She is the one by Asheslove (book recommendations for young adults txt) 📕

I rolled the window down felling cold breezes touching my skin as I breathed into it. Nicolas rode at decent speed and I put all the stressful thoughts aside which were running through my head since I woke up, enjoying the ride and the moment in silence.

The car passed the lonely street, silent buildings, shopping complexes and monuments before turning onto a road which leads to woods.

It was interaction of roads where an abandoned gas station whose wooden board was broken and a mechanical shop which look same like in the state of gas station, the metal sign of shop was rusted and somehow bend, old tires were lying there in heaps with dirt and a rusted car with no tires was standing in front of it.

Nicolas took a right before I could look around and we entered in the lonely street, the street was dimly lit due to street lights, the houses there were burnt and in wreck state.

Nicolas rode deeper and it started creeping me as I see out, it looked like no one had come across the place for years. All the houses look barren and empty and the town seem like is burnt to destroy with long overgrown weeds around the houses. The street lights there were almost off and broken and few which were on, blazing on and off.

The place lay desolated, the silence drifted through the littered streets. Abandoned houses, burned cars and vehicles were scattered around the dismal.

The car slowed down and then stopped near a house. I rolled the window up as Nicolas kicked the engine and came out followed by me. 

The house we were standing in front was the only house which wasn’t burn with gable roof and dormer window; it was big with a chimney at the back and a lawn in its front which was covered in sand and dry leaves were spread all around. The main door was closed and intact but it looked warm and cozy at the same time even at this residence.

The house was the last one on the streets at the edge of the dark woods showing the deep forest further. The rustling sound of moving branches and leaves were scaring the crap out of me as it felt like sound of wind whispering near my ear in silent eerie, my arms hairs stood up.

Nicolas removed his jacket and put it on me; once I zipped it he tangled our fingers together and started walking towards the forest.

There was no light and neither did Nicolas used the flashlight of phone to saw the way, so the only source of light was thin moonlight, which was penetrating through the long sleek branches of trees fading the little darkness as he walked like he already knows the way through the woods.

'Nicolas where are you taking me?' 

I asked looking at his back as he walked forward in the deep forest. All the horrible scaring thoughts run through my head like I watched in horror movies, it will be so easy to kill someone here and nobody will be able to even find the deadly body of the person.

'You'll see' came his curt reply.

The leaves of trees were unyielding, hanging on firm in the sudden chilly air. The sound of unseen creatures and the sound of creeping dead chilled me to my bones as I breathed in the dark mustiness following him.

'I...Think...we'll better head back, lets go back we will come other day' I said and the fear in my voice won't go unnoticed by him.

Nicolas stopped at his track and turned his head towards me. Only the shadow of his face was visible in the dark night with the thin line of his lips.

I quickly jerked my hand back taking several steps back.

'Are you scared of me Elena?' He asked standing still on his position staring at me, amusement laced in his tone.

When I said that now nothing scares me and death is better than living with this man I didn't think about the possibilities of being dragged in a forest, killed and buried down somewhere in these haunted woods because that's what I was imagining right now due to the way he was looking at him, I can trust him with others but I can't trust him with himself.

'Nn, no...' I said quickly in one breath making Nicolas chuckle at my frightened state.

'Are you sure, you won't turn and run for your dear life if I took a step towards you' he asked amusingly in a low voice and if I say honestly then that's what exactly running through my head at that point but I shook my head in dark.

'I am a killer but not a psychopath serial killer or fucking sadist Elena, who will brought a woman in a forest to torture or kill her' he said and started walking while I followed him left with no other choice.

'Not until now' he added as I walk behind and my feet halted once again on my track, breath hitched in my throat. He noticed the sound of my footsteps paused and released a hilarious laugh.

'You are serious scared, look at your face I was just kidding Elena' he said softly walking forward and I relaxed releasing my breath which I don't know I was holding.

'You know your sense of humor sucks' I said from behind resuming walking.

'I don't, nobody tell me this before' he replied.

'You are feisty with a sharp tongue but I don't know you are also a scared lioness. My woman is a scared lioness, sounds great' He said amusingly.

'Shut up Nicolas' I blurted without thinking and then looked at him with fear but he didn't turn and chuckled softly. I released a relief sigh from behind.

Finally the forest ended and the hill came in view through moonlight I looked behind and it frightened me how far we came.

'Are we there yet?' I asked as I looked towards the trail not wanting to walk anymore.

'A little further' he told and switched on the flashlight of his phone.

We walked further from between the shrubs. One should have to walk carefully as the trail was made of stones, that’s why Nicolas turned on the flashlight.

We keep walking only our footsteps were making sound in the silent night but it seems like there's no end of the trail.

And finally energy drained out of me, my feet started to ache due to continues walking and I sat their panting hard. Nicolas paused and turned back when saw me sitting on the pathway.