A/N: Hey guys! Sorry if I'm lagging with the updates, but I've been pretty busy with school now. But thankfully, I got out of school early and had the time to write this. So, I hope you enjoy it (:
PS: Please read the author note at the bottom after you finish reading this chapter. I would really appreciate it.
It was already 12 P.M. by the time we got to the camp site called, Moon hill camp. For the past hour, we were all stuck in the car with Ashley singing at the top of her lungs. Somehow, she managed to fall asleep and thankfully, we didn't have to cover our ears. Not to be mean or anything, but honestly, her singing was terrible.
When we pulled up to the campsite, we were in awe at how mother nature created the world. It was filled with tall, beautiful trees with their leaves swaying with the wind. We could hear the crunching gravel when the tires would roll over them. We also caught sight of the long stream that led to who knows where, but the water was so clear and it glistened in the scorching sun. There was rarely any people at the campsite since I guess some people had work or either school. This is actually good, since we needed privacy. Mark stopped the car near where we would be setting up our tents and turned off the ignition.
"We're here!" Mark announced. I smiled and rushed to get out of the car. I was actually pretty excited for this to be happening. Well, except for the fact Ashley and Taylor were here. I walked onto the ground, with the rocks crunching under my shoes and the wind blowing through my hair. I turned back to the car to find that Mark, Terrence, Derek, and Taylor were already unloading the stuff out of the back of the car. Ashley at the moment was whining about the sun, of course. And Penny was walking towards me with a big smile on her face.
"Isn't this place great?" Penny exclaimed as she walked next to me and looked at the view of the campsite.
I nodded and said, "It's really great. I can't wait for this week to officially begin."
"Ooh, me too!" Penny laughed.
"Hey, shouldn't we help the guys out?" Penny asked. We both turned around again to the car to see the guys struggling with the stuff.
Penny and I looked at each other and said, "Nah!" We laughed and linked our arms together and made our way to the guys. The guys were already almost finish unloading the stuff except for Derek trying to unload a big, heavy luggage out of the car.
"This luggage is so heavy! What is in here?" Derek grunted when he finally let go of the heavy luggage and thudded on the floor.
"Hey! That's mine! And for you're information, I have my clothes, hair curler, my foot massage, my makeup kit, my fan, and my shoes in there," Ashley suddenly said, while picking up her luggage off the floor and holding it in her hand.
"Hair curler?" Penny asked.
"Yeah! A hair curler, what else?" Ashley said with a 'duh' tone.
"Just asking. Gosh, stupid girl," Penny muttered the last part.
Ashley rolled her eyes and said, "What did you say?"
Before Penny could say something bad, I quickly butted in and said, "She said that me and her are going to go on a walk. Check out the place."
"That's a good idea. You want to go Ashley?" Taylor asked. I glanced at him, but quickly looked away when I saw that he was only looking at me. There goes the butterflies again, I thought.
"With them? No thanks, I'll just go and use my fan. It's so hot here!" Ashley whined and walked off away from the group.
"Okay then. Why don't you guys set up the tents and stuff and when Marie and I get back, we'll go barbecue the food we bought. Sounds good? Okay, see you guys later!" Penny said. Before anyone could respond to her, Penny quickly pulled me along with her and ran off before the guys could protest. I laughed at her silliness that I love so much about her.
After 30 minutes of walking around, Penny and I talked about how she almost got in a fight with Ashley and how she noticed Taylor kept on looking at me. Of course I tried to change the subject, but she kept talking about it. I finally managed to tell her that we should get back and cook the food now since I was starting to get pretty hungry and the guys should be pretty much done with setting up the tent.
Once we got back, to our surprise, the four tents were nicely set up and the guys were sitting on the grass, talking about something. I wonder where Ashley is?
"Hey, you guys are back! I was was starting to get hungry," Terrence stood up from the grass and quickly went to Penny's side to kiss her on the cheeks. But before Terrence could even kiss her on the lips, Penny playfully backed away from him.
"Oh, so you only want the food! I see how it is," Penny said, with both hands on her hips.
