The next morning I work up early. Beck was still asleep and had his arm snaked around me. I slowly slide out of his grasp and wrote him a not saying that I had to go home. I really didn't want to go home but I had to face reality someday. I put my clothes back on and quietly got out the door.

Same as last night, the walk home was quiet. The sun was just starting to rise. Once I got up to my house I could feel the dread rising up. I walked into the house and saw my dad asleep on the couch. I just scoffed and went to the fridge not bothering to try to be quiet. I pulled out a bottle of juice and went up to my room.

Things around our house had changed. It didn't feel like home anymore. Mom had taken a lot of the pictures down off the wall and decided she wanted to remodel. I felt so bad for her. She was really sad and it sucked to see her cry all the time. Me and Trina stayed up and watched movies with her lot. She kicked dad out of the house. We don't know where he went; I don't think any of us cared. We all hated him; we got a call from him a few days later saying that he had gotten a job and an apartment in Chicago and that me and Trina were welcome to visit. Yeah like that was gonna happen.

The fourth of July was coming up. We all had a camping trip coming up. I had been looking forward to it all summer. Cat was going to drive me and her up there and the Andre was driving the guys. I was on the phone talking to Cat. We were talking about what to pack.

"I'm so excited to see the fireworks!" Cat squealed to me.

"Yeah it'll be fun, I need some time away from the house," I replied. Things had been stressful here.

"Do you think the monster in the lake will eat us?" Cat wondered.

Oh Cat… the next morning Cat picked me up early. I threw my suit case into the back of her brothers car and hopped in. the drive was fun. We kept to top down, sang songs. And saw all the trees and mountains as we got more north. The air cooled down and you could feel the water in the air. As we pulled into the camp site, the boys were already there putting up their tent.

"What's up ladies?" Andre called to us.

"Oh my god! We have a fire pit and trees!" Cat said excitedly.

"C'mon let's get our tent up," I said pulling all of our stuff out of the back of the car. Cat helped and we pitched the tent, set up or sleeping bags, and pulled out a cooler full of drinks and food.

"We should go hiking! There are trails everywhere," Andre said pointing around.

We all agreed and put on sturdy shoes and brought water bottles. The hike was fun, we played eye spy along the way and sang camp songs. One thing that I noticed was that me and Beck didn't walk together, but it didn't bother me. Instead I walked with Cat and we got to catch up. I hadn't seen her in awhile. It was nice to be able to be around Beck but not be glued to his hip like Jade kept him.

We made it up to the lake house which is where they we going to be lighting off fireworks.

"Hey you guys wanna go for a dip?" I asked, I was probably sweating enough to fill the lake up.

"But there's a monster in there!" Cat said pointing to the lake.

"Don't worry! I'll protect you," Robbie said with a sweet smile.

Cat looked unsure, "there's a monster in there!"

"Cat this sea monster, how big do you think it would be?" Beck came up to her asking.

"Humongous!" Cat explained.

"Bigger than the lake?" Beck asked.

"Well…no," Cat said looking unsure again.

That answer seemed to satisfy Cat. The boys all took their shirt off and I tried not stare at Beck because our friends were around, and we all jumped in. The lake was amazing it was just cold enough to be an instant relief.

I wonder if fish would come up and bite you? Right on que I felt something pinch my side. It made me squeal a little and I turned around to see Beck rising out of the water with a cheeky grin.

"Well hi there!" I said sarcastically.

"Hello, enjoying the lake?" he asked.

"Mostly…" I said still thinking about something coming up and biting me.

"Only mostly?" Beck replied.

I told him how I was paranoid about the fish coming up to bite me.

Beck laughed.

"It's not funny!" I said trying my hardest not to start giggling.

"Yeah it kinda of is…" Beck said and dove under the water. He started picking at my feet just to mess with me and then came up and picked me up bridal style.

"Fear not young maiden! I have saved you from the lake monster!" he said in a funny accent and walked up to the shore.

"My hero!" I said batting my eyes and crossing my legs.

"I thought you said there was no lake monster!" Cat cried out now swimming as fast as she could up to shore.

We all ended up regretting swimming in the lake because now we had to hike back in wet clothes. It was a hard walk and once we finally got back we all changed into something dry. By that time the sun was beginning to set and we were all starving. Hot dogs and smores it was!

"Hey Cat you want a smore?" I offered her.

"Some more of what?"

"You know a smore?"

"How can I have some more of nothing if I haven't had any yet?"

"No a smore!" I said holding up my gooey sandwich.

"Oh those! Sure Ya know the last time I ate a roasted marshmallow my brother put on my head and a squirrel ate it!" she said all happily while the rest of us just starred at her. But we all ended up laughing.

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