Camp Closeted novel Chapter 56

"I'm not going." I blurted out, making Benny widen his eyes at me.

"Micah come on! I promise this bonfire is going to be hella different!" Benny loudly whined as Keanu and Jesse just continued eating with amused smiles. "Just come!"

"How is this gonna be different? Aren't all bonfires meant for people to just get drunk and faded?" I asked.

Benny clicked his mouth, waving his hands to quiet me down. "No, not even! The ones hosted by Camp Brazen and Camp Closeted are all like that but this one is different. This one is being hosted by Camp Serenity, meaning roasting marshmallows, drinking normal drinks, actually sitting and watching the bonfire. It's gonna be so fun, I promise." He threw me a reassuring smile.

I took a second to respond. "You promise?" I raised an eyebrow at him.

"Yes bitch, I promise!" He nodded, proceeding to eat his pancake.

I figured since this would be the last bonfire I'd celebrate with Benny, I thought why not. Finding out that I'm not staying here for the full 3 months also made me realize that I must responsibly live the present as much as I can.

In all honesty, I never want to leave this place. I thought my experience was going to be awful but my mom was right, it wasn't. Surely I had some bad experiences here and there but I still managed to live through it.

"How y'all doing folks?" The woman with the usually printed dresses came. Everyone quickly replied how good the food tasted as she looked at me with a large polite smile. "Hey sugar, where's your handsome friend of yours with those honey brown curls?" She asked curiously, leaning against my booth as she fluffed up her 60s hair.

All eyes rapidly landed on me, Jesse's blue ones piercing at me more than anyone else's. "H-he's really not my friend." I looked down.

She quickly got back up, anxiety painted on her face now. "Oh sugar I'm sorry, I don't mean to crack the barrel of your business now." She worriedly spoke.

"It's fine." I threw her a small smile. "It's not that big of a deal."

After Jesse watched her walk away, he immediately looked at me and talked. "Was she talking about that Romeo guy?"

"Y-yea." I stuttered, quickly breathing as I felt his skin rub against mine. "He took me here when I was really drunk from the party. We just ate together, nothing else."

"Hm." Jesse breathed out, making me catch his blank facial expression all of a sudden cracking. "If he's down we should have a threesome." Benny rapidly spit out his drink as Keanu just laughed.

"Jesse!" I exclaimed, wincing at him. "What the fuck is wrong with you."

"What?" He deeply half-laughed, his blue eyes still looking at me as his face slowly moved towards mine. "It's a joke."

"A gross one." I shyly replied, feeling him slowly snake an arm around me, making me gently hit his shoulder.

"Ow! Okay, I'm sorry." He devilishly smirked, quickly meeting a kiss on my cheek, then softly brushing his lips against my ear. "You know I'll never share you." He deeply let let out.

I remained quiet with reddened cheeks as I just crossed my arms, Jesse now nibbling against my ear and down to the side of my neck. "Jesse stop." I tried to sound angry but I just failed miserably.

Jesse slowly moved away from me with dilated pupils, his pale cheeks a lot more reddened now as Benny threw us a dirty look. "Y'all are so weird." He said, making all of us laugh out loud.

Random conversations broke out between everyone except for me since I was so focused on my food. The second I looked around sighing, I immediately just closed my eyes. "Fuck." I anxiously cursed.

I looked down as I tried to hide my face, the sight of Romeo walking in with a group of friends making me choke up.

He was wearing a slim fitted shirt that defined his subtly muscular tan arms and had his hands buried deep into the pockets of his grey sweatpants.

What caught my eye the most though was his silver cross necklace around his neck, making my eyes carefully observe his face and down to his collar bone.

Surprisingly enough, Jesse didn't notice Romeo's arrival as he just remained disappeared in a conversation with Keanu and Benny.

He was with a group of 4 other guys that I've never seen before, my view of them being cut off by a waiter quickly walking to their table. "Excuse me guys." I breathed out almost inaudible, getting up off the booth to go to the restroom as my body felt intense heat for some reason.

What the fuck is going on with me?

I felt scared, anxious, and every single emotion that didn't make me feel good but made me feel good. Confusing, I know. What if he sees me? Would he make a scene? Last time we saw each other was me swinging my hand against his face and running away.

I watched water drip down from my soaked face as I abnormally breathed. Water dripped down from the arches of my dark brown brows, down to my pinkish tinted cheeks, then down to my flushed cherry lips.

Thoughts just kept racing through my mind as I grabbed some paper towels and began to pat myself dry. I felt like I was about to pass out and my nose could just spastically bleed out of nowhere.

The second my vision came back from putting the paper towels down from my now dried face, I immediately tensed away from the mirror. "R-Romeo?" I let out, almost sounding like I couldn't believe what I seeing.

He was leaning against the wall, his bright hazel eyes watching me with a dangerous gaze. "That boy with the black hair and blue eyes, is he your boyfriend now?" Hearing him speak almost made my heart skip a beat.

I anxiously nodded as I watched him get up off the wall and walk towards the sink beside me. "Yea." My eyes seemed to widen as Romeo finally stood beside me now.

I really don't know whether I should stay or immediately run as seeing him scared me so much. I forgot how tall and incredibly masculine he is to the point where it was incredibly intimidating to me.

My eyes glanced at Romeo's shimmering earring as I slowly moved away from him, my eyes trailing down his chiseled arm out of fear he could hurt me at any given time.

"He's a douchebag." He blurted out, washing his hands as he looked at himself in the mirror.