Young Minds, Young Love

Avery's P.O.V

I can't believe he's doing this again! I quickly scurry out of bed and run towards the dining area, James, Jake, Sean and Cooper are following closely behind me. When I enter the dining area, everyone is silently listening to Harry and Luke.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD FUCKING TAKE HER! YOU DON'T GO AROUND TAKING PEOPLE JUST SO YOU CAN GET YOUR FUCK IN THE BUSH!" I guess the whole school is now going to think that we had sex.

"I FUCKING TOOK HER BECAUSE I CAN TAKE HER! IM SURE I REMEMBER TELLING YOU TO STAY AWAY FROM WHAT'S MINE AND NOT YOURS! SO WHY DON'T YOU JUST REMEMBER TO DO THAT AND YOU WON’T END UP IN A FUCKING HOSPITAL!"

These boys should seriously never be put in the same room. This is an absolute disaster! The whole dining area is silent, luckily I can see the camp leaders heading this way. Hopefully they will do something because these boys certainly won’t stop on their own. Luke starts to stride closer to Harry.

"YOU FUCKING DICKHEAD! SHE'S NOT YOURS AND SHE NEVER WILL BE!" A straight punch was delivered to Harrys jaw, he stumbles but only a few steps back. Harry quickly recovers himself and gives Luke an even worse punch. Before Luke can get another punch, the two young male camp leaders come barging through the door.

"HEY! STOP!" Both of them are quick to separate Harry and Luke from each other. The one holding back Harry is almost as tall as him, he’s wearing the camp uniform which is three-quarter length black shorts and a navy blue top with the logo printed on it. The other camp leader is holding Luke back; he is much shorter than him and also wearing the camp uniform. Both boys squirmed until they finally settled down and were released.

"Just go find a table, sit down and eat your breakfast."

Slowly Harry walked over to me, by this point everyone had picked up there old conversations or were talking about what had just happened.

"Come sit with me, I want you to meet everyone." He's talking to me as if nothing just happened, as if he didn’t just punch Luke. Again!

"No." I simply replied. Harry looks a little confused.

"You can't just go around punching my friends Harry." Hopefully that cleared it up for him. Myself actually telling him, that punching my friends is not ok.

"Babe I wasn't asking you, I’m telling you." And just like that, I am being dragged away. We make our way over to a group that I remember seeing the first day of school. They all had tattoos and were smoking the only thing that has changed about them is the fact they aren't smoking now. Even though they weren't smoking the cigarette smoke coming off some of them.

"Gang this is Avery. Avery this is the gang. Louis, Liam, Zayn, Niall, Perrie, El and Sophia." Once introduced both Harry and I sat down and started eating the cereal that was provided on the table.

"This camp food is shit." The blonde one says with his thick Irish accent. I can't argue with him though, this food is pretty shitty. Most people here aren't even eating their breakfast.

"Oh get over it Niall, you eat anything and everything, all we've got to do is put something eatable in front of your face and it will be gone the next second; so I’m positive that you'll eat whatever they give you here." Perrie says. The blonde one, I mean Niall, just huffs at her comment but continues eating.

"Alrighty guys, everyone looking this way!" One of the male camp leaders boomed, everyone all turned around in their seats so they were able to see the camp leaders. They had all come into the breakfast area and gathered at the front so they were able to talk to all of us. "Now today you’re all going off into different groups. We are going to split you all up. You will all get a camp leader and they will take you out to areas around the camp site to do activities that you have to 'trust', your fellow group members." A lot of people are just nodding along to what he's saying.

"This is such fucking she-" One of the males from the gang speaks

"You!" He booms again, all eyes in the breakfast area have now turned to the table I’m sitting at. More importantly all eyes are on the boy who has messy brown hair and clear ocean blue eyes

"Stand up." Slowly he stands up with an unamused expression on his face. "Buddy why can't you just let me finish, you can talk all you want after I've finished talking but for now...sit down and shut up." If you could ever feel awkwardness, you would be hit with a title wave of it right now. Everyone in the room is silently laughing to themselves but you can tell by the look in their eyes that all they want to do is burst out laughing.

