Suddenly a wind blew past the three of us, carrying the horrible smell from last night with it. I almost gagged at the smell as it seems closer. "That's disgusting." I grunt out covering my nose from the smell. "O, my god, there's that smell again." Paige comments, also covering her nose. Carly starts looking in a direction "I think it's coming from over there."
She starts walking in the direction that it's supposed to be coming from and we follow after Paige sarcastically says "Yeah, let's go follow the smell." Carly looks over her shoulder at us "What? I wanna see what it is." She complained. "Why?" Paige and I asked her as if she were stupid.
Carly ignores us "Come on." She demands. We look at each other before going after.
After a while of walking with Carly up ahead, I decide to jog up to her "Come on, Carly, nothing's out here." I whine. "Just come on." She demands grabbing my hand. "I cannot believe you're making me do this. Only you." Paige claims. Carly sighs heavily "Come on, it'll be fine." The smell is now at its strongest and Paige definitely notices "I'm gonna throw up. Oh, my god. I hate you."
Suddenly, there's a drop and Carly slides down it, taking me with her. We scream as we hit a huge pile of bloody, dead, animals. With only my shoe in it, I grab a branch from a bush and pull myself out hearing Paige yell our names "I'm stuck! Wade! Please help me get out of here!" Carly yells. I grab her ankle and pull her up "its okay Carly I've got you." I suddenly hear the boys yell for us causing me to let Carly slip out of my hands.
But just in time Wade came "I'm here, hold on! Hold on Baby." Carly tries to see Wade over her shoulder "Wade, where are you?"
Two arms then wrap around my waist and turn me around, to find a concerned face of Nick. I cry into his shirt as he holds me in his arms "its ok, I've got you." He scoops me up in his arms and walks back up the hill and to the others.
"There's a road-kill pit down here." Dalton said. I cringe "Yeah, that smells about right." Nick said. Blake goes over to Paige "Baby, you okay?"
Wade finally gets Carly out of the pit and up with us when a rusted truck pulls up near the pit. "Hey, is that the truck from last night?" Blake asked. "Not unless he fixed his headlight." Wade commented. The man steps out of the truck and pulls open the truck. He then pulls out a deer and aimlessly throws it. By this time Nick had me back on the ground, but now I was hiding in his shirt.
Suddenly Carly yelled to the man "Don't you see that?" I peered out from Nick's shirt and saw that he was walking towards what looked like a hand. "No way..." Wade breathed as he continued forward into the pit. "What are you doing, man?" Wade asked, thinking the man was crazy. The man bends down, grabbed the hand and starting pulling. I screamed as it came off. "Anyone need a hand?" The man jokes. "I'm just fooling... It's not real, see?" He said knocking on it."I found it on the side of the road a few weeks ago." He comments.
Carly and I just waked away and went to Paige "Oh, my God, are you okay?" she asked us. Quickly Blake apologized "Sorry we took so long." I nodded at him as Carly said it was okay. "What are you guys doing here?" the man asked us. Wade decided to answer for all of us "We were all camping up through those trees."
"I have water in here somewhere..." Paige told Carly and I as she looked through her bag. "Carly needs it more than me" I said wiping the blood off with a big leaf. Suddenly Dalton comes up to us "You guys seen my camera?" he asked. At that point I felt like smacking the crap out of him. Paige looked up at him "Are you kidding?"
"No" Carly said with frustration. "Dalton? Does it look like we care about a cheap ass camera?" I yelled. He quickly backed off as my temper rose. Hello! I just almost fell in a huge pit of road kill and I fucking cry because I accidentally killed a bug.
"Hey, is there a gas station around here?" Wade asked the man. The man pointed back to his truck as he informed us "Well, I got some gas in the truck if" He was quickly cut off by Wade "I need a fan belt."
It seemed all of us girl's heads snapped in the direction of Wade. When did this happen. "What?" Carly asked him in disbelief. "Just busted. " Wade murmured still confused by the whole situation. I groaned as Carly sighs with frustration "Of course. Perfect."
