Summer Love
One
I stared at the receptonist as she passed me the key for the room I would be staying in. Was this really happening? Had my parents really just dropped me off at this summer camp for six weeks just so they could go travelling around the world without me? I guess the answer for that was yes. I grabbed my two suitcases off of the floor, and flinged my backpack onto my shoulders dragging my suitcases along the floor, till I got outside.
I walked along the paths, dragging my suitcases along behind me until I came to room number 108, it looked like a small cabin. I shoved the key into the door, turning it to the right and pushing the door open. Inside there was two single beds, two wardrobes, a small table lamp in the middle, couch and a television on the other side of the room. I dragged my suitcases inside, leaving them by the door, then pulling my key out of the door and shoving the door shut. I quickly claimed the bed nearest the door and the window pulling my backpack off of my shoulders and putting it on the bed.
I started to unpack some of my clothes putting them in the wardrobe nearest to me, once I was done I slid the empty bags underneath my bed. I heard the door open again, which made me stand up quickly and turn around to see who it was. There was a slim girl, she looked around my age, she had long, wavy ginger hair with sparkling green eyes and freckles on her cheeks. She was absolutely stunning.
"Hi, I'm Abbey." She said introducing herself.
"Hiya I'm Ella, so you must be my roomate?" I asked.
"Yeah, I think so. This is the room the lady told me to stay in." She said dragging her bags over to the free bed, unpacking straight away.
"Ah cool, so how old are you?" I asked sitting down on my bed. If I was going to have to spend the next six weeks with her, we might as well become friends?
"I'm sixteen, but it's my birthday next week so I'll be seventeen you?"
"I turned seventeen a few weeks ago. Did you want to come to this camp?"
"Not really... My parent's are getting a divorce and while it's all going on they thought it would be best if I was out of the way, since they have to do a custody hearing aswell. Did you want to come?"
"Oh, I'm sorry about your parents. I didn't want to come either, my parent's are going travelling and didn't want me to go with them I guess."
"That must suck. We can make this most of this six weeks though, have some fun? I usually do nothing in the holidays."
As much as I hated to admit it, I never did anything in the holidays either but I could think of better things to do.
"Yeah, let's just make the best of it!" I said happily.
I told her that I was going to look around the camp whilst she unpacked. She had brang A LOT I didn't think it was possible to have so many clothes just for a short amount of time and that many shoes. I grabbed my key and shoved it into my back pocket of my shorts, then opened the door stepping out and shutting it behind me. I made my way down the path, there was a lake not too far away so I decided to walk to it.
There wasn't a lot of being walking around yet, it still was quite early only about 11ish and it was the first day today. I sat down near the edge of the lake, taking my shoes off and dangling my feet into the water leaning back on my arms, letting the sun sink into my skin. I shut my eyes to block out the sunlight, humming softly to myself.
I'd been laying there for what felt like only a few minutes when I felt some water drop all over me making me jump. I sat up quickly opening my eyes angrily, there was a bucket on the floor next to me but I couldn't see anyone around. What sort of jerk just chucks a whole bucket of cold water over someone they didn't even know. I stood up looking around but I couldn't see anyone, I was dripping with water and I was mad. I heard laughing coming from around the corner of the cabins so I started to march over there. I saw five boys, there faces were all very famillar but I was pretty sure that I didn't know them.
"S-sorry." One of them spat out whilst laughing.
The boy had brown, curly hair and green eyes. He was quite beautiful. But I was still mad, I didn't care what he looked like, he was obviously the culprit since he was the first one too apologise.
"Why the fuck would you just chuck a bucket of cold water on someone!?" I asked angrily.
"You were red from the sun and it was funny." The boy answered, he wasn't laughing anymore.
I looked down at my arms, sure enough they were red maybe I'd layed down there for longer than I had originally thought.
"You're a dick." I muttered as I started to walk away.
I could hear them all wihispering to each other before the boy called after me.
"Wait, I'm sorry!"
I turned around to face the five boys again. "Yeah sure." I said bitterly.
"No I am, let me make it up to you, you can hang out with me and the boys tonight at the campfire? What's your name?"
"Ergh fine. Watch out though I might bring a bucket of water and my name is Ella, what's yours?" I said introducing myself.
The boy looked taken aback for a second and so did the four other boys.
"I'm Harry, this is Liam, Niall, Zayn and Louis."
