Camp Closeted novel Chapter 62

"Are you gonna eat that?" Romeo glared at me as I waved my head 'no' for the remains of my waffles. "Your loss." He murmured, rapidly snatching the waffles off my plate.

Ashton sipped out of his 3rd coffee refill as he kept staring at me. "I think I've seen you somewhere before." He coughed as I anxiously looked at him. "You know Cadence?"

I tiredly nodded. "I'm friend's with his boyfriend, Sascha."

"Oh right, you were at the library!" Ashton smirked. "Small world ain't it so?" He half-laughed.

Our attentions quickly turned towards a familiar woman with her usually bright sun dresses. "Hey folks, how's everything doing so far?" She cheered.

"I want more waffles." Romeo grimly croaked.

"Some more coffee, thanks." Ashton smirked.

"Just water, please." I blurted out.

"Alrighty then, y'all sit tight!" She cheered. "I'll be back in a jiffy!" She proceeded to walk away, her bright yellow sundress beautifully flourishing underneath the diner's glittering neon lights.

I glanced out the window to see how Jesse was doing but it was genuinely too dark to even see anything outside. "You're crazy, I'm not gonna let you do it in here!" Ashton anxiously laughed. "Romeo stop." He shuffled as Romeo tried to get something from him.

"Just fucking give it, I'm gonna go outside!" Romeo sharply spoke through his mouth as I was too tired to even have a reaction.

Ashton deeply sighed. "Here." He gave whatever the thing was underneath the table. "Have fun using it without a lighter." Ashton chuckled, Romeo making his head fall back in annoyance.

"You're not funny." Romeo sharply spoke again, his hand rapidly snatching it off of Ashton's. "Get up." He deeply demanded.

Ashton sighed again as he slid up off the booth so Romeo can go outside and smoke. I watched Romeo walk out and leave without looking back, the waffles being brought to our table by the lady.

"Thanks." Ashton nodded at the lady, his blue green eyes then meeting mine. "He isn't here to eat it, so shall we?" He smirked, grabbing his fork.

"M-might as well, I guess." I shrugged, my voice audibly dry.

Both of us began eating from the plate, my eyes glancing at him as we began to speak. "So how do you and Romeo know each other? Because I know he wouldn't just scream at you lads just because he was drunk off his mind back there."

I took a moment to speak. "It's complicated. I-I honestly don't even know why he was so angry at us." I bit. "Thank you, though."

"For what?" He chewed, a strand of black hair perfectly falling onto the side of his face.

"For driving us back, it means a lot." I sniffed.

"Of course mate." Ashton winked. "Cheers." Taking a sip off his coffee.

"Cheers." I quietly let out, sipping out of my water.

Romeo stood against his car, a large cloud of smoke leaving his mouth as Ashton and I walked towards him. "Fuck you Romeo, I had to pay for all of that."

Romeo and Ashton proceeded to smoke as I got back inside the car with Jesse, who was, with no surprise, still asleep.

I waited for Ashton to begin driving again as my surroundings began to smell like weed and I genuinely just wanted to go home. I glanced down at my phone to read the time, 5:08 a.m it read.

"You're 19 mate, you don't have to go back to your dad tomorrow if he's that much of a twat." Ashton began, clouds coming out of his mouth. "Why don't you just act straight for a day yea, grab all your shit, then drive off and never look back."

"It's not that easy." Romeo's voice was hoarse and low. "Where the fuck would I go? You already know I don't have family."

"You can come settle at my place until you get your own?" Ashton asked.

Romeo snorted, snatching the blunt from Ashton to hit it again. "Yea, let me just magically get money out of nowhere, and then just fly 5,000 fucking miles to live in your 1 bedroom apartment." Romeo's audibly sarcastic tone didn't fail to make Ashton chuckle. "Sounds about right."

"I'm just trying to help mate." Ashton continued his faint chuckle, patting Romeo's shoulder before heading back inside the car to begin driving again.

