A week later Cam finally talked to Ty about their fight and her heart continue to break for her brother when he opened up to her. "I didn't want you to know that she said no when I asked her but I guess I should have known that you were going to wonder why we never got engage. You see Nora's parents had a very ugly divorce and for the longest time, she blamed herself for it. Her dad used to tell her mom that she paid more attention to Nora's dancing schedule than to him, which was a very horrible thing to say."
Ty continue to tell Cam how difficult it was for Nora to think about getting marry after everything she had seen and heard from his dad and mom at that time. "Don't feel bad for me though. I love Nora, and I just want to be with her so as long as I can do that, I´m cool."
Cam was sure that he wasn't cool with not marrying Nora because he wouldn't be so irritated about the subject if he honestly was but she was not going to argue with him anymore. Moving off the subject she told Ty about her conversation with Moose and the phone when silent for a while to the point that Cam checked to see if Ty had ended the call. Finally, he told her to be careful about having Moose in her life again. "That dude proved to be dangerous Cam and of course I don't mean he would try to take advantage of you because you can kick his ass. Still, you need to take everything he says carefully, ok?"
She would have love to argue with her brother, telling him that he was way out of line thinking that she was going to care about anything that Moose would tell her no matter what it was. Cam knew herself enough to know that Ty's words held some truth behind them, so she was going to take them into serious consideration and she told him that. After talking to her brother she felt a huge weight lifting from her shoulders, Cam hated when she and her brother were mad at each other, now she felt at peace.
The next few weeks everything was great, her schoolwork was manageable, her job was amazing, and her job at the coffee shop gave her a much-needed change in her routine. The only thing that she didn't like was the amount of time Chase, and Andie were spending preparing for their wedding, don't get her wrong she was fine with helping them but it soon was the only thing they talk about. Finally, they took Ty and Nora on their offer to visit them; Cam found herself alone for two weeks and happy to stop hearing about wedding stuff. They were leaving on Sunday morning giving her tons of advice about what she needed to do in case of emergencies and other stuff. After hugging her the couple left for the airport promising to call her once they arrived at Ty's.
Things were going great for her the first few days until she got caught in the rain on wednesday and by Friday she was sick and not sick like take a pill and move on by sick like write your will sick, or at least that's how she felt. Cam was thankful to have presented all her papers before this, and she wrote to her professors excusing herself from class, she also called Jacob and he told her to rest and not to worry. Everybody was extremely nice to her; the pre-school even told her to take the next week off and to rest.
By Sunday she had a fever and felt alone, she wanted to call some of her friends but at the same time, she felt bad for ruining someone's weekend. Destiny made the decision for her when Luke called her to say hi and noticed how she sounded, within an hour Natalie and Luke were in her apartment taking care of her, bringing her soup and other necessities. They offer her to stayed the night, but she declined their offer telling them that she had no issues at night, sure enough, that night was the worst night of her cold.
On Monday Luke came back but he seemed nervous, Cam tried to ignore it at first, but his odd behavior mix with her lack of sleep made her confront the guy and not in the best way possible. She pretty much threaten the boy with bodily harm. "Fine, I'll tell you but just so we are clear. I'm taller and stronger than you, so I'm not afraid of you."
"You should be. Two overprotective brothers raised me; I know how to hurt you no matter how tall and strong you think you are." That made Luke nervous he could completely see Chase and Ty training Cam like a little soldier in case any guy tried to make a move on her.
Ty admitted that he was a little scared now making Cam smile through her obvious discomfort. "Natalie and I were talking about how we would like to be with you today, so we were checking our schedules. We were focused on them while talking and we didn't realize that Moose was there, and he heard everything we said. He knows you are sick; he wants to visit you; I told him not to do it. Cam? Moose said you guys were ok now?"
Cam coughed a couple of times before answering Ty but kept it simple just by saying that he had finally apologized, and they were fine. "We are not friends, but I don't hate him if that is what you are wondering."
He stayed with Cam for the rest of the day until he left at 6 pm to go back to the vault and helped the guys with their club. "I don't know if I'll be able to come tomorrow, but I'm leaving you some soup in the fridge and some bottles of water. If you need anything, please call me or Natalie, ok?"
Cam smiled at him; it was nice to see how caring her new friends were. Jacob and Kirsten had also visited her but they were covering her shifts, so they didn't have a lot of time to come and stayed. Still, they called her several times to checked up on her and she knew that if she ever needed them, they would be there with her. She turned off all the lights and tried without success to sleep so after tossing and turning in her bed for almost an hour Cam gave up and turned the light of her room on and suddenly her phone beep.
