Distress

Twenty-Four

                                                                               NASH

I silently shut the door behind me and left Avery to succumb in her own thoughts. It sounded as if I was too controlling but I knew that she and Shawn can do better than that. It's not that I strongly deceive her from turning her mind towards Cameron but... okay yeah I do.

I have known my cousin for years and sometimes she's just too emotional to get over what she has been thinking and it affects me too. She never know what she really had to do or even what she blindly deserved. So this time, I may not look like it but I want to be with her along this whole vacation and for what she truly wanted.

So I left her apparently.

But only this time. Because I so dread a talk with Shawn.

I entered my room with a heavy feeling in my chest, I really did left some powerful notes over there and it makes me think that it's too much to tell Avery that but I know deep down she needed a push.

With my mind overflowed, I plump comfortably on my mattress, my back hugging the scent and softness of the duvet laying beneath me. As the hour comes to an end, I slowly drift my eyes to my nightly world and feel the exasperation go away in just a second or two.

CAMERON

2 hours earlier

"Look you can't tell her that." I gush over my sister who was still petrified by my actions.

"What do you mean I can't tell her that? Tell her what? The truth? So you wanted me to just sit over there and just let you and the guys have the benefit of the doubt and for Avery to suffer silently? That's purely fucked-up Cam!" She retorts. I grip her shoulders gently, preventing her from turning her volume up that may cause someone look for us in the middle of the back garden.

"Just no Sierra! Can you just be with me on this?" I whispered, looking directly in her eyes with pure guilt written all over my orbs. She turns away without even taking a millisecond glance because she knows how I can plead her with them.

"No Cameron. My decision is final. That's it. You have done so much shits in your life and this time you would not get away." This time, her back is now facing me and my grip suddenly loses itself from her arms. My sister just knew I am done. Like I am done for life or for whatever I can count within the days.

Fuck this shit. Now I feel like a fucking criminal for lying about a single 'dare'.

How can Avery manipulate me like this? This is what I dread answers to and how her presence is just there and within me whenever I look everywhere. Damn, this girl is driving me insane.

She almost scurried away but my voice stopped her footsteps, "I lied."

Damn it Avery.

I freeze in my spot, what did I just say? Now I cannot recall who I am again. This isn't me. Did I really just tell her that?

Sierra didn't budge for a second and she is now back to where she stood just thirty seconds ago. Her expression was insane, it's like I forgot she was my sister and it feels as if she was some sort of a cop interrogating me.

"Oh my god." She breathes.

"Oh my god Cameron you did not!" She continues, her face unbearable. How I wish I could get out of here by flying. There isn't any other guy coming to save me from this shit and now I fucking regret the fact that I prevented Sierra from turning her volume up.