Chapter two of "Lets go camping! NOT!"
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-Frizzy
Disclaimer: The almighty lucky Stephenie Meyer will and forever more own the twilight series characters.
Lake and Sky
-Bella's POV
I stared at my reflection in the water, running my hand over the smooth wavy surface. A few guppies came up and nipped at my fingertips causing me to giggle then sit up straight.
Surprisingly, we were all silent. Damien was texting random girls while paddling. I feared he'd accidentally let go of the paddle and then we'd be screwed with only one paddle to get back with. I got up and sat next to him with a stern look and held out my hand signaling to give me the paddle. He scooted away from me smirking.
Daniel was grinning as well, I shook my hand twice asking for it again and he scooted more. I started getting frustrated and grabbed the tip of the paddle he was holding and tugged it from him, within a few seconds we were both standing up fighting for the paddle. Daniel sat with amusement in his eyes watching us fight. He might as well of had some popcorn while watching. I shoved him once, he shoved me harder. Me becoming over-competitive I grabbed his phone from his hand threatening to throw it over board.
"You wouldn't!" he said with a worried look.
"I could" I smiled wickedly.
"You should" Daniel jumped in laughing.
I faked dropped it then caught it.
"Alright, alright! You can have the paddle! I just need to keep my conversation up with Jessica, she's about to say yes or no to going out with me and-" he started saying but I cut him off by tossing his phone to the other side of the canoe where Daniel was causing him to jump across for it and in the process caused the whole canoe to tip over with all of us in it.
Underwater, my vision became blurry as I struggled to re-surface. The lake was deeper then I wanted it to be. The feeling of my lungs being crushed by the pressure of the water hurt immensely. I even drank some water in before I finally re-surfaced. I gasped, quickly trying to tip the canoe back. I sucked at swimming so I was having a lot of trouble, drowning and tipping weren't a good combination for one person. Daniel came up out of no where and started helping me. We both got it back up and climbed in breathing hard on the wooden floor. The canoe started tipping back and forth, we both looked up to see Damien trying to get in.
Daniel and I stood up in alarm yelling, "No!" but Damien, being the muscle-bound idiotic jerk he was, without thinking pulled onto the canoe's edge trying to climb in and made the canoe tip over once again. I felt myself getting light-headed and losing some feeling in my legs but I pushed all my effort into re-surfacing again. After another few minutes of gasping for air and getting the canoe over, all three of us climbed in at the same time and layed on the floor with our feet dangling off the side of the canoe.
"Bella, this is all your fault" Damien started but Daniel sat up fast, reached over me, and slapped his hand onto Damien's mouth before I could yell back at him.
"Not. A. word. This is your fault too! You could've waited and text Jessica back at camp but you just had to do it while paddling, you could've just handed the paddle to her and we wouldn't be soaking wet laying on the floor of a dirty wooden canoe" both Damien and I stared at Daniel surprised.
I regained my composture and smiled at him, "Thanks Daniel" he said all I needed to say.
"No prob." he replied between heavy breaths. We all sighed at the same time and for the first time I noticed it was already dark out. I stared up at the beautiful sky, I felt the other two doing exactly the same. The stars were twice as amazing then the ones in Forks. I felt like I was floating in space.
"Wow…" I commented smiling brightly.
"Yeah" Daniel added.
"J-j-j-ehh-sick-UH!" Damien hiccupped her name, staring at his phone that was dead with water dripping out. He was practically shivering all over causing all of us to laugh.
"You like her that much?" I asked glancing over at him. I was in the middle of them, their body warmth helped me dry a little faster then each other.
"Nope" he replied smiling at me.
"Then why are you making such a fuss over it?" I wondered, looking back up at the sky.
"Because she's hot" I rolled my eyes making him laugh.
"Hey, lets start heading back now before we freeze our butts off, our dads are probably looking for us now" Daniel spoke up. We all sat up then looked around the canoe.
"Where…" I started
"ARE THE FREAKIN PADDLES!" Damien finished what I was going to say in a more dramatic way. We started to panic then looked at each other.
"HELP!" Damien screamed towards our camp, we could see a fire and three figures around the fire. Surely they could hear us. One of them snapped their heads up and looked in our direction but looked back down at the fire.
We all screamed help like a billion times but none of them looked in our direction or payed any attention to the fact that their kids were missing. The only way to get their attention was to call their cell phone but Damien's phone died from the water and Daniel's and mine were back at the camp. We stopped trying after about a half an hour, noticing our canoe was slowly drifting to the other side of the lake. We decided either we just wait for our canoe to drift to the other side or wait for our fathers to realize how late it was and how long their kids have been gone.
"Great, this is just fantastic!" I yelled sarcastically. I was cold and stuck with two guys I barely knew, not to mention one of them was an idiot jerk.
We sat silent staring in different directions.
"I have an idea" the two looked over at me.
"I say, whoever here swims the fastest risks hypothermia and swims to shore and gets help for the other two" as I said this both me and Daniel were looking at Damien who was shaking his head slowly.