"I'm driving." Romeo blurted out as he cut in front of Ashton to drive.

Ashton and Romeo both held onto the car door as I didn't quite know what to do other than remain quiet. "Are you mad? You're drunk and about to be very high, let me drive."

Romeo just ignored him, forcefully shoving him away as he got in the car to start the engine. "The hell you looking at?" He glanced out the car window to see Ashton's anxious facial expression. "Get in before I leave you." Romeo faintly chuckled.

Ashton surrendered his hands into the air. "You better drive well, I very much love my life right now."

"Yea, yea." Romeo waved off. "Just get in the car, faggot."

"It takes one to know one!" Ashton quickly ran to the passenger seat as Romeo tried to hold in his smile.

I tiredly laid my head back against the car seat as everyone finally got back inside the car.

All of a sudden, Romeo turned on the music in full volume. It made everyone in the car flinch in shock as to how loud it was. "Let's fucking go bitches!" Romeo hoarsely exclaimed as he started to drive, Jesse beginning to wake up beside me.

"That's so loud." Jesse's hand went over his face as he leaned his head against my shoulder, stretching.

"Sex, by The 1975." I whispered to myself as I saw the title on the small screen, Romeo rocking his head to the song. "Hm." I genuinely was so confused as to how Romeo managed to be so energetic right now.

The song continued to play as Ashton seemed to know it also, proceeding to childishly sing it with Romeo.

Rapidly, it's like time was cut in half as everything seemed to stop around me, my eyes stabbing back into Romeo's bright hazel ones on the rear view mirror. "And I'm not trying to stop you, love." He looked away as he continued to sing to the song. "If we're gonna do anything we might as well just fuck! She's got a boyfriend anyway!" He sang.

"These people have the lamest taste in music." Jesse spoke into my neck so I could hear.

For some reason, watching Ashton and Romeo look absolutely euphoric couldn't help but make me smirk. Their uniquely colored eyes tinted red, their tongues going over their drying mouths, their sleek hair fluffing up and down as they rocked it.

"I think the music is fine." I whispered back to Jesse, knowing for a fact that this extremely loud song didn't fail to echo through the deep forests that surrounded us.

"I don't wanna drop them off yet." Romeo yelled out towards Ashton.

Ashton clucked his mouth as he rolled his eyes. "The other guy is already asleep mate we have to."

Romeo tried to hold in a chuckle as he glanced at me through the rear view mirror. "I'm driving, I make the choices here." He winked, my cheeks burning red.

After a while of driving down the same road Romeo all of sudden brought the car down a questionable decline causing some branches to fall past against the car's windows.

I didn't know how to react because I was genuinely caught off guard. "Mate your not telling me-" Ashton worriedly looked back at us and then remained silent.

Romeo sloppily brought the car into another road which made the car aggressively trudge against the ground, throwing Jesse to the side ultimately waking him up.

"Ow." Jesse huskily let out, his voice slightly cracking as his hand rubbed his face.

"Ro-" My voice was too low and was overpowered by the music. "Romeo where are we going!?" I raised, my eyes shifting around to examine the area we were going but I genuinely had no clue.

The road became a lot less more of a road and became almost like a paved dirt, branches hanging down almost against the car making it hard to decipher absolutely anything.

"To hell!" Romeo let out without cracking a single smile or even bother looking at us. His face changed as he seemed to be somewhat serious now so he can drive better.

His sharp jaw chiseled as his brows furrowed down to his light almond eyes that were glued at the road.

Jesse's sleepy eyes looked at me as his lips went against my ear. "Where are we?"

Slightly sensitive to him being so close against my ear I immediately moved away and made eye contact with him. "I have no idea."

The car roughly stopped out of nowhere making me slightly choke. When it did it was at a view. Anymore step to the pedal we all would have been thrown off the cliff.

"Woo!" Ashton screamed out. "That was a close one, I really don't know what the hell I was thinking trusting you to drive." He anxiously laughed.

