"Yes?"
"I- I um- well, you- I-"
"Listen, kid, the campers' cabins are on the other side." He points behind him. "Now, move, yeah?"
"That isn't it!"
"Then what is it?" He still has that same bored tone.
Finally, the words I've been meaning to say spi...
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It's almost seven when I get back to the cabin. Before I open the door, I tell Summer to take her ass to her room because I have something she can't see. She tells me she'll kill me in my sleep if it's a live animal. I don't know. Something about barely keeping her kid brother alive.
I take the bags to my room and hide them because anyone can be snoopy under the right circumstances.
There is a bag I take with me to the living room, though. A bag of pure junk food.
When the couch creaks in protest to me sitting my ass on its scratchy fabric, I hear Summer's bare feet making a little noise as she comes to sit with me.
I raise a brow. "What if I was wrapping something?"
She shrugs, picks up the bag of snacks to sit before placing it in her lap, and starts digging through it.
I bring an arm behind the couch and she scoots closer to me, pulling her legs up. When she lays her head on my shoulder and hugs my side, I know something's up.
With a frown, I hold her head to me. I hate when she's upset. It breaks my heart to see her like this. A part of me wants to ask what's wrong, but so much is wrong, isn't it? How can I possibly make her feel better? I bet she feels like her whole life fell apart when she left Mason.
Sometimes it's better not to say a thing. But when I was alone all the time, I would pretend I hated people trying to get in my head and figure out why I was depressed. And she was alone for a long time. She needs someone to ask her those questions and to hold her. Luckily, I'm a fine multitasker.
"Are you all right?"
She doesn't say anything, so I don't push. All I do I squeeze her to me and turn on the TV like I planned to do since the moment I got here.
We pig out on various chips and candies. And at some point, I go make us sandwiches so that we have something decent in our stomachs
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We finish two movies and a few episodes of Winx Club before she's smiling again.
There's a mess of food everywhere, but I abandon her and the trash to grab the stuff I got for her.
