Chapter 7

I went to dinner. Pizza, just as Sarah said. I sat with Sarah and Gabi. Sarah was scarfing down her pizza, not paying any attention to anything else.

"Keila, is something wrong?" Gabi said.
"Why does everyone think something's wrong with me?!" I yelled.
"You've hardly touched your pizza."
"I'm fine!"
"You're sure?"
"I SAID I'M FINE!!" Everyone stared at me. I sunk down in my seat. I sighed. "I'm so freakin' confused! Augh!"
"Okay, that's a start. Why are you confused?"
"I don't know!"
"Is it about life, camp, Sarah?"
"Hey!" Sarah said with a mouth full of pizza.
"No." I said.
"You want to talk about it?"
"No. Not here anyway."
"We can go to the cabin."
"Okay."

We went to our cabin and I laid on my bed and sighed.
"So. Tell me all about your problems." Gabi said.
"Okay. Well..."
"You can trust me."
"Well there's this boy..."
"Ahh!"
"I'm not finished! He's absolutely gorgeous! And... I don't know where to begin with this boy!"
"How about with the moment you met."
"Okay. Well, I was chopping veggies and he was late and came over to me and I chopped off some of my finger..."
"You what?!"
"Would you let me finish?!"
"Sorry. Go ahead."
"So he took me to the nurse and held my hand while she sewed me up. Then later I went to the lake outside our window. Well, he apparently followed me there and we sat and talked. Then when he smiled at me I threw up on him!"
"So [i]he's[/i] the one you threw up on!"
"Yes. And so I ran here and you know what happened here. Then when I came out I literally ran into him. So we talked a little. He wasn't mad at me, he said. Well I walked away from him and hid from him. After that some freako attacked me..."
"Wait, tell me exactly what he did to you?"
"Not he, she. Anyway she slapped me, said something weird, slapped me again so I fell, she stomped me into the ground then kicked me."
"Oh my!"
"Yeah, then Nick came over and..."
"Who's Nick?"
"THE PERSON I'M SO FREAKING CONFUSED ABOUT!!!"
"Oh, okay, sorry. Continue."
" Well he came over and helped me. And I liked it when he helped me. Until I walked away."
"Details please. From when he came over to help you."
"Okay, well, he helped me up, I told him what the phsyco crazed girl did to me, I started crying, he wiped my tears and brushed the pebbles off me, then he noticed my cheek was red, so he gently touched it and it stung, so he stopped and I started crying again, and he hugged me. Then the bell rang, so I whispered, 'That's the bell.' and then Nick whispered, 'It's only the warning bell.' and we looked at eachother and he smiled and leaned in and..."
"Did he kiss you?!" Gabi grinned.
"No. I pulled away from him before he could!"
"What?!"
I nodded.
"Then what?"
"Then I said, 'Thanks for helping me.' and left!"
"What?!"
"Yeah. But he followed me, and I sped up, but he ran and caught me and spun around, and we had this argument that... really made me think."
"What'd you say?!"
[i]FLASHBACK

"Tell me what's going on! You keep walking away from me!"
"Nothing's going on! You don't even know me!"
"I'm trying to!!" He was breathing heavily. "Can't you see that?!"
DONG DONG DONG!
"Goodbye, Nick." I walked away again. He sat down on a bench. He just sat there, his head in his hands. I knew he was thinking, 'What did I do wrong??" It made me feel guilty, which made me tear up.[/i]

"Wow, Keila. Then...?"
"Then I came to the cafeteria and stuff."
"Okay."
"What do you think?"
"I wish it'd happened to me!" I glared at her. "So I could... evaluate your situation!" She grinned fakely(is that a word?!). I rolled my eyes.
"Well, Keila. Do you like this Nick?"
"That's just it. I don't know if I like him or not. I don't think I do... But then he smiles at me and I get this weird feeling in my stomach."
"I see. Well he sure seems to like you."
"I know. And I don't know whether it freaks me out or not."
"Well, maybe you should've let him kiss you. Then you probably would know."
"Yeah, but what if I didn't like him? He would be crushed! Or if I did, he lives like all the way across the country and I wouldn't be able to see him again!" I sighed.
"I think you should give him another chance."
"Really?"
"Really. Plus..." she started whispering now. "He's right outside the cabin!"
"What?!" She mouthed out, 'Go!' I sighed and went out.