"Right now it's time to split you all up." He instructed. The male made his way around to each and every table giving them a number, then he came over to our table and gave us the number 10.

"Ok guys, so your group number is ten, once I’ve finished giving everyone else their group number I'm going to call out the numbers and the name of your camp leader and what activity you will be doing, so just get ready to leave." Once he finished giving everyone their group number, he made his way to the front of the room ready to start booming out the numbers and names.

"So, now what's going to happen is I am going to call out your group number, once you hear your number, I will then tell you which camp leader you are going to have. After I have read out your group number and camp leader I will then tell you what activity you will be doing, your camp leader will then take your group and you will do that activity. Now when I came around to your tables a lot of you had the same question to ask and that was...'do we have to stay in these groups the whole week?' Well the answer is...yes, you have to stay in these groups the whole week." WHAT?! NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!! I can't survive a full fucking week with Harry! God knows what he'll do to me and I'm starting to not trust myself around him anymore.

"Group one, your camp leader is Delilah, you have the leap of faith. Group two, your camp leader is Maddie, you guys are going off and doing raft building. Group three, your camp leader is Sam..." I could not be bothered to listen to the rest of what he was saying, this was so boring the guy was only up to group three and I have to wait until ten! Nobody on this table seems to be paying attention to what this guy is saying; I was getting so board of waiting that I could feel my eyes start to flutter shut.

"Hey, you got to stay awake." Harry whispers.

I just shrug him off and continue my little, well, I don’t know what to call it...maybe a daydream but without the dream. I can feel a hand on my thigh rubbing small circles; I don't pay any attention though. Then I feel that same hand start to rub a little harder as it make its way higher up my thigh, I slowly lift my head up and follow the hand to the wrist up the tanned forearm to the muscular biceps and then to that face. That smirk was on his face as usual, I just gave him a look to say 'stop.' But I don't think that he payed any attention to it because his hand kept on creeping higher and higher until he was almost at my crotch, then he gave me a wink and moved his hand on my crotch. Immediately I shot up, in the process my chair makes a loud screeching noise. Everyone including the camp leaders turns and gives me a confused look. The 'gang' are all silently laughing around the table because I’m sure they had an idea of what happened and I can see out of the corner of my eye that Harry is trying his hardest not to burst out laughing.

"Is something wrong?" One of the camp leaders ask. I start panicking and the only logical excuse that comes to my mind is...

"Ummmm, yeah I'm ok. Just really excited that's all." That is the shitiest excuse I think I have ever told, it was more like I was trying to convince myself of my answer, instead of the camp leader.

"Ok well I hope that your group number is 10 because you've got Sam as your leader and your group is going out and doing Canoeing." Oh thank god I got up at the right time. I quickly walked out the door with the rest of my group following behind; we all walked for about a minute until everyone had gathered together. I knew that everyone was behind me but one person was particularly close behind me, so close that I can feel his torso on my back.

"Ok guys, so as you heard my name is Sam and I am going to be your camp leader all week. Now, all of us are going to go down to the lake to do some canoeing...so let’s go." I don't understand what canoeing has to do with 'trust' but I guess the leaders will find a way to make it a 'trust' activity. We walk for another five minutes before we come to a massive clearing, there are trees that seem to travel all the way to the sky. It was basically one massive circular lake with many maybe even thousands of trees planted all around the border line of the lake. Sam leads us all over to an area where the canoes are. All of the canoes have only two seats in them.

"Right, so these are the canoes and I know that you’re all probably thinking what the hell does canoeing have to do with 'trust'. Well these canoes are designed for two people. The 'trust' part of this is that whoever is in the back of the canoe is going to be blindfolded, the person in the back is also going to be paddling with the paddle." Blindfolded?..."The person in the front of the canoe will not get to paddle, instead you have to tell the person in the back who is paddling to go where you want them to go. You also have to keep in mind that all of you are going to be out on that lake so, just watch out for everyone." This sounds like a horrible idea, for this group in particular. Maybe if I was with Luke and Rose, Abbey, Mo, James, Jake, Sean and Cooper, this would all be better. "Now if you guys capsize, don't worry the lake is deep in some areas. So I'm guessing that you all know how to swim?" Everyone in the gang nodded and he proceeded with the safety of this 'activity'. (A/N: Just pretend that Zayn can swim in this story)

