We Were Free

DAY 6-PART 2

DAY 6-Part 2

My fucking arm was gonna fall off.

"My fucking arm is going to fall off," I told my friends, thinking they deserved to know.

"Shut up, all ours are," Cassidy groaned.

"I have an idea," Kieran muttered, "everyone pull their ropes up."

We all grabbed our ropes with our free hands and worked on yanking them up, within a minute we were all holding circles of rope.

"Ok, I think I can weave these together and make a hammock for us," Kieran explained.

"Well ok Mr. I-Can-Suddenly-Fucking-Basket-Weave," Cassidy snorted.

"Shut up, I'm just going to use our bodies as starter bases and it's a simple over-under weave until it's big enough for us to sit in."

"Damn," Annabelle laughed.

Sure enough Kieran was true to his word and in about five minutes we had a woven hammock we could sit in.

"This is nice," Cassidy smiled, looking up at the sky.

Suddenly a man slid down next to us.

"Hey," I said casually.

"Hey?" He asked, "you understand you broke the law, right?"

"Sir!" Cassidy said, pushing herself up. Her legs immediately fell through a gap and she struggled to pull herself back up, "that was a mistake," she muttered, sitting back down, "anyway, Sir! This is nature! You cannot own nature!"

"I have a fucking contract that says otherwise," the man said with a flat face.

"What if a gave you twenty dollars?" she smiled.

He kept a pretty solid resting bitch face.

"If I let you touch my boob?" she offered.

"We can wait," he subtly threatened.

Then he dropped away out of view.

"Did you bring food?" I asked Annabelle.

"Do I ever not?" she said, pulling a bag out of her backpack.

By the time Circa left it was dark.

"Do we want to head down?" Annabelle asked.

"I like it here," I smiled, "it's peaceful."

"You know what we can do?" Kieran said almost mysteriously.

"What?" the rest of us asked.

"Extreme stargaze," he said.

Ok, I know that 'extreme stargazing' doesn't seem like a thing but tell that to me after you've stargazed on the top of a gondola car... yes we did that.

"Let's do it!" Cassidy said, readjusting herself.

Again, Cassidy has some quirks. She didn't teach me much, but the one thing she did was no matter what, any clump of stars can look like a dick, which was part of the reason I loved stargazing with her.

"That one looks like a vagina!" Annabelle said with a little too much excitement.

"It does," Kieran laughed.

"Please! You don't even know what one looks like!" I shot.

"I hate to bring it up, but, Bella," Kieran said.

"That's not a vagina, it's more like a black hole," Cassidy laughed.

"With fangs," I added.

"Shut up," Kieran muttered.

"Just saying," Cassidy said between laughter.

"Look!" Annabelle said, pointing at the sky.

Above streaked the sign of our friendship, something that somehow only showed up in moments like this.

A shooting star.