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#Chapter 58: Peak

Nina

“Man,” Matt said, huffing as we slowly made our way up the mountain, “who knew hiking was such a workout?”

“I’ll say,” Lori chimed in. By this point, she had piled her black hair on top of her head and was flapping her ratty black band t-shirt to cool herself off as we climbed

“You guys are a couple of wimps,” Jessica said, her long and slender legs allowing her to climb the mountain. with ease. She was wearing tight

leggings and an even tighter long- sleeved workout top that zipped up the front, and didn’t have a bead of sweat on her entire body. Her ponytail swung back and forth, its curls from the day before still somehow perfect after a night of sleeping on the ground.

“Says you,” Lori grumbled. “You’re. built like a gazelle.”

It wasn’t often that Jessica’s nerdy side came out in front of other people, but this was one of those rare times. ” Actually,” she said, sounding somewhat full of herself and making everyone groan, “gazelles are better suited for flat terrain, like plains. If anything, you should be the one who’s best at climbing like this, because you’re short and muscular Like a mountain goat

There was a collective silence

Finally, Matt was the first to burst out laughing, which started the chain, 1 even heard Enzo chuckle behind me, and thought I saw a smirk on James’ face in the front while Lori fumed, clearly trying not to laugh.

Lori folded her arms across her chest and stuck out her tongue

We kept climbing, taking breaks here and there for water and to catch our breath as the climb slowly got more difficult. An hour later, we were all getting annoyed at James for claiming that the hike was “easy” – except for Enzo, who stayed mostly quiet behind me, his brown eyes focused on me the entire time– but he kept promising that we were almost there.

Finally, just as we were considering

turning back, we reached the peak

We climbed up one last large rock face, having to help each other climb up. Enzo quickly came over as I tried to climb up the rock and boosted me up while James scrambled to be the one to take my hand, making me blush at the two of them practically competing for my affection novelxo.com fast update

the

was absolutely stunning

pine trees, took my breath away. No matter how much we groaned on the way up, the view made it all

Jessica exclaimed, throwing her arms up and running over to

James shouted after her “You shouldn’t get so close to the

“Hey, can someone take a picture for me?

and pulled out my phone to snap a picture of Jessica. She grinned and struck a pose with one

few pictures and was putting away my phone when, all of a sudden, a strong gust

edge of the cliff, her arms windmilling wildly as her face filled with panic Lori and I

was a flash to

was like a lightning bolt. He shot

grateful that Jessica hadn’t fallen to her death to notice that Enzo had moved at an inhuman speed to save her Jessica practically swooned in his arms, throwing

cried, tears streaming

— away from the cliff this time

next time,” he said

Jessica blushed and nodded.

with her hands balled up into fists. “You could’ve died!” She took the whimpering Jessica by both shoulders and shook her, shouting obscenities. But then she did something else that none of us

She kissed Jessica.

to laugh as well while Enzo flashed me an amused look. I couldn’t hold in my amusement either and burst into laughter with my friends,

beet red

that again,” Lori growled, to

more time at the summit, enjoying the view and basking in the sun on the rocks. Despite everything that happened the night before, as well as Jessica’s near-death experience, it was a lovely afternoon. Jessica

laid on the rocks and closed my eyes against the warm sun, letting its rays wash away my stress — and when I felt Enzo’s hand brush a strand of hair out of my eyes when no one was looking, I

time to head back,” James. said after some time as he looked out at the horizon. The sun was beginning to set, and none

group since I was so exhausted from what happened the night before. I wished. that James had warned us of that before suggesting that we

knew

that view forever, so

James said, holding out his hand as I struggled to climb down a small but steep rock face. I glanced up ahead at

while he was also trying to help Jessica climb down a small ledge at