Cherry || Owen Joyner

eight

I flutter my eyes open and look around. I had no idea where I was at first. But I remembered I was in Owen's room.

My head was pounding as I laid there. I was hungover. I check the time on my phone and it was two pm.

I look over to see the bed was empty. I guess that Owen left. I slowly sit up and look around.

I feel like I got hit by a train. I heard people talking so I got up.

I slowly got up and walk towards the noise. I opened the door causing everyone to turn to me.

Nash grimaced as he looked at me up and down. "You look like a dogs breakfast." Nash joked.

Nash's favorite thing is saying Australian slang and no one understanding it but us. I flip him off as I sit with them in the couch.

"Dog's breakfast?" Jeremy asked looking at us. "It's Australian slang. It means I look like shit." He laughed as I rolled my eyes.

"I'm gonna start using that." Charlie laughed. The door opened and closed causing us to look.

Owen was walking through with bags of food in his hand. "Saylor, you're up." He smiled.

Everyone got up to go towards the food. Owen walks away as he comes towards me.

"How're you feeling?" He asked sitting next to me. I groan as I look at him.

"I feel like shit." I tell him with a frown. He frowns along with me. "There's food. Come eat and rest." I agreed so I stood up.

We all ate together and I took medicine shortly after. We were gonna have a movie marathon since we all felt like shit.

Some more than others. We were on the couch, watching a movie. Nash thought it would be funny to put a scary movie on.

So I was hiding behind the blanket. I felt an arm wrap around the back of the couch and I notice it was Owen.

Maybe I can hide behind him throughout it. There was a jump scare, causing me to jump up.

I scooted towards Owen and placed my head on his chest.

His hand went to my back and started rubbing my back. It actually helped calm me down a lot.

My head was still hurting when the movie ended, but it wasn't as bad. "You still feeling bad?" Owen whispered.

I nodded my head as he continued to rub my back. It probably took me the rest of the day for me to start feeling better.

And by the time we went back to our own room, I was alright. "Never let me drink like that again. That was the worst." I tell my two friends.

I look down to realize I'm still in Owen's clothes. I could smell his scent off of them. I might just keep these.

I could feel myself getting attached to Owen. And we only have eight days left.

I feel like they're gonna go back to California and forget about me. About us. I really didn't want them to forget us.

When I woke up the next morning, the boys were coming into our room. "Wake up!" They all started jumping on our bed.

"What is wrong with you?" I ask groggily. I sit up and rub my eyes.

"We have big plans today." Owen cheered. I looked at them waiting for them to tell us.

They calmed down and looked us. "We're going to a trampoline park!" He cheered again.

How are they this excited? "That's why you're excited?" Kira asked looking at them weirdly.

"No. We're going right before it closes and we're gonna try to stay overnight." I drop my jaw towards them.

I could tell they were serious. I then look over at Jeremy.

He's the dad of the group so whenever the two boys have a crazy thought, he can talk them out of it.

"I tried to talk them out of it." He explained to me. I then look over at the Canadian.

"You know we can get arrested, right?" I ask looking in between the three.

Nash chuckled. "I used to do that shit all the time in high school. I'm down." He smiled.

I look at Kira as I sigh. "I can't believe I'm giving in right now." I shake my head.

Kira finally agreed so we spend a couple hours on the beach.

But once it got later, we got ready for the trampoline park. We all put on athletic clothing to get ready.

I can't believe I'm about to do something illegal. We all head towards the trampoline park and signed up.

They had a basketball section, foam pit, a mechanical Bull, and a jousting area.

It was only open for an hour so we had to find a place to hide while trying to not act suspicious.

We bounced for a good thirty minutes, having a fun time. But then we had to find a place.

"What if we hid under the trampoline?" Jeremy suggested. "That's actually good. We gotta find an entrance." Nash spoke.

We started searching and eventually found it. Kira and I had all of our shoes so we wouldn't get caught and went under the trampoline.

My adrenaline is pumping through my veins right now. I've never done anything like this before.

Once it was closed, we still had to wait for the employees to leave. They started sweeping the trampoline as I looked at everyone.

"It sounds like they're dentists right now." I joke with them. They giggle as we try to keep quiet.

"At nighttime they turn into a dentist office and we're just like 'aw fuck,'." Owen joked along with me.

I loved how we have the same since of humor. "It's an extreme sport, the worlds most elite dentists come to do it on trampolines."

Charlie, Owen, and I were giggling at our jokes. "They flip over you." Charlie joined in while doing a little hand movement.

"They're like 'okay keep your mouth open' and then start bouncing." I joke making Owen laugh.

We're being so loud right now. Honestly how are they not hearing us?

"They do a front flip and drill matrix style." I joke with what Charlie said.

Jeremy, Kira, and Nash were on lookout over by the entrance of how to get to where we are so they can't hear us.

"They tie a string around the tooth and they're like 'this is gonna hurt a bit' and then does a flip." Charlie joked.

We were giggling like we were a bunch of school kids. "He ties the tooth to a basketball and dunks it on the goal." Owen laughs harder.

"They lay their patient on a mechanical Bull so they can do surgery." Owen came back.

Why did they think it was a good idea for us three to be alone hiding together?

"Okay, stand still." Owen started jerking his body like he was laying on the mechanical bull.

"We're stupid." I laugh as we start to calm down. "Yeah, we are." Charlie agreed.

It felt like years waiting for them to leave. As we waited, Owen's phone started ringing.

He quickly turned it on silent as we looked at him. "Put your phones on silent." He whispered to us.

"We already did." I joked as Charlie giggled. What feels like years later, Jeremy crawls back towards us.

"Coast is clear." We follow him out slowly to make sure. And he was right.

We were the only people in here. We all look at each other in shock knowing we just pulled it off.

"I'm gonna go find the lights." Nash informed us. We all cheered in victory as we started talking about what we just did.

We spent almost the whole night there. And when we were done, we made sure to have everything put away.

I'm just surprised we never got caught.