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Abendrot- The color of the sky while the sun is setting.

•••

When I get home from my shift, Porter's car is in my driveway. Am I surprised to see him already here? Not really, I'm actually surprised he didn't show up to work. Inside, I find him in the kitchen seated down next to Zion. "DV! You're finally here!"

"Wow, I see, too lazy to say the whole name now?" I joke.

"What's in the bag?" He asks.

I sit down across from the boys, handing the bag to him and he's quick to look inside. After my shift I decided to pick up some food so we could all eat before we go. I head up stairs, I hear Porter say something to Zion before he's right on my tail. I put on a sweatshirt and head into my bathroom, "You better not eat that Porter!"

"Awe why not?" he follows me once again, giving me pleading eyes through the mirror.

I chuckle and throw my hair up while he gives a longing look at the food, "who are we picking up first?"

"I was thinking about getting Hegan and Kash, then we can go get the girls."

I grab my duffle bag and throw it over my shoulder, after a brief goodbye to Dayton and Monica we were off. Dad was working and I think if anything him and Zion were happy to have me out of the house. After we picked up Hegan, I let him have the front seat because I didn't want either of them to see how nervous I was. I'm not really sure why I'm nervous to be around Kash, if things go fine, hopefully it will just be a few days of us avoiding each other.

Instead of a house, I'm puzzled when we pull up to the gym. The boys force me out and inside with them. I follow the boys up to some guy who looks to be somewhere in his thirties. "How can I help you guys?"

"We're here for Kashton Foster," Hegan tells him.

The guy nods and tells us to follow him. My eyes widen when we find Kash, he has that same mad face he had that other day and I didn't know he was into boxing. "FOSTER!"

"What do you want Carter?" He growls but doesn't look our way.

"You have guests."

He groans, "tell Lewis he can wait-"

"Boy, it's not your brother."

Kash groans again and turns around, glaring at Carter but his gaze softens when he sees us. Well Porter and Hegan. Kash apologies, saying he didn't realize it was time already and starts up a conversation with them and Carter. I take the opportunity to look around the gym, I look nice. I glance at some girls running on treadmills, I've never been one to like treadmills. I've always preferred to go out and run instead. I catch Kash saying he's going to shower quickly and Porter yelling something about hurrying up because our food was getting cold. I roll my eyes and a few seconds later he elbows me roughly in the ribs. I scowl at him, before averting my eyes to Carter who I just now realize was trying to get my attention.

"Sorry what was that?"

"I asked what your name was."

"Oh, uh, Vayda," I look away, unable to hold eye contact for long. I whisper to Porter that I'm going to wait in the car, there's no way I'm going to wait for them in there. I'm quick to get into the passenger seat and put in my music. I lean my head against the window and close my eyes, Preparing myself for the long drive ahead of us.

•••

I look at our surroundings as we pull up to the cabin, I've been here plenty of times but I always get chills coming here. The cabin is nice, and I've always loved the forest that circles around us, it always seems adventurous like it's waiting for us to explore it. The setting makes me feel like we're in a horror movie though. Six kids going to a cabin to get away in the middle of the woods, no parents, no one around for two or three miles, what could happen?

I get out of the car and stretch, after being in the car forever it's a relief. I quickly look around us again as the gang groups up. This could really be a beautiful painting. The sun sets behind the cabin, the gorgeous shades of colors in the sky look as if they've been delicately swept across a canvas. I look at the picture set in front of me, it's there to capture the great moments and I don't want to look away. You capture pictures to keep the good times because deep down you know they won't last, the sun will set, the leaves will fall from the trees, and at some point the cabin will be gone.

Nothing good lasts forever.

Someone tugs in my arm, "V lets go inside, I'm freezing."

I nod grabbing my bag and Kinzley loops her arm through both mine and Everly's. The cabin is huge, it could easily fit over twenty people, but it makes since, Porter has a big extended family. I'm not too sure where the boys plan on sleeping but we head up to the room we always stay in. The room consists of two beds, the plan was for me and Kinzley to share the room. Everly was going to stay with Hegan but she ended up not wanting to, which is fine, but I should ask what is going on between them some point tonight.

Kinzley throws her bag down and flops on the bed, "Ugh, I'm so exhausted."

Everly agrees and lays down next to her. Her smile makes me smile, she hasn't been the same lately so to see her talk and smile is good. "Hey would you girls like to go to the hot tub?" Hegan peaks his head through the door. Kinz agrees immediately and Everly nods but looks away from him.

Hegan is quick to leave, once Kinzley is gone to put her swimsuit on I speak up. "What's going on between you two?"

"With who?" she tilts her head.

"You and Hegan," I sit down next to her.

A frown falls on her face and she looks down at her feet with a shrug. "I don't know, I've been distancing myself from him."

"Why?" she shrugs again. I don't push it, I know what it's like when you don't want to talk about something so all I can do is try to distract her. "Hey, lets not worry, lets enjoy this vacation and be stupid teenagers for a few days." Her smile is back but I can't tell if it's fake or not. But in all honesty, I think this is what we all need. A distraction from fucking life.