a/n- Thank you to EVERYONE who has been reviewing and especially to Jessi for checking out my proboards. THANK YOU A BUNCH! I would send you skittlez, but he's locked in my closet. (get it? skittlez/Skittlez? Jeff Hardy? Skittlez? Alright) This is in part of what happened to me the other day, so sorry if it's kinda stupid. I'm having a bit of block.
Disclaimer: I don't know if I technically own anyone in here, but I put in some parents. I scrambled lives, too, so it's kinda weird, but remember, it's just fiction. I got the idea from Airborne (kinda) and I don't own that either, just on tape. lol I have no clue what some of the parents really look like so I made it up and I do not know some of the parents names, so I made up some of them, too.
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Summer In Cameron
also, I added Chris Irvine as a North Carolinian, just to make the story a bit more interesting I also changed some age differences. So, CJ is 14, Matt is 14, Jeff is 15, Shane is 16, Matt is 17, Adam is 16, Jay is 15, and Shannon is 14
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Shane ran upstairs to get his coat and his keys. His father had hung them up back on the hanger cause he was fixing the radio in it that morning. He called to his mom that they were all going out for a little while, though he still wasn't sure what Shannon had planned. When he got back outside, he found that everyone had already taken seats in his Land Rover and Matt was seated firmly in the drivers seat. Shane slumped his shoulders and tossed Matt the keys through the window.
"Move it, Squirt." he said to Shannon, pointing his thumb to the back seat of the car and taking the passengers seat.
Shannon rolled his eyes and climbed next to Adam on the first bench, hastily clipping his seatbelt. "You guys never let me sit up front." he complained.
"Sorry, Shann, but you've gotta be at least THIS tall." Shane laughed, pointing to a spot just above his shoulder.
Shannon glared, "Fuck you, Shane."
"Gladly." Shane smirked.
Shannon rolled his eyes again and sulked back, crossing his arms across his chest. Adam and Jay glanced at each other, trying to hold back laughter. Shannon sure reminded them of one of their friends back home by the name of Kasey; he seemed to enjoy sulking. Adam leaned against the two front seats, "Can I seek the stations?"
"Yeah, sure." Matt replied, "Where're we going, Shann?"
"Turn left at the next light." Shannon replied, spirits still low.
Matt did as he was told, turning when Shannon said to, going straight or whatever as well. "Ohhhhh, I know where we are going." Shane stated as they rounded the last turn.
"Where?" Shannon challenged.
"That new movie theatre they just built. The one with the skate park across the street. I've been wanting to go." Shane added when Shannon nodded.
Shannon mumbled something to Jeff that caused him to laugh and Matt nearly miss the turn since Jeff had told Jay and Adam what Shannon had said and they laughed as well. "What're you laughing at?" Matt asked.
"Nothing!" Jay sputtered, through laughing.
"What?!" Matt asked again as he parked the car and turned around at them.
Shane looked at them, along with CJ, confused looks on their faces until they realized what was said. Absolutely nothing. Shannon whispered to Jeff to laugh hysterically to get Matt flustered. And Jeff in return told Jay and Adam to do as well. Matt's eyes widened as he realized the truth as well.
"Ha ha, guys, very funny." Matt replied, unlocking the doors.
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Adam woke up the next morning, rubbing his eyes with his fist and looking around. He realized that he and Adam were in the upstairs room in the bunk beds. He heard the bed above him creak, signalling that Jay was waking up.
"Jay? You up?"
"Yeah...oh, we're here. I forgot." Jay said, swinging his feet over the side of the bed and climbing down the ladder.
"Nice hair, little bro." Adam chuckled, shuffling out of the bed.
"Yours ain't much better." Jay mumbled, running his hand through his hair in a vain attempt to settle it.
Adam and Jay slowly walked into the kitchen of the Helms' house tiredly. Mrs. Helms was cooking on the stove and smiled at them as they walked in. "Morning boys, why don't you take a seat at the table and I'll get you some food."
The two brothers took seats at the table as Shane, Matt, Jeff, and Shannon came in through the outside door.
"Mom, CJ went home earlier this morning, but he wants us to meet him later so we can go out." Shane explained, sitting next to Jay, "Sleep well last night? We didn't hear a peep from you after we all got home last night."
