Fearless?

Fearless? - Chapter Twenty-Three

“You okay?” He asked, with a smile on his face. Cole had sat next to Azelie on the plane and they had basically just messed around the entire time. 

“Yeah, I’m fine,” Azelie replied, returning the smile. “Are you okay?” She questioned, receiving only a nod from Cole in reply to her question. He looked down to her wrist, where he was expecting to see the white bandage that had covered it yesterday but instead it was bare. He reached down and carefully holding on to her wrist and slowly turning her arm around, making sure not to hurt her. Azelie watched him as he did this, trying to figure out what he was doing. He turned her wrist around to reveal the black tattoo written in black swirling text.

‘Fearless.’

A soft smile formed on his lips as he saw it, and he looked down at her, her golden brown eyes looking into his green.

“What are you going to do when I find your fear?” He questioned playfully. She laughed softly as she shook her head from side to side. 

“How long is it going to be until you finally give up on that little dream of yours?” Azelie replied, looking up at him.

“I don’t give up on things, Azelie! Especially not this,” he smiled, sure that he would find something, no matter how desperate he was becoming. There had to be something, he was sure of it. 

“How long do you think it’ll be until they get together?” Cole asked, motioning to the left where Kelly and Alex were sat, chatting wildly away with each other, huge smiles playing on their lips. How could they not see that they were in love with each other! It couldn’t be more obvious!

“I’d give them a couple of days,”

“I’d give them 24hours!” Cole replied, looking away from the couple, and over to Azelie. 

“You wanna bet?” She smirked, looking into Cole’s green eyes.

“Sure, but what if both of us are wrong?” Cole questioned. 

“Then we have to get involved and force them to go on a date! Deal?” Azelie smiled in reply. 

“Oh you’re on, Azelie Ryans!” He smirked confident that it would only take them 24 hours to get together. 

The hotel they were staying in was okay, although Azelie was sure that after three days with Kelly, it would be burnt to the ground. When they arrived, she went running after hot bartenders and waiters, after spending more of the day flirting with Alex. Azelie really didn’t ever think that she would understand that crazy girl’s mind. The good thing about Kelly chasing every half decent looking guy was that it meant that Azelie could have some peace and quiet as she unpacked her suitcase. Azelie and Kelly were sharing a room, while Alex and Cole were on a lower floor of the hotel where all the other guys had been placed. The school obviously didn’t trust teenagers to be able to stay on the same floor as the opposite sex.

Azelie slid her now empty suitcase under the bed as she put the last items of clothing away in the drawers, and began to look around the room. The room was quite small, all the furniture in the room looking quite cramped together. There were two single beds, the one that Kelly had claimed was beside the window, looking out onto the street, leaving Azelie the bed beside the small bathroom, with only a toilet, a sink and a tiny toilet cubical. The walls had just been painted a neutral shade of brown and the sheets on the bed were just plain white. The hotel was nothing special at all, but Azelie didn’t care. This was her first school trip away from home. Her aunts in Florida never allowed her to go on a school trip, they had never been willing to pay the expense. Of course, had it been free, they would have probably sent her off in a heartbeat and told her never to return. Azelie probably wouldn’t have argued with it. Disappearing off the face of the earth had been the one thing she had wanted to do growing up. Disappearing and getting out of Florida had been all she ever wanted growing up. But as she got older, disappearing turning into something darker.