CHAPTER 32: IN THE CAVE

The terrace.

That’s where I thought we were going to, but seeing Adam take a detour into the garden right after the terrace was a huge stop in the show.

My movements slowed until it came to an abrupt halt. Why the garden? What is going on there?

I looked around me. There was no student or teacher in plain sight. Everyone was busy eating their lunches and I was here following an ex bully, or still bully-who knows what he has in stock for me into a garden I haven’t been in since ninth grade.

"Coming or not?" Adam questioned., his face blank of emotions. He must have noticed that I wasn’t following him up.

I couldn’t tell if he was happy, sad, frustrated or whatever. His handsome face was just void of feelings. He could be talking about the weather for all I knew.

"Where are we going to?" I asked him, drawing invisible lines on my jacket, slipping my hands into the pockets out of habit.

I was nervous; like so nervous.

"The garden obviously. Are you blind too?" He asked, piquing his eyebrows, the first sigh of life on his face, that and his beautiful blue eyes which were scanning me unabashedly now.

"Stop behaving like a scaredy cat and follow me. I am not going to eat you up, unless of course the eating has to do with the hotness down there." He said, laughing the next second when he saw the incredulous look on my face.

"Jeez. You are such an innocent." He muttered, turning away and continuing the unknown walk into the garden.

Calming my nerves which were jumping up and down from the meaning of his statement, I took up walking again, praying that whatever it was we will be doing here wouldn’t stop the Lycan from banning my leaving the pack.

Yes, I still want to leave. Even if Adam should say that he likes me.

Okay backtrack. Perhaps I wouldn’t leave them.

Geez get your head out of the gutter, Maya. I cussed, sinking my fingers into my hair and roughing it all up, frustrated at my thoughts.

Couldn’t my mind just stay blank for a minute without thinking or guessing or competing or comparing or assuming or imagining? Wasn’t that possible for god’s sake?

Getting into the garden after Adam, I watched keenly with interest as he took another detour this time to god knows wherever. I took the slow detour coming to a halt when I saw that he was standing still, facing a wall that was covered with grass. Why was he looking at it? And what were we doing here looking at a grass wall? Isn’t this a dead end?

I was about to ask him that, when all of a sudden he patted the wall three times consecutively, then one, and then another three times, like a Morse code. Was there something behind it, was it a door?

I watched with clear eyes as the wall began to vibrate and then slide open from bottom to top, horizontally. Wow, what is this?

After the door’s motion stopped, Adam turned to me then, and gestured to me with his hand to come in.

Stupid me followed him like I was being operated by a remote without asking any questions.

My mouth fell open the moment I beheld the interior of the space. It was like a decorated cave. There were chairs and a few tables. Then there was a bed in the farest end. The cave was larger than my room to put in a more accurate decision.

On one of the tables, there were covered plates and trays. Probably food. They were arranged beautifully.

Did Adam prepare this for me? But why?

I turned around swiftly when I heard the door closing again. For a second, I was tempted to run away from here, but I let the thought go.

Adam wouldn’t go against his father. But my heart was beating after now. I’ve never liked enclosed spaces. Everywhere was dark too once the door that shut.

"Adam?" I called softly, hiccuping suddenly, my breath calming down slowly when I felt his hand around my waists.

"You don’t like the dark or enclosed places?" I heard him ask, or rather he whispered into my ears.

"Both. I don’t like either of them. Can you turn on the light?" I pleaded, twisting my hands which was still splayed in the jacket’s pockets.

"This is a cave, Maya. There is no switch. But I’m sure I can do something about the light." He muttered, and I nodded whilst wondering how the door of the cave had opened to us if there was no system put in place for that. It was like some secret room.

His hand still on my waist, Adam walked, pulling me along, to the end of the wall, I think, I couldn’t see clearly, it was pitch dark.

I’m not even sure how he is able to see that well. But he made the same rap on the wall, and I thought that perhaps he was reopening the door so that at least light could follow in, but when the door started to open, I knew this was a different door and part of the cave, because what my eyes beheld was the most beautiful sight.

A waterfall!

How?

How had they found this beauty of nature? I wondered, letting my eyes get accustomed to the beauty of the place. The water ran from a crack in the lower part of the cave which I was literally standing on, overflowing into a large sparkling steam. It wasn’t that high but it was beautiful.

"My brothers and I usually come here to chill out. No other person has been here except for you. They wouldn’t be happy if they knew about this." Adam said, throwing my mind into disarray again.