Happy for a distraction she reached for her phone and was surprised to see a text from Moose, she hadn't talked to him since they had the conversation about Ty and Nora. Cam never wrote him telling him what the problem was or that she was again in good terms with her brother. Like she had told Luke Cam was ok with Moose but they were not friends, still she wondered how or why exactly was the boy not only writing to her but asking her to come up to her apartment. Thousands of thoughts and some memories invaded her mind, and she fought to stay calm, Cam knew that the only way to get some answers as to the reason why Moose was there was to let him in, so she texted him to come up.
After buzzing Moose in she took a blanket from her bed to put on her sofa so she could have a conversation in the living room instead of her room. The last time Moose had been in her room was two days before their break up when she used to think that he liked her, and his kisses felt like home to her. Cam shook her head regaining her composure and walked into her living room to find Moose already standing there; he looked at her with such worry that she felt herself blush.
"Please go back to bed you need to rest." Moose notice how hesitant Cam was about doing that and he assured her that if she felt uncomfortable with him been in her room he would leave no questions ask. "I won't even sit I promised, I'll stay standing the entire time."
Both of them made their way to Cam's room and while the girl went straight to bed to cover herself with her blankets Moose stood to the side as promised. Finally, after she was ok he took a step forward and pull a couple of things from his backpack making both of them remember of the first time she gave Cam a gift. Soon enough the boy produce a little trash can and a box of Kleenex both of them with cute decorations that match Cam's room decor, after that he took some magazines and a couple of bags of chips and doritos.
"I know you like eating those threw the day and I wasn't sure Luke or Nat knew so now you have some. Also, the magazines you can use to make collages for the kids after you done with them." He continue to ramble for a while after that and Cam could see that he was trying to fill the awkwardness of the moment and that made her smile. Moose stop talking and look at Cam with a sad smile before asking her why she never called him to tell him how things went with Ty, but before Cam could answer he told her that he knew things would be difficult at first when trying to be friends still he wish they could really do it.
Cam started to cough and he was at her side in a second helping her up, Moose asked her if she was sleeping ok and she opened up to him about how bad she was having it. The boy stayed with her until she felt asleep and to her surprise she woke up at 10 am the next day with the smell of eucalyptus invade her senses. Feeling a lot better she stood and notice a little paper telling her to be sure to put the hoodie that on her bed before leaving the room, she did just that and notice little plates with burning eucalyptus in different places around her apartment.
Once at her kitchen she notice Moose cooking and dancing while moving from side to side, she clear her throat and he was so startle that he lost his step and fell. Cam laughed and Moose soon stood up and told her to stop laughing but soon enough he was laughing too. "What exactly happened after I fall asleep?"
Moose went on to explained that he had tuck her in and called his mom to asked her what she used to do with him when he was little and got sick. He then called a couple of markets until he found one that had fresh eucalyptus and after taking her keys, that where in the kitchen, he went out to get some eucalyptus and also some special plates for it. "After I came back I clean a little and put the eucalyptus in strategic places so the smell would fill the apartment without it been too much for you to bare. I stayed here checking the plates and changing them. Don't worry though I only went into your room twice just to check up on you."
"I appreciate what you did Moose, but you didn't have to." She felt weird about the entire situation especially because this kind of behavior made her remember the Moose that did everything in his power to see her every day for two weeks and her heart threaten her with getting excited about this situation too.
To her joy, the boy didn't seem to realize her uneasiness with what he had done and dismissed the entire situation. "Cam, this is what friends do. Now please go back to bed so you can start to feel better."
Reluctantly she did, and he spent the entire day at her apartment taking care of her, she would doze off from time to time and each time she woke up Moose was there with her. By the end of the day, she felt comfortable with him been near again, her brain kept playing little tricks on her with some flashbacks but she managed to keep them to a minimum. That night though she made it clear that he didn't need to stay so he promised to leave after putting all the plates with eucalyptus ready for the night. Still the next morning he was there to check on her and change the plates so the eucalyptus would continue to fill the apartment making it easier for Cam to breath.
By the end of the week, she was fine again and decided to make a little reunion for her friends in thanks for all they did for her and she did invite Moose. When Sophie and Moose arrived, the room went quiet but Cam made sure to say hello in a way that made everyone understand that they were welcome in her apartment. The conversation was great and everyone had a great time, the only thing that seemed odd was how the pirates didn't tend to talk to Sophie. They weren't exactly rude either but their interactions with her and Moose didn't really last a lot of time.
