Hey Guys! Sorry I haven't written in a while - I've been really busy with the holidays and all. I hope you had a great vacation! Now for the... 5th instalment of Run!
A few minutes later, Valjean and Katie caught up with us.
"Well, that was nice of you, just leaving us," Katie muttered.
"Shut up, at least you got your way," I snapped. I was feeling quite irritated at the moment, as I have just been chased by an insane convict and have run to the point of collapse. Literally.
"Shut up you two, I think we're getting near the prison," ordered Terisa. What gives her the right to order us around? I'm the one who's done all the work! I was just about to point that out when I heard a noise.
If there's another insane convict out there, I'm just going to pretend to faint and live with whatever happens.
Oh, good it's just that young guard who was with Javert that other time.
Good?! What the hell am I saying?! We're with a fugitive and we just ran into a guard! I think about running, but no one else looks like they're going to run any second now, so I just decide to go with whatever someone else comes up with. I'm tired of always to save the day.
Actually, I haven't saved the day, I've only saved me. Geez, I've gotten into a lot of trouble for one night!
"If you don't want anything to do with us, we don't want anything to do with you," Katie reasoned. She massages her knuckles threateningly. The guard doesn't appear frightened (I mean, he's like, a foot taller than us!), but he doesn't particularly look like he's one to get into a fist fight.
"Um, okay, how about I turn the other way and lose sight of you?" No one else get's what he's doing, but I do. He's saying that if when he turns his back, we run away, he will pretend he didn't see us. So when he turns around, I run like the wind to the right. Naturally, either because I'm a great leader (the reason I like to believe) or because if I even stray five feet from the group I almost always get into trouble (the reason I hate to believe but I have to admit is true), everyone took off after me.
"Hey," says a familiar voice. Alex is right next to me.
Oh yeah - I can't believe he forgot he's my boyfriend!
What kind of girlfriend am I?!
"Hey," I smile back. We've been friends for over two years and I had no idea he was interested in me. I guess we both were signing to each other all that time that we like each other and we never understood what each other were trying to say.
And I'm still a little flustered by our first kiss - my first kiss. I feel like the air between us is supposed to change maybe, and I'm sort of waiting for it. Maybe I have to create that air on my own.
Although now that I think about it, I have to do a lot of things on my own. This should be a piece of cake!
Although now that I think again, whenever I say things are going to be a piece of cake, they never are.
So let's hope I haven't endangered my changes with Alex and let's forget I said, 'This should be a piece of cake'.
"So, um, Terisa wanted to ask you, 'why the heck are you running away'? And, uh, I guess I'd kinda like to know too."
"Oh! Well, um, that guy was basically saying that if we ran away in those few seconds he turned away, he would forget he saw us."
"He at least sounds like an okay guy."
"Just to be clear, the tall, burly guy with the weird brown sideburns and brown hair is NOT okay. REALLY not okay."
"I know, I know, you told me yesterday, stop worrying, Selina! You don't need to take care of every little thing!" This is why I love him. He's so sensitive! I can't help myself, I break out in a huge smile.
"Okay, Alex. Okay." It sort of feels like I'm agreeing to more than just that, although what more I have no idea. We're having a special moment when a very irritated Valjean comes and interrupts us. SERIOUSLY?! Can't he see we're having a special moment?!
"That was really great of you all, just leaving us! Do you have any idea what could've happened?"
"Yes, I do!" I retort. "If we'd stuck around any longer, that other guy I saw earlier would have pummeled us to death!" I share a glance with Alex, and he can tell this isn't completely true. Or mostly true. Or even really at all true. But there was a convict that we did take! That part was true! The part about him pummeling us to death wasn't really true either, but I bet if he had the choice that's what he'd be doing! Unfortunately, Valjean doesn't blow off this information like I thought he would. In fact, he looked as though he'd just seen a ghost, like the time when we heard the guards coming.
Great! Now I had to keep this lie going!
Wait. I felt a presence behind me. It wasn't Alex; he was next to me. But judging by Valjean's shade of white I had a good idea who it was. With great terror, Alex and I turned around.
Standing behind us was Javert.
