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𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗧𝗛 𝗢𝗥 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗣𝗧 𝟭

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"𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧?"

"𝗛𝗘 𝗨𝗛- 𝗦𝗔𝗜𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗬 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘. 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗘'𝗥𝗘 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗟 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚...."

"𝗔𝗥𝗘..𝗬𝗢𝗨...𝗞𝗜𝗗𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗠𝗘..."

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Emma's frustration radiated throughout the group. "Well what are we supposed to do?" She exclaimed waving her arms around, Jacob just grinned "Em..." the suggestion of a party was practically pouring out of his mouth, however Ryan stepped in, "Well, we should go inside. Like he said."

"We could go inside. Until morning..."
"yeah"
"Or...Or we could do something else"

Julian caught onto what the other wanted to do and sighed "Really Dylan?" "Come on!"
Ryan seemed confused "What are you talking about" Dylan grinned looking over at his friend "No Mr Hackett. No Screaming Kids...Just a bunch of grown ass adults ready to cut loose and get down with their animal side" Julian scrunched up his nose "Gross..." "OHH HELL YEAH" Jacob exclaimed, glad someone caught onto his idea, Julian took Wes by the shoulders and rolled his eyes, trying to protect the boy from his friends' idiocy, however Wes grinned too, he wanted to party and have fun, knowing it might be his last time to do so before school started.

"P A R T...why the fuck not!?"

"Dylan please, we have a child present!" Julian huffed, the taller boy turned to him "Jules its fine! Don't sweat it, we'll just put him to bed and go out, he'll be fine-" "No! I wanna join!" Ryan shot the youngest boy a look, telling Wes that there was no way on earth he was getting involved in this.
"One last epic bonfire blowout for all time"
Everyone except Ryan, Julian and Abi liked the idea, the three only reluctantly following the group, and unfortunately, Wes had managed to convince Jules and Ryan by guilt tripping them, so he too, would be tagging along.

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𝗦𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗕𝗘𝗚𝗔𝗡

Supplies were first. Everyone split off once again, in search of drinks, snacks, anything they could find that would make the night one to remember.

Julian and Ryan went with Dylan to Mr Hackett's office, just to charge their phones and perhaps find any contraband. While Wes stayed behind talking to Kaitlyn, a counsellor the boy had grown to have a crush on.

"Alright...the inner sanctum!" Dylan said, grinning and looking around, Julian following after "It's just an office" Ryan rolled his eyes "This is where the magic happens" The tallest of the three responded "How do you manage to make everything you say sound gross?" Julian scoffed playfully, raising an eyebrow at him "The brain works in magical ways, my pessimistic friend" Julian's heart clenched at the word friend, he tried not make his disappointment obvious, so he laughed "you're insane..." Dylan winked at him and put their phones on charge "and...engage"

"Podcasts?..." Dylan tried with Ryan "yeah..." Julian soon felt the jealousy and guilt of being jealous swirl up in his stomach, he didn't know why he felt that way, it's not like he and Dylan were together, it wasn't like he truly liked the other boy, it was a crush, a simple summer crush that would go away sooner or later, Dylan was his friend...though the aching pain of watching his "friend" and Ryan interact was almost tear jerking, he had to occupy himself with looking at their phones in order to not feel stupid, Clearly it wasn't just a simple crush, it was so, so much more.

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"𝗦𝗢... 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥, 𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧?"

Kaitlyn laughed "Really? Kid, i've known you all summer and now you are having the awkward small talks with me?" Wes blushed and cleared his throat "I'm sorry...I'm gonna be honest, it sounded better in my head" Kaitlyn grinned "It would have been cooler if you talked to me like a normal person" The two laughed, Wes always admired Kaitlyn for how brave and awesome she was, to him, she was pretty much invincible, even talking to her felt safe and comforting, even though he was nervous, it soon melted away as soon as Kaitlyn made conversation with him.

"What are you doing after summer?" "Probably just school...I really don't know, I guess whatever happens, happens..." Wes shrugged "What about you?" Kaitlyn leaned back on a rock and looked at the sky "College...Ever since I was little, I always wanted to be a street performer..." "Really?!" "Yeah! I just loved the energy of it all...it seemed fun and I guess I just kinda loved performing" Wes looked up at her with so much interest, it wasn't impossible to believe but it was a bit of a shock. "I want to be an astronaut...for the same reason as you, it just seems so fun" He looked up at the sky, Kaitlyn looking down at him "I just feel like I could do that and I feel like it would be so interesting" "Yeah...And I bet you'll be the best astronaut there ever was" She nudged his shoulder with her own and he smiled appreciatively.

