28 February, 2003, 6:12am

So I've had pretty much no sleep Saturday and Sumday night. Saturday we were at Matt's place of course, and I don't remember anything of that night so I don't recall how much sleep I got. Considering how tired I was, I'm guessing not a lot. That morning we couldn't find Alan for 3 hours. Turns out he was sleeping in a closet.

*****

I groaned and repeatedly banged my head on the desk as the substitute art teacher continued his speech about his first painting as a child. Like, can't you see no one is listening or cares?

"Are you okay?" Oli asked me, staring at me as I continued banging my head on the desk.

"No," I mumbled. "This is boring as fuck and I'm tired,"

"No need for the language," I glared at him and he simply shrugged, before turning back to his picture of a... Leprechaun?

Im not even gonna ask.

"Hey can I have a look at your art book?" I asked, grabbing it from him.

"No! -" But I stopped on a particular page. It was a drawing of me. And it was actually fantastic.

"Look, I'm sorry if this is creepy, but I -" I cut him off with a hug.

"Oli, this is amazing! Thank you!"

"You don't find it creepy?"

"No, of course not! This is really sweet,"

"Well, you're welcome," A shy smile appeared on Oli's face and I held back an "aww". He was just adorable.

"So how long till lunch?" I asked.

"2 minutes," I groaned and started banging my head on the desk once again.

"You're so impatient."





"Hey guys!" Vic addressed us, sitting beside me at our table. We waved and continued eating our food.

"So, I have news on what we are all doing this weekend," he said, looking around at all of us.

"I hope it doesn't involve what happened Saturday night. I can't remember a damn thing," Kellin replied.

"Nope! Mama and Papa are taking us all camping!"

"Camping?" Jaime asked.

"All 10 of us?" Matt looked surprised.

"Yay I love camping!" Alan clapped his hands with a giant grin.

"Alan stahp. You're 14 is showing," Austin threw a grape at him.

"Wait, wait, wait. Mom and Dad told you, but not me?" Mike asked Vic in disbelief.

"Well, they didn't think you would of wanted to come. You never do,"

"Is Bonnie going?" he asked, looking at me.

"Maybe you should ask her, dickhead," Tony answered.

"Of course I'm going. I love your parents," I shrugged.

"Okay. Well, I have to write names down for tents," Vic grabbed a notebook and pen out of his bag and placed it on the table. "There's 3 tents for all of us, so that means 2 tents have 3 people in them, and the last tent will fit 4. And I know everyone will fight over who is with who, so I've wrote all of our names on paper and put them in my hat,"

"What the fuck man?!" Kellin asked Vic when he took off his hat, revealing folded up pieces of paper.

"Okay, Bonnie, you're closest so you go first. If one of you picks up Bonnie's name, just take it out since she would've already had a turn," Vic instructed, ignoring Kellin and handing me the hat. I picked out 2 pieces and opened them.

"Umm, Jaime and Austin," I read out.

"Yeah! Tent buddies for life!" Jaime high-fived me.

"There's no way in hell I'm letting Austin share the same tent as her," Mike shook his head.

"Oh? And why's that Fuentes?" Austin smirked. Mike didn't say anything and Austin looked smug.

"You're turn Al," I smiled, passing the hat to Alan.

"Vic and Tony! Yay!" Alan read.

"So that leaves Mike, Oli, Matt and Kellin in the other tent. Right, it's all sorted!" Vic stated proudly, writing down the names onto the paper, seeming like it was some life accomplishment or something.

"Are Viv and Victor really taking all of us camping?" Matt asked.

"Yep. We are going to have so much fun telling ghost stories and eating marshmallows and -"

"Yes Vic, we are going to have lots of fun! Now shut up," Austin rolled his eyes.

"Don't be a dick. Let the boy have his fun," Oli smiled, playfully ruffling Vic's hair.

"Don't touch the hair," he pouted, shaking his hand off.

