You Again [FreenBecky]

Chapter 17

"I swear guys, we aren't lost."

We were lost.

Freen, who was driving the car had no idea where the hell she was going. We had been driving for over five hours now and according to the map, we were not at the right place but according to Freen, we were. Castellow Hammock Preserve was not easy to find and specially not easy when Freen was sitting on the driver's seat. Everyone had given up. Anda and Marissa who were yelling at Freen for the first two hours finally accepted their defeat and left everything up to Freen who didn't know what she was doing.

Lookkaew, I and Marissa's best friend, View just stayed back and watched their banter until Lookkaew had enough of all the bullshit, she too began arguing with Freen while View and I laughed our asses off. View Benyapa was an air hostess too, just like Marissa she was a very outgoing and easy to be around with kind of person. Her and I quickly hit it off very well. Freen who was far beyond annoyed with everyone being mad at her stopped the car in the middle of the road and got out of the vehicle just to piss the girls off even more.

Marissa and Lookkaew somehow managed to get the girl back inside and Anda sneakily got the car keys from the brown eyed girl before driving towards the Castellow Hammock Preserve. Freen was beyond pissed. Knowing how she actually took us to the other side of the woodland made her furious but she didn't say anything else. At times like these I could swear that there was an eight years old child inside that twenty-nine years old grown-up woman.

I brought my cellphone out to check the time, we were supposed to be at the forest three hours ago but thanks to Freen we were late and would have to use flashlights to set up our camps. Well, I didn't mind though, as long as Freen was around I was okay. I looked at Billy's text on my cellphone too, he wished me good luck and told me that he'd missed me. I didn't know what to reply so I just put the cellphone away.

Last night I visited my place again, that time I was with Marissa while we went out to buy some tin foods just like that guy in the outdoor store asked us to. Marissa, who didn't want me to go visit Billy alone went with me and played with Allison while I talked to Billy. He was very happy to spend more time with our daughter and Allison was more than happy to spend her time with her father as long as he bought her ice-cream every day. Billy being the amazing father he was, accepted.

Luckily, Marissa didn't comment on anything. She was just...there for me while I visited my husband. Billy on the other hand was very surprised to see Marissa. He didn't know that I was actually seeing Freen again and surprisingly Marissa played along and told him that she was just hanging out with Lookkaew. Billy didn't even know that Freen was going with us and I hated to lie to him. Not that he would have said anything to me or would have tried to stop me.

That was all last night, this was present. With Anda driving the car we reached the Castellow Hammock Preserve within an hour. Turned out that we circled that place twice and everyone was blind enough to not see the sign on the side of the road but Freen got the most glares. The small camping van that we hired was filled with silence when Anda stopped the car in front of the forests along with many other vehicles. Everyone glared at Freen for making us late, she smiled sheepishly and laughed out loud shortly after.

We unloaded the van. Each of us hung our camping bags along with our folded tents on our shoulders and made our ways inside, "I'm so excited," Freen jumped up and down while she walked backwards. I remembered how she used to do that before, there were a lot of things which hadn't changed about her and I loved it.

"Oh no. You don't get to talk until we are done with setting up our camps. You just walk like a mute cat because we are late because of you." Lookkaew threatened the girl who simply rolled her eyes but obliged nevertheless.