( This story goes back to the present times after the Redit Into Reality chapter. My girlfriend made this chapter and I helped her edit it a bit! )
After the whole entitled mom situation, we went back to the beach house and hung out there for a while. It was kinda boring so we decided to go to this little campsite near the beach and stay the night there. For context, we ended up buying a tent from the store along with some other stuff. This is different from any kind of vacation I've had. I'm sick, so I've never really been camping before. I can't be around fire without choking up bad. But we brought my meds and made sure I had a comfy place to rest.
"Sooo how do we set this damn thing up?" says Travis.
"Man, I thought you went to church camp Jesus Boy." Todd replies.
"Yeah but like we slept in comfy fuckin cabins."
"You two do realize there's instructions right?" Chug says, picking up the instructions for the tent.
"Well yeah but heh I'm to high to read" Todd says. Chug just facepalms and Travis has a gay struggle trying to set up that damn tent.
Everyone but Sal,Maple, the 2 kids of course and I attempt to set up the fucker and fail the first 4 times, but hey they get it eventually I guess.
"How are you holding up Lar?" Neil asks, a bit tired from setting up that monstrosity.
"I'm okay. A little tired but ok" I say.
"That's good. Just checking up on you"
"Fuuuuuuccccck now we have to empty all our shit into the tent." says Travis
Lucky for us, it's a 16-person tent and there's 11 of us including the kids. Me and Sal will get one room, Neil, Todd, and the kids will get the second one, Maple and Chug in the 3rd room and Travis Donavan and Ash will get the last one.
After a about 45 minutes, we were finally done making our tent livable. We wanted to get some food for everyone but we decide that a campfire would be a little too risky with my garbage lungs. So Neil decided to light the tiny grill already at the site, which I can kinda be around. I mean I'm not supposed to, but I don't wanna pass off my opportunity to spend time with everyone. I still have to wear a filtered mask to make sure I don't choke from the tiny fire, but it's better than no s'mores. It's nice. Really nice. I don't remember ever even camping before.
I speak up in the silence.
"Hey uhh.. this is really nice you guys. I've never uh.. I've never been camping before."
"You haven't???" says Travis.
"No. I've been sick remember?"
"Oh yeahhh I forget you're dying!!"
"Travis!" Ash says slapping him a bit.
"Whaaat? He is!"
"So you've never roasted marshmallows over the fire either?" Maple chimes in trying to change the subject.
"No, I usually can't even be around fire. But I uh.. I made sure I'd be okay this time!"
"I'm really happy for ya Larry Face." Sal says, smiling and leaning over to put his arm around me.
"Larry face?" Maple asks
"Just a little nickname he has. I think it's cute" Sal says not wanting to explain it.
"Fuck you all I'm making some motherfucking s'mores man!" Says Todd.
Everyone then just jolts up just now remembering them. I'm excited but confused a bit. Like how does it work?...
So I find out how it works uh. That's fucking cool! Everyone just starts digging into some s'mores and stuff. Soda has marshmallow and chocolate all over her face and Megan is just munching on those yummy strawberry baby yogurt drops. I back away from the grill, taking off my mask to eat my s'more. Finally, one that feels real. I still got chocolate and marshmallow all over myself like when I was a kid making them in the microwave! I love this feeling. It feels like family. After eating too many marshmallows and getting messy from the s'mores, Neil puts out the fire and we get back in our big tent. We each have lanterns, so we light some so we can see. We could've gone to bed, but nobody but the kids were tired. And we'll since we're spending so much time together, I decided to suggest talking about how we became the person we are today. You know so we can get to know each other even better than we already do. Everyone agreed on it. Might as well right?
"Who's gonna go first?" asks Sal. Everyone glances around. Donovan peaks his shaggy purple head up.
"I'll go." he says ready to tell his story.
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Only Way Out
FanfictionWork in progress. But this is a swap au for sally face. This story may contain triggering moments not suitable for younger audience. Suicide, alcohol, abuse and many other mature themes will be involved in this story. Also yes there will probably be...
