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Chapter 16

I was wide awake by the end of the movie. Though I liked horror I had an overactive imagination and whenever I closed my eyes disturbing pictures popped up as if they were tattooed on the inside of my eyelids. Madeline had clung to Ethan for the first part of the movie and then fell asleep.

Everyone seemed to be asleep so I turned off the TV and stood up. I left the house and sat down on the porch. The street lights were on and I knew it was probably pretty late. A moth kept on going toward a street light and would run into it and then try to get at it again. "Damn I'm relating to a moth now," I rubbed my head and someone laughed at me.

Turning around I saw Madeline. "Well that's not good," she said and sat down. Why did she have to be here? I thought she was asleep. Rubbing my face I tried to put on a smile. "Look I want to apologize," she said and sat down next to me.

I swear this girl is bipolar, I sighed and shrugged. "Yeah whatever," I muttered and hoped she would leave.

"I shouldn't have said anything it's just...I know I'm a bitch and honestly...I'm jealous," she rubbed hands together and didn't look up from the ground.

"Why would you be jealous?" I asked and she finally looked up.

"Are you joking? What you have with Ethan. I can never have that," she shook her head and I would be lying if I said I wasn't suspicious.

"It's not like I can ever have what you and Ethan have," I muttered hoping she didn't hear it and but she laughed.

"You're just as oblivious as him," she said to no one in particular and I didn't ask what she meant. "You know why I was so mad that he forgot my purse?"

"Because you had to call Tommy?" I asked.

"No," she laughed and closed her eyes, "I was mad because he was with you and I thought..." she trailed off and I stood up. "Where are you going?" she asked and stood up as well.

"I'm going to go for a walk," I stated and started walking forward only to be followed by Madeline, "alone," I clarified and she stopped. It was warm as always and I made sure to pay attention to where I went. 

Luckily it was a nice neighborhood and I didn't have to worry too much about drug addicts or homeless people. The lights in the house closest to me were turned on and I noticed a guy sitting on a couch watching something on the TV. He turned to me and I realized how creepy I must be. It didn't help when he stood up and I turned away and started walking faster. The door opened and he came running after me. 

Panicking I ran. Great now I seemed even more like a stalker. "May wait up!" the person yelled and I slowed down to a walk. The guy had caught up to me and I turned around.

"Cameron? What the fuck! You scared the shit out of me!" I yelled and covered my mouth. I didn't want to wake up anyone in the neighborhood.

"I was worried. Did something happen with your boyfriend?" he asked and took a step toward me. I took a step back.

"N-no," I stuttered. I wanted to get out of this situation. Why did I take a walk?The air seemed to get cooler and as if on cue rain started to come down. For a couple long minutes we stood in silence until Cameron's hair was so wet it fell in front of his face and he had to push it back.

"Do you want to come inside?" he finally asked. Thunderstruck someone in the distance and I took a deep breath which luckily was covered with the sound of rain hitting the sidewalk.

"I don't think that's a good idea."

"Let me take you home at least," he offered. Going back didn't seem so great either. Maybe I could just go inside for a bit and dry off. 

"Where's your house?" I asked and Cameron smiled and showed me the way. Carefully I walked a couple feet behind him to make sure he got the message though he didn't care even as he opened his door and I walked inside. He just shut the door behind him and kicked off his shoes.

"I'm going to get changed into dry clothes-do you want to borrow some clothes?" he asked. 

"Yes, and uh...where's your phone?" I asked without thinking. He pointed over to somewhere as I realized I had just said yes to wearing his clothes. To be honest I didn't want to stay in the clothes I was wearing but still...I wasn't exactly comfortable here. 

While I was thinking he had rushed off somewhere. Kicking off my shoes I looked to where he was pointing and there was a cellphone on the counter. I guess he didn't have a home phone. Though who did now of days?

Walking over I picked up the phone and turned it on. The lock screen was a picture of him with some girl with blonde hair and brown eyes that seemed to shine. She was hugging him and looking up at his face while he was smiling at the camera and giving it a big thumbs up. Maybe he was changed...he surely never smiled like that when I was with him.

I opened the phone -which strangely wasn't locked- and called Ethan. It went to voicemail as I figured and I left him a message I was at Cameron's place and gave him the address. Closing the phone I set it down just as Cameron came out of a room wearing sweatpants and a loose fitting t-shirt.

"Here," he handed me a towel and a pair of athletic shorts and a t-shirt that was probably to small on him. "The bathrooms the third door on the left," he said and threw himself on the couch where a movie was paused. 

"Is the girl on your phone a girlfriend?" I asked. He frowned and looked out the window.

"No..." he didn't want to say more so I left to get changed. When I came back out he was watching The Avengers and I sat down on the other end of the couch. 

"That girl...she had a boyfriend," he said as if that was supposed to mean something.

"Can you stop being a girl and spit out whatever you're trying to say," I turned toward him. 

"I like her but she's with someone else...and their relationship..." he thought for a relationship, "it's like ou-what ours was," he seemed even more uncomfortable and to be honest I did too. 

"Then what are you waiting for?" I asked and he turned down the volume of the movie.

"What do you mean?"

"Well if she's in a bad relationship tell her you'll protect her, tell her how much you care, beat that bastard's face in," I told him. That's what I had kept on wanting Ethan to do. Of course, that never happened.

"She doesn't like-"

"Don't pull that shit. Of course, she likes you. I saw the way she was looking at you. She cares so much just go to her."

"You don't understand how hard it-"

"Shut up right now. You don't understand how hard it is to watch the person you love prepare to get married while you stand there and help."

"That guy at the park wasn't your boyfriend was he?" 

Shit.