THE ESCAPE ROUTE. [10]

"What's your problem?" yelled Alethea, Damon pulled her away from the market and the puzzled Wilfred while they were following the unknown guy.

"We just have to go okay?" sighed Damon.

"Well you could have told me nicely in front of Wilfred."

"Yeah sure and interrupt your sweet and touching moment with him." muttered Damon.

"So you saw." said Alethea in an almost inaudible voice, but Damon heard it.

"Yeah i saw."

Alethea did not know what to say or do.

"You know what i don't care, so let's leave it at that and go."

"okay. Who's the guy in black?"

The man that was walking in front of them was wearing a black cowboy hat, he had jet black hair and a neatly placed moustache. He was wearing sunglasses, you could not see his eyes. He had a gold Rolex on his right hand. He wore black work pants and black shiny shoes.

"He's our ticket out of here." said Damon with a grin on his face.

They walked through forest where they found a sleek black Mercedes parked.
Alethea and Damon stopped right in their tracks overwhelmed.
The man in black said nothing as he stepped into the Mercedes.
Damon nudged Alethea, and they both sat in the sleek Mercedes.
No one talked on the journey.
Alethea did not even know where they were heading, but that did not bother her. All she could think about was that she was going to get away from this god-forsaken place.

After all the excitement and drama that they had been through, Alethea's sleepiness caught up with her. Her eye lids closed shut. The road was a bumpy one, Alethea's head rested on Damon's shoulders. He did not attempt to push her head away, instead he just embraced the moment.

The car went over the bump and Alethea woke up from her slumber. She looked around, the man dressed in black was still driving the car, Damon was asleep with his head bobbing up and down. Alethea looked out the window, she recognised the place!

"Oh my gosh!" uttered Alethea in disbelief.

Alethea knew where they were heading to now. They were heading towards her home town.
The car turned the corner, and there she saw, was her school.
When she turned her head to Damon, she saw him grinning from ear to ear.

"Oh thank you! Thank you!" shrieked Alethea as she hugged him so tightly.

the driver looked into the rear view mirror to see what all the commotion was about, he just shrugged and continued concentrating on the road.
Alethea was ecstatic, joyful, blissful, thrilled, and all the other happy words you could think of.

Alethea turned her head at looked at her old school with such appreciation. She saw many people that she knew, she wanted to run out of the car and just hug them. Alethea knew that a lot of things had changed, people might have forgotten her. it already had been a year, everyone would not really want to be her friend anymore as they now knew her situation. Alethea knew all this might happen, but they weren't on her mind. All she could think about was Jason and Erika.

Damon sat back, he did not feel too happy about bringing her here. He just wanted her to be happy. Sacrifices must be made.