"Shit! We've lost them, damn!!" Skype cursed.

"Fuck it! It was ya dumb donkey that got everything fucked up!!" Bulldog pointed accusing fingers at Tyrant.

"Oh what? Y'all gonna sit ya asses down and talk shit about me! How about Gage?!!" Tyrant barked.

"Guys, this is no time for fights, let's go back and think straight up on what we gonna do," Badbitch suggested.

"Gage was never with us, I mean, we don't know much about him, he simply tricked us it seems," Bird said lighting a cigarette.

"Badlands is surrounded by water and the only way out is traveling by sea or air, we know that happens once in two months, they are stuck somewhere and we gonna find them"

Hoodie explained curtly and helped himself to Bird's cigarette, "we've got to match out guys, he's got a gun" he requested.

"Yeah, we come back here for them when we get us armed for security reasons" Bad concord and they all accepted to go back.

"For sure, I'm gonna fuck that gal and lick her ass to Gage's face, that's a promise!" Tyrant swore.

"I gotcha, T" Hoodie said right behind him as they went out of the woods.

*** ***

"Are you okay?" Gage asked against himself, he shouldn't be worried about this problem he brought upon himself.

"I'm not and will never be. I want to talk to my parents, they must be so worried about me" She confided sadly.

"I can't stop wondering how people get themselves stuck in a web"

"What do you mean?" Sky glanced at his blank face.

"How old are you?" He asked returning her look.

"And what has my age got to do with our discussion?" She defended.

"I might have been able to answer that but I don't know if the things written about you on the papers are really what it is" he replied ignoring her glare.

"For someone who has been stalking me online and offline, where is your phone?" She raised an inquisitive brow.

"Nah! Get that stalking word off your head, you are not my type, especially when you have got no brains to accompany your beauty" he denied.

"Just forget I ever talked to you, you suck!" Sky scuffed and moved to another stone.

They were seated on a flat stone at the seashore, when she moved to another stone, he stretched out on it and laughed at her.

"I have a phone, how about that?" He got her attention again.

"Where is it? Please, help me" she begged him.

"On one simple condition, Miss Universe" he winked at her.

"What?" She breathed. She heck doesn't care if he calls her Miss Century.

"You would call me by my full name and..."

"For Pete's sake, I don't know your name! How am I supposed to know while you refused to tell me?!!" Sky gave up and slumped to the stone.

"You are raising your voice at me? Good gal, we remain here, Miss Century" he read her mind, how was that possible?

"Logically speaking, you are silly! Just go to hell with your imaginary phone because I know you don't have one!!" She rasped.

"A guy that saved a stranger and the stranger who stupidly took a flight to a strange land to meet an alien, oooops! Who is more silly here?" He mused.

"You are right, I am not just silly but also foolish and childish! I hate myself now" She accepted sadly.

"You should kill yourself since you hate yourself, at least, that will set a guy free" he shrugged off.

"I wish I could kill you with my bare hands!" She screamed.

"If you kill me, you also dig your own grave, haha!" He laughed.

Sky leaped to her feet and went towards the hut.

"I'm going back to get us food and clothes, we might die of hunger and cold, it's very much cold in the night," he said.

She turned to look at him abruptly.

"No! You can't be serious, they might catch you or something" She rushed and went closer to him.

He stood up and stared at her, "Someone is worried about a silly guy, isn't he lucky?" He annoyed her even more.

"I didn't say I'm worried! Fine, maybe I am being like this because I don't know if I will survive if anything should happen to you" Sky said defiantly.

"Don't worry, I am a shadow, no one can pin me down, air can't blow me away" Gage winked at her.

"Shadow indeed!" She rolled her eyes in amusement.

"Make sure to stay inside the hut to avoid someone or an animal sighting you, cold kills though," he advised laughing lightly.

"Shadow, please, stay safe" Sky said holding his arm. "Promise to come back"

"I will, it's a promise" He smiled at his new name and tapped her chin fondly.

"Sometimes I wonder what's funny that a man keeps laughing about!" She snorted and moved away from him.

"You were all stone-faced in the clubhouse but an opposite of that guy an hour later, funny, giraffe" she pouted her lips.

"I guess it's because a girl is acting grumpy while her teeth shine all over the internet, and straight to people's lives" he teased.

"I pray they fish you out and kill you for real!" She threw a small stone at him.

"When I come back, I will teach you how to throw stones, probably tomorrow." He went close to her.

"Be careful not to get caught or hurt because I like my teachers a lot and I always wish them well" She hugged him mindlessly.

"Well, I had better be going before dusk seeps in" he disengaged from her embrace and took quick strides away.

Tears wetted her face, she felt dejected and lost at the same time.

"God, save that idiot for my sake" she mumbled.