By the time they reached the lighthouse, Lexi was ready to kill the person who had set it up on the rocky hillside.<br/><br/>“You would think someone would put a park bench along here with coin operated oxygen bottles.” She huffed as she struggled beneath the weight of the backpack. Lexi didn’t figure anyone but sea bird would hear her anyway because Neo had disappeared around a corner up ahead.<br/><br/>She could hear the waves crashing against the cliff walls below and had to turn her face away from the cold north wind that seemed to spring up out of no where once they had reached a certain altitude. Lexi braced her palms on her knees and blinked a couple of times.  One good thing about this lighthouse that no one was using, was that no one in their right mind was heading up here.<br/><br/>Finally she reached the top, lungs and calves burning to find Neo leaning against the building, smoking a cigarette. The door that was barricaded with a keep out sign criss crossed over it, was hanging wide open. Lexi was panting too hard to ask if he opened it or if it was already like that, but from the nonchalant stance he was presenting, she figured he was the responsible party.<br/><br/>Slinging the pack down, she threw herself down alongside of it. When she could finally breath again, she said,<br/><br/>“I would have hated to be the lighthouse keeper back in the day. It must have been really lonely up here.” She thought a minute, shook her head at herself and continued,<br/><br/>“But I bet the lighthouse keeper and his lady had some great sex on this big rock.” Then to cover her big mouth, she unzipped the backpack and shook out the contents.<br/><br/>“Here is a scope for you. I think I can make the climb to the top of the lighthouse now.” Truth told, she wasn’t looking forward to the three hundred and twenty nine steps to reach the glass turret but since she had let the devil out of his cage, she had been doing a lot of things she didn’t feel like she had signed up to do.<br/><br/>“Ready?”