she asked as Alex just smiled to himself. “It’s a surprise.” He said and winked. They drove for about twenty minutes with the road getting quieter and more remote. A lot more trees and plant life. Fewer and fewer houses, until the roads were really quiet. Alex pulled over to the side of the road, right under a large oak tree. It must have been at least six meters tall. “Where are we?” she asked. “We’re in five oaks park forest. My Mom and Dad used to bring Dev and I here as kids. I used to come here sometimes with the guys.” It was peaceful, and the guys never got bothered by anyone. They would go there occasionally during school breaks, just to hangout without the noise and, sometimes, suffocating feeling they had from being in the city. Alex told Holly about what they’d get up to. Making rope swings and jump off them into the lake in the summer, see whether they could still climb trees as agile as when they were small kids and just sitting down, talking.
