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Chapter 28: Were on the Road Again!
Things were quiet at her small secluded home. There was no life in this house except for her, and she found it was not a welcoming feeling.
Of course she didn't want another person in her home, but the thought of getting a pet was a rather nice one. It would be nice to have someone waiting for her when she got home from work or woke up from a nice night of sleep.
However she was going to be picky. She didn't want a dog or bird, they were just too noisy. And she definitely did not want to get fish... how were they going to greet her? So the only animal she was thinking about getting would have been a cat, and they didn't involve that much maintenance anyways.
So at the moment, she was walking around the pet store, looking for a cat...too bad they didn't have any... did she mention that the selection was poor? Now this was one of those rare moments she wished she didn't live in the middle of nowhere, there was such a lack in variety, probably because very few people bought animals up here.
Sighing, she walked out of the store, the happy stores man unhappy now as she left; she was probably the only customer he had all day.
So here she was, home, walking out of her parked car on her drive way, when suddenly something caught her eyes in the distance. It was hard not to notice it; it was crazy splashing coming from the pond near her house. As soon as she started walking towards it, it stopped.
She quickly ran over to the pond and looked at the scene; there in the water was a cat, she quickly grabbed it out of the water. Once it was in her hands however, it began to struggle and it fell to the floor, running into the tall grass around the pond.
Half of its body was hidden behind the grass and Connie could hear its little cries. She bent down and pushed the grass slightly out of the way, and found the smallest thing she had ever seen.
The cat was alone, and Connie suspected that the mother was not near, neither was an owner, and she had no collar.
Connie slowly reached forward and picked up the kitten gently and then held her close to her chest; ignoring how wet her shirt was getting. "hey there little one, are you all alone too?"
Small green eyes looked up to where the voice was coming from. Connie quickly feel in love with the little thing, "how about you come home with me, hmm?"
"Meow"
Connie smiled at the memory, that was how she found Meesha, it wasn't till later that she figured out she belonged to the lady down the street, but she had kindly let Connie keep her, the little thing had fallen in love with her rescuer it seemed; the feeling was mutual. She was sad now however that she would probably not see Meesha again or Jake; she knew there was something up with these Abstergo people.
"What are you smiling about?" asked Altair suddenly.
"Just a memory." She answered, speeding up and switching lanes to get ahead of the person in front of her; they were driving way below the speed limit. He nodded, and watched her pull in front of the other driver.
The street was a one lane, and all around it were fields upon fields of grass and dirt, farming would be over soon.
Sighing she shifted in the leather seat of her car, boredom becoming every present. She wouldn't turn on the radio because most of it was static from where they were.
She looked over to Altair then, wanting to make conversation due to the boredom.
"Remember when I told you I would tell you why I'm afraid of spiders?" she said suddenly.
"Have I been patient enough to know now?" he asked with a smirk, looking over to her.
"You know, I can change my mind." She answered, giving him a slight glare; he knew it was fake however.
"Go on." He said, waving his hand off at her.
"Well I was going to tell you, but now I'm not so sur-." She was interrupted.
"Would you like me to apologies?" he cut in, giving her a blank look.
"Oh no, that would be asking too much of you." She said with a look of fake assurance.
"sorry." He said not liking the words at all.
"Much better." She finished, boredom was really nagging at them, and they weren't even acting like themselves, practically looking for some sort of amusement.
"Well when I was little and my parents were still alive," she started looking over to him to see she had his attention.
"There was a big nest at my parent's house when I was little, no one knew about it, and one day they all hatched when I was looking at it, and they swarmed everywhere." She continued eyes on the road.
"It was frightening for me and I quickly ran away from it, as they were crawling all over my hand, and they got everywhere." She went on, rubbing her arm off at the memory.
"My parents got rid of it and everything but... then that night I had a dream... No a nightmare." She said looking over to him again.
"I was a kid, keep in mind. But anyways, in the dream I was sleeping in my bed when I heard a noise, almost like light tapping. It was all so real, but then the tapping stopped. Right in front of my door. I looked over to the door, and could see faint shadows...my door started to move then, and then suddenly it opened..." she slightly shivered at the thought of it.
"In the door way was the biggest black spider I had ever seen, it wasn't even a spider! It was bigger than my door! And then... and then it looked at me with all its big red eyes, it opened its big black fangs like a smile...then these spiders started crawling out of its mouth!" she was really going at it, recalling everything like a memory; her eyes were wide when they looked at Altair, but he seemed so calm.
"It was so scary! I screamed, and they all came at me, crawling all over me. I felt them everywhere, and then they crawled in my mouth, and I started chocking and then I couldn't even see much anymore..." she continued with a slow voice, just the thought of all of this was making her shiver, it was all so real for her.
"but they were biting me, I felt them sucking my blood...oh the dream was so real... then the mother...she squeezed through the door...and went to the end of my bed...and crawled up...staring at me like prey...I couldn't breath...and my eyes were on fire with tears...it came at me and... started eating me..." she said ever so slowly, eyes wide on the road, she looked over to Altair then after taking a deep breath.
