"No, no, noooo, absolutely not I follow, I don't lead" I shook my head and took a big step back. Unfortunately Huckleberry decided to stand right behind me so I bumped into him. I would've fallen over if he hadn't placed his hands on my waist to steady me. My entire body tingled at his touch. God I hated how much I enjoyed having his hands on me.
Yeah that sounds wrong, I know.
He really wasn't making it easy for me to get over him. I let out a shaky breath and took a steap forward. "Thanks" I mumbled.
"What are you waiting for Maya?" Mr Mathews asked with a stupid grin. "Oh stop smiling" I snapped walking to the front.
"Okay, just to make this interesting, I put your names in two hats. Boys and girls. So Maya, you can pick from the boys first" Matt held out one of the hats and I reluctantly picked from it.
"Charlie".
Charlie flippin Gardener. He kind of annoyed me for some reason.
"Yogi"
If Darby isn't on out team this might be kinda fun.
"Zay" I groaned playfully.
He laughed and punched me in the arm, "You love me Hart, don't play games".
I smiled and nodded, Zay and Yogi would be hillarious.
"Liam"
Liam was another boy in our class, I barley talked to him but he was friends with Charlie so I didn't really want to talk yo him anyway.
So far no Lucas. I should've been happy about this. I SHOULD'VE, but I WASN'T.
I stuck my hand into the hat and pulled out the last name, for everyone's sake I really hoped this wasn't Lucas. Everyone's sake except mine that is, I was praying it was him in the back of my mind.
I unfolded it and almost smiled when I read the name, ALMOST.
"Lucas".
I looked at Riley and I couldn't really tell what she was thinking. Was she upset or not?
"Okay, and for the girls" Matt held out another hat and I picked out four pieces of paper in one go. The suspense was killing me.
"Alana, Heather, Sarah and Jade..." that was it. I wasn't allowed anymore because I made the fifth girl. I was on a team with Lucas and without Riley. NO! No, no, no, no! Stop being happy Maya!
"Alright, and the captin for team two is Farkle!" Mr Mathews exclaimed with a grin. Everyone else knew the situation, everyone else knew now wasn't a time to be all happy! Even Matt sensed that something wasn't right. But Mr freaking Mathews decided acting like this wasn't a problem was the way to go.
"You better watch your back Mathews" I warned glaring at him.
Mr Mathews stopped grinning and took a step back. Farkle came up and started chosing names, he got Darby, Smackle, Yindra, Missy and Riley. At least Riley had Farkle with her. For the boys he got Dave, Sam, Alex and Jake.
The next team leaders were girl and boy, Willa and Brian. God I hated Willa, Brian was cute but annoying.
"Okay, so now that all your teams are chosen. It's time for your first challenge!" Matt exclaimed. We all groaned in unison. Matt laughed, "I know you're tired but this is the only way you'll be able to get some sleep. Make your tents, The five girls In the team share a tent and the boys in the team share a tent. Girls you're on the left, boys on the right!".
"It's way too late! What about dinner!" Riley whined resting her head on Lucas' shoulder. She wasn't usually the type to complain so that surprised me.
"Dinner's ready, burgers and salad actually, so the quicker you get your tents done the quickler you get dinner" Matt shrugged. "I like you" Mr Mathews grinned at Matt.
"It's all in the experience" Matt laughed.
"We're from New York City! How the hell are we supposed to know how to put up a tent. In the middle of the night too!" I exclaimed. I was pissed off all of a sudden, more pissed than I should've been.
"We can do this Maya" Farkle smiled patting my arm.
"Yeah, and when we go back we can tell everyone that we put up tents in the middle of the night" Riley added hugging Lucas' arm.
She was cold obviously, she wasn't doing it on purpose, and even if she was I should've been happy about it. WHERE DID THESE FEELINGS COME FROM?
"True" I mumbled then I stormed off to the left side. "Where are you going?!" Matt called.
"To put up my tent!" I yelled not bothering to turn around. No one said anything so I just continued on.
A couple of hours had past and everyone was done. Everyone except our group. No one knew what they were doing, we broke one of our pegs at one point too. The other girls had given up and were sitting around talking about the boys.
I went to look for Riley so she could help. The boys were outside her tent and she and Lucas were cuddling.
I cared, too much.
Why did I care this much, it was just a hug.
Yeah, a hug with the girl he obviously likes. That girl isn't you by the way Maya.
Shut up!
"Hey Maya" Riley smiled letting go of Lucas. God she was such a sweet heart, that innocent smile was not one that I could take from. No matter how much I wanted Lucas, I couldn't show it. Things had to go back to normal. No more getting upset when I saw them together, no more wondering what things would've been like if I hadn't pushed Riley onto Lucas' lap, no more wishing I was more like Riley so he'd like me.
"Uh hey" I smiled, "I need help with my tent pleassee".
"Your tent still isn't up?" Missy snickered.
"Your grades still aren't up?" I mimicked with a high pitched whiney voice.
"Maya" Riley warned. "Look she's annoying, why'd you even come Missy, aren't you scared you're eyebrows are gonna fall off?" I snapped.
"Maya just calm down" Lucas said stepping closer to me. "Don't tell me what to do" I snapped, I thought I would easily be able to talk to Riley and Lucas but apparently not. Everytime I talked to thw both of them together I got angry. Not at them, but at myself. I lashed out and people got hurt. I had to leave.
"Look forget it, I can deal with the tent myself" I mumbled turning around to walk away.
"Are you sure?" Riley asked. "Yes" I huffed walking away. "Maya!" Riley called, "I said I'm sure Riley! Get it through your thick skull!" I yelled turning around to glare at her.
oh my god.
I never ever talked to Riley like that, even when we faught which was basically never. The worst part though was that she hadn't done anything wrong.
Riley's face went from concerned to hurt and Lucas looked kind of pissed.
"Can we just leave it at that?" I said quietly before rushing off to the small woods by my tent.
What the hell was I becoming? I felt like crying so bad but the girls from my group were all staring at me. Heck, the entire camp was watching me. I hadn't even been that loud, it was just the fact that I'd yelled at Riley and said what I did, no one could fail to notice such a thing because it NEVER happened.
I ran as far as I could into the woods, I didn't care if I got lost or not. I just needed to get away.
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