"Now get yourselves into pairs, you've got two hours to kill out here so just do whatever you want out that but keep it reasonable and safe. I'm just going to go get the blindfolds so just stay here." Sam then went away to get the blindfolds and everyone in this gang went straight to their I'm guessing girlfriend because let’s just say there is a little bit of PDA going on here. The only people left standing around are Harry, the blonde Irish boy and myself, that all changes when Harry walks over to me.

"So do you want to go in the front? Or do you want to go in the back?" Harry really does assume a lot. Who's to say that I won’t ditch him and see what he does if I paddle with blonde Irish boy.

"Actually, I was thinking of going with that guy over there." He turned his head around to the blonde boy, then back to me with one eyebrow raised.

"There's no fucking way that you’re doing this with Niall." So Niall is the blonde ones name! I don’t have to call him the blonde one anymore.

"Well I feel like a change." I start walking over to Niall, who has a very confused look etched onto his face. Then a hand grabs at my wrist making me fly backwards into someone’s muscular chest.

"Ok everyone, I've got the blindfolds grab your partner and come get one." Sam said. Harry holds my wrist firmly in his hand as he drags me over to Sam. Once he has the blindfold, he takes me over to the canoes.

"Now I asked you before, do you want to go in the front? Or do you want to go in the back?" Hmm, what to do, what to do? I think I feel like bossing around Harry for a bit today, even if it’s only for two hours I may still have some fun with this...

"Is it ok if I go in the front?" I shakily ask. I get a warm smile and a nod in response. Both Harry and I, move the canoe further into the lake, I get in first then Harry also gets into the canoe with a slight wobble. I turn around to see Harry putting the blindfold on, I take a deep breath knowing that this won’t end well because I just have a gut feeling that we are going to capsize. Looking out onto the lake I realise that, it’s actually...peaceful here. The quietness of everything, with the only sounds coming from other groups doing their activates in the distance.

"Avery!" I got such a fright that I jumped in my seat and the canoe stated to rock rapidly from side to side with bits of water coming in. "Avery, stop! What did you do?!" Harry is in such a panic because he can't see what’s happening. He starts to spread his long arms out across the canoe to give him some reassurance that everything is ok.

"Relax Harry, everything is fine. You just scared me and I turned around to quickly, that’s why the canoe is rocking." I can see him slowly exhale the sharp breath he had previously taken in. All of the canoes are lined up so that they are only just floating in front of the bank to this lake.

"Right, now I should probably help you all out. So for all of you people in the back of the canoe, if the person in the front tells you to turn left, you have to paddle on the right. If the person tells you to turn right, then you have to paddle on the left. Basically whichever way the person in the front tells you to turn, just paddle on the opposite side." I hope Harry understood everything Sam just said. "Ok, now off you go."

Just like that Harry started paddling. We're actually doing pretty well. That is until he starts paddling towards the edge of the lake.

"Harry! Paddle right!" I exclaim. He just huffs and starts paddling even more. I notice that we are going more to the left and I don't understand why. "Harry! We need to turn right! We’re going left right now, were going to hit the edge of the lake." I laugh. Very quickly Harry starts paddling on the left to go to the right but its already too late. We hit straight into the edge of the lake, making both of our bodies jerk forward.

"Jesus! What was that? Are you ok?" Harry asks. I just laugh, and then turn around to see Harry frantically spreading his long arms out again to see if everything was ok.

"Harry, were fine." I grab his frantic hands and he immediately stops. I look down at the bottom of the canoe then around me and I can't seem to find the paddle.

"Harry, where's the paddle?" His head shots up to me and he tries to take his blindfold off but he is interrupted by Sam's booming voice.

"HEY! THERES NO TAKING OFF THE BLINDFOLDS!" He yells, Harry turns his head around to where he heard the yelling from.

