Girl Meets Boy

Chapter Thirty Two-Tents

Tonight was turning out to be one of the best nights of my life. We were all up until 3am the next morning,chasing each other around the woods and joking and dancing in our pjs. After a while, it was too hot for our long pyjama bottoms, so Ally and I stripped into our underwear and Cam and Nash lent us their vest tops, which meant not only were we cooler but we also got a nice view of the boys' bare chests, it was definitely a good night.

We all danced to the blaring music while singing terribly, no one was bothered about us being half naked, we were all to pumped to care about much other than having a good time.

The morning had come too quickly and we only went to bed because we decided we were going to stay camping for another night and we wanted to do something tomorrow as a group. So, here I was, laying on my back talking to Ally, I couldn't have slept if I'd wanted to, I was too buzzed on energy drinks and Ally seemed to feel the same way.

"Nash couldn't take his eyes of you yanno?" She laughed "and you were sucha tease when you showed off your cute butt when we were dancing." I pinched her thigh for being so embarrassing but I didn't mind one bit, I had noticed as well and it was so great to have Al to talk about boys to.

"Huh, I didn't think you noticed anything other than Cam all night." I mocked "or did you pry your love-struck eyes from his long enough to stick this" I said pointed at her nose, "into my buisness?"

She punched me playfully in the arm and we both laughed at our own silliness.

"Aw,I am so in love." She told me, spreading her arms and legs out wide as if she were trying to stretch herself across the entire tent "and this tent is way to small." She commented absent mindedly.

"Careful Al, if you carry on, people will start to think your engaged or something," I traded "and this tent is not to small, your just to big for it!" I replied, picking her arm of my belly and dropping it at her side.

Ally continuously fidgeted before I dragged her out of the tent to the tent next to us which Cameron was sleeping in; he somehow managed to get the biggest tent all to himself.

"Hey Cam, you awake?" I whispered,unzipping his tent door.

"Mils? Yeah I'm awake, why are you here? Is Ally with you?" He asked propping himself up onto his elbows.

"Hiiiii" whispered Ally from beside me, smiling goofily at him.

"Could she stay with you? She is annoying me so bad with her complaining about the smallness of our tent." I explained, rolling my eyes.

"Yeah of course!" He said, still smiling at Al and gesturing for her to join him in the tent. As I was zipping up the tent I saw him kid Ally's forehead and lay down hugging her close under the blankets. I smiled at how cute they were and crawled back into my tent.

I immediately regretted Allison's absence. I'd forgotten how scary it was being in a tent. Alone. In the middle of the woods. Was that a growl I heard just a minute ago, or just leaves rustling? An evil spirit or an owl? I sat bolt upright on the piles of blankets and pillows sprawled across the tent floor, I pressed my eyelids closed and counted to ten, trying to convince myself that their was nothing there.

Ten.
It's just the wind.

Nine.
There's nothing weird or scary going on.

Eight.
Nothing will happen to me.

Seven.
I'm fine.

Six.
Stay calm.

Five.
Cam and Ally are basically next to me anyway.

Four.
Was that the tent zip being undone?

Three.
What was that?

Two.
It's just my imagination, yeah. Sure.

One.

I opened my eyes and it took both my hands and his to stop a blood curdling scream from escaping my lips.

"Wow, sorry, I didn't mean to scare you,calm down Millie." Nash was sitting across from me, his face full of concern, his hair a dark mess bundled on his head. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, you, erm, just scared me, I wasn't expecting anyone to just show up in my tent right now, why are you here by the way?" I asked him breathlessly, still recovering from my near-heart attack.

"Couldn't sleep, I wondered if you and Ally were still awake and- wait where's Ally?" He searched the tent with his eyes, as if he expected her to just jump out and surprise him, which was ridiculous because the tent was too small to not be seen by anyone.

"She's sleeping in Cams tent, I kinda kicked her out for being annoying."

"Oh." He said.

We sat across from each other in silence for a moment, me with my legs folded beneath me and him with his legs pulled up to his bare chest.

"Why were you so scared when I came in?" He asked, shattering the silence.

"I don't like sleeping outside on my own, especially not in the woods." I admitting,covering my body with a blanket when I realised that we were both sitting there half naked.

"Well, I can't sleep either, so maybe I could stay in here with you?" He asked searching my face for any sign that I thought this was a bad idea, "if you wanted me to that is..."

There was no way in hell I was going to decline that offer, who in their right mind would say no to sharing a tiny tent in the middle of the woods with a majorly attractive guy? No one, that's who. Except maybe straight males, but you know what I mean.

"That'd be great Nash, thanks."