**** since it's the fourth, I guess it's only logical that I include a picture of Ronnie with the American flag XD

Happy fourth! And happy belated Canada day! I love you all, hope you had a great day and continue having great days because you're beautiful and wonderful and you deserve it. Also, you're hella cute ^,^

I guess its the fourth so I should be all patriotic. But ehh, its not like America is all that, it's far from perfect. But yay guys, we have same-sex marriage legalized in all 50 states, woo-fucking hoo! Maybe America doesn't suck as much as I thought haha.

I'm like falling asleep as I write this gahh, I hope my editing doesn't suffer XP So Ryah is the ship name (I'm open to ideas :) ) for Ryan and Leah, so what's Ryker and Leah's ship name, even if it's just a friend ship (like Phan for some people) . Leker, Lyker, Rykah, I dunno. ****

*Ryker*

I slumped there on the floor, staring at the door where Ronnie had disappeared.

He wouldn't even let me speak! I felt bad, but come on at least let me explain, he doesn't have to forgive me but he should at least hear me out! Holy shite.

Leah came over to me and rested her hand on my shoulder.

I turned to her quickly and threw my arms around her, hugging myself to her, burying my head in her stomach, wishing that if I pressed far enough into her I would meld and disappear and I wouldn't have to ever go through something like that again.

She patted my back and Luna and Echo came back over, and they pulled me up so that they could all hug me and I was shaking and shuddering and my eyes stung but I didn't let the tears fall, I wouldn't do that. Not yet, anyway.

"Well, I'm guessing that didn't go as planned" I said, trying to joke to shift the mood. Luna let out a quick laugh and shook her head, and Leah smiled half-heartedly. Echo just stayed silent and held onto me, running her hands up and down my back.

"Ryan and I came up with it, Echo got Andy to ask his friend to use this old cabin, and Luna got Max to bring Ronnie. He was supposed to be in the storage room when we sent you in, but Max hadn't gotten him in there yet. The plan was that you and him would make up and then spend the weekend here alone together" Leah said softly, like she didn't want to speak of it anymore.

"Well it was a nice thought, but Ronnie and I have to work this out on our own, in our own time, in our own way. But thank you for trying" I said, and finally a tear slipped past me, sliding down my cheek.

Leah brushed it away with my thumb and smiled sadly at me.

"Okay, right guys?" Echo said, prompting the others to nod obediently. I doubt they would butt out completely, but I didn't mind so much. It just meant that they cared. I was just glad to have them.

"Well now we have the weekend here, so what do we do?" I said, trying a feeble smile on, my voice crackling from the wet stickiness from the tear.

"We could surf, canoe, get eaten by sharks, swim, tan, make sand castles, get eaten by sharks, pretend to be mermaids, fish, get eaten by sharks, bury each other in sand, boat, get eaten by sharks, fly kites, anything really" Luna said, and I looked at her with raised eyebrows.

"I think you forgot to include sharks" Leah said sarcastically, and I couldn't help but snort and laugh with her, while Luna shrugged innocently, with a smirk.

"We have all weekend, lets do all of that" I said, and then blushed a bit, adding "except the whole shark thing. I'm kind of scared of sharks". Luna cooed and poked my cheek teasingly, and I jerked away, sticking my tongue out.

Leah darted her tongue out quickly and almost licked mine, pulling it back just before they touched and looked at me with an evil little grin.

"Don't stick your tongue out beast, anyone could grab it" she teased, and I shrugged, but a hint of a blush burned on my cheeks.

"Whatever beauty" I said, turning away.

It was only then that I noticed the bags piled by the door. One of them was mine, but I hadn't packed.....

"Leah, did you pack my bag?" I asked, walking over to it and unzipping it, pulling out a lacy lingerie top and looking at her with raised eyebrows, questioningly. It couldn't even be considered a top, it was barely a bra!

She blushed and coughed, saying "well, I mean, I was thinking you'd be with Ronnie so......"

"Where did you even get this?" I asked, turning red from the thought of me in it. She shrugged and said nonchalantly "I stole it from Diablo".

I scrunched my nose up in disgust and sneered. "Ew gross, let's burn it" I said, and she nodded, thinking.

"Yeah, good point" she said, and I threw it away from me, rubbing my hands on my pants like I had touched something nasty. In a way, I kind of did.

We dragged our bags to rooms, and then headed to the back door.

It was late, already turning dark, so we went outside and I pulled out a lighter from my pocket, where I had it for smoking cigarettes, and lit a fire quickly, putting logs on it to keep it blazing.

We threw the lingerie top on and saw it shrivel up. It took forever to burn, and when it finally did Leah and I whooped and guffawed and ran around the fire.

Stomping around the fire and shouting and whooping, we probably looked like disgruntled, decrepit self-proclaimed witches performing a ritual.

But we didn't care, and soon enough Luna and Echo shrugged and joined us, whooping and yelling.

After the fire died down and the mosquitoes got to be too much, we went inside. Luna and Echo disappeared upstairs, and Leah and I wandered until we found a room with 2 twin beds.

We looked at each other and both headed for the bed on the left, stripped and changed into clean shirts before falling onto the bed, cuddling into each other, arms wrapped around each other, legs bent and tangled.

We got as close together as we could and then we smiled and went to sleep.