"No, I didn't mean that. I meant that I was starting to worry about you cause you guys took long," Terrence said.
Penny tapped her chin and said, "Hm, really? Because it seemed to me that you only want my food.
Terrence shrugged and said, "Well, I am hungry."
"See, you only wanted the food. You didn't miss me, looks like we're breaking up." Penny teasingly said. She then turned to the group that was silently watching this whole scenario and said, "If you guys need me, I'll be cooking the food." And with that, she walked away towards the grill near the car.
"Wait, what just happened?" Terrence stupidly asked.
"Dude, you guys just broke up," Mark answered and laughed.
"Oh shit! What?" Terrence exclaimed and started walking towards Penny. "Hey babe! Did you really mean that? Come on, I really did miss you!" Terrence shouted.
We all laughed and shook our heads at them. They were always like this, well not the breaking up part. But Penny always playing around with Terrence and Terrence always falling into Penny's trap and thinking that what Penny says is true. Just like now, Terrence thought they really broke up when Penny was only really joking. Cute couple, I thought.
"Where's ska-Ashley?" I asked, looking around for her.
"The bears took her," Derek said. I laughed and said, "No seriously, where is she?"
"She's actually taking a nap in our tent," Taylor suddenly answered.
I silently nodded and then there was an awkward pause. I hated those. The awkward pause where nobody knows what else to say or do. It's really uncomfortable and annoying. So I just looked around and started silently tapping my foot on the grass.
Mark cleared his throat and said, "Well, I'm going to go and check out the campsite. Anyone want to go with me?"
"Ooh, me!" Derek exclaimed and they both got up from the grass.
"You wanna come babe?" Mark asked as he went in front to face me.
I shook my head and said, "No thanks, I already went to look around the campsite with Penny remember? I'll just go help cook actually."
"Alright, just text or call us when the food's ready," Mark said. I nodded and he pecked me on the lips. With that, Mark and Derek both walked off until I couldn't see them anymore. Ugh, the awkward moment again. Now it was only just Taylor and me. Alone. Nothing to talk about. This is so awkward.
"Uh, I'm gonna go help with the-," I said but was interrupted by Taylor.
"Can we talk?" Taylor asked. Talk? No way. Why? It might lead to something bad.
"I guess," I said. Taylor patted the grass and smiled up at me. I sat down and waited for Taylor to start talking.
"So, I just wanted to ask. Are you mad at me?" Taylor asked. I looked over at him and thought for a minute.
"Honestly, yes." I simply said.
"Why?"
I shrugged and answered, "I really don't know. Maybe because you wanted me to live a simple life when really my simple life was actually being with you. I didn't want you to control my feelings and my decisions. I really just want to be with you Taylor, but I guess that's just the past now."
Taylor nodded at my answer and we stayed silent for a few minutes. "Can you forgive me? Can we start over?" He suddenly asked.
No Marie! Don't you dare say yes to him. "Yeah, sure. Why not? I mean we both have someone else in our life now," I said. Way to go Marie, you just agreed to your ex-boyfriend that you'll be friends now.
Taylor smiled and stuck out his hand, "Friends?"
I slightly smiled and shook his hand, "Friends." Now I regret this, I thought. I quickly pulled my hand away because I felt something when our hands touched and my heart was hammering through my chest rapidly. Taylor got up from the grass and extended his hand out to me. I looked up at him and had a confused look plastered on my face.
"Huh?" I dumbly asked.
"Come on, let's go help Penny and Terrence cook," he said. I nodded and got up from the grass without Taylor's help. I didn't want to feel what I felt earlier to happen again. Taylor pulled his hand away and we both walked to where Penny and Terrence were cooking. We kept a safe distance from each other, but thankfully there wasn't any awkward moments between us. Once we reached Penny and Terrence, I could already smell the yummy food going through my nose. My stomach grumbled and I quietly chuckled to myself.
"What's so funny?" Taylor asked. I guess he heard me laughing.
"Oh nothing, I'm just really hungry now," I said, placing a hand over my stomach. Taylor chuckled and shook his head. I looked over at Penny who was giving me a what-the-hell look and I just shrugged.
