"Did we lose them?"

Anne-Marie made sure to ask as Aiden hopped off the bike and took off his helmet. He looked behind them, they must have given them quite a distance since there were no super excited fans running behind them anymore as they got to the bridge.

"I think so." He handed the helmet over to her and stopped to look at her for a while as she took hers off slowly before she went on to get off the bike. Her hair was a mess thanks to the wind that kept swinging strands of it from side to side.

Anne-Marie took a really deep breath. She loved it. The bridge was exactly where she needed to be. It was quiet, and had a great view plus the wind around that area felt good too. She walked towards the railings so she could have a really good look at really wide river underneath it, she could see how the stars reflected in the water and how the lights from the cruise ships and yacht boats brightened it up. The view that came right after it was beautiful, the tall buildings and sky scrapers, they gave the bridge an elite view.

"Woah," she leaned closer so she could take a better look, holding on to the railing for support with a bright smile on her face. "It's beautiful."

The wind kept swaying her hair to even block her vision but she kept her gaze in front of her while Aiden found his way beside her, taking a good look too, she was right, it was beautiful, he had never really seen that side of Breton like that, he had never really had the time to. Looking at it now, he wished he did.

"You know," she said. "This is a really good place to
vent out whatever it is as loud as you can, no one is going to hear you. Someone once told me when you scream your problems out loud to the water, it makes it all go away."

Aiden scoffed, not bothering to take his eyes off the view in front of him.

"That's so childish."
She turned to look at him.

"You should try it."

"Why would I ever want to try something like that? That's just some silly crap they do in the movies, that doesn't actually make any sense."

"Come on, try it, you'd feel better."

"The only thing I should be trying right now is Elijah's number, to tell him where we are and have him get us out of here," he got out his phone.

Anne-Marie sneered, why did he have to be such a party pooper? Why was he acting like he didn't have the best fun of his life earlier? He was the one grabbing on to her arm and screaming like a girl minutes ago and all of a sudden he was back to acting too cool again.

She clicked her tongue and looked away while Aiden raised his phone to his ear, Anne-Marie turned to her other side.

"Wow look, it's your fanatics again!" She pointed in the direction they came from.

"What? Where?" Aiden turned quickly in fright like he was prepared to run again, letting go of his phone immediately. There was no one there, Anne-Marie burst into laughter just as he hurried back to watch his phone as it fell in slow motion into the river.

He hit his hand on the rail in frustration.

What on earth!

Anne-Marie couldn't help herself. Everything about the situation was hilarious. She kept pointing at him and laughing so loudly. Aiden slowly turned to her too. How was she so annoying?

He raised a brow.

"Is it that funny?"

She nodded, laughing even harder. It really was. Anne-Marie didn't stop laughing, she couldn't and Aiden just stood there watching her. He had given up on every attempt to stop her so he decided to let her finish instead. He rolled his eyes and raised his hands to his hips, flickering his tongue round his teeth. She was taking longer than he thought she would.

"Isn't it enough?" He asked her. Did she really intend to laugh the entire night?

Anne-Marie had tears in her eyes and she didn't even have an idea why she was laughing so much, she didn't have an idea why everything had suddenly become so funny, how her life had turned to a comedy show in weeks.

She couldn't believe how much she had to take, how far she had to be away from her old life, from Abel, she couldn't believe how much she missed him and how exhausted she was from pretending to be someone she was not, she couldn't believe how the entire situation at Niyagra had caused her to remember her parents, the same people she thought she had forgotten, she thought she had made peace with the fact that they had left, that they abandoned her and Abel, why was she thinking about them? Why did she miss them all of a sudden? Where was all that anger she held in her heart? She was supposed to feel better, she was living the life she wished she did, even if it was under the identity of someone else, she was supposed to be happy, she was doing this for Abel, he was getting better, her life was going to be better again but why did she feel
so terrible? Why did her heart feel so hurt, so heavy and so
empty? Why did she feel so...alone?

And that was when it happened, that was when more tears came to her eyes. She wasn't happy, she was far from being happy.

She was scared.

Scared of how far she had gone, scared of how far she was going to go, how much more she was going to go, she was scared of what was going to happen if she ever got caught, scared of how terrified of the future she was. She thought she was doing this for him, that she had brought him out there to make him feel good but she did it for herself, she was the frustrated one. She was the one that really needed to breathe, to be out there where no one controlled her, where she didn't have to pretend to be someone she wasn't. She was the one that needed to let herself breathe.

It might have started as a happy laugh but it didn't look like she was so happy anymore, Aiden could see it. He could hear the sobs in her laughter and could see how she had tears in her eyes rolling down her face to the extent that she had even stopped laughing to clean them off.

A little scowl covered his face as he watched her, not knowing exactly what to say or do. Anne-Marie placed her hand over her face. She couldn't stand to have him looking at her cry like that because she was doing a bad job faking it. She wasn't okay, she wasn't happy, as a matter of fact, she was far from being happy. The tears kept coming out and she couldn't stop herself, she couldn't stop herself from crying out loudly either, she slowly pulled herself to the ground, squatting on the spot with her hands still over her face and her sobs even louder, louder than Aiden had ever heard anyone cry.

He had never seen it before, seen Paris cry in his entire life and for some reason, something inside of him moved, he was touched by it, saddened by it but he just stood there, not taking a step to her, not trying to even comfort her. He didn't know how to.

He was going to let her cry, to let her get it all out and she did. She didn't stop crying, she couldn't.

Aiden let out a weak exhale and raised his head to the clouds,

It was going to be a long night.