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"𝗪𝗢𝗔𝗛 𝗟𝗢𝗢𝗞 𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗢𝗟𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚"

Julian raised an eyebrow and went over "Dyl...what?" Dylan looked over at Julian and smiled "Look it...old creepy phone, wonder who's on the other end" He leaned towards the shorter boy and tilted his head, resulting in Julian tilting his head back, a small pink hue setting on his cheeks "Should we find out?" Dylan finished, by then Ryan had come over, slightly intrigued but also ready to leave.

"Hey Jules, gimme your number I want to try it out" to which the boy became skeptical "why?" "Uh- So I can ask you on a date. Duh." Julian nodded slowly, trying to keep his cool "tempting, really, very smooth" Dylan grinned at him "I think if I tried a cell phone number on this thing it would just explode though...Hello?" Dylan looked confused and Julian furrowed his eyebrows, Ryan raising one of his own "What? who is it?" "Uhhh? Hello?" Julian stepped forwards "What? Was someone on the other side?" "That's weird...I thought I heard someone" Ryan smiled slightly "Maybe you should have asked them out on a date?" Julian snickered "Dammit! I missed my shot...Guess i'm stuck with Jules" "Oh please...You'd be lucky to have me" He grinned, putting his arm around Dylan, who pushed him away playfully, the three shared a small laugh.

Julian looked around and found a gun hanging on the wall "Holy shit! Guys..." Ryan and Dylan came over and Dylan laughed "No Way!" "Hey what's the gun for?" Julian asked Ryan "Uh- Chris- Mr H told me it was for um...bears" Dylan looked at him incredulously "Bears? Here?" "I doubt that, Ryan..." Julian grinned "Yeah, yeah, he said they don't really come here because of the gun-" Ryan trailed off, as Dylan stepped closer to it "Just leave it alone...Just leave it alone" Dylan put his hands up in surrender and Julian laughed "Defensive" He said under his breath.

Dylan took a moment to think "Dude..We're gonna be partying in the woods tonight, right? what if the bears try to crash? Okay- it's like my mom always said. If you wanna party, you gotta bring protection", Julian laughed "uh- Dyl, I think she meant condoms" Dylan gave him a disgusted look "I'm not gonna fuck a bear, look who's being gross now" Julian just flipped him off "Well, if we need it, we know where it is" Ryan interjected.

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𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗘 𝗟𝗢𝗢𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗚𝗛 𝗠𝗥 𝗛'𝗦 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗘, 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗗𝗬𝗟𝗔𝗡 𝗕𝗘𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗘𝗫𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗟𝗬 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗩𝗘, 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗖𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗔𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗦𝗦 𝗔 𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗧 𝗥𝗢𝗢𝗠 𝗕𝗘𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗗 𝗔 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗥𝗢𝗕𝗘.

"Holy shit this is like Narnia...but considerably more disturbing..."

"Julian really?"

"IM RIGHT!"

Dylan went towards the monitors, "These monitors...this is camp" "Dude...what the fuck..." Julian's eyes widened as he realised he recognised those locations, Was Mr H really spying on them?
After arguing back and forth, Ryan had convinced Julian that they were trail camera's. Dylan however wasn't convinced.

They exited the creepy secret room they all got to talking again, where the conversation of after school and relationships came up, Dylan seemed shyer? More nervous when talking about this stuff, especially to Julian, he hasn't really noticed, that or he doubted it completely. "So Jules...you got a girlfriend?" Julian's eyes widened and he smiled nervously "uh no, no, girls aren't really my...type..." Ryan and Dylan looked a little surprised at first but nodded, "Boyfriend?" Dylan's second question came and Julian smiled softly "Nope! very lonely" Ryan chuckled "Free agent...me too" "cool...yeah...me too" Dylan added, softly, his gaze lingering on Julian longer.

Julian was thankful for Ryan as he changed the conversation to the phones and steered them in the right direction. The three went over, taking their now, somewhat charged, phones with them, and heading out the door hopefully to the others, they had seen what they had to see and more.

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𝗔𝗨𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗥𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗘!:

That is chapter 2!!
Not much happening at the moment, some cute moments between the characters, but soon it's going to get crazy!!

Thank you all for reading and I hope you enjoy my book so far!! Hopefully it gets better lmao!!

𝟭𝟱𝟲𝟭 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀

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