A large part of me and Renee's relationship was school, even though we only had two periods a week together. Never the less, we made it work. A week into our relationship, a school trip was happening, and it was three nights away from home, in the middle of nowhere, hiking. I'd been waiting for this trip ever since Renee and I started being friends with benefits. Renee was against doing anything scandalous in school, the furthest she'd let me go is hug her. So this trip was an opportunity to relive the moments in the cinema, when she made me bleed. We got to the camp, all was good, I was hanging out with my friends. In the evening I went to find Renee, I found her talking to Morgan, since the time of Morgan's break-up with Whitney, they had become pretty close, so this didn't really raise any flags for me. I came up from behind her and held her. We started talking, and I pulled her closer and whispered in her air, "Can I get some tonight"(I was not asking for sex), and it seemed I didn't really whisper because Morgan heard me and said "You don't ask when its your girlfriend." I was so embarrassed. So I said the first thing that came to mind, "Shut up mate, that's how we work." The rest was pretty awkward, so I left with Morgan, we started talking about some pointless guys things. It started to get dark, so I headed down to where she was, how the camp was set up, it wasn't exactly a camp, it was a school, a public school with really bad resources, so not your average toilet or anything. So the girls and the guys were put in two different classes on two different sides of the school. However, the food and everything was in the girls class, so it was not as suspicious to end up in the girls class. I got to her to find her alone, we started talking, can't remember what we were talking about, but I remember her telling me that three days before we left her period had started so she couldn't give me anything. I was pretty bummed, i'd been waiting so long for this, but I didn't push it. We continued talking, up until the sun went down. I kissed her forehead and said goodnight. We woke up the next morning to set off on our hiking, now I'd been training for this for months, so my body was in top shape, and luckily, my group was also really fit. We were the last group to set out, but we caught up with Renee's group, and we were walking together. Eventually I had to leave her in order to keep up with my group, we ended up taking the long route to get the checkpoint. We had a few minutes to chill at the checkpoint, to cool down after a four hour hike. We set off to the next checkpoint, for this particular route we had to find our own way, so I would run ahead and check the routes to make sure were going to right direction. So eventually a lot of groups started hanging onto ours in order to make sure they don't get lost.
We got to the next checkpoint 6 hours later, as one massive group, and I managed to spend some time with Renee. We set off back to our camp, which took us another 3 hours, so after a whole day of walking we were all done. We reached to the camp, I headed straight to my sleeping bag. I dozed for maybe two hours, and then woke up to find out about dinner, I found everyone cooking for their groups, I found where my group was, and did what I could to help. We had dinner, and got applauded by everyone else for making the best friend chicken ever. I went to see if Renee was doing better, and she was fast asleep. So I just headed to my sleeping bag and blacked out. The next day was practically the same, except we left that camp entirely and headed into a new one, a much smaller, much worse school, on the walk to the school, we locked arms, something I usually hate doing, and walked for about an hour. During this walk, I convinced her to give me a peck on the cheek, I needed to convince her because she wasn't at all a fan of PDA. So finally I convinced her, and she turned around looked at me and got ready to peck me, and I turned my head hoping that our lips would meet like in the movies, but it went horribly wrong, I didn't consider her height and ended up kissing her glasses. That night I brought out my blanket to stargaze, I felt stargazing was a lucky thing for me, this is because a few years earlier, also on a school trip, I cuddled with this girl that I felt I had no chance with, but then later ended up having a thing with, but that's a story for another book. I managed to drag Renee out to stargaze with me. We tried to cuddle, but just ended up laying next to each other. She kept mumbling about the way people must have thought that we were having sex, since we were away from everyone else. I disregarded it, and she told me she was feeling kind of cold, so I told to sit up and I wrapped the top half of the blanket around us. Her head was on my shoulder, even though we weren't exactly star gazing, we were still just sitting alone together. At that moment I felt something amazing, like fireworks going off in my stomach. It was just the best feeling ever. She told me that her period was over, and I couldn't help but ask if tonight was the night. She said fine, but after dinner. I asked why not now and she said she didn't feel clean, we hadn't showered since we left for the field trip. So I asked her for a real reason, and she told me she couldn't imagine it with me, someone her age. See she was one of those girls who had a thing for dating older guys. Her only other boyfriend was older than her, maybe 2 or 3 years older. I didn't push her, so I let her go. I felt pretty bad, It was great that she changed her standards for me, but I just couldn't help but feel she didn't actually care about me or something. So I sat down with Morgan, and told him everything, I ended it by saying that I think me and her will end up braking up. So after dinner I went to her in my mind planning how I'm going to break up with her, she looked at me, and said okay now, I took her to the boys class first, and we made out, but one of the teachers must've noticed us walk in together and realized what was happening, and luckily I noticed, and stopped us. He got in, and we got out, I took her behind the entire camp, and we got on, she always used to say I couldn't pick her up. So I proved her wrong and picked her up, and she begged me to put her down. We heard someone coming so I left her and ran towards my room, and she ran as well. She hadn't gotten much better as a kisser, but she was making progress. The next day was brief, we only hiked for about 4 hours, and headed back to our actual school to go home.
In school, it was great, we were working out, going strong. Mabel had come to school to sign off, in my school when you are leaving the school you have to sign off from all the teachers, to ensure there is not pending payments or anything I guess. So I took her around to all the teachers, and she finally told me everything about why she dropped out, her parents were planning on moving to Germany. This hit me like a brick, but she was set to leave in a few months, so I wasn't panicking yet. She asked about me and Renee, and I she helped me realize that I was the one who always initiated the conversations, at first I was in denial, so she told me to go the next day without initiating the conversation. So I did exactly that, and that's when Hell formed in Heaven's delight.
