Red Flag

Chapter 42

Matt's P.O.V

Weirdly enough I was the first out of Ryan and I to wake up and get up as well. I suppose it's the excitement of going back home soon. She wouldn't tell me, but I knew she was done with my friends for now. I don't blame her tho, we had been together all of us for almost three weeks now.

She's very outgoing and extroverted now, but we all have our own social energy limits. Hers was almost drained by now. When I met Ry she was crippling with anxiety, I helped a bit with that and once we were close enough she showed me her true, unhinged ADHD self, which I fell in love with, but if we were to do this trip back then she wouldn't have talked to the boys as much.

Slipping on my basketball shorts, I brushed the hair out of her face and kissed her forehead before going to sit at the table. I smiled as she rolled onto her right side and faced the wall, I closed the curtain so she could keep on sleeping, as if it were any help for the noise we would make.

"Morning" I said, rubbing my eyes as I sat next to Corey

"Well this is new" He joked "it's probably the first time in the entire trip you've been up before Ryan" he told me

"Yeah well, she's pretty much done with us" I said, I wasn't gonna lie.

"One more day and she'll be at peace" he told me

"No, she's going home with the worse of us all" Elton joked from the driver's seat

"Shut up!" My girl's voice yelled and a cushion flew out of my bunk, landing by my left foot

I picked it up and walked over to the bunk, opening the curtain enough to slip my head into the bunk and place the cushion back in.

"Sorry about that" I said and she rolled onto her back with her eyes still closed

"I wanna go home" she whined, running a hand down her face

"I know baby, just one more day" I said, caressing her temple with my thumb

"Two, it's fucking 7:30" she said, opening her eyes at me "my head hurts" she pouted at me

"You want something?" I asked, placing the back of my hand on her forehead

"It's my eyes, I've spent like three weeks without my glasses" she said, covering her eyes with her hands

"I have my resting glasses in my backpack, you can wear them if you want" I said, kissing her forehead

"Okay" she said quietly

"You don't need to hang out with us either, stay here for as long as you want" I told her

"No, they're nice..I'm just done with people for now. Thank god we have two days before going to Texas" she said

"I'm sure you'll be better with your family" I said, knowing I was right

"Yeah, but Nate is gonna be there" she rolled her eyes at me

"Who's Nate?" I asked, I've never heard that name before

"Payton's boyfriend, the name is very fitting cause he's very much an asshole" she said

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"And, how's the four eyed princess feeling about getting closer to being thirty than to being twenty?" Corey asked Ryan as they were having lunch

"Don't call me that" she said with an unamuzed face

"Which one, four eyes or princess?" Elton joked

"He doesn't even call me princess" she told him, pointing at Matt, who sat next to her "and I don't really care about turning 25, or any age really. I'm just worried about our pets, we'll only be at home for two days" she said