(Hopes POV)

    "Here, let me see those." I say while holding out my hand. Craig looks at me confused and hands me his glasses. I stop walking and put them on me. He starts to smile and turns his head away from me.

    "You look like a dork with those on." He says still smiling. I can feel heat come to my face, just play it cool Hope. "Well at least I don't always look like a dweeb." I slap my head and let out a long groan.

    "And that right there is the reason as to why I'm single." I say now beginning to shake my head. Craig begins to laugh and pulls me into a hug. "I may look like a dweeb, but you will always be a cute dork." He says. I start to smile and hug him back.

    I don't know how long we stayed like that, maybe 20 seconds at the max, maybe less who knows. What I do know is that hugging someone taller than you is a nice feeling. It's like coming home after a long day and seeing that dinner is ready, or coming home from school and taking off your bra that you are forced to wear all day. But it's more than food or a piece of clothing. It's that feeling of security, that feeling like they are there to protect you from whatever it is. Not to mention resting my head on his chest. For once I feel safe, protected, and loved.

    "Craig, what's it like hugging someone that's shorter than you? I mean you're 6 feet tall and I'm a short 5'2." I say after he lets go of me. Another smile appears on his face and he begins to walk, I start to walk as well.

     "I'm not really sure. It's a nice feeling don't get me wrong it's a nice feeling but I just don't know. Why do you ask?" He says while turning and looking at me. It's totally not because I love you or anything no, not at all.

     I forgot that I still have his glasses on, I quickly take them off and hand them to him. He thanks me and we begin to walk in silence till I speak up.

     "I'm just curious that's all. I'm not a guy, I don't know much about what a guy thinks like and all of that stuff." I say shrugging my shoulders. He nods his head and we walk in silence again, that god awful silence.

     After about 10 more minutes of walking we make it to a road where tons of police cars as well as an ambulance. Craig grabs onto my hand as we slowly make our way up the small hill to the road. Is this (Y/N) and Evans doing? Did someone spot us while we were in the woods and called the cops? Craig helps me up the hill and over the guardrail. I take a deep breath and start to look around at the men and women in their blue uniform's.

     It wasn't long till we heard someone shout 'hey' at us. At the same time Craig and I turned in the direction that the voice called us. It was a man in his late 40's with thin brown hair that's already half gray. He stops walking halfway and stares at us before his eyes go wide and lets out a small gasp.

     "You're Hope Carson and Craig Thompson, yes?" He asked taking another step towards us. I nod my head and look over at Craig who's nodding his head as well.

     I look back at the police officer who's now talking into his walkie talkie. I hear (Y/N)'s dad name being yelled at by the man and a few short seconds later I see (Y/Dads name) jogging over to the older man before looking over at Craig and I. His eyes go wide and he slowly walks over to us like we're some wild animal. Don't get me wrong we look like it but shouldn't he be more ecstatic that he found us? As soon as he gets close enough he reaches in and pulls me into a hug.

     "I'm so glad that you two are safe." He says. (Y/N)'s dad is like a second father to me, so of course finding me makes me happy, but why is everyone here at this spot exactly? How could it even be possible that Craig and I walked through the woods avoiding Cris and ended up here where the cops are?

     "You didn't by any chance.... Run into (Y/N) and Evan did you?" (Y/Dads name) says letting go of the hug. I shook my head no.

     Why would he be asking that? Did something happen to the two of... No... not (Y/N). She's not that stupid, neither is Evan. They would NOT come looking for Craig and I! I look closely at (Y/Dads name) and see bags under his eyes and start to notice how red his eyes are. I begin to shake my head and look at Craig.

     "We're going back for her Craig. No if's or but's about it." I say already turning around and heading towards the guardrail again. A hand grabs onto my shoulder and stops me.

     "Are you serious? After we just got found? You want to go back into that death trap with a fucking psychopath running loose? No, I'm sorry Hope, I'm not going back in there and neither are you." Craig says sternly as he turns me so I face him. I scoff and take his hand off of me.

     "He's right Hope, we have this place on full lock down, no one goes in or out. And we just found you two, the whole county has been looking for you two." (Y/Dads name) says. I shrug my shoulders and turn back around. Before even lifting a foot I felt Craig grab onto my waist, pulling me towards him.

     "Hope, I love you too much. I'm not letting you go again. Not now not ever. I'm not going to lose you to someone that's hurt you, physically hurt you." Craig says as he lays his head on top of mine. I can feel my throat start to swell up while my eyes get heavy with tears just ready to fall down.

     "Craig... let go of me... now." I say, shutting my eyes tightly so the tears won't come down as quickly. His grip on me tightens and that's when I broke down crying. My legs finally buckling down on me. I fall to my knees with the help of Craig and start to cry even more, now falling into his chest as he holds onto me while I cry.

     And that's how we stayed until I knocked myself out from crying so much.

(Yoooooo, I know it's been awhile my dudes but long story short I got back into writing again with the help of a friendo of mine who's editing this as I write this so you can thank him for getting me back into writing! Lol, anyways I hope that you enjoyed this chapter and expect a new one here soon!) (Also if you see any spelling mistakes blame him! Lol please don't he's a really sweet guy and we're both tired and yeah. Anyways I hope that you have a nice day/night/morning/afternoon/ or evening!)