So here I am, sitting in the passenger seat of his yellow sports car. Yes, this is a different car from the one before. No, I wasn’t keeping track and I am not interested in how many cars he has. I folded my arm around my chest protectively as I felt very self-conscious of how little I had on.
My pajama was nothing more than a thin light pink satin v-neck top with thin straps and a matching pair of shorts which were…very short. Unlike me, Hayden was dressed properly in a white shirt and a pair of black jeans. I hated to admit it, but he looked quite good…
Once again, I had no idea where he was taking me, and I had a pretty good guess that he wouldn’t tell me even if I asked. However, I decided to ask anyways…
“Where are you taking me this time? It’s so late…” I said as I turned to look at him.
Hayden…he’s driving so fast now that the roads were clear.
“You’ll see…” he replied a little coldly.
It felt like his mind was really somewhere else, far far away from me. His eyes were on the road, but I could tell that he wasn’t focused on them at all. I wondered what he was thinking right now and why he seemed so disturbed. Did something happen while he was away? If I asked, would he tell me?
“Ok…” I mumbled.
The ride was much longer than I had imagined. Hayden was silent most of the way and I was left to figure out for myself that we had started to leave the city center and began approaching the outskirts of the city. Now I was seriously curious of where he was taking me. The roads were getting darker as there were fewer and fewer buildings around and soon there were nothing but tall trees and the woods on either side of the road.
“It’s quite far…isn’t it?” I asked, almost as if I’m speaking to myself.
“We’re almost there…” Hayden replied softly. His reply surprised me a little.
The car climbed up a winding road up a hill and the road got a little bumpy and much narrower than before. There better be something interesting on top of this hill or something worth the long drive. We really came quite far.
“We’re here,” Hayden announced non-ceremoniously as he quickly got out of the car.
I looked at the darkness that surrounded us and wondered where ‘here’ was exactly. There were some public lights that lighted up some areas in soft orange light, but it wasn’t enough for me to see clearly. All I could make out was that we were surrounded by a lot of grass.
“Where are we…seriously,” I asked as I got out of the car.
I was right, we were completely surrounded by soft and squishy grass. We were quite far away from the city which meant that it was dark enough for me to clearly see many twinkling stars up above us.
“Wow, they’re so pretty,” I said absentmindedly as I stared up at the sky.
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