Safe Haven
This chapter is not edited properly as my beta has had exams before and now has problems with her computer however it is being posted as I've left everything un updated or un posted for too many months due to my beta's exams and me being to worked up about new stories.
Chapter Four
The lights were on in cabins, halls and practice studios. Lamp posts lit the pathways, fairy lights were scattered in bushes and trees while solar lights were placed in random spots on the beach. There was light but not enough to make out who the couple on the dock was but enough light to make out a silhouette of a couple locked in an embrace
Down on the dock Nate and Caitlyn were enjoying a romantic and quiet moment before they would have to head back to their cabin before curfew.
Just before they left the dock and with fifteen minutes until curfew Nate had a surprise for Caitlyn. He pressed something in his pocket and the soft notes of A Thousand Years filled the air.
"May I?" asked Nate.
Caitlyn smiled and nodded. The two started to slow dance on the pier and Nate started to sing the words to Caitlyn. Minutes later the dance ended with a soft tender kiss before the couple strolled back to their cabin arm in arm under the star studded sky.
When Caitlyn awoke the next morning she knew instantly Nate was not there. How? His side of the bed was cold but then she was sprawled across it, his arms weren't around her and she couldn't feel him next to her. Opening her eyes she saw she was right, she lay for a moment listening and when she heard no sounds of moment in the cabin she glanced at the clock - seven o'clock in the morning. Maybe he'd gone for an early morning swim? So getting changed she headed towards the lake to find her boyfriend and there she found him. She leaned against the pillar at the end of the pier watching him bare backed swimming with powerful strokes in the sunrise. She felt something on her back very light she thought nothing of it until she plunged into the water. The splash shook Nate from his thoughts and he turned to see Kayla running from the dock. Caitlyn! He swam towards the pier and was relived when Caitlyn hosted herself out of the water back onto the pier.
"Caity!" he called.
She jumped lost her footing and plunged back into the water.
She surfaced minutes later.
"Jeez you know how to make a girl jump," she spluttered.
"Are you ok?" asked Nate.
"Yeah guess the dock is slippery," shrugged Caitlyn.
"It was Kayla," said Nate, pulling Caitlyn to the shore.
"Can't catch a brake," muttered Caitlyn.
"She's a piece of work," said Nate, pulling his discarded t-shirt over Caitlyn.
Caitlyn nodded but she knew something Nate didn't, something else that Kayla had said that she wouldn't share with Nate or follow.
They stood there awhile in the shallow wrapped up in each other arms.
"Hey can we tell Shane and Jason about Kayla?" asked Nate. "It's just I'm not going to be able to be around you all the time and I don't want you open to attack."
Caitlyn nodded.
Half an hour later they were both showered, dried and dressed and eating in the mess hall with Shane and Jason and telling them everything from the first day of Camp to that morning.
"So Kayla pushed in you in?" asked Shane.
"So Nate says it's his word against hers," said Caitlyn.
"And Mitchie's," said Shane.
"Huh?" asked Caitlyn.
"Kayla is Mitchie's cabin mate. Mitchie has moved out of her mum's cabin," said Shane.
"She won't betray me like that would she?" asked Caitlyn.
"I don't know," said Shane. "But I'll talk to her if she does."
The boys start to talk about other things for a few minutes and got into so the conversation the didn't see Kayla enter the mess hall with Mitchie or the look she sent Caitlyn. The look she sent Caitlyn was so icy it made her sink down in her chair. This didn't go unnoticed by Nate or his brothers but all thought and shared a look that this wasn't the time or the place to talk. They noted that Kayla had come in and was with Mitchie.
"Why are Connect 3 sitting with her?" asked Kayla.
"Caitlyn they all started camp together. They're all really good friends," said Mitchie.
"She's such a loser though," said Kayla then she saw the look on Mitchie's face "At home anyway."
"Caitlyn Gellar is one of my best friends if I'm going to share a cabin with you I don't want to hear what you think of her unless it's something nice," said Mitchie.
"Otherwise you'll move back in with your mum," said Kayla.
