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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

I finally got up, however, the last thing on my mind

view was

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

Jessica exclaimed, throwing her

be careful,” James shouted after her “You shouldn’t get

someone take a picture for me? I have got to

phone to snap a picture of Jessica. She grinned and struck a pose with one foot up behind herself and

phone when, all of a sudden, a strong gust of

same time. She started to fall backwards over the edge of the cliff, her arms windmilling wildly as her face filled with panic Lori and I both

was a flash

so quickly he was like a lightning bolt. He shot forward and grabbed Jessica around the

her death to notice that Enzo had moved at an

she cried, tears streaming down her cheeks. “You saved

the cliff this time

next time,”

Jessica blushed and nodded.

fists. “You could’ve died!” She took the whimpering Jessica by both shoulders and shook her, shouting

She kissed Jessica.

while Enzo flashed me an amused look. I couldn’t hold in my amusement either and burst into laughter with

beet red when Lori finally

that again,” Lori growled, to

that happened the night before, as well as Jessica’s near-death experience, it was a lovely afternoon. Jessica and Lori

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

some time as he looked out at the horizon. The sun was beginning to set, and none of us wanted

group since I was so exhausted from what happened

knew that I

view forever, so

“Here, let me help you,” James said, holding out his hand as I struggled to climb

a stick while he was also trying to help Jessica climb down a