"Jet lag I guess." Jay replied.
"D'you guys wanna come down to the lake with us today? We're going down around noon, cause that's when Marty gets back from karate class."
Adam looked at Jay and shrugged, "Yeah, I think that'd be fun."
"Cool." Shane replied, piling a forkful of eggs in his mouth almost as soon as his plate hit the table, "You might wanna wither bring an extra pair of clothes or something, just in case something happens to your other ones and they get wet. And I get you a towel, too. The lake ain't that far away, maybe half an hour."
Adam and Jay nodded in agreement, starting on their breakfasts as well. After breakfast, Adam and Jay went upstairs to get their extra clothes, while Shane and the others gathered up towels. Afterwards, they all went out to Shane's car.
"Alright, we've gotta stop at the gas staition first to get some food and drinks, then I have to run into Cody's to get the cooler and my paycheck, then we have to stop at the Hardy's so they can tell their day where they are going. By then it'll be eleven or so, we should get to the lake around eleven-fourty. Marty'll be up as soon as he could, but it shouldn't be too much later than when we get there." Shane explained, turning on the ignition and pulling onto the street.
A little more than an hour later, due to Shannon and Jeff arguing at the gas station, Shane pulled off of a dirt trail through the woods and parked in front of a large lake. Shannon and Jeff dashed out of the car quickly, draggin Jay along with them, knowing that Shane was going to tell them to help unpack the car. The water was clearer than any lake that Adam had ever seen and a huge oak tree next to it had a tethered rope tied to the biggest branch. There was also a picnic table where they set down all of their things.
Adam chuckled as he watched his younger brother in the middle of a water fight with Jeff and Shannon. Shane and Matt stripped off their shirts and lit up the camping grill next to the picnic table. Adam handed them the things that they needed, every once in a while looking back to the lake when one of the others shreiked.
"You can go out there with them if you want; you don't need to stay here and help us out." Shane said, noticing Adam glance at the lake again.
"No, it's fine, I'll get in later." Adam said, handing Shane the lighter fluid.
A half an hour later, Matt had joined his brother and friends in the water and Marty had shown up just in time to save Shane from blowing himself up with lighter fluid. Adam had also resulted in joining everyone in the water and, thus, getting pelted in the face with a clump of seaweed by his little brother. Shane called that lunch was done, causing a stampede of everyone from the water running to the picnic table where the condiments were placed.
Sooner than not, everything was seemingly gone except for the napkins and the condiment containers. Marty threw everything away before dragging Shane along with him to the water. After about two or three more hours of swantons out of the tree and belly flops, everyone was drug out of the water and back into the cars; this time, Matt going with Marty since he had to help him with something.
Shannon shivered in his towel as he sat in the back seat with Jay and Jeff. "I think I'm getting hypothermica." he stated.
"Hyprothermia, Shann." Shane corrected, "And no you're not."
"How do YOU know?" Shannon challenged, curling his towel closer to himself.
"You just aren't, okay? It's not even cold outside."
"I'm wet from swimming and there's wind! We're all gonna get sick if y'don't close up all the windows."
"It's too hot to close the windows, Shann. If I close the windows, I'll turn on the air conditioner, then you really will get sick!"
Adam laughed, sticking his hand out of the window and resting it on the sideveiw mirror as they drove back up to Shane's house.
"Shane, would you pull over if I was car sick?" Shannon asked five minutes later.
"Why? Are you gonna throw up?"
"No, I was just wondering." Shannon replied, he, Jeff, and Jay laughing to themselves.
"Crazy assholes." Shane muttered to himself, causing Adam to laugh.
"Shane, turn on the radio!" Jeff called.
Shane reached to the radio and turned it on. Some weird song none of them had heard before was on, so Adam flipped through the stations, nearly forgetting that the stations were different in North Carolina than in Canada.
"Stop!" Jeff shrieked suddenly, causing Shane to stomp on the brakes.
Everyone in the car flew forwards, nearly hitting whatever was in front of them. Jeff, Shannon, and Jay started to laugh as Shane turned quickly in his seat to the back.
"What's wrong?" Shane asked, worriedly.
"I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to Adam. I liked that song." Jeff replied through laughter.
