(41): Almost... Again!

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So... wanna tell me what happened yesterday?" Nathan asks curiously walking next to me.

I don't really know where we're going. After breakfast, Nick just told all of us to get dressed and ready because he wanted to show us something and now we're just following him. He's walking with Kyle, Kat is walking with Winnie leaving Nathan and I at the back.

How am I always at the back?

"What are you talking about?" I ask "A lot of things happened yesterday"

He gives me a look as if hoping I'll catch on before sighing "You and Kyle? You know, when I walked in on you guys?"

"Ohh" I drag saying nothing else.

"Speak" He demands impatiently.

I shrug thoughtfully "Uh well, I don't really know. I think we were about to kiss"

"Obviously" He deadpans "I saw it for myself but why exactly? Did you two finally confess your feelings?"

"No" I screech "We just spoke"

"Spoke?" He furrows his eyebrows confused "How does speaking lead to you guys almost kissing?"

"We spoke about something important"

He hums "Interesting. So when do you plan on telling the guy?"

"Never" I reply "He doesn't even like me"

"How do you know?"

I frown "Yesterday he called me his friend. He friendzoned me, that obviously means he doesn't like me"

"No it doesn't" He says. "He probably think you don't like him"

"Well, I do" I whine pouting.

"He doesn't know that. He could"

"Have you guys had this conversation?" I ask him curiously "Like, have you asked him about me?"

He nods "Sure"

"What'd he say?" I press impatiently.

"I can't tell you that, little player. How would you feel if I told him the things you tell me?"

"Come on" I urge desperately "Just give me hint"

He grins "I'll give the same one I always give you: you have nothing to worry about"

"I don't even know what that means" I groan.

"You'll know soon enough" He assures to which I just scowl.

"You suck"

He snorts "You'll thank me later"

"Anyways did Kathrine tell you why she doesn't approve of mine and Kyle's friendship?" I ask him curiously.

He shrugs "I just think she seriously doesn't like him"

"She didn't say anything when I told her that I liked him" I counter thoughtfully "Why does she suddenly have a problem now?"

"You never know with her, huh?"

I nod "Tell me about it. I'll just have to ask her myself."

We reach the others as they were waiting for us. They are waiting outside some huge building which I've noticed before but never really bothered asking about it.

"Nice of you guys to finally join us" Nick says to which I just roll my eyes "Anyways welcome to the... ice skating rink"

I grin happily "Yay! I love ice skating"

"Finally something you like" Kyle snorts.

"Yeah. Try not to fall on your butt" Nathan teases causing the others to laugh and me to scowl.

"Wait but do we seriously have to skate? I don't think I want to" Kyle mutter awkwardly.

"Yes you do" I smirk "You guys forced me to skii even though I didn't want to. Right guys?"

They all nod "Yep"

Him and Kat just scowl. At least they have something in common. Funny.

Nick opens the double doors and we walk for a while before we are greeted by the huge square rink. It's really big and... icy. It is surrounded by seats, almost like a stadium. I can't help but grin in awe. There are some people skating and some just watching. Luckily it's not a lot.

We follow Nicholas to where we get our skating shoes before telling the person all our sizes and he hands them to us.

"Woah Winnie, you have really tiny feet" Kat laughs watching her put on her shoes.

"Leave me alone" Winnie grumbles.

I just laugh fiddling with mine "I mean she is the shortest and the youngest so we shouldn't be surprised"

"Shes like a tiny little purple squirrel" Nathan coos and we all laugh, except Winnie off course.

After a few more minutes of banter, we all finally have our blade shoes on before walking to the rink and entering.

I'm so excited.

"Okay you guys, I really suck at this" Kat warns, her hand against the 'fence' of the rink as she skates slowly.

"I'm here for you babe" Nathan jokes.

"Whatever suckers" Nick screams as he skates away into the middle of the rink. He does so gracefully, Winnie also joins him but goes to the other side. They're still on their 'keeping our distance' thing.

I decide to skate around Kat to make sure that she's comfortable.

"I don't like this shit" She grumbles.

"Same" Kyle says next to me. He's also standing with us and just moving his feet slowly so he doesn't fall.

I laugh amused because he seriously doesn't look to be enjoying himself, it also looks like he's not very good at this. I think he'd fall if he was in the middle and too far from the fence thing. Now he knows how I felt at the skiing thing.

Karma's a bitch.

