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I chill a bit with my friends, not dancing and I dont touch another drink to have a clear head for tonight. When the crowd begins to thin, several people stumble into the woods, their hands already grabbing hungrily at each other. I head in Zayne’s direction when he stands up.

It saves to say I’ve been looking at him, and he's eyes hardly left me so we're in the same boat. “Are we leaving now?”

He nods, “Go say goodnight to your friends, you’re with me tonight” I try not to read into that as I march off to where Winnie and Mile are standing at the corner with Kent and Ian.

“You guys can go on without me, I’m going to stay back for a bit,” I tell Winnie

“Okay…” she drawls out “see you later then,” Winnie says with a hug. I know she’ll inform the others so I return to where Zayne is waiting for me at the entrance to the main lodge.

“Come” clasping a hand around my wrist he leads me inside.

I look around as he makes way for the staircase “Where are we going?”

“To bed