"Who wants rolled bologna?" Iggy called over from the car.
"Rolled bologna?" Sam repeated/
Iggy walked over with multiple packages of something I couldn't see, at this point it was getting dark. "Yes. Hotdogs. Am I the only one who notices it's basically a piece of bologna just rolled up in log form?"
"Or maybe bologna is simply just a flattened hotdog." Fang pointed out. Iggy gave him a look. Fang shrugged.
"Gimme one. Or two. Or six. I'm starving." I told him holding out my hand back to him.
"Here ya go." He placed two in my hand. "Everyone need something to cook it with?" Iggy asked.
"No, we're going to throw it into the fire and hope it doesn't burn before we reach our hands in to get it." Sam said sarcastically, brining us all long, thin, metal, stick things with a wooden handle I assume are for cooking stuff on fires.
At this point we all sat around the fire on wooden logs Iggy found stacked up, it was getting dark pretty quickly, and it was getting cold. We all had blankets wrapped around us, Iggy was sitting close to Ella, his arm wrapped around her, while J.J. and Sam sat in the same position. Fang and I sat next to each other in the middle of the two love birds. This seems to always happen, the six of us get together, J.J. and Sam, Iggy and Ella, then there's just Fang and I. Before we had no problem whatsoever, but then I started dating Dylan, Fang stared dating Lisa, things seemed to change. We both ignored it like it was nothing, but now that I think about it, a lot really did change.
Fang and I never saw each other, well not as much as we did, he's always with Lisa, and I'm usually with Dylan. We used to spend hours during the summers watching horror movies at either his or my own house. Then Lisa and Dylan came along, and I cant say when the last time Fang got together and laid on the living room floor surrounded my blackest and pillows, eating popcorn and searching through all the movies we rented for the week.
We used to walk down to the small diner downtown about ten minutes from our neighborhood and shoot spitballs at each other, and the occasional waiter if we did like them.
I miss it.
"What happened to the good ol' searching for roasting sticks in the woods?" Ella asked forcing me back into reality. Luckily she did, because my hotdog was burning.
"Welcome to the 21st century." Sam said while laughing. I forced a smile to show that I hadn't completely zoned out for the past…I thought. How long was it? How long does it take a hotdog to cook over a fire? If I found that out, I'd be answering both questions.
"Got any rolls?" I asked blowing my food.
"Here." Iggy said throwing a bag of rolls at my face. I didn't say anything "No thank you? How rude!" He said with humor in his voice.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Thank you so much for chucking a bag of rolls at my face." I said with a smirk and rolling my eyes.
"Ketchup? Mustard?" Ella asked.
"What? You think I came with everything?" Sam asked. We all just looked at him and nodded our heads.
"It was your idea, we had no knowledge of before you mentioned it when we got here." Fang pointed out.
He sighed "Yeah I got ketchup." He reached around and passed the bottles of condiments around. Mine was burnt, and dry, I went nuts with toppings. I just needed chili. But I wasn't going to bother Sam by asking.
"Did anyone happen to bring anything that generates music?" Iggy asked.
"Like speakers or something?" I asked. He nodded. "I have my iPod, Sam, do you by any chance happen to keep a radio or something in your car?"
"No. I've got something better." He got this mischievous look on his face. We all looked at him in question.
He took a guitar out of the trunk. "Jeez man, how much crap can you fit in that thing?" Iggy asked.
"How the hell did you fit in there with it?" Ella asked him. "I'm sorry, but it's not like you're small, thin yes, but freakishly tall, and not at all flexible."
"And you managed to fit in there like a pretzel" J.J. finished for her.
Sam tossed the guitar to Fang. He just stared at it.
"Don't act like you don't know what it is, I know you play. And Max, I know you sing." Sam smiled. Hoping we'd do something.
"You wanna start?" I asked Fang.
"Sure." He started playing. I knew this one.
I started singing.
Her face is a map of the world, is a map of the world
You can see she's a beautiful girl, she's a beautiful girl
And everything around her is a silver pool of light
People who surround her feel the benefit of it, it makes you calm
She holds you captivated in her palm
J.J. must have known the song too, because she started singing along with the background voice.
