Compound

Chapter 2 (REWRITTEN)

Maddi's POV:

We walked for a while, then FINALLY, we found a blessed treasure, a lake. Not even waiting to strip down (not that I would strip in front of these thirsty-ass men), we jumped in. It was freezing but oh my god it felt good. Connor dragged me to the shallow end. He brushed out my hair. Ethan watched with interest.

"Pull it back from her face." I glared at him.

"Great idea ethan!" He pulled it back into a braid with elastic from something and tied a strip of fabric into it from a shirt to make a bow.

"Much less emo." I glared at him again. He smiled and we went up on the bank to dry off. Later, we laid out blankets and laid down on them. Brice was on the end next to me. He held my hand, even after he fell asleep. Drew's hand brushed mine lightly. Ethan had told me earlier that he liked me. But... Brice. Anyways. My hand was falling asleep, so I pulled it out of Brice's. He woke up and rolled to face me.

"Hey beautiful."

"I told you to stop saying that." I said, and blushed. He laughed.

"I love your hair like that."

"Thanks."

"Ok. I'm going to bed. Night bitches." Ethan said, getting into his sleeping bag."

"Bedtime." Brice whispered. I giggled. He got into the sleeping bag next to me. He kissed me on the cheek.

"I'll wake up next to you, won't I?"

"Promise."

(Yes, I promise there are POV changes. There's one after this.)

The next morning all the guys but Ethan and Drew went to "forage" (yell at the dirt until they give up and find an abandoned convince store and we eat strawberry nutragrain bars till we repeat the process again). Ethan went to swim in the lake. Drew and I had (surprise surprise) strawberry nutragrain bars toasted over a fire.

"Maybe they'll bring a different flavor today!" We laughed.

"Wow, that would be great." We finished and went to fold the blanket. Drew leaned over and coughed up a mouthful of blood. He slipped to the ground to expose Nic, Riley, and Ryan.

"Where's your little boyfriend?" I pointed in the other direction. They ran off. "Meet at camp in 2 days!" Riley shouted to Nic as they ran off. He grabbed me around the waist. I screamed.

"Shut your mouth or I'm going to kill Drew and make you watch."

"You already did that asshole!"

"True." He tightened his grip on my waist until I thought my pelvis was going to shatter. I whimpered. He let go and made a choking sound. Ethan had him in a headlock. He coughed. Ethan knocked him unconscious and tied him around his waist to a tree.

Ethan's POV:

Maddi hugged me and sobbed into my shirt. I've liked her for years and I hoped I wasn't blushing, not that she could see because she was sobbing into my shirt anyways. I hugged her back. Brice ran through the trees, all fucking muscular and shit. Looking fucking gorgeous, he called Maddi. She stopped hugging me as went to hug pretty boy.

"What happened to Drew?" He mouthed. I pointed to the heap on the ground that was Nic. He nodded, and carried Maddi back to camp.