Lucy's POV

"I love you too Lucy Carlyle"

My jaw drops. Lockwood smirks and leans down. His lips brush mine for a fraction of a second. But that fraction of a second is heaven. I push myself further into his chest and I feel completely safe.

"How long?" Lockwood asks, after we break for air.

"What do you mean?"

"How long have you liked me?" He says, with a bit of humour in his voice.

" Ever since I started actually." Now his was HIS turn to have his jaw drop. "What?" I ask. He simply shrugs.

"Come on Luce we need to get out of here." He said pushing himself off the wall.

"But that means I have to get up!" I say pretending to be exasperated. Lockwood chuckles.

"Come on." He said gently pushing me to get off. I sigh and pull myself to my feet. Lockwood follows suit.

"Right then!" I say forcing energy into my voice. "Left or right?" Lockwood thinks about it for a moment.

"Right." He answers, after a debate with himself.

"Okay. Off we go then!" I start going right and Lockwood walks by my side lacing his fingers with mine. We walk for a while. 

"Waaaaiiiiitttt a second" I say. We're at a fork in the path. I inhale deeply. "Is that the Thames?" I ask. 

Lockwood inhales as well.

"I can hear water and it smells like George if he hasn't taken a bath for a month. That's the Thames alright. We should see if thats a way out." He starts left. I follow, close on his heels. I take out my flashlight and shine it all around. 4ft in front of us is lapping water. Lockwood looks at me. I shrug.

"Lets go!" I say. We both wade into the water. It keeps getting deeper until it reaches Lockwood's waist  and my stomach. We jump over a fallen wall and we see a small blue square of light.

"Looks like we found our exit Luce!" Lockwood exclaims loudly throwing his hands up in the air. I laugh.

"Yay us!!" I say throwing my hands up as well. We wade toward the rapidly growing exit.

"You do realize I meant everything I said back there right?" Lockwood asks quietly. I smile.

"I meant everything too Lockwood. Especially the part about me loving you." I feel a faint blush creep up into my cheeks. Lockwood looks at me. I grin back. And together we run toward the exit.