It was pretty much two against one so Damien had no choice but to go get help or we'd just shove him over board. We watched him swim till we couldn't see him anymore, losing sight of the shore about a half an hour ago.
"So Bella" Daniel started, smiling at me.
"So Daniel" I copied and smiled back.
"How was your day today?" he asked sarcastically, smiling bigger.
I smiled just as big as him, "Oh, you know the usual"
"The usual?" he asked, arching an eyebrow.
"Well, I'm a danger magnet and the fact that I almost drowned twice today files under that category" I explained to him, still smiling.
"I see and I'm assuming you're so use to danger that you're able to say that sentence all nonchalant?" he asked a bit surprised.
"Pretty much"
"And what danger have you encountered during the past two years you've lived in Forks?" he asked, leaning back on the canoe's sturdy wall causing it to tip back and forth forming ripples on the smooth surface of the water. I took a minute to notice how beautiful the lake and the sky were. Two identical worlds, yet so far apart from each other.
Just like Edward and me I thought sadly.
Our worlds would never clash together. No matter what, Edward has had his mind made up on him not changing me into his kind. He'd lecture me about how important my human life was, but I was too stubborn to understand why I couldn't be changed. I became even sadder as I examined the water of the lake more. I didn't want Edward to be the sky and I'd be the lake. The lake was only beautiful because of the reflection of the sky. Without the sky, the lake wouldn't even look beautiful. Soon, in the future the lake would dry up and die but the sky would be able to live on forever. All I wanted was to be part of the sky and live forever on with it…with Edward.
Doesn't he want to live forever with me? I wondered, becoming sadder and sadder by the minute.
-Daniel's POV
I examined Bella's actions all day. She wasn't like other girls. She was…different.
The way she reacted to her surroundings, and just how she was in general amazed me. I didn't want to sound conceited but most girls by now, boyfriend or not, was all over me and Damien but not Bella. She even showed how disgusted she was with Damien's flirting which I found amusing. I knew she wasn't the type you could charm easily. All I wanted now was to get to know her better without taking a I-want-to-be-more-then-a-friend interest in her.
I watched as she gazed at the water, its like my question brought up sad memories since she had a confused hurt look on her face. I wished I could just comfort her and tell her everything would be ok.
"Bella?" I asked, snapping her out of her daydream. She looked up at me with tears in her eyes. Its only been a day and I felt I already got to see the many faces of Isabella Swan. I scooted closer to her and brought her face into my shoulder, exactly what I was fantasizing about a few seconds ago. She's so…warm.
-Bella's POV
Oh. My. Goodness! No, no, no what are you doing? Don't hug him back! Bella! my mind argued with me but my body wasn't agreeing with it. I settled into his shoulder, needing the comfort. I now started wondering about my question, did Edward want to be with me forever? I'd have to call him later and ask. He probably is worried by now since I promised I'd call back soon.
As if my body finally gave in, I pulled away quickly from Daniel, swiping my hoodie sleeve across my eyes to wipe away the tears. Its only been a day and I'm hugging guys behind Edward's back! I barely know Daniel too but its just something about him that I could trust.
"Bella, you know you can talk to me, right?" Daniel asked with an assuring look. So I did. I cut a lot of details out, like the Edward and his family being vampires but I re-worded everything into something more realistic. After about 20 minutes of talking I stopped.
"You know, you shouldn't be worrying about spending forever with your boyfriend"
"Why not, I'm in love with him so-" Daniel cut me off.
"Because, you have a whole life. How can you be so sure that you want to spend forever with him when you're so young right now, can you imagine all the things you could do in this world and how much of a life span we have to only do ¼ of those things" I understood what he was talking about, but if only he knew the realreason I had to "spend forever" with my boyfriend, with the fact that he was a vampire and could never die would've probably changed Daniel's mind and advice but I thanked him anyway, happy to sort of let all of it out. We both looked off in different directions, wondering why Damien was taking too long.
"I knew I should've went instead of him, he probably got lost on shore or forgot about us and started eating food" Daniel muttered shaking his head slowly with a look of regret on his face.
I laughed agreeing with him, "Oh well, we at least got to know each other better, right?"
"You're right, that is something I don't regret. Man, I could just imagine Damien's fat ass eating all the food right now and saying "Daniel and Bella who?" when our fathers ask him where we are" I began laughing really hard since I knew what he said was probably true judging Damien from first impressions. Daniel joined in with me. We both laughed for about a minute or so then settled down. My body was warm being next to Daniel, and the night wasn't as cold as I thought it would be. He looked up at the sky, lost in his own thoughts as was I.
I sighed, staring down at the water then back up to see Daniel's face, mainly his lips inching towards me…
Daniel gots the hots or nots? Find out in next chapter! coming up soon! PLEASE REVIEW!
-Frizzy
and if you haven't read my other fanfic "Why do I have to be you?" check it out!