If It Makes You Happy

Chapter 19

Camila covered her eyes as she counted out loudly to ten. I ran to go find a hiding place so that she wouldn't find me. I couldn't necessarily go far within the cabin because Ally told me certain parts of the cabin were off limits. I wondered why that was but I knew if I asked Ally, she would find some lie to tell me rather than tell me the truth. I settled for hiding under my bed.

"Ready or not, here I come" Camila said and I heard her running around the cabin trying to find me.

I've already come to the conclusion that Camila wasn't going to find me anytime soon. She never did when we played this game. Normally, the game would end when Camila would start crying because she actually thought I ran away from her. I would be forced to come out of my hiding spot and console her.

I sighed when I heard Camila start to sniffle. "Lolo?" Camila asked her voice shaky. I stuck out my leg from under the bed and then I heard her run into the bedroom I was sleeping in. She giggled softly.

"I found you" Camila said touching my leg as I crawled out from under the bed.

"Yes, you did. What do you want to play now?" I said.

"Kisses," Camila said.

"We can't play that game right now" I said running my fingers through my hair.

"Why not?" Camila asked as she looked at me curiously.

"You promised not to tell anyone and we only play it at night time" I said.

"But I like that game" Camila whined. "I didn't tell anyone."

"We only play it at night" I said.

"Can we play wrestling too?" Camila asked.

"Camz," I said.

"I'm sorry" Camila said.

"It's okay, I'm not angry it's just you promised" I said.

"I know" Camila said.

"We can watch TV and eat Lucky Charms" I said.

"Okay, but I only want the marshmallows" Camila said as I stood up.

"I will take the cereal out and give you the marshmallows" I said.

"Thank you Lolo" Camila said and kissed me on the cheek before running off to the living room.

"You're getting attached to her" Elise said from behind me, leaning up against the doorframe.

"No I'm not" I said.

"I need to show you something after you eat your breakfast" Elise said.

"What is it?" I asked.

"It's a surprise" Elise said and then winked at me before walking away.

It took me twenty minutes to separate the marshmallows from the cereal in the Lucky Charms and then I gave the bowl of cereal to Camila. I ate the cereal part of the Lucky Charms that Camila refused to eat. I sat down next to Camila as she watched the show CatDog on the Nick Toons channel.

"I like this show" Camila said in between mouthfuls of cereal.

"It's really old Camz" I chuckled wiping the milk off of her mouth with my hand.

Camila scrunched up her eyebrows in confusion. "It is?" Camila asked.

"Yes," I said.

"I don't remember it" Camila said.

"It's okay a lot of people don't remember it" I said.

"Really?" Camila asked.

I nodded my head yes as Camila brought the bowl to her mouth and drank the milk out of the bowl and I did the same also.