Chapter 5: Enough Running

"You've got to be kidding me." Was all Selena said as she looked at the entrance of the building in front of them. After the day at the beach (and a cold shower on Selena's part the second they stepped in their hotel room) the girls for the night until the next morning when Demi hailed a cab and instead of telling him out loud where they were headed Demi handed him a google map she had printed out before they left and let him drive them with the directions. When they pulled up to their destination Selena was dumb founded when she realized they were at Adventures Zip Lining.

"What? It's fun!" Demi insisted.

"I went when we were in Costa Rica and It was a blast."

"You do realize this could kill us right?" Selena asked. It was obvious from the beginning that Demi was definitely the bigger risk taker of the two of them and that certainly hadn't changed over the last 13 years.

"Sel, it's not going to kill us, we'll be fine." Demi assured her but that did little to ease Selena's mind. As Selena looked Demi in the eyes Demi could see the apprehensiveness in the older girl and to ease Selena's mind Demi took Selena's hand in hers and they walked into the building and up to the front desk to get their equipment.

"Hey guys. I'm Jensen and I'll be your instructor today, along with the people at each run. Uh, we got a whole bunch of runs we can go down, we have the shorter ones for beginners who haven't been zip lining and obviously the longer and higher up ones for those who are more adventurous and have gone down a few times." Jensen explained showing the girls a map on the wall of the grounds that labelled all the runs from the small, easy ones to the longer and higher up ones.

"Which one do you want to try out Sel?" Demi asked looking over the map. Demi knew she could handle any of the runs(she was the only one out of the whole group that went in Costa Rica that tried every single run for the fun of it) so the only one she was worried about was Selena.

"Umm...how about one of the middle ones?" Selena suggested. She knew that Demi still wanted her adrenaline rush but at the same time she wanted to go slow, this was the first time she was going zip lining after all.

"Okay, then would you be open to trying the higher ones?" Demi asked, secretly hoping Selena would say yes.

"We'll see." Selena replied and Jensen led them up a trail that brought them up to the middle run.

" Okay who's going first?" Jensen asked and Selena just shot Demi a look that showed she wasn't going to go down alone.

"Um, could we go down at the same time?" Demi asked and her question was quickly answered once she saw that there were indeed two lines almost right beside each other.

"Okay, we're going to give you each a pushing start okay?" Jensen said once the girls were strapped in and harnessed properly. With an adrenaline induced smile Demi eagerly waited to start the run whereas Selena was extremely nervous and was just praying that she would survive the run. Without warning Jensen and the other helper gave both girls a running push, sending them sailing down the zip line. As Demi screeched and squealed in joy Selena screamed in terror for the first few seconds before she had calmed down a bit and finally took in the scenery around her. Soon, both Demi and Selena were shrieking and squealing the rest of the way down until they hit the end.

"What you think?" Demi asked as they got off the platform and began heading back up the trail.

" That was amazing!" Selena exclaimed, her eyes wide like a little kid who had just woken up on Christmas morning.

"Want to go again?" Demi asked.

"Sure." Selena replied and the girls ran back up to the run.

"We're racing this time." Selena said as they got hooked back up.

"You're so on." Demi said, her competitive nature taking over almost instantly.

"Okay. One...two...three...GO!"

With shrieks of laughter and shouts of "I'm going to win!" the girls made their way down the run again. Demi was the eventual winner (Selena pouted and said that Demi had the advantage since she had been Zip lining before and knew how to make herself go faster) and they had a few more races before they called it a day.

"That was really fun." Selena said with a smile as they returned their equipment after nearly 2 and a half hours of running through the zip lines.

"See I told you it would be." Demi told her.

"Was it really that scary?"

"Well yeah at first, but after that it was okay." Selena replied.

"Hey can you watch my phone while I run to the bathroom really quick?" Selena asked handing Demi her cell phone.

"Sure." Demi replied and after handing Demi her phone Selena left leaving Demi waiting for the next few minutes. Hearing a vibrating sound from the two cell phones Demi wasn't sure if it was hers or Selena's(they had both taken off the cases s it was near impossible to tell who's was who's without checking the phones) so she checked the vibrating phone and read the text.

