Chapter 13

Nick grabbed my arm and pulled me to some weird place.
"Why's it so freakin' dark?!" I yelled.
"Because your eye are closed!" He laughed.
"What?! Oh... heh." I opened my eyes. "What is THAT?!"
"Do you like it?" He bit his lip.
"Umm...."
"If you don't like it, just say so."
"I don't know... It's... huge!"
I stood there staring at the enormous object.
"How did it get here?!"
"I built it."
"What?!"
"No... I lied. I don't know, I just... found it here."
"It's amazing!"
"Is that good or bad?"
"I don't even know yet."
Nick walked over to it and started climbing.
"What are you doing?!"
"What does it look like I'm doing?! I'm climbing!"
"But why?!"
"Because!" He hadn't gotten very far. He reached out his hand.
"C'mon!"
"What?! I'm not going to climb that thing!"
"But I need to show you something!"
"Can't you bring it down here?"
"No." He laughed. I sighed and grabbed his hand as he lifted me to where he stopped. We started climbing. I would guess it's about 12 feet tall (You know, the trees around us were all freakishly short). We finally got to the top of the object. Nick got up there first, and sat. I got up after him and sat next to him.
"Woah.." You could see the entire camp! From there, you could see what everyone was doing. You could be, like, the ultimate spy, because all you would need is binoculars and those things you use to hear people far away.
"Now do you like it?" Nick asked. He looked at me, smiling. I nodded, with a small smile.
"Thank you."
"For...?"
"For showing me this."
"You're welcome." He put his arm around my shoulder and looked at me. I smiled as I took it off. He looked at me again, and I looked at him. He started to lean in, but I turned my head, and quickly said, "So how come we can't see this from the camp?" He shrugged.
DONG DONG DONG!
"We should get down.." I said, starting to move away.
"No, we don't have to."
"What? We should go and hear what the loud lady says! Plus, it'll take a while to get over there."
"Yeah, but we don't don't need to."
I looked at him very confused.
"Okay, whatever you say, weirdo." I went back to where I was before. Nick scooted closer to me. We were about an inch away from each other, he was so close to me. He took my hand and held it. He looked at me and smiled. The feeling came back, and I realized, maybe it wasn't a pukey feeling. Maybe it was a warm and fuzzy feeling.