"I don't know. Maybe," said Mitchie.
"The loser?" asked Kayla. Mitchie sent her a look. "Sorry Caitlyn."
"Caitlyn is one of the coolest people here. She helps everyone, she's everyone friend. Actually next to Brown, the production teacher and Nate she the best production camper here. She mixes tracks for everyone. She's also a wicked dancer," said Mitchie. "Actually I need to go see if she'll do some for me. You coming?"
"I don't think she'll appreciate me over there. Anyway she's just left," said Kayla.
"I'll find her later," said Mitchie.
"So who are Connect 3 seeing. They were all here last year right? And Shane was here the year before wasn't he. You talk to him?" asked Kayla.
"We're quiet good friends I did a duet with him last year at final jam and got to know him the year before," said Mitchie.
Brown comes over.
"Mitchie could I have a word?" asked Brown.
"Sure," said Mitchie standing up.
Walking to one side Brown explained what he wants her to. Just as he's finished she hears the music outside and goes running, getting there just in time to sing her part.
Shane, Shane and Mitchie, Mitchie, Nate, Nate and Caitlyn, Everyone.
So let's sing
Na, na na na na, hey ya
Come on and sing
Na, na na na na, hey ya
Mitchie started singing with Shane and walked to his side and sat next to him. He wrapped an arm around her and pulls her close.
This is our song, that's all that matters
'Cause we all belong right here together
There's nothing better than singing along
This is our summer, this is our song
Come grab your guitar, sit by the fire
'Cause we all need a song when we're weary and tired
We'll sit here together and sing it out loud
This is our song, that's all that matters
'Cause we all belong right here together
There's nothing better than singing along
This is our summer, this is our song
This is our song
Come on and sing
Na, na na na na, hey ya
Come on and sing
Na, na na na na, hey ya
And come on and sing
Na, na na na na, hey ya
Come on and sing
Na, na na na na, hey ya
This is our song, that's all that matters
'Cause we all belong right here together
There's nothing better than singing along
This is our summer
(Our summer)
This is our song, that's all that matters
'Cause we all belong right here together
There's nothing better than singing along
This is our summer, this is our song
(This is our song)
This is our song
(This is our song)
This is our song
(This is our song)
This is our song
Though out the entire song Caitlyn and Nate exchange loving looks while Kayla shoots her glares but Caitlyn was too busy enjoying herself to notice or care and Nate was smiling because Caitlyn was smiling for the first time since they got to Camp.
The camp headed off for activities and Mitchie headed off to finishes breakfast with Kayla who tells Mitchie why Caitlyn is such a loser back home however she twists the truth and makes Caitlyn seem like the one in the wrong. This changes Mitchie's opinion of Caitlyn and she sides with Kayla.
"I think the slushing is wrong but your in the right," said Mitchie.
"Also I kind of pushed her of the dock this morning she was ok but I think Nate saw so if Brown asks will you vouch for me?" asked Kayla.
"Of course," said Mitchie "She stole your boyfriend she deserves it."
Later Mitchie and Kayla are walking around camp laughing when they see Nate and Caitlyn they shoot them both a dirty look and continue laughing.
"Mitchie's on her side. Kayla will have told some kind of lie," sighed Caitlyn.
"I believe you," said Nate. "Whatever Katie says I'll back you up."
"I love you," said Caitlyn, turning to him.
"Love you too," he smiled. leaning in.
"Remember were we are public," muttered Caitlyn leaning away.
Nate looks around.
"Caity we are on our porch and there's no one about," said Nate.
"Ok," said Caitlyn.
Nate leaned forward again and their lips meet and the whole world was drowned out – it was just them. Their lips moulded together. But then as quickly as the kiss started it stopped as they heard Mitchie and Kayla's voices coming back.
"Cabin?" asked Nate.
Caitlyn nodded and the headed inside just disappearing out of sight as Mitchie and Kayla came round the corner. Only Mitchie saw the back of Caitlyn's head as she disappeared inside but she kept it to herself.
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Gabriella Somerfield
