Coby didn't know what to do with himself. He was lost. Did Em really just leave him? He opened the front door and looked outside. The truck was gone.
"SHIT!" He ran outside to see if he was still able to see the truck. The lights were slowly fading down the road.
He ran to the five-car garage to check whether or not his dad had sold his motorcycle.
Two years ago when Coby had turned 16, he had begged his parents to get him a motorcycle. When they had refused, he had simply asked his uncle. Uncle Brian was always willing to shell out money for Coby. He loved the 18-year old like he was his own son.
Brian had bought Coby the nicest Harley he could find. It was a vintage but it was beautiful and ran as smooth as silk. Coby loved his motorcycle and tried to hide it from his parents for as long as possible. His dad had found it only two days later and threatened to sell it. Coby hadn't been back to the lodge in a while and had just assumed that his parents had sold his cycle. Now was the time to check.
It was still there. Coby ran to the key cabinet and opened it, checking to see if the keys with the friendship bracelet keychain were still inside.
Emma had made him that friendship bracelet back when they were still in elementary school. He had worn it until it no longer fit his wrist. After he cut it off, he always kept it in his wallet. Even after Emma had started acting coldly towards him. Even after they had become worst enemies. When he first got his motorcycle, he put the bracelet on the keychain and named the bike Flame, after an old childhood nickname he had had for Emma.
Coby was quickly able to find Flame's keys and was riding down the road after Emma before he could even think, "wait."
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Emma was lost. She had only been driving for ten minutes but she knew she was a goner. She'd have to wait for the sun to come up because the roads were pitch black up in these mountains.
She pulled over onto the side of the road and shut off the engine.
Emma leaned forward until her head was resting on the steering wheel. Only then did she let herself release a long and very shaky breath.
Emma was lost. Coby had only been back in her life for a day or two but she already felt that they were destined for something big. Whether or not that meant love or hatred, she didn't quite know.
While she was thinking, she slowly began to regret her decision to leave the lodge. Now she would have to stay out here for the night. In the morning she'd find a gas station and try to purchase a map. She had forgotten her phone at Coby's and therefore wasn't able to look up a map on the internet.
She missed Coby already. Yeah, he had forced her into doing some pretty... interesting things. But... she liked it. She liked it a lot. And she liked him.
She whispered to herself, "Oh hell Emma. You're just as much in love with him as he is with you."
Then the tears began to roll down her cheeks.
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