What She Went Through

Chapter 7

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“We’re here!”  a small girl yelled, making me stir from my deep sleep.

“Katy be quite, we are only stopping here to go the bathroom; let them sleep!” a male voice snapped back at the child making her quiet down, but it was too late I was already awake.

My eyes slowly fluttered open when I heard the back door slam shut leaving the Tahoe in silence besides the light sound of breathing. I look up to seeing Kyle peacefully sleeping, his head lying against the window, as the afternoon light beats down on his face; his arm strung across my chest, his hand intermingled with my own. I can’t help but notice how comfortable it feels to hold his hand; holding Jamie’s just didn’t feel right, like he was my big brother making sure he didn’t lose me in a crowd of people, rather than a couple holding hands. I slowly sat up and untangled our hands as I leant forward to get out of the Tahoe, feeling the sudden urge to go the bathroom. I could hear Kyle start to stir himself, seeing as our hands weren’t intermingled anymore.

“Spence?” Kyle groggily asked. I fought the urge to comment about his voice.

“Uh...yeah?” I asked as he himself sat up and stretched out his arms, showing his biceps, damn.

“Were you going?”

“We stopped, I was going to go the bathroom then come back and let Dory do the same.” Dory looked up from her spot next to Kyle, on the floor, perking up at the sound of my voice.

“I’ll take her! You go” He responded, now eyes wide open and smiling.

“Ok, thanks” I said while getting out of the truck. I walked towards the entrance of the rest area seeing not only had Julie, David and Katy gone it, but Lacey and Nathan also stood inside taking.

“Well good afternoon!” David said with a small chuckle.

<Why was he laughing?>

  “Hey…how long have we been sleeping?” I asked ignoring my horrible bathroom urge for the moment.

“Since we got on the high way sleep heads!” He responded but not before I felt an arm reach around my waist making me up. I looked over seeing Kyle, holding Dory to his chest with his free arm, seeing as no one else was in the building now.

“I see we’re in Wisconsin now but how much farther to go dad?” Kyle asked from beside me. I had also seen the large ‘Welcome to Wisconsin’ sign as I walked into the building.

  “Excuse me” I spoke quietly, slipping from Kyle’s arm and headed for the bathroom lacey following suit.

“Ok tell me what the hell just happened?!” Lacey said as soon as the bathroom door shut, with help from her.

“I…really don’t know myself…” My voice shaky; I proceeded to tell her about the text, letting her see it for herself, what Kyle said to me, how caring he was about it.

“…And when I woke up…my head was in his lap and our hands were intertwined…” my voice cracking in and out through the whole story.

“Awe you guys are such a cute couple!!!” Lacey squealed.

<Cute couple?!>

“I'm not datin-” I wasn’t able to finish my sentence.

“I won’t tell anyon-!” Lacey started to say before I cut her off.

“-g Kyle. I'm dating Jamie!” the words left my mouth before I could even think.

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We’ve been at the cabin for a few hours now. Lacey freaked out on me after I confessed I was dating Jamie and hasn’t talked to me since. I knew she told Nathan too because when we parked and I began to take my stuff out of his truck he wouldn’t help me unload it, in fact he wouldn’t even look at me. If I would have known my best friend and brother would’ve turned away from me, I would never be dating Jamie nor would I have kissed him back. I can’t lose my only close friend and brother because of some guy I think I like.