“I know that you’re up here somewhere with them Christina! I know that you are, the best thing to do is for you to come out. I’m going to kill them boys when I get a hold of them!” Mr. Thomas’s voice called out into the night his voice echoing as he remembered what he had read in her journal.

Ben led Christina up the mountain as quickly as he could, he couldn’t see Joel. They had never been searched for, never like this. They hadn’t come up with a plan in case they had.

Ben pulled her further into the woods though he could hear the voices he wasn’t sure that he could tell if Joel was one of them.

Stopping for a breath, knowing that he was faster than the ones that were chasing them he found a big enough bush for them to hide. With it being so dark and away from the fire it was going to be harder to be seen.

Ben put his finger up to his mouth to tell Christina to be quiet. She was so close to him, he could smell the sex on her, he felt his cock getting hard for her again but now wasn’t the time. it wasn’t the time to try and take her again when they were being searched for.

Christina moved in closer to Ben, she could see out of the bushes, but it was too dark. She couldn’t see the firelight anymore, but she could hear the voices.

“Stop where you are right now! It’s the police!” They heard a loud voice and then they heard a shot ring out.

Ben could see from where he was, he could see the fire that they had kept burning. They weren’t too much further away but his heart just about stopped when he knew that his brother was getting arrested.

“Get your clothes on and come with us. You can’t avoid it this time, I knew that we would catch up to you guys.” The officer was calmer, Ben had to strain his ears to hear what was being said.

He could tell that Joel wasn’t saying anything, he knew his brother too well. He would go down for what had happened or find a way to escape when the time was right before he got off the mountain.

“Put your hands behind your back.” The officer stated.

Christina’s heart was pounding she didn’t know what to do. She didn’t like the fact that Joel had been caught. She didn’t want anyone caught for what had happened.

She thought about her father, she knew that he had seen her diary. She knew that he had gone into her room and that it was her fault that he had found it, it was her fault that Joel was caught, and she fought back the tears. She fought back the urge to come out from the bushes completely naked and confront her father, to let the boys go, that he didn’t know anything about them.

Ben must’ve known what she was thinking because he put his hand over hers and calmed her.

“You know that it would just be easier to come out and show yourselves. Christina you’re going to come home eventually. When you do I will be waiting for you. I will have the police here. It’s your choice whether you choose to stay out here with that boy or to come home!” Mr. Thomas’s voice was hard and there was a moment of silence.

Christina wasn’t scared of his voice. She had heard that tone of voice plenty of times before. Ben held her hand tightly, not because he thought that she was going to run out on him, not because he thought that she was going to point him out but because he wanted her to stay with him, he wanted to be with her.

It was at that exact moment that he realized that he loved her more than ever. Not because of the sex she had given him, that was a bonus. It was the excitement, the challenge. He loved her because she was standing by him.

“Come on Mr. Thomas, she will be home soon enough. She’s probably just waiting for us to leave. A girl like her, she will do the right thing. She was raised the right way.” The office told him in a quiet voice, but his voice carried.

“Yeah. Maybe if you get this one to talk we will find out where they are!” Mr. Thomas snapped at him.

“We’re going to be doing the best that we can, but we can’t do anything about it right now. We have to take him down to the station.” The officer explained procedure.

“You’d better tell me where that brother of yours is. You’d better tell me where that daughter of mine is. I don’t take kindly to you corrupting her the way you’ve done, the way your brother has done!” Mr. Thomas stared into Joel’s eyes.

Joel didn’t say anything, there was no emotion on his face. Though he was scared he wasn’t going to say anything at all knowing that it would be giving up his brother, one thing he had learned living on Mount Dove with Ben was that they were all they had. Now Christina was in the mix and he wasn’t going to get her into trouble. He loved her, maybe even more than Ben.

Ben was daring, he let go of Christina and stood up. Now that he was standing all the way up he could see them, he could see his brother.

Christina tried pulling him back down to sit with her until they were gone but he pulled away from her gently.

They group wasn’t headed their way. They were slowly making their way back down the mountain. They were taking his brother and Ben knew what he had to do.

“Get up.” He whispered, handing her the white t-shirt and panties so that she could get dressed.

Christina hurriedly slipped them on, wondering what they were going to do now. She knew in the back of her mind what they had to do.t here was no doubt about it, there was no going home.

“This gives us time to leave, to run away from here. Joel is making it so that we can get away.” Ben whispered, putting his pants on and stepping out of the bushes only when he knew it was safe.

“I don’t like it.” Christina whispered to him, afraid that they would be heard if she spoke too loudly.

“You think that I do?” Ben asked, looking at her.

It was his brother who had been caught. He knew that even if Joel gave up the location they wouldn’t be there come morning. They could search the woods all day, for weeks, months, years and they wouldn’t be there.

No, after all the years that they’d been hiding at Mount Dove it was time to leave their spot. It was time.

Ben took her hand and instead of continuing up the mountain he brought her across the woods, knowing that they would come up with a way together to leave town. To runaway and never come back.

The End.