The sun had just started to rise, the birds started chirping their happy songs. Raine rolled over in her sleeping bag.
"Ugh," She rubbed her eyes, sitting up in the tent. She was not use to being awakened by the animals of the wilderness. She looked over seeing Daryl and Ebony were still fast asleep. Raine climbed out of the sleeping bag and unzipped the flaps to the tent. A whiff of bacon hit her face as she piled out of the tent.
"You're up early." She remarks walking over to Cherry, who was tending something over the fire. Her guess was that it was bacon.
"I couldn't sleep last night." Cherry says flipping the bacon on the make shift pan.
"Same here." Raine sat down on the log, her hands covering face.
"No, like I felt like someone was outside the tent watching me and George." Raine looked up, "We were all asleep. Maybe you dreamed it." Cherry shrugs sitting down next to her.
"Maybe." Cherry wrapped her arms around her body. Raine raised a brow.
"Is that the only thing bothering you?"
Cherry shakes her head, staring down at the dirt. "What it is?" Raine moved so that she was sitting closer to Cherry.
"It's just...sometimes...I wonder why I'm with him?..." Cherry trails off looking at the ground. Raine wanted to say that she wondered the same thing too.
"Well....do you love him?" Raine picked up one of the bacon stripes. Cherry shrugs again, looking up to look at the sun.
"I use too....these days I don't know what I want anymore." She started to speak, " I don't think he loves me. He just likes that I do whatever he wants no questions asked." Raine wraps her arms around Cherry to comfort her.
"Do what makes you happy, Cherry. If that means you have to leave him, do it. I know it isn't that easy to leave a relationship you invested so much in, you just have to try." Raine suggested. Cherry wiped her eyes and nose with the back of her hand.
"Yeah-"
"Cherry?!" The two girls turned around to the voice that shouted out her name. George stood out the tent, putting on a shirt.
"What are you two talking about over there?" He asked kicking at some rocks. Cherry gathers herself together and sits up.
"Nothing. Raine and I were just fixing up some breakfast for everyone." George eyes them for a bit before walking away. Cherry glanced back at Raine, who just shrugged it off. The two girls went back to finishing the breakfast before Daryl and Ebony would get up. Raine got up and got the paper plates, handing them over to Cherry. Cherry plated the bacon and some pancakes on each plate.
"Yum, something smells delicious." Daryl steps out the tent, stretching his arms out wide. He walked over to Cherry and Raine, stealing a piece of bacon off the plate. "So good," he moans in delight chewing on the savory pig fat. Raine hits his arm.
"That was mine by the way!" Daryl finishes the bacon and grabs another.
"So?" He says with a mouth full of bacon. Raine shakes her head and adds more bacon to her plate.
"Want some pancakes?" Cherry asked Daryl with a smile.
"Oh, yes please!" He said happy to have more food. Both Raine and Cherry giggled at him.
"I want to know what's so funny." Ebony emerged from the tent, putting all her dreads into a ponytail.
"Just Daryl acting like he hasn't seen food in decades." Raine shoves a fork full of pancakes in her mouth.
"Damn, save some food for the rests of us. Not all of us eat as much as you do Raine." George came from the treeline. Raine rolled her eyes at his comment and continued to eat her pancakes. "And there is bacon? Gee, Raine did you eat all of your piggy friends too?" Raine sat down her plate besides her. There he goes making her feel self conscious now.
"Would you stop with the fat jokes? She isn't even fat." Daryl spoke up, defending Raine. George chuckles and grabs a plate for himself.
"I wasn't even talking to you, but since you want to act all bad I'll let you have your moment. I wouldn't want your gay behind to get all rallied up."
Everyone was silent as they stared at George in disbelief.
"Okay, making fat jokes about me is alright, but you just crossed the line. You had no right to say that to him!" Raine shouted throwing a cup of water in George's face.
"Yeah that was uncalled for." Ebony voiced her opinion. Daryl stood up with his plate.
"I'm going to eat in the tent." The girls watched him walked off.
"Why do you always have to be so mean to my friends?" Cherry glared at George.
"Oh shut up, I don't want to hear you. Go back to making the pancakes." Cherry looked at him in shock.
"You're an a**hole!" She set down the bowl of batter and walked off. George shook his head and started eating. Raine was not going to sit there and bask in his company.
"I'm out." She got up and walked to the tent. "I'm coming in." She opens the flap to the tent. Daryl was resting on his sleeping bag, staring up at the ceiling of the tent.
"You okay?" Daryl nods his head, but he doesn't say anything. "You shouldn't listen to what he says. I let his words get to me, but now I'm over it. He isn't important." Raine lets out a sigh and gets up to leave when he doesn't say anything.
"Thank you for saying something." Daryl looks at her.
"No, thank you." Raine walked out of the tent and made her way down to the woods. There was a running path and she decided she would go on a walk to explore it. On her way, she picked up a random branch and started breaking tiny bits off it.
All around her was a sea of green. Every now and then she would swat away a mosquito that would rest on her arm.
"Yuck." She groans feeling the bug squish on her arm. Raine looked around at the place she was standing in. "What is this?" She looked down to the ground and brushed the dirt off the object. Keys. Raine frowned as she walked further into the set up.
"A camp?" She mumbles to herself. Raine walked over to one of the tents and looked inside. Everything seemed to be intact, besides the evident fact that it had been a while since anything had been used. Raine did not like this site, it made her feel sick for some reason. Where were the campers? She went to turn around, but someone grabbed her arm.
