Ty sighed on the phone while talking to Nora making his girlfriend's heart hurt for him and the entire Cam´s situation. " I honestly thought she was moving forward but yesterday she saw him at the vault and Chase said she broke down. Apparently he went into his class and then proceed to ignore her even though he told Natalie that the choreography was great, after that Chase and Cam did a dance, and he didn't congratulate them either. "
"Wow, he sounds exactly like Cam described him in the early stages of them knowing each other. And I don't understand why she likes him because it seemed that he actually never change the way he treated her, did she lie to us so we would like him?" Nora was starting to get mad at the entire situation, she wanted to fly into the city and punch the lights out of Moose or whatever his real name was. Moose couldn't be his real name, right? Like who would call his kid like that, maybe a hunter or some nature freak. Ok, she was getting out of the context here.
"Honestly, the thought has crossed my mind, but Chase told me that the guy was actually very well behave with Cam, and I'm inclined to believe him because I can't imagine Chase letting someone wrong Cam in any way. Still, I don't understand what exactly is going on because after a month they should be in a better place not broken up, but that is not the point. Cam is not coping as well as I thought, I was glad to hear that she had ended things with him when she discovered him cheating but it's been a month and if Cam is so affected that she cries when she sees him." Ty stop talking when he heard someone clearing their throat next to him and slowly he turned and saw Cam there and he cursed under his breath. Damn it she was such a little ninja.
Nora called his name on the phone, but he couldn't bring himself to say anything back so Cam took a couple of steps and took the cell phone out of his hands and answer Nora, of course, the girl cursed too. She then put the phone on speaker and told both of them that even though she appreciated the sentiment behind their conversation she wasn't ok with them discussing her love life."
Cam gave Ty his phone back and walked out of his room and into hers closing the door behind her. The couple said their goodbyes not before Nora told Ty that maybe it was time to come home. After getting off the phone, he texted Chase telling him what happened and asking his advice about his possibly leaving the next day. The only respond he received was a short "talk to cam." Ty stood and just in case his little sister decided against him staying until Sunday like he had planned he got his things ready in his backpack. That's how Cam found him a couple of minutes later when she walked into his room.
"You are leaving? I thought you were going to stay until the end of the week. Is it because you are mad at me?" She sounded and looked so small that for a second he had trouble recognizing what was happening but soon something snapped in his head or heart, and he engulfed her in a hug. Ty repeated that they were ok, he wasn't mad at all, and she had every reason to be pissed at him for talking about her personal business with Nora without consulting her before. Cam was never so quick to cry and the fact that she was this way not only worry him, but it made him want to hunt Moose down for what he did.
They stayed like that for a long time until she calmed down and Ty was able to explain why he was packing his stuff. To his joy Cam laughed and called him dumb, she admitted overreacting at his conversation with Nora. Cam was well aware that Ty and Nora discussed everything going on in their lives including her except if she had made it clear to her brother that it was something she wasn't comfortable sharing. Usually, that never happened, Cam had come to trust Nora and felt comfortable sharing most of her life with her. Nonetheless, Ty apologized again about talking to Nora but made it clear that it was out of concerned and nothing more.
"I didn't cry because I saw him you know." She proceeded to tell Ty about the events of the day and the confrontation with Moose. She had finally opened up about how she felt about the way he treated her and had called him out on not apologizing to her about the way he behaved. Ty was shocked to learn about Moose not even own it up to the way he had mislead her in their relationship, it actually made him regret not even insulting the guy when he had finally been face to face with him at the vault. He told Cam this, and they talked about how important was that she had opened up to Moose about her feelings and that maybe that was the reason behind her trouble walking away from the situation until that point.
They spent a couple of hours talking about how she felt, and she realized many things that had been bothering her for a while, and soon she felt stronger. Ty announced that he was hungry, and brother and sister went into the kitchen to prepared dinner while goofing around and remanence about the past they share in the apartment with their grandmother. Soon the food was ready and as it usually happened Chase appeared in the flat just in time to eat. They didn't speak of Moose for the rest of the time Ty stayed in the city which was fine with Cam because she was too happy enjoying his brother presences to think of anything else.
On Friday however Ty went to the vault with Chase just to say goodbye to the Pirates and the kids. They spent the afternoon dancing and telling stories of their adventures when they were little in the city trying to come up with clever ways to earned money for sweets and gifts for Cam's birthday and Christmas. When they were in the middle of their last one they heard someone walking in and soon enough Moose and a girl, which they assumed was Sophie, were in the kitchen. Their fists were clenched, and they stopped talking making everyone aware of the change in their mood. One of the kids asked them what was wrong making them snapped out of their anger trance and soon they were back to telling the end of the story earning laughs from everyone aside from the couple. Luke stood and walked towards the new arrivals saying hello to both of them and enjoying how pale Moose looked since he noticed Ty and Chase in the room.
