RAY

Chp 14. My secret place.

POV:

Ray Mellan

Ash helped me onto the bike and I discretely fold my arms around his waist to try and ease the little pain. I tightened my hold around Drake's waist when he speeds off and smiles at the feeling of the wind whipping my hair backward.

I felt better, the cool breeze helped me ease my mind.

I removed my arms and straighten it and let the wind moves past it, shut my eyes and thought of me flying. A small smile crept on my face and I actually liked for once, after returning back here in all this time.

I have to face the people who made my life a living hell three months ago, every one of them. I know the past can't be undone, but I can't run my whole life. I have to face them.

"We are here." I heard Ash say as he parks the bike.

I opened my eyes and met Ash's deep brown gaze.

"Mhm?" I murmured.

"So, this is my secret place. No one except you now knows about it." He whispered, and moved sidewards for me to get off the bike and look at the surroundings.

I smiled, got down and saw, we are currently in a forest as a park and no one is here. It's very beautiful, green grasses and trees around. The area is pretty clean with many trees'ss lined up along the pavement shading us as we walked.

I was so lost in my train of thoughts I didn't realize, Ash was holding my hand, a little closer to him as we walked in silence.

"You said secret place? Uhmm... Why?" I asked him, glancing sideways, breaking the silence.

We kept walking, " Yeah, I use to come here quite often, when I was younger. You know to think about my demons and my s**t. Coming here, the silence or maybe nature's presence helped me a lot to deal with them. Magically being here, helps me think straight and clear, You know what, one thing I've learned coming here, is that Life is a book. And every day is a new page, every month is a new chapter and every year is a new series. Never to lose hope if something bad happens in life, just turn the page and start a new chapter, cause re-reading the old chapter is useless, you won't be able to start a new chapter in life after all."

I understood what he said.

I smiled and looked at him, "Thank you." is all I said.

Unintentionally, or Intentionally, he guided me away, helped me come out of my inner-venom and showed a way to escape my demons, I had planned to take revenge from all the people who had hurt me.

 I understood his words, the depth of them that Maybe it's not about trying to fix something, maybe it's about starting over and creating something better. One bad chapter doesn't mean it's the end of the book. I will start fresh, create new chapters in my life.

But I'm certainly curious to know what has happened in the past, for him to act this way right now.

I want to know more about Ash Thomson.

I don't know why but!

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