I'll Never Say Never Say Never Again

Chapter 3

Thursday…

I didn’t have to go into work today because there wasn’t a concert on tonight and mom didn’t need any help so we had all planned to go out on Saturday to buy things for the weekend ahead. We were all going to chip in and split the final price between the 5 of us. Luckily we had all been saving to somewhere and we knew that buying a tent and supplies wasn’t going to be cheap.

Georgie picked me up and we went to go outdoors in Wolverhampton which was the nearest camping store to us. We parked up, met the others, and went to look at the tents that were put up outside the store. We needed a 5 person tent but still ended up looking at ones that could sleep up to 12 people. Every tent we went in we all lay down to test them. We all tried to fit into to a tent that only slept 2 people and we all ended up falling on each other and nearly ripping the tent. We finally found the tent that was right and would sleep us all comfortably.

We all went inside and everyone but Georgie and I went to find sleeping bags for us as we went to find the tent that matched the one outside. I noticed that Georgie wasn’t acting her full bubbly self today but I chose to ignore it, not wanting to ask. We walked over to the tent section and started to look at the numbers on the tent bag trying to find 356 which was the number we wanted. Georgie still looked distant and kept looking at her phone sighing every time she put it back into her pocket.

“Look, Georgie, you don’t have to tell me but what’s wrong?” I asked turning away from all the tent bags.

“It’s just Alex again” I sighed knowing how much he messed her about. “He’s being a dick about me going away the weekend. He thinks I’m going with another man and I’m just lying about going with you.” Tears rose in her eyes and I pulled her into my arms and said in her ear,

“Look, I know I always tell you and I don’t mean to always tell you this but I really think that you should just end it with him now. He has messed you about too much in the past and before you say it, I know you love him but he will just keep doing what he’s done in the past.” I told her and carried on my advice “Text him now that it’s over.”

“I can’t end it by text that’s a low blow” she replied. I knew it was true but he deserved it.

“It might be but, sorry to tell you this, he’s probably with another girl again now just like every time he’s being a dick.” She sighed and agreed and decided to text him that it was over.

We carried on and finally found the tent we wanted. I tried to pick it up to put on the trolley but it was too heavy. Georgie came over and with joint effort we lifted it onto the trolley as Georgie’s phone beeped in her pocket. He simply replied “Your loss.” What a prick.

We went round to find the others and they were all arguing over which sleeping bags to get. I told them to be quiet and Georgie just chose quickly and picked up 5 from the rack and threw them on the trolley with the tent. We picked up some other things that we would need and we went to the counter to pay. In the end it came to £500 so we all put £100 each and went and put it into Georgie’s car for her to take home ready for Friday.

She dropped me off home and waved good bye as she dropped me at the gate into the apartment block. I walked through the gates and into the apartment. I went up in the lift and went into my apartment locking the door behind me. I planned on going to bed early as we were meeting at 10 so we would have time to go food shopping before and so we could get there early and it wouldn’t be dark while we put the tent up. I went and packed my small suitcase for the weekend. I packed for every weather condition. Once I was satisfied with my packing I decided to watch a bit of TV and then went to bed. It was only 9 but if I had to get up early, and we probably would stay up late, I needed to go to bed and get a lot of sleep.

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Authors Note:

This chapter hasn't been proof read so i'm sorry if there are any mistakes :)