**A/N I'm so sorry for not updating sooner but I guess I've been having doubts about this story since I have yet to receive any reviews or anything for that matter; maybe it's just writers block but I'm seriously just blanking on this.. anyway enjoy chapter nine (: **

I woke up the next morning very hung over and cold. Andy had already gotten up and I could hear him walking back to the tent. He unzipped it and smiled brightly; his smile must be contagious because once he did, I had to. "You're awake! I made you some coffee." he said in a hushed excited voice. I thanked him and took the mug of warm liquid sipping it gently. "Who else is up?" I asked in a raspy voice. "Everyone except you, Kenzie, Ashley and Vic." He laughed as I rolled my way over to him and kissed him gently before getting up. I stepped out of the tent to see everyone but Vic, Ashley and Kenzie, just as Andy said. I set my coffee down and went to Vic and Kenzie's tent first, gently waking them up. As soon as they were out of their tents I went to Ashley's, "Watch this." I mouthed to everybody. I quietly unzipped Ashley's tent and walked over to my quad; I revved it as loud as I could and Ashley came sprinting out, frantically looking around at everyone's giggly faces then at mine, scowling at me and mumbling insults that I could barely hear. I shut off my quad, grabbed my cup of, now cold, coffee and sat on Andy's lap. I looked around the group and realized that none of the guys had shirts on; just sweat pants or basketball shorts. Ashley, Vic, Andy, Tony and CC all had a zip up hoodie on but other than that it was like I was in a dream from a year ago when I didn't know these guys personally; I had to rub my eyes to make sure that this was reality. Sure enough, this was real life and I looked around at all of the tattooed torsos them I looked at my boyfriend's arm that loosely snaked around my waist. I started tracing his tattoos and smiling when he giggled because he was very ticklish; I stopped before he bounced me off of his lap from his laughing fit. I leaned my head back on his neck and looked at him before lightly kissing his nose and giving him a small wink. I got up and placed my cup on the table before grabbing a cigarette and lighter from my tent, "Anyone want to enjoy a smoke on the lake with me?" I said smiling as Andy, Tony, Mike and Kenzie all got up to join me; leaving Vic, Ash, Jaime, CC, Jake and Jinxx to talk amongst themselves. I sat on the log lighting up my cigarette before passing the lighter around because I knew that none of them had one. "We're heading back to your house today, right?" Kenzie asked excitedly. I nodded and shot a glance at Andy who had a smirk on his; I knew what he was thinking so I placed my hand on top of his and gave it a squeeze basically telling him yes. "I think I'm going to bring Jaime to my house to have dinner with my parents. " Kenzie said nervously but in her eyes she was very excited. "That's good but I bet you ten bucks that Sean is going to make a comment on his hair and James is going to pull each of you aside about him." I said laughing slightly. Her family meant well but they were INSANE. Saying that got a chuckle out of the three boys. Jaime was in for one hell of a night. "You're probably right but it's illegal to kill someone so I guess they can't do much damage to him physically." Kenzie said before releasing a nervous chuckle. Mike and Tony both looked at each other and then looked at Kenzie and I. "Please don't let your family ruin him mentally, he's already a little fucked up from his last girlfriend." Mike explained. Andy, Kenzie and myself now had confused looks on our faces because Jaime seemed like he was just hyper all the time and we thought nothing of it. "Why? What did she do to him? I know he gets depressed sometimes when we talk about us in the future but I never really thought it was more than just his nerves." Kenzie said with a concerned look in her eyes. "Well, he gets depressed because he really loved this girl and went to propose to her and when he did she laughed and said he would never be good enough for her and she left him. He swore that he would never let himself get too close to another girl after that." Tony sighed. Mike's eyes went wide when he saw the hurt look in Kenzie's eyes then hit Tony before speaking. "I'm pretty sure he will break his promise to himself for you though. He really loves you, Kenz." He said with a reassuring smile. She gave him a weak smile but it soon turned to tears. She got up and walked down the little path along the lake and I figured it'd be best to leave her be before talking to her. "She just needs a little bit to let what you just told her to sink in." I said. We all got up and left Kenzie to walk around and calm down. When we got closer to camp I told Andy I was going to talk to Kenzie and make sure she was okay and to just tell everyone we went for a walk because I knew they would ask where we were. I ran as fast as I could back to the log where Kenzie was now sobbing quietly to herself. "I don't want to talk to you." She spat. She probably thought I was Jaime. "It's just me." I said soothingly. We had been through so much together and I hated to see my bestfriend upset over anything. "Becca, I don't know what to do. Should I talk to him or