Chapter Three-
She woke up In the middle of the night. She hadn't been dreaming so she knew that, that was not what started her. She lay there as if a clue would just pop from under her bed. Tap-tap. She looked outside her window and almost screamed, Hermes was standing outside her window at night, mind you and tapping on her window. Yeah she though he was a cool dude but this was not okay. She slipped her hand next to her bed and slowly pulled out a knife she had hidden in a crack in the wooden drawer next to her bed. She was prepared for anything, after all she just met him, and did not trust him. At all. he knew her name, but she never told him and now she couldn't help but notice that he had been in her exact place during lunch, he could've been anywhere else. Had someone sent him to kill her? Sure, she wasn't the most liked girl, but did someone hate her so much that they would kill her? Certainly not. But, then what did he want?
She slipped the knife under her covers and tucked it in the waistband of her shirts before getting up. She slowly walked to the window, ready for him to try anything. She opened the window and simply stared at him waiting for an answer, an attack something! Just to get this over with. Then she could go back to sleep. "C'mon I'm bored lets go walk around" she stared at him to see if he was joking, he clearly wasn't. Actually he looked why? "and why would I do this?" He smiled impatiently and said "it will be fun! I promise!" His eyes kept darting everywhere and it was making her nervous which was also making her hand twitch for her knife.
"How do I know you don't just want to drag me to into the woods to kill me?" At that he locked his eyes on mine and started laughing, when he noticed she wasn't playing around he got serious "Athena, I would never hurt you, just please come, it won't be for long. I promise" something about his manner told me something was wrong, so yes she went with him. But with her knife too, of course. Just in case.
They walked in silence for about 20 minutes, she could tell something was making him nervous. Another 5 minutes later they turned another corner and he grabbed her and squished them in a tight space between buildings. She was about to protest when he placed his finger on his lips, showing her the universal, shut up motion. She obliged quietly, but only because the fierceness in his eyes surprised her and she wanted to know why they heck they were in a cramped space at midnight and she knew attitude would not help her cause. Also, lack of sleep made her cranky.
A slight movement caught her eye and she stared there to make sure she wasn't imagining things. When Athena had yet to see movement, she turned to see Hermes to ask him if he saw it, but knew the answer when she found him glaring hard at the spot where she had just seen the movement at. And sure enough, a few seconds later two people emerged and kept going forward, she turned to Hermes and asked a silent question.
He just nodded his head and put his finger to his lips again. But he grabbed her wrist and took me a lot the opposite direction of the people.
When they finally got to the destination, Athena was amazed. It was a beautifully old gothic church. It was abandoned and falling apart, but she still saw the beauty in it. But what surprised her was that, she have lived here all her life and not once had she seen this church, but Hermes found it and had probably been here for only weeks. Which raised her suspicions again.
"Okay enough of this silence. It's bothering me, I need answers and now. What are you really doing here, how do you know my name, Because I am positive I never told you and who the heck were those people and why did you hide us from them"
He sighed and answered, honesty in his eyes, "Athena, I've been sent her to protect you, those people want to harm you. And they've been watching your house for an entire week."