Partners in crime~ C.C

Chapter 14

My shoulders are being shaken as I slowly open my eyes, the light peering through.

My head is pounding as I hear voices, no... yelling.

I stand up and Chris bolts over to me, wrapping his arms around me and almost cutting off circulation.

"OH MY GOD, MAR!"

I laugh as he lets go and starts to examines me, "I'm fine, Chris. My head just hurts a little.", I touched my head and when I brought my hand back down, I saw blood.

Chris brought his hand up to the bleeding area by my hairline, "You sure you're ok?", he laughs as he touches the blood. We both hold eye contact until Gordie and Teddy stifle their laughter while Vern looks just as lost as usual.

I walk over to Gordie and Vern to make sure they're alright.

Chris laughs, "Well, hey, at least we know when the next train is due."

I smack him on the arm as I walk past to continue our journey, "Come on, guys, let's find a place to chill for the night."

We walked for about 15 minutes until we found a clearing in the woods. Chris and I started collecting firewood and starting a fire. Well, mainly Chris because I had no idea what I was doing.

Once we had collected enough wood I was truly lost, so Teddy helped Chris while I sat next to Gordie.

"Hey,", I sat next to Gordie and he gave me a light smile that then turned into a smirk,

"Soooo.... You and Chris huh?", he said with a dumbass eyebrow raise.

I roll my eyes but have a light smile on my face just thinking about Chris, "Oh, shut up. There's nothing going on."

He just laughs then goes quite, like he was getting serious, "He really likes you, ya know?"

My face drops as I turn to him, "What? Gordie, you have to be mistaken or som-"

"I'm not joking, Mary. He really does like you."

We sit in silence for a while. Comfortable silence, not that gross awkward silence that comes when you have nothing to say.

"MAR, CHECK IT!"

I was snapped out of my thoughts when I heard Chris yelling. I giggle at his child-like smile. I get up and walk over with Gordie right behind me.

"Did it all by myself with literally no help from Teddy.", Chris smirks and rolls his eyes while Teddy scoffs,

"Well, Mister, for your information since your brain isn't working, I tried to help but you shooed me away!", Teddy had got up from leaning against the tree and walked over to me, placing his arm around my shoulder,

"Shooed me away so you could build it yourself and impress our lady friend right here!", he winked with a smirk and walked off while Chris rolled his eyes and set his bag down.

Does Chris like me...? I definitely like Chris. I mean- I sorta like Chris. Chris is cool... I guess-

We all gathered around the fire and cooked our food,

"You might wanna flip your's over, Vern. Looks like it's about to fall-", Chris began but was cut off by Vern,

"Nahhh- I know what I'm doing! This is how I like it-"

And as if it were on queue, Vern's hot dog fell into the fire causing embers to fly around like lightning bugs.

We all busted out into laughter while Vern complained about what he was going to eat.