just let it go and get my heart broken. I don't even know anymore. I know he was hurt by that girl but I don't want him to feel anything but love for me like I do for him." she said as wept into my shoulder as I smoothed her hair down soothingly. "I know. You're gonna need to talk to him about it eventually and make sure he knows you would never do that to him." I replied. "Can you go and tell him I need to talk to him please. I don't want to do it with everyone around us." She looked at me with pleading eyes as if I wouldn't do it. I just nodded and gave her a quick hug before sprinting back to where everyone was waiting for both of us to return. I slowed down to walk over to Jaime and whisper to him that Kenzie was at the lake and needed to talk to him before going to make myself a very strong drink and sitting on Andy's lap. Everybody looked at me silently while I took a sip from my drink. "Is she okay?" Andy whispered into my ear before nipping at it causing me to let out a small squeak and blush a little when everybody stopped to see what it was. "She's fine she just needs to talk it over with Jaime and I'm sure they'll be fine." I replied in a hushed tone. "And you really need to stop biting my ear, I'm gonna end up with a weird bruise." I said with a light giddiness in my voice. Before Andy could make and annoyingly cute remark Kenzie came back and sat down. I immediately jumped up and sat down next to her. "You okay boo?" I asked looking into her glassy eyes. "He.. He wants you and Vic to go see him." She didn't even look at me; she just had a blank look smeared on her face while she stared at the ground. I handed her my drink and rubbed her back comfortingly before getting up and grabbing Vic's hand and pulling him to where Jaime was. "What are you doing?" Vic said while trying to get me to stop pulling him like a little kid. "Kenzie said Jaime wanted to talk to us. Mike and tony told her about the ex that broke his heart when he proposed to her and they talked about it now it's our turn to talk to him." I said while releasing his hand and continuing on to see how our friend was. I jogged the rest of the way to the lake and quickly sat down next to a teary Jaime; my first thought was to give him a hug. "Jaime, are you okay?" I knew he wasn't but I might as well ask. "Where's Vic? I need him here too." His voice was shaky and his breaths were ragged but as soon as Vic sat down on the opposite side of his he calmed down slightly. "Tell us what happened." Vic said finally breaking the uncomfortable silence. Jaime was silent for a few minutes before taking a few deep breaths and explained everything. "Well, when I ran over here Kenzie was crying I asked her what was wrong and all she said was 'your ex.' Then I started to cry and I explained what happened with her. I told her I am still hurt by it but she could help me through it. I just feel really stupid for letting a girl who broke my heart, break my girlfriends heart too. I don't know how to fix it. I fucked everything up." he sobbed quietly. "In this situation, I can't really tell you how to fix it but I can tell you I can help you guys. I'm always here to vent and I can talk to Kenzie because she used to have the same commitment issues with her friends." I said as I was trying my best to make him feel better. He just looked at me with a grateful look in his eyes and a very weak smile. "I know you love Kenzie a lot and you two are basically soul mates. You two need to be there for each other like all of us are here for you." Vic said struggling to find the right words to say. "That's the problem! I do love her a lot and she means everything to me but I'm psyching myself out because I don't want to get my heart broken like I did the last time." I felt so bad for Jaime when he said that but I was also mad that he thought Kenzie would intentionally hurt him. "Kenzie will never hurt you like that bitch did. She would never be so cruel to you or embarrass you like that. She wants to marry you and have kids with you one day! Hell, we even want to get pregnant at the same time and have our children grow up together!" I was tearing up but they were happy tears from just thinking about all of the conversations I've had with Kenzie about our futures with our boyfriends. I got a hopeful look from Jaime and a shocked look from Vic. "She does?" Jaime finally spoke. I just nodded and laughed. I got up knowing I had made this situation a little better and left so Vic and Jaime could have their own conversation. I got close to the campsite and saw all the tents and food packed up and everyone looked like they were in a great mood. I stepped into the tight circle they had formed and saw my boyfriend and my brother having a little rap battle. I don't know if I should be scared or happy that this is going on. I walked over and stood between Ashley and Mike. "What's going on?" I whispered to Ashley; he was closer in height to me and I wasn't about to stretch myself to ask Mike. "Well, Andy's kicking your brother, his friends and our friends' asses in our little rap battle." My face was just pure shock. I never knew Andy could rap. I stood back and listened; I knew my brother was good but damn Andy's got his ass beat. They finished and we all decided that Andy had won again; he called out Tony for