"He had the awkward tenderness of someone who has never been loved and is forced to improvise."
IN WHICH two neighbors meet only to be thrown into a world that was the opposite of their own and forced to battle for their lives every night alongside...
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0006. THE BUS RIDE
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A COUPLE OF days later, Kaia was stood beside Ashlyn as the two had just been dropped off by Ashlyn's mom on her way to work as it was the day of the field trip to Savannah, Georgia. Their peaceful silence was quickly interrupted as Aiden and Ben got dropped off only minutes later and the male duo was quick to join the female duo.
"Kaia!" Aiden grinned as he quickly bounced over to the dark haired girl's side, smiling down at her. "You're still sitting with me like we agreed, right?"
Kaia blinked as she turned to look up at him with a frown, "I never agreed to that."
His grin turned a bit sly, "yeah you did, don't you remember? You told me you'd sit beside me on the bus if I stopped talking during our time together at lunch."
Kaia seemed confused for a moment before her face dropped in realization. He was right, she had agreed, he got her during a moment of weakness. She had been trying to study for a quiz that was coming up in her math class and he just wouldn't stop telling her about some stupid bug he had seen crawling up his window the night before and she told him that if he shut up for the rest of that lunch period, she'd sit with him on the bus to Savannah...
How could she have given up a eight hours worth of solitude with Ashlyn just for twenty minutes of quiet to study for a stupid quiz that she was most likely going to pass anyways?
