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That Time We Crossed

🇺🇸Amber_Mahoney
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Chapter 1 - Chapter One

My best friend Maria wanted me to stop by her house on Monday so I am now waiting outside for her to let me in. I feel my phone vibrate and loft it to find a text from Christopher my uncle who babysits me even though I'm an adult.

Chris: Why don't you come home?

Abigail (me): I like visiting my friends house and having sleepovers

Chris: please be back by 7 pm

Abigail (me): okay I promise I will be back by 7

My bff answers the door and smiles at me before ushering me inside.

She hugs me before having us sit down in the living room.

"My brother came back from the army to stay for the holidays and then he's gonna stay home forever" she smiles

I am so happy for her "Wow and how old is your brother?" I ask her

She frowns "You don't remember Jason?"

I shake my head but then I vaguely remember when we were younger he was 2 years older than us.

FLASHBACK

I sit on a swing at the park and my mum pushes the swing. I am next to my bff and her older brother is pushing her.

We hop off at the same time and walk to our cars. Maria gives me a hug and her brother smiles and pats my shoulder before they get inside and drive off. My mum smiles down at me "Maria will always be your friend and her brother will protect both of you with his life no matter what happens"

PRESENT DAY

"Abigail, I might start to called you your old nickname now" she starts to laugh and I giggle

I hear steps on the stairs and Jason appears and smile at us. He saunters over to us and kisses her forehead and then turns to me "Haven't seen you in a while kiddo"

I cringe"Don't call me kiddo, that's a little much for me when I am already 18 years old"

He laughs "I went to a boarding school and went to the army now I'm home for good and I'm 20 so..." he trails off

I clap my hands to get our conversation back and I want to mention the sleepover later.

"Are we going to watch a movie or something?" I ask them

Maria smiles "I invited Max and Zack and Samantha and Alex"

I gave "Oh my god that's too many"

She shows me a picture on her phone of a campsite "We're going camping!" and she smiles.

An hour and a half later at 3 pm we are already at the site and the tents are up and I'm sleeping in Maria's tent with her and her brother is in his own. Samantha and Alex shared since they are siblings and Zack and Max got to share as best friends. As we father around in the large tent and we have a talk about old times back in high school. Max turns to Samantha "Let's play Truth or Dare"

Zack frowns "Hell no not that game!"

Samantha takes her bottle out that had water on it and she lays it on the tent floor. Max smiles and pats Zacks back "It'll be alright bro I got you"

Samantha looks at each of us and her gaze lands on me where I sit between Maria and Jason "Gaia can go first"

I stare at her in surprise "Are you kidding me?!" I don't like playing Truth or Dare are all but what's there to lose?

I spin the bottle and it lands on Zack.

"Truth or Dare, Zack?" I say

"I'm Truth?" he asks and Max gasps

"Is it true you kissed Max a year ago in the park?". I am referring to the picture I saw of them in the park kissing and it was all over our Instagram page."Hell no they made that picture fake it ain't real plus we ain't like that!" Zack almost shouts

He spins the bottle and it lands on Maria "Maria, Truth or Dare?"

She smiles widely "Dare"

He smiles "I dare you to kiss Alex"

Alex turns red and stands up as she does the same. She gives him a kiss on his cheek and they sit down.

Alex laughs "You said to kiss but you never said where?"

Zack turns his head as Maria spins the bottle and it lands on Max.

"Truth or dare, Max?" she grins like she up to something

"Dare boys!" he throws his hands in the air

"I dare you to do the chicken dance" He does it the exact way and we all laugh.

Max spins the bottle and it lands on Jason. "My boy, Truth or Dare then Jason?" he grins just like Maria and Jason thinks.

"I pick Dare" he smiles wickedly

Maria hits him on his arm "No why?!"

He shrugs as Max tells him

"I dare you to do 5 minutes in heaven in the car with.... Abigail" he says with a straight face

I gasp "You can't do that!"

Jason gets up and smiles "He didn't say to do anything"

I take his hand and we head to the car and he sits down next to me in the back seat. I blush as our hands intertwined and we sit down on the seat.

He stares at me "So what now?"

I shrug "Wait for 5 minutes I guess?"

He keeps staring at me and then opens his mouth "Your beautiful I hope you know that"

I turn red "Yeah but not as pretty as Beth"

He flinches "We we're broken up for a while now, Gaia"

I laugh to cover up my growing discomfort in this backseat "I didn't know"

He laughs it off and then stares at my lips. He breaks our eye contact and the door opens and Maria stands there and her eyes see our hands.

"Okay times up it's time for bed" she pulls me out of the car and Jason waits behind us as we get to the tent.

She zips ours up and almost pushes me to the ground "Don't you dare kiss my brother, Missy!"

I feel like she is mad at me for touching him "Why do you sound so mad?"

She sits down and lays inside her sleeping bag "I don't want you to get hurt by him" I loft my eyebrows at that. She sighs and explains "He's broken alot of girls hearts, Gaia"

I take my phone out and see there isn't any service out in the woods "Why aren't there any cell towers in the woods?"

She is already fast asleep so I step outside of the tent and I see someone at the fire that's sitting on a wood log.

As I get closer I see it's just Jason.

He sees me standing next to him and turns "Sorry about earlier"

"It was fun" I nod my head

He keeps staring at my lips and I suddenly feel exposed and he leans in slowly.