the last battle (or so we thought) of the night before we went home. As Tony walked to the center of the circle and stood across from Andy, a smile bigger than one any of us have ever seen on him made its way to his face. "I'm not cocky or anything, but you don't even know who you're messing with." Tony said while laughing. Everyone that was standing, hurried back to grab their chairs and sat close by the two unlikely rappers. They went back and forth for almost 8 minutes before Vic and Jaime came back hearing all of our commotion. They figured out what was going on and sat down like the rest of us. Andy and Tony were getting really into it and it was getting kind of scary. After about ten more minutes of them throwing low blows towards each other I had to break it up. "Alright guys, stop. This is getting out of hand." I said stepping between the two men who were growing angrier by the second. Andy started inching closer to Tony, inevitably enclosing me between them. "Andy, STOP." I pushed Andy back and he stumbled a bit. The look in his eyes made me terrified; I had never seen him so infuriated. Everyone just sat around watching intently trying to figure out where this situation was going. I tried my hardest to get Andy to look me in the eyes but I couldn't; he looked like my pitbull, Felony, when she sees food. I was truly scared for Tony but I had to snap Andy out of his rage so I slapped him. I was kind of scared that he would hit me or be really angry and break up with me. I looked over his face, frantically looking for some kind of emotion other than anger. At this point I was tearing up because I thought he would never love me again. "Andy…" my voice cracked as I slowly stepped towards him hoping he wouldn't reject me. I looked at the shock and hurt that was now on his face and it hurt me to see that I really did hurt him. "Andy.. I.. I'm sorry but I had to." I started to get choked up and couldn't muster up enough words to even describe how sorry I was. He still hadn't said anything and I was just breaking down; I ran as fast and as far as I could from the one I loved but had hurt. I could hear faint yells of my name in the background as I ran but I couldn't turn back to see who was calling me because I can never forgive myself for what I had just done. I ran until I reached the local airplane field that was only a 5 minute walk from my house but I didn't want to go back there either. Nobody was here today because the weather was supposed to get bad so I sat against a tree and sobbed loudly; I knew no one besides my oldest brother, who is dead, would know where I would most likely be. I cried until no tears came out, my voice was hoarse and I could barely speak, I felt like I could die right here and I couldn't care less.

_BACK AT THE CAMPSITE_

Everybody looked shocked at what just happened. "Dude, What the fuck? Thanks for breaking my little sister's heart." Scott said more pissed off at Andy than anybody else. He ended up punching a tree knowing what she could do to herself and has done to herself after her last boyfriend hurt her. She always became depressed and never talked to anyone but tried to act like nothing was wrong. Scott knew she kept a razor blade on her all the time but he never thought she would use it for self-harming herself; he never thought about it until now. Everybody was freaking out because they heard thunder rolling in and knew they had to find Becca before it rained. "This really isn't the time to say this but I think we should bring all the camp stuff back to the house then go look for Becca." Ryley suggested. "You're probably right." Scott said with sadness in his voice. "Pile as much as you can on the quad and I'll drive it back so most of you can start looking for her." Paige said knowing she can't do much to help with the search besides make it easier on Scott and everyone else. The group broke down and rolled up the tents, collapsed the chairs, put the food away and strapped everything onto the ATV. Paige then took off toward the house while Jake and CC took the last three chairs and the rest of the food and walked to the home they were sharing. Andy sat down in frustration, he hadn't said anything but he now remembered what happened; he remembered getting mad at Tony for saying he was just a boy with eyeliner who loved his music, he didn't really know why he got so mad but that was the last thing he remembers before Becca slapped him in the face. He was in shock but he didn't hate her for it, if she hadn't he probably would've beaten the shit out of Tony. He felt terribly for scaring Becca that bad and he needed to fix this right now. Everyone was looking at Andy, some of them looked concerned but most of them had hidden anger in their features. "So, are you gonna help look for her or not?" Scott spat. Andy just nodded, he didn't Becca's brother and almost everyone else to hate him but he would probably hate himself too if it came to this. Everybody split into groups to look for Becca; Andy, Vic and Mike were one group, Scott, Ant and Ashley were the second, Jaime, Ryley and Marrissa were the third and Jinxx, Kenzie and Tony were the last group. They all went to the places Becca always went when she was upset, they all had their phones on them so if they found her they would text everyone.