Suddenly I see
(Suddenly I see)
This is what I wanna be
Suddenly I see
(Suddenly I see)
Why the hell it means so much to me
Suddenly I see
(Suddenly I see)
This is what I wanna be
Suddenly I see
(Suddenly I see)
Why the hell it means so much to me
And I feel like walking the world, like walking the world
And you can hear she's a beautiful girl, she's a beautiful girl
She fills up every corner like she's born in black and white
Makes you feel warmer when you're trying to remember what you heard
She likes to leave you hanging on a wire
Then everyone else joined in. Some on the refrain, some the verses, and J.J. stuck to the background
Suddenly I see
(Suddenly I see)
This is what I wanna be
Suddenly I see
(Suddenly I see)
Why the hell it means so much to me
Suddenly I see
(Suddenly I see)
That this is what I wanna be
Suddenly I see
(Suddenly I see)
Why the hell it means so much to me
And she's taller than most and she's looking at me
I can see her eyes looking from the page of a magazine
She makes me feel like I could be a tower, big strong tower yeah
The power to be, the power to give, the power to see, yeah yeah
(Suddenly I see)
She got the power to be, the power to give, the power to see, yeah yeah
(Suddenly I see)
She got the power to be, the power to give, the power to see, yeah yeah yeah
(Suddenly I see)
She got the power to be, the power to give, the power to see, yeah yeah
(Suddenly I see)
She got the power to be, the power to give, the power to see, yeah yeah
Suddenly I see
(Suddenly I see)
This is what I wanna be
Suddenly I see
(Suddenly I see)
Why the hell it means so much to me
Suddenly I see
(Suddenly I see)
Cause this is what I wanna be
Suddenly I see
(Suddenly I see)
Why the hell it means so much to me
Suddenly I see
(Suddenly I see)
Suddenly I see
(Suddenly I see)
Why the hell it means so much to me
Suddenly I see
(Suddenly I see)
Suddenly I see
(Suddenly I see)
Why the hell it means so much to me
(Suddenly I See by KT Tunstall)
We weren't in bad moods before, but for some reason this really seemed to lift our spirits. We all laughed, when Fang finished the last cord, and we went on as before, teasing each other, laughing, telling stories, the only difference was that soon we were all sticky from our attempts to make smores.
Except for Ella. For some reason, she's been an expert at smore making since she was allowed to be close to fire and make them herself. Ella's affinity for smore making is like Iggy's for fire and explosions, and anything destructive.
After about two hours I finally checked my phone for the time. "Whoa, guys, its almost midnight." I laughed.
"Is it really? Seems earlier than that" She said while yawning.
"Yeah, clearly you do." Iggy laughed as she blinked a few times to keep her awake. Now that I knew the time, I noticed that I was tired too.
"Wanna set up sleeping bags?" Fang asked. We all nodded and grabbed our bags. And set them up close to each other around the fire.
"Should we keep this going?" Ella asked, looking worried that her body would be so close to it.
"Yeah, I'm not tired anyway, I can keep it going, make sure it settles down before I go to bed.
"Ella, you're next to me, Iggy, you next to Fang." I ordered. And pointed to both spots. Fang was sleeping next to me, and that would leave two whole people that would be blocking them from each other.
Ella shot me a questioning look. "Mom made me promise." I explained. Iggy looked disappointed, I shot him a look "And even if she didn't, I'd make ya do it anyway."
"It's a sister thing." Ella told him. "I'd be the same way if Dylan was here. We get kinda protective. Especially the older one" She said gesturing to me.
"I got that when we first starting dating." Iggy looked annoyed. I held back a laugh.
"Huh?" Ella asked.
"I kinda confronted him about being with you. I told him if he did anything to hurt you in any way, I'd kick is ass so hard he'd land in Texas." I laughed again.
"You said China." He corrected. Ella laughed, but looked a little mortified. If she'd found out about it then, she would've killed me.
"Everyone good?" Sam asked. We all responded some form of "yes"
We all said goodnights, talked for about another 45 minutes, then finally fell asleep.
Fang POV
It was probably sometime around one, maybe one thirty, in the morning. I was still poking at the fire keeping it going.
I had a lot on my mind, wouldn't have been able to sleep anyway.
I tried to focus on other things, but it always came back to one thing. Max.
Something had happened between us, but I couldn't tell what. Was it Lisa? Dylan? A combination of both?
We're best friends, but Lisa got clingy about it. Wanted to know if I was with Max if not with her, and if I was, where we were, or what we were doing.
She'd kill us both if she found out Max and I slept next to each other tonight.
The thing I kept thinking about, was how I even ended up with Lisa in the first place.
Last year before Max dated Dylan and I dated Lisa, I was in love with Max. And somewhere I know I still am.
Max went out with Dylan, so I forced myself to move on, Lisa came along, and I did. I thought. Now it's all coming back to me. I looked at her. She was rolled on her side facing Ella, he hair was whipped all around her head, and she had the blanket pulled up to her neck. She looked so peaceful.
I threw the stick into the fire, it had gone down enough, and crawled into my sleeping bag.
I looked at Max one last time before I laid down. "I still love you." I whispered. Then turned over and fell asleep.
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