Chapter 2- Campfire
They finally reached camp a few hours later; it was a small clearing in the forest. The team made a fire pit, it wasn't anything special just a large circle of smaller rocks, they found some old trees and put a few around the fire pit for seats then a little further away they pitched the tents there where three, two tents for two people then another for three, one of the two person was for the girls, one was for Herry and Odie the three person had Neil, Jay and Archie.
It got late bye the time they finished, so they sat down and Odie started a fire in the pit, Herry took out a large soup pot and hung it over the fire, he put chicken broth, chunks of chicken, carrots, beans, celery stuff like that to make a soup. Everyone took a bowl and ate some
"HMM this is pretty good Herry said Theresa taking a sip
"It is" said jay also taking another sip
"Thanks guy….I call it camping special" he said
"Well I'm packing in for the night" said Neil putting his bowl in a tub used for dishes and walking off to his tent
"I think that's a good idea" said Theresa doing the same
"Good night" said Odie walking off a well
A few minutes later "Wow am I tired" said Herry standing up and stretching his arms and started to walk to his tent to join Odie
"I know what you mean" said Jay walking of beside Herry and separating when at there tents
"Your not leaving me out here all alone, are you?" Atlanta asked Archie jokingly who was sitting beside her
"Ahh no not yet" he said back, they sat in silence for a few minutes
With in toughs minutes Archie was thinking, he thought that, that was the perfect time to tell her how he felt, he turned his head towards her she was looking at the fire watching the flames, then he had a different thought going through his mind, like how she would react will she laugh like she thought it was some kind of jock, would she shut him down, will she tell him she would think about it he hated when girls said that, it felt more like no. Finally he took a deep breath
"Ahh Atlanta…" he said turning to her but froze
"Ya Archie" she replied turning to him wanting to know what he was going to say
"I…..I…what did you plain on doing tomorrow?" he changed the subject. You doofus why can't you just say it he thought
"I don't know probably some hiking, hunting, swimming that type of thing, how about you?" she asked him
"I don't know depends on the weather I guess" he replied "Atlanta can I ask you something?" he asked after
"Ok what" she said turning to him
"Well everyone is afraid of something right?" he asked
"Well ya" she said
"I was wondering…please be honest with me please I'm your friend"
"Ok" she said not sure where he was going with this
"What are you afraid of?" he asked, when he asked Atlanta froze and turned his head away from him and started chewing on her nails nervously "Atlanta are you ok" he said trying to turn his head to see her face but she moved it away more
Then she turned to look at him nervously "Fine you are my friend….. And I can trust you not to tell anyone..." she said stuttering he looked at her like go on, go on "But I'm deadly afraid of heights, like tall, tall like cliffs" she blurted out
"But we have been in high places many times and your never afraid" he stated
"Well I deal… and tell myself to suck it up, and not seem weak and pathetic" she said
"I fell that way all the time with water" he said
"Ya I don't know….why" she said then they sat there for a few minutes of silence
Then she stood up from the log they where sitting on "I think I am going to pack it in" she said walking around the log and stood behind Archie, she put her hands on his shoulder, he froze she brought her head closer to the side of his head to his ear "Good night don't stay up to late" she whispered and walked off to her tent
Archie sat there for a few minutes he had a million thoughts going through his head, then some one walked over and sat beside him, he turned to see Jay
"Couldn't sleep?" Archie asked looking back at the fire
"Ya I couldn't sleep with all Neil's snoring" he replied Archie chuckled "so did you tell her?" asked Jay
Archie froze he knew who and what he was talking about "Tell, who, what?" he asked acting stupid
"You know….Atlanta…that you love her" he whispered Archie gave him a blank look "Come on Arch don't act dumb we all know you love he, just she is too out of it to notice" he said with a smile
"WEELL…Sooo why haven't you told Theresa yet you love her" Archie blurted out
"That's true but still, you had the perfect time" said Jays
"Ya ok I blew it….I get it ok…Happy" Archie said very annoyed
"Ok…ok chill" Jay said
"We should try to get some sleep" suggested Archie
"Good Idea… but we should have brought ear plugs" jay said grabbing the water bucket and dumping it onto the fire putting it out and both walked off to the tent