The Isolation Camp

Chapter 2

What's the worst way to wake up?

My nightmare came true this morning, or should I say night. Now I am a person who loves their sleep. The days that I don't have school I sleep in till noon, my mom doesn't even bother to wake me up, because if anyone disturbs my precious beauty sleep, I rip them apart. Not physically of course, but verbally and by expressions. No I don't glare, funny fact, I cannot glare. It's really weird seeing as to how much I make disgusting faces and come across people I really want to glare at, but I end up looking like a fool.

Okay, back to the topic. We were woken up by the fire alarm at 4am. All of us ran down through the fire exit and were greeted by our amazingly sweet- note my sarcasm- instructors. That was our first task and apparently, we were horrible at it because we took 15 minutes and according to them if we took so long during a real fire there could be a chance of us getting bad burns.

If waking up at an unholy hour was not enough we were then expected to do some physical exercise. I swear I don't even remember how many times I swore at the instructors. I am not an athlete. I dance, but I don't exercise. During school I would just give an excuse or a letter from my doctor and run to the dance studio. However, today I ran, swam, jumped and died.

At around 7am we were excused till 11am and we could do whatever the hell we wanted to. Now on a normal day at a human hour I would not have completely disregarded the idea of exercise with Ashton, but today was not a normal day, and even if I looked like a crazy woman from the mental institute, he managed to look like a Greek God. I am not obsessed with him, but I just find him cute and he is one of the few people who are not self-centered and obnoxious.

After freshening up I decide to go get some groceries so I can make some food in my little kitchen. On my way down I see Ashton arguing to someone, I can't really see who it is, but by his tone I know that he is not happy talking to whoever that is. He is clearly annoyed and wants to be left alone. He then notices me and I give an awkward smile and walk away.

After collecting essentials like coffee, nutella, bread, butter, cheese, some cola and some other stuff, I put it all in a basket and make my way back to my room. I decide to make some food for everyone. I am not very good at cooking, but I make edible food.

On my way, I bump into Hunter. The thing with Hunter is that he is a spoilt brat, he has always got what he wanted, yes his parents are strict and stuff, but not enough. He is a player and he is one of those who would talk smack after using the girl. He is good at heart and I know his has stuff to deal with, but everything that he has done doesn't really get excused because of it, after all all of us have stuff to deal with, doesn't mean we use people like objects and break their hearts.

"Please talk to me Maddy, I really am sorry" he almost sounded genuine, but I was not someone to easily give in.

"Leave me alone Hunter" I spat at him.

"I know I hurt you, but please let me explain."

"There is nothing to explain in this Hunter. You cannot explain what you did. There is no excuse for it." With that I walked away, trying to avoid the memories of the past year.

I tried my best not to think about it, even after I reached my room. I started focusing on making some food. I made some mac and cheese and some sandwiches. I then proceeded to go call Ashton, Adam, Nathan and Carla. Once they were all in my room and busy with their food, we decided to watch a short film since we only had around 2 hours left until the time we were supposed assemble.

"Hey, I am sorry I didn't speak to you earlier" isn't Ashton just the sweetest!

"There is no need to apologize; I didn't want to intrude anyways."

With that the both of us started talking and joking around with everyone else.

In no time we were down and this time we were allowed to wear normal clothes, unlike what I had expected, which was all crazy adventurous stuff, we have a few not-so-crazy classes like dance- which I am so excited about- music, cooking and stuff.

This is like school, but I believe it's more productive and would genuinely help us in the future.

I was surprised to hear that the instructors were giving us the day of, something about their anniversary or someone else's anniversary. Well, I am just glad I get to read and laze around all day.

"Let's go swimming!" there go my plans of spending quality time with my bed, thanks Nathan!

Almost immediately we were all- yes, even Hunter and Katherine- in our swim suits and on the roof pool, which was even heated. God is on our side today!

Once we were all in we just started chilling, I made my way to one corner just observing my surroundings. I felt a hand on my waist and I knew it was Ashton because I felt an electric current go through my body.

"Hey, why are you here alone?"

"Just relaxing."

"Do you mind if I relax with you?"

"No, of course I don't. You can relax all you want."

"There is something I want to tell you. I have wanted to say this for a really long time, but I never really thought that I had the guts to really do it."

"Umm....okay. What is it?"

"Okay, we have been friends for so long and somehow you have always managed to stand out of the crowd for me, in a good way of course. I just wanted to say that I like you, like more than a friend like you, but not a creepy like you, I swear I am normal-"I cut him before he could say anything else.

"You are rambling Ashton and I like you too, more than a friend." I smiled widely at him. I am so happy right now, I never thought that I would ever hear him say that he likes me. I look up to him to see that he has the same smile plastered on his face and I can't explain the relief that I feel.

As for the rest of my day, I spent it with Ashton. It was a great day. Unfortunately, good things don't last for too long without a fight.