321 Village (1/2)

A soft alarm echoed inside their room, waking up the sleeping beauty. She turned over on the bed and lay on her back, moaning at the sudden interruption. Was it time already? She felt that she barely got any sleep at all!

She counted to ten before she forced her eyes open, and rubbed the sleep from them. 'Alright! Wake up, Abi. It's time to go,' she encouraged herself. She turned the bedside lamp on, flung the covers off her and got up off the bed. She stretched and then looked back at the bed to see if she needed to wake Alex up.

Her eyes were met with a pair of charcoal eyes already awake and alert. Her heart thudded in her chest for a wild second.

”Good morning, Alex. How long have you been awake for?” she asked, trying to calm her racing heart. God, why did he have to look so damn good?

”Good morning, little lamb. I woke up not too long ago,” he answered.

”Oh. Okay. Well, I'm going to go and get ready,” she told him before she escaped to the bathroom.

When Abi left the bathroom, she was already changed and she looked like she was ready for the day ahead. Her eyes were bright and sharp. She saw that Alex was also ready to go.

They both grabbed their backpacks and put them on before they finally left the room.

The outside world was still under the cover of darkness, the perfect time to sneak out of the castle. As they entered the corridor, Alex and Abi stopped by an open window. In the next second, Abigail was lifted up by Alex as he jumped on top of the windowsill.

Abi didn't kick up at him touching her because this was all part of the plan. Alex had to carry her because he was going to jump out from the window to the ground and there was no way Abi could do that on her own. This was the quickest and safest way to sneak out without being seen by any of the guards or the residents of the castle.

Still, Abi couldn't help but give him a look of warning, as if to tell him that she was on to him and that he better not try anything funny.

”What? This is an exception,” he said in response and just smirked. ”Hold on tight,” he added and when she wrapped her arms around him, he leapt off the windowsill and they were falling to the ground. Alex landed with a soft thud and he looked around, making sure no one was around.

They then headed towards the foot of the hill, with Alex still carrying Abi because it was faster that way, to their rendezvous point.

When they got there, they saw a nondescript car waiting for them, with the engine already rumbling. Zeke was sitting in the driver's seat, waiting for them to get in.