Chapter 29 - Settling

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    Cam's mom ended up taking him to her hotel. He had more than enough phonecalls to answer and he needed some time. We all helped shove the gifts from the room into her car.

   The rest of us decided to go to the Foam Factory while we waited for Cameron. We were a half an hour late, but the woman still let us proceed with the reservation.

    When we walked up into the giant room, I saw tons of trampolines on the walls and floors and a few big foam pits.

   "YEET!" Nash ran up to the top of the trampolines and dived into the mega foam pit.

   "Oh my god how deep is that?" I laughed.

   "7 feet." Jack answered.

   All the boys jumped off the walls and into the foam pits, and a few of them were making vines. We played a game of basketball with the little hoop on the top of the room.

    Jack did a back flip into the pit.

   "I can't do anything cool like that." I smiled.

   He got up from the pit and stood next to me on the edge of the trampoline.

   "Want me to teach you how to do it? There's a really easy trick to it." He said.

   "Yes!!!" I replied.

   He put one hand on my back and one hand on the back of my knee.

   "So you just start by-" Suddenly, he picked me up and threw me into the pit. I screamed.

   "JACK!" I yelled. He was laughing.

   "I trusted you." I sarcastically made a puppy dog face and stuck my bottom lip out.

   He dived into the pit right next to me.

   "GUYS I HAVE AN IDEEEEAAA!!" Matt yelled. We all stopped what we were doing and went over to him in the center of the room.

   "So I was thinking that since we're all going home in a couple days, that we should do a meet and greet at the mall by Jack's. Even if only a few people show up." He suggested.

   "I don't know man, what if Cam doesn't want to go out and be questioned by a ton of people yet?" Sam said.

   "Well we can ask him and if he doesn't think its a good idea, then forget it. But do you guys think we should?" He looked at all of us.

   "Yeah I think it'd be fun. We should bring Paige and Ava." Nash looked at me and Ava.

    "Yeah! That'd be so sick. Your very first meet and greet." Taylor bumped my shoulder. I smiled.

   "Everyone agreed?" Matt asked.

   "AGREEEEEED!" They all chanted at once and threw their hands up. Me and Ava looked confused.

  "Oh, when one of us has an idea and asks us what we think, we all yell "agreed" Just a little inside joke." Jack J told us. Me and Ava laughed.

   "Let's do that again. Agreed?" Matt said. We all threw our hands up. "AGREEEEEED!" I yelled with them, trying not to laugh.

   "Hey how long did you rent this place Jack?" Carter asked.

   "Until 9."

   "I'll probably be dead if I jump for that long." Ava said.

   "Yeah I didn't think we'd be here for that long, I set it at that time just in case." Jack said.

   "That's a lot of money isn't it?" Hayes questioned.

   "Nah, the more people you have the less the cost is. It's 20$ per hour."

    "Why haven't I ever been here?! That's so nice." I said.

   We ended up being in there until, surprisingly, about 7:30pm. After we left, we stopped at a Chinese restaurant and ate. Then, we made our way back to Jack's. Cam's mom was going to drop him off as soon as they had dinner.

   When we walked in through the front door, Jack's parents were in the living room.

   "Hey guys!" Jack's dad greeted. He looked like he was extremely fit. Both of his parents greeted all the boys, and they stopped at me and Ava.

   "I don't think we've met before?" His dad said.

   "That's Paige, I met her at the pizza place in Ralston. That's her friend, Ava. They've stuck with us ever since." Jack said.

   "Well, Paige, it's nice to meet you. I'm David." He shook my hand.

   "Nice to meet you David!" I smiled.

   "Hi, I'm Katherine, Jack's mom." She shook my hand.

    "Hi, I'm Paige. Nice to meet you. Oh, I love that cardigan... Vera Wang?" I admired her salmon-pink cardigan... and my ability to remember that my mom has the same one, and wears it often.

   "Why yes! You're very good!" She smiled and looked impressed.

   They greeted Ava.

   "So I know most of what you're telling me about the guest room, and Cameron, and whatever's happening- but can you sit down and explain it?" David asked us.

   After talking about our experiences with Cam, Jack's dad told us that he had called a tech company to come and install an alarm system, which goes off every time a break-in is occurring. They're coming tomorrow.

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