Thanks for all of the reviews, and you guys are right, I should write for myself.
So here is chapter 9,
and by the way, I'm not from Canada. I'm from Conneciticut and I feel stupid for that mistake. lol.
I will most likely not be geographically correct in most of my stories, so yeah.
Anyways, hope you like it.
Reviews are appreciative though :)
Dear Journal,
The next few chapters I'm not going to add notes like these at the beginning chapter as per usual, because the entire week I spent with my friends and Eli will take up more than one chapter. So, I'll just get on with the story…
"Are you sure you have everything?" My mother prodded, patting my shoulder before pulling me into a hug. "You have extra undergarments? Right?"
"Mom!" I hissed, pulling away with a blush appearing on my face. "I have everything. Tent, sleeping bags, a thermal blanket, a pillow, about fifteen different sets of clothes and two pairs of shoes. Fiona's parents, and Alli's, packed plenty of food. We'll be fine, I promise. And if I need you, I'll just walk home."
"Okay," she sighed then looked out the window as Fiona hit the car horn once again. "Well, they're waiting, have a good time."
"I will," I gave her another hug before running out the door and down the steps towards Fiona's silver convertible Mercedes.
I tapped the trunk, so she'd pop it and I threw my bag into it. Well, I actually had to stuff it in with Alli's three bags, and Fiona's four bags. I sighed, not realizing I should have emphasized what the word necessities meant.
"Come on, Clare, we're burning daylight!" Fiona giggled, and I rolled my eyes.
I climbed over the trunk to the backseat; since the roof was down I just slid into the plush cushions. Alli turned around in her seat to give me a happy grin, and I smiled back. Fiona looked back, too, before starting the car and driving down my road.
"I'm really happy you invited me, Clare. I know we sort of lost touch this school year, but it's nice to finally reconnect. I miss you, you're way better than those vapid cheerleaders I used to hang out with." Alli sighed, shaking her head.
"Well, it's good you came to your senses. I mean, though you're stilling dating Drew - which I still don't get afte-" I was about to continue when Alli shook her head and closed her eyes.
"Clare, I know you don't think that I should be with him, but you don't know him like I do. And he did cheat on me, but it was all Bianca's fault. I swear. It was only twice, and Bianca moved way across Canada because Degrassi expelled her." Alli growled, I shook my head making my curls bounce in my face.
"Alli, he cheated on you. More than once. It doesn't matter that Bianca is halfway across the country because of that stunt you pulled. It matters that he did it, and he'll do it again with the next Bianca." Alli opened her mouth but I held my hand up. "I don't want to hear about how amazing he is, and sweet and caring, and all the other bullshit you come up with. He did it twice, and he'll do it again. I'm not trying to be the judgmental Christian you think I'm acting like right now. I'm trying to be the friend who only wants you to be happy and not hurt by some thick-headed jock."
Alli shook her head, not wanting to listen to me and turned back in her seat. I rolled my eyes, and then leaned forward to find a good radio station to listen to. Fiona looked at me briefly past her Chiffon sunglasses and had that look, like I shouldn't have done that and I should apologize.
I turned the knob, and came across a familiar song Love Drunk by Boys Like Girls and smiled. I turned my head to Alli and started singing; she cracked a smile on her sad face.
"Remember the time we were singing this, going all out in my bedroom with our hairbrushes, and you slipped on my bed. You literally broke my bed! And you're what? 110?" I giggled, and she giggled with me.
I heard Fiona giggle with us as we started to obnoxiously sing to the song, we came to a stoplight when the chorus came on. We sang our hearts out, not realizing all the people on the sidewalks were staring at us. We, also, never realized that a car pulled up beside us. And I believe that car was named Morty.
"Lovely, day, isn't it ladies?" Asked a familiar voice over our horrid singing.
All three of us turned our heads to see Eli's hearse pulled alongside our own. The window was down on the passenger side, with Drew and Adam sticking their heads out with funny expressions on their faces.
"Oh. My. God." We said in unison, mouths agape as the boys snickered at us.
"I suggest…" Adam started.
"That none of you…" Drew continued.
"Try out for American Idol." Eli finished as the boys parted to show the amused smirk of my boyfriend.
I ripped my gaze from his gleaming eyes to see the light turn green and told Fiona to go. She sped down the road, leaving a small cloud of smoke in her wake, clearly as embarrassed as Alli and I were.
"I cannot believe that just happened," Alli said in a state of shock, and I started laughing.
Fiona joined, as did Alli, and we laughed all the way to the park. It wasn't just the fit of giggles kind of laugh; this was full-on, stomach clenching, and tear inducing, suffocating laughter. Snorts were heard, gasps were made, and tears poured out.
Finally, we got to the parking lot that was made for people who went off camping. We pulled in, paid for a week's worth of stay and found a parking spot. We stayed in the car a few extra moments to get ourselves situated and our laughter under control.
"Okay, we are never singing outside our bedrooms and or showers again. Never!" Fiona announced, making me and Alli giggle.
I jumped out while Fiona closed up her car, pulling the hood up, locking it in and rolling up the windows. I had her open the trunk so we could get our things out, which consisted of my camping backpack, three large pink bags, one huge backpack, three bright blue bags and a gigantic cooler.
