Escape Chapter Twenty Two
"We'll be needing to head back first. Once we meet up with Juniper and Cal, we'll move on from there."
I nodded. We got up from the cool meadow, grass on my now wrinkled skirt. It was the least of my worries but I still managed to brush off most of it anyway.
"So it'll just be us?" I asked as we walked back.
"Well, actually…"
We were just running around the corner in front of the pub where I had stayed. Juniper was there with Cal.
"I'm sorry Gabriel," Juniper said once we came up. "I didn't think that well, she would be snooping in the bushes!"
"Who?" I asked walking up to them.
"You're little friend…"
"Bess!" I exclaimed! I went over to her.
She grumbled. "How come you get to go on this journey and I don't?"
I looked confused for a moment. I turned to Juniper. "You mean she can't come?"
I asked.
"That would be best Raina," she answered.
"I already know a lot…" Bess rolled her eyes.
I grinned. "Well, if she's already aware of the plan then why not?"
"I'll tell you why not!" Juniper went over to Bess and pulled her over by her ear.
"Ow! Stop that you old hag!"
"Gabe, you really think we should let this little injustice join us?" Juniper said. "It's not the best of ideas."
"I'm not going if she doesn't come with me," I announced stubbornly. I cringed at Juniper still pulling Bess's ear.
Juniper looked over at me incredulously. "Didn't Gabriel explain anything to you?"
I nodded.
"I did." Gabriel smirked. "Guess we'll just have let Bess come along…"
"…or we're…..doomed," I finished the sentence. There was laughter in both of our eyes.
"Ugh!" Juniper spat. "What am I ever going to do with you both?" She shook her hands in the air in one last charade of unhappiness and then added. "Follow me."
Cal came up to me, who was silent the whole time and said, "Here, take this pack. It was prepared for you."
I nodded and took it, not caring to scavenge through it. That would probably take up too much time and I didn't want to annoy Juniper even more than she already was.
"Ah, well you know what they say…" Gabriel came up behind me when he saw me eyeing her in worry. "If you're not living on the edge, you're taking too much space." I looked at him with a raised eyebrow. What in the world was he talking about?
He just walked away laughing. I took Bess's arm and we walked silently for a while. She was still slightly edgy. I was wondering what she was more angry about, the fact that I didn't tell her I was going, the fact that she was told she couldn't go, or the fact that she had to sneak around to simply find out about the whole thing in the first. I couldn't think of what to say. I simply just walked in silence with her as we headed out towards a destination of unknown factors and clueless objectives. It was the adventure I was looking for all along, I don't think I even imagined in my wildest dreams that it could be a insane as what I was about to attempt.