Real life

Chapter 14

Brooklyn's POV

"Brooklyn it's 9:15 you need to get up" Hannah says giving me a slight shake. "Are you ok?" she asks me, concern in her eyes.

No, I'm not okay. I fucking feel like shit.

"Yeah I'm fine". "Okay well I'm taking the girls to the pool, see you in a bit. Hannah probably thinks that I am a horrible counselor because I haven't been feeling well this week and have stayed inside most of the time.

It's not my fault that my dumb ass had to go and crush on my ex-best friend from first grade.

I drag myself out of bed and walk into the bathroom. I get a glance of myself in the mirror and woah jump scare. I have extreme bedhead and my makeup is still on from yesterday, mascara smudge under my eyes.

I wash my face, brush my teeth and get ready. I feel much better so I walk to the pool.

I don't feel like getting in so I sit next to Hannah. "Oh finally got up I see" she said. I rolled my eyes at her.

"He's sitting over there you can go if you want you don't have to sit with me". Part of me wanted to go over and talk to him because I just love talking to him.

But.. My anxiety tells me to stop being so clingy. I feel like I talk to him all the time and when I do talk to him my nerves take over and I look stupid. I get overwhelmed with emotions when I talk to him.

"No, I want to sit here with you" I tell her. "Oh okay that's nice, so are you excited for tomorrow?" she asked me. "Tomorrow?" I am puzzled, I have completely no clue what she is talking about.

"You know the Willing Gala that they have every year." Oh my god I had completely forgotten about the gala. I have been too caught up in my drama.

"Oh yeah, I forgot about it". "What are you wearing?" she asked me. "I brought a purple silk dress, how about you". "Oh i'm wearing a pink floral puffy dress" she said, only Hannah would, I think to myself.

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It's the last day of camp. I can't stop thinking about what will happen after today. I will go back to my normal life, go back to work and not ever get to see him again. I think to myself walking into the cabin door coming back for lunch.

"Girls you need to start packing before you get ready" I tell them. Speaking of packing I need to take my own advice and start.

Me and Hannah walk into the room. I start grabbing the clothes up off the floor and put them in my suitcase making sure to hang my dress up. I go over to the bathroom to get some clothes up that are laying on the floor.

I picked up the hoodie. My heart becomes heavy. I really should talk to him. I feel bad. I can't just go on with my life after seeing him again. After feeling the way I feel.

But I'll set aside those feelings for a later time. Now I have to get ready.

I put on some makeup, fix my hair and slip into my dress. "Are you girls ready?" I ask stepping out into the living room. "You guys look amazing" I say. They really do when I was 13 and 14 I did not look like that.

"You look so good, Brooklyn," Katie said. I loved hearing her say that. Sometimes, especially tonight I didn't always feel myself.

We walked into the rally room. The lights were dim and there were bright colorful spotlights everywhere. Tables and chairs circling a dance floor. It looked amazing.

Of course the next thing I spotted was him and damn he looked fine. Wearing a black button up shirt with black pants. I love a guy in all black.

Oh shit here it comes he's walking over towards me. What should I do? What should I say?

Brooklyn.Calm down.It's not that deep.

"Hey" he says walking up to stand beside me. Music is playing so I had to speak up. I didn't know what to say so I opted for "Hi, how are you?" I ask nervously.

"I'm good you?" he asks. "I'm doing okay I guess". A slow song starts to play. "Would you like to dance?"he asked me. "Sure" I say, grabbing his hand.

I wrap my arms around his neck and his hands are on my hips. The feel of his touch sends electric jolts through my body. He makes me feel so alive.

"Gosh I am not ready to go home" I say. "Why?" he asked curiously. I sigh "I guess I just feel like when I'm here it's like an escape from reality. Like I don't have to worry about anything. But tomorrow I have to get on a plane and go back to work on Monday like a normal person"

"Do you not like your job?"he asks. "Oh no I love my job don't get me wrong it's just nice to be in a different atmosphere here". I didn't tell him that part of the reason I don't want to go home is because I don't want to face leaving him.

"Are you doing anything right now, I know you said you don't know what you want to do" I ask. "I'm working with my dad at the station". His dad works at the local fire department as the chief. That's probably why Tanner is so ripped. He has to be at work.

"That's good," I say. I lean my head against his shoulder and close my eyes. He smells so good. He feels so good.

We dance for a little while longer and then sit back down and chat for a little while. We dance some more this time to faster pace songs.

"You can really dance," Tanner said laughing. I know he was joking because I can't dance worth five cents. He's just trying to be nice.

"My feet are killing me" I say as we walk off the dance floor. We had been dancing for almost 2 hours and these heels were not helping. "I'm tired, do you wanna get out of here" Tanner suggests. "Yes please if you don't mind" I say.

We're walking down to our cabins. It's a pretty long walk considering it's on gravel. "I had fun tonight" I say. "Me too," he says. "I—ahhh" my ankle turns over on the gravel and I go toppling.

But before I can hit the ground Tanner catches me, "I got you, you're okay" he says pulling me in closer to him. "Thanks, I guess these shoes aren't made for this road" I say, I would take them off but I'm not about to walk barefoot and get my feet dirty.

"Here, get on my back," Tanner says. "Really" "yeah sure". I hop on his back, he grabs my legs. His hand on my thighs. It sends a shiver through me. I wonder if he could feel it too.

Tanner kicks open the door to my cabin and we tumble in. Us both giggling. I go to my bedroom and sit down on the bed to take these shoes off. I stand back up and put my shoes away.

I turn around and Tanner is facing me. Our faces are so close together if I moved forward a slight bit we would collide. "Uh, I had a good time tonight," he says. "Me too" I say slowly.

Our faces move closer and closer together. Our lips touch. His lips are so soft. Our mouths collide together in a hot kiss. His hands move to my waist and he pushes me towards the wall.

HOLY CRAP

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