Looks like today you were going on a road trip! Your friend, Carissa invited you and some of your friends (including Nick) to go camping. You were so nervous, so many things could happen on this weekend with nick. You would either embarrass yourself hardcore, or romantically bond with nick. You were really hoping for the second option. You and nick really seemed to be hitting it off lately, you were flirting and he would sometimes hold your hand and hug you. You didn't wanna mess that all up over one weekend.
You had all your little sports bags filled with clothes ready to go. You hear a car honk it's horn several times queuing you to leave and tell your parents good bye.
"Could you have honked the horn some more, I could barely hear it," you jokingly say as you enter the tight packed car.
"She think she has jokes," bryce laughs out, "take a seat, any seat."
"She doesn't have much of a choice, she's gonna have to sit by me," nick says dragging you to the only seat available.
"Jeeze," you laugh, "so are we good?"
"Yup! You were our last stop, funnest weekend ever day 1 let's go," carissa says excitedly.
The car ride was amusing but long. Maybe you all shouldn't have left at 5:30 P.M. Sitting by nick made it all the more great however. He would tell you jokes, whisper in your ear to make fun of your other friends , trace shapes on your thigh with a feather light touch, and when an hour had passed by, he let you rest your head on his shoulder.
"Tired?" He asked you with a slight smile.
"Yeah," you answer.
"Well it looks like we're here," Lizz says.
"Great, atleast my loser boyfriend didn't get us lost," Carissa says as she gets out of the car.
"You loser boyfriend can hear you!" Bryce says as he too exits the car.
"It's already dark, what can we do now?" You ask.
"Swimming?," Nick suggest as he steps facing directly behind you 'tazering' your sides.
"You'd like that wouldn't you," JJ says while laughing and eyeing you the whole time.
"Shut up," he responds while laughing too.
"I say we get camp set up first, and then we can play truth or dare," Lizzie says with a devious grin.
Everyone agrees, and you all set up camp. There are two tents, one for the guys and the other for the girls. So, three people would sleep in each tent. When you all finish, one of your guy friends sets up the fire and some logs for you all to sit around the fire. When you arrive, Nick drags to sit next to him like he did when you were entering the car, and your friends roll their eyes and smirk. You begin to play the third and fourth rounds and it's getting really fun.
"Okay Lizzie. Truth or dare?" Carissa asks mischievously.
"Dare!" Your friends name responds confidently.
"I dare you... to... run around the campsite in just your underwear. So I hope you were wearing boxers instead of briefs," she laughs.
"Is that all you got? I was gonna do that anyway," he says. He runs around and completes the dare. It was Nick's turn.
"Truth or dare Nick, don't wimp out on me! I just ran around here half naked," his friend states.
"I'm a man, c'mon. Obviously I'm gonna do a dare." Nick replies while slinking his arm around you when he stated that he was a 'man.'
"Since you're getting so comfy with, Elyse over here... I dare you to kiss her. Right here on the lips," his friend said while mocking him.
Nick looks at you for approval, and you just nervously smile and shrug your shoulders. You both stand up, he cups your face in his hands and breathes you into a kiss. He stops, looks at you again, and kisses you again.
"OOOOOOOOO!" Everyone laughs and says.
"Dude I said I'm a man?" He responds.
You cover your mouth and sit back down. You don't want anyone to see how big you were smiling and how red you were getting. But later, the whole night, Nick sort of ignored you. He never once made another move on you like he normally would. He didn't talk to you look at you, he was only with his friends. How could he just kiss you like that and not talk about it? Maybe it was just a dare. You, like all of your friends were in your tents, but these thoughts haunted you so much you just wanted to take a walk.
You got really deep into the walk when it started to get colder. You were only wearing a pair of shorts and a thin cardigan. You had to wrap it around you as you walked because the wind was getting to be too much. You hear mumbling like someone's talking to themselves, and you find out it's Nick. You can't quite here what he's saying but he's alone and he sounds upset. You try to get closer with out being seen until you step on a branch that made the loudest noise ever.
"Who's that?" He shouts. "Seriously come out!"
"It's just me," you say nervously as you approach him. "What are you–"
"Why are you following me anyway?" he asks.
"I was just taking a walk and then I saw you and, and I just I feel like there's something wrong," you admit. He look at you and looks back down to his feet in silence. "There is something wrong isn't there. Was it the kiss?"
"I guess," he says.
"Well elaborate, I'm not gonna be upset or anything, just be honest with me." you say.
"I was going on raving about how I was such a man," he says as he starts to pace around waving his drink in his hand, "but what kind of a 'man' can't even have the guts to tell the girl he adores how he feels," he confesses throwing the can into the river in frustration.
"Me?" you ask. He looks at you like you were disappointed in him. "Nick, you should know by now that I feel the same way," you say with a smile holding his hands. "I would've waited way longer than this point for something to happen between us. All I really care about is that we're together."
"Really?" He asks.
"Yeah," you say while hugging him. "And next time, you don't need a dare to kiss me."
"Well thanks for the permission because that's how we're spending the rest of our weekend," he says and winks at you pulling you back into his arms.