She asked Nat about it and she tried to dismiss the subject but after a while, she gave up and told Cam that they didn't quite like the way Moose was when Sophie was around. "Look she is cool and everything but he turns into such a weirdo, like he is always trying to verify that we are behaving in the best way possible toward her or that things are always the way she likes them. He is stressing us and we think that she does something to him to be like that. He wasn't like that when he was with you."
Natalie felt awful after she noticed how those words made the little brunette look down with a sad expression and she apologize for the unfortunate comment. Cam told her that it was ok but if Moose was the one making them feel awful they should probably tell him. Still, by the end of the night Cam completely understood what the pirates were saying. Sophie was nice enough, but she did give a lot of backhanded compliments to her and the others.
At one point Cam saw Moose trying to sneak outside. She walked towards him and asked him if he needed something. Moose told her that Sophie only drank Pellegrino, so he needed to go for some because the girl couldn't drink anything in Cam's apartment. Just then the girl in question approached them asking Moose if he had her water. "I don't mean to be rude Cam, but tap water isn't my thing. I completely understand that people usually drink it though just not me. Moose, could you please get my water now? I'm thirsty."
Moose could see Cam trying not to say something to Sophie and he appreciated her effort so he assured his girlfriend that he would get her water right then. Sophie nod and went on her way to where Natalie and Luke were talking to joined them and Cam could see the couple exchanging looks once she arrived with them. When Moose came back with the water, Sophie took one sip of it and then leave it to the side just to announce to the room that they were leaving because she needed to rest. Cam was shocked when nobody seemed shocked, some look excited, by the announcement and said her goodbyes to the couple.
The party continued without them for a couple of hours, and everyone had a great time. Later when the last guest left after helping Cam clean, she went to her bed and laid down reaching for her phone to see the time and notice she had texts from Moose. It seemed that after leaving he had been texting her telling her that he had a good time, and that was sorry, he had to leave early. Although she was tempted to ignore the message at the end, Cam sent a quick reply back assuring him that everything was fine and started to get ready to sleep. Just as she was starting to drift asleep Moose called her and they talked for hours "I know everyone is always blaming Sophie about stuff they don't like in my behavior, but that's not fair."
Cam listen to him justified every little aspect of Sophie and for the first time, she noticed that he really didn't see her like the rest of them. Was that what people meant when they say love blinds some people?. When he finish his speech, Mosse asked Cam what she thought about what the others kept saying and the line went silent for a while. "Really? You think they are right?"
"Look I do think you change a little when she is near, but I guess is not exactly because she asks you to. It has to do with the way you act base on what you think she expects or needs and sometimes you are rude, and so is she. I understand for example the Pellegrino thing but her comment was out of line, and you should have told her that. The fact that you didn't when I know that you knew that it was wrong is what everyone is upset about, and they blame it on her. Maybe if you say something, she would realize she was acting wrong, and you wouldn't have to be acting like she needs to be protected." Cam finish her statement and Moose stayed quiet for a moment before telling her that it wasn't rude for Sophie to asked for water and hang up.
It took Cam a moment to understand exactly what had happened and then she got mad, and quickly sent a Moose telling him to grow up and not to text her until he was ready to apologize and listen when someone is only answering a question he asked.
Cam needed a couple of minutes to calmed down and just before falling asleep a small smiled came to her lips; she had managed not to fall for Moose again after him being amazing for the last week and that fact was cool. Also, if he ever apologizes to her Cam knew that she would be able to be his friend now without worrying about falling for him. Yeah, the stupid boy could be good for her in a friend kind of relationship.
On the other side of town, Moose was fuming while reliving all the nights events and the conversation with Cam while telling Shawn about it. After finishing he told Shawn that it was obvious, Cam wasn't over him, and that is why she said what she said. Shawn chuckled a little before telling the boy that he wished Cam wasn't over him but it was obvious she was, sadly he missed how Moose seemed sad about that fact although Shawn knew Moose enough to know that he still felt something for the little brunette. "You know everything she said is true, so good luck apologizing to her. Again."
Moose put his pillow over his face and screamed as loud as he could trying to release some stress. Shawn was right, and Cam was right, and he hated both of them for that but at the same time, he loved both of them. Sadly for Moose he didn't love them the same way and that was going to be a problem for him.
Notes
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