It all suddenly clicked in my head. They were from that boy band-One Direction or something.
"Wait, aren't you from One Direction?" I asked.
They all nodded there heads slowly, as if they were worried that I was about to fangirl on them or something. I'd heard of them before, there was hundreds of girls at my school who were obsessed with them but I had only heard a few of there songs so I wasn't too famillar with them.
"Oh right cool. Well I'll see you guys later then." I said waving at them and walking away.
As I walked away, I felt like a hundred butterflies had been let off in my stomuch. It wasn't because they were famous, but that Harry guy he was absolutly beautiful whenever I looked at him I felt nervous, I didn't want to feel this way it was just weird since I didn't even know him. I went back into my cabin, Abbey was sitting down on her bed with a laptop on her lap typing away at it. Apparntly we had internet access here, well I suppose that was one good thing. I sat down on my bed, being too lazy too change my wet clothes, they'd dry soon enough.
"You're wet?" Abbey said stating the obvious.
"Yeah uhm this boy Harry chucked a bucket of water all over me, then I went and found him and his friends and had a go at them. They apologised and said I could hang out with them tonight at the campfire, you wanna come?"
"Sure, are they good looking?"
I nodded my head, I could hardly lie about there looks they were all incrediably good looking.
"Even better! Now let's decide what we're gonna wear we only have like six hours!" She said laughing.
*
I grabbed my vibrating phone off of the desk, opening up the new text message. It was from the last person I wanted it to be from, Adam my ex boyfriend. He'd cheated on me with my now ex 'bestfriend' yet he seemed to think that with a simple sorry I'd go running back to him but it was never going to happen. I hated him, I wasn't in love with him anymore he wasn't important to me. I deleted the text, without replying and shoved my phone into my pocket. I told Abbey to hurry up but she was still reapplying her candyfloss lipgloss for like the milionth time before we left, I hadn't told her that the boys we were meeting were from One Direction because I didn't want to make a big deal out of it. She didn't even really look like a fan as far as I could tell so I hoped that she would act normal around them.
I switched the light off and we went outside following a load of people who were all walking in the same direction. When we got to the campfire, there was maybe a couple hundred of people but I instantly recognised Harry and his friends. I grabbed Abbey's hand pulling her towards them, but she seemed stuck in a sort of trance with her mouth stuck wide open. I stopped walking and turned round to face her.
"You know you'll catch flies if you keep your mouth open too long." I said jokingly.
Abbey's mouth instantly shut, her eyes fixing onto mine. "One-One Direction are over there. We were walking over to One Direction." Abbey said quickly.
"Yes? They're the boys I met earlier who I told you about. I'm guessing you're a fan then?"
Abbey nodded her head ferociously. "I have a twitter and tumblr account dedicated to them. They're literally my life, they saved my life..." She said her voice trailling off.
Her last four words shocked me, she didn't seem like the sort of person who would need 'saving' but I'm glad they saved her life, she was a great girl.
"Then let's go over and meet them then, just act normal. You can do this." I said smiling at her.
We walked slowly over to them, I said "hey" straight away gaining me five "hello's" in responce.
"Who's this?" Harry said smiling.
"Um Abbey, she's my roomate." I said with a hint of jealousy in my voice.
I couldn't help it, I didn't know what it was but something about me didn't like the way Harry was looking at Abbey. It was clear he thought she was attractive, but for some reason I wanted it to be me that he thought was 'hot' not her.
"So Abbey, you a fan?" Harry asked her.
"Er yeah. Huge fan, seriously your music's helped me a lot, it always makes me happy and watching interviews and stuff never fails to make me laugh!"
"Aw, that's cute c'mere." Harry said pulling her into a hug.
Yep. It was official, I was jealous. I caught eyes with the boy I think his name was Liam, he smiled at me almost as if he could tell that I was jealous or something but I was pretty sure he couldn't, I think I was doing well at hiding it with my fake smile plastered on my face. They pulled away from each other and Harry went and stood next to the rest of the boys again. Abbey had a huge grin on her face, I knew she was properly just happy because she'd met her favourite boyband but who knows all I knew was that I was being ridiculous earlier this afternoon I didn't even know his name, there was no way I could have a 'crush' on him.
