Truth or dare

#4 apology

Esme's Pov:

waking up to birds chirping, and the smell of mint. Which is odd because I don't own anything with a mint scent to it but being too comfortable to even open my eyes to look what it is. Plus, I don't really mind it that much. It's kind of comforting.

Knowing that I should probably get up anyway I decide to take a deep breath inhaling the mint smell, letting go feeling ready to get up. I slowly open my eyes trying to adjust to the light in the tent, reaching to rub my eyes but quickly stopping when I feel skin underneath me. My eyes widen in shock when I realize that the person I'm lying on is Gwen, and that she is in fact the mint smell.

I shoot up scooching closer to the end of the bed not really worried about if I woke Gwen up. I look back at her, my heart going a million miles per minute, and she's just lying there looking at me tiredly, she groans and grabs the blanket from off her waist and covers her face.

"It's too early," she says with a raspy voice.

"It's 11:30" I say, grabbing my phone looking at the time, hoping that she didn't notice that I was sleeping on her.

"ya, too early" she groans, taking the blanket from off her head and looking at me.

I just look at my hands smiling to myself, causing Gwen to kick my leg making me look at her questioningly.

"don't hide your smile from me, love." She tells me, sitting up and leaning on her hands.

"I'm not" I say looking back at my hands blushing

"mhm, well I'm awake now no thanks to you" she states making me giggle and look back at Gwen who is crossing her arms looking at me annoyed, which only makes me laugh more.

"it's not funny" she states getting up and going to the tent door.

"I'm going to let you get ready, oh and I'm stealing these pants." she points to her pants before opening the tent door and stepping out closing it behind her leaving no room for augments.

I plop back onto my bed letting out a breath I didn't even know I was holding,

I clearly didn't get enough sleep last night; I tell myself even though I feel fully rested and ready for the day more than I have in a while.

After laying there for a bit, contemplating even getting up, I decided it might be worth it to get up considering we were going to go swimming.

so, I got up and grabbed my baby blue bikini and gray comfy shorts that I set out yesterday. After getting dressed I put my hair up into a bun, so I won't get it wet. I spray on some perfume and leave my tent heading to where Em and Gwen are sitting.

"Good morning" I say to them, sounding chirpier than intended.

"Morning" Em says getting up to hug me which I return.

"How's your hangover?" I ask her, pulling away, and crossing my arms.

She just rolls her eyes and goes to sit in her chair. I follow sitting in the chair beside her trying to ignore Gwen's piercing gaze on me.

"I am feeling great thanks for asking" Em answer's sarcastically, making me giggle

As I'm to say something back to her Alex comes up behind her and hugs her making Em jump slightly, she gets up smiling and hugs him making me smile at how happy she looks with him.

I look over to Gwen who is already looking at me smiling, I smile back looking to her outfit realizing she has changed and is now wearing a pair of swim trunks and a Nike sports bra.

I look away trying to hide the fact that I'm now oddly blushing but am only met with three faces looking at me questioningly one of them being an angry looking Noah. I get up and walk towards Noah ignoring the other two.

Once I get to him, I quickly notice that he has a black eye which causes me to grow a bit worried.

"Noah what happened to your face?" I ask, reaching up and grabbing his face.

"Oh umm, I'm not exactly sure what happened." he tells me trying to brush it off.

"You didn't have that much to drink, how do you not know" I ask him to bring his face closer, kissing his bruised eye gently making sure I don't hurt him.

"I had quite a bit after you went to bed" he says rubbing the back of his neck looking embarrassed.

"Well looks like you won't me drinking that much anymore." I tell him, crossing my arms, looking up at him sternly.

"Are you limiting my drinks?" he playfully asks crossing his arms

"That I am." I say giggling before hugging him, he hugs me back. I feel him tenses up causing me to pull away from him only to see him looking in Gwen's direction, I look in her direction and she is giving him a very stern look.

She looks over to me and gives me a warm smile causing me to look at her confused.

"may" I hear Noah say, making me look away from the confusing girl to my bf. I look up at him questioningly, making him take a deep breath before speaking.

"I'm sorry about last night it was uncalled for. I was drunk and upset, which isn't an excuse. I stepped out of line, and I hope you can forgive me." he says to me, making me look at him shocked. I was just expecting us to move on from it and never talk about it just like last time.

"It's ok Noah, I forgive you" I say still a little shocked but decided to take the apology considering I never get them from him.

"Good," he says smiling before leaning down, giving me a peck on the lips then walking away.

I take a deep breath and turn around smiling hoping it isn't too obvious that I'm considerably anxious.

"y'all ready to go swimming" I yell to everyone getting cheers back and we all run for the lake.

thank you for reading hope you enjoyed, let me know what you think so far and if I can do anything to make the story better. thank you <3

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