"Hey guys, glad you could make it. Please joined us the kids are just leaving, and the adults are going to have something to eat and talk a little more. Sophie, please say hi to Natalie she has been waiting for you since I send you that text." Oh yeah, he had sent a text inviting the happy couple to joined them. Since Moose had the great idea of insulting Cam's completely justify outburst in front of Natalie, the couple had been itching to teach him a lesson. So, even though they hadn't discussed with Ty and Chase the way they were going to do it they were sure that using them to scare the living lights out of Moose would be more than welcome by the guys.
Sophie started her way toward Natalie that was conveniently standing next to Chase and Ty while Moose looked in horror what was happening and tried his best to come up with a way to stop it. Luke smiled at him in the most innocent way possible, trying to deny any chance of Moose accusing him of orchestrating this situation which of course he was incredibly proud of creating. "Come on, let's join the girls."
Luke purposely walked faster away from his friend and toward his lovely girlfriend who he hoped had time enough to alert the boys about their plan. He soon joined the group and noticed how the guys seemed uncomfortable but still were pleasant toward Sophie, who was telling a story about her work in a play that was about to open on Broadway soon. Sophie was a great girl, and he was feeling a little guilty about putting her in the middle of this situation, but it was the only way to punish Moose so he got over that feeling in the end. Been in the same circle, Sophie asked Ty about the play he was in, and both of them started to talk directors and companies in their different cities.
Moose found his way to the group minutes later, and Sophie was quick to put her arms around his left one while leaning her head against his shoulder while continuing the conversation. She was completely unaware of the looks the guys kept giving Moose and how worry he seemed of the possibility that they would say or do something against him. What nobody knew then was that Sophie was never aware that Cam and Moose had formalized their relationship so for her this situation was completely guilt free. Natalie noticed the way Sophie carry herself during the conversation and doubt appeared in her mind, and she decided to test her theory.
"You know Ty's sister, Cam, is also an amazing dancer. I bet she would be able to part of any play if she decided to change careers." Ty and Chase smiled, and Sophie looked a little taken aback with the comment, especially since she always pride herself on being one of the chosen ones to be able to put her passion for dancing and performing into action as a paying job. For her that someone could say that they could go into the business and succeed was borderline insulting but seeing the boys reaction she decided not to comment on that. However the name of the girl sounded familiar to her, and as she turned to asked Moose if she knew her, Sophie noticed how uncomfortable he looked.
Quickly she thought back to the emails Moose used to send her before she decided to reappear in his life after securing a job on Broadway and the name sounded more familiar. "Is she the girl you were going out with before we got back together?"
Her intention was to say it low enough for only Moose to hear her but the closeness of the others let them hear her question and they all tuned in to what he was going to say. Moose decided to nod once and immediately excuse himself to go to the wanted to get out of there, but it was evident that there so he was going to stayed in the bathroom for a couple of minutes and then go back telling everybody that was feeling ill and successfully getting out of there with Sophie. In the meantime, he hoped nobody would say anything about Cam or his relationship although he knew it was almost impossible for that to happened.
Sophie turned to see the rest of the group after Moose went to the bathroom and she knew that there was something about that girl that made him uncomfortable so she decided to investigate. "Is this Cam that you talk about a friend of Moose? I know he was going out sometimes with a girl, and I think her name was Cam."
The entire group tense and wanted so much to tell her just how wrong she was but they decided against it for now. At least the majority of them thought that, but there was one of them that was not on the same page, Natalie cleared her throat "Moose and Cam know each other, they were actually more than friends."
"Nat, I think is best if I am the one that tells her."Moose was standing in the door, but that didn't startle Nat or made her feel uncomfortable about what she was about to tell Natalie.
"Fine by me, is good that you decided, to be honest for once." With that last comment, she said goodbye to Natalie and the rest of the group and went to her and Luke's room. The others stayed not wanting to miss the opportunity to see Moose suffered, if he wanted some privacy, he was going have to move to another place as far as they were concerned. Moose realized this and asked Sophie to go with him to another room, but she refused. "I want to know what happened. Let's do this here in case you need help "remembering" details."
Reluctantly Moose told Sophie that he had actually more than dated Cam. "We were together for a month before you came back. But I promised things had ended before you and I got back together if you don't believe me ask them."
Just as those words left his mouth, he wished to rewind time and take them back because the looks he was receiving from his friend and the two other boys could kill anyone. Sophie didn't even flinch at the information that he had giving her and then turned to look at the boys looking for confirmation about what she had heard. Luke looked at the other two and decided that he would be the one giving the extra information if Moose was going to be open about the situation he was going to be it too.
"They dated for a while and then Moose asked Cam to be his girlfriend a month later you arrived, and he started to ignore until that night that you saw each other at the park. Then she saw you two and ended things with him. So, yes he never cheated on you." Sophie's eyes widen at the way Luke told her what had happened and without even saying a word turned and went to the door, Moose panicked and run behind her leaving the boys alone in the room.