_BECCA'S POV_

I felt as though just crying lifted my anxieties but I knew better; I knew they would come looking for me and I knew it was going to rain soon. I looked around to see if there was any shelter nearby and there was, thankfully. I slowly got up and walked towards a little awning that was attached to a tree and had a wooden bench under it. I sat down and let out a small yelp because a nail was sticking out of the bench and it dug into my arm. It wasn't that deep but it stung; I guess it's just another painful thing to add to my shit list of today's events. I gently lay my head back on the warped wood and breathe in deeply; I stopped crying a while ago but my body felt like it could burst into flames and I just wanted to calm down. I could hear footsteps and loud laughs coming from the woods; it didn't sound like any of my friends so I calmed down a bit until I saw who was making all of the noise. I waited a couple minutes and saw my neighbors Scottie and Rico; they were my brother, Dave's bestfriends. I kept my head down hoping to god that they wouldn't see me but just my luck, they did and ran over to me. As they got into eAarshot they called my name and I couldn't help but grin, they always knew how to make me smile and laugh at times like this. "Hey guys! I haven't seen you since the funeral, how are you?" I said trying to hide all the hurt but to no avail it was still obvious to them. "Were good but you don't look so good, what's up?" Scottie said; he was the type of person you could talk to for ten minutes and feel like you've known him your whole life, Rico on the other hand was the quiet one. Rico wasn't really his name, it was Chris but everyone called him Rico because he was Puerto Rican. "I'm better but it's a long over-drawn story to explain." I sighed. "Well, we've got all the time in the world for you my dear." Scottie replied tugging me back to the bench. "Are you out here by yourself?" Rico asked with a concerned look. To all of Dave's friends I was their little sister too and they were all just as protective of me as Dave and Scott were. "No, I'm here with a bunch of friends, my brother and his friends, we went camping." I sniffled and looked down at the ground choking back my tears. "So what happened? You only come out here when you really need to get away from everything and everyone." Scottie asked. "Well, my boyfriend Andy and our Friend Tony were having a rap battle type thing and.. it was getting out of hand so I tried to break it up because I didn't want either of them getting hurt. I ended up pushing Andy back to try and stop him and it didn't really work and he was scaring me so I slapped him so he would snap out of his rage and.. I.." I started to cry but tried to continue anyway. "I went up to him to apologize but it was like he wasn't registering anything. He just looked shocked and hurt which scared me even more and I felt like he would never love me again so I ran away from them and came here about an hour ago. I'm sure their all looking for me by now." I stopped crying but the tears still rolled freely down my face. "Aww, Becky. I'm sure he still loves you and feels like an ass for scaring you." Rico said rubbing my back in a comforting way. "Yeah, he probably feels like a douche and thanks for telling us you have a boyfriend!" Scottie said as he playfully punched my arm; I couldn't help but laugh. "If he doesn't take you back, I'll have a nice talk with him." Rico said with a wink. I laughed even harder think about Rico, who is 5'8, trying to fight Andy who is 6'2. "Rico, that's sweet of you but you're a midget compared to him." I said still giggling. "Then you must feel like a bug, you're shorter than I am." Rico said now laughing with Scottie and me. is topped abruptly when I heard my name being called not far in the distance. "What's wrong?" Rico asked. I looked at him and motioned for him to listen. "You've gotta face them sometime Becky." Scottie said as he gave me a reassuring squeeze to the shoulder. "I know, I just feel like this camping trip was a bust kind of like that fourth of July party Dave had when Phil kicked the mortar over and it popped my pool and went into the screen house." I laughed at the memory; nothing went right that night, my brother's friend Phil knocked over a large firework and it whizzed into a screen house with a bunch of people in it and it exploded, His friends Christian and Jenna got into a fight and my mom had to chase them down my driveway to get them back to the house, Phil and his girlfriend got into a fight and Phil ended up driving home drunk and running his own mailbox over. Needless to say, my brother's friends were my entertainment at all times. "I remember that night! That night was so crazy." Rico reminisced. "I remember that night so well, that's the night your mom got officially named 'Mama Dukes' by Sarah because she almost knocked Christian out." Scottie laughed. I looked over to the wooded area as I heard the voices get louder and louder but I still saw no one. I was starting to get angry because I wanted to know who it was calling my name; I just hoped that it wouldn't be Andy. "Do you want to go look for whoever is calling you?" Rico inquired. "I guess so, like you guys said, I have to face them at some point; especially since they're all living at my house for another two months." I let out a weak laugh in an attempt to calm myself down, but it didn't really work. I was thrown from my semi-meditation by Scottie pulling at my hand to get up. I kept my head down while the three of us walked toward the darkened woods. Scottie and Rico conversed with each other but I had no intentions of listen to what they were talking about. I snapped out of my haze when the people calling my name got extremely loud. I looked up to see Kenzie, Tony and Jinxx. "Becca, are you okay?" Jinxx asked running towards me. Apparently I had been holding my breath the whole walk and darkness soon fell over me. "Becca!" everyone yelled as I fell to the ground. The last thing I heard was Kenzie on the phone telling someone they had found me and I blacked out.

_* A/N*_ Sorry for not posting this chapter sooner but I kept putting it off and then adding to it when I had an idea, I hope you like it