Alice

Chapter Eighteen - The Music Festival

I found Poppie surrounded by a group of girls. She was laughing and dancing around with them, I was happy that she was enjoying herself but I had to be the bad guy and pull her away and try and get her to have some sleep because her without enough sleep is a nightmare.

"But I don't want to go to sleep." Poppie moaned towards me as I was dragging her back to the tent.

"You have to." I tugged on to her arm and made her get into the tent.

I layed there for a little while but I couldn't get to sleep, Poppie on the other hand was snoring her head off, she was already dead to the world. After an hour of trying to sleep I got up and set up the camping chair, grabbed another bottle of water and gazed up towards the sky, sipping on my water.

"Can't sleep?"

I cocked my head to the side and Zayne was standing over me with a smile on his face.

"Nope." I emphasized on the "P" and smiled at him.

"Want some company?" He asked.

"Why not.." I saw him getting ready to sit down.

"Wait." I got up and leaned into the tent and grabbed the other chair.

"Here." I passed it towards him.

"Thank you, but isn't this your boyfriends?" He asked.

I looked at him and laughed. He looked at me confused to why I was laughing.

"No I don't have one, it's my friends but she won't care. She's asleep." I gestured for him to open the chair up and use it.

"What happened to your friends?" I asked as he made himself comfortable.

"They are somewhere around here, how is your friend?" He pointed his thumb to the tent.

"Oh, if she doesn't have her sleep, she turns into a grumpy so, so. I made her go to sleep." I laughed and he joined in with me.

We spoke for a while about random stuff. I eventually fell asleep and I woke up with the sun rising and shining in my face. I looked over to the side of me and Zayne was gone. The chair was folded and tucked underneath mine. I wonder when he left. I sat up in the chair and a shooting pain went from my bum up my back.

"Ow." I let out a moan as I was stretching out and sitting back up.

I looked inside the tent and Poppie was still snoring lightly. I stood up and noticed how quiet it was. Nobody was walking around, they must still be sleeping to get ready for tonight, when I checked the time it was around 5am.

I went over to the mobile toilets and then back to the tent. I got inside, took some ibuprofen and layed down. After an hour there was someone standing outside our tent talking to someone else. Can they do that somewhere else? People are still sleeping, I looked over at Poppie that was stirring. It was 10am when she finally woke up.

"Jeeze, how long do you want to sleep for?" I laughed at her.

She clearly didn't look happy, I passed her some ibuprofen and her water bottle. I watched her take them and then once she was more awake I suggested to her that we should go somewhere to eat.

After getting dressed, we closed up the tent and we were smart enough not to bring anything valuable apart from our money and phones for just in case someone was to search through it and take something. We were standing in line at one of the food trucks when a car horn blew out.

"Hey, wanna grab something better?" Said a familiar voice.

I turned around and in the driver's seat was Zayne with one hand on the wheel and the other hanging out the window. I smiled towards him and started walking over to him. Poppie grabbed my arm just before I got to the jeep.