Emison: camping trip

Chapter 7.

Alison's Pov

Next day

After our creepy encounter and a night at the motel, we decided to head home.

We stopped at the local grocery store, a couple blocks away from Hanna's house, something about having to get a cake to celebrate since we didn't get to enjoy the time we were supposed to stay.

"Blue frosting or red?" Hanna pointed between the two cakes.

"Just pick one already, geez!" Spencer groaned, her voice raspy, she had caught a little cold and wasn't having any of it.

"Calm down grumpy pants" Hanna mumbled, "I'll get purple" she smiled at the woman behind the stand.

"That wasn't even an option" Spencer sniffled. She leaned her head on my shoulder, which she had to crouch down to do, since I was a little shorted than her.

"There, there Spence, well get you some medicine" Aria rubbed her back gently.

"Thanks nurse Aria" Spencer smiled weakly. Aria was always good at taking care of us when we got sick, that's why we called her Nurse Aria.

Emily pushed the basket to the medicine aisle after putting the cake in the basket.

"We should get some snacks, maybe watch a movie?" Cece suggested. Her and Hanna had been walking slightly behind everyone.

"Sound good" Hanna nodded. I wasn't really in the movie watching mood, but if it made Han happy I'd do it, especially since it was her birthday and our weekend plans had been canceled. Not that I was complaining, I'd rather watch a movie then be axe murdered in the woods.

Before coming to the store we had stopped at a small local diner just a few miles from the motel. The waitresses rolled around on skates, effortlessly, taking orders, and bringing the food out. There wasn't many people, maybe three others besides us. Despite it being in the middle of nowhere and for the most part empty, the food was absolutely delicious.

That was roughly four hours ago. I wasn't hungry now, but a snack would be nice. As the lady scanned the items, I looked at the little shelf in front, where there was candy and gum of all sorts. I looked at each before choosing sour skittles. I might've been a chocoholic but sour skittles were just so good, I don't think anyone could say no to some.

Once we finished paying and grabbing a bag each, except Cece who carried the cake, we made our way to the car again.

One by one we got in, in the same seats as we had the previous times. I opened the green pack that held the delicious candy, before popping a few in my mouth, immediately savoring the sour flavor.

"Want some?" I held the packet up for Emily to see. She nodded before I poured a few into her right hand as she drove with her left.

"Thanks" she smiled before putting a few in her mouth, her face immediately contorting in different ways as the sour flavor hit her.

I guess some people couldn't handle the taste, which didn't really make sense since they weren't all that sour.

"Sour?" I teased, my eyebrow quirked as I watched her face slowly relax.

"Nope" she smiled cockily, as if I hadn't seen her make a sour face not even a minute ago. She laughed a little before nodding, "I guess you could say I can't handle sour" she blushed a little, which was hard to tell with her tan skin.

"What?!" I exclaimed, "sours like the best flavor" was sour considered a flavor? Or was it like green apple, cherry, and blueberry?

"I prefer spicy" she motioned to the bag of hot Cheetos next to her. She opened the bag before throwing a few chips into her mouth with ease. "Yum" she licked her lips.

"Just fuck already!" Hanna laughed from the backseat. I understood it was a harmless joke, but I couldn't help when my mind suddenly pondered on those three simple words.

Just fuck already.

The words replayed in my head along with a series of memories. Memories I had buried so deep down, I myself had forgotten them.

"Ali?" Hanna had moved towards the front without me even realizing, she was crouched on the floor between the middle seats. "You okay? You kinda blanked. You know I didn't mean it right? I was just teasing.." she said quietly.

"fine." I smiled the fakest I had, but Hanna didn't seem to notice. She nodded and moved back to her seat.

"You sure your okay?" Emily whispered quietly and moved her right hand from the steering wheel and onto my hand that was resting on the center console, giving it a light squeeze.

"Mhmm" I hummed I'm response, afraid if I talked, I would break down.

I stayed silent the rest of the ride home, thinking mostly. I realized where I had remembered the man from, why he scared me so much.

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A little cliffhanger, everything will piece together and make sense in the next chapter, which will be released soon..I won't take as long to publish it as I have been with the last few chapters.

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