Amelia, getting up from the ground, decided to go back, when she had had enough.
"Hey", Nick said, "you can't miss the best part", he said looking back at the sunset, as he got off his spot next.
"I really wish to go back", she said.
"It will last just a few more seconds", he said.
"My friends, they'll be waiting for me", she said.
"Sure?", he asked and she nodded.
"I think this is too much", Shawn said removing his shoulder from underneath Bella's head.
He stood up from his spot, and looked around.
Bella was quick on her foot, as she stood right next to him.
"You know, people say friends turn into the best of lovers", she said.
"Yah right", Shawn smiled sarcastically at her, more of annoyed from her.
"You don't believe me", she stated.
Placing her hands on his shoulders, she moved him to turn around, "You see that, that is called true love", she stated, as she looked at a distance.
Looking in the same direction, Shawn saw, Amelia and Nick, as the two were standing close to each other, talking. Remembering the kiss they shared, he turned his gaze from them, shrugged Bella's hand from his shoulders. And left.
Coming back, she sat on the wood log, next to Tyler. He handed a stick with marsh- mellow to her. Placing it on the fire, she tried to take her mind off. But nothing seemed to distract her.
"These are delicious", Marco said as he ate one.
"Let me get that for you", Marco said.
"It's fine, really", This was Amelia.
"Do you mind if I join you?", Nick said.
"Don't you have anything else to do?", Tyler said.
"What?", Nick asked.
"You should be.............", he said getting up looking at Nick now.
"Ty?", Amelia said as she stood between the two.
"Amy, don't defend him", he said.
"What is this about?", she asked.
"Ask him", Tyler said snorting, "he was the one kissing you last night", he said.
"What?", Amelia asked.
"Dude, calm down, she was into it", he said.
Amelia looked at him, as she tried to remember.
"Yah she was so into it, while she was unconscious", Tyler aborted again.
Jack got off his seat now, while Marco stood with Tyler.
"Guys calm down, everyone's looking", Jack said trying to calm the three of them.
"You should leave", Marco said, looking around.
Nick turned back on his foot, after looking around and went inside his tent.
"I was unconscious, why don't I remember anything, wait a minute, I kissed him?", Amelia asked.
"She kissed him?", Marco asked.
"What? Kiss? Seriously Amy? Him?", Jack said.
The three of them looked at Tyler, wanting him to answer.
"Ahh, shut up each one of you", he said.
"Ty, answers", Amelia demanded.
"Fine, yes you kissed him, but you actually didn't because you were drunk, like spiked drunk", he said.
"Who spiked her drink?", Jack asked.
"As if I know", Tyler said.
Marco who was listening to them talk, looked at Amelia now.
"Shit, I kissed him", Amelia said, as realisation struck her.
"You didn't, it looked like you did, but you were not yourself, besides you were unconscious for God's sake", he said.
Bella came from a distance as she sat right next to them.
"What's going on?", she asked.
"Nothing", Tyler was quick to answer. He eyes Jack to say quiet in front of her.
Marco was lost in his thoughts to notice his own twin had arrived.
"Amy, we will be sleeping in the same tent, exciting right?", she said.
"Very", she said still keeping her eyes to the ground.
She avoided seeing Nick or Shawn after that till dinner. Keeping her eyes glued to the ground, she didn't dare look up to avoid any eye contact with Shawn.
Before they would go inside their tents, the staff called ever camper to gather near the bonfire, and as they did, they were asked to sit down on the wooden logs, again.
"It is time for some truth and dare now", the guy said, spinning that bottle, on the wooden log next to the bonfire.
The top end of the bottle stopped at Jack. He answered truth, and the guy has to tell about his most embarrassing moment in life. The poor soul couldn't ever lie, as his friends wouldn't have let him do that.
The bottle spun for the 6th time, with its one end stopping at Amelia.
"Truth or dare", the host asked.
"Truth"
"Your first love?"
She looked at Shawn before looking to the ground. It happened in an instant, and no one could have noticed the tension in the air for her.
"Can still choose dare?", she pleaded to the host.
"You can't, but since it was about love, we", he paused looking at the audience, and then said" won't mind",
He offered the chit bowl to her, to pick the dare.
