I always manage to get into some weird locations with you, why the hell are we here?

Cause I know how much you love this kind of stuff

I chuckle silently and continue to walk. we were underground so to speal, you could see concrete on either side of us and roots from the ground above, there were cobwebs everywhere and a line of water down the middle of the path due from the flow from above due to rain and ground water, and there was a musty, earthy smell, and I loved it all. Darrius however was not a fan of it, but I would break him down, he couldn't say no to me. I always wondered why when we were younger, but as we grew up and I got older and wiser I realized why. He was in love with me, he always threw this visaed out to all his friends, being the poser asshole to impress me, but he was nothing like that in my eyes. He was really defensive around me thought, never really showed his true feelings but hey I wasn't dumb.

How much further your majesty?

I smirk and look back him

You are such a pussy, suck it up princess we are almost there.

He gives me a little kick in the ass and I squeak a little as he laughs, I look back and glare at him as we come to a fork in the path. I turn left and bend into a tunnel as i crawl on my hands and knees through it.

You have got to be fucking kidding me woman. i'm not getting on mt hands and knees to crawl into some hole.

I turn my body to look back at Darrius and then shake my head.

Suit yourself then, stay out here with the bugs and other creatures while I relax in my new chill area and comfy furniture.

With that said his face went all sullen and annoyed and crawled through the small space. He then stopped halfway, looked at the size of the tunnel and then looked at me.

Comfy furniture? How the hell did you get comfy furniture in there, this tunnel is too small, this comfy furniture better not be something I get tied to and whipped for a hour....I wont fall for that again.

I looked back at him, raise a brow and do a total double take.

What?

Nothing, I said nothing

I shake my head and disappear into the darkness, i can hear the slow shuffling of Darrius feet coming along the tunnel as I light a few candles in the area to lighten the room a little and flop down on a futon putting my feet up on the coffee table in front of me. The bed had my two favorite colors on it. A big black blanket with about 6 pillows on it, 4 large pillows and two smaller ones. I had the room decorated somewhat too, some upturned angel faces and a couple crosses were here and there, there were also two chairs, on either side of my futon, they were pretty much the same as the ones in my locker room, the crushed velvet, the only difference was I had a little black cushion on each one. There was no art work at all in this room, and like my locker room the wall was covered in black curtain to make it look darker. There were candelabras everywhere, all acient looking and covered in cobwebs, it gave it that gothy glow. Darrius finally poked his head into my little "liar" and looked around.

Still didn't answer my question, how'd you get all this stuff in here?

Easy, there is a door behind my wall hangings, leads from an abandoned warehouse.

What? You mean we could have just walked through a damn door? Instead you make me crawl down some hole in a crypt and walk though a sewer, and then a sewer pipe.

It's not a sewer you big baby and that was the fastest way.

Mmmhmm sure. I can't believe i'm going to say this, but this is kind of cozy looking. How long has this been here.

As long as I can remember. I hid out here a lot when my mom was driving me insane, I would sleep here alot, no one else knew about it except some random girl that told me about it. It was refuge for her from the sun, or so she said. Told me she liked my attitude and would see me again someday, I just shrugged it off and hid out here when I left that altar. Everyone thought I hopped on a plane to Toronto, that was a good three weeks before Toronto came into the picture.

Everyone was worried about you, your dad mostly, your mom was more upset by the fact she was going to be rich. I have never seen someone look as relieved as your father though. I must say I was pretty relieved too. You should see that guy now.

Oh? And why is that?

His father invested in some company that never lifted off and lost it all.He is now mooching off any woman he can mooch off, and well his father is too busy feeling sorry about himself to care.

I couldn't help but smile at that, it served him right, the guy wasn't ready to get married but I was his "prize" every guy in town wanted me, and why? Because I was the challenge of the town and they liked my crude attitude. None of them were my type, they were all rich pretty boys and that was far from my taste. Darrius took a seat on one of the chairs and continued to look around.

That's nice, good to know something good came out of my running away. Glad to know at least one person missed me.

More people missed you, mind you most of them was all in the wrong way, but you had a couple close friends that cared trust me.

Don't get all sappy moment on me now, you know how I hate that mushy crap.

Me getting sappy, come on now you know that's not me.

Mmmhmm....so other than cozy what do you think of the place?

Surprisingly for a place that's underground it's not damp and cold.

I always wondered what caused that, but hey can't complain.

The tension in the room all of a sudden came to a weird level. I could sense it and Darrius was shifting his weight uncomfortably. I eyed his suspeciously, I could tell the moment was about to get sappy, I always knew there was something about me he liked but never something serious, oddly I felt this radiating off of him, and I couldn't help but wonder if this would ruin our friendship and this new found partnership.

What's wrong with you, you got all silent all of a sudden

I'm just thinking that's all, what it would have been like had you not ran away

You know what it would have been like. i would have been married to some loser at a young age with kids running around, being the perfect little housewife wearing stupid dresses miserable and than after the whole issue of his father losing all his money I would be on welfare and living in some trailer park.

I meant more of if you had came back shortly after, you know after he had married someone else. I mean you were just away for too long.

Things wouldn't have been much different, my mother would have just been trying to ride me all that time. You know her you know what she is like.

Not if you took control or your own life. At that point you could have lived on your own, or with friends. You never contacted us Jess, you could have at least contacted me, you can trust me can't you.

Yeah I could have, but I don't know I was just confused with my life at the time Darrius, i really found it hard to contact or care for anyone, i didn't know who my mother got to at the time, how did I know who I could trust?

Come on Jess you know you could trust me, I was always there for you and always will be. Look at me now, I am the same old Darrius you always knew, the one you could come to for anything, nothing could change that. Not then, not now, not ever.

Oh shut up your getting all sappy again Darrius

I wont shut up, you need to hear this Jess. I am sick of you always trying to push this shit off, always trying to change the subject. You have always known how I felt about you and you couldn't trust me?

My eyes lowered and my face suddenly went into that cynical look and tears whiled up my eyes and I looked at the floor

Well?

It's because i didn't trust myself to let anyone pass the walls, not anyone, especially not you, I may be tough but I am not as tough as I let on. Yeah at 16 I ran away from home and fended for myself, but only because I was too afraid to ask for help, do you think I liked being alone for 6 years, trust me it wasn't my, how do you say it, cup of tea.

I found myself screaming this to him, I hadn't meant to but I did and felt ashamed and looked to the floor again, turning away from him slightly. I could feel movement on the futon and I know he had moved from the chair to the futon with me. I didn't want to look cause I knew my eyes must look horrible now. Me showing emotion other than anger was just not me, god I hated him for doing that to me, stupid Darrius. I did however turn my head and looked at him, the look on his face was nothing I had seen before and it confused me, but nothing confused me more than what happened afterward, the man that never showed how nice he really was, well to me anyway, put one hand on the nape of my neck under my hair and looked into my eyes, wow he was a gorgeous man now, his light brown eyes boring into mine, and before I knew what was happening he had pulled me in, his lips met mine, and it was something I could not pull myself away from, it felt...I don't know right and that's when my both hands rose to his face half oh his neck half on his cheeks and I kissed back.