Shane rolled his eyes and shook his head, starting the car back up.
"I can't believe you just did that. We could have started a car wreck. Four car pile up or something!" Adam laughed, turning up the radio a little bit for Jeff, who started to sing along to it with Shannon and Jay.
Shane pulled into his driveway and parked it, Jeff, Shannon, and Jay immediately getting out and dashing to the basement.
"Looks like they're getting along really well." Adam said, walking with Shane into the house.
"Yeah. Which could either be a good or bad thing." Shane replied, tossing Adam a soda, "I think that Shannon and Jeff wanted to go to a movie tonight, but I'm not sure. You wanna go if we do?"
"Yeah, that sounds fun."
Adam and Shane plopped on the couch in the living room.
"I don't mean to prod or anything, but does Shannon live here with you?" Adam asked tentively.
"Oh, yeah, I should have explained that to you yesterday. Shannon stays with us A LOT, but he doesn't technically live with us. His parents got divorced when he was six and Shann decided to live with his dad, his brothers are living with his mom. Shann doesn't talk to his mom, they never really were on the same page for some reason. Well, two years ago, Shannon's dad got remarried to this woman named Amanda. He doesn't really get along too well with her either, seeing that she's not too happy that Gil, Shannon's dad, has Shannon living with them.
Anyway, last year, Gil got in a car wreck which paralyzed him from the arms down. Amanda spends ALL of her time at the hospital with Gil since they are going to be able to let Gil out in about four months to live at home. When Amanda isn't home, she's normally out with her friends or working, which leaves Shannon alone and he hates that. So he comes here or he goes to the Hardy's or somewhere. He'll probably get home a lot more after his dad comes home." Shane explained.
"He never goes home?" Adam asked, a bit shocked.
"He does sometimes, his oldest brother goes over once every two or so weeks, normally on a Thursday after he gets out of school and he hangs out with him. Sometimes Amanda stays at home and Shann'll stay with her, or go visit his dad or something."
"That's a -- I don't really know what to say." Adam admitted.
"You don't have to say anything. It's not your deal." Shane said, tossing the remote from hand to hand, "Hey, I'm gonna go take a shower, there's another shower downstairs if you wanna go take one, too."
Adam nodded and grabbed some clothes, heading downstairs.
Disclaimer: I don't know if I technically own anyone in here, but I put in some parents. I scrambled lives, too, so it's kinda weird, but remember, it's just fiction. I got the idea from Airborne (kinda) and I don't own that either, just on tape. lol I have no clue what some of the parents really look like so I made it up and I do not know some of the parents names, so I made up some of them, too.
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Summer In Cameron
also, I added Chris Irvine as a North Carolinian, just to make the story a bit more interesting I also changed some age differences. So, CJ is 14, Matt is 14, Jeff is 15, Shane is 16, Matt is 17, Adam is 16, Jay is 15, and Shannon is 14
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Shane ran upstairs to get his coat and his keys. His father had hung them up back on the hanger cause he was fixing the radio in it that morning. He called to his mom that they were all going out for a little while, though he still wasn't sure what Shannon had planned. When he got back outside, he found that everyone had already taken seats in his Land Rover and Matt was seated firmly in the drivers seat. Shane slumped his shoulders and tossed Matt the keys through the window.
"Move it, Squirt." he said to Shannon, pointing his thumb to the back seat of the car and taking the passengers seat.
Shannon rolled his eyes and climbed next to Adam on the first bench, hastily clipping his seatbelt. "You guys never let me sit up front." he complained.
"Sorry, Shann, but you've gotta be at least THIS tall." Shane laughed, pointing to a spot just above his shoulder.
Shannon glared, "Fuck you, Shane."
"Gladly." Shane smirked.
Shannon rolled his eyes again and sulked back, crossing his arms across his chest. Adam and Jay glanced at each other, trying to hold back laughter. Shannon sure reminded them of one of their friends back home by the name of Kasey; he seemed to enjoy sulking. Adam leaned against the two front seats, "Can I seek the stations?"
"Yeah, sure." Matt replied, "Where're we going, Shann?"
"Turn left at the next light." Shannon replied, spirits still low.
