana" Christian calls out.
"Shit how did he know it was me?" I whisper to Jen and she shrugs her shoulders before she says,
"Every man for himself, I'm out of here Ana" Jen says before making a mad dash back over to the baggage room.
"Trader!" again forgetting what we are playing I slap my hand over my mouth.
"Ah ha, I found you Ana" I stand up quickly and see Christian running towards me. Shit, shit, shit. I have nowhere to go, I may be able to make a run for it but he is faster than me and most likely will catch me if I do. Maybe I can outwit him.
"Ok you caught me, I give up" I throw my hands in the air showing that I gave him and he slows his pace to just walking, everyone start to come out of their hiding spots.
Christian is on the other side of the ticket counter.
"So it looks like your it again" he smirks.
"That may be true but you have to tag me first" he slowly walks over to the door of the ticket counter. As soon as he is inside I quickly jump up onto the counter and swing my legs around and hop down, I run as fast as I can. But god damn it my feet fail me again and I fall right onto the marble floor.
"Fuck Ana are you ok" Christian runs over to me get down on his knees to look me over.
"Yeah I'm ok, still a klutz I guess" he helps me to my feet and I'm a little wobbly but I manage to pull myself together.
"Let's get you back into the room and take a better look at you ok?"
"Sure" I took a few steps and start to limp a little because my hip started to hurt just a little, and before I knew it Christian had picked me up bridal style and said, "I got you" with a smile.
With get back into the room and Christian seats me down on the table that is right underneath the light, he looks me over all over. He even tries to pull my shirt up but I end up slapping his hand away.
While Christian keeps looking me over for god knows what for because I have already told him about ten times that I was ok and that all I needed was some Advil. Jen, Kate, Elliot and Sawyer all got our things together for our last night of ghost hunting. In a way I'm a little upset by the fact that this will be the last time I will ever be in this place and we didn't even cover everything yet.
"Ok we have everything ready, so whenever you're good Ana we can start" I wiggly my hip a little to check and see what pain level I am at and surprisingly it isn't so bad. I hop off the table and grab my voice recorder and ghost box.
"I'm ready"
For the first three hours of the night we spent it on some of the other floors. Every hour we would change to a different floor trying to hit up as many floors as possible. I already know we won't get on all the floors because we have yet to even go on the tower floors, which is about 14 floors and a whole shit load of stairs.
As we we're walking down the stairs to head back to the concourse area a thought hit me, what is Christian going to do with this place?
"Christian can I ask you something?"
"Sure, what's up?" he turns his head around to look at me as he is still walking down the stairs
"I was just wondering what is your plains for this place?"
"Well I haven't put much thought into it at the moment, but I think maybe turn the tower floors into condos"
"Oh" I say a little shocked. Who would want to ruin this kind of history to put condos in?
"Why do you ask?"
"No just wondering that all"
We continued to walk down the stairs until we reached the concourse. Again it's another light where only the moon light is shining in through the windows. I can only imagine what this place must have looked like when it was up and running.
We spend the next two hours in the basement near the old trolley lobby walking in the maze like tunnels with our hand held cameras trying to get as much video as we can. In a way I am dreading it, only because I will most likely be the one who is going to review it all. Let's just say Jen and Kate doesn't have a good eye, there has been times where they would review one of the video tapes and say 'we didn't find any kind of evidence' but then I would take a look at it and found a whole shit load of unexplained things.
It's get close to 4 in the morning, we only have less than two hours before the sun starts to come up. I think now is as good as any to head back into the waiting room and try another ghost box session.
"Hey how do you guys feel about going back into the waiting room and try another ghost box session and see if I get that woman again?"
"Ok I'm game, I really want to see what this ghost box shit is all about" Elliot said as he started walking towards the stairs. We all follow behind him up the stairs.
We are all sitting in the waiting room, I place the ghost box in the same spot I had it last night. I even take the same seat. I turn on the ghost box and wait a few minutes for it to warm up. Everyone is looking at me and to be honest it is making me uncomfortable. I know what they're doing, they are keeping an eye on me to make sure nothing happens to me like it did yesterday.
"Ok so now what do we do?" Elliot asks
"Now we ask a few question and hope to get a response" Jen tells him.
"Who's going to go first?" I ask looking at Kate then to Jen
"Well you said you got something yesterday, you might as well go first" Kate said
"Ok" I take a deep breath and let it out "Is there anyone here with us tonight that would like to speak to us?"
