No More Wasting Time

Chapter 15

Diego's POV:

In all my years of life, I was never irresponsible. I listened to my mother, father, all adults in my life. I showed them respect, kept my grades up, did anything I could for their approval. But if my mother saw me now, right now, she'd have a heart attack. I could already imagine the look of disappointment on her face, the look of betrayal. I'm sure my father was looking down at me with disapproval.

I woke up with the worst headache I ever had, half naked, and under one of the most attractive man I had laid my eyes on. I was freaking out yet the kindness in me didn't want to freak out out loud because I didn't want to wake him up. He was heavy, the weight of his muscles and due to his height made me completely invisible underneath him. The smell of alcohol was strong between us which almost made me gag out loud but I held it in. The rest of the cabin was completely silent so I figured either everyone was still asleep or they were out. Why did it have to be me trapped in this position? What in the world happened last night?

"Hm? Oh crap."

I immediately shut my eyes and pretended to be asleep as Hector slowly woke up. He sighed and rubbed his eyes to wake up and it seemed like only then did he notice I was there. See? Invisible! He muttered another curse word before getting up slowly and completely out of bed, the sound of a door closing happening a minute later. I opened my eyes and went to quickly search for my clothes. Where the fudge were they?!

"Hey, sleepyhead."

I jumped and looked over at Hector, a small blush rising to my cheeks as I stared at him. He ignored it and gave me a glass of water with a pill to help sooth the headache he knew I had. I tried to not have eye contact, mostly due to the fact that he was shirtless and I still felt a bit drunk so I didn't want to know what I was willing to do if I continued to stare. With a muttered 'thanks', I accepted both items and quickly took them, wishing for the headache to go away already even though I had just taken the pill.

"Everyone is still asleep. Here, you can wear some of my sweatpants, you kind of messed up all of your clothes last night."

"All of my clothes? What did I do?"

"I don't think you want to know. But they were soaking in water all last night so while we pack up everything to go back home we can leave them in the sun. It's pretty hot outside so they should dry up at least a bit."

"Oh god, that sounds really bad. How could I have ruined all my clothes? You know what? You're right, I don't want to know."

He chuckled and put the sweatpants down on the bed before dismissing himself to give me privacy to change. I was glad he wasn't picking on me or anything, it sounds like I was a real mess last night. I couldn't even imagine what I did to him or everyone else. Oh lord, what is everyone else going to say? Will they laugh at me? Oh no, Caden was there too! I could only hope he made himself look worse than me! Though he's used to this type of party life, he probably handled it better than me! This is it, I'm just going to die from embarrassment. I'm going to-

"Diego," Max whined and opened the door, closing it a second later and dropping himself onto the bed, covering himself completely. "I'm a mess."

"You and me," I mumbled and went under the covers with him. "Do you know what you did last night?"

"All I know is that I got high and woke up in a terrible situation. You?"

"I drank for the first time, apparently ruined my clothes, and woke up in an embarrassing situation."

"Embarrassing? What do you mean? You were only in here with. . . Oh shit! You and my cous-"

"Shh!" I yelled and winced, grabbing my head from the headache. "Nothing happened, I swear."

"Bullshit, you probably did the nasty with him."

"No!"

"You're only in your boxers, don't lie. You and him are totally gonna fuck."

"Don't say such embarrassing things! Leave me alone, nothing happened. Why was your situation terrible? Didn't you share a room with Caden?"

"Exactly."

"He's trying, you know? What's going on with you guys anyway?"

"What do you mean? Nothing is going on. I hate him and he hates me."

"You know. . . you can tell me anything."

He avoided my eye contact and I already knew what that meant. I had my suspicions but with how they've been acting, it's pretty obvious. I didn't say it though, if he hasn't told me then he has his reasons. He knows I won't be homophobic towards him, there must be another reason. Whatever it was, it was my turn to be a good best friend and be there for him. 

"Come on, we should eat before we start driving down."

I quickly put on Hector's sweatpants and followed Max out. Everyone was out now, though we all looked like walking zombies. Even Charlie looked different, hair sticking out and no makeup on. Yet, she still looked gorgeous. Rosaline was the only one that looked somewhat more presentable. She had changed out of her pajamas and the only thing was that her hair wasn't in it's usual style. 

"Last night was fun, but never again will I get that fucked up," she said and sat down on the counter, rubbing her head. "I don't know how you two are still alive. You both were more fucked up."

"Don't embarrass me even more than I already am," I whined and sat down on a chair, Hector passing me a bowl, milk, and the frosted flakes. "Thanks."

"Caden went to get us snacks and water from the store," Charlie said and rubbed her eyes. "He's a monster. He looked completely fine."

"That bitch," Max mumbled and served himself some cereal. 

There was light conversation from that point on but you could tell no one was in a talking mood. I think we were also coming to the realization that even though we feel terrible, we had fun. Only problem with that was that we go back to school tomorrow. I suddenly began to feel nervous, I didn't want to go back to school tomorrow. The fear of walking into the hallways and finding more posters or people calling me a creep or stalker was slowly filling me up. I didn't want to go back to that. I didn't want to feel this fear that one of my friends from here would betray me tomorrow by surprising me with more posters or name calling. I don't want to feel this way. I don't-

"Hey."

Slowly looking up, I saw that everyone was looking at me, warm smiles on their faces. They knew what I was thinking about, they could sense my worries. Their warm smiles managed to calm me a bit, but the fear was still there. I felt slightly disgusted with myself. They planned this trip to cheer me up, yet here I was, thinking the worst in them. 

"We should do something after we graduate. We're getting closer and closer to the date," Rosaline suggested.

"We should go to a theme park. Like Disneyland!"

"Seriously, Max? Disneyland? We should go to Six Flags."

"Rosaline, not everyone wants to die on those rollercoasters."

"You okay?"

I looked over at Hector who was already watching me with concern and kindness. I don't think Hector was able to be rude. He was just too kind and caring. I smiled and nodded my head. Yeah, I was going to be okay. They were my friends, truly my friends.

"Even though I don't remember much of last night, I just know that I loved it," Charlie suddenly said, a happy smile on her face. "You guys are my best friends."

"Everyone let loose, it was nice," Rosaline agreed.

"Like they say about Vegas. What happens in the cabin, stays in the cabin," Max said, shaking his head most likely at the thought that he got high.

Something about that felt comforting. What happened, whatever it was that I did last night, was going to stay here. I felt much better and as everyone nodded their head in agreement, it was clear that they also found comfort in that.