Romeo opened the windows as he quickly hopped out the car. "Spark the fuck up." He let out making Ashton sigh.

Ashton pulled out a blunt as I watched Jesse look absolutely confused, both of us stuck at the back seat.

"You know, I'm gonna miss this place." Ashton pursed his lips as he sighed, taking a hit. "It's a nice alternative from the gloomy weather back at home."

Romeo rapidly grabbed the blunt and inhaled. "Anywhere else than home is a nice alternative." He let out almost emphasizing his words.

"It smells so bad when are we gonna go home?" Jesse blurted out, his eyes wider now.

"You're more than willing to walk from here if you can't wait." Romeo threw us a devilish smile. "How far are we again from the camps ash?" He inhaled again, his eyes staying on mine instead of Jesse's.

"Probably still a couple miles." Ashton let out, burying his hands down his pocket.

Jesse quietly groaned as he just laid his head back. "How are you quiet about all of this, don't you wanna get home?"

I was careful to speak as his head rested against my shoulder once more. "What other choice do we have Jesse." My eye's not breaking off of Romeo's gaze. "There's nothing else we can do."

"Mhmyour right." Jesse yawned as his head fell back, laying down to the other side of the car away from me.

"You good mate?" Ashton queried suggesting me to take a hit.

"Yea I'm good." I nodded.

"Come out of there." Romeo declared with a huge smile catching me off guard. It was almost dazzling that it made me want to smile too. "Unless your lame as fuck like your boyfriend." He let out, cutting me out of my momentary thoughts.

I stayed quiet as my eyes broke from his intoxicating smile, Ashton beating me to opening the door. "Thanks." I lightly let out.

Romeo lightly jogged to the car as I got out, his hand pulling out a steel knife. "Now to celebrate this whatever the fuck occasion. Ashton what did we say we were gonna do?" He smiled.

Ashton threw down the blunt and put it out with his feet. "If you throw it at me I will personally have to punch you." He laughed loudly, running his hand through his dark hair.

I was beyond confused but I was hoping it would all make sense in a second.

Romeo walked up to a tree and started scratching like some crazy person, my mouth slightly widening as Ashton just gleamed at me.

"Im so fucking high mate." Ashton laughed towards me as Romeo threw his shirt off.

"What are you guys-" My voice cracked as I quickly coughed. "What are you doing Romeo?"

"Preparing a sigil so we can start the blood sacrifice and offer you and your boyfriend to our Lord Baphomet fuck Micah you are so lame, stop questioning everything and come over here." Romeo turned back to pass me the knife. "Etch your initial." His eyes looked at me different than he normally would.

It didn't feel cold. It felt far from it. His eyes were so warm I just knew it was probably able to compete with the sun.

"Mine is already etched." Ashton smiled widely, his eyes squinted at me. "Romeo told me that he wanted to do it with you."

My breathing began to quicken as I walked closer to him, taking the knife and glancing at all the other initials on the huge tree. "Who are all the other people?"

"Close friends of Ashton." Romeo let out deeply, his body not even bothering to give me space to etch my intial.

"Close friends as in my band mates and Romeo." Ashton chuckled, my eyes glancing at the L that probably stood for Logan. "Romeo knows that any friend of his is mine so now we're here."

I don't know how Logan would feel about my initials being added onto this tree but so be it.

Etching my name was hard at first and caused a couple of teasing laughs to emit behind me. "Here." Romeo simpered as his hand went over mine, making my grip a lot more sturdier.

This is so embarrassing that throwing myself off of the cliff behind us doesn't sound so bad right now.

Romeo smelled like weed, sweat, cologne, and caramel and it all couldn't help enter my senses as he so insisted in helping me.

After a couple more strokes it was done and I loved it.

"M. V" Romeo examined. "You have a V as a last name? What is it?"

"Vallenti." I let out, tilting my head at the initials to see it as a whole with all the others.

I couldn't even hide my smile as I stared at it.