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“I’m staying with my cousin. He’s just right up here.”
We’re silent as we walk for a few minutes, but I’ve never been great with silence, so I start to ramble at him.
“How are you liking Fallen Peak?” I ask.
“It’s fine. I’ve only been here for a few days but everyone seems nice.”
“Yeah, me too. I mean, I’ve been here for longer than a few days, a few weeks in my case, but it’s nice. I think it’s really nice. I always wanted to live in a small town, they seemed so great on TV shows when I was younger. Everyone always wanted to help everyone out and be neighborly and all of that good stuff.”
He looks over at me out the side of his eye and I will myself to stop talking but I guess my mouth didn’t get the memo.
“Do you think that there are raccoons out here?” I ask when some branches nearby start to move.
“Probably,” he says simply, and I move to walk on the other side of him.
“You shouldn’t walk in the road,” he says, grabbing my elbow and trying to steer me back toward the woods.
“I think I’ll take my chances with a car than with those little forest—OH MY GOD!” I shriek, leaping and wrapping my legs around his waist.
I’m not even thinking, just reacting and I start to try to climb him like a tree. I get up to his shoulders before I realize what I’ve done.
“There’s something down there,” I whisper hiss at him.
“Wha?” he mumbles and it’s then that I realize that I’ve wrapped myself around his face like a scarf.
My boobs are smashed up against the side of his head and my arms are coiled around him, blocking his mouth, nose, and part of his eyes.
“Sorry, I know that I should get down, but something ran over my foot and I don’t know what it was, so we just have to live like this from now on.”
“Right,” he says, wrestling one of my arms away from his face.
I cling to him tighter, trying to see if I can spot anything moving down by his feet but it’s too dark.
With a sigh, he wraps his arm around my waist and starts to walk.
“I’ll be the lookout,” I tell him and he laughs.
After a few more feet, I manage to unwrap my arm from around his neck a little bit and he shifts me so that I’m more comfortable.
“You really are a hero,” I say when we head down a driveway and I can spot lights from a house in the distance.
“Sure. I just saved you from a squirrel.”
“You don’t know that that’s what it was!”
“You’re right. It was probably a bear.”
I bury my face in his neck, trying to hide my smile but I feel like he can still tell that I’m grinning.
“Okay, I might have been a bit dramatic. I just really don’t like little rodents.”
“Why?”
“I watched this one movie where rats ate the person alive,” I say with a shiver.
“That’s not likely to happen to you when you’re walking down the road though.”
“Better safe than sorry.”
