Summercamp

Chapter 9

You start dancing with Britt, Lynn and Zoë. The girls step around a bit with their feet. You are quite crazy and dance around, and put your hands in the air. Britt laughs with good intentions "You're crazy" she shouts. You stop dancing and have to talk into her ear because the music is so loud. "Just enjoy and live your life." She laughs and dances with you now. "SHOTS" you hear behind you. Meghan walks into your little circle of friends, holding a little tray with five shots in it. "Meghan" you laugh. "Omg, I can't do that, I never drank alcohol before" Lynn shouts. "Well this will be your first" Meghan laughs. "She can't start with shots for the first time Meg" you say. Every single one of you grabs one. "Okay, but only one then" Lynn says. "Wait" Meghan says, looking around "Okay, no camp leaders, to check you 'bottoms up' girls." You all take the shot. You look at Lynn's face and laugh. You talk to Meghan. "You really should not give them any more, they're to young." You laugh. "No, I know it was just a welcome drink." After the drink, you dance a lot more. Meghan got you some more drinks, you drink some white wine. You don't drink to much, and also because you don't want the head leader to become mad.
Your glass is empty and you walk to the bar to put it there. "Want another one?" you hear next to you. You turn around and see Ethan. "Hi" you say and smile. "Uhm" you are not so sure, you can't say that you're 17 now he has seen you with a glass. "Yes sure" you say. Ethan orders you a drink. They made this kind of system, that you buy a paper card, and you can get 10 drinks with it, if it is full, you buy a new card. Ethan hands you a drink. "What is this?" you ask. "What?" he shouts. He didn't hear you because of the music. You come closer to him to talk into his ear. "What is this?" You can smell his perfume. "And that a really good perfume" you say and step back. He smiles and comes closer, puts his hand on your lower back, he laughs and says "Thank you, just try it." He takes his hand of your back and you try your drink. You make a face. It is really strong. Ethan laughs. It is a coke mixed with vodka. A boy comes over to Ethan. And talks to him. Ethan points at you and he gives you a hand "Hi, I'm James" he says. You introduce yourself. You feel like everything has to be shouted because of the music. You point to Ethan that you go to your friends and he and James follow you.
You dance a lot with the girls and now with Ethan and James as well. You finish your drink. You can feel the drink is going to your head a bit. "Another one?" Ethan asks. "No, thank you" you smile. He smiles at you and all of you dance again. "Where is your brother?" you ask Ethan. He looks at you with a smirk and comes closer to your ear. "Why? What is it with my brother?" You look at him quickly with a startled face "Nothing!" you say. "I was just wondering, because, like, you're brothers." He laughs. "I was just making a joke" he says. He stands up straight and looks around. He puts up his hand at somebody. You look that way and you can see Grayson through a lot of dancing people, talking to the group leader. You smile on the inside again when you see him. You quickly turn around again. After a few songs Ethan comes closer again. "Hey, I'm sorry I was so abrupt when you asked me a question this afternoon." You look at him. "Don't worry" you say into his ear. A very loud dancing song came one. "You don't have to apologise, you don't have to talk about it" you say. "What?" he shouts again. You try to say it again, but he is faster "Let's get outside and talk" he says.
Before you can answer, he already walked towards the door and you follow.
When you walk outside you can feel the fresh air. "Pff, it was warm in there" Ethan says. He goes through his hair with his hand. He grabs the bottom of his shirt and waves with it. "I sweat" he says. He walked a little further around the little one floor building and sits down on a bench. "Didn't notice, I smelled your perfume inside" you say, as you followed him and look around. It's really dark outside but around the restaurant are little lights against the wall. You look at Ethan, he smiles, and sit down next to him, turning you body towards him. "Grayson asked me if he was about to tell you about me, but he wasn't sure if I was okay with that" he starts. He goes through his hair again "but I am obviously okay with that, but I thought I could tell you myself." He looks you in your eyes. 'I'm serious' you think 'how can these two be so handsome.' "What?" he asks "are checking me out?" you laugh. "Dream a little further" you say. He laughs "You know I'm joking right!" 'He is the more cheeky one out of the twins' you think 'at least, it seems like it.' "So, you wanted to see Grayson a lot more?" you ask. "Yeah, so I had a little bit of a rough path a year to half a year ago." You nod to show that you're listening. "I was going to party's a lot, drank a lot and got in some fights. Grayson tried to help me but I think I pushed him away in sort of a way. But he kept trying, so he got my out of that period." He says. "That does sound like a rough path" you respond "thankfully Grayson helped you." He smiles "Yes." You hear the sound of your phone. A text from Grayson comes on your screen. And quickly after that another one;

Grayson: Hi!
Grayson: Where are you?