In Check

chapter twenty three

The walk back towards to camp was silent and not surprisingly painfully awkward. I know he was dying to ask me and try and figure out why I didn’t say I loved him back, truthfully I just didn’t feel ready but I knew that I had strong feelings for him. We didn’t have any sort of contact on the walk back, no holding hands not even lightly brushing shoulders. It was only a few minutes and I missed his touch. I decided to try and bring up the topic so we could talk about it.

“Justin, I-“

“We only have about half an hour until parents day is over so why don’t we just spend time with parents?” Justin interrupted me probably sensing what I wanted to talk about, I froze next to him.

He wants to avoid me now because I didn’t say it back? I shook my head, scolding myself that I was probably over thinking it and he maybe genuinely wanted to spend the rest of the time with his parents. I didn’t say anything but nodded in response, he gave a hesitant smile then quickly kissed me on the forehead, disappearing out of site. I shrugged my shoulder and thought I’d deal with him a little later.

Once I began walking up the cabins and trying to spot my parents mine and Hannah’s cabin door swinging open caught my attention, out emerged Hannah and Rebecca who we’re laughing together and seemed to be getting along quote well, I furrowed my eyebrows and began to inch my way closer.

What the hell? I watched as Rebecca gave Hannah a small wave with a smirk then walk off in the other direction leaving Hannah to stand there on her own. I began to walk up to her to ask her what the hell was going on before I heard someone call me name.

“Mandy!” I spun myself around to see my father and mother beckoning me over, I took a deep breath before walking over. I approached them with an attempted smile on my face only to be greeted with a deep scowl from my father.

“Where the hell have you been? We didn’t travel all the way over here to be completely ignored.” He spat and my mother next to him remained completely quite, which was no surprise to me at all. It took me a minute to realize that Andrew was also sitting down at the table playing some sort of game on his iPhone, I rolled my eyes.

“Im sorry, I had something to deal with.” I shook my head in a dismissive matter.

“I don’t care, we’re your parents you could have dropped whatever you had to deal with.” His eyes narrowed and the second those words left his mouth I felt my teeth clench, how dare he? He didn’t have a single clue as to what was happening.

“You don’t even know what I had to deal with.” I asked as I clenched both my fists from beside me.

“Probably sometimes boyfriend drama, I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t something completely stupid.” He scoffed and took a sip of whatever he was drinking from his cup.

“You don’t even know Justin.” I quickly defended, he knew nothing about Justin or our relationship, I could feel myself about to blow up at him any minute.

“Regardless,” He waved his hand dismissing me.

“You should have been here with us, not him.” He pointed his head towards Justin, I spun myself around to see him just a table away from us laughing along with his mother but I couldn’t spot his dad, I smiled. At least one of was enjoying the remaining time without parents.

I turned around to face my dad, carefully planning out what I was about to say to him, this will cause a scene but I couldn’t care less.

“Forgive me for not wanting to say here with you, all you have done today is making me feel like absolute crap.” For some unknown reason I began laughing, had he had no idea what a complete asshole he’s been acting like today?