"Okay, hypothetically , if I asked you guys to have an orgie, what would you say?" Arianna asks the group as we sit around the campfire.

I watch as all the male's faces light up. "I'm down." They say in unison.

Except Sin.

This surprises me, as I have heard that he is quite the ladies man, a womaniser. He clearly respects me enough to not bring females back to our room and fuck them in front of me, which I have extreme gratitude for as I don't think I could ever eat or sleep in that room without visualising and hearing a girl moan Oh Sin every godamn second.

I must admit, I'm quite jealous of what I've heard, I'm no sex freak, that's for sure, but every girl deserves some pleasure, and I haven't been laid in a while. Don't get me wrong, I've had sexual interactions, just haven't done the full deed itself recently.

I'm still slightly wary of sex. After I escaped, I treated my body like an object as everyone else had done, but after a while I began to fear touch.

Character development exists though!

Rhiannon elbows Brandon. "We wouldn't be down, now would we, babe?"

Brandon gulps. "No. Nope. I was joking."

A laugh escapes from my mouth, which must be a rarer occurrence than usual based on the weird looks exchanged by, well, everyone.

"What?" I smile innocently.

Patrick coughs and gestures towards the food gazebo tent thingy area place, so I head over there. When we're in there, he gives me two baggies.

"These are for you. For the selling you've done. Keep it up, and next time it'll be this and money, instead of one or the other."

I grin and give him a kiss on the cheek. One bag contains ten mdma pills, otherwise known as ecstasy, which is bad as I had the tongue problem so I should be careful, but I really don't give a fuck.

The other is cocaine, something I haven't had in a while. I stuff them in my bra before quickly going to the tent to put them in my bag, luckily the others are too wrapped up in a conversation about Arianna's sex life to notice me.

"What you got there, Lina?" Sin says as he sits on his sort of bed drinking beer.

I sigh. Why isn't he outside with them?

Walking over to my bag, I shove the baggies in and zip it up. "Nothing, Sin. At least nothing that involves you."

He grabs his heart in pretence pain.

"Hilarious." I say with my iconic eye roll, honestly my eyes are starting to hurt from how much I do it.

Sin's jaw tenses, and he looks at me.

"Why are you rude to me? Surely you consider me a friend now. The carnival was a long-shot, but we've gone to get food plenty of times, and been with the group. So why are you still rude?"

I walk over to him, well, more crawl over as this tent isn't that tall.

"I'm a bitch, that's why."

A grin is plastered over my face as I leave the tent.

*****
We walk towards the field where the fireworks display is being held, luckily for me Paige and Patrick decided to make the most of their alone time, and have stayed back at their tent.

Jagger's despondent face makes me feel slightly bad for him, but I just roll it off.

I took a few lines with Patrick before coming on this walk, so I feel kinda hot but also cold, and I can feel and even hear my heart beating.

Something moves in the bushes and I jump, goosebumps filling the entirety of my skin.

"Don't worry, little red, it's just a rabbit." A voice says, putting their hand on my shoulder.

I jump at their touch, and then I realise it's Sin.

"Sorry," I mumble, "the clouds scared me. I mean, you scared me."

He looks at me, and opens my eyes with his fingers. "Wow, you druggie. Your high? Seriously?"

I smirk, "It only lasts fifteen minutes, don't cry baby booch."

Sin rolls his eyes and walks off towards Rhiannon and Brandon.

Instead of him, my moody-pants and piss-pants roommate, I walk beside Arianna, a girl who is actually very funny and very hot.

We talk to each other about the most random shit, she also happens to have a joint on her which she so kindly shares with me, it's ironic because normally I have one on me, and I never share.

A few minutes later, the group walks off without me into the field, and I stay leaning against the sick because I feel sick.

A male hand sits on my waist. "Lina? Are you okay?"

"Sin? Yeah, I'm fine. Perfect, actually. It's just been a while, you know? I forgot how heightened everything was."

And it really is heightened. I'm not glorifying drugs, because they have a billion negative side effects, but this one is a bonus. It heightens emotions.

The only problem is, cocaine heightens everything.

Visions of my madre and him come into my mind, and I feel my body shake, I use drugs to forget, not to re-feel the pain, not for deja vu.

"Lina,I think your having a panic attack. Can you put your head between your knees, please? I know it sounds weird, but I learnt it in secondary school." Sin tells me, rubbing my back.

I hate this moment of weakness so I shove him off me and stand up, gnawing on my lip nervously but not letting me be weak. I can't have someone see me be weak, see me not be strong.

"I'm fine, Sin. Go watch the fireworks with the group."

He grins. "I'd rather watch them with you, even if you are a bitchy, annoying drug addict."

I try to hold back my smile by chewing on my lip even more, but I have to stop before it bleeds.

"Is that meant to be a compliment?"

Sin shrugs, "take it however you want too, little red."

****

The fireworks were amazing. Beautiful, even. They had a range of different colours, but they were all so vibrant and loud, filling the plain night sky with their wonders.

We now sit, sparklers in our hand, doing our own little doodles and design.

I watch what everyone does:

Patrick and Jagger both do their own dicks, in Patrick's case I can tell you the sparkler version is far bigger, as for Jagger I don't know.

Arianna does a firework, like we saw earlier.

Rhiannon and Brandon try and draw each other, but honestly, they both look like aliens.

Sin does a dumpster quickly when he thinks no ones looking;

And I do Springfield Carnival.

When our sparklers fizz out, Arianna comes up with one-of her infamous ingenious ideas.

"Let's play Spin The Bottle!" She claps her hands and everyone laughs, recalling the first time we played it, when her and I kissed.

We grab an empty beer bottle and put it in the middle. Soon, most people have kissed most people, but I haven't had a go yet.

Jagger spins the bottle, and it lands on me, so we kiss for two minutes, like our rules state. The kiss is slimy and disgusting for me, but he looks like he enjoyed it.

It's now my turn to spin, so I spin the bottle and close my eyes.

"I'm not kissing her," he says in a grumpy voice, "no way."

I open my eyes and see Sin, his arms folded and looking mad.

"Piss-pants." I cough under my breath, to gain a glare from him and laughter from the others.

His jaw tenses and he walks over to the tent and walks into it in a hurry.

"Excuse me," I say, dumbfounded/confused, "give me a second to see what's up his ass."

I follow him in and sit down, seeing him drinking a bottle of vodka.

"What was that all about? Jeez, I don't wanna kiss you either, but it's just a game." I roll my eyes, as he stared at me intensely.

He stands in front of me, his head kinda pushed down from tent, yet somehow he still reigns taller than me, and he looks into my devilish green eyes, as I look into his empty black pupils.

"If we ever kiss, Catalina, it would not be from some silly game, understand?"

The warmth of another human near my skin makes my breathing hitched, so I bite my lip, turn around, and walk out the tent.

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