"This is my hometown" LiLi say and bit her lower lip hard.
The place she grew up in is finally in her life once again.
"It isn't pleasant I know, but come on" Leo whisper and leads her with his hand tightly holding hers as they found their way through the crowd.
Where are they? The same question spin in their heads.
Finally, they catch a sight of Felicity and Joe. They rush to them, but realize the others aren't there.
"Where are the rest?" Leo ask
"We don't know. When we entered they were not within sight"
Jesus Christ! What has the shit people place us into?!
"Where do you think they went to?" LiLi asked
"I don't know, but wherever they are we'll find them"
Leo turned to Felicity and asked "Did you catch a sight of them when you passed through the gates?"
"We didn't, we just-"
"We have been searching everywhere for all of you" Aisha said as she came from behind Leo and Lily, interrupting Felicity.
"You've been searching for us, we've been arguing for you guys!"
"The most important thing is we found Aisha and Liam, now is Chloe, Ryan, Mari and Salient" LiLi states.
"No need to look for us, we are already here" Mari said and came out with little Salient from nowhere behind Felicity.
Felicity, Joe, Leo and Lily look at themselves. The same question running through their minds.
Where the heck are Chloe and Ryan?!
"I think it's better we head to the gates now. We shouldn't be here in the first place" Chloe said and Ryan turns to face her with angry eyes and a very stern expression.
"You've been acting weird towards me, Chloe. Even my brother and the rest have noticed it... " his eyes softens as he stare at her with his gorgeous face and his hair that is coolly styled but dirty and messed up.
"I am sorry if I did anything wrong to you. I just wanted to say the truth about your brother when you and I- "
"It doesn't matter, Ryan. My brother has nothing to do with this"
"But the discussion of him does." Ryan says and Chloe stare into his eyes with a type of feeling in between them. She felt a boundary. A huge one in between them.
"I... He... " Chloe stutters
"I am sorry, Chloe. I really am"
Chloe says nothing but just stare at the ground and then suddenly felt a weird sensation come over her.
"I... I am sorry too" she whispers and Ryan stare at her the more with those pleading eyes of his.
When he couldn't take the silent between then anymore, he tilted her head up and slowly leaned forward and embraced her lips with his.
Surprisingly, she kisses him back. She held his tongue with hers and sucked his lower lip in gladness.
The tense between them is like a whirlwind that refuses to stop blowing. Ryan release a groan in pleasure as he kissed her, back. Firmly holding her waist and making her weight to be upon him.
When he finally withdrew, they are still as close as ever. Chloe's arms are wrapped around his neck and his are around her thin waist.
"Thank you" Chloe says and he smiles at her handsomely
The two withdrew and looked around, maybe they can catch a glimpse of Leo and the rest. Chloe bites her lip with a smile and red cheeks.
Finally, they do catch a glimpse of them.
"There they are" he says and they both ran to them.
"Where the hell are they now? The guards will soon lead us to the Castle.
"We are here!" They both panted heavily as they stood in front of everyone.
Leo and Felicity raised a brow at them while LiLi and Joe turned to look at themselves and then back to them.
"Where have you been?" Aisha asks and Chloe answers.
"We? We have been searching for you guys"
"We told you to stay at the gate and wait for us. Anything that might be helpful you.... "
"What we did was helpful. That's why we had to leave the gates and go somewhere a bit farther from here. Besides, we came in and we couldn't identify where the travellers were... " Ryan interrupts LiLi.
They all stared at Ryan and Chloe perplexed. What possibly could have gone on in between them that they turned friendly to each other all of a sudden?
LiLi shot at Chloe a surprised look and Chloe returned it with a gentle and calm smile.
Don't worry. I'll give tell you everything that happened later, Chloe thought.
"Well, the most important thing is that we're all together now. We just have to wait so that they'll finish their duties and then lead us to whereever the King or chief is" Leo says and they all nod.
There are some suspicious looking people around them. LiLi squeezes the hand of Leo softly and when he turned she narrowed her gaze to the people standing behind them that dress like the Arabs.
The crowd covered their own sight to not see Leo and his team but he could see them.
He nods and look down at LiLi only to realize the way she stare at one of the arab-like men.
When he stared down at her and followed her gaze straight ahead, he stare at the people closely and then finally saw the person LiLi is staring at, not even a blink attempted. Her eyes gets caught in those of a very beautiful and white young man amongst the Arab-like people that are staring at them suspiciously.
Leo wonders what he did to LiLi. She seems attracted to him.
"Don't stare too much, even your eyes are filled" he says and LiLi finally blinks.
"Oh... Um... Yeah sorry. Let's go" LiLi walks past Leo to the front, still staring back at the man she was staring at before Leo interrupted the stare.
Leo stared at the man who glares at him with a very proud set of eyes.
Leo also stare and when someone passed in front him and he looked again, the man has disappeared.
Something is wrong. But what is it?
LiLi's mind kept spinning. Who is this man and what has he done to her mind?
"Travellers! Please follow us!"
They all scrambled forward and walked behind three guards. The crowd started decreasing as they left because some of them came for their family members.
They all decreased until it remains LiLi and her team, the Arab-like people and a few other people.
Leo still search for the man he had saw earlier within the Arabs but no...
No such man appeared in the midst of them.
His eyes widened.
Who was the man he saw at first?