Fracture

CHAPTER EIGHT

☆ ♫ Patrick ♫ ☆

Letting myself into the Biggs house, I was surprised to see everyone had already arrived. I looked at everyone, feeling surprised to see Hughie's girlfriend, Katie, standing next to him.

I had no idea she was coming on this trip. Especially since Hughie said he'd be sharing a tent with me.

"Okay, so maybe I won't be sharing a tent with you," Hughie muttered, reading my thoughts.

"Yeah, thanks for that," I sighed, shaking my head at my best friend.

"You can share with Gibs," Hughie shrugged, pointing to Gibsie who was arguing with Johnny about who was going in what car.

"Where are we going exactly?" I asked, dropping my bag to the floor.

"Cork. Claire picked a campsite in fucking Cork," Hughie complained.

"Well that's still fun," I smiled at Claire who had her arms crossed and was glaring at her older brother.

Hughie scoffed and shook his head.

"Let's get the cars packed," Johnny interrupted, grabbing Shannon's hand to lead her outside.

I followed the rest of the group outside and assisted Johnny in packing the cars.

Once we had loaded the vehicles we each got in our respective cars, me sitting in the back of Johnnys Audi with Scarlett and Shannon sitting shot gun.

I didn't want to imagine the drama that was occurring in Hughie's car.

After we arrived at the campsite we all exited the cars and Johnny and I began to unload the car.

"Cork, Claire?" Hughie continued his complaints, as he leaned against his car, "Of all the places in the country, you chose Cork?"

Choosing to ignore him I continued to help Johnny unload. I knew Hughie, and I knew he'd been complaining the whole way up.

Not to mention the rest of my friend group was all out of sorts. Hughie and Claire were arguing, Katie was in some sort of mood and of course Lizzie was her usual angry self.

As for Scarlett she seemed in good spirits, especially towards me. Although, the two of us had been getting closer the more time we spent together.

"It's a lovely place," Claire sighed, "It has a river and it's surrounded by woods! It's beautiful and I promise we will have fun. Let's just be postive."

I felt bad for the girl. She had planned this amazing trip for us and no one seemed to have a care in the world.

"It's great Claire," Scarlett spoke up, "thank you for planning this."

"You're welcome, Scar," Claire smiled, "it's what you deserve."

"I agree," Shannon beamed, "it's the most beautiful place I've ever seen."

"You've been out of cork once," Lizzie snorted.

"Twice," Shannon corrected, her face turning red.

"Still you've only gone twice-,"

"For now," Johnny snapped, glaring at Lizzie.

"This is still Cork, Cap," Hughie whined.

"West Cork," Gibsie corrected him, his tone laced with hostility, "and fuck right off with your pessimistic attitude. At least your sister had the imagination to plan this trip. We'd be sitting around your living room if it wasn't for her."

Turning to Claire he smiled and added, "Don't mind him babe. You did great."

"Thanks, Gerard," Claire blushed hard.

I smiled to myself, I knew how Gibsie felt about Claire and it was about time he admitted it. Even if Hughie hated it.

"But we could've gone literally anywhere," Hughie continued.

"Say it one more time and I'll beat the shit out of you," Gibsie snapped, glaring at Hughie , "You think I'm messing? Keep upsetting her and see what happens-"

"Hey, you two knock it off," I interjected, "None of this shit on Scarlett's birthday."

"Hughie's right, this is a disaster," Lizzie scoffed.

"Of course you'd say that," Scarlett said under her breath, making me bite back a smile.

I watched Claire's eyes fill with tears before she hurried off towards the woods in the direction of the campsite.

"Oh my fucking god!" Gibsie roared, "If any of you have a problem with being here, then get back in your cars and leave!"

And with that he stormed off in the direction of Claire.

"Claire spent the past month planning this trip!" Scarlett chimed in, "And in case you're all forgetting, this is my birthday trip, and I'd rather not spend it with all of you arguing."

"Alright, no more complaining from me," Hughie raised his arms in surrender.

"And you?" Scarlett narrowed her eyes at Lizzie.

"For yours and Claire's sake, I'll suck it up," She nodded.

"Good," Scarlett huffed, "now everyone please stop complaining! This is supposed to be fun and all about me, so if I hear one more complaint I'm going to lose it. Do you understand?"

"Yes," I nodded.

"Not you, eejit," Scarlett stuck her tongue out at me before raising a brow at Hughie and Lizzie.

"Yeah, sorry," Hughie nodded.

"Me too," Lizzie sighed.

"Should we head to camp?" I asked, trying to change the conversation to something more lighthearted.

"Yes," Johnny agreed, handing the last of the supplies to Hughie.

"Onward and upward," I sighed, slinging a bag over each of my shoulders.

Great only twenty minutes in and a fight has already happened.

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Literally the shortest update ever but i wanted to update before i go back to work tmr :(

anyways here's this for you
(next chapter will bring the drama)

love u
xoxox

-F