Chapter 3: Avoiding him

Later that day I went to a restaurant to eat something when I saw Camille sitting alone at one of the tables. I asked her if she was alone and if I could eat with her.

She shot a huge smile at me and agreed.

"So, how's life going at Palm Woods?", she asked taking a bite of her french fries.

"Well... Knowing no one is a bit strange, but it's quite funny, though.", I admitted.

We chatted for some time. She asked me about my parents and I told her, that we lived in a town about two hours from New York. My parents didn't want to quit their jobs and thought 17 was old enough to live alone. My mom came to the US about 20 years ago from Germany, surely she taught me German so that we could visit my Oma* and Opa* back there. They even thought of a name that could be pronounced "normal" in English and German.

We were about half finished with dinner when Camille yelled for someone named Logan and I turned my head to see "Logan". I immediately froze when I saw four guys, one of them being Kendall. I hoped that they wouldn't recognize Camille, but she just continued yelling.

"Fuck.", I said when they were heading for our table and crawled under the table. Camille immediately stopped yelling asking if I was allright.

"Shh!", I told her and I think she understood.

Once the boys arrived Camille greeted them. "What's up, Big Time Rush?"

"Oh, James just needed some mirror for his hair.", Logan said.

"It really is a emergency", another boy snubbed obviously being James."

"So, Camille, why do you have two half-eaten plates?", a fourth voice asked confused.

"O-oh... Er... I am a bit h-hungry.", she lied nervously. "That's all."

"I see.", Kendall said, his voice making my heart beat faster. "And who's that guy below your table?"

"Fuck!", I thought. I emerged from below the table and said "Oh... Eh... I was just... I lost my knife. Toilet?"

Blushing again heavily I left for the toilets.

I sat down on one and locked the door. "Oh my god!", I said hysterically laughing. "I'm so embarrassing." I started to cry.

"Why me?"

I heard the door open and I immediatly got quiet.

"Why did you come with me, Carlos?", James' voice asked stressed.

"Because I desperately need to pee!", Carlos answered and I heard some peeing noises.

I couldn't help but let out a little sob. And I blushed again.

"Er... Is everything ok in there?", James asked.

I cleared my thraot and thought of an excuse. "Er yes... it's just er... I have a little cold."

"Oh my god! A cold? In summer? In LA?", I thought hitting myself.

"Oh, okay.", James said. I could definitely hear his disbelief. Both of them left the toilets and five minutes later I did the same.

I took a look at our table and felt a little relief when I saw that Camille was alone. I walked to her and sat down.

"What was that?", she asked straight from the shoulder.

"Duh... er...", I stuttered. "Can you keep a secret?"

"Yup.", she nodded.

"Today I was heading to 2J to complain about the noise... And when...", I started to say but she cut me off like in the morning.

"And when you saw Kendall you immediatly fell in love with him.", she finished my sentence."

I was baffled. "How come you know?"

"Well... Who wouldn't fall in love with him?", she asked jokingly.

"So, you too?", I asked her hoping Camille would disagree.

"No no, I have a crush on Logie.", she told me nonchalantly.

On our way home we talked a lot. I really liked Camille, she was nice and open, she didn't even said any comment about me liking guys.

Once we arrived at the Palm woods she stopped walking. "Hey, how about the boys, you and me go to the mall next Saturday? Maybe you can start anew with them."

"Do you really believe that'd be a good idea?", I asked uncertain. "I don't even think he likes... boys."

"I don't know, too.", she told me and shrugged. "Lets find out."

"Bright prospects..."

"Oh come on, Alex!", Camille said smiling. "It'll be fun."

"Okay, if you think so. Thank you."

We said our good-byes and left for our apartments.

Luckily it was quiet in 2J. "Maybe they have to get up very early tomorrow.", I thought drifting off to sleep dreaming about one special person.

* Granny and Grampa :3