Chapter 253: Redemption

Nina

Without a word, Selena made a hmph sound and took off down the hallway. Enzo gasped slightly and went to follow her, but I held my arm out to stop him and shook my head.

“It’s fine,” I said, watching as she disappeared around a corner. “Luke is gonna watch her. Besides, where would she even go?”

Enzo relaxed a bit and nodded in understanding. “I guess you’re right,” he replied. “I just worry that she’ll try to pull some stunt and screw us all over.”

“She won’t.” I took Enzo’s hand and began walking down the hall with him. “She’s powerless. She knows that the Luna wants nothing to do with her. We’re her only chance at survival at this point, because soon the Luna might come to kill both of us.”

Enzo froze at my words, his hand tightening around mine. When I looked up at him, his brown eyes were wide and there was worry drawn across his face. I knew that he was immensely worried about the Luna and what she would do if she found me; and I couldn’t deny the fact that I was worried, too. But right now, we needed to just do our best to have a positive outlook. In my mind, that was the only real way to prepare to fight back against the Luna’s plan.

“Just for today, can we pretend that we’re a normal couple? I’ve spent too long missing you to want to stand around all day

followed me. I led him down the hall and back out into the fresh winter air. The sun was out and there was a cold breeze blowing across the campus. Soon,

I noticed that he was still silent. I was determined to cheer him up and get him to relax,

the direction of the

let out a low chuckle and wrapped his arm around my shoulders. “I’m hungry too,” he said, giving me a

closed were open once more. As we sat, we looked up at the television that was mounted high on the wall to see that there was local news coverage of the rogue outbreak, and it seemed that more towns were fighting back. I had been so preoccupied with everything with

fully understand why you’re so willing to forgive Selena,” Enzo said, picking at his French fries as he spoke. “I guess you know

to redeem herself. We need her help, and this is the only way to do it… Now please, can we talk about something normal for once? I’m tired of only worrying about all of this. I just want to feel okay, just for a

a couple of French fries into

miss hockey,”

Enzo’s sudden candidness, but the fact that he was so open made me smile. I reached across the table and squeezed his hand. “Maybe you should play some hockey tonight,” I said. “The team misses you, too. Matt is a good

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