Chapter 25:
Cammie POV:
A single tear slid down my cheek and landed on my lap and I silently chastised myself for letting myself be so weak. He was just a guy, I would be better off without him. I sat up straighter and my roommates eyes lit up a little,
"You okay?" Liz asked, standing up from het stoop on the bed opposite of mine,
"Yeah, I'm over it." I said standing up, "Bex let's hit the barn."
She hopped up, eager to get out of the room, even at the late hour. For once, Macey didn't yell at us that we needed to look more presentable for the barn. She just let us walk out, and it was as much as a disappointment as it was a relief.
Bex smiled somewhat sadly at me and I wondered why they were treating me like I was so fragile.
"I really am fine." I said randomly, without looking back at her,
"Cam, we've never really seen you, upset." She said but stopped, "Well, we've never seen you upset like that." She corrected herself, "You just seem, numb. I mean you didn't even have the courage to go talk to him."
She was right, we had spent the rest of the mission going back and forth, my friends prodding me to talk to him, and every time I got close, I chickened out. I was a Gallagher Girl, we aren't afraid of anything. Or that's what we told ourselves.
On the bright side, Macey, Bex, Riley, Josh, Zach, Liam, Jason, Grant, Nick, Leah, Terra, and I were the only ones that didn't get disqualified, which left less than half of the senior Cove Ops class in the running for the mission.
I finally brought myself out of the daydream that I had been caught in and said,
"Well, it's done. You should know better than anyone that beating the crap out of something makes everything go-away." And it was true, when you really get going in an intense fight, the problems go away, everything fades into a blur of colors as you whirl and kick, but unfortunately, you can't fight forever. You always have to stop at one point or another.
"True," Bex said chuckling under her breath, "I'll have to say, I prefer this to the stereotypical eat ice-cream, do manicures, and watch sappy movies kind of therapy that they say normal girls do."
"Me too," I said before breaking into a sprint towards the P&E barn, "Last one there is the guy who Gilligan killed with a toothpick and a can of olive oil!" So what if it was childish? We were having fun!
"No fair!" She yelled as she raced after me, but I was already too far ahead. I ran through the doors to the barn and threw my arms wide, panting slightly.
"I win!" I taunted while sticking out my tongue,
"You cheated!" Bex whined as she ran through the doors, and that's when I heard someone laugh quietly behind me,
"Riley!" I shrieked, startled to see him there especially this late, "What are you doing here?"
"I could ask you the same." He said grinning,
"You could," I started,
"But you wouldn't tell me, so why try?" he finished.
"Well, we gonna work out or what?" Bex asked, already eying up the heavy punching bag in the corner,
"Go on Bex, I'll spar with Cammie." Riley said and Bex rushed across the gym without a moment of hesitation.
Riley led the way to the mats we used for sparring, before swiftly turning and swinging his arm out towards me. I caught it easily, and had it twisted behind his back in a matter of seconds.
"Man, I underestimated you Gallagher Girl," when I heard the nickname I dropped his arm, and backed away to the edge of the mat. The name brought with it a wave of emotions, anger, betrayal, hurt and I was eager to get back to sparring, to put everything behind me.
Riley rolled to his feet, pacing the mat in front of me, looking for a flaw in my defenses, too bad he wouldn't find any. Or so I thought, suddenly he tackled me to the ground, and did something I had never encountered, in a fight. Ever.
He started tickling me. I started laughing uncontrollably, trying my best to wiggle out of his grasp. Finally, I broke free and rolled quickly so I was on top with him pinned to the ground.
"That wasn't fair!" I wined, and he laughed, using the opportunity to roll so I was back on the bottom, but he didn't keep me pinned there he just stood up and helped me back up to my feet.
We continued on like that sparring, and randomly Riley would come out of nowhere and tickle me. That was when Liam walked in, at the sight of Riley and I caught up in the half sparring half tickle war he laughed, really loud.
Bex jumped turning to face him, and breathed a sigh of relief that it wasn't any threat. But then the punching bag swung back and hit her, hard. So hard that she tumbled to the ground, laughing along with the rest of us. When we finally settled down a little Liam turned to Riley,
"They told me to come get you, you always lose track of time when you're at the gym. Though I can see why now." He said, snickering under his breath.
I checked my mental clock, it was eleven twenty four, and I groaned,
"What's wrong?" Riley asked,
"It's late, there's no way Macey's gonna get me out of bed tomorrow!" I said, finally noticing how tired I was, and I almost groaned again over the fact that Macey was going to make me retell every second of the night, and then go over it sort of like a play-by-play.
"Well, sorry boys but we gotta go!" Bex said grabbing my wrist and dragging me out of the barn and into the night, were we moved silently until we finally opened the door and collapsed onto the floor, in a fit of giggles.
A light flickered on and Macey was there, one eyebrow raised,
"Start spilling."
Hehe, I know half of you probably hate me right now because of this chapter, but the whole Riley/Cammie thing had to happen, especially for everything else that I have planned to happen! :)
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I plan on doing the next chapter in Zach's POV so you can see what he's been doing the whole time... any guesses?
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