It's the day of the test. Like in my dream, I finished early. I glance over at Cami, her eyebrows are furrowed and she looks confused. Then, her face relaxes and she scribbles down an answer. She smiles and takes a deep breath before walking up to hand in her test. As she walks back, I mouth, “How'd it go?” She gives me two thumbs up and a wide smile. I hope she did good.

Mr. Brown grades tests right away and hands them back at the end of class. I'm waiting for Cami in the halls, she hasn't gotten hers yet.

She finally walks out, with no emotion on her face. Uh, oh. She did bad.

Her frown turns into a smile, “I got a 97!” she shrieks. She hugs me excitedly, “Thank you so much!!! I couldn't have done it without you!!”

I let go of our hug, “Congrats! I knew you could do it!”

She smiles widely and jumps up and down, “I can't believe it! Yay!! I've never gotten this high in bio, it's my worst subject! Thank you so much, Marcel!!”

We walk down the halls to our next class.

“Since you did so well, we should celebrate tonight,” I tell her.

“Like what?” She smirks and looks at me.

“Frozen Yogurt?”

“Yeah! That sounds good!”

“I'll pick you up tonight!”

“For once I don't have to be the chauffeur? Look at you, Marcel. Livin it up, fro yo and driving all in one night!”

I laugh and playfully hit her shoulder.

Someone walks by and trips me, but Cami grabs my arm before I fall.

“Jerk,” she mutters.

I shrug.

*

I knock on Cami's door and wait for her to come outside. Her mom opens the door, “Next time, just come right in Marcel!”

I smile and walk in. I stand in the kitchen and wait for Cami. She walks in, her vans in her hands.

“Let's go!” she says.

“Put your shoes on first, Cam!” Beth says.

Cami groans and leans her head back, “Fineee.”

Once Cami's ready, we head out to my car.

“Looks brand new,” Cami says.

“I don't use it much,” I tell her, getting in the car.

Cami turns on the radio and I start to drive. She finds a song she likes and starts dancing and singing.

I laugh at her goofy singing and crazy dance moves.

“WHEN YOU'RE READY COME AND GET IT! NA NA NA, NA NA NA!” Cami shouts.

I can't stop laughing at her. After five songs of Cami's dancing and singing, I pull up to the frozen yogurt.

“What are you gonna get?” Cami asks when we walk in.

I blush, “I've never been here before. How do you do it?”

“I'll show you! Follow me!”

We pick out our flavors. Did you know you can get multiple flavors? I got chocolate and strawberry. Cami got vanilla and orange. Then, we pick out toppings. There's so many toppings. I get some oreos and strawberries. There's these little blue bobas, they look good.

“Where do you wanna sit?” Cami asks.

“Actually, we're gonna go somewhere else to eat it.”

“Where to?”

“It's a surprise.”

We go back in the car and a drive to the mystery destination.

“What is this?” Cami asks.

“A lake.”

“I know that,” she says giggling, “But why here?”

“I come here a lot. I like to just sit on the dock and look at the water and up at the sky.”

We slowly get out of the car as Cami looks at where we are. She follows me down to the dock and we sit on the edge. I take of my shoes and stick my feet in the water, it's really cold. Cami does the same and shivers when her feet hit the water.

We eat our frozen yogurt and look out at the water.

“It's beautiful here,” Cami says.

“Isn't it?”

“The stars sparkle in the water, it's really cool. How'd you find this place?”

“My dad used to take me and my sister here to fish. I never really liked fishing though. Then as I got older, I'd come here and sit or write poetry. I used to come here every night almost. It's where I felt safe.”

“That's really nice, Marcel.”

We sit in silence and eat our yogurt.

I try one of the bobas and immediately regret getting them. When you bite it, it explodes in your mouth and disappears. It's the weirdest topping ever!

“This... Is.. So... Sour!” I blurt out. My face is contorting and my glands hurt from all the sourness.

“What is?” Cami asks.

“Here... Try one,” I say, handing her one. It's a struggle to talk since it's so sour.

She bites it and makes a disgusted face, “Oh my God! That's disgusting!” She sticks her tongue out and shuts her eyes tightly. “Yuck!”

We finally finish, without eating the rest of the sour things. Besides the bobas, it was delicious. I'll definitely go back for more sometime.

Cami smiles and looks out at the water, “You wanna go in?”

“In the water?”

“Yeah,” she says smirking.

“It's January, it's freezing!”

“That's the fun of it!”

“What about bathing suits?”

“We don't need them.”

I suck in my breath and contort my face, “Fine. I'll do it.”

“Look away,” Cami says as she pulls off her shirt.

“Oh my God, Cami. I can't believe I'm doing this,” I say, as I take off my pants

She giggles, “You ready?”

I take a deep breath, “Yeah.”

“No looking until we're in the water!”

“I wouldn't want to look!”

“On the count of three. 3.”

“2.”

“1!!” we both scream.

I jump in the air and my body tightens. My body is frozen as I hit the water. I go under and it feels like those few seconds freeze in time with my body. I feel like I'm under for hours until I finally come back up. I shake my hair to get the cold water out. Everything's blurry, I can only make out shapes. I turn to look at Cami, it looks like her mouth is wide open.

“Oh. My. God!” she shrieks.

I laugh and swim over to her, “It's... S-so c-cold,” I say, shivering.

“I-I