Stargazers// Corbyn Besson

10 ~ Corbyn

"Holy shit. That's a lot." "Yep. That's why I push everyone away. Before that, I at least tried to make a new friend each year but this year, I couldn't let another person into my life." She said putting out her fifth cigarette. "Damn." "Yeah." I pulled her into me as the sunset on Camp Stargazers. "Well, I'm glad you let me in." "I am too." I smiled and kissed the top of her forehead. "Alright." I said starting to get up. "We should going camp now." "No. We are fugitives now Corbyn. If we go back, they'll kill us." "Is that a joke or is it for real?" "I don't know. Chuck looked like he was about ready to pop." I laughed and sat back down. "You right."

After about another 15 minutes, I looked down at her. "So, what you said in the dining hall, is it true?" "What, that your hot? Yeah it is. I literally broke up with Dick last night." "Holy shit, really?" "Yeah. Also, it was a one sided relationship and he only wanted to get in my pants." "Well you don't know that." "He kept trying to grab my ass or shove his hand in the front of my pants." "Oh." "So what about you, did you mean what you said?" She asked, her eyes meeting mine. "Yeah. I did. And honestly, I have felt that way for over a week now." "Why didn't you say anything?" "I don't know. Fear of rejection. Scared that you might do what Dick did to you. A lot of things. And I was gonna tell you but then you told me about you and Dick." "Yeah. In hindsight, I don't think that was the best idea." We laughed and turned our attention back to the sunset. "Will you be my girlfriend?" Her lips met mine in a soft and warm kiss. "Yes Corbyn. I'd love to."

We went back to the dinning hall for dinner. We were at the end of the line and we snuck out after getting our food for a picnic under the stars. "We walked right past Chuck and he didn't even notice." She said laughing. I hadn't noticed it before, but her nose crinkles up in the cutest way when she laughs. "I know. He was probably too busy thinking of bad group names." "Corbyn, buddy, leave the snarky comments to me. Okay?" I smiled and handed her a bottle of water. We ate and talked and talked and ate. Behind all the dark and edgy stuff, she is actually pretty nice. Still dark and edgy, but nice. She showed me a bunch of her pictures of Star. She had her first play date today with Lilith's cousin Gabbie's daughter, Lavender. Apparently, her dad's side has better cousins.

"So, what do you think they are gonna do about you?" I asked. "Well, Chuck is a softy who doesn't have the balls to kick me out so I think he is just gonna give me and empty warning and then keep a careful eye on me. He should forget about it in a week." "Are you sure?" "Yeah. Pretty sure. And if he doesn't, I'll do something even crazier and dumber like flash him my titties." I couldn't stop myself from laughing really loudly. Lilith put her hand over my mouth, laughing too. "Ugh, isn't this just perfect." I said, thinking out loud. "Yeah. It is." Lilith said with a yawn. "You're tried, why don't you turn in early tonight so you can get a good nights sleep." "But we have to come up here and talk about what happened today." "I don't know if you noticed this, but that;s what we've been doing since like 1." "True. But I mean, it's still only 8:30. Even Star doesn't go to bed this early." "Well you are going to be asleep by 9. Here, take this." I said handing hr half of a melatonin. "Wow Corbyn. You really trying to drug me right here right now?" "No. It's a melatonin. It helps you fall asleep." "Ok. I trust you. but if its actually a roofie, I'm gonna be pissed when I regain consciousness after being tied to a tree, raped, and then left for dead." "Note taken." We stood up and she grabbed my arm and pulled my right up to her. "Don't even joke about that shit." "Yes ma'am. Sorry." I said as we walked out of the clearing.

We got to her cabin and no one was inside. "I guess they must be giving a lecture about sexual relationships withing the camp and how we have to report them to HR." "So you like the Office?" "I guess you could say that. I mean, Star's middle name is Pamela. And there was serious talk about naming her Pamela Erin Holy Angela Halpert- Marais." "Really?" "No. I was serious about Pamela and Halpert though. I lost out on Halpert though." "Damn." "Yeah." "Well goodnight my princess." "Princess? I'm not 3 years old Corbyn." "Babe?" She shook her head no. "Honey?" "Lilith is good for now." "Okay then. Well, good night Lilith." We quickly kissed each other. "good night Corbyn." We both turned to go our separate ways but she quickly ran back to me and gave me one last kiss. "I love you." She said. Her voice sounding halfway surprised. I gave her a soft kiss on her cheek, "I love you too."

1 month later...

Lilith and I have been dating for over a month and it has been pretty great. We had to have a "conference" with Chuck about what e were gonna do about us and Lilith and I both said we weren't gonna break up just because of some stupid bullshit camp rule. So, he changed it. You are now allowed to kiss people but no making out or sex. I can't tell you the number of people I have seen squeamishly kissing each other because the ban has been lifted.

Izzy has been pretty bad lately. She stopped sitting with us which means it's just me, Jack, and Lilith. They are getting along perfectly and it even turns out that Lilith's cousin is dating Jack. "Yeah. Did you know that Lavender just had her first play date with Star." "Oh my god. and we missed it?" "Yeah. Rude I know." "Don't look know, Judgy McBichterson is walking by." Izzy walked past our table looking at us as if we were dog shit on the bottom of her shoe. She walked over to where out old group now sits with Dick and his friends. "I swear they can't be up to anything good." Lilith said looking over at their table. "Eh, so what if they want to fuck with our lives, we shouldn't care." "Wow, thanks Disney channel." Jack said rolling his eyes at me." Mr. Chuck walked onto the stage to announce our groups for the rest of July.

He began by wishing us all a hay fourth of July and telling us the schedule for today. There would be a choice of activities in the morning. After lunch, down time for a little while, a pool party, dinner, and then a big fireworks display. A perfect time for me and Lilith to sneak up to the hill, the best seats in the house. Lilith's old group was called first, she wasn't in the list of names called, meaning, she got moved into a new group. Next called was Jacks old group, he wasn't called either. Finally, the time came for them to call the third group. "Jack, Corbyn, Dick, Izzy, and Lilith." Everyone t out table high-fived and headed over to the spot where our group was supposed to met up. Izzy stayed really close to Dick the whole time. Dick and Izzy kept glancing over at me and Lilith and they would roll their eyes at us.

The day was pretty fun. I hung out with Jack and Lilith, as most days go. After dinner, they let us go to where ever we wanted to view the fireworks. I went up to the hill with Lilith. "Ya know, I can complain about America's bullshit politics but I'll be damned if I don't love a good fireworks show." "Yeah. Me too Quick question, do you boycott Chic-Fil-A?" "Hell no dude. The bigotry is what makes to food so good." "That's what I thought." We heard the first fuse light and we hurried to get on the ground and watch as the first firework lit up the sky in a bright pink explosion. We sat watching the fireworks in silence for 5 minutes. I looked down at Lilith and saw her looking up at me. "What?" I asked. "Nothing. I'm just admiring how perfect you are." I gave her a kiss and it turned out to be one of those kisses that goes from being one kiss to like 10 little ones. "Corbyn, if kisses were stars, I'd give you the whole sky." My lips met hers in a more passionate way than I could have ever consciously conceived. She kissed me back with the same amount of passion. Before I knew it, we were on the ground, me hovering over her. "Do you wanna?" I asked awkwardly. "Just shut up and kiss me already."