From: Justin

Hey Sel, look I feel really bad about how things ended between us. I'm not sure if you're up to it, but I want to give us another chance.

Demi felt a rush of jealousy come over her as she read the words over and over again. Not completely sure what came over her Demi punched in Selena's code (Demi had changed it on her jokingly and apparently she hadn't bothered to change it.) and as she went into Selena's messages she went to the text from Justin and deleted it. She felt a little guilty for doing that to not only Justin but Selena too, but if that was the way she was going to get Selena then so be it.

"Ready to go?" Demi heard as she placed Selena's phone back with her own.

"Yep, I'll just get them to call a cab for us." Demi replied handing Selena back her phone before heading to the front desk and asking for a cab. It was a few more minutes before the taxi arrived so the girls waited patiently outside and soon they were on their way back to the hotel. When they arrived back at the Hilton a few minutes later the girls decided they were only going to relax for the night and watch a few movies. Selena was the first to hop into the shower when they got into their hotel room and finding no other way to kill time Demi went on her computer and starting writing some ideas down for a new song. Not long after turning on her computer a window popped up saying Dallas was trying to call her on Skype.

"Hey Dal." Demi said after hitting the answer button.

"Hey, how's everything going?" Dallas asked.

"Won over your woman yet?"

"Dallas, I'm not trying to win Selena over." Demi said with a slight eye roll.

"This trip is so both of us could just get away for a little bit."

"Oh please, you so planned that whole trip to win her over." Dallas said.

"You knew she had just broken up with Justin and it was the perfect opportunity to try and win her back."

While arguing with her sister Demi failed to realize that the shower had turned off and Selena had been able to hear the last little bit of their arguing.

"Okay,maybe that was my plan but I don't think it's going to happen." Demi replied.

"Why not? It's not like she's with anyone anymore." Dallas pointed out.

"Yeah, but Justin texted her today wanting to get back together." Demi replied.

"Well what did she say?" Dallas asked.

"Nothing...I deleted it before she could read it." Demi admitted.

"Demi!" Dallas exclaimed.

"What? I panicked." Demi admitted. A slight pang of anger swept over Selena but at the same time butterflies flew in her stomach knowing Demi was that concerned about losing her again to Justin.

"But still, you should've at least let her read the text and let her decide for herself." Dallas said.

"I thought you were on my side." Demi said, rubbing her temples in frustration.

"I am, believe me I'd much rather see you and her together, but deleting that text was a little bit much dont you think?" Dallas asked. Having enough of hearing Demi getting scolded by her older sister, Selena decided to leave the bathroom and make her presence known.

"I gotta go Dal, tell mom and them I'll call later." Demi said before closing her and Dallas' chat.

"You okay?" Selena asked, putting her best acting skills forward so Demi didn't see right through her.

"Yeah, Dallas is just being Dallas." Demi insisted as she closed the lid of her laptop.

"Wanna just order room service again for dinner?" Selena asked.

"Sure, sounds good." Demi replied with her best smile. After ordering room service Selena went out onto the balcony and punched in Justin's number, ready to reply to his earlier text that she never got to read. Selena weighed out her options as she thought of her reply. If she said no that meant she had a better chance of being with Demi, but if she agreed to give the relationship another chance that meant she would have that distraction again from her feelings for Demi. After a few minutes of debate Selena finally figured out her reply.

Justin, I know you're sorry, and so am I, but I think being friends is what's best.

After hitting send Selena actually felt a huge weight off her shoulders and she headed back inside where Demi was just getting their order from room service. Selena's phone vibrated a few minutes later with a reply from Justin, saying he understood and was glad that they could still at least be friends. With Justin's (more or less) blessing Selena knew what she had to do. She had been fighting and running her feelings for far too long and this time there was going to be no running or fighting.

This time, Selena Russo was going to get her girl.

Hey everyone I'm so sorry this is up so late(and shorter than usual)! I had hoped to get this up earlier but as I predicted stupid school work got in the way. But hopefully the next update will be soon and school won't get in the way this time :)

Hope y'all enjoyed! R&R!