The camp leader called for everyone's attention so we all turned to face him. He must of been in his early 30's or something, I think his name was John? He started to tell us what sort of camp activities we would be doing during our stay, tomorrow it looked like we were doing water sports which sounded pretty good to me. I looked over at Harry, catching him glancing at Abbey when he saw that I was looking at him he gave me a warm smile then went back to looking at the camp leader John. John told us that curfew was 10:30pm and we had to be back inside our cabins by then, we had to be awake by 8:30am everyday, then go for breakfast at 9am, morning activities would start at 10am, lunch would be at 12:30am, afternoon activities would start at 2:00pm till 5pm then dinner at 6pm then after that we could do whatever we wanted.
Once he had finished talking we were allowed to do whatever we wanted until curfew. There was quite a few girls and some boys around all staring at Harry, Liam, Niall, Zayn and Louis as if they wanted to come over and talk to them but they were to nervous. I rubbed my arms up and down with my hands, it was freezing I should of worn a jumper but I guess I wasn't too clever.
"You cold?" Harry asked me.
"Yeah... I might go back to the cabin and grab a jumper."
"No need, you can wear my jumper I'm not cold." Harry said pulling off his jumper and handing it to me.
"Thanks." I muttered putting the jumper on.
It was way too big, but I didn't care. It was still warm from him, and it smelt so good. Harry wrapped his arms around my waist from behind pulling me in closer to him. It felt like a million butterflies had been let off in my stomuch, but I didn't mind this feeling. It felt nice.
"Warmer now?" Harry asked softly in my ear.
"Yes." I whispered.
We all sat down on the floor in a huge circle, just getting to know each other. I now knew all of there surnames, birthdays, favourite colours, if they had brothers or sisters, pets etc. It was a lot more than I had originally known, I also found out that two of them were in relationships Zayn was going out was somebody called Perrie Edwards from Littlemix, Louis was going out with a girl called Eleanor Calder. They both showed me pictures of them and their girlfriends, they were both beautiful. I was kinda suprised when Harry said he was single, he was just one of the kindest people I'd ever met and I had only known him a day.
Half ten came quicker than expected, me and Abbey said goodbye to the boys. They told us that they'd save us a space at breakfast tomorrow. Once we got back to the cabin, I was literally shattered. I showered quickly in the bathroom, when I got back Abbey was already asleep. I changed into my pjs, climbing into bed and pulling the covers right up. I switched off the lamp, shutting my eyes.
Tomorrow was going to be a good day. I could feel it.
I walked along the paths, dragging my suitcases along behind me until I came to room number 108, it looked like a small cabin. I shoved the key into the door, turning it to the right and pushing the door open. Inside there was two single beds, two wardrobes, a small table lamp in the middle, couch and a television on the other side of the room. I dragged my suitcases inside, leaving them by the door, then pulling my key out of the door and shoving the door shut. I quickly claimed the bed nearest the door and the window pulling my backpack off of my shoulders and putting it on the bed.
I started to unpack some of my clothes putting them in the wardrobe nearest to me, once I was done I slid the empty bags underneath my bed. I heard the door open again, which made me stand up quickly and turn around to see who it was. There was a slim girl, she looked around my age, she had long, wavy ginger hair with sparkling green eyes and freckles on her cheeks. She was absolutely stunning.
"Hi, I'm Abbey." She said introducing herself.
"Hiya I'm Ella, so you must be my roomate?" I asked.
"Yeah, I think so. This is the room the lady told me to stay in." She said dragging her bags over to the free bed, unpacking straight away.
"Ah cool, so how old are you?" I asked sitting down on my bed. If I was going to have to spend the next six weeks with her, we might as well become friends?
"I'm sixteen, but it's my birthday next week so I'll be seventeen you?"
"I turned seventeen a few weeks ago. Did you want to come to this camp?"
"Not really... My parent's are getting a divorce and while it's all going on they thought it would be best if I was out of the way, since they have to do a custody hearing aswell. Did you want to come?"
"Oh, I'm sorry about your parents. I didn't want to come either, my parent's are going travelling and didn't want me to go with them I guess."
"That must suck. We can make this most of this six weeks though, have some fun? I usually do nothing in the holidays."
As much as I hated to admit it, I never did anything in the holidays either but I could think of better things to do.
"Yeah, let's just make the best of it!" I said happily.