"&^%$# $%^&*((&&^%$# " Nothing we hear nothing coming through the ghost box, which is a little upsetting to me because I was really looking forward to finishing what I started yesterday.
"Please if the person I was talking to last is here please say something"
"^%$$# #$%^&HERE^^%$# !$"
"Did you hear that, something said something" Elliot jumps from his seat in shock of hearing what he did.
"Yes just chill out and let's see if we can find out who it is, Ok?"
"This is fucking nuts but alright"
"Are you the same person I talked to last night?" I asked
"*&^%$$### YES*&&^%$# $%^&"
"Who is it that you wanted me to help, does he have a name?"
"&&^$#% & &YES*&&#%# $ %*"
"Ok, what is his name, can you tell me who HIM is?"
"&&^# ^& ())#*YOU^%$ ##&#($*^" We all look at each other and out our palms up like 'huh who is YOU'
"We need for you to tell us" I say
"&^#%#$ ^ *#(CAN'T^%#$ * ("
"Well this is getting us nowhere" Sawyer says
"Just be patient will you Luke, god it's not like everything works on cue" Jen scolds at him
"Ok let's try something" Kate says and we all look at her to see what she has in mine.
"Is it me that Ana needs to help?" Kate asks the ghost box. We sit and listen for a while and we don't get a response from it. Then Kate turns to Elliot wave her hand to get him to ask the same question.
"Is it me? Does Ana need to help me?" Again we wait for a response from the box and come up empty handed once again. Then Jen take over and asks the same question and yet again we come up empty handed. Jen then turns to Christian and gives him a look to say something to the box.
"Um how about me, does Ana need to help me with something?" And almost immediately we get a response.
"*&%#$ ^YES&^#$% &#*" I wave my hands around in a circle motion to get him to keep going with the questions to the box, he seems a bit uneasy about it but he continues.
"What is it that Ana needs to help me with?"
"^%$ #!&*(YOU%$# !*&^" He turns to look at me with a puzzling look on his face. I just shrug my shoulders at him because I really don't know what it is that I need to help him with.
"What is it that I need to help him with?" Both Christian and I sit there looking at each other and wait to see if we get another response but we don't. We asked the same question again, and again we didn't hear anything.
"Ok well clearly we now know who it is that you need to help but what we don't know is what it is that you need to help him with. Ugh why do ghost have to be so frustration" Jen said before she gets to her feet and turns off the ghost box.
Christian is sitting in his chair rubbing his hands on his knees, he looks a little out of it at the moment, but hey I would be too if I was told by a ghost that some girl I have only known for a few days had to help me with something. He runs his hands through his hair and then stands up and takes a good look around.
"I think it's time that we call it a night and get going" I nod my head and start walking out of the old waiting room. When we reach our makeshift control room I start to put everything away back into the cases they came from.
About an hour later everything is pack in our cars. We are all standing in the middle of the concourse. Jen next to Sawyer, Kate next to Elliot and me about as far away from Christian as I can get.
"Um…I just wanted to say thank you for letting us stay here for the weekend and investigate this place, it was truly an honor to do it" I say
"You're welcome Anastasia"
"Well everything is packed and I think it's about time we should leave" Sawyer and Elliot hand Jen and Kate a piece of paper with their numbers on it and they girls both giggle. I on the other hand is looking anywhere but at Christian. Although in my head I am picturing myself jumping into his arms and kissing him like I will never see him again but I am using every muscle in my body to hold me back.
"I'll be in contact with you within the next week or so with any evidence that we find" I say finally looking up at Christian and his eyes are glued on me as if he is trying not to say anything.
"I'll wait for your call" Is all that he says and I nod.
Jen and Kate both hug their new found boyfriends and tell them they will call them later tonight.
I walk outside and stand next to our car and wait as Jen and Kate both say one last good bye. The three of us all pile into the care and drive away, I haven't even willed myself to turn around and look out the back window to see Christian one last time.
I don't know what it is but my heart is start to ache as we drive further down the drive way.
Ok so I hope that you guys liked the chapter, I know I was starting to drift off a little and I'm sorry about that my mind has been elsewhere (New boyfriend) Anyways I wanted to let you know that I have started a pinterest account. You can find me under GreyShades OfSteele
There is a board already up for this story, only a few pictures so far but I will be adding more, the pictures are in order.
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