Chapter 17

Troy's p.o.v

It gets dark pretty quickly and the cabin feels up with snores. I sit up and wait. Ryan's form soon sits up on his bed. I don't waste any time. I quickly get off of my bed and crawl into his. He scoots close to me. He's sleepy. I wrap my arm around him as he lays his head on my chest. I kiss his forehead. After about ten minutes he's asleep. I'm about to go to sleep when I hear the door open. I can't see who comes in. It's a girl, she starts walking my way, the closer she gets the more I see. It's Nicole! What is she doing in here? She walks past me; she doesn't even look my way. She's focusing on what ever it is she's walking to. I see what she's looking at. Mark's bed. I can see Mark sit up. What the fuck is going on? Nicole motions for Mark to come to her. He gets, grabs some pants and follows her. He doesn't look my way either. I wait until their gone until I wake Ryan up.

"Ry wake up" I whisper.

He stirs a little but then goes back to sleep. I shake him harder. He slowly opens his eyes.

"What?" he whispers in an agitated voice.

"The weirdest thing just happened" I say

His eyes widen

"Did I say someone's name in my dream? Because. It was just a dream and I can't control who's in them" he says quickly

"What? No" I say "wait, who you were dreaming about?"

"Um….you?" he says, obviously lying "anyways what happened?"

Oh right

"Nicole just came in here and got Mark…they just left" I say

He sits up

"What?" he ask

"Yeah they literally just left" I say, looking at the clock….1:42

"That's weird" he says "oh well"

He leans on my chest and closes his eyes. What? He doesn't care? Not at all? I shake him again.

"What?" he says with out opening his eyes

"You don't wanna see what their doing?" I ask

"No" he says

"Not at all? What if their doing something like, you know...bad" I say

"Knowing Mark, their probably making out in the woods" he says

"I'm serious" I say

"Me too, Mark's a whore" he says

I know what will get him up.

"Okay, but just remember how you said, he would do anything to get back at you" I say

Ryan sits up and stretches. He slowly crawls over me, I wanna grab him and pull him back down, but I don't

"Ten minutes, Troy" he says "if we don't find anything in ten minutes, we're coming back and you're sleeping in your own bed"

Harsh. I get up and together we sneak out side. The air is strangely warm. The sound of crickets fills the air. We look around to see if there's any sign of them. That's when it happens. At first, all I smell is smoke and then Ryan yells.

"OH MY GOD!" he screams

I turn to see what he's looking at…our studio…on fire.

Ryan's p.o.v

I can't stop running, not until we get there. Not until I see it for myself. Troy's right behind me, both of us filled with the same fear, the same prayer that this is all a bad dream. The closer I get, the more the heat hits us and the more I fell like giving up and falling down. Once we get close enough we both stop and stare, breathing hard. We don't talk. We just look staring in amazement and despair. Troy shakes his head.

"How could this happen?" he asks

"Mark, wouldn't do this…would he?" I ask

For once, I'm confused about the one person that I thought I had figured out. This is too much. Mark has gone way too far. I hear screams and yells of amusement in the background. Crap.

"Troy we should go." I say

Troy takes a minute but nods. We begin our run back to the cabin. Once we get there we don't have to open the door. It's already open and the lights are on. We slowly walk in. Everyone's awake and Mark is back in his pajamas. Everyone's looking at us and shaking their heads. Fuck, fuck, FUCK! Richard, the old counselor walks up to us.

"Where have you been" he ask

Just be honest

"At the studio" I say. FUCK! I said honest, not stupid "I meant we were at the studio looking for someone, not setting it on fire or anything" I add, just keeping digging yourself deeper and deeper, Ryan.

Richard shakes his head.

"Ryan, I would never accept this from you" he says

Troy steps up

"We didn't do anything; we found the studio on fire. It was like that before we got there" he says

"Oh, and I'm going to believe you, the starter of the fight a couple of nights ago" he says

Troy drops his head. He has a point. As horrible as Nicole and Mark are, their squeaky clean.

"I'm sorry boys but until I see otherwise, you two have to leave" he says

"WHAT!" I yell "but it wasn't us! It was Mark and that bitch Nicole!"

Richard looks shocked. He starts turning red.

"Ryan! Not only do you need to watch your mouth, but you also should be ashamed of your self for blaming that innocent young man! He was here the entire time, while you two were mysteriously gone!" He says

I open my mouth to say something, but I realize that I don't have a case. Looks like camp is cut short.

"So boys, sleep tonight, but tomorrow you two are out of here" he says, trying to sound tough.

Troy walks to his bed sits down; I follow him and sit down next to him. The entire room's still looking at us. Troy's staring at the ground

"Man" he says "my dad's gonna be so pissed"

He laughs and gets up. He walks to his dresser and begins unpacking his clothes.

"What are you doing?" I ask

"I drove here, so I can drive outta here. We're leaving now, get your stuff ready" he says

I don't have to think twice, I start packing and the whole time I'm smiling. Because I can see Mark out of the corner of my eye. He wanted more. He wanted a fight, he wanted a screaming match. But all he's gonna get is us leaving. Me and Troy walking out of this place together.

After some serious arguing with my mom over the phone, I finally get in the car with Troy. He starts up the car. A part of me wants to go back and beat the hell out of Nicole. But I don't worry, one day she's gonna get hers. Another part of me wants to go back and hit Mark, but a bigger part of me is happy to be sitting next to Troy, his hand in mine, driving to our home. I don't think about the problems we're going to have or the people we'll have to fight I just think about the wind blowing through my hair and the felling of being free if only for a while. But with Troy it fells like forever, I love him and I know he loves me back. And that feeling is unexplainable, so why try.

THE END!

So did you like it? Are you mad that nothing happened to Mark or Nicole? Don't worry about it. So I really hoped you liked it. I just thought it was time for it to end. But don't sweat; I've decided to do a sequel that takes place right after this one.

Luv ya

And look for the sequel; I'm starting it right now!