She read the words, and looked at the bottle.
"What is it dare?", the host asked.
"I.........uhhhh..... have to kiss", she said.
The host took the chit from her hand and completed for her, "the one on the other end of the bottle"
Looking in the direction the bottle pointed, everyone was looking at Shawn.
He stood from his spot, not breaking an eye contact with Amelia, walked towards her.
"Are you sure?", Shawn asked Amelia.
She nodded.
The two of them, closed the distance between them, looking into each other's eyes.
Shawn placed a hand lightly under her ear, on her left cheek, raising her head to meet his.
He initiated the kiss, touching his soft lips with hers. As soon as their lips touched, both of them felt something ride inside them. An unexplained feeling. Like a tornado ready to sweep them off their feet. With the first low light kiss, more like a peck, the two raised their eyes to meet each other's, and looked back at the lips. Contemplating on the thought, of kissing again, Shawn looked in her eyes. Her eyes was fixed on his lips. And before he knew it, she crashed her lips on top of his, kissing him. Shocked to her sudden pull, he had loosened the grip of his hand on her cheek. And before he knew it, she broke the kiss, looking into his eyes, she stepped back with tears forming in her eyes.
Not sure if it was regret that Shawn saw in her eyes, or hurt, he knew he had felt, the same feeling he felt the first time he had seen her watching the sunset, with open arms, taking in long deep breaths.
"I need water", Amelia said excusing herself from the troop, going to her tent.
Shawn looked at her, as she walked away.
Tyler knocked him, on his arm.
Looking at him, Shawn knew what he wanted him to do.
Being quick on his feet, he stopped Amelia in her tracks, far enough from the bonfire to avoid anyone else from listening to them.
"Lia", he said as he stepped in front of her, turning around.
"What?", she said, hiding her tears.
"You felt it, didn't you", he asked.
"Felt? What?", she chucked.
He looked in her eyes, only to find hurt.
"You are hurt?", he stated which sounded more like a question.
"Hurt. Please, why would I be hurt?", she said, as she tied moving past him.
"Listen Lia, the kiss, it was so much more", he said.
"Seriously, Shawn, get over it, it was just a kiss, nothing else. Besides why is it a big deal for you, huh? Isn't it too usual for you?", she said with a hurtful smirk on her face.
"Usual for me? What is that even supposed to mean?", he asked.
"Yah sure", she said, trying to move past him for the second time.
"Oh right, you are with someone else now, I get it", he said referring Nick.
"It is about me now, wow, Shawn. How do you do this?", she snapped.
"When was it about me huh? What did I do?", he asked.
She rolled her eyes, "Nothing, you did absolutely nothing. I was the dumb one, thinking you are different", she said.
"Lia, listen calm down", he said trying to get his calm.
"They were right about you, my doubts................right about you, you were a fucking Casanova", she said as she placed a finger on his chest right on his heart.
"Doubts? You doubted me?", he asked.
"See? I was right, wasn't I ?", she asked with hatred in her voice now.
"I can't believe you, your the one who is with Nick, and you say this to me. At least I was ready to explain things to you, but you didn't give me a chance".
"Forget it, talking to you is useless, besides, I'm sorry for wasting your time, you couldn't get what you wanted", she said, finally moving past him, zipping the tent, after getting inside it.
Shawn stood rooted to his spot, thinking of everything she had said to him, registering all of it, word to word. Clenching his fists, he tried to calm himself down.
"I told you, I might steal you woman", he heard Nick, as he stepped closer to him.
No able to hold it back now,he punched Nick right on his nose, remembering the way he kissed her the previous night. Timing, you say?
"Guys stop it", Tyler said as he rushed towards them.
"Nick step back", Jack warned him.
Nick held his hand on the spot he was hit on, as he looked at Shawn in absolute rage, before looking at the two guys supporting Shawn, and turning around you leave.
"What did he do?", Tyler asked.
"Nothing", Shawn sounded hopeless now, as he went inside his tent.
Jack looked at Tyler, and the two of them moved towards their tent as well.
One night.
And two broken hearts.
Why is love so confusing, you ask?