"Yeah cool so you two can hang here together then?" Nathan suggests mischievously "Chels and I wanna get skating"

I grin, liking where this is going "Yep"

"Don't leave me with him" Kat grits to Nathan and I but we just laugh before leaving them alone.

"Nice thinking" I tell Nathan as I skate in circles and he high fives me doing the same.

"Are you guys sure it's a good idea leaving those two alone?" Winnie laughs skating along with us.

I just snicker "It's time Kat got a taste of her own medicine"

She would always force Nathan and I to speak.

"Hopefully she won't be mad cause I don't want a case of the blue balls" Nathan mutters, I think he's thinking out loud. He then skates away.

"Gross" I scream since he's a bit away from me.

I look to where the two enemies are to see that they're not even speaking. Kat is just scowling with her hands still on the fence as she skates slowly around it. Kyle is still just moving around next to her, quiet.

I can't help but laugh as I skate in circles, enjoying the adrenaline. I let my hair down so it's blowing away since I'm kind of going fast. I remember I've always loved ice skating. It's just so fun and make me feel... free.

"You're really good at that, little Chels"

I smile at Nick as he joins me and I slow down my speed "So are you, Nicky"

"Where'd you learn?" He asks.

I shrug twirling "Its a talent of mine"

He smirks entertained "I like this little talent of yours. Do you think we should become figure skaters?"

"Not a bad idea" I snort playing along.

He skates around me "Imagine how good we'd be. Kyle would probably be jealous though"

"He wouldn't" I roll my eyes.

"He keeps glancing at you" He says since he's view is right to where we left them "Maybe you should go chill with him"

I also look back to see the two of them actually speaking; their lips are moving, unless they're singing off course "I wanna give them a few more minutes to suffer"

Nick laughs "It is funny"

"Tell me about it" I snort "Anyways... are you okay now? With everything?"

He smile softly "Yep. Sorry again for everything. I realize that I really put all of you guys in an unfavorable position. Anyways I very much am okay now. I think the distance thing is exactly what Winnie and I need"

"Good" I move to hug him and we both almost fall before laughing "Okay maybe hugging while skating doesn't work"

He laughs "At least we know now"

I look to Kat and Kyle to see that Nathan has now joined them and is holding his girlfriends hand, looking to convince her to let go of the fence.

"Yep, I think I'll go there now" I tell Nick pointing at the sight.

He shrugs before skating away again.

I also skate my way to them.

"I'm back" I announce.

Nathan looks at me "Please tell your friend to let go of this stupid thing and trust me"

"What he said" I say looking to Kat.

She sighs "I'm scared! What if I fall?"

"You won't. He's going to hold you, right Nathan?" I assure.

"I will" Nathan says.

Kat sighs one more time before letting go of the fence as she hands both of her hands to her boyfriend before he skates with her. I just laugh watching them.

"Do you also need help?" I turn to Kyle amused.

"I don't like this shit" He grumbles annoyed.

"Oh come on, it's fun" I tease.

He narrows his eyes at me "No it's not. Can I just fucking get off and watch you guys?"

"Mm no" I deadpan "Come on, give me your hand. I'll teach you how to balance. That's your main problem right?"

He's not really struggling with the skating part.

He shrugs "I guess"

I stick my hands out and he groans loudly before giving in and taking them. I wish we weren't wearing gloves though "Okay just follow my lead"

I tell him to look at my feet and what I'm doing. I skate slowly for him so he can see carefully. I give him tips to lean to the side that he's skating on so it's easier. Also he should use his arms to gain leverage. He struggles at first but eventually gets the hang of it. He's a fast learner.

"Have you always hated skating?" I ask as we skate together. We're still absentmindedly holding hands and I can't bring myself to care.

"Yeah" He tells me "I think I've only ever done it once. This rink is new. It wasn't here last year"

"Mmm interesting" I murmur.

Suddenly, some music starts playing and disco lights start flashing causing me to smile in awe and fascination as Kyle and I skate at a much quicker pace since the music is fast. Did I mention that's he's kind of good at this?

I don't think he's bad at anything.

"You're a really quick leaner, Chambers"

He grins, his hold tighter. I don't think he notices "Cause you're a good teacher"

"Thanks" I blush sheepishly.

"Chels! Look at me!" Kat screams grinning as she skates in front of me. I smile at her. I'm so proud! She's skating all by herself without Nathan holding her.

"Go Kat!" I cheer enthusiastically.

"Everyone! Look at me!" She screams happily and some of the stranger do look as they laugh and applaud her.

Oh Kathrine.

"Did you two speak?" I ask him.

