The Heartless Persona

14

"Hey," Cam said, entering Keri's room. "How was the spa?" he took a seat on her bed.

"Oh, it was nice," she replied. "I even got a free face mask," she held up a small container.

"I bet I can give you a better facial than they did," Cam challanged with a smirk.

Keri took a seat next to him and handed him the container. He opened it, took a blob, and smeared it on her face. She laughed a little as he spread it around her cheeks.

"This here, um, what's the word?"

"Exfoliates," Keri laughed again.

"Yeah. This exfoliates your skin," he explained. He was completely BS'ing this, but Keri thought it was kind of...cute. "And that means it makes it all glowy and stuff," he finished moving his fingers around her face. Her eyes watched him the entire time with a grin stuck on her face. "Then we let it sit and we'll eat it off of your face with chips," he gave an absolutely adorable smile.

"You know that this isn't the edible kind, right?" Keri giggled.

"Damn it," he muttered. "Well, I guess we just wait then," his mouth stretched from ear to ear.

After following the directions from the container, ten minutes later Cam began wiping Keri's face with a towel.

His face was really close to hers. Like, really close. He seemed like he was truly concentrating on what he was doing. Keri kept her eyes away from him, trying to hide the feelings she was experiencing.

Stop, she thought to herself, you don't even like him like that, so stop acting like you do.

Her eyes flickered to his. "Um, how was ziplining?"

"It was cool. I think you would have had fun since you like that kind of stuff."

No one else truly knew that deep down, Keri loved adrenaline activities like that. When she was younger, she would jump off of a small hill and into a stream with Cam. She would even go on the biggest rollercoaster at the amusement park. She was fearless when it came to things like that.

Cam wiped the last part of the mask off. His eyes glanced towards the lower part of Keri's face. She bit on the inside of her cheek, staring at his mouth. He kept his hand on the side of her head, his eyes taking in every part of her face.

She realized how she was acting again and quickly broke out of it.

"Um, you were right. You did it way better than the people at the spa," she turned her head away from him.

She got off of the bed and walked to her dresser, grabbing a hair tie. She pulled her hair up into a high ponytail and grabbed her phone from the dresser.

She had recieved a text message from Sean, who was another boy that was trying to hook up with her. She ignored it and turned back around to face Cam.

Her room suddenly felt claustrophobic.

"Let's go out," she smiled.

They ended up at a book store, not too far from their beach house. Keri browsed around, looking for a new novel to read.

Reading was her secret obsession. When she wasn't shopping, or painting her nails, or with boys, she would spend her free time reading. She even had her own library back at her house.

Rebecca didn't know about this, of course. Actually, very few people knew about it.

She finally picked a book that seemed interesting. It was a love story between two friends, but they were separated because of some insane obstacle. Well, that was what she had gathered from the summary on the back.

Side-by-side, the two walked the streets of Puerto Rico.

"I can't believe tomorrow will be a week since we got here," Keri sighed.

That meant they only had one more week of vacation.

"I know. It's crazy."

"I'm gonna miss it," she murmured. She wasn't sure if he had heard her because she had said it mostly to herself.

What she was going to miss the most was Cam. Especially how close they had gotten again. How they started hanging out more. How he made her smile a lot. Even how he remembered small details about her that no one could ever grasp.

But it didn't matter, right? Once she got back home, everything was going to go back to the way it was.

Keri was going to remain heartless and contine to run over anyone in her path. And Cam wasn't going to be in the picture.

Her eyes trailed over to him and she soon felt sorrowful. She didn't want to do that, but she felt like she had to.

She worked too damn hard to get to where she was now. She wasn't going to let him ruin it.

She deserved her popularity. She deserved the attention she got from boys. She deserved everything. The world owed her for being so invisible up until freshman year of high school.

She wasn't going to let someone from her past take that away from her.