"I woke up before she could finish eating me, but ever since then... I hate spiders. I woke up from that dream crying; I still thought that, back then, I still had a chance with Lyla. It was then I realised I was wrong, she laughed at me when I told her, and called me a baby...my dreams have always been so real, and I was only seven." She finished, taking in a deep breath and slowly letting it out.
"That must have been horrifying..." said Altair, staring her in the eyes; she quickly looked back to the road.
"It was," she nodded still looking at the road.
"Do you often have these... realistic dreams?" He asked after a couple of minutes of silence.
"Not that often..." she answered not looking at him.
"When was the last time you had one?" he asked after, watching her closely.
"Um, I would say... about a year ago?" she muttered out, lying as best she could.
"You're lying." He stated, giving her a look when she looked over to him. Of course he could tell if she was lying...
"It doesn't matter." She finished, trying to blow it off as nothing. Really, yesterday had been the most recent, besides that though, she hadn't had one in... A month or so?
"You want to talk about It." he stated simply, watching her with his golden brown eyes.
"Alright! I had one yesterday." She finally answered, letting out a big breath, that was all he was getting out of her.
"Do you wish to talk about it?" he asked simply again.
"No," she answered lowly, lips forming a thin line of frustration.
"You don't need to tell me everything." He suggested, making it casual, leaning back into the seat more. What was with this man, can't he leave well enough alone? Though... it couldn't hurt to talk about some of it...
"I was in Masyaf, or... I think I was..." she said slowly, she felt aches of hunger hit her stomach then, however there was no where to eat yet.
"What did it look like?" he asked watching her again; his stare was starting to get annoying.
"Big black castle, blood everywhere, draw bridge, bloody moat, and evil master? Does any of that sound familiar?" she asked with a fake laugh, trying to laugh off the memories herself.
"It does not." He answered simply, that did sound like a nightmare though.
"Well that's good; I don't want to walk into that again!" She said quickly, trying to make it a joke; her eyes were focused on the road with a broken smile.
"Was I in this dream?" he asked, he didn't understand why it was so hard for her to talk about it, she was fine with talking about her spider incident... This did however happen yesterday...
"Nope!" she said, popping the 'p' at the end, Altair could tell that was a lie however and took it as a yes.
"What happened in the dream?" He continued, this could have possibly been the worst interrogation he had gone through with, though you could hardly call it that, he couldn't get the answers by force.
"Don't you worry your handsome face about it!" she said joking some more, it seemed she really didn't want to talk about it, so he gave up for now; he never gave up a mission. He smirked however at her comment.
"so you think I'm handsome?" he asked, she quickly looked over to him with shock for a second before turning away, a little blush on her checks. Did he really just give up... she thought he would ignore her comment and continue questioning her...
"You wish," she said, waving him off and not looking towards him, she knew he could see her blush though.
"I don't need to." He finished a smug smile coming to his face. Wow, arrogant much? She was sure he had a big ego from that comment.
Silence filled the car then, it wasn't long though, until they started passing threw a small town, Connie quickly started looking for somewhere to eat then, if there was a place they would be having breakfast, it was only the morning still after all.
Quickly spotting one, she slowed down the car and turned into the small car lot, the truck she was driving looked sort of out of place, however she noticed another nice car and parked near it, making her car not look so suspicions.
"Why did we stop?" Asked Altair opening his door like Connie and getting out.
"Were going to eat breakfast," she said, gesturing to the place, there were many trees and a nice forest around this town, and Connie found she liked it. Shutting her car door, she caught a glimpse of herself in the glass of the window...
She looked over to it, and slightly cringed. Her hair was a mess again, there weren't as many knots as there were that other time, but that's probably because it couldn't get tangled anymore. She was a complete mess, the only thing that looked nice were her clothes. Patting her hair down, she quickly opened the car and grabbed an elastic out of the compartment in there, before shutting it again.
Pressing the lock for the car, she put the keys in her pocket before grabbing her hair again, trying to fix it into a high pony tail. Wincing at the slight hair pulling, she managed to get a pony tail in but the 'tail' of her hair was all tangled still, her natural wavy hair not helping either. She shrugged it off; there was nothing she could do about that. Rubbing her face for good measure to get most of whatever dirt was on it, she noticed Altair was waiting in front of the car arms crossed. What? She was a girl; she didn't like looking like a mess.
She didn't want to know how long he was watching her and just smiled at him.
"What, I look like a mess!" she joked to him, walking over to where he was.
"You look fine." He commented, walking after her to the small house turned restaurant.
"ha," Was all she said as she grabbed the door and opened it, a nice cool breeze hitting there faces from the air conditioned place.
so chapter 28! you guys like it? :D
now you guys know the story behind why she hates spiders...when i was writing that it gave me the creeps *shudder* but i like spiders :D
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