"Holy hell, Fiona. How is any of this a necessity? You, too, Alli!" I gasped while trying to lift the cooler.
"That's what the boys are for." Fiona stated and I rolled my eyes.
"Guys, from here it's about a twenty minute walk uphill. You know how long this is going to take, to carry your stuff and their stuff." I groaned, sitting on the cooler and leaning against the bumper of Fiona's car.
"You could've told us that!" Alli said and I groaned again.
"But I did! I gave you a list! A list!" I said while shutting my eyes. "A week's worth of camping clothes, at least two pairs of sneakers, a tent, a sleeping bag. And provide your own food."
"Well the cooler has wheels, and it has five compartments so in case we ran out of food or drinks, we could use that. Those blue bags are actually tents; I figured I'd bring those because they're the perfect size for two people. And in those blue bags are blow up mattresses. The boys and you can leave your sleeping bags and tents if you want, that way all we have to bring is this stuff and our clothes." Fiona ranted and I opened my eyes.
"Well, we'll ask them when we get here." I sighed and sat up from the cooler to see Eli pulling in through the gate.
I waved my hand and they pulled into the spot beside us. I gave them a rundown of what Fiona did and they agree to leave their sleeping things and just take their clothes and food. Drew ended up taking the cooler, stacked with the giant tent/mattress on the cooler. Adam took on Drew's backpack, I took my own, Fiona took her backpack, and Eli split his bags with Alli's giant pink bags of clothes.
I never felt as exhausted as I did when we finally reached the giant clearing. I wanted to bring my tent and sleeping things just in case. Drew looked like he was going to die; he literally collapsed once we reached the flat surface of the clearing.
"Drew!" Alli cried, dropping her things - which happened to be right on Adam's foot.
"Goddammit!" He cursed, dropping his things to bounce on one foot to soothe the other.
I stared, looked over at Eli, and then starting laughing randomly at the whole thing. "You guys are ridiculous."
"Thanks, now, let's stop laughing and set up. It's close to sundown." Fiona said while comforting Adam and his hurt foot. "Adam, quit being a baby. You're fine."
"But it hurts, Fi!" Ada cried, giving her wide eyes and Fiona just rolled her eyes at him.
"Well, I'm not kissing that stinky foot, so you'll have to settle for this." Fiona said, leaning down and giving Adam a sweet kiss.
I giggled, and then looked over at Eli to see him staring at me. "What?"
"How come you don't do that for me?" He asked in a mockingly sad tone, with a pout replacing his usual smirk.
"Well," I said while walking over to him. "You never give me a reason to kiss you."
"I hurt my lip," he chuckled while wrapping his arms around my waist, "kiss it better."
I leaned in and kissed the side of his mouth, teasing him, before pulling away with a small smirk of my own in place. Eli played a smirk on his lips, too, and then dropped his things to chase after me. I shrieked and ran around the fire pit, but was caught because I never dropped my things.
"Not fair! You dropped your things!" I giggled while he swung me around in his arms.
Eli placed my feet on the ground, looking at me with his deep green eyes and lopsided smile. His hands traveled to the middle of my chest and slowly, oh so slowly, undid the buckle holding the backpack to me. After it clicked open, he put his broad hands on my shoulders and slid the straps off my shoulder while moving his head to my neck.
"Better?" He whispered and Goosebumps formed on my pale skin.
"Uh…"
"Can you at least wait until you're both in your tents? Alone." Adam complained, making fake gagging noises. I rolled my eyes and pushed Eli away and picked up my fallen backpack.
"Come on, I want to set the tents up before nightfall." I said and went over to help Alli with her tent since Drew was exhausted. He was currently lying on his back and acting as if he were shot, clutching his chest and whining like a five year old.
"So how far have you and Dr. Doom gone?" Alli questioned, pulling out the poles to her tent.
"Alli!" I whispered harshly while dropping my gaze as my cheeks burned profusely. "That is none of your business!"
"Okay, now I have to know. I was joking. The most I thought you would let him do was kiss your neck." Alli wiggled her eyebrow, "It seems there's more to it. Did you do it yet?"
"No! He's barely seen me shirtless." I said while putting the poles together and biting my lip.
"And how much have you seen of him?" She asked, looking frustrated with the covering of the tent.
"Alli! Seriously. None. Of. Your. Business." I hissed and went to tug the fabric from its folded state.
"Okay, okay." Alli caved and finished attaching her corners. "But I have to ask, is he good?"
"Oh my god." I groaned while falling onto my butt before lying down with a sigh. "Alliah Bhandari, you are awful."
"Which I take it means he's awesome." She giggled, I just rolled my eyes.
"Shut up." I groaned, tilting my head to look over at everyone.
Adam and Fiona were sitting outside of their tent, looking like they accomplished the answer to pi. I tilted my head more to see a very frustrated Eli practically destroying our tent. I rolled my eyes and started to get up and walk towards him.
Once I got there, Eli finished his psycho dance of fury and was sitting defeated on a heap of fabric and plastic white poles.