He shrugs "Kind of. Why did you and Nathan do that?"

"It was funny" I excuse laughing.

"Don't you two look cozy?" Winnie grins as she skates happily around us.

Kyle and I simultaneously drop each other's hand when she says this. I'd actually even forgotten I was still holding it.

"Winona" Kyle notes.

She grins widely "Hey, Kylie. I see you can finally skate now"

"Thanks to me" I chime enthusiastically.

"A lot of things that have to with him are thanks to you, Chels" She winks before skating away from us.

What does that mean?

Kyle and I just continue to skate, with the others taking turns to come and join us before skating away again.

Some of their comment include "you two are so cute" or "cozy, much?" or "just friends, you say?" or "you guys are literally attached my the hip" or "will you two just date already?". The last one was obviously Nicholas.

Yep. They sure do know how to make one feel uncomfortable. Kyle and I would just roll our eyes each time and ignore them.

Anyways now all six of us are together in the middle of the rink and attempting to all hold hands so we can skate in a circle.

"I don't think this will work" I protest.

"Hush, negative Nancy" Kathrine deadpans shooting me a look.

I'm holding Kyle's hand on my right and Nicks on my left. I don't know how many times I've almost fallen because I seriously need at least one hand free to maintain my balance.

Finally, after much arguing and protesting, we're all holding hands and form a huge circle as we skate around happily.

"This is actually fun" I grin.

"Oh yeah!"

I'm not really sure who that is.

Roxanne, Roxanne

All she wanna do is party all night

Goddamn Roxanne

Never gonna love me but it's alright

We all start to sing along to 'Roxanne', except Kyle because he probably doesn't know the song. He smiles though as he looks at all of our grin covered faces.

I really love these people.

After a while we let go of each other's hands because we're all basically falling and go back to skating individually.

I'm still skating with Kyle and the other four are at the other side of the rink. They did that on purpose. They keep watching us and when I look that way they act like they weren't.

Idiots.

"Let me guess, you didn't know that song?" I ask Kyle amused.

"I've heard it on the radio" He shrugs.

I laugh "It's nice though, right?"

"I guess" He replies.

I've been looking at him for so long that I don't concentrate on where I'm skating...

"Watch out!"

It's too late because I crash on the fence causing me fall rapidly on my butt. I look up to see Kyle laughing at me so loudly, even crouching dramatically.

"It's not funny" I whine, still on the cold ground.

"Oh god" He wheezes looking at me.

I scowl before sticking out my hand "Will you stop laughing and help me up?"

He sobers up but I can see that he still wants to laugh as he takes my hand. I decide then to take my revenge as I roughly pull him down before he can comprehend causing him to also fall, basically on top of me to which I laugh loudly.

"Got you!" I grin, his face right in front of mine.

He also grins shaking his head but makes no moves to get away from me. We're that close that I can feel his warm breath on my face and see his stubble again and the green in his eyes. My heart starts to beat loudly and my head spins as I glance between his darkened eyes and pink lips longingly.

His hand moves up to my face as he pushes a few strands of my hair back and then trails his hand down to my lips where he softly touches them, his eyes only on me. I think right there and then I forget how to breathe again. It's only with him that I feel like this.

"Kyle..." I utter desperately above a whisper.

I really want to kiss him.

He starts to move his head closer to mine and I do the same, immediately closing my eyes. His hand is now against my cheek and stroking it. I ignore everything else in the background. I ignore the fact that our friends and a couple more people may be watching us. I ignore the fact that I'm freezing on this floor. It feels like we're the only people in this world, and his lips on mine is the only oxygen I will ever need.

I want him... so so much.

Once again: his lips almost touch mine. Almost.

"Hey! You kids can't just sit here. Get up!"

My eyes snap open and I move away from Kyle quickly, my head banging against the fence.

"Ouch" I murmur lowly rubbing it.

We look in front of us to see an unfamiliar man looking down at us scowling. He is wearing a jacket that says 'Gill Resort' so I'm guessing he works here.

"What are you waiting for? Get on up"

Kyle sighs before doing just that. He then gives me his hand and I nervously take it as he helps me up.

"Thank you" The man says sarcastically before skating away.

Oh gosh. Will we ever kiss?!

"We should probably go to the others" I murmur and he nods softly.

We skate there in silence.

"How nice of you two to join us" Nick smirks looking at us, the others are smirking too. Yep they definitely all saw that.

"I'm hungry. Can we go?" Kyle says.

