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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

up, however, the last thing on my

was absolutely

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

see everything from here!” Jessica exclaimed, throwing her arms up and

James shouted after her “You shouldn’t get

Jessica said. “Hey, can someone take a picture for me? I have

my phone to snap a picture of Jessica. She grinned and struck a pose with one foot up behind herself and two peace signs with her

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

all happened 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

was a

a lightning bolt. He shot forward

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

tears streaming down her

the cliff

next time,” he

Jessica blushed and nodded.

She took the whimpering Jessica by both shoulders and shook her, shouting obscenities. But then she did

She kissed Jessica.

amused look. I couldn’t hold in my

beet red when Lori finally

scare me I mean, us– like that again,” Lori growled, to which Jessica nodded

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 and Lori stayed practically conjoined at the hip, while Matt tried to see how far he could throw stones, much

— and when I felt Enzo’s hand brush a strand of hair out of my eyes when no one was looking,

set, and none of us wanted to hike back to camp in the

the group since I was so exhausted from what happened the

I knew

that view forever, so

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

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