Chapter 7
Hunter's POV
Daisy jerks and her eyes widen in shock while Dean smirks and turns to Daisy who was as still as a statue. His eyes twinkle with amusement and maybe a hint of interest. It better not be!
I don't even know why I'm so agitated about this. It's just plain ol' annoying, infuriating, ego assassin, beautiful, smart, sexy.........Daisy. Here I go again.
I might not like daisy but I know I'm uncomfortable with this dare so it isn't gonna happen. I'll make sure of it.
Meanwhile, Dean cups Daisy's face and smiles at her but she doesn't smile back since she was still frozen. I try to catch Mark's eyes and when he finally looks at me, I mouth "change the dare, you owe me" to him. He really does owe me; I saved his ass last week.
If Mark was surprised by my request, he didn't show it. He quickly remedies the situation.
"Dean wait, I have an even better dare for you" He says stopping Dean whose face was about 3 inches apart from Daisy's. Daisy face turns into one of disappointment.
Dean pulls away from Daisy and stare quizzically at Mark. "Bring it on, I'm not afraid of anything" He says.
"Umm.....let's see" Mark says while trying to think of a new dare. "I dare you to sneak into Mr. Fiddles' tent and steal one of his..." Mark shudders in horror "......boxers" he completes. "And hang it on that tree by the cleared space" he hastily adds.
Dean smirks, stands up and walks in the direction of Mr. Fiddles' tent. I've got to give it to him though, he didn't hesitate to follow the dare .We wait for a while and continue playing the game and 10 minutes later, Dean reappears.
"All done" he says obviously delighted with himself. I can't wait to see Mr. Fiddles' reaction tomorrow.
Dean settles back down and asks Daisy "so, truth or dare?"
"Truth" she answers.
"Awww, you're no fun" Dean teases her.
"Okay, do you have anyone you're currently seeing" He asks her.
Why on earth would he ask her that? What's it to him? But I also want to know the answer to that question so I stare waiting for her answer.
She blushes, actually blushes!
"No, I don't" she answers shaking her head. I relax my shoulders that I didn't realize were tense before.
"Cool" Dean says casually.
"Truth or Dare" She asks Chloe.
"Dare" Chloe answers instantly.
"I dare you to.....................................
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Daisy's POV
5 hours later, everybody was pretty wasted except me. We decided to call it a day and go back to our tents. I notice Bloom's gaze following Blake who was holding Stephanie by the waist and leading her to his tent. I lay a comforting hand on her shoulder and she turns and gives me a sad drunken smile. I walk my friends to their tent to make sure any douche wouldn't be able to take advantage of them in their drunken stupor.
After tucking them in, I walk back to my tent. I enter the tent and immediately turn on the battery operated lamp to get rid of the darkness because I'm terribly scared of darkness. Childish to you maybe, but it's a phobia to me. Darkness always brings back memories I've buried long ago.
Snap out of it, Daisy.
I shake my head to clear my thoughts.
With the faint glow of the lamp, I notice Hunter sprawled on his bed with one leg hanging off.
I scoff, typical.
I go to the side of his bed and wave one hand in front of his face to make sure he was asleep. He doesn't stir so I take it as an affirmative. I return to my side of the tent to prepare for bed. I take off my dress leaving me only in my underwear and put on the camisole I always wore to bed. I then unhook and remove my bra from under the camisole
Finally lying in bed, waiting for sleep to consume me; all events of the day come crashing into my head. It was indeed a very long day. My thoughts go back to that moment Dean was about to kiss me and I berate myself for wishing it was another boy -a boy with blond hair and hazel eyes and the ability to annoy me to the end of the earth- who was in Dean's place.
Slowly, I start to drift off to sleep when the lamp suddenly goes off. I start to panic. "Hunter" I call out.
"What?" He responds, his voice groggy from the little sleep he got.
"Turn on the lamp" I tell him.
"I can't sleep with it on". He says.
Sweat breaks out on my skin in fear. "Please" I plead.
"No" he answers.
I start to shake in terror, memories come crashing in my head and I start to hyperventilate.