"Aww my poor baby!" Kellin cooed as Vic proceeded to fake cry.

"Everyone is being a bully to me Kell!"

"It's okay. I still love you Viccy!" They awkwardly hugged across the table. Are they serious right now.





28 February, 5:56pm, 2003

So I'm going camping this weekend. This shall be interesting.





*****

"Fuck!" I stomped my foot in frustration as I failed, yet again, at putting the tent up.

"All you have to do is ask for help darling," Austin said, finally getting off his ass to help me.

"It's your tent too. You should be helping anyway," I shot back.

"Why do that when I can watch you attempt to do it. Frustrated Bonnie is sexy Bonnie," he winked, making me scoff.

"You're such a pervert," I snapped. "Now where's Hime-Time?"

"He's helping Viv and Victor out up their tent,"

"Uh, alright. Help me put up the tent," Together, the tent was finally up.

"Lookin' good guys," Matf walked by with Kellin, both giving us a thumbs up before heading into the woods.

"Hey babe," Arms wrapped around my waist and pulled my back against their chest, leaning his chin of my shoulder.

"Hey Tony," I smiled.

"Come help me get some firewood. We're getting the fire started cos it's gonna be dark soon." I nodded and we linked arms, heading off in the direction Matt and Kellin went. We drove 3 hours out of town to this nice campsite, and it even had a swimming lake which we were testing out tomorrow. Well, the boys were. I'm definitely not getting in the water.





The fire has been blazing for hours now, and we all just around talking. It was nice. We told ghost stories and childhood stories and are s'mores and just enjoyed each other's company, really. It seems impossible to me that last year I had no friends to count on, and no friends to have fun with and go on camping trips with and no one to be a family with. and now I have 9 amazing guys who I could trust with my life.

We all all head to bed as the fire started going out, Tony throwing a bit more wood on to keep it flickering. I jumped on to the air mistress in between Austin and Jaime and snuggled into my pillow.

"Can I have a cuddle?" Jaime asked me tiredly. Smiling slightly yet still showed his adorable dimples.

"Of course you can babe," I moved over closer to him and lay my head on his chest. Kissing his cheek before lying back down again.

Soon enough, Jaime had crashed and it was just Austin and I awake. it's been about an hour and a half, and it was silent except for the light snores of everyone else outside in their tents, and the sound of crickets outside.

"Do you want to do something fun?" Austin whispered on my neck. I froze and shook my head.

"C'mon, I know you want to," Eric Dale filled my mind at his words.

"I really don't," I whispered, squirming away from his touch.

"Fine, whatever you say. I'm sure you'll change your mind soon enough." Austin turned sway from me and in minutes his soft snores filled the tent. I just closed my eyes, getting ready to fall asleep when Jaime started sleep singing.

"My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, and they're like, it's better than yours. Damn right, it's better than yours, I could teach you, but I have to charge," I sighed as he repeated the song over and over before finally deciding to go in one of the other tents. I quickly unzipped the tent and climbed out, before zipping it back up again. I quietly padded over to Vic, Alan and Tony's tent before climbing in, trying not to disturb the sleeping boys.

"Bonnie? What are you doing?" Vic asked tiredly, sitting up and rubbing his eyes.

"Jaime is singing in his sleep. I'm just gonna lay across you guys, okay! Go back to sleep," I whispered.

"Don't be stupid, you'll get cold. C'mere," He unzipped his sleeping bag and I crawled into it with him, zipping if up after us.

"Goodnight Vic." I whispered, laying my head on his chest, feeling his heartbeat on my cheek and taking a fistful of his grey sweater.

"Goodnight Bon."

Notes

A very very crappy chapter which I am not happy with AT ALL. Eww, it's 1:45am and I'm sick Dx

I'd like to apologise for my lack of knowledge on schooling. That's for 2 reasons. 1: I live in New Zealand, so American schooling is much different, and 2: I am home schooled, so therefore don't even really know what happens for schooling here :/

I feel dumb xD