That Month at Summer Camp

chapter 7

 I get up from the sand with tears in my eyes and just run. I run until I can't anymore, I couldn't believe it, after all of the romance and him saving my life he's been cheatng on me this whole time! I can't breathe, I feel so sick. I just can't get over the fact that he would do this to me. I keep crying and crying until it feels like I have no tears left, so now I'm mad. I feel fire bubbling in my stomach, I'm so fucking pissed right now!

 I run back to the cabin and burry my head into my pillow and scream and cry until I feel a pat on my shoulder, I look up.

 "Hey you okay?" asks Emily and Abigail.

 "No, no I hate my life, I hate him so much!" I scream.

 "What did he do to you?"

 "He's cheating on me, and he has been ever since we started dating!" I cry.

 "What, when and where did you find this out?" I show them the message that I found on his phone.

 "Oh my god, that's so terrible! How long have you been in here for?"

 I look at the clock. "An hour and a half."

 "Go outside and get some fresh air, I think you need it," Emily says thoughtfully.

 I go outside still really mad and sad while Emily and Abigail stay inside. I'm just walking around outside when I hear sombody behind me, I turn around and see that it's Christian.

 "hey," Tristan says grabbing me from behind. I elbow him in the stomach.

 "Get the fuck away from me!"

 "Hey, what did I do?"

 "Here's your damn phone back," I chuck it at his face

 "Andrea, talk to me please, what did I do?"

 "Oh you know perfectly well what you did wrong."

 "Look, I don't know what I did, but I know I wouldn't be able to live without you."

 "Oh yeah then go to Lindsey!" I start to walk away from him with tears running down my cheeks.

 "Andrea wait it's not," he starts.

 "No excuses Christian, please!" I yell, then I go back to my cabin.

 I decide to skip out on soccer today, because I can't stand looking at Christian right now.

 Later before the camp fire, I hear a knock at the door. I look at Emily and I tell her that I'm not going to get it, so she gets it instead.

 "What do you want Christian?" Emily rolls her eyes at him.

 "To talk to Andrea, please I just need to talk to her for ten minutes that's it, and if she hates me for the rest of her life, then she can, but I just need to talk to her, please."

 I walk to the door and say fine, then we go outside on the doorstep and talk.

 "Look, Andrea I'm so sorry that this has put so much stress on you." I don't say anything. "Um I think I should tell you the whole story."

 "What, your made up story excuse thing."

 "No, okay so there was this girl Lindsey, and she goes to my school back at home right? So I asked her out a few months ago and then figured out that things weren't working out, so I broke up with her right away, but she thinks that it's still on, and trust me I've told her to get over it, but she just isn't listening, Andrea I swear to God I would never ever hurt you like that ever."

 I'm starting to believe him, but I'm not sure how to yet. I kind of just look at him waiting for him to say more.

 "If you want, I can call her or you can. I don't have the update to block people on my phone yet." He laughs thinking this is all just one big joke.

 I'm really close to believing him, like really really close, God he's like the devil pulling me in closer and closer to his trap, and then he finally does it.

 "Please Andrea." He does something like puppy dog eyes, but not exactly, almost like he's about to cry.

 I hug him. "If this bitch ever texts you again I'll kill her," I laugh wiping my tears away.

 "I'll give you permission to do that," He smiles at me. He helps me up and then we walk around for a little while and we give each other our own phones back. Christian kisses me on the cheek, and I smile.

"Andrea, I think we should have a date night soon you know, like anything we need to say we'll say it then and we won't get mad at each other, because I think we need to know a little bit more about each other, what do you think?"

 "I agree," I tell him.

 "How about Saturday night, the night after our big competition that we're obviously going to win."

 "Yeah, that sounds great," I smile at him. We just walk until it's six thirty then we go and get ready for the campfire.

 "So, are you over Christian?" Asks Abigail.

 "Um well actually, we got it all sorted out, and he wasn't cheating on me."

 "Oh, um are you sure you believe that?"

 "Yeah, I actually do."

 "Okay then," she laughs.

 My cabin heads out to the campfire where we meet with everyone else that's up at camp. Christian, my friends, and I all stand together and danced and sang together. After the campfire, I went to go take a shower since I needed one, and once I came out with a towel wrapped around my body I see Hannah standing there with her hands on her hips obviously waiting to be mean to me.

 "What do you want now Hannah?" I ask sounding tired of her bullshit.

 "I saw you two dancing and singing together tonight."

 "Um yeah so, he's kind of my boyfriend, am I not allowed to do that?"

 "Well, it's not that, it's just you think you're so perfect because  Christian is your boyfriend."

 "I'm not perfect just because I have a perfect boyfriend," I smirk at her.

 "You know, whatever you're trying to do won't work because let me tell you if you keep doing this, I'll come after you."

 "Why, because you're jealous? You'll never be able to get to me," I laugh.

 "Just watch me."