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Run – Chapter 4
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The distance between their flat and the West End appeared as little more than a short, comfortable walk Lauren estimated after reading the heavily creased and frayed Metro map she kept folded in the back pocket of her jeans. Twenty minutes in, Lauren had yet to get her bearings as she and Kenzi marched past shops and gastro pubs and rows of white Georgian townhomes and down vaguely familiar boulevards teeming with busses and shiny black cabs flying by at a rallying pace. Now and again the savory and varied aromas of food being served teased their noses and made their stomachs tremble with hunger. Yet Lauren refused to pull out the map in her pocket—and made a mental note to buy a proper one—for fishing it out would only affirm to herself and to Kenzi, and no Kenzi shouldn’t ever know, that she had horribly miscalculated the time it would take to get to the Haymarket on foot as it was becoming a very real possibility that they were lost. She kept on at a brisk pace even in the face of an agitated Kenzi who muttered, ”This is the death march to Hamlet!”
”Next you’ll be saying ’are we there yet?’” They stopped abruptly, shoulder to shoulder, when the traffic light beamed red. Lauren felt, even without breaking her focus, that Kenzi was already forming her mouth to say just those words. ”Don’t,” Lauren held her hand up to Kenzi’s face.
”You know you want me to,” Kenzi teased.
”No, I really don’t.”
Kenzi put a light hand on Lauren’s shoulder and squeezed. ”You used to be a lot of fun.”
Lauren shrugged herself free. ”You never thought that about me, ever.”
”You’re right,” Kenzi acknowledged, ”but that was before. And here we are, the tour of the damned!”
Lauren returned Kenzi’s smile. ”Why don’t I catch you up on the story of Hamlet.”
”Dragging me on the Hell tour of London wasn’t enough? There better not be a test.”
”Shakespeare isn’t for everyone, true, but it can be more enjoyable if you at least have a baseline understanding of the story.” She said all that without blinking. The light turned and without thinking, Lauren grasped Kenzi by the elbow and dragged her into a determined pace forward, hopeful that they were going in the general direction of their destination.
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Yes I was right chapter 2 and 3 are the wrong way around but still no biggie,Vex in hamlet ok ill bite but surely they will have herd about the dimise of pirripus , evony and rainer by now and can make there way home.