ZOE BELL PART 54

"Okay, I just grabbed a bunch of my favorites, and a couple I thought you might like. Pick one."
He held out the movies in front of me to look through, and I was surprised that his favorites were some of mine as well. I picked a Harry Potter movie at random, and he talked me into having a Harry Potter movie marathon, so we started with the first.
"I’m a huge Harry Potter fan Zoe! This is going to be an amazing day!" He sat down with me and I immediately made myself comfortable in his arms.
"I’m glad you are, because I am too! I always wished for a Hogwarts letter when I turned eleven! I cried for a week and wouldn’t talk to anyone when I didn’t get one."
He laughed. "I had a similar reaction, only it was more like a month. . ."
I smiled and kissed his cheek. He really was my perfect guy! I can’t believe how lucky I am to have him like me so much and finally approach the relationship between us. I am so darn glad that I was the one he wanted to share his secrets and parts of his life with me.
We relaxed together on his couch, talking and laughing together as we watched our movies. I ended up falling asleep in his arms during the second movie, but I didn’t know this until later when I was shaken awake and violently pulled to my feet.
"What’s going on?" I mumbled.
"Mason tried to make me walk, but I staggered and almost fell over, so he picked me up and he ran downstairs.
"What’s going on?" I asked again.
"I’ll tell you in a minute, so just stop talking!" Shocked that he would talk to me like that, I shut up and paid attention to where he was taking me.
He ran us out to his backyard where I was airborne for a split second until I landed on his wolf back. I didn’t have time to register what happened, because he was speeding through the trees so fast that they were just a blur in my vision.
I held onto his fur as tight as I could to keep from falling off his back. We skidded to a stop that sent me flailing over his back, in the air, and I screamed as I fell to the floor, being caught in his human arms right before my face was about to smash into the ground.
He held me to his chest and covered my eyes so I couldn’t see where we were going. I buried my head against his chest so he could support me with two arms, and he started running again. I was dying to ask what was going on, but I forced myself to stay quiet and focus on the smell of Mason to keep from getting motion sickness, and then we were running downhill.
"You can look now," he said, loosening his grip on me as he slowed to a walk.
"Where are we?" I asked as I looked around. We were in what looked like an underground cave. Roots and dirt was visible through the ceiling and walls, and the floor was covered in dirt and loose rocks.
"I can’t tell you, but you’ll be safe here. If you try to get out you’ll get lost, so I need you to stay here. Understand?"
"No, I don’t understand! Are you leaving me?"
"Yes, I have to help with something, and I don’t want you to be exposed to what’s out there." He tried to set me down on my feet, but I clung to him with as much strength as I could muster in my drowsy arms right now.
"I don’t want to be left here alone without you!"
He laughed and easily pulled my arms and legs of of him. "Other girls will be here soon, so you won’t be alone. Zane will probably be the one sent here to guard you guys, so you’ll be fine."
"I don’t want you to leave me though!" I wrapped my arms around his neck and held on tight.
"I know, I don’t want to either, but there are five vamps in the area and since I’m Steve’s secondhand man, I have to go help out incase anything happens to him or Ryan."
"Who will protect me if you’re not here? Zane will feed me to the enemy!" I joked, knowing he wouldn’t.
He leaned down and planted a kiss on my forehead. I held him tight and inhaled his scent. "I’ll be back in a couple of hours." He pulled my arms off and ran out of sight.
It felt weird, watching him leave me, and I felt like running after him. "You won’t be able to catch him," a voice said to my left.I peered into the darkness around me and made out the shape of a girl taller than me, leaning against the wall. "I’m Amy, Ryan’s girlfriend." She extended her hand out to me and I hesitantly shook it. "He’ll be back before you know it. The girls have things in here to do to make the time pass."
I didn’t know what to say, so I just followed her deeper into the cave, trailing my hands along the walls because I couldn’t see, and hoping that there weren’t any creeping crawlers on the walls that my hands might accidentally touch.
My eyes could detect light ahead and we were soon in a room that was being lit by propane lamps. There were about ten girls in there, some I knew, and some I didn’t. They all had gloomy looks on their faces.
"Cheer up girls! We have a new girl among us!" Amy exclaimed.
 They all looked up and glared at me. Shocked, I looked over at Amy to see if she knew why they were giving me dagger looks. "Mason wouldn’t ever date them, so the had to resort to less, sexier guys."