An Artistic Duo

Chapter 21

Authors note at the top today! Wanted to tell you guys that the sneak peak for Reality Babes is up, so go ahead and read it and tell me if you like it. The cover on the side was made by giuly510, sorry it took so long to post it. You'll see why I needed to post the author's note up here soon enough. (Hint: it's for dramatic reasons)

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Chapter 21

Sunday, August 4

"Eli and I are almost done with our piece," I told my cabin mates.

"Finally!" Bianca said and sat up on her bed. "You guys were really worrying me."

It was true. For the past two days, Eli and I had upheld our no-talk-no-touch pact perfectly. When we got to our room we would greet each other then jump right into the art. It felt really good to get lost in it like I hadn't done in so long. But I did also miss Eli. A lot.

"That's awesome," Kelsey said with a smile.

Surprisingly, Eli hadn't broken up with Kelsey yet. I haven't had a chance to ask why because of the pact, but I wasn't worried. I still sort of felt weird having him break up with Kelsey just because of me, though I wouldn't tell him that.

"Yup, just a little more to go," I said, feeling proud of myself. With exactly ten days left, we had been really pushing it.

I rolled my eyes when Alessa scolded us for taking so long in the first place, then Bianca spoke up.

"You guys, I'm gonna go get something to eat," she said and stood up.

"I'm coming," Alessa said, Kelsey standing up with her.

"I've had to pee for the past two hours but now I can finally go since I'm standing," I said and rushed off to the bathroom. "I'll be right behind you guys," I yelled from the closed door.

After I was finished relieving myself, I headed out of the cabin, closing the door behind me. I saw my friends up ahead and started jogging to catch up to them

"Hey Lace!"

I turned around at the sound of my name. Running towards me was Jaxon with a devilish smile on his face.

"Yeah?" I asked and slowed down so he could catch up to me.

He leaned his arm on my shoulder and smiled at me. "How've you been?"

I raised my eyebrow up, what was he doing? Jaxon and I didn't talk like this. "Fine..." I trailed off slowly.

He laughed. "Yeah, I know you are."

And what does that mean? "What?" I asked, voicing my thoughts.

"Oh, you know, because you and Eli," he said smirking.

I froze. What had he just said? I tried to open my mouth and say something, but I was speechless. Being with Eli had done that to me. But aside from that, did Jaxon know?

"Right, right," he said still smirking and nudged my side with his elbow.

"You... what?" I finally said. It was the only thing I could say, really.

His facial expression changed. It was like he had just noticed the expression on my face and his was starting to match it, minus the shock part. "You and Eli... together," he said, almost whispering now. He was getting scared.

And he should be, my temperature was rising. Eli had told him? I knew Eli was trusting but this sort of thing was supposed to be an AB type of secret. And of all the people he could've told, he told Jaxon?