"I LOST THE PADDLE! I'M TAKING THE BLINDFOLD OFF SO I CAN FIND IT!" He yells back

"THERES NO TAKING THE BLINDFOLD OFF! USE YOUR HANDS TO FIND IT!"

"This is so fucking stupid." I hear him mumble, despite Sam yelling at Harry for him not to take the blindfold off, he takes the blindfold off. He blinks his eyes for a few short seconds to adjust to the new light. He looks up at me and smiles.

"Hey." Is all he says, I can hear in the distance all of the fuss that the other pairs are making. They are all yelling at each other to give the person paddling in the back the right directions. Some of them have already cap sized and loud splashes are also filling the quietness of this deserted lake.

"Hey." I reply back. "So, do you know where the paddle is?"

"Oh, right. Errmm. How the fuck do I lose a paddle?" I can't help but laugh at his statement, both Harry and I start searching for this paddle that somehow disappeared. Then I spot something bobbing in the water that just out of my arms reach.

"Harry, I think that’s the paddle over there." I point towards where I see the paddle. Harry reaches out for the paddle but way to fast, the canoe starts to edge down closer and closer to the water-

"AHHHH" With a loud splash we both fall into the water. I can't see anything down here, so I quickly tilt my head upwards and kick my feet using my arms to push against the water. I come back up to the surface with a sharp intake of breath. I can feel all of my hair sticking to the back of my neck and down my shoulders and even around my face. I turn around and fall straight into the arms of none other than Harry. I nearly lose all my balance to the incredibly sexy, hot man in front of me. His white top is clinging to his body, allowing me to see the perfectly toned abs and tattoos that lay underneath his shirt. His hair is just like mine, very wet and sticking to his face and neck.

I can feel his arms tighten around my waist as he draws me closer to his body, then I feel those same arms make their way down to the backs of my thighs. With one swift movement I’m lifted up so that I'm now eye level with Harry, my legs have this sudden instinct to wrap around his body and so they do just that. He's so close that I can feel his hot breath on my face giving me just the warmth I need from this cold water of the lake. Harry starts to lean into me at such a slow rate. I can't take it so I muster up some courage deep inside me, grab the back of his neck and pull him to me. Making our lips connect with a burning passion. The way his lips feel on mine, it just feels right. I could hear the cheers from the rest of the gang who are further out than we are, I couldn't care less that they can all see us but they keep cheering us on as we continue this little make out session. Harry's lips start to move faster and I'm trying to keep up with him, I catch up to his speed, both of us are moving in sync with the one and other and it’s all just perfect until out no where I can feel piles and piles of water splashing upon us.

"STOP MAKING OUT" Straight away we both pull apart. My legs unwrap from around Harry; I turn to the right to see where the yelling is coming from. You can't see anything from the piles of water being dumped on us.

"FUCKING STOP!" I flinch away at the harshness in Harry’s voice but he reassures me when he pulls me to his chest so my back is facing the direction of the water. After about 2 more seconds the splashing stops, we can finally see who it is that was yelling at us. Sam...Well this is awkward. Harry has his arm wrapped securely around my shoulder. I don't know what to say so I don't look up. Sam hasn't said a word yet, but I can feel his eyes burning into my skull.

"Just find the paddle the right way this time and get back into the canoe." Sam says.

Very quickly I pull away from Harry's hold and try to get back into he canoe. I keep trying but can't get back in.

"Ehhhh why can't I get back in?" I ask myself. I feel like a beached whale right now, flailing my body around. I keep trying but then feel a large hand on my butt; I let out a small yelp as I'm pushed into the canoe. I land in the most awkward way possible. My arms out over the other end of the canoe and my legs dangling off the other edge, the only part of my body that is in the canoe is my middle half. I can hear Harry laughing at my awkward position.

"Thanks." I say. The rest of the activity goes smoothly, Harry and I only capsized about maybe 10 other times. Honestly, it was better than I thought. I didn't even think we would last about a minute in that lake. We all got told to make our ways back to the cabin so we can have a shower and get changed/ready for the next activity.
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*Night time everyone is in the dining area*

I feel absolutely exhausted! I truly don't know how I am going to survive until the end of the week if I'm already this tired now. After all the activities today, I'm still thinking about the kiss in the lake. I actually can't believe that, that happened. I can easily say that so far my kisses with Harry have been the best of my life so far.