Matt did as he was told, turning when Shannon said to, going straight or whatever as well. "Ohhhhh, I know where we are going." Shane stated as they rounded the last turn.
"Where?" Shannon challenged.
"That new movie theatre they just built. The one with the skate park across the street. I've been wanting to go." Shane added when Shannon nodded.
Shannon mumbled something to Jeff that caused him to laugh and Matt nearly miss the turn since Jeff had told Jay and Adam what Shannon had said and they laughed as well. "What're you laughing at?" Matt asked.
"Nothing!" Jay sputtered, through laughing.
"What?!" Matt asked again as he parked the car and turned around at them.
Shane looked at them, along with CJ, confused looks on their faces until they realized what was said. Absolutely nothing. Shannon whispered to Jeff to laugh hysterically to get Matt flustered. And Jeff in return told Jay and Adam to do as well. Matt's eyes widened as he realized the truth as well.
"Ha ha, guys, very funny." Matt replied, unlocking the doors.
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Adam woke up the next morning, rubbing his eyes with his fist and looking around. He realized that he and Adam were in the upstairs room in the bunk beds. He heard the bed above him creak, signalling that Jay was waking up.
"Jay? You up?"
"Yeah...oh, we're here. I forgot." Jay said, swinging his feet over the side of the bed and climbing down the ladder.
"Nice hair, little bro." Adam chuckled, shuffling out of the bed.
"Yours ain't much better." Jay mumbled, running his hand through his hair in a vain attempt to settle it.
Adam and Jay slowly walked into the kitchen of the Helms' house tiredly. Mrs. Helms was cooking on the stove and smiled at them as they walked in. "Morning boys, why don't you take a seat at the table and I'll get you some food."
The two brothers took seats at the table as Shane, Matt, Jeff, and Shannon came in through the outside door.
"Mom, CJ went home earlier this morning, but he wants us to meet him later so we can go out." Shane explained, sitting next to Jay, "Sleep well last night? We didn't hear a peep from you after we all got home last night."
"Jet lag I guess." Jay replied.
"D'you guys wanna come down to the lake with us today? We're going down around noon, cause that's when Marty gets back from karate class."
Adam looked at Jay and shrugged, "Yeah, I think that'd be fun."
"Cool." Shane replied, piling a forkful of eggs in his mouth almost as soon as his plate hit the table, "You might wanna wither bring an extra pair of clothes or something, just in case something happens to your other ones and they get wet. And I get you a towel, too. The lake ain't that far away, maybe half an hour."
Adam and Jay nodded in agreement, starting on their breakfasts as well. After breakfast, Adam and Jay went upstairs to get their extra clothes, while Shane and the others gathered up towels. Afterwards, they all went out to Shane's car.
"Alright, we've gotta stop at the gas staition first to get some food and drinks, then I have to run into Cody's to get the cooler and my paycheck, then we have to stop at the Hardy's so they can tell their day where they are going. By then it'll be eleven or so, we should get to the lake around eleven-fourty. Marty'll be up as soon as he could, but it shouldn't be too much later than when we get there." Shane explained, turning on the ignition and pulling onto the street.
A little more than an hour later, due to Shannon and Jeff arguing at the gas station, Shane pulled off of a dirt trail through the woods and parked in front of a large lake. Shannon and Jeff dashed out of the car quickly, draggin Jay along with them, knowing that Shane was going to tell them to help unpack the car. The water was clearer than any lake that Adam had ever seen and a huge oak tree next to it had a tethered rope tied to the biggest branch. There was also a picnic table where they set down all of their things.
Adam chuckled as he watched his younger brother in the middle of a water fight with Jeff and Shannon. Shane and Matt stripped off their shirts and lit up the camping grill next to the picnic table. Adam handed them the things that they needed, every once in a while looking back to the lake when one of the others shreiked.
"You can go out there with them if you want; you don't need to stay here and help us out." Shane said, noticing Adam glance at the lake again.
"No, it's fine, I'll get in later." Adam said, handing Shane the lighter fluid.
A half an hour later, Matt had joined his brother and friends in the water and Marty had shown up just in time to save Shane from blowing himself up with lighter fluid. Adam had also resulted in joining everyone in the water and, thus, getting pelted in the face with a clump of seaweed by his little brother. Shane called that lunch was done, causing a stampede of everyone from the water running to the picnic table where the condiments were placed.
