The Girl Behind the Camera

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I was gasping for air. He barely broke out a sweat. I looked into his eyes. They were bright green against the mud. He lifted himself onto his elbows and he looked down at me. He smiled at me and I laughed.

"What?" I giggled.

"You've got mud on your teeth." He scowled and spat so the mud wasn't still on his teeth.

"Better?" I looked at his now whitened teeth. I nodded my head and smiled.

"Good. Cause you're gonna have some on yours now!" I screamed when a fist full of mid landed on my face. Lance got up and ran away.

"Lance Colon, I hate you!" I ran after him as fast as I could.

"Good to know!" I grabbed a rock and threw it at him. I had pretty good aim because my father and I used to play catch with a football. I was a major tomboy because of my father.

"Ow!" I smiled in triumph and grabbed a handful of mud before jumping on his back. He laughed, but cried out when I stuffed mud down his shirt. He cursed at me and tried to throw me off. I wrapped my legs and arms around him so it wouldn't be as easy.

"Evelyn, get off!" I shook my head, but remembered he couldn't see me.

"Nope." I popped the "p" like I always did. He cursed again and sighed in defeat. I noticed the sun was going down.

"We gotta get back."

"We ain't gonna go in my truck like this."

"You sound like a hillbilly." He chuckled and walked us towards the waterfall again.

"Nope! No way! I am not gonna get wet again."

"You got wet already?" I smacked him on the head.

"Your a sick perverted!"

"Hey! I ain't a pervert. I mist have a sect imagination." I rolled my eyes.

"Seriously, let me go! It's cold and I wanna go home." I whined and kicked. He held onto my legs and stopped at the edge.

"Now you're the one that sounds like a girl." I smiled, but screamed when he jumped into the water. It was probably at least twenty degrees colder than what it was earlier. By the time we broke the surface I was shivering like a Chihuahua. I was still on Lance's back and held on tighter.

Lance put me down and ran to the car and grabbed a couple blankets. He wrapped one around me and the other around himself. I was still shivering.

"Ya still cold?" I shook my head.

"N-n-n-no." I smiled at him.

"Yes you are. Your lips are blue."

"W-w-well m-mayb-be n-next-t t-time you'll-l listen-n to m-me." He sat closer and wrapped his blanket around me. We layer back on the sand and watched as the sun drew closer to the horizon.

"Yeah. Maybe I will." I smiled and snuggled closer to his warm skin. I didn't know shy he was the lucky one to be warm, but I was crazy jealous.

Soon the sky was filled with stars. I didn't realize how many there were, but that was probably because I lived in the city where there was a lot of light pollution. The sun was full and I saw a shooting star.

"There's supposed to be a meteor shower tonight, ya know?" I nodded.

"Better make a wish when you see a shooting star." I whispered. I saw at least forty shooting stars. We had decided to have a contest of who could see the most and he apparently won because he saw ninety-seven.

"I won!"

"No way! You cheated! You didn't count right!"

"Yes I did! I went seven eight nine!"

"More like seven eight fifety-two!"

"Nah uh!"

"Yeah huh!"

"Nah uh!"

"Yeah huh!"

It went on and on and on and we were still arguing about it when we arrived at my house.

"All I'm saying is you need to go back to preschool so that you can learn how to count!"

"I'm in calculus! I think I know how to count!"

"Obviously you don't, you cheated!"

"No I didn't! Your just a sore loser!"

"I didn't lose! I won 'cause you cheated!"

"I did not cheat!"

My mom had to come into the kitchen and break us up.

"What is going on?!"

I pointed to Lance. "He cheated and says I lost!"

"I didn't cheat! You just don't know how to take a loss like a man!"

"I am not a man and you cheated!"

"Woh woh woh. What am I missing?" My mom out her hands on her hips and looked at us questioningly. I took a deep breath.

"Wewerecountingshootingstarsandstartedacontesttoseewhocouldspotthemost.Wewereonlythereforafewhours.HesaidthayhefoundonehundredshooingstarsandIonlyfoundaboutsixty.Obviouslyhecheatedandaddedlikeseventytohisoriginalnumberbecausehecouldnotgetthatmanyinthatamountoftime." I rushed it all out in a few breaths. My mother seemed a little bit confused.

"I'll let you guys figure those one out." She walked out holding her head. We must have given her a headache.

"There's no need to figure this out because I won!"

"No you didn't because you cheated!"