"So what do you think Avery?" Rose asks. I have completely zoned out of this conversation, I don't even know what Rose is talking about, I probably look like a fish out of water right now.

"Sorry, what was the question?" Everyone at my table starts to laugh at my oblivion.

"She asked if you know what's up with the camp leaders because they are all gathered around up the front there." Luke says. I hadn't noticed that they were all up the front of the dining area. I look towards the front and can see just what everyone else is seeing, all the camp leaders at the front of the dining area. They are all standing around a table and discussing something.

"They can't make us do more can they? I already feel dead. “If they are actually planning something for us to do, I'm not going to survive the rest of their 'trust' activities. A loud whistle pulls everyone attention to the front of the room, where all the camp leaders are situated.

"Now, I hope that you are all enjoying your time here so far." Hmm that's an understatement. More like exhausted. "So tonight the camp leaders, including myself, have come up with a little activity for you. So if you could all get up and follow us, we are taking you into the bush so we can do this properly." All I would love to do right now is go to comfy bed and sleep but no these camp leaders have to drag us out into the bush at night and get us to do an activity.

Everyone in the dining area gets up and we all walk out following the camp leaders into the bush area. We walk for about five minutes until I can see a tunnel. The camp leaders at the front go through the tunnel; all the other students are very sceptical about this tunnel. We are all hesitant to go through the tunnel but as I get closer I can see a fire burning bright into the night sky, lighting up the whole area. I notice the logs around the fire, so we all take our seats and get ready for what the leaders will say.

"Ok so as I said before, you guys are going to be doing an activity tonight. I just need some volunteers first. So put up your hand if you want to volunteer and Maddie over here will come and pick you." I can see a few hands being raised and Maddie going around the logs getting more people.

"I think we have everyone we need. So your activity tonight is to find your friends over here that have volunteered for this. Us camp leaders are going to take them off into the bush somewhere and you have to work together to, not get caught by us, but also return these volunteers back here where you are sitting right now. You are not allowed to use any form of light, so be careful where you walk and try not to hurt yourself." I just want to go to bed. I'll probably fall over and just sleep on the ground. The camp leaders then disappear back into the tunnel and we all wait for about ten more minutes before one of the camp leaders yell to us saying that we are now ok to try and find the volunteers.

Rose is the first one of us out of the tunnel and she's already off into the bush, not waiting for anyone else. I can see everyone else in front of me also wonder deeper into the bush. I wasn't looking ahead of me, only at the ground to make sure I don't trip or fall over anything. I feel a gush of wind go past me and then I see a pair of boots in front of me. I my eyes travel up the body of this person and I‘m greeted with bright green eyes. He smiles and then takes my hand walking off somewhere.

"Harry what are you doing? The camp leaders are everywhere. You can't do that one off thing you did the other night." I tell him. Hopefully he understands that I'm tired and don't feel like putting up with his shenanigans.

"Who said it’s going to be a one off?" He can't be serious can he?

"Harry, stop." I try to free my hand but against Harry's large hand it’s not use, it’s like once something gets trapped in them it doesn't come out.

"Babe, stop. I know you wanna come with me." The sad thing about that is he's right. I know it’s wrong and I've been warned by Rose, Luke, Jake, James, Cooper, Abbey, Mo and Sean. They've all warned me but I can't stay away. We stomp our way through the bush until Harry once again finds a suitable place and sits down.

"Babe, why don't you lay down? You look like you need sleep." Harry opens his arms for me again and I gladly go into them. His arms constrict around my body holding me tightly to him, the warmth radiating off his body makes me feel like I've got a blanket wrapped around me.

"Go to sleep." He whispers in my ear. Just like that I drift off to sleep again in Harry's protective hold.

Notes

Sorry that I haven't updated in ages!! I've been really busy with school and assignments and my netball season started so I've been busy training. This chapter is longer than the other ones so I hope it was worth the wait:) please don't forget to
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