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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

was absolutely

the afternoon light shone across the colorful autumn leaves, mixed with the deep green of the pine trees, took my breath

throwing her arms up and running over to the edge

her “You shouldn’t get so

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

She grinned and struck a pose with one foot up behind herself and

and was putting away my phone when, all of a sudden, a strong gust of wind blew across the summit and made

edge of the cliff, her arms windmilling wildly as her face filled with panic Lori and I both screamed, running for her, but we were too far away. We

a flash to

he was like a lightning bolt. He shot forward and grabbed Jessica around the waist just before she

of relief, too 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

tears streaming down her cheeks. “You

down — away from the cliff this time and shook his

next time,” he

Jessica blushed and nodded.

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

She kissed Jessica.

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

face was beet red when Lori finally pulled

scare me I mean, us– like that

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

rays wash away my stress — and when I felt

James. said after some time as he looked out at the horizon. The sun was beginning to set, and none of us wanted to hike back to camp in the dark, so we gathered our things and started to make our

more difficult than going up, and I eventually found myself lagging behind the group since I was so exhausted from what

but I knew that

view forever,

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

while he was also trying to help Jessica climb down