After Oliver introduced himself to me he went quiet again and someone in front of the bus stood up and asked for all of our attention. I looked at the man, curious about what he had to say. He scratched his throat and started apologizing for the bus being late, apparently there were some technical problems. Because of the time, we would have to stop somewhere else at a camping and sleep in four person tents. Tomorrow we would travel longer than originally planned to get back on track.
I could hear a deep sigh next to me and I looked at Oliver who looked like he already didn't want this. I looked away and heard the man add that everybody went with an even amount of people, so either with 2, 4 or 6, except the fact that two people cancelled. I sighed, that was probably about my best friend and the person Oliver was going with. They also told us they counted on that and had exactly enough tents ready for all the people on the bus, which meant Oliver and I would have to share a tent with two other people. He didn't look all too happy about it though.
I decided to ignore it because not long after that the bus started driving in the direction we were supposed to go in. It was getting kind of late and since I of course waited until the last minute with packing my bags, I had to get up really early this morning, causing a wave of tiredness coming over me after about half an hour through the drive. I slowly closed my eyes and drifted away, not really dreaming about anything.
I woke up after the bus stopped rather harshly and I hit something hard with my head. I slowly opened my eyes and noticed my head was laying on something really soft and I had something like a blanket over me. I lifted my head in confusion and saw it was laying on Olivers shoulder, who had his arm wrapped around my shoulder. He probably also put a blanket over me since he was still kind of holding it.
I lightly smiled, I didn't even know him that well and to be honest, he seemed kind of weird at times but he was kind of cute when he was sleeping. I tried getting out of his grip in which I succeeded after a couple of tries. When I was free I looked around me and put the blanket on top of him. It was really weird how I had ever seen him before in my life yet here we were cuddling like some married couple. I looked out of the window, sadly Oliver beat me to the window seat, and saw we were driving towards a campsite, probably the one we were staying at.
When we arrived there the man in front of the bus told us to get out and pick a tent we wanted to stay in. I shook Olivers shoulder to try and get him to wake up, which he didn't at first. I started by taking the blanket away, which didn't wake him up at all. Then I started shaking his shoulders again, leading to no response. My third option was pulling him up straight so he would be almost standing, maybe that would help, but I really wasn't that strong. He wasn't that heavy, I just had the strength of a chicken.
He ended up falling to the floor of the bus, but that did wake him up. I smiled a little awkwardly at him.
"Sorry, you weren't waking up and we are supposed to get out now to find our tents" I told him and shrugged a little. He sighed and got up and grabbed his bags without another word and left the bus, leaving me behind. I was incredibly confused about what just happened, but decided to let it slide and followed after him. I saw most tents were already taken and Oliver was walking towards one that still had two spots left. I had no other option but to follow him there.
Looking around, I noticed the camp site wasn't that big at all, there were some tents for our group but nothing else, really. It looked like there was a small shop a little further. There was some light rain dripping on the tents so I decided to get in before it got too bad. I looked around and saw the tents were actually really spacious. Apparently we were sharing with a boy and a girl, I wasn't sure if they were a couple though. I smiled at them and put my suitcase down. The beds were already made so that was a good start.
The tent was divided in 3 parts, there was the first part you saw immediately when you walked in, and the back of the tent had two departments. Each of these two departments had two beds in it and I saw the left beds were already taken so I put my suitcase on the bed in the right department. The first part of the tent was designed like a normal living room, with a couch and some chairs, a radio and a table. It looked comfortable enough and I sat down on the couch. I was soon joined by the girl who shared the tent with us and she smiled at me.
"I'm Natasja" she told me and held her hand out for me to shake it, so I took it.
"Josh" I simply told her and smiled at her while quickly glancing at Oliver who was on the bed already, and the other guy that was here. "Are you two here together?" I asked her and she simply shrugged.
"We're traveling together, but we're not together together, if you get what I mean?" she asked and I nodded. "I would like it though, we've been best friends for years now" she whispered and smiled at me before sitting up straight again. "Hey Zack, come introduce yourself" she called the guy and he walked in our direction.
He too smiled at me and held his hand out, so I took his hand too to shake it, and said my name again.
"My name is Zack" he introduced himself and smiled a little. After that he went to turn on the radio and I talked some more with Natasja. I told her I didn't know Oliver at all, so she wouldn't ask questions about him. After a little bit of talking, we all decided to go to bed. It was a little awkward, but thankfully the beds were two single beds, that could be moved apart a little so it wouldn't get too close. The distance between the beds wasn't an entire person though, so I wouldn't fall so easily. The worst thing that could happen was that I would end up in Olivers bed. That wouldn't be too bad.
