and then you were gone

chapter 12

Ryan's POV
I woke up to the sound of Dawn crying. She had lost her favorite blanket and everyone was rushing around the hotel room looking for it. I get up and turns out i was on top of it. I quickly took a shower because I knew if i didn't Cayla would complain the entire way to the cabin. I dried off as fast as I could and packed up my small bag with all the stuff for the car. Like my headphones and phone charger. A book and like some clothes and a comb. My hair was pretty short but I liked to keep it at neat as possible. We got back in the car and started to drive off. We had about an 2 hour drive left when we stopped for lunch. I had a cheese burger and Dawn had chicken nuggets while Cayla got a salad. My parents each got a breakfast sandwich, even tho it was lunch time, and we were back on the road. Today Isabell was shopping all day so I couldn't really talk to her. I also had zero service at the cabin so we wouldn't be able to talk for about a week unless my parents took me to the store or something. I feel asleep about 30 minutes away from the cabin and woke up to Dawn shaking me telling me we were pulling up. I gathered up all stuff and hoped out of the truck. I went into the bed of the truck and handed everyone their bags. Dawn had one i had one plus a backpack and cayla had 3 suitcases. Im not even joking. My parents had one bag each and one bag shared. We went into our cabin which had 3 bedrooms and a basement. The basement was normally just made for storage but there was also a bathroom down there. I had a bed and a dresser and a desk but no closet which is fine. My parents had the master and Dawn had the second biggest room because she had an old doll house there and some old toys she didn't really care about. Cayla had the smallest room but it had a walk in closet and a huge vanity. The living room had two couches, 3 bean bag chairs, a coffee table, a fireplace, and a pretty old tv. There was no Wi-Fi or service but we were okay with it. We had a few radios scattered across the cabin and a few CD players. Outside we have a beautiful lake, a dock, a tree house, a swing set and a fire place. The fireplace was located on these rocks beside the lake. I liked to sit beside the lake and listen to the waves and watch the sunset/rise. There was this path that led through a small forest and to a tree. This tree had the perfect branches to climb and sit on. Dawn doesn't know about it and Cayla doesn't care about it so im the only person who goes up there. The sun was just about to set when I grabbed my book and went to the tree. I climbed as high as possible without breaking any branches and took a few pictures then read. I read until it got dark then i star gazed. I remembered when we brought Isabell down here and we sat in this tree for hours every day. We carved out initials into the branch we always sat on together and I ran my finger around it. It was still there and still deep. I wouldn't need to redo it anytime soon Thank God. I couldn't bring myself to do so. Not yet at least. I hopped down from the tree and walked back to my cabin. I couldn't help but think about Isabell, I remembered when we were younger we had to make a fake news report for school and it was one of the few projects we did together;We never really liked doing projects together because we always fought while working together yet we could help each other with any work and be fine, as long as we didn't need to work together, We didn't fight much in that one. I went to the little basement of the cabin and found the videos on my old google account and watched them all. We never finished that project and we just messed around the entire time. I almost died laughing while watching those, but I also cried? Like not a lot just shedded a few tears but why? I mean yeah i miss Isabell but that's all right? Right. I don't like Isabell, I hope