"So what's cooking?" A voice behind me said. I turned around to see Mark and Derek behind us, trying to look at what we were cooking.
"Just some ribs, hot dogs, and patties," Terrence said, flipping over a patty.
I suddenly felt two strong arms go around my waist and was pulled towards that person. I looked up to see that it was Mark who was smiling down at me. He kissed my head and pulled me tighter to him.
"Hey," his husky voice said.
"Hey," I gently made small circles on his arms. I looked over to Taylor who was faced in the other direction and had his hands clenched. It also looked like he had a mad look on his face. What's wrong with him? Earlier, he was just all happy. I shrugged it off and paid my attention back to Mark who was still hugging me from behind. I leaned back into him and waited for the food to be ready.
It was now nightfall and we had already finished eating the leftover hot dogs, patties, and ribs. We were now sitting around a small fire that thankfully, Penny and I made. First, the guys tried to make the fire start, but they forgot they needed wood. Stupid, stupid boys. As for Ashley, she barely did anything at all. All she did for the past hours were either whining, screaming because of a bug, fanning herself, and sleeping. What else does this girl do? I actually told Penny about me and Taylor now being friends. Of course she was surprise, I mean I would be surprise too. She scolded me for agreeing to be friends with him, but I just shrugged it off and told her, "What's done is done."
"So what's the point of this game?" Terrence asked, while taking a handful of big marshmallows in his hand. He then passed it to Penny who was sitting next to him on their log. Penny took the bag of marshmallows and took a handful of marshmallows as well.
"You've never heard of Chubby Bunny?" I gasped.
"No..." Terrence raised an eyebrow at me.
"Well it's pretty easy. It's basically seeing how many marshmallows you can stuff in your mouth while still being able to say Chubby Bunny. It's pretty disgusting, but fun overall," I explained.
"Hey! That's sounds fun! Come on, let's play." Terrence exclaimed with excitement. We all laughed and waited until everyone got a big handful of marshmallows. Once the bag got to me, I dug into the bag and pulled out a handful of marshmallows and placed the bag by my feet.
I looked around the circle and said, "Ready?"
I heard them all say, "Hell yeah" and "Let's do this."
I smiled and shouted, "Go!"
We all immediately put on marshmallow in our mouth and shouted, "Chubby Bunny!" We then added one more and shouted, "Chubby Bunny!" We all started laughing hysterically and continued adding more marshmallows into our mouths.
By the fifth marshmallow in my mouth, I was starting to feel like spitting out the marshmallows. I looked over at Derek who probably was on his seventh marshmallow and was shouting Chubby Bunny. Taylor was already probably on his eight one, while Mark was on his eight one as well. Penny was on her seventh one and Terrence was on his eight one too. Ashley was well, she was on her third one. She stood up from the log and spitted out the marshmallows and started uncontrollably coughing.
I was just about to add one more marshmallow when I was about to throw up. Okay, well I guess I'll give up then. I quickly chewed on the marshmallows and watched as Penny and Derek gave up as well. All that was left is Taylor, Mark, and Terrence.
"Come one babe! You can do it!" Penny cheered on Terrence who was now on his tenth marshmallow. Taylor was also on his tenth one, while Mark was about to put his tenth marshmallow in his mouth but placed a hand over his stomach and stood up. He looked at me and smiled. All I could see was white, mushy marshmallows in his mouth.
"Ew Mark!" I laughed and he smiled more and quickly chewed on the marshmallows.
Once he finished, he sat down next to me and sighed loudly, "That was tiring!"
"It was! Look, only Terrence and Taylor left," I pointed towards Terrence and Taylor who was now stuffing their thirteen marshmallow. Damn, how many are they going up to?
"Boo Terrence!" Mark shouted.
"Shut up Mark! Go baby!" Penny cheered him on again. I laughed and watched Taylor who seemed to be now struggling with his fifteen marshmallow.
"Go Taylor!" I shouted. Crap, why'd I just say that out loud?
