Chapter Seven
“Then what?” I say to Megan. It’s breakfast time, so we are eating in the dinner hall, this morning I am having eggs, bacon (crispy), links, and very buttery toast. With a cup of white coffee and a glass of pure apple juice, it’s great. Megan is telling me all about what happened last night with Johnny. So far I’ve got that they walked all around the house talking and holding hands.
“Well,” she smiles to herself, and blushes, “we found a little bench and we sat down, he then put his arm around my shoulders and got close to my face, then he says that he really likes me, then…” Her face reddens.
“Then…” I say with a smile.
“... then he kissed me!” She squeals happily. A few people look round, but return to their food. “and it felt amazing, I mean I have kissed guys in the past, but it never ever felt as perfect as it did then, and it didn’t only last a few seconds, it must of went on for like 5-7 minutes until we had to go back inside! Then he walked me to the dorm and kissed me again then wished me a good night then hugged me!” She talks very fast.
“So, you guys are a thing right?” I ask, excited for her.
“I guess so, I mean we haven’t talked about it yet, but I’m sure we are. What about you?” She asks me while eating some toast.
“What do you mean? What about me?”
“Well, any guys here that catches your fancy?” Well, Alex. “I mean, anyone that's not Alex.”
“What is wrong in liking him?” I ask annoyed.
“Well, to start off with I’m pretty sure he has never been with anyone, like, at all, and when a girl says that she likes him to him he just brushes them off. He’s not worth a heartbreak.” She says, all humor gone.
A moment passes, with us looking at one another from across the table. Just then someone jumps down beside Megan.
“Hey, baby.” They say and kisses Megan's cheek, “Wow, ok what the fuck is happening here?” He looks at us, that seems to wake us up. I look to the person and it’s Johnny.
Megan turns to him, “Nothing, how are you doing?” She smiles to him.
He smiles back, “I’m doing great, but I slept in a bit, so…” He motions to my and Megan's plates, which are basically full.
Megan is about to answer him, but I say back, “Go ahead, I seem to have lost my appetite.” I push my plate over to him, get up and glare at Megan. So she knows that I am mad at her, and walk out. I hear her call for me, but I don’t turn around and she does not come after me. What does she know about Alex? How dare she speak about him like she knows him! These thoughts run through my head.
I decide to go in the room that we all meet in, and lo and behold, Alex is hanging out in here. He is sitting on the little platform and is strumming his guitar, he looks so focused in it that I don’t think he notices me until he looks up at me and smiles faintly.
“Hey,” he says sleepily, then he gets up and puts his guitar down where he was sitting and comes over to me. “What’s up?”
“Nothing much, you?”
“I was meaning, what’s wrong? You look sort of pissed off.” He says.
“I’m ok, Meghan just said something I didn’t agree with.” I say back.
“Ok, well maybe this will put you in a better mood,” he takes my arm and leads me over to the platform with his guitar, “sit.” He motions to the platform and I do, he then sits beside me and lifts his guitar on his lap. Is he going to play for me? I wonder excitedly. “Right, before I start I wanted to make sure of something, you do sing right?” OMFG, HE WANTS ME TO SING FOR HIM?
“Yea, I guess, well I do music in school and one of my instruments is voice, and I am in the choir and I do the musicals.” I say to him.
He laughs softly, “Well I’d say you qualify. So what song do you want, I know a few so just say and we will see.”
Hmmm, what do I want? A romantic one, nah, and funny one? nah. I have it, this one always gets me thinking about the summer time! “Ok, do you know ‘Heroes (we could be)’ by Alesso with Tove Lo?” I ask him.
“I don’t think so, I know of the song, I just do not know it on guitar.” He looks away in thought. “How about ‘All I Want’ Kodaline? It’s romantic, but it is a nice little song, and easy on guitar.” He laughs softly.
“I do know the song, but I don’t really know the words.” I say to him.
“Fear not,” he gets up and puts his hand in his back pocket and brings out, his phone? “I have the words saved to my notes on here.”
“Hey, how do you get your phone?” I ask him.
“Hey, I live here, remember? But you don’t get any service up here anyway.” He starts to flick through his phone, he sits back down, and hands me his phone. “There you go.” He puts his hands up at the guitar.
“Ok, when you're ready.” I say to him. He strums the strings, someone clears their throat at the door.
We look up, and there are the four group leaders and Alex’s mum. Isabel comes over to us, “Sorry to interrupt, but we are about to start for the day.”
I stand up quickly, “That’s ok,” I go to walk out the door, just as I am at the door I feel a hand go on my shoulder. I look up and meet those blue eyes. “What?” I ask him.
He laughs and shakes his head, “You do know that everyone will be coming in here right? You know, to be registered.”
I turn to face him and his hand falls away, back to his side. “Oh, ok,” now I feel like an idiot.
“Anyway, I will get you to sing for me.” He smiles.
“Oh, will you now?” I raise my eyebrow at him.
“Why of course.” He leans forward and whispers it in my ear, I feel something go up my spine. He says it like a promise, when I look up he is still leaned over me and his lips are right there, if I wanted to, I could step forward and kiss him. But who am I kidding? I do not have the balls.
I am about to say something back when I see someones arms go around Alex’s back, Alex turns around, and there is Aaron who, for some reason, was hugging Alex from the back. “Dude? What are you doing?” Alex asks him.
Aaron gets off him and smiles, “I am just full of love this morning, Lily, come here.” Aaron opens his arms and looks at me.
I go forward and hug him, “So, do tell me, what has gotten you in this mood?” I step back from him, and look at him, he seems genuinely happy.
“Nothing in particular.” He smiles again and walks off.
“Ok, well if that wasn’t weird, then I don’t know what is.” Alex says, coming over to me. Isabel then starts talking, and the room is full of campers, how did I not notice?
Everyone then goes into their four teams again and we go off to our first activity.
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