Authors note: I am sorry about my second chapter being a repeat of the first one. I edited it as soon as I noticed.
Fiona got on the horse so gracefully. She stuck out her hand as if for me to get on. I shook my head. I had to stop thinking about the past. I was not supposed to be Alex Friend right now. I was supposed to be James Rider, Professional horse rider. She looked at me very strangely.
"Do you wish to be in front?" she asked quietly.
"Yah sure…I guess. Why do we have to ride together?"
"We don't I guess. You can ride that horse over there."
We rode for almost an hour .When we reached an abandoned mine shaft we stopped. I couldn't help but wonder if she planned to go through.
"Do you want to go through? I saw an exit to it on the other side right outside the trail." I said.
She turned her horse around. Her face was ashen. "I don't like tunnels or anything like that. I was a stupid kid. I went through a tunnel and almost got killed. I would not be here except Alex saved me."
"Alex must have been amazing."
She began to laugh. "I make him sound like that, don't I? He was not even close. He was a very messed up kid. The week before he died my parents sent him off to a school for kids as messed up as he was."
"How did he die?"
"He was skiing down a mountain he shouldn't have been. And he ran straight into a train going full speed. The school claims ha was running away. But I doubt it."
"Why?"
"Well a few days after he died the whole school burnt down. And apparently they had been holding fifteen boys' hostage, Boys that were supposed to be somewhere else. I always hoped Alex was one of them."
"But he wasn't."
"Nope, he was dead."