I told her that I was going to look around the camp whilst she unpacked. She had brang A LOT I didn't think it was possible to have so many clothes just for a short amount of time and that many shoes. I grabbed my key and shoved it into my back pocket of my shorts, then opened the door stepping out and shutting it behind me. I made my way down the path, there was a lake not too far away so I decided to walk to it.
There wasn't a lot of being walking around yet, it still was quite early only about 11ish and it was the first day today. I sat down near the edge of the lake, taking my shoes off and dangling my feet into the water leaning back on my arms, letting the sun sink into my skin. I shut my eyes to block out the sunlight, humming softly to myself.
I'd been laying there for what felt like only a few minutes when I felt some water drop all over me making me jump. I sat up quickly opening my eyes angrily, there was a bucket on the floor next to me but I couldn't see anyone around. What sort of jerk just chucks a whole bucket of cold water over someone they didn't even know. I stood up looking around but I couldn't see anyone, I was dripping with water and I was mad. I heard laughing coming from around the corner of the cabins so I started to march over there. I saw five boys, there faces were all very famillar but I was pretty sure that I didn't know them.
"S-sorry." One of them spat out whilst laughing.
The boy had brown, curly hair and green eyes. He was quite beautiful. But I was still mad, I didn't care what he looked like, he was obviously the culprit since he was the first one too apologise.
"Why the fuck would you just chuck a bucket of cold water on someone!?" I asked angrily.
"You were red from the sun and it was funny." The boy answered, he wasn't laughing anymore.
I looked down at my arms, sure enough they were red maybe I'd layed down there for longer than I had originally thought.
"You're a dick." I muttered as I started to walk away.
I could hear them all wihispering to each other before the boy called after me.
"Wait, I'm sorry!"
I turned around to face the five boys again. "Yeah sure." I said bitterly.
"No I am, let me make it up to you, you can hang out with me and the boys tonight at the campfire? What's your name?"
"Ergh fine. Watch out though I might bring a bucket of water and my name is Ella, what's yours?" I said introducing myself.
The boy looked taken aback for a second and so did the four other boys.
"I'm Harry, this is Liam, Niall, Zayn and Louis."
It all suddenly clicked in my head. They were from that boy band-One Direction or something.
"Wait, aren't you from One Direction?" I asked.
They all nodded there heads slowly, as if they were worried that I was about to fangirl on them or something. I'd heard of them before, there was hundreds of girls at my school who were obsessed with them but I had only heard a few of there songs so I wasn't too famillar with them.
"Oh right cool. Well I'll see you guys later then." I said waving at them and walking away.
As I walked away, I felt like a hundred butterflies had been let off in my stomuch. It wasn't because they were famous, but that Harry guy he was absolutly beautiful whenever I looked at him I felt nervous, I didn't want to feel this way it was just weird since I didn't even know him. I went back into my cabin, Abbey was sitting down on her bed with a laptop on her lap typing away at it. Apparntly we had internet access here, well I suppose that was one good thing. I sat down on my bed, being too lazy too change my wet clothes, they'd dry soon enough.
"You're wet?" Abbey said stating the obvious.
"Yeah uhm this boy Harry chucked a bucket of water all over me, then I went and found him and his friends and had a go at them. They apologised and said I could hang out with them tonight at the campfire, you wanna come?"
"Sure, are they good looking?"
I nodded my head, I could hardly lie about there looks they were all incrediably good looking.
"Even better! Now let's decide what we're gonna wear we only have like six hours!" She said laughing.
*
I grabbed my vibrating phone off of the desk, opening up the new text message. It was from the last person I wanted it to be from, Adam my ex boyfriend. He'd cheated on me with my now ex 'bestfriend' yet he seemed to think that with a simple sorry I'd go running back to him but it was never going to happen. I hated him, I wasn't in love with him anymore he wasn't important to me. I deleted the text, without replying and shoved my phone into my pocket. I told Abbey to hurry up but she was still reapplying her candyfloss lipgloss for like the milionth time before we left, I hadn't told her that the boys we were meeting were from One Direction because I didn't want to make a big deal out of it. She didn't even really look like a fan as far as I could tell so I hoped that she would act normal around them.
I switched the light off and we went outside following a load of people who were all walking in the same direction. When we got to the campfire, there was maybe a couple hundred of people but I instantly recognised Harry and his friends. I grabbed Abbey's hand pulling her towards them, but she seemed stuck in a sort of trance with her mouth stuck wide open. I stopped walking and turned round to face her.