"Yeah me too" Winnie chirps still with that annoying smirk.

"Let's go to the restaurant" Nick says.

My mind can't stop thinking about what just happens. Kyle and I almost kissed... AGAIN! What does that mean? Does he also like me? Or maybe he just wants to kiss me. Is there such? Why do I feel like this?

Ugh! I just want to stop thinking.

***

"It's your birthday tomorrow. Are you excited?" I shout over the loud music as I dance with Winnie.

She grins "Hell yeah! I'm finally 18"

"Sucks being a December baby, huh? You have to wait so long until your birthday" I snort, taking a sip of my cocktail.

She feigns a frown "You have no idea"

After the ice skating, we all went to the restaurant to eat. I won't lie, I felt very awkward. The others kept looking at me weird and Kyle wasn't speaking to me. Luckily they respected our privacy enough to not bring it up but did not hesitate in throwing subliminals. We then went back to the cabin to chill for a while before deciding we wanted to go to the bar. We want our last full day to end on a high note; literally and figuratively.

It's Winnie's birthday tomorrow so we're also celebrating her since we're gonna be on the road half of the time. Which means we're all drinking and smoking and dancing and doing things that teenagers do when they celebrate.

It's so fun.

I think I've had about four cocktails so I'm definitely half-drunk. The other are all at the table that we booked the last time, drinking amongst themselves.

Kat and Nathan are very much fully drunk. They've been making out half of the time like a bunch of horn-dogs. Kyle didn't really drink. I've noticed he doesn't like alcohol, he's just high and laughing at weird things. Nick is drunk and high, same with Winnie.

"Let's go to the others" Winnie says and I nod as I follow her to our table.

"The squirrel and the player are back" Nathan slurs slightly with his girlfriend on his lap.

"You need to stop calling me a squirrel" Winnie warns pointing a finger at him as she sits down next to Nicholas.

I sit down on the other side next to Kyle. I'm not in my right minds so I'm definitely hoping I won't do anything weird tonight. Like telling Kyle how I feel about him.

"I think we all need to take shots for Winnie" Nick announces.

"Shots! Shots! Shots!" The others, excluding a suddenly quiet Kyle chant enthusiastically.

Nick calls the bartender and asks him to bring us a bottle of Skyy Vodka. I seriously don't like it. It tastes gross and it makes me very drunk.

"We know you two don't like drinking" Nathan says gesturing between Kyle and I "But you'll have to suck it up for Winnie. Are we clear?"

"Whatever" I say.

"Sure" Kyle agrees.

There are six tiny glasses and Nick pours a glass full in each before handing them to us. We all click our glasses with a 'cheers' before gulping it down.

"Gross" I scream, my face scrunching up.

The others laugh at me, including Kyle as he squeezes my knee under the table.

Interesting.

I think we all go for four more glasses until I'm convinced that I'm very much drunk. Kyle is also drunk at this point because he's laughing and speaking a lot.

We then all get up to go to the dance floor.

At first I'm dancing with all the girls until they both disappear and then I'm dancing alone. I'm too drunk to care so I carry on.

This is

The part where I say I don't wanna

I'm stronger than I've been before

This is

The part where I break free

Cause I can't resist it no more

This song used to be my favorite!

"Hi" I hear a deep voice behind me and turn around to be greeted by a grinning Kyle.

"Hey" I smile happily.

"Why are you dancing alone?" He asks me amused.

"They ditched me" I explain.

He laughs "Shame"

"Do you want to dance with me, Chambers?" I grin as I move around him.

"I don't dance darling"

"Sure you do" I encourage "Come on, we're both drunk. What could possibly go wrong?"

He moves impossible closer to me so that we're chest-to-chest as I look up at him and gulp in excitement "Everything"

"So what?" I whisper, my head feeling lighter.

He smirks shaking his head "Chelsea-Anne"

"Kyle" I tut, mimicking him.

He laughs softly, his breath fanning my face "Normally you call me Chambers"

"Do you like it when I call you that?"

He nods eagerly causing both of us to start laughing "You make it sound good"

"Well I like it when you call me Chelsea-Anne" I admit sheepishly.

"Good" He grins.

I also grin widely, enjoying this beautiful specimen in front of me "So that dance?"

"Fine" He groans and I clap happily.

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So anyways, what are you guys doing in quarantine? Hope you're all really good though. I know this whole thing sucks but I'll try to update more just to make it better for y'all <3. I happen to have a lot of time on my side, except for 'online' classes off course. :(

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