Chapter 2

The light was fading now; Sydney could see it slowly dwindling from the window of the cabin, the trees and mountains blurring into an abstract painting of sorts. She sighed more out of boredom then annoyance. Sark was completely ignoring her and had been for almost an hour now. He was reading a book but she couldn't read the cover of and that bothered her at first until she had made a game out of it.

In her mind she made up titles of the book, a half hour into the game she was gritting her teeth to hold back laughter. Just the thought of Sark reading a Sexual Education manual was horrifyingly funny or even worse was Terrorism for Dummies. But by the end of the hour the titles in her end had lost their hilarity now she guessed he was reading something akin to a book of World War two histories or something utterly boring like a president's autobiography.

Sydney sighed again but this time loudly trying to get Sark to look at her or at least acknowledge that she was sitting across from him. He shifted slightly not looking up at her. Well at least it was something.

Narrowing her eyes she shook her head and standing up quickly walked to the cabin door opened it and shut it behind her making sure to slam it behind her.

There were few people in the hallway an older lady who smiled sweetly and a little girl with what looked like her older brother, the young man nodded curtly as she passed them to enter the bar area. The bar was lined with older gentlemen some drinking some watching the soccer game on the television in the corner, one was laughing loudly at something the man next to him said. It was a nice scene Sydney thought to herself, it was normal nothing was out of the ordinary.

Sighting a pool table in the back and a young man playing by himself she wandered over to ask him if she could join him in a game. He was happy to oblige.

"Good shot miss" he said watching her from his seat against the wall his cue stick in hand waiting for his turn.

Sydney was winning again.

"Thank you tanner, but please how many times do I have to ask you to call me Sydney

This is the third game we have played I think I deserve it don't you? Besides your making me feel so much older than I am."

"Sorry Miss Sydney" he said smiling sheepishly.

Was he flirting a bit with her? She couldn't quite tell.

He was cute she thought to herself young, but cute. "I guess that's the best I can get uh?"

She said as she missed her next shot.

Walking over to where tanner was sitting earlier she watched him sink the #3 and the #6 ball in perfect unison. "Good shot sir" Sydney said mockingly which made him miss his next shot.

"Not fair, you distracted me" tanner said while she walked passed him to sink the winning ball.

"Life's not fair tanner, its better that you learn that early on in life."

He snorted at her comment "exactly how old do you think I am Sydney?" a bit taken aback from his question she thought for a moment

"Twenty one, twenty two maybe" she said cocking her head to get a better look at him "you can't be older then twenty three" she said confidently and straightened back up.

He practically snorted while laughing at her. "Well I guess that I should take that as a compliment. I'll have you know that I am probably the same age as you or maybe even older."

"That's impossible you look so young."

"Well that would be all the good mountain air up here in Switzerland" he said smiling

"And sunscreen its true what the experts say about the sunscreen"

"Well you certainly had me fooled, so what, you're about twenty nine then?" Sydney said

Now quite a bit relieved that he was older and that finding him attractive was not in the least bit illegal.

"You would be right" he stated "now how about I buy you a drink Sydney?"

"I would love that" Sydney said putting the cue stick down and walking with tanner to the bar which had emptied slightly now that it was about time for dinner to be served in the cabins.

Sark was annoyed. She had been gone for about an hour and he was bored with reading the stupid book he stole from the old man while boarding the train.

He should not have ignored her, though really he had nothing to say to her and it was quite fun knowing that she was trying to get his attention and he was making her angry , kissing her had been so much more fun , he could have just kissed her again he was sure she would not have objected but then where would that have led them?

Sex in a moving train might be for some people but if he could help it he preferred a non moving space , a car , against a wall, in an abandoned stairwell , maybe a shower but then there was the whole slippery thing to deal with , a bedroom would obviously be the best option but that would have to wait for

Quite awhile he thought as he looked at his watch. Damn, where was that woman. She drove him crazy while she near him and crazy when he had no idea where she was.

Tired of waiting Sark decided to get a drink at the bar, a glass of wine would calm his nerves and help keep at bay the much needed release he was looking for but that had to be put on hold for a period of time that was if Sydney was still willing to finish what they had started earlier. Closing the door behind him Sark scanned the hallway looking for anything out of the ordinary his usual habit taking over even when he was off the job.

Sighing he walked the short way to the bar passing only a young man and a little girl who was running up ahead, the young man following closely behind.

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ok ok I know how much this chaper sucked but i was zapped for ideas

my muse took the day off from this story though its annoyingly working on a new one when i keep begging for it to finish this one sorry deal with me here maybe i need to pay her more .....