"Strangely enough, I don't feel better about the situation, and I don't think Cam would if she knew what happened here," Chase said and Ty only nodding agreeing to the statement, even Luke admitted that it wasn't as satisfactory as they thought it would be.
Ty and Chase stayed with Luke for a while waiting to see if Moose came back but after an hour, they gave up finally walking towards the door saying their final goodbyes when it suddenly opened, and Moose appeared. It took him a couple of seconds to realize that they were all in front of him before he launched himself toward Luke ready to fight the guy only to be stop by Chase. "Let me go, you are gonna paid for what you did. How dare you tell those things to Sophie? You almost cost me my relationship with her."
Chase gave him a stronger push making him stumbled a little while Luke looked at him with sadness in his eyes, his friend was losing it. Ty took a step toward Moose and offer him his hand, but the boy didn't take and stand by himself. "Luke didn't do anything wrong. Your lack of honesty was the only reason why you had a problem with Sophie, and like you mention it didn't cost you anything, it barely did so just be happy about it. Also, when you wrong people you should apologize that's common sense they shouldn't have to tell you to do it."
Moose anger lessened, but he still tried to argue that he didn't do anything wrong toward Sophie and that he had apologized to Cam, sure not in the best way, but he did it. The way the other guys looked at him made Moose feel small, and he sighed. "I want to make things right with her. I'm sure that I don't want a relationship with her, but it has nothing to do with the kind of person she is, is only because I'm in love with Sophie. I know now that I did her wrong and now more than ever I understand how wrongly I acted."
He went on to tell them the conversation he had with Sophie after he managed to catch up with her. Sophie went on and on about how she didn't know that he and Cam had been together, then she made a point to tell him that it was wrong of him to treat Cam like he had done. Sophie wanted to make it completely clear that she wasn't a person that would get in the middle of the relationship, but there was a part of Moose that wonder what exactly did she think was going on between him and Cam when he wrote to her. Also, if she was so mad about the entire situation how come she wasn't ending things with him or telling him to contact Cam and apologize.
Still, he kept those thoughts to himself and only told them what Sophie said to him making a point of putting her in the best light possible. "I'm really sorry, but I don't know how to apologize, or how to act with her."
The other three listened carefully and noticed the way he was cautious to portrait Sophie in front of them but let it pass because it was evident that he care for her. As for what he said about Cam they understood that due to all that had happened between them he didn't know how to handle the situation. "Listen if you really want to do something, here is what we think you should do."
When Ty arrived at Cam's, she was already asleep, while standing at her door looking at his little sister sleeping form he wondered if the guy he spent the last couple of hours would continue to affect her life and her mood. Well, he was sure that he was going to hear from him in the future but at least the next two days were going to be only for him and his sister. In a couple of hours, they were going on a road trip to Boston until Sunday when they were coming back, and he was flying home.
Ty decided against sleeping, feeling a little anxious about the conversation and started packing his things and preparing some things to eat on the road. An hour later a sleepy Cam appeared in the kitchen "Come on, is 4 am how are you hungry? Couldn't you wait for a couple of hours when we are on our way?"
He smiled at her annoyances since they were little he always had snacks in the middle of the night and even though she complained about him making noise but still joined him. "Sorry but I need my snacks, don't act like I'm the only one."
Cam fought the smile that was threating to take over her face at the memory of many moments like this. Ty put the food away and told her to get ready so they could go out now and have some breakfast on their way. She ran to her room while he took the food out again to make a couple of sandwiches just to mess with her and when she came back a couple of minutes later she laughed at the scene of her brother sitting on the couch eating.
He smiled back at her showing the food in his mouth and Cam throw a pillow of him calling him disgusting, soon they found themselves laughing and leaving the apartment going on their road trip. They had a fantastic time, and when it was time for them to come back they were a little sad to part ways, Chase came to the apartment and after taking a couple of pictures, they all share a hug and Ty went on his way. "Is always sad to see him go."
"But I'm still here don't forget about that," Chase smiled at her and went to sit on the sofa where she soon joined him. While Cam talked about her road trip with her brother Chase ponder telling her about the conversation they had with Moose about her until Cam´s cell ring and a text from Moose appeared.
She stood from the couch and walked a couple of steps away from Chase and read the messages, her face seemed to be the mix of many feelings, Cam sat down tossing her phone to the side and turned toward Chase. "I don't want to talk about it."
They sat in silence for the rest of the evening and just as Chase was leaving Cam told him that Moose had asked her to talked. "There is a part of me that wants to talk, that wants an honest explanation, but another side of me doesn't want anything to do with him."
"Be sure to think what matters to you the most and then go with that. He wants to talk? Well perfect for him but think what is best for you. Don't rush into anything." With that, Chase went on his way, and Cam was alone with her thoughts.
Ps: Sorry for the delay but life's being crazy lately.