The Night Walk

Chapter 17

10pm, Sam is now walking out of Cameron's house, as he exits the front door, he locks the door then pulls it close behind him, after making sure the door is fully close, he then walks out of the front porch and out of the front lawn.

"Today and tonight sure is a different experience... now that I think about it, what is Cameron dreaming about... more like a nightmare, he's crying during his sleep..." remembering how Cameron is crying and twitching during his sleep earlier, Sam is certain that Cameron is having a nightmare.

'Is it a past? Or something else...'

He sighs

'Well whatever it is, it's non of my business, he needs to talk about it with a family member or friends if it's something that needed to be comforted with...'

As he's walking down the sidewalk to head home, he looks to the side, on a branch of a tree in front of a vacant house that's coded in a shade of white and red, there's a lonely bird's nest on the branch as if it's hanging for its life, soon, wind starts to blow by causing the tree and that branch with the nest on it to wiggle. As branch is about to fall when Sam's instinct on running up to the lawn suddenly barges in and that's when the nest on the branch falls off, but luckily, Sam has caught it before it hits the ground.

"Phew..."

'How long has this nest been sitting on that branch...' he takes a peak inside of the nest and sees that there are over 4 eggs inside it. 

'Wow... where's the mom of this eggs... probably somewhere looking for something...' just then, the wind has stopped making the whole place quiet again. Sam stares at the moon, which is not a full moon anymore as small parts of it is now black.

"Peaceful... as always..." he then walks on the lawn of the vacant house and places the nest on a lower branch.

'This feels safe to be left here by now' after that, he walks off and heads back to the side walk as he continues his way back home.

It's now 6am in the morning as Cameron opens his eyes and sits on the bed, a wet towel falls off his forehead. As he feels the wet towel through the blanket on his lap, he then touches his forehead, he's not warm anymore.

'Huh... I feel better... well that was a great sleep I guess...' he stands up and heads to his curtain blocked window, as soon as his feet touches the floor in front of the window, he spreads his arms open along with the dark blue curtain which are now open which shows a rising sun.

Just then, someone opens his door "Hey kid, you're heading to school now?" Jane peaks her head inside checking up on him.

Cameron turns his head towards the door "I guess I am going to school" as he was heading back to his bed to pick up the wet towel that fell from his forehead earlier, another head peaks in which revealed his sister Sasha.

"Are you feeling better now?" she gives him a concern look.

He sighs "I am fine now, and also, who placed this on my head last night?" he shows them the wet towel.

"Meh, not me, I am having a nice dream about this woman I met at the convenient store from that day" which explains that Jane isn't the one who put the towel on his head.

He turns to Sasha for answer, but she shakes her head "Not me either, I was dead asleep on my bed too" and now it made him realize that it's Sam who put this on his forehead which causes him to freeze remembering how Sam literally stayed here late at night to help him with some missed class notes.

'That bastard...' the towel in his hand was being squished my him as more water starts coming out more from it.

"Uhhh... is he this strong after being sick?" Jane asks Sasha who's just impressed by Cameron's squeezing ability.

"No, maybe this is the first time?" she's indeed in awed by him right now.

Cameron then plops back into his bed covering his entire front body with the soft mattress and blanket of his bed 'THIS IS SO EMBARRASSING!!!' his face is red underneath he starts punching the bed over and over.

"Wow, he really helped you with this?" he immediately turns his head where he heard Sasha's voice which he spots her beside his desk holding the notes Sam and little from him that were from yesterday.

"Huh?" he stands up from the bed and checks looks at the notes.

'He made all of this last night?..... While I was asleep...?' he sees that all of the subject he had missed now have notes, thank to Sam 'Man... now I feel bad that I was asleep all night and made him do all the work which is supposed to be mine...'

At school, as Cameron walks in the classroom, he immediately spots Kiera beside Sam's desk, he can only see her back and not Sam clearly.

"Geez, did you stay up all night or what?" is what he could hear from Kiera as she seems to be poking him.

"Huh?" he's a bit confused of what's going on.

Kiera snaps her neck to turn to his direction causing him to flinch 'IS SHE HUMAN OR WHAT!?'

"AH! SHORTY! YOU'RE FINALLY HERE!" she happily yelled as she runs up to him and gives him a forceful hug.

And Cameron obviously didn't like the force touch "Don't call me that and get off of me.." he tries to push her away, and now that he gets a clear view of Sam, who's actually leaned on his desk, sleeping with his headphones on.