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Omg don't you hate it when you have a really, really good idea for your story but it's not the right time for it? Like I have an idea for when Cammie and Zach are back at school but I need to finish my idea for the camping trip. Ugh! Okay, here's chapter seven, ENJOY!

Disclaimer: I own only the plot, so don't even think about stealing it! WARNING: This chapter includes mild language.

Chapter 7: Watching the Sunset, Just Two Friends.

When I woke up, Zach wasn't there, but the blanket was wrapped around me. I smelt burnt bacon and I knew it was my mom's day for making breakfast. I got up from the mattress and went out of the tent. There wasn't anybody there because they always go out for breakfast when it's my mom's day to cook. The rule is 'if you're not awake when we want to leave, you're stuck with Rachel's cooking.' As my dad says.

I went into the tent and changed out of Zach's shirt and my pajamas. I put on my black swimming suit and a white tank-top and short-shorts over it. I walked away because I couldn't think with the toxic fumes coming from where the bacon should be. I walked past the beach where we had our almost kiss. I walked to the docks and sat on the same pier I sat on last night to think.

How do I feel about Zach? Well… I like him but I'm not sure.

After a while thinking about this, I realized that since he doesn't like me back, I guess he's like an older brother. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I don't really want to be friends again. Well, I want to but I don't think I can. I don't think I can handle being around him when he's kissing another girl, but I don't want to be like I was before this trip. I don't want to be the only one out of my friends that eats without a guy. I want to be friends with him but I don't think I can handle him with another girl.

No, I think I can handle him with another girl, just not Tina. I want him to be with a girl who makes him happy, who cares about him, who likes him even though he has a girl as his best friend, someone I like, but I want him to be happy too. I don't know what to do!

I laid on the wood planks of the pier. The sun was above me and the water was at the tips of my toes. I stayed there like that for a long time, just thinking. Then I heard someone coming up behind me I was about to sit up but the mystery person picked me up before I could. I was Zach.

"Zach! Put me down!" He held me bridal style and jumped off the pier. "Zach!" Then we fell in the water. I hit my head. I didn't black out, but I couldn't get back up, my foot was snagged on something! My head hurt like hell! I tried to untie the rope from around my leg but it wouldn't budge. I wanted to scream but I didn't want to loose all oxygen. After a minute I stopped trying to undo it, it was useless. I could hold my breath for a long time, but I have to breathe.

I was about to give up, I couldn't hold my breath any longer. My mouth filled with water and I couldn't stop it. I was just starting to black out when I felt arms around me. The rope was removed from my ankle, and I was being pulled up. I felt sand on my back. My eyes closed but I had my other senses. I felt someone's lips on mine. They pulled away but then kissed me again. I realized they were doing CPR. I opened my eyes and coughed up water. I looked up and I saw green eyes with gold flakes. Zach was my rescuer.

"Zach!" I hugged him. He hugged me back. "Thank you! I couldn't get back up cuz my foot got snagged on a rope or something. Thank you!" I didn't realize I was crying until Zach said so.

"Gallagher Girl, why are you crying?" he asked as he wiped the fallen tears off my face.

"I don't know, I guess I felt like I was so close to losing everything and everyone. I'm sorry I didn't answer you yesterday, about if you're my best friend. You are, you're the best friend I ever had." I smiled. He looked at me.

"Are you okay?" He asked in worry. I nodded.

"I'm fine, but are we?" He looked as confused as ever.

"What? Of course we're okay, why would you say we weren't…" He trailed off in realization. "Oh, you mean, what didn't happen last night," he said awkwardly. I bit my lip.

"Yeah, that, I think we should forget that never almost happened. You know, so it's not weird between us?" I said, sounding more like a question. He nodded quickly.

"Um yeah, we should. I would hate it if we weren't friends," he said in agreement. I was touched.

"Really? You would actually hate not being friends with me?" I asked hopefully.

"Well yeah, you're the only girl who's ever gotten to know me and like me anyways," I smiled at that. "I think the problem with every other girl is that they don't like dating a guy who's best friend is a girl," I could hear his voice catch as soon as he said that. I looked down at my hands. "Cammie, I'm-"

"Then maybe we shouldn't be friends," I said looking up but not at his face. "In two days the camping trip will be over, so let's act like this trip never happened. We can go back to the way it was before, you keep dating girls and I can keep wishing I had a boyfriend." I stood up and started walking. Then Zach grabbed my hand. I tried to get out of his grip but he didn't let go. I turned around and looked at him, trying not to cry.

"Wait, you never had a boyfriend?" he asked in unbelief. His grip loosened so he was just holding my hand, but I didn't pull away. I shook my head.

"Unless you include Josh, and the loser guys from middle school, no I've never had a real boyfriend. I hated it when you stopped eating lunch with me. All of my friends have boyfriends and you were… you were like my substitute. I didn't have a boyfriend, but I did have a guy friend. But when you stopped eating with me, I felt… out of place? I don't want to go back there but if I have to, I will. See you later Zach." After my mini-rant, I walked away. This time, Zach walked with me. He put his arm around my shoulder. I looked at him, confused. He answered my unasked question,

"There are boys over there checking you out, what kind of best friend would I be if I didn't play the overprotective brother you never had?" I smiled and put my hand on his arm on my shoulder.

"So you still want to be best friends even though girls think it's weird?"

"Sure, if they can't accept you, my best friend, then why would I want to date her? You see, you're like a good girl detector. If a girl is comfortable with you and you approve of her, then she's a good date, if she acts like Tina and you hate her, then I wouldn't want to date her," he explained. I stopped walking.

"So if you would have listened to me, then you never would have gone out with Tina?" I asked. He shook his head.

"If I had listened to you, then this never would have happened, you wouldn't have turned goth, and I wouldn't have been slapped," he said laughing at the last part. I laughed along with him. We walked like that, with his arm around my shoulders, all the way back to the Beach House. We walked into the building like that and sat on one of the couches, waiting for the movie to start. They were playing, 'Back to the Future Part II' and we had to wait two hours for it to start, so we had dinner. We had burgers and fries. We sat across from each other at a table in the restaurant part.

"So, Honey, are you going to pay for dinner?" I asked with a smirk. He smirked back.

"Yes, my darling, I will," he said sweetly. Then those stupid blondes came by again. The leader looked at Zach and then glared at me. I waved at them so they would leave. They made a face at me and then left the Beach House.

"Why do they hate you?" he asked laughing. I shrugged.

"I think they're jealous that I have a boyfriend as hot as you," I said mockingly. He smiled at my lame joke. I looked at a group of guys who were looking at me. "But what I don't get is why all of those guys are looking at me and glaring at you?" Zach laughed a bit then looked at me. He looked confused at why I wasn't laughing.

"Are you serious?" I nodded. "They are checking you out, not just looking at you," he explained as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Why though?" he looked as confused as I was.

"They think you're hot," he said like it was no big deal. I looked down at my almost finished burger. I don't know why, but I was kind of hurt by his answer.

"Oh, okay," I half mumbled. I looked at him and he looked at me. Then he shook his head as if to get a thought out of it. "What?" I asked.

"Nothing, it just that you, never mind, it must just be the lighting in here," he said before taking the last bite of his burger. What the heck did he mean by that!

"Um okay, what?" I said confused again. He started to explain,

"Well it's just that you look-"

"Theater 1 for 'Back to the Future Part II' is now open," someone on an intercom announced. Zach looked annoyed but he stood up and held out his hand.

"Shall we?" I smiled at his dorkyness.

"We shall," I replied. I took his hand and stood up. We walked hand-in-hand past the guys who were 'checking me out.' We got out tickets and walked into the movie room. Before the movie started, I rested my head on Zach's shoulder and he wrapped his arm around mine. We watch the movie in peace.

After it ended, we walked out like we entered, hand-in-hand. We walked out of the Beach House but instead of going to the beach, Zach led me to the docks.

"Zach why are we here?" I asked when he led me to the pier we were on before.

"Because, I think this would be a great place to watch the sunset," he answered smoothly and smirking. I smiled. We sat down on the edge; our feet dangling just above the water, and our legs were touching.

"What were you going to say, before we went into the movie room?" I was still watching the sunset.

