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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

got up, however, the last thing on my mind

view was absolutely stunning

the colorful autumn leaves, mixed with the deep green of the pine trees, took my breath away. No matter how much we groaned on

exclaimed, throwing her arms up and running over

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

someone take a picture for me? I have got to post this

so I sighed and pulled out my phone to snap a picture of Jessica. She grinned and

my phone when, all of a sudden, a strong gust of wind blew across the

so quickly, but felt like slow motion at the same time. She started to fall backwards over the edge of the cliff, her arms windmilling wildly as her

was a flash to our

shot forward and grabbed Jessica around the waist just before she

relief, too grateful that Jessica hadn’t fallen to her death to notice that Enzo had moved at an inhuman speed

streaming down her cheeks. “You saved

from the cliff this

next time,”

Jessica blushed and nodded.

to Jessica with her hands balled up into fists. “You could’ve died!” She took the whimpering

She kissed Jessica.

laughter again. Beside me, James started 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, my eyes

red

us– like that again,” Lori growled,

as well as Jessica’s near-death experience, it was a lovely afternoon. Jessica and Lori stayed practically conjoined at the hip, while Matt tried to see how far he could throw stones, much to

and when I felt Enzo’s hand brush a strand of hair out of my eyes when no one was looking, I didn’t mind at

at the horizon. The sun was beginning to set, and none of

going up, and I eventually found myself lagging behind the group since I was so exhausted

I knew that

view

I struggled to climb down a small but steep rock face. I glanced up ahead at Enzo, who was

distracted by Matt trying to sword fight with him with a stick while he was also trying to help Jessica climb down a small ledge at the