"You know you'll catch flies if you keep your mouth open too long." I said jokingly.
Abbey's mouth instantly shut, her eyes fixing onto mine. "One-One Direction are over there. We were walking over to One Direction." Abbey said quickly.
"Yes? They're the boys I met earlier who I told you about. I'm guessing you're a fan then?"
Abbey nodded her head ferociously. "I have a twitter and tumblr account dedicated to them. They're literally my life, they saved my life..." She said her voice trailling off.
Her last four words shocked me, she didn't seem like the sort of person who would need 'saving' but I'm glad they saved her life, she was a great girl.
"Then let's go over and meet them then, just act normal. You can do this." I said smiling at her.
We walked slowly over to them, I said "hey" straight away gaining me five "hello's" in responce.
"Who's this?" Harry said smiling.
"Um Abbey, she's my roomate." I said with a hint of jealousy in my voice.
I couldn't help it, I didn't know what it was but something about me didn't like the way Harry was looking at Abbey. It was clear he thought she was attractive, but for some reason I wanted it to be me that he thought was 'hot' not her.
"So Abbey, you a fan?" Harry asked her.
"Er yeah. Huge fan, seriously your music's helped me a lot, it always makes me happy and watching interviews and stuff never fails to make me laugh!"
"Aw, that's cute c'mere." Harry said pulling her into a hug.
Yep. It was official, I was jealous. I caught eyes with the boy I think his name was Liam, he smiled at me almost as if he could tell that I was jealous or something but I was pretty sure he couldn't, I think I was doing well at hiding it with my fake smile plastered on my face. They pulled away from each other and Harry went and stood next to the rest of the boys again. Abbey had a huge grin on her face, I knew she was properly just happy because she'd met her favourite boyband but who knows all I knew was that I was being ridiculous earlier this afternoon I didn't even know his name, there was no way I could have a 'crush' on him.
The camp leader called for everyone's attention so we all turned to face him. He must of been in his early 30's or something, I think his name was John? He started to tell us what sort of camp activities we would be doing during our stay, tomorrow it looked like we were doing water sports which sounded pretty good to me. I looked over at Harry, catching him glancing at Abbey when he saw that I was looking at him he gave me a warm smile then went back to looking at the camp leader John. John told us that curfew was 10:30pm and we had to be back inside our cabins by then, we had to be awake by 8:30am everyday, then go for breakfast at 9am, morning activities would start at 10am, lunch would be at 12:30am, afternoon activities would start at 2:00pm till 5pm then dinner at 6pm then after that we could do whatever we wanted.
Once he had finished talking we were allowed to do whatever we wanted until curfew. There was quite a few girls and some boys around all staring at Harry, Liam, Niall, Zayn and Louis as if they wanted to come over and talk to them but they were to nervous. I rubbed my arms up and down with my hands, it was freezing I should of worn a jumper but I guess I wasn't too clever.
"You cold?" Harry asked me.
"Yeah... I might go back to the cabin and grab a jumper."
"No need, you can wear my jumper I'm not cold." Harry said pulling off his jumper and handing it to me.
"Thanks." I muttered putting the jumper on.
It was way too big, but I didn't care. It was still warm from him, and it smelt so good. Harry wrapped his arms around my waist from behind pulling me in closer to him. It felt like a million butterflies had been let off in my stomuch, but I didn't mind this feeling. It felt nice.
"Warmer now?" Harry asked softly in my ear.
"Yes." I whispered.
We all sat down on the floor in a huge circle, just getting to know each other. I now knew all of there surnames, birthdays, favourite colours, if they had brothers or sisters, pets etc. It was a lot more than I had originally known, I also found out that two of them were in relationships Zayn was going out was somebody called Perrie Edwards from Littlemix, Louis was going out with a girl called Eleanor Calder. They both showed me pictures of them and their girlfriends, they were both beautiful. I was kinda suprised when Harry said he was single, he was just one of the kindest people I'd ever met and I had only known him a day.
Half ten came quicker than expected, me and Abbey said goodbye to the boys. They told us that they'd save us a space at breakfast tomorrow. Once we got back to the cabin, I was literally shattered. I showered quickly in the bathroom, when I got back Abbey was already asleep. I changed into my pjs, climbing into bed and pulling the covers right up. I switched off the lamp, shutting my eyes.
Tomorrow was going to be a good day. I could feel it.
11/24/13