*Margret’s POV*
I remained on the spot Jaxon left , pondering at the sa ti wondering. He said he had mixed feelings about this place and the serious tone with which he said it,struck a chord of fear in my heart. I’ve known Jaxon to be an headstrong person but the fact that he appeared disconcerted when he made that statent made feel uneasy. The camp wasn’t an harmful place to be and the people we’ve t so far are friendly but.. Maybe we should have just stayed at ho,we would be preparing dinner together now.
"Where have you been Aria", Mary asked as she saw approaching the camping field, "Tim and Calum have gone with Stevie’s dad to gather woods for the bonfire"
"Nothing" I muttered, proceeding to fix the tent I and Jaxon would pass the night in. "You don’t look like everything is okay" Mary pressed further, "has your erratic boyfriend started again?"
I sensed mockery in her tone and anger welled up in my heart imdiately,making Mary’s oval face irritate as she turned to face . How dare she call Jaxon erratic when she’d been associating with a pervert? I felt a deep urge to call her out and ask her what she ant but because of the mixed feelings Jaxon claid to have about the camping trip,I decided not to start a drama and continued fixing the tent.
If Mary had sensed my irritation towards her, she didn’t say anything about it. It lingered between us like a thick fog, unspoken yet palpable while I continued to relive the scenes of the monts Jaxon and I had before we arrived at the camp house.
*Jaxon’s POV*
Timothy Andros does nothing but make angry and it’s getting harder for to continue tolerating him. I just want grab him and ram my fist into his puffy cheeks. I just want to break all his teeth or all his bones! Just iAriaine I was peacefully enjoying with Aria before his stupid call ca in and my poor Aria was too guiless to suspect that it was a trick to get her to hangout with him. Yes, Timothy Andros organized this sham camping trip so that he would be able to spend ti with my angel girl. I know Aria wouldn’t believe if I told her this but it was still my fault that I agreed for us to co here.
"Jeez", I muttered under my breath as I plopped down on one of the rocks on the bank of a small lake I had stumbled upon. I didn’t even know how long I had been walking. I took a deep breath and leaned forward to examine my reflection in the river. The silvery surface of the lake mirrored my weary face the way I expected it to and I closed my eyes to rest my nerves and to take a deep breath.
After I opened my eyes,I gazed at my reflection in the river again but what I saw in the river shocked so much that I scread out and jumped off the rock.
"What are you doing here?" I growled as I turned to face the intruding figure, "have you been following ?"
She raised her shoulders in a small shrug and took a step closer towards
"I heard you arguing with your girlfriend and when I saw storming away in anger I feared that you might get lost in the woods so I decided to..."
"To stalk ?"
"No!" She forced a quirky smile, "I ant I decided to follow you", and she started shifting from foot to foot .
"You acted like a creep back there"
"I’m sorry" she muttered and she looked away from "I’m just concerned for you" she gestured to the rock I stood up from
"No" I said, dusting the dirt off the back of my trouser, I suddenly wasn’t feeling comfortable anymore "I have to return to the camp site, Aria would have been worrying about "
"Okay" she said hesitantly as she moved out of the way, sothing flashed in her green eyes but I didn’t have the na for it and I didn’t care.
"Your na is Stevie right?"
"Yes" she replied and I moved to walk past her
"Do you know the way back?"
"Uhh" I turned around instantly, "I ant do you know the way back to the campsite"
I paused and began to search my mind for the routes that led to this place but it all ca out blank. Turns out I was just walking,I was paying attention to the twist and turns.
"I’m not actually sure"
She flashed a small smile and started walking slowly on a tiny path beside the lake, "this is a shortcut, we’ll get ho faster"
"Oh okay"
And the journey back ho proceeded in silence until she asked ,"for how long have you and Aria been dating?"
"Why do you ask?"
"Nothing"she shrugged "I’m just curious"
"Well I’m sorry Stevie, I don’t wish to talk about it"
"It’s okay" she waved her left hand derisively but I could tell she wasn’t satisfied and that only thickened the fog of tension around us. We kept on walking without saying a word to each other and a part of began to wonder how possible it was for her to know the forest like the back of her hand.
"I feel like I’ve seen you before Jaxon" she said, "you look sowhat familiar?"
"Well I don’t know you from anywhere" I could feel her embarrassnt with the brusque tone I answered her questions with but I have lost the desire to flirt and sleep with random girls.
"You don’t know from Instagram?" She paused and turned to face , "I ant... I’m one of your active followers. I’m always comnting on your posts, reposting them and reacting"
"Ohh that’s nice..Thanks for following Stevie but I don’t exactly know my followers by na both the active and the inactive ones"
The mont I said those words, Stevie stopped walking and tucked her hands into the pockets of the brown jogger pants she was wearing.
"Is sothing wrong?"
"Nothing Jaxon Gilbert", She answered and I sensed sothing ominous in her voice, "I shouldn’t help you return to the campsite since you don’t know who I am"
The blood in my veins dried up as I widened my eyes in surprise, "You don’t know Jaxon, you don’t know your most active follower on Instagram. The one who opened multiple accounts to help you increase your followers, the one whose ssages you never reply to"
A mischievous smirk crawled onto Stevie’s innocent looking face and as she began to move closer to , my legs began to wobble beneath .
"You can’t run away Jaxon Gilbert, you’re stuck in this forest with , you can never find your way back alone. We were ant to be together,we were ant to die together"
Stevie flashed a mischievous smile at as she slowly began to pull her right hand out of her pocket. A grey stilleto dagger accompanied her slim hands out of the pocket and my entire life flashed before my very eyes.
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