Hi :)

Sorry i haven't updated in a few days, I have been really busy and didn't have the chance.

I'm gunna have a lot more time to write though, now that its summer :D

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On Good Terms

Zach

We sat on the plane in silence. We avoided all eye contact and only spoke when we needed to act as a couple. I was so sick and tired of trying to get her to forgive me. Tired of bending over backwards to try and prove that what I was saying was true. I got close to telling her all about Blackthorn. About how it is a school for assassins, not spies. That I couldn't contact her, and even if she tried to contact me, I wouldn't have got it. They re training you to live on your own. To not need anyone else.

But I chose not to live my life like that. That's not who I wanted to be. So, I made my way into the system and became a spy, instead of an assassin. Too many people don't come out of it. I didn't want it to change the kind of person I am. I didn't want it to control my life. But instead I let a girl do it instead. She got in my head and I became a different person. I'm not the kind of person to get emotional. That's not what I was taught at school. You put up with the situation you are given. But I just couldn't seem to get her out of my head.

I wasn't going to let it carry on. I wasn't going to let someone who can't even look me in the eye, control me. I was done. I would get through this mission, and go back to the way they were. Cammie clearly wasn't going to be forgiving me any time soon. Why wait for something that you know is un-likely to happen?

I saw the seat belt sight flash above me and saw we were landing soon so I needed to put my seat belt back of. Cammie had fallen asleep again against the window, so I tried to wake her up to tell her we were nearly landing. After calling her name a few times, it was clear it wasn't working. So I shook her shoulder and she sat up quickly and looked around.

Was shocked by her reaction that i hadn't had chance to move my hand from her shoulder when she looked down at my hand with her eyebrows raised.

"What do you think you are doing?" She said questioningly.

"I was trying to wake you up. Since you can't seem to stay awake for ten seconds. Is that alright with you?" I said my voice sarcastic and cold.

The look on her face made me want to take it back. But I didn't. I just turned in my seat to face the small television in front of me and said "You need to do your seat belt up. We are landing soon."

We got off the plane and headed to collect our luggage. Things were tense as she pulled her bags off the conveyer belt and I grabbed mine. Tried to get one of hers, so he didn't have to carry so many, but she just pulled up the handle and dragged it along behind her as we made our way over to find a place to rent a car.

As soon as we did, we went up the desk and I gave in the forms for our pre-ordered car. The man behind the desk slid the keys along the counter and I thanked him and turned to walk away. Immediately, Cammie slipped her hand in mine and I knew this was it. We were in Rome, and our mission had started.

As we stepped out of the airport into the parking t full of rentable cars, the heat suddenly hit me. It was the middle of the day and there were people everywhere. Walking round, showing people to their cars and looking at maps trying to find their way. I took in the heat and my surrounding, until I felt Cammie pull on my hand, nodding towards a section of the car park labelled E.

We walked through rows and rows of cars until we found the one with the same number in the windshield, as the one on the piece of paper I was holding. It was a low key car, so we don't draw any unwanted attention to ourselves, but till a decent car. I unlocked it and opened the boot to put out suit cases in so we could head out of the airport. I turned as saw Cammie struggling to lift her suit case into the boot. I walked over and took it from her, laying it in the boot along with mine. She smiled gratefully at me, showing off the dimple in her left cheek.

"Thanks Zach. I really shouldn't have packed so much." She said as she looked away, and then turned to get in the passenger's side of the car.

Sighing at the lingering tension between us, I got into the driver's side and started the engine. It took a while to get out of the packed parking lot, but eventually we were out, following the instructions the GPS was giving me to get to our hotel to check in.

The drive was long and hot, but the scenery we passed was pretty good, and Cammie made me promise to take her to some f the places we passed, before the mission was over. Of course I said yes, glad that the tension that had been between us at the airport, and somehow gone and the conversation between us was flowing easily.

"Zach"

"Yeah."

"Can I ask you a question?"

"Uhh yeah. Sure." I started to wonder where this conversation was going.

"How did you feel when you found out we had to come on this mission together?" Her question shocked me and it was a couple of seconds before I answered her.

"Honestly? Nervous I guess. I hadn't seen you in such a long time. I didn't know how things would be between us." I kept my eyes on the road.

"We have to get through this mission. And I would really rather not do it with us arguing all the time. I didn't think about that earlier, but I have now. I don't know. I just think we should try and get along, and make this easier on us both"

Is that all she wanted to do? Get along to make the mission easier? Although, I did agree with what she was saying.

"Yeah. Okay." I glanced over to her and smiled, showing that we were on good terms, and on the same page.

I looked at the GPS that was telling me we had arrived at the hotel.

I was glad that we were on good terms, and any awkwardness had gone; but I wondered how long it was going to stay this way.