A Summer Spark - A BoyxBoy Story

Chapter 11 - Paranoia, Ghosts and Other Sounds

Chase played with end of my sleeve as we sat together on the ground in front of the fire. I had my arm around him as he leant against me. I could feel his hair against my neck; it was ticklish and honestly a little annoying but I didn't care, I was content. As I said we were in front of the fire; alongside everyone else.

No one was particularly surprised when we walked out of the tent together to find everyone, except Seb, already up and staring at us curiously as we did our little walk of shame. They all seemed a little surprised at first but that quickly passed as everyone went back to their conversations. I would be lying if I said I wasn't relieved because I'll be honest; I was nervous as hell walking out of Chase's tent. It wasn't just that everyone would see us and know something happened, whether they thought it was nothing extreme or if we did the dirty. I have had plenty of walks of shame in my life, and though this wasn't really a walk of shame; it felt like one. All due to the tiny fact that Chase was a guy and that, has never happened before.

"How are you feeling?" It was the same question as this morning when we were in the tent. Seb was still ranting on about the time he had tomato in his burger when he clearly asked for it to not be on there or something like that but when Chase spoke he was all I could focus on. Everything else was background noise.

"I'm good" I smiled at him, "You don't have to worry about me, okay." I squeezed his hand reassuringly, remembering the reason why he asked me the same question earlier. "Quite frankly there's nowhere else I'd rather be right now then here on this camping trip with everyone; with you." I pulled him closer to me. "So relax and listen to the wonderful tales of Sebastian King" I chuckled quietly, pressing a small kiss to his forehead.

I couldn't help but notice the slight frown that lasted a few seconds before it was replaced with a small smile, "Okay" he chuckled quietly, focusing his attention back to the group.

I couldn't help but frown myself before nudging him gently to get his attention again. "How are you feeling?" I asked quietly.

He hesitated before answering, "I'm fine" he mumbled, "It's just..." He hesitated once again, "It's nothing... don't worry about it".

"Chase-" I started but he cut me off.

"It's nothing bad, I promise" he said quietly, "And I promise I'll tell you... just not now"

I sighed, thinking about his words for a few seconds. Was he having second thoughts? Was he worried I was having second thoughts? I was going to question him further but I decided to let it go; he said he was going to tell me and I had to trust him on that. "Okay"

"Thank you" he mumbled, leaning back against me. I tried to let it go and for the most part I did; pushing it to the back of my mind as the night went on. Though there was always a nagging thought lingering in the back of my mind reminding me that something wasn't right.

...

"You know what we haven't done yet" Kev grinned from across the fire at me.

I thought about it for a few seconds before shaking my head. "What?" I asked, confused and admittedly, slightly worried. It was Kevin after all.

"Scary stories" He grinned. "I can't believe we haven't told scary stories yet" he mused quietly with a chuckle; more to himself than to everyone else.

I couldn't help but grin at his words. How could we have not told scary stories yet? We're camping for god's sake! "Yes!" I exclaimed.

"No!" Seb interjected immediately. "It's not gonna happen!"

"Don't be such a pussy" Imogen Chuckled, "You scared that the big bad monsters are going to get you when you're sleeping?" she laughed.

"Yes!" he exclaimed, "Why the hell would you want to purposely scare yourself!?"