you're kidding (cameron frye)

chapter 10

cameron and margot make a gagging face at each other as they sit next to sloane and ferris. they're just too touchy, they need to get a room.

"get a room." margot mutters as cameron wraps his arm around the back of the seat. ferris is starting to worry her, they've been out for a while and they're dad's gonna be home in 2 hours or so. their mom's probably gonna check the house soon (she may have already) and then they'll be toast. she does not want to live with her parents without ferris and jeanie with skipping school on her record, she's already gonna be on a closer watch once they leave and if they know she can do stuff like skip school they won't give her a moment to rest.

"it's getting late buddy we better go get the car back home." cameron says, reminding margot of the fact that they're also gonna have to beat morris home. she nods in agreement as ferris's face becomes disappointed, he's gonna try to either guilt or manipulate cameron into a couple more hours with the car.

"what? we have a few hours, we have until 6." ferris defends, his voice in a sad and nearly whiny tone.

"i'm sorry i mean i know you don't care but it does mean my ass." cameron says as he looks down.

"you think i don't care?" ferris asks, feigning offense.

"i know you don't care." cameron shoots back at ferris's sorry attempt at caring, ferris gasps over dramatically resulting in sloane smiling and margot rolling her eyes.

"oh, that hurts cameron." he looks at cameron, "cameron what have you seen today?"

cameron scoffs and shrugs, "nothin good."

ferris makes a face of disbelief, stuttering, "noth-wha-wha-what? what do you mean "nothing good"? we've seen everything good, we've seen the whole city," a small smile breaks on cameron's face as he watches ferris stutter in disbelief, "we went to a museum and saw priceless works of art, we ate- we ate pancreas," ferris says as cameron's face shifts from a small smile to his lips tight, this is not a "ferris you're pissing me off face." this is something else. "what?" ferris asks, taking notice of cameron's face, "what's wrong?" he asks, for the first time it's a genuine question. ferris believe it or not can actually care for cameron.

ferris mimicks cameron's tight lipped face as sloane and margot look to cameron, trying to understand what is wrong. cameron furrows his brows before talking, his lips barley moving, "look over there." margot, ferris, and sloane's heads whip over to the other cab, they're eyes going wide at the sight of the bueller's father. he looks over before looking back to his paper, in a split second ferris, cameron, and margot are on the floor of the cab. it's pretty disgusting really.

ferris rubs a rabit's foot as they watch sloane from below, he passes the foot to cameron who rubs it and closes his eyes, looking as if her was praying before he passes it to margot. she rubs it a couple times before handing it back to ferris.

"what's he doing?" ferris asks from the floor.

"he's licking the glass and making obscene gestures with his hands." sloane says with a smile, ferris and margot's faces fall before they both arch a brow. sloane giggles at her boyfriend and best friend's faces before ferris reaches up and tickles her legs, probably making her looks crazy as she laughs.

the car begins to move again, sloane giving margot a hand up. she sits down next to sloane, before giving cameron a hand up, cameron sits next to her. no one gives ferris a hand up, the three of them watching him struggle to climb up onto the seat.

they get out at the parade, almost immediately getting lost in the crowd. cameron takes margot's hand hesitantly as they walk through the two of them attempting to stay together and with ferris and sloane.

"margot!" sloane hollers, margot looks back to see sloane approaching them, all alone. "where's ferris?" she asks as she takes margot's hand.

"what do you mean where's ferris?" margot asks with a chuckle.

"he probably left, just to make me and mar pissed." cameron says, already pissed off. margot and sloane shake their heads as they push through the crowds, now on a mission to find ferris.

"he didn't leave, he's probably doin something." sloane says as they emerge, she always sees ferris in the best light and margot admired her for that. it must take a lot to trust him so much.

"it really busts my hump y'know." cameron says as he pushes back his hair, nervousness already evident on his face.

"oh cameron he didn't ditch us or anything. he's here." sloane says surely, but by the end of her sentence it seems that she's more so attempting to assure herself that he's here.

"for all we know he went back to school." cameron says, margot knows she's unsure and nervous and believes that ferris at his core is a very self centered and annoying guy but she knows he'd never do that. she also knows that if he left her without any way to get back home she's totally bust his ass and walk over to their dad's office. their parents would be so pissed that they'd forget about her ditching school.

"he would not go back to school." sloane says, margot nodding in agreement.

"there's no that he'd ever voluntarily do that cam." margot says in attempt to soothe his nerves cause if cameron breaks down they're never gonna find ferris. "the only way he'd go to school today is if rooney grabbed him by the neck and dragged him in. there's no fuckin way." she says with a chuckle.

"yeah, he'd do it just to make me sweat." cameron says, the two girls saying a chorus of no's as they walk. "makes me mad." cameron says before a voice goes over the intercom, margot ignores it before cam and sloane stop right in their tracks. the three of them listen before they realize exactly who it is.

"and i'd like to dedicate it to a young man who doesn't think he's seen anything good today, cameron this one's for you." ferris says over an intercom or a mic. the three turn around to see a float with women clad in german outfits holding hands in a circle.

"you're kidding me." margot whispers as they break apart, revealing a young man in a funky sweater vest.

"heyyy!" cameron yells at the sight of him.

"ferris!" sloane and margot yell in unison.

"get of the float! what the hell is wrong with you?" margot yells as he makes eye contact with her. he makes a finger gun at the three as they protest him up there, they run up the float trying to get him to come to his senses.

"you're out of you're mind!" cameron yells as ferris comes down the steps.

"i'm gonna tell mom!" margot yells at him as they look at him in disbelief before a policeman pushes the three of them away from the float and back into the crowd.

"y'know as long as i've known him everything works for him. there's nothing he can't handle, i can't handle anything. school, parents, the future. ferris can do anything." cameron says as he walks with the two girls. "i don't know what i'm gonna do."

"college." sloane says, margot shakes her head in agreement.

"yeah. then what?" cameron asks, "margot you've always got cool ideas and do cool things, what's a girl like you gonna do after highschool?" cameron asks, she shrugs and looks around.

"to be honest with you i have no idea. i have like hobby plans but no real plans y'know. i don't know what i wanna be or where i wanna work. i just wanna enjoy it." she says with a smile.

"what are you guys interested in then?" sloane asks, cameron looks up before looking at margot.

"nothin." he says with a smile, the three of them shaking their heads before laughing and looking out to ferris.

"you're crazy!" cameron yells to ferris as he waves and smiles at the crowd.

"what'd you think ferris is gonna do?" sloane asks as they watch on.

"he's gonna be a fry cook at venus." cameron says with a smile as twist and shout starts. the three smile and look at each other.