Not prepared for this

Fourth of July night.

Chapter 20

Jenni's POV

I got up to the camper and sat on the couch with my mom as we watched some episodes of Friends.  I wanted to tell her how the night was going to go.  Plus, that I was going on a date with Conrad, if you can even call it that.

"Hey mom. So, what are you doing tonight?" I didn't really know how to start the conversation I wasn't just going to blurt it all out that would be weird.

"Um probably going to sit down by the beach with Jake and the rest of the moms with their kids, Why? What are you doing?" She said and didn't take her eyes off the screen once.

"Well, apparently there is this tradition around here where every Fourth of July a guy asks a girl to go out on the lake and watch the fireworks in a boat, and this year Conrad asked me. So... yeah..."

Now she finally turned around when she heard me say that Conrad asked me. "Oh, honey that's so exciting! Right? Ohh and he is such a nice guy. Oooo do you have anything special that your going to wear?"

"Yeah it is pretty exciting I guess. But it's not just him and I apparently all of his friends do this too, and they're going to be inviting the girls they like, so I guess I will get to meet them too--"

"You mean these guys ask out the girls they like and Conrad asked you...--"

"No, No, No. Conrad just asked me as a friend it's nothing else. I mean who else would he ask there's not a lot of girls at this campground all though I heard there were quite a few across the lake at his friends campground but no, he just asked me as a friend." Right? He did just ask me as a friend didn't he? I guess I never thought that he was asking me because he liked me. Yeah, there was that kiss at the beginning at the summer but that was a dare. Right? Although, it did last a little longer than it was supposed to and he started kissing me back.... Nope, it's just a friend thing.

"Well, okay but what is the big deal if he likes you or not?"

"Because it would be weird, well not that it would be weird to date him or something but we're just friends and I don't want anything to come between us if anything bad happened." I said, dating Conrad wouldn't be bad, he is a great friend and he for sure is good looking, but I would be afraid that if anything did happen I wouldn't want to jeopardize our friendship.  My mom sure knows how to make me think deeply about things that don't need to be and then makes you feel guilty or something about what you did, even when you did nothing wrong!!

"Okay, well I can't wait for the day when you finally say you have a crush on him." She said looking at the TV still.

" I never said I don't like him I mean he's funny and nice and not bad looking but I wouldn't want to develop a crush on him." I sat there and waited for her reply I knew she would just keep nagging me about this, she gets annoying when it comes to crushes.

"Mmmhmm" She said sarcastically. I rolled my eyes at her (obviously when she wasn't looking) and then just got up I wasn't going argue with her it was like arguing with a five year old who wouldn't actually listen to what you were saying and just focused on what they thougth.

I got up and walked outside. I had a lot of time to kill so, I walked over to Nick's camper I hadn't talked to him in a while. I went and just walked in. I knew that his parents weren't there seeing that there cars were gone so I just went in I knew he wouldn't mind. He was doing just what I figured he would be doing, sitting on the couch with a bag of chips in his lap and watching some movie. When he saw me walk in he jumped out of his seat and covered his lap with a pillow, he was in his under wear. I roll my eyes at that.