camping trip (randy short story)

chapter 3

Andy's POV
It was already harder than I thought it would be. I sat beside Sonny on the ride home and I couldn't help but listen to love songs all the way home while staring at Rye. Five days and I had already fallen. I felt like a teenager in a movie, everything was just so cliché. When we got off the busses I couldn't see Rye anywhere but I did see my mum in a car, waiting for me even though I had told her she didn't have to come pick me up. But she insisted. I said goodbye to my friends before I went to her car.

"Hey honey how was the trip? I've missed you" mum asked as soon as I sat down beside her. I smiled at her, I had missed her as well. She was  kind of the only family I had and I loved her.

"It was good" I said and couldn't keep the smile away when a certain face appeared in my mind.

"Is there any special reason for it?" she teased and my cheeks went redder. She just chuckled but didn't press me more. The rest of the ride home, I spent looking out of the window, wondering how things could get so different so fast. I had never been very intrested of love and sex and all of that. Not before the trip. I had had sex before, but it hadn't been that good and nothing special.

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When I woke up the day after, it felt weird. Something was missing and when I realized what it was, I felt my chest hurt. It was Rye's arms, they were suppossed to be around me. I had gotten so used to wake up beside him. I picked up my phone to see if there were any messages for me. There wasn't. So I went to instagram instead. I had posted a few stories from the trip and now I made them an own highlight. Sadly, Rye wasn't in them. Then I went to my camera roll instead and found some more pictures. A couple of me and Brook, beside each other on the way there, which Sonny had taken. And some of the lake and the others beautiful places we had been to. But the photo which really catched my attention was the last one. It was a selfie of me and Rye in the tent, on the last morning, the morning after we had sex. I smiled when I looked at it and almost put it as my background. Almost.

I went downstairs instead of staying in my room. Mum wasn't there, she was alredy at work, since it was 10 am. I sat down by the breakfast table and ate a sandwich. Everything I did seemed to remind me of him. I was so dramatic, I had been without him one day. It wasn't like we had broken up, beacuse we weren't even togheter. We would probably see each other soon again. I hoped so. Suddenly my phone rang, making me jump since I had been lost in my own thoughts.

"Hello?" I asnwered, secretly hoping it would be Rye. But it wasn't.

"Hi" I heard Brook say. He sounded hyped, as usual. "We're going to the beach"

"Come pick me up then" I answered, knowing he was asking me to come with them.

"Ask Rye as well" Brook suggested.

"No I don't want to be clingy, I can wait a couple of days" I answered beacuse that was the truth. I didn't need to jump on him as soon as we had gotten home.

"We'll pick you up in half an hour then" Brook said before hanging up. I ate up the rest of my breakfast before going to grab the things I needed as well as brushing my teeth.

40 minutes later, I saw Sonny's car pull up outside of my house.

"Late as always" I said when I jumped into the car beside Jack in the backseat.

"Jack and Brook were making out when I came to pick them up, so don't blame me" Sonny said in defense and I looked at Jack & Brook, while wiggling my eyebrows.

"Let's change the subject" Brook suggested and started talking about something else. After a while, Brook opened the car window just to scream along to the song playing.

"I WANT TO BREAK FREE. I FALLEN IN LOVE FOR THE FIRST TIME AND THIS TIME I KNOW IT'S FOR REAL" he screamed and we all laughed at him. I sang along as well until we parked the car near the lake.

***

A week later, I was sitting in my kitchen. Mum was making breakfast and I was on my phone. I still hadn't contacted Rye in any way. I didn't want to pressure him or be annoying. You could say that I was practically waiting for him to send my anything. We hadn't traded numbers so I couldn't text him, but I had him on both snapchat and instagram so it was possible for me to contact him. Maybe he was waiting for me to write? So I decided to just do it. I couldn't sit and wait for him to do something. So I sent him a snap, wondering why I hadn't done it before. It was a selfie of myself with the simple text: hey.
I knew that wasn't the most original thing to write, but I still wrote something.

Hours went by and no answer. I was constantly checking if he had opened. What hurted the most was that I could see on the snap map that he had been online. He just didn't open my snap. But he might not have seen it or maybe it was something wrong with snap. Or he might be playing hard to get or something but why would he do that when he already knew he could have me if he wanted to.

Mum noticed it was something wrong with me since I barely spoke and was checking my phone all the time. All day went by and I didn't do anything. Until the clock turned 18.17. I was staring at my phone, begging him to open. And suddenly he did. My heart skipped a bit and I bit my nails, waiting for a response. 1 minute went by, then 2, then 3. I thought that maybe he wanted to take a good picture or that he was thinking about what he should write. But half an hour later, he still hadn't responsed.

can I come over? I texted Brook.

ofc, Jack is here too

I shouted to mum that I was going to Brook's place and she said it was okay. She probably thought it was a good idea since the only thing I did at home was looking at my phone and waiting. I almost ran all the way to Brook's place, I was in desperate need of advice.

I knocked on his door and soon, he opened.

"Come in Andy" he said with a smile before he saw my worried face. "What's wrong?"

"It's Rye" I said and when I said his name I couldn't hold back the tears anymore. I knew it was pathetic to cry over something like that, but I needed to let it out.

"Oh baby come here" Brook soothed and pulled me into a hug. I clunged to his shirt and my tears ran faster. Brook somehow got me with him to his room, to Jack who soon was a part of the hug as well. I just cried and cried, until I realized I didn't really know why.

"Can you tell us what's going on now?" Jack asked but he didn't sound annoyed or something, he just sounded worried. "Is it about Rye?"

"Yes" I almost whispered before taking a deep breath and shook my head to clear my mind.

"Do we need to hunt him down and kill him?" Brook asked seriously and I couldn't help but chuckle.

"No, not yet. It's nothing really. It's just that I've missed him so much this week and decided to snap him this morning. I waited all day until he opened and when he did, he never answered" I explained and felt dumb.

"I'm sure there's an explanation to it" Jack tried and laid down beside me on the bed. Brook laid down on my other side. "Maybe his snap isn't working or something"

"There is a possibility he thought you were another Andy" Brook said and Jack hitted his arm. "Ouch" Brook exclaimed and I smiled at them.

"Like I said, I'm sure there is an explanation to it" Jack reapeted.

"I'm sorry that I cried" I said quiet and both of them hugged me again.

"You don't have to be sorry Andy, we get it" Brook reassured and almost began crying again, beacuse I loved them so much. The best friends I could possibly have.

Three chapters in one day is an exception. It's only beacuse the two first already is in my os book.
I hope you enjoy it so far :)

(I noticed the order of the chapters got fucked up so I fixed that)

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