"Bo might have one. He runs a station in Ambrose." The man told Wade. What the hell kind of name is Bo? Is what I wanted to ask the guy, but I refrained in fear of offending him. "Where's that?" Wade questioned shifting from foot to foot. The man shrugged his shoulders "Fifteen miles up the road." He guessed.
Blake smacked Wade's arm "Let's just get one in Baton Rouge." He suggested. Wade shook his head "Man, there is no way I'm leaving my car. What if that guy from last night strips it?" Wade wondered, worrying about his car. "You're gonna miss the game, then." Blake stated. "Yeah, well, that's not why I came." Wade confessed.
I smiled and looked over at Carly. That's when I noticed she was getting the dry blood off her hands. "You sure you don't want some?" Paige asked looking down at my foot. I shook my head "I'll just change my shoes at the camp." I said taking off the shoe.
"All right, look. I'll run you up to the station. Kickoff's in a couple of hours." Blake offered. "You're already late. You gotta snag tickets. Y'all should just go now. I'll stay with my car. It's fine. Get me a fan belt on the way. Make sure it's a 15 inch." Wade told Blake. Blake nodded "Gotcha."
Then I looked up at Wade "Do you want anyone to stay with you?" I asked. "No, you guys just go. I don't want you to miss the game." Wade said waving me off. "Yeah, well, that's not what I came here for either." I mocked him with a smirk.
"I'll give you a ride." The man offered. I noticed he smiled a little and to me, it wasn't a trusting smile. "You serious?" Wade asked with a type of excitement. The man shrugged "If you like..." Wade nodded kind of like a bobble head might I add. "Well, yeah. Yeah." He said.
Blake gave him a look of concern "That's cool?" Blake asked Wade. "Yeah, if it's cool..." Wade stated looking at the man. I was hoping he'd say no, but my hopes died when he nodded.
Quickly Carly stood up after tying her shoes or something like that "I'm going with you." I pull her aside a little and lectured her "Carly, no. Look Carly, I don't trust him. I mean I barley want Wade going with him, but I'm letting him because he's strong. Please, I'm begging you, Carly."
"Yes, I'm going. It'll be fine." She tried reassuring me. I shook my head, but she ignored it and started walking down towards the truck. Paige came up to me and put an arm around me shoulder hugged me side- ways. I watched as Nick took off his shirt and gave it to Carly.
I glared at the man as he watched Carly take off her shirt to change. Thankfully the guys were aware and blocked his view. HE smiled wickedly at them and then turned to me, eyeing me up and down. At that point I broke eye contact and walked slowly over to the group. Paige let go and went to Blake as I grabbed Nick's hand.
Carly was then done changing and had the guys back off. Wade grabbed her hand "Come on, baby. So let's get out of here." Wade said to her as he pulled her towards the car. "Be careful, guys!" I yelled to them. They gave me reassuring smiles while the man gave me a look I couldn't describe.
"Come on." Nick said taking my waist and pulling me away from the pit.
"Man, you're just gonna let them leave like that? With a guy who throws road kill in a pit for a living?" Dalton questioned. "Shut up, Dalton." I threatened with a little too much anger. "You clean shit for a living, Mr. Septic-Tank-Man. What's the difference?" Nick asked him being the smartass that he was. "Well, I don't walk through it, that's one. That's a difference, right?" Dalton asked with confusion. I just shook my head. When we reached the edge of the grass, I was swept up into Nick's arms with sudden movement. "Nick! What are you doing?" I squealed as I clung to him. "I don't want to step on anything, Babe." He confessed stepping over a huge log. "Aww, you're too good to me." I cooed pinching his cheek. He just smiled at me.
Once we reached camp, Nick took us to our tent and set me down. I gave him a thank you kiss before searching for my other pair of shoes. Once I put them on, I went back out side and sat in Nick's lap as everyone lodged around last night's camp fire. While in Nick's lap I couldn't stop thinking about Carly and Wade. I hope they're going to be ok.