"Need some help?" I asked, Eli looked up with an evil glint in his eyes.
"So now you decide to help me." Eli muttered, growling and standing up.
"What's wrong?" I asked, placing my hands on my hips.
"Nothing," he said while picking up the poles. "Let's just put it together."
"Is this…about everyone being here?" I asked while bending over to pick up the wrinkled cover.
"No, just forget it." Eli said and started to stick the poles together.
"No, I won't." I said, placing the lump of slippery material on the ground and wrapping my arms around his waist. "I'm here for you. To talk and all that good stuff. We agreed on not bottling our feelings. Remember?"
"I know." He muttered, turning his head to kiss me lightly.
"Good. We'll talk later, after our first roasting of weenies and marshmallows." I said while nuzzling his neck. "Now let's put this baby together. Unless you wanna be rustic and sleep under the starry sky."
"Nah, I like my privacy with you." He chuckled, putting more of the white poles together.
I felt my cheeks heat up but shook the tingling feeling in my stomach away to finish the tent. I raised an eyebrow at the air mattress that came with the tent and looked over at Fiona who was unfolding it.
"Fiona!" She looked over at me, "How are me going to inflate these mattresses?"
"You have to blow them!" She shouted back, the boys started to laugh. "Oh, guys, grow up."
I giggled and looked back over to the big mattress. Suddenly I felt frustration flow through me; I seriously have to blow this huge thing up.
"Fiona, you suck." I said with a groan, plopping down to the ground to get busy blowing up the mattress.
"No," Drew said. "She blows, see, she's blowing right now."
Adam and Eli laughed, yet again, looking over at Fiona, whose mouth was on the inflating piece, cheeks red from blowing air into the mattress. I rolled my eyes, "Drew you're so perverted."
"You know it!" He chuckled; I ignored him with putting my mouth on the plastic piece and started my job.
"Yo know what else?" Alli asked, "You're going to blow this mattress since I made the tent."
I chuckled around the plastic air piece and continued on blowing into the mattress. I got it at least halfway blown up before I gave up and fell back from being light-headed.
"Wow, I could help, babe. Here, lemme see this. You rest." Eli said and took the mattress from me.
"Ew, her mouth touched that, Eli." Alli said, I was too tired to bite back a reply.
"Yes and my mouth has touched hers. Among other places," he said before going back to his blowing.
"Again. Ew." Alli said, Drew chuckled beside.
"We've done wors-"
"Stop talking, Torres. Or you won't be doing anything for a while." Alli snapped, I felt my eyes get droopy and I finally fell asleep from exhaustion.
"I love your wieners, Fiona." Drew joked, he was so immature!
"Drew, shut up." Adam said while putting a marshmallow on a metal rod.
I ignored their dirty banter, instead I was running my fingers through Eli's hair, since he was sitting on the ground between my legs and I was on one of the logs. He gave an appreciative sigh and leaned back into my touch.
It was really late out; the sun had gone down a while ago. Thankfully we managed to organize our things in our tents before it got dark. We even got the fire started before it was dark. I leaned my head back to look through the treetop to see the starry sky.
Suddenly, a star shot by and I smiled. "Guys, a shooting star. Make a wish!"
Alli smiled widely, looking up at the sky and made a silent wish. I did the same, closing my eyes and whispering my wish. I looked down at Eli to see him just sitting there, not making any sign of attempting to make a wish.
"Eli," I whispered. He tilted his head back to rest on my thigh and looked at me.
"Hm?"
"Aren't you going to make a wish?" I asked and a small smile formed on my lips.
"I don't need to," he whispered and took my hand. "I have everything I could ask for."
Eli pulled my hand to his lips and kissed it softly. I felt my cheeks heat up and the corner of my lips turned up in a nervous smile.
"I'm hitting the hay, dudes. You comin' Alli?" Drew asked while standing up and brushing his shorts off.
"Sure. Night guys." Alli said and stood up as well, I waved them off.
"Fiona and I are going to our tent, too. G'night." Adam stated, standing while taking Fiona's hand.
Once they disappeared into the tent, Eli tugged me down onto his lap. "Finally, we're all alone."
"No parents," I whispered as his nose traced down the side of my neck.
"No plans," he murmured on my neck.
"No interruptions." I sighed once his mouth finally kissed the skin of my neck.
My arms wound themselves around Eli's neck, pulled him closer as his hands found their way to my hips and pulled my hips close to his. I whimpered, feeling his teeth graze my neck and his hips rock with mine.
"Oh, Eli." I moaned in my throat and a growl slipped its way passed his lips.
"God, Clare." Eli groaned, sucking on my neck and sliding his hands up to grab my breast.
I threw my head back, panting heavily at the amazing sensations I was feeling from his ministrations. I closed my eyes tightly as his mouth moved lower; I had to bite my lip to keep myself from moaning loudly.
"Eli…I think we should go to the tent." I whimpered again when his teeth roughly bit into the skin of my exposed breasts.
He grunted enthusiastically, and wrapped my legs around his waist before standing. I pulled his head up to look into his lust filled eyes; it was only a moment before my lips met his in a passionate kiss.