Chapter 10

Both Riley and Dougie were silent for a while. "We can go back if you want," Dougie said, "I'm sorry you probably had such a lousy time."

"No I didn't I swear," Riley said. And she meant it. "And I don't want to go."

"Can I ask you a question?" Dougie said looking at Riley with his big blue eyes. His blonde hair was falling in his face and his eyes were filled with innocence like those of a child's.

"Go ahead," Riley said.

"Did you just agree to this 'cause you felt bad for me?" he asked quietly, "Did you just come here because you felt like you had to?"

Riley felt terrible that he thought that. She shouldn't have said those thing she said to him the other night because the truth was with every word she said she fell even more in love with him. But she couldn't tell him that, could she? She sighed and grabbed his hand and the both walked over and sat on one of the wooden framed beds that were in the cabin, "God, no Dougie. I came here because..."

Because truthfully I'm in love with you? she thought to herself, Just say it

"To be honest I don't know why I agreed to it at first. But now that I'm here and seeing all this you've done for me it makes me realize that just because you're a lot younger than me doesn't mean that should keep me from liking you. This was the sweetest thing anyone has ever done for me." she told him. His blue eyes lit up, "Really?"

"Yeah," she nodded, "It's cute and if I had to be stuck in the middle of nowhere with anyone I'm glad it's with you."

Dougie stared into her eyes, his heart pounding out of his chest. He tried to remember everything Danny had told him but his mind went fuzzy and soon everything around seemed blurry. He leaned in and closed his eyes until his lips touched Riley's. He got butterflies in his stomach and was glad they were sitting down because if they weren't he would have fallen to the ground. Riley smiled through the kiss and the second his lips touched hers she knew she was in too deep. She knew she had fallen in love with him and there was no going back.

Dougie finally pulled away, his heart slowing down a bit. He took a deep breath and smiled, "I'm sorry. I've been waiting so long to do that."

"Don't be sorry," she smiled making him blush all over again.

"How do you think everything's going?" Lauren asked Danny as he and Tom were throwing more wood on the fire trying to make if bigger before it got too dark. Danny shrugged, "I dunno. I hope it's going alright, for Doug's sake."

"Me too," Lauren nodded, "I wish we knew what was going on."

Danny smiled at Lauren but neither of them said a word. They knew they were thinking the exact same thing and they started running.

"Where are you going?" Harry shouted after them.

"Don't worry about it!" Danny shouted back still running. Harry sighed and sat down on a small log they had made into a seat. He watched Danny and Lauren get smaller and smaller as they were running through the woods.

"Where do you think they are?" Lauren asked quietly.

"I don't know," Danny whispered and the two of them stood quietly in between both cabins until they heard laughing coming from one, "Over here," Danny motioned and the two of them stood on their tip-toes looking through the window. They could barely see anything because the blinds were shut. They heard laughter again and they looked at each other.

"What do you think is going on in there?" Danny asked. Lauren shrugged and they headed towards the door. "What are the saying?" Lauren asked. She had her face to the window trying to see what was going on while Danny had his ear pressed against the door.

"Something about having a lousy time..." Danny said quietly. He hoped he had heard wrong. He wanted so bad for Dougie to get the girl for once and if this plan didn't work he wasn't sure what else he could do.

"What?" Lauren asked.

"Shh..."

The two of them stood silently for a minute. "Now what are they saying?"

"Something about being cute..." Danny said again.

"What?"

"Shh..." They both stood quietly again until Lauren put her hands over her mouth to keep from screaming.

"What? What?" Danny asked looking through the window.

"He's gonna kiss her," Lauren said happily and soon they both had their faces pressed against the window watching their two best friends kissing. Danny smiled and gave Lauren a high five but the next thing they knew the door flew open and they both fell to the ground. Dougie and Riley looked up.

"What the hell?" Dougie asked standing up. Danny propped himself up on his elbows and smiled, "Hiya!"

"What are you doing here?" Riley asked them.

"Oh we were just..." Lauren looked at Danny desperately pleading for backup. Danny blurted out the first thing he could think of, "Coming to use the shower."

"Together..." Dougie looked at them doubtfully and Riley cracked up. "I mean, if you guys are into that kind of stuff go right ahead no one's stopping you..."

Lauren hit Danny in the back of the head. "Ow. Sorry," he shrugged.

"Well, we're going for a walk," Riley said grabbing Dougie's hand that was wrapped in the black cast, "The shower is all yours" The two of them laughed leaving Danny and Lauren speechless, still lying on the wooden floor.