"Daisy!" someone says but I'm lost in my own head. Horrible memories of the past Starr filling my head. "Daisy!" the person calls again. "Daisy!" the person calls out to me while shaking me. I snap out of it to see Hunter squatting beside my bed, his hands on my shoulders probably from shaking me and trying to snap me out of my own head.
"What's wrong?" he asks. I stare at him blankly.
His eyes widen in realization. "You are scared of the dark" He states and I nod.
"I'm so sorry. I didn't know" he says looking genuinely sorry. "I'll leave the lamp on for you" he says while at the same time turning on the lamp.
He returns to his bed and I watch him as he lies down and turn to face me. We stare at each other until I finally drift off to sleep.
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Light hits my face and I wake up from my dreamless but nonetheless peaceful sleep. I sit up and run a hand through my blonde hair to tame it a little. My gaze moves to Hunter's bed to see that he was no longer in it, in fact he wasn't even in the tent. I stand up and make to get ready for the day. I gather my toiletries and clothes and go to the pink trailer parked in the cleared space of the camping ground. The blue trailer was on the opposite side of the camping ground. The trailers were our bathrooms for the camping trip.
As you've already guessed, the pink one was for the girls while the blue was for the boys. After taking my bath and dressing up, I apply make-up. Just as I begin brushing my hair, memories of last night rear up and I smile at Hunter's actions. He was really considerate last night, sweet even.
Even though he said he couldn't sleep with the lights on, he still left them on for me. I wonder if I had been wrong about him all along. Who knows?
Daisy's POVI exit the trailer and start to walk in the direction of the tent when I spot Chloe and Bloom watching something on their phone and giggling afar off and I turn to move in their direction instead."Hey, what are you cork screws up to?" I say hugging them both.They start to giggle again and my curiosity starts to pique. "It's" giggle "just so" laughs "funny" Chloe manages to cackle out between her laughs. "What's funny?" I say giggling even though I don't know what they were laughing about but Chloe's laugh was just so infectious."This" Bloom answers shoving the phone they were staring at earlier in my face.I notice a paused video and I restart it. It was a video starring Mr. Fiddles when he gathered the students in the cleared space to give them their assignment for the camp. Clearly, I overslept.Mr. Fiddles back was facing the tree that his boxer was hung but he was completely unaware of it. "Your project assignment is to find a medicinal plant, study it, recognize
Hunter's POVI watch Daisy as she angrily marches away and I can't stop my eyes from watching her as she sashays. I'm being a pervert, I know. After I lose sight of her, I put on my wet shirt and make my way to the tent to change my clothes. At the entrance, I hear someone talking in a panicked voice and a whimper in the tent.What the hell!Did Daisy bring a guy in our tent?I can't stop the rage and disappointment I feel at that thought. That guy isn't going to walk out of there in one piece if I have anything to say about it.I enter the tent abruptly to find Daisy spreading a huge blanket over my bed. When she finally notices my entrance, she suddenly sits on the space that she spread the blanket on."Hey, Hunter" She greets me cheerily, too cheerily. Something's up.I walk closer to my bed expecting her to get up but she grabs the edge of the bed firmly with both hands."What are you doing on my bed?" I ask her."Oh me.........nothing, absolutely nothing, why would I ever want t
Daisy's POVI enter the tent and exhale deeply.Hunter and I have been at each other's throat for almost 3 years now, so why the sudden attraction? If he had kissed me, what would I have done? In that moment, I probably might have kissed him back.I start a mantra in my head to put everything back in place.You have a crush on Dean and no one else, Hunter is just a stupid jerkYou have a crush on Dean and no one else, Hunter is just a stupid jerkYou have a crush on Dean and no one else, Hunter is just a handsome and considerate...................UghhI hear growling coming from my side of the tent and I turn to see the dog munching on something green. I ignore it and proceed to change my clothes.I prepare to move out of the tent when I realize I had forgotten my bracelet. It was my mother's gift for my fourteenth birthday just before she was murdered.I blink back tears and try my best to forget the horrible incident that led to my mother being killed and my phobia of darkness."Hu
Hunter's POVI wake up to find something or rather someone curled into me with my arms around that person's waist. I open my eyes to see that that person was actually Daisy. I remember climbing into her bed yesterday night because of the poop stain on my bed. I'll definitely give her my opinion when she wakes up.I make to climb out of bed when her sleeping profile catches my attention. A foreign feeling fills me up to the brim. I suddenly feel like keeping her in a glass case and banging my chest like a gorilla to ward everyone away from her.Without my control, my hands mechanically move towards her face and tuck a strand of hair behind her ear. My hands remain there cupping her face halfway and studying just how beautiful she really is.She groans and unconsciously rests her hand on my hand that was cupping her face making me feel ten times of what I was feeling before. I felt like drawing her into me and never letting go.Stop this!I snap out of whatever daze I was in and remove
Daisy's POV"Help.... Something's pulling me down, I can't swim that well!" I scream and internally high-five myself for sounding so believable.I splash harder like something was really dragging me down."Daisy! Hold-on, I'm coming" Hunter shouts panicked.He frantically tries to take off his shirt but decides against it all together and jumps in the river. At this, I just couldn't stop the laughter that had been bubbling in my throat. I laugh hard and uncontrollably.Hunter surfaces from the water in confusion and when what I did finally settles in his brain, he sends me a look hot enough to fry Antarctica to crisp and cold enough to make Africa snow.He stalks towards me and all the humor in the current situation vanishes."Look, I w-was just getting back at you for b-being a jerk. No hard feelings.........." I start to say moving back and waving both my hands to stop him from approaching.What am I doing? I shouldn't be scared of him.I stand straight and try to muster some courag
Daisy's POV"Oh where are my manners, my name is Kyle" He says and offers me a boyish smile.I keep staring at him wearily and he moves his eyes to my hand and raises his eyebrow. It was then that I noticed he had extended his hand for a shake and he moves it closer urging me to shake his hand.I reluctantly take it and then snatch my hand away from him. I'm not comfortable around strangers, it's always so awkward.He raises an eyebrow and sits down beside me leaning his back against the tree looking completely relaxed. Care-free and nonchalant seem to be the definition of this boy.I've never seen him around in school but then again, I always tend to be oblivious to things around me or maybe....."Stop looking at me like you've seen a ghost, I've been in your school since the beginning of the year" He says breaking my train of thoughts."Sorry" I apologize not knowing if I was apologizing for staring at him or for not knowing him."It's okay. So what's got you so mad?" He asks.Maybe
Hunter's POVSweat breaks out on my skin and I glance down to where Daisy was gripping me. She's asleep and yet she's driving me crazy. I had carried her from the floor to the bed because she was cold but that plan seems to have backfired now."Daisy stop doing th.........arghhhhh" I shout when she squeezes me.Her eyes snap open and she looks down then immediately turns her head to face me, horror and mortification evident on her face.I grow hard and her eyes widen more and she snatches her hands away. Well, what did she expect? A girl was touching me; a beautiful one at that and she expects my body to remain as still as a tree stump?"I-I'm sorr... I-I didn't m-mean....This is n-not....I m-mean..........Ughh, It wasn't me!" She stutters and then finally exclaims out.I open my mouth to talk but she interrupts me."I mean it w-was me but not me me, I-It's more like unconscious me. I was dreaming" She hastily adds.I try to tell her that she should stop her rant but...."Not that I w
Daisy's POVAs I walk away from Hunter, I place my hand over my chest to try and make my heart stop beating faster. I liked being in Hunter's arms, I liked him comforting me, a little too much for my liking. Back there, he made me really believe that everything would be okay even though I know that nothing will ever be able to fill the absence my mother left when she died.My mother was the sweetest and kindest woman that ever existed. She lit up the room with her smile and draws everyone in with her kindness. My father was so in love with my mother that when she died, I don't think he ever fully recovered; though he doesn't show it. He always tries to stay strong for me and he never even glanced at any other female with interest.If only I had listened............If only I had been faster.......If only I had been quicker.......... None of this would have happened. I run my hand through my hair to clear my head. It's no use having regrets now.My mind involuntarily goes back to when