"I was going to say you look different."

"Oh, is that a good thing?" I asked.

"I'm not sure, I mean you look…" he trailed off. It was worse than I thought. We sat there for a while. I could feel Zach's gaze on me.

"What?" I asked looking at him.

"Nothing, it's just I was thinking about what I said, about those guys thinking you're hot," he said looking embarrassed. My face fell.

"Oh, so you were looking at me to figure out why you said something stupid like that," I said looking at my lap.

"What? No, nothing like that, I was just, um, looking at you and um," he stuttered.

"Whatever," I said, laying down on the pier, looking away from him. Zach hung his head then laid next to me.

"Cam, what's wrong?" he asked me. I turned to look at him and out noses were almost touching.

"Well, you said they think I look hot, so I guess its all in their heads," I said, trying not to meet Zach's eyes. He put his hand on my face so I would look at him.

"Cammie, it's not in their heads," he said as he looked at my eyes. I was so confused! "You know, Gallagher Girl, that if you keep making that face, it's going to stay like that," Zach said laughing a bit.

"I'm just so confused! I mean, we're just pretending to be boyfriend and girlfriend but it feels…" I trailed off. I didn't want to finish that sentence. I wanted to say, but I feels right.

"It feels like we're better off as friends?" I was hurt and I showed it, but I nodded anyway.

"Sure," I said quietly. I looked at him. His hand was still on my face so I put my hand on his and took it off my face. I sat up and looked at the sun's reflection on the lake. The sun was just above the trees. I started to get up and so did Zach.

"So, what do you want to do now?" Zach asked me.

"I don't know, want to take a walk on the beach?" I said trying not to sound too enthusiastic.

"Sure, let's go," he agreed. We walked and talked. We talked about everything. We almost walked around the entire lake before we started to run out of things to say. Then we saw the blondes again. I looked at Zach. He rolled his eyes at them. Then he turned to face me. He winked at me and then kissed me. It wasn't in the cheek but it wasn't on the mouth either, it was like in between. I smiled at him. I knew for sure he didn't like me back, but at least he likes to pretend. My smile faded.

"It's getting late, do you want to start heading to the campsite?" Zach asked after a minute of silence. I didn't look at him, I just said,

"Yeah, sure." We walked back to our tent. When we got there, I wanted to change.

"Um Zach, could you stay out for a minute, I'm going to change," I said as I picked up my pajamas and his shirt. Once I zipped up the tent behind me, I changed out of my swimming suit and into the clothes in my hand.

"Zach you can come in now," I said. He walked in and he was wearing his pajama pants with no shirt. I laid down on the mattress and Zach did too. I didn't even have to say that I was cold since Zach wrapped his arms around me. I turned to face him like every other night.

"Goodnight Zach," I whispered.

"Goodnight, Gallagher Girl," he whispered back. I smiled at my nickname. I soon fell asleep with my head on his chest, and his head on mine.

That night I had a dream…

I was in a car, and the flux-compasseder was fluxing. I set the time to one minute before our almost kiss. I got out of the car, and walked over to Zach. He seemed to not notice that I was gone, he just kept talking to me like I was there already. We saw the three fake blondes at the beach, and I kissed Zach on the cheek. I didn't look at the blondes, just at Zach. His phone rang and his pressed ignore. We walked for a little ways and then the guys from the Beach House looked at us. Zach did the thing I least expected him to do, he kissed me on the mouth. I pulled away and Zach looked hurt. I smiled and kissed him again. I could feel him smirk against my lips. I slowly pulled away again, but I didn't see Zach's face. No, it was Josh. He had an evil grin on his face, and I didn't like it.

My wonderful dream, just turned into a nightmare.

Josh tried to kiss me again, but I pushed him away. I fan away from him but he wasn't far behind. I ran over to the pier and I saw Josh running behind me. I closed my eyes and braced myself for whatever he had planned. I opened my eyes and the last thing I saw was a boy with green eyes saying, "Cammie, if only you knew how I feel about you."

And then I woke up, in the dark tent, in Zach's arms. If only it wasn't just a dream…

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-Liz-Beth :)