Sooner than not, everything was seemingly gone except for the napkins and the condiment containers. Marty threw everything away before dragging Shane along with him to the water. After about two or three more hours of swantons out of the tree and belly flops, everyone was drug out of the water and back into the cars; this time, Matt going with Marty since he had to help him with something.
Shannon shivered in his towel as he sat in the back seat with Jay and Jeff. "I think I'm getting hypothermica." he stated.
"Hyprothermia, Shann." Shane corrected, "And no you're not."
"How do YOU know?" Shannon challenged, curling his towel closer to himself.
"You just aren't, okay? It's not even cold outside."
"I'm wet from swimming and there's wind! We're all gonna get sick if y'don't close up all the windows."
"It's too hot to close the windows, Shann. If I close the windows, I'll turn on the air conditioner, then you really will get sick!"
Adam laughed, sticking his hand out of the window and resting it on the sideveiw mirror as they drove back up to Shane's house.
"Shane, would you pull over if I was car sick?" Shannon asked five minutes later.
"Why? Are you gonna throw up?"
"No, I was just wondering." Shannon replied, he, Jeff, and Jay laughing to themselves.
"Crazy assholes." Shane muttered to himself, causing Adam to laugh.
"Shane, turn on the radio!" Jeff called.
Shane reached to the radio and turned it on. Some weird song none of them had heard before was on, so Adam flipped through the stations, nearly forgetting that the stations were different in North Carolina than in Canada.
"Stop!" Jeff shrieked suddenly, causing Shane to stomp on the brakes.
Everyone in the car flew forwards, nearly hitting whatever was in front of them. Jeff, Shannon, and Jay started to laugh as Shane turned quickly in his seat to the back.
"What's wrong?" Shane asked, worriedly.
"I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to Adam. I liked that song." Jeff replied through laughter.
Shane rolled his eyes and shook his head, starting the car back up.
"I can't believe you just did that. We could have started a car wreck. Four car pile up or something!" Adam laughed, turning up the radio a little bit for Jeff, who started to sing along to it with Shannon and Jay.
Shane pulled into his driveway and parked it, Jeff, Shannon, and Jay immediately getting out and dashing to the basement.
"Looks like they're getting along really well." Adam said, walking with Shane into the house.
"Yeah. Which could either be a good or bad thing." Shane replied, tossing Adam a soda, "I think that Shannon and Jeff wanted to go to a movie tonight, but I'm not sure. You wanna go if we do?"
"Yeah, that sounds fun."
Adam and Shane plopped on the couch in the living room.
"I don't mean to prod or anything, but does Shannon live here with you?" Adam asked tentively.
"Oh, yeah, I should have explained that to you yesterday. Shannon stays with us A LOT, but he doesn't technically live with us. His parents got divorced when he was six and Shann decided to live with his dad, his brothers are living with his mom. Shann doesn't talk to his mom, they never really were on the same page for some reason. Well, two years ago, Shannon's dad got remarried to this woman named Amanda. He doesn't really get along too well with her either, seeing that she's not too happy that Gil, Shannon's dad, has Shannon living with them.
Anyway, last year, Gil got in a car wreck which paralyzed him from the arms down. Amanda spends ALL of her time at the hospital with Gil since they are going to be able to let Gil out in about four months to live at home. When Amanda isn't home, she's normally out with her friends or working, which leaves Shannon alone and he hates that. So he comes here or he goes to the Hardy's or somewhere. He'll probably get home a lot more after his dad comes home." Shane explained.
"He never goes home?" Adam asked, a bit shocked.
"He does sometimes, his oldest brother goes over once every two or so weeks, normally on a Thursday after he gets out of school and he hangs out with him. Sometimes Amanda stays at home and Shann'll stay with her, or go visit his dad or something."
"That's a -- I don't really know what to say." Adam admitted.
"You don't have to say anything. It's not your deal." Shane said, tossing the remote from hand to hand, "Hey, I'm gonna go take a shower, there's another shower downstairs if you wanna go take one, too."
Adam nodded and grabbed some clothes, heading downstairs.