Taylor was just about to put in his sixteen marshmallow, but failed miserably when he placed a hand over his mouth and tried his hardest to not throw up. We all laughed and waited until he finished chewing on the marshmallows. I guess that means Terrence won then.
"Oh my gosh Terrence! You won!" Penny exclaimed. Terrence eyes grew wide and started jumping up and down. Once he finished chewing on the marshmallows, he fist pumped his hand in the air and shouted, "I won! Hell yes!"
"Good one Taylor by the way," Terrence said to Taylor who was chugging a water bottle.
"You too Terrence, good one," Taylor said. They fist pumped each other and did that man hug thing.
"You have a big mouth Terrence," Derek said, holding a water bottle in his hand.
Terrence smirked and said, "I know." We all laughed and Penny playfully punched Terrence's shoulder.
"Well that was fun!" Mark said.
"Let's play again!" Terrence exclaimed.
"NO!" We all shouted in together.
Terrence raised his hands up in front of him and said, "Just kidding, just kidding."
"That was so nasty!" Ashley suddenly exclaimed. Whoops, I forgot she was here. Derek raised an eyebrow and said, "How many did you eat?"
Ashley held up three fingers and Derek started laughing hysterically. "What!" Ashley sneered.
"Are you serious? Three? You have a small mouth!" Derek exclaimed.
Ashley rolled her eyes and said, "Whatever. You know what, I'm going to bed. You guys are all too immature for my age anyway. Goodnight babe." She directed the last part to Taylor who was trying to avoid her.
"Night Ashley," Taylor muttered. Ashley leaned down to Taylor and pulled him into a kiss. A very long kiss actually. I tried to hide the fact that I was feeling a tad bit of jealous, but I couldn't help but keep looking at them.
"Get a room!" Penny shouted. Thank you Penny! Ashley broke away from Taylor and smiled evilly at me. I rolled my eyes and looked away from skanky Ashley. I didn't know how long I was staring at the fire flickering until I heard Penny throw a small stick at my head.
"Ow! What was that for?" I grabbed the stick off the ground and threw it back at her, but unfortunately, she dodged it.
"Are you okay?" Penny mouthed. I looked at Mark who was engaged in a conversation with Terrence and Derek. I then looked at Taylor was actually looking at me with his eyes filled with concern and worry.
I nodded and got up from the log. Mark noticed me standing up and he looked up at me. "Are you going to go sleep?" He asked.
I yawned and stretched out my hands in the air and said, "Yeah. I'm pretty tired. I'll see you in the tent in a little while?"
"Yeah. Goodnight babe," Mark said. He got up from the log and kissed me on the lips. I hugged him and made my way out of the circle towards the tent. I looked back to see Taylor still looking at me with the same expression. My view was then blocked by Penny who was walking towards me.
"Hey, are you okay?" Penny breathlessly asked in the cold night.
I crossed my arms across my chest and said, "Yeah, why?" Penny shrugged and said, "I don't know, you seemed kind of weird when Ashley was practically digging her tongue in Taylor's mouth earlier. And plus, Taylor just kept looking at you after they kissed. He seemed kind of guilty."
"Really? I didn't notice." I lied. I started walking towards the tent again but stopped when Penny said, "You still love him don't you?"
I sighed and turned around. "Look Penny, can we just talk about this in the morning? I'm pretty tired okay?"
"Yeah, sure. Just know that I'll always be here okay?" Penny said. I nodded and with that, I crawled into the tent Mark and I were sharing and snuggled into my sleeping bag. I sighed and thought to myself. Yes Penny, I still love him.
A/N: I'm sorry if this was short, but like I said, I'm pretty busy now. Oh and by the way, I'm almost finish with this story actually. Most likely, it will be 3 or 4 more chapters. I already have the next chapters all planned out. Oh and I also already planned a new story that indeed involves Taylor Lautner. Just a heads up, the new story I'm going to be writing is going to be a bit more mature if that's okay with you guys. Well, I can't wait to write the new story and hope that you'll enjoy it.
The next chapter WILL be longer though, I promise you that. Well you know what to do, REVIEW and SUBSCRIBE. Thank you very much (: