When former beauty pageant queen, Ellie Wilde, hears of her grandmother's sickness, she's the first to offer to drive her to her chemotherapy. What she didn't know she was agreeing to was an obnoxiously cheerful blond boy somehow nudging his way int...
She glances over at him a few times before rolling her eyes and caving in to his requests. "We're going north. That's all I'll tell you. The rest is a surprise."
"Hopefully not too far north. I won't last long at the wall if that's where you're taking me. I'm going to go ahead and assume that Castle Black isn't equipped to handle a dying kid with cancer. They'd probably feed me to the wolves."
"You are so annoying," Ellie says with a laugh, her hand tightening slightly around his. "I'm not taking you to die at Castle Black. Besides, we could drive as North as we could go and we'd only be in Canada."
"Canada, eh?"
"I'm going to turn this car around."
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Ellie's hands rest on his shoulders as she directs Cooper around the obstacles of their surroundings. She didn't consider the odd looks she would receive, guiding a blindfolded man across a college campus, but now it's too late to back out. Squinting her eyes, she sees the dorm in the distance. When she's sure it's their destination, she drops a hand from his shoulder and reaches for her phone to send a text.
"Why'd you let go?" Cooper asks worriedly, halting in his steps. "Where are we? I feel very weird. If this doesn't have a kinky payoff, then I don't know if it's worth it."
She laughs, typing away at her phone to let their friends know they've arrived before tucking it back into her pocket. She continues pushing him along, ignoring the confused glances of the bystanders. It's a college campus, this can't be the weirdest thing they've ever seen here.
"El..."
"Cooper."
"Please tell me that no snakes are involved."
"I could tell you that, but I would be lying." He freezes and with a laugh, Ellie uses all her upper-arm strength to keep pushing him forward. "Move. I can't move you on my own."
He takes a step forward before he's flailing like a mad man. "What is that?! Are we near a cliff?!"
"You stepped off the sidewalk, Cooper."
"Oh," he says, clearing his throat as a blush creeps onto his cheeks. "Just tell me we're almost there."
She looks ahead, a smile gracing her lips when she spots Brandon in the distance waving them on. "We're almost there."
She guides him a few more feet, most of which are cautious, incredibly slow, steps by Cooper. But finally, they're in front of the dorm. As if on cue, Nate and Janie step out from the building just in time, sending a quick wave in their direction as they make their way over to them.
"Are we here, El?" His friends gather in front of him, smiles on their faces as they wait for the big reveal. "Is it your turn to wear a blindfold now?"
The groups' smiles falter slightly at the suggestive nature of his comment. Ellie swallows down her embarrassment, a blush still managing to find its way onto her cheeks. "We're here. I'm going to take the blindfold off now, ready?"
