Two days, forty-eight hours, two thousand and eighty minutes separate Moose from Cam, no that he was counting them or anything like that. Today they were starting their journey back to the Netherlands where they would take a flight back to America; the last week had been extremely busy the guys were going crazy milking every single second to have more footage for their channel and Moose was exhausted. Still, the moment he realized that their trip was finally coming to an end he found new energy and was doing everything in his power to meet all their goals, he even made time to have a couple of meetings with investors, and he was finishing a new app which was almost sold already. Moose had felt like his old self since the dream; he was ready to see where things could go with Cam and he was making sure that she knew that he needed to talk to her when he went back home. The first couple of days after the dream he had practically stalked the girl but noticing that she seemed uncomfortable Moose decided to pull back a little. His only problem was that his excitement was making it harder for him to fall asleep so sometimes he would just spend hours working on his apps or walking alone in the city thinking about his future and finally enjoy himself a little. Soon it was time to go back home and even though he had planned to sleep all the way back to America he couldn't even get a minute of sleep, he saw movies and listen to music smiling knowing that with each minute that passed he was closer to her.

Cam was excited by Moose's return, she had been thinking about the boy since the dream, and even though her first reaction was to be scared about her feelings, Cam soon realized that she liked the idea of it. With less than a week until her week off the girl was finding it difficult to concentrate in her day to day knowing that before the week ended the boy was going to be back in her life for good and that meant Cam needed to make a decision what she was going to do. To her surprise, the next couple of days made her focus once again on her job, with last minute papers to grade and some interviews with students that need to find a way to improve their grades. Apparently, the love for extra credits was in full bloom on her students, for more than a week now every single day one or more people were delivering assignments out of the blue or asking for more chances to improve their grades in general. Seeing this Cam had decided that she was not going to give anyone a specific subject, she told every single student at the beginning of the semester that they could have a free topic extra credit essay and now everyone was delivering just that. However, the topics were so random that she was having the time of her life reading and grading them, this particular afternoon she was laughing out loud at every single assignment that crossed her desk.

Andie smiled at Cam, the girl had been busy the last couple of days with her students, and they weren't able to see each other. She wondered if Cam was nervous about Moose's arrival that night but when she entered the room and saw her friend laughing Andie wonder if maybe Cam forgot about the impending arrival of the curly boy back to their day to day life. She had been looking for the girl to ask her if she wanted to go with Chase and her to the airport to pick up him and the boys. Moose had asked her to take Cam with her to pick him up; he couldn't wait to see the girl. However, Andie told him that these past few days Cam had a lot of work so even though she was going to ask he shouldn't assume that it was going to happen.

Cam turned to see Andie smiling at her, and she told her about the different assignments and weird topics that her students were using on each of them. Soon they lost track of time reading and grading them while laughing out loud at the insanity of the entire situation. "I get that you are trying to teach them to be able to write about anything but Cam this is too much. You need to put some boundaries because these people are tripping."

That made Cam laugh harder even though she didn't think that it was possible at this point. After they finish with the papers, Cam asked Andie to go out so they could get something to eat and continue to talk about what was going on in their lives these past few days. In the middle of dinner, Andie's phone rang and when she picked up Chase was asking her where she was. The plane was scheduled to arrive in a couple of minutes, and he was the only one waiting for Moose, that's when Andie remembered the reason she went looking for Cam at school and cursed herself for forgetting about it.

"Look we are not going to make it so just call me when you guys arrived at Moose's place, and I'll meet you there." They talk a little more, and she finally hung up, but that time Cam realized what they were talking about, and after days of being calm she started to get nervous again. Andie noticed the sudden change in her demeanor and asked her if she was ok.

"Yeah, is just. I forgot that today was the day he was coming back. I don't know how I'm going to act when I see him, I thought that I would know by now, but the truth is that I don't. Remember my dream? I thought about it like you told me and the only conclusion that I got from that is that I'm okay with the idea of being with him, but I'm not sure about the reality of it. The last time we saw each other I was still mad at him, and yes we are fine now, but I hated that side of him, and I'm worried if it's going to come back at some point." Andie understood what Cam was telling her, but part of her was over the moon with the idea that the girl was happy about the dream she had.

Andie asked Cam if she would be ok with going with her to welcome Moose, but she could see how nervous her friend was getting so she decided to tell her that it would be okay if she didn't. In the end, both girls got to Cam's place and waited for Chase's call, suddenly a text from him announced Andie that he was trying with the other guys to convinced Moose that it wouldn't be appropriate to go looking for Cam at her home at this time. Andie saw the time, and it was almost one in the morning and decided that she was going to have a serious conversation with Moose.

She excused herself and went into the bathroom and dialed Moose's number. He picked up, and she could hear everyone's voices and him telling them to shut up but before he could start talking Andie told him not to come. "I'll see you at your apartment. Right now is not a good time for you to come here, you can go looking for her in the daytime when she is not going to be freak out by you appearing out of nowhere at her apartment smelling like you haven't showered in days. Don't even tell me that is not the case because I can smell you through the phone, Moose."

The boy remained quiet for a minute and then told Andie that he would see her at his apartment. A couple of minutes later Chase was waiting for her downstairs, and together they walk to Moose's apartment. "You would have kicked him if you went to the airport. The second he saw me he started asking me where you were and where was Cam and why she wasn't there. The other guys at least said hi, and while we all waited for the suitcases they told me how annoying Moose had been since they got on the plane. He even tried to leave us at the airport waiting for his things so he could come see Cam before it was too late."

Andie groaned, Moose was going to ruin his chance with Cam if he acted that way with her. Cam was ready to try something with him, Andie was sure of that even though her friend wasn't, but she needed for Moose to be more calm about the situation, maybe just going out in groups and first and then the two of them. When the couple finally made it to the apartment Ian and Joe were sitting on the couch with exasperated expressions on their face and Moose was walking in circles making an argument about why it was a terrible idea for him not go looking for Cam right that second. Andie walked right up to him and hugged him telling him that she was glad he was finally back then she let go of him and told him to sit down before she made him sit and above all to shut up. Ian and Joe rose up and said their hellos and goodbyes to Andie and Chase. "We were just waiting for you guys to get here so he wouldn't just go away and messed things up more, but we are exhausted, so we are going home now. We'll call you later Moose take care."

The next hour went by in the middle of arguments, conversations, and laughter at in the end Andie made the ultimate question to Moose. "So are you ready to start something with Cam?."

The boy hesitated a little which caught Chase by surprise; the boy was sure that Moose wanted to be with Cam from the way he acted since getting into the city but for some reason when the question was thrown at him, he seemed to startle. "I'm sure I wanted to get to know her more, the fact that I ruined a vacation that made her take honestly destroyed me. When the guys made me realized that I like her I panicked, you know how bad things ended with my last relationship. The thought of getting through that again made me go into survival mode but when Cam announced that she was leaving it hit me hard."

Moose continued to talk and explained how in this couple of weeks he realized that what really hit him was the fact that he was the reason Cam felt terrible. "I want to take care of her and be there for her when she needs someone on her corner."

When he stopped talking, he noticed Andie and Chase exchanging looks and both of them nodded almost imperceptible to each other. "Moose, if the only thing you feel for her is that then you don't want more than friendship. Which is fine, but please be clear about that with her, don't present yourself as someone that is building a relationship with the hope that it turned into more."

Moose nodded but he didn't like what Chase said, he never planned on misleading Cam about his intentions. Now there were moments in his day that he was sure that he wanted to date her. The fact that he would be able to hold Cam's hand, kiss her and be with her at any given moment made him happy, but then there were other moments when he was more than ok with her just being a good friend and keep his heart save.

The three friends said their goodbyes not long after that and Moose went into his room and passed out on his bed hoping to wake up with a clear plan on how to approach Cam the next day. What Moose didn't plan though was that he was so tired and out of sync with the time back home that he ended up sleeping almost 24 hours straight, he vaguely remembered waking up and walking to the bathroom at some point, but that was it.

At two am he woke up hungry and disoriented. Moose stood and promptly fall back on his bed, with a groan he tried again and then he went on his way to the kitchen hoping that something eatable was waiting for him there. A few packages of junk food leftover from the party that he had before going away were consumed at high speed and helped him feel a little less hungry. He tried to go back to bed, but he couldn't get himself to fall asleep again no matter how much he tried, so he decided to charge his phone and started to go looking through his social media.

He cursed when he noticed that in Ian's Instagram story the boys had several short videos with Cam. Moose was ready to call them and told them off but then he saw that he had several missed call and texts from them and even two from Cam. He decided to read hers first. Both of them were welcoming him home and asking him if he wanted to go out with her and the boys, Moose groaned and started to look for more videos and photos of his friends evening. Apparently, they met at a restaurant at night and even video chat with Lilly or at least she was on the screen of Cam's phone in one of the photos they post of the evening. After that Moose started to make a list of things he needed to buy for his place and decided to hit the stores as soon as possible. Looking around the apartment, he decided that he should take advantage of his early awakening and soon he started cleaning his place, then went downstairs to the laundry room of the building. Moose really loved the fact that everyone was still sleeping so he took advantage of the situation and took over every single washing machine and clean his clothes in half the amount of time it would have taken him at a regular hour. Moose repeated his way of handling his clothes when drying them, while he waited he decided to hit the gym of the building and run a little. The last couple of week he made a habit of running every morning, he really enjoyed the way his brain seemed to clear when he did it. Soon enough his clothes were dried, and he was back to his apartment to put everything back in the proper place.

Moose wondered what time it was, he noticed some movement in the apartments on his way back and when he went to see the time on his phone, the one he left on the kitchen counter, a big smile spread on his face. Cam had like his comments, and she had also sent him a text wishing him a good day, he quickly dialed her number, and her voice invaded his ear making his already good mood even better. The girl told him that she wasn't going to be able to meet him for breakfast like he was asking her, but they could go out after her work. Moose agreed and made his way to Target to buy everything he needed for his apartment that's when he decided that maybe he should prepare Cam something so they could stay in and talk. Giving himself some extra time in case there was traffic he made his way to her school and waited outside and at 6 pm sharp he walked in, he got to her class and knocked once before opening the door and walking in to find Andie and Cam talking next to the desk. Even though he was aware that Andie was there his eyes didn't move from Cam's and to his joy hers didn't leave his both of them hugged each other and started telling each other how great it was to be together again.

Andie suggested that the three of them went to her place, but Moose told her that he had already prepared dinner at his apartment. However, before he was able to say to the girl that the dinner was for Cam and him, Andie invited herself and Chase to attend. The walk to his apartment was filled with conversation about their lives and all the things they missed while being away from each other. Cam told him crazy stories about her students and Moose made her promised that she was going to let him read some of the essays they submit for extra credit. When Chase arrived at the apartment, the four of them started eating; then they played some games where Cam and Moose would usually be a team and the way they got each other was impressive even for Andie.

Cam was having a good time but tomorrow was the last day before the week break, and she needed to wake up early for work. So she started saying her goodbyes to the group, Andie and Chase told her that they would walk her home, but Moose told them no. He wanted to be the one walking her home; this evening was supposed to be about the two of them reconnecting and even though they had a good time he felt like he had lost a golden opportunity to have just that. Soon the friends were saying goodbye to each other and Moose was finally alone with Cam, the air between them felt a little tense.

It was weird to finally be here and not know what to say to her, part of him wanted to apologize again for what happened, but the other part of him wanted to enjoy just being with her like they used to do before. "Hey, Cam. I know you are free next week so I was wondering if you wanted to do something?"

"Sure. Maybe we can go and watch a movie or something like that." Cam smiled a little but continue to be quiet the rest of the way to her building. The moment they arrived, she said her goodbyes and went in without ever glancing back at him.

Moose stood there pondering what to do exactly, then he dialed Andie's number but the girl didn't answer, he decided to call Cam and asked her if she was still mad, but her phone went straight to voicemail. Standing in front of her apartment building he noticed her lights were off and decided to let it go, Cam was probably tired, and she was right about needing to rest for tomorrow. He would go looking for her after school so they could finally have some alone time. With a plan laid out, Moose went to his home and rested ready to have a good night sleep now that he was closer to adjust to the hours.

Cam saw him walked away from her building and release a sigh, the voice of Andie coming from her phone made her focus back on her call. "Is Moose gone?"

"Yeah. I thought he was going to tried to come in, but he just walked away a minute ago. Andie, what am I going to do?" Andie felt terrible for her friend; she knew Cam was in a tough position because Moose was trying to stay close to Cam no matter what they told him the day before. The fact that he walked away without trying to push the situation was weird, the only reason that came to Andie's mind to justify it was that Moose was probably exhausted.

The girls talk for a while before saying goodbye. Andie turned towards a sleepy Chase that smiled at her and asked her if Cam was ok. "She is nervous. Is weird for her to think that she had everything figure it out and then suddenly realized that her feelings are out of control. Before he entered her classroom, she was pleading with me not to leave her alone, and when he came in the sparks flew, I felt like I was intruding in a private moment between them. Now I don't know if he realized this but Cam was aware of it, and now she doesn't know how to act because she likes him a lot."

"For the sake of both of them I hope they figure it out soon, it's going to be fun going out on double dates. Just one thing, We are not playing any game against them, I swear they can read each other minds.". Andie laughed at Chase's comment and hoped that her friends could actually do that so that the both of them knew how much the other one wanted to move to the next step.

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