The boy next door (Calum Hood fic)

Chapter 26

A/N: I casted Hailee Steinfeld for the part of Rose!

Feet shuffling on the cold hard wood, and quiet voices and giggles was what brought me to the reality that I was inside a cabin, and somewhere far away from home. I was slow in opening my eyes, but then my vision cleared and I saw every girl perfectly pampered even though we were in a desolated area.

"Get up, we have to go to breakfast soon." Helena said loudly in front of me. Then my eyes burst open, and sat up too quickly to realize I was in a bunk bed.

"Ow.." I rubbed the sensitive area on my head, and girls let out giggles throughout the cabin. I unzipped my sleeping bag, and quickly slipped on my shoes even though, they weren't completely on. I looked at the top bunk where Rose had slept, and surprisingly she wasn't there. I blinked in hope that it was just some strange hallucination, and rubbed my injured head. Huh. She was gone. I grabbed my toiletries, and headed off to the bathroom. I passed all the clean looking girls, and tried to make it quickly to the bathroom to avoid the chill morning breeze.

Cutting as much air as I could, I spotted Rose and Ashton sitting on the stairs in front of the lodge. I was about to go cut them off, but instead I just smiled at myself. They were happy. I laughed at their inability to realize that they should get in a relationship already, and walked into the bathroom to get myself ready. I stared long and hard at my reflection. I looked down at what I was wearing; a black hoodie and shorts. I wondered what we were doing today. So while I thought of anything suitable to put on, I washed my face, and brushed away the tangles, and bad breath.

I walked out, and saw the amount of boys and girls already spread out throughout the grassed area, and steps of the lodge. I made it back to my cabin, and everyone looked like they were waiting for me, sitting on their bunks. I got a few cold stares, but then Rose's eyes in the back begging me to come and save her from the girls trying to question her about personal things. I rushed to the back, and sat down next to her. I gave the girls an intimidating stare, then they scattered off, scoffing.

"You alright?" I questioned Rose, who was looking down at her palms.

"Yeah," She looked a bit shaken, and I was afraid they had said something that would've deeply offended her. I gave her a look to make check twice if she was alright.

"Yeah, I'm fine. " She tried to make her voice sound steady, but I could still see much more. I turned away with a hurt look to my face, even though the damage was appointed to me.

"Okay guys!" Jess dragged all of our attention to the front of the room. "Our plans for today are..." She paused and took a look at her clipboard. "First we will have breakfast, then you guys are going to get ready because we're going to the beach." The beach? Why the beach?

I raised my hand knowing people would try to question anything that I said,"Um, why are we going to the beach?" I said low, so not many people could hear.

"Are you afraid of showing that little body of yours?" Helena questioned me.

My mouth opened to say something, but Courtney cut off what I opened my mouth to say and said,"Little?" Then gave a small laugh.

Helena shotted her brown eyes towards me, running them up and down my figure that had my arms crossed,"Guess not," Many girls in the room looked at each other in the room, and gave devilish laughs.

"Hey, leave her alone. " Rose surprisingly said. I was actually truly a bit shocked. Rose rarely spoke up, and it made me happy that she did.

"Huh, what about Ashton?" Helena sparked up. "Are you afraid of showing your little body to him?" I saw the fury building up inside of Rose. I was about to cut Helena off of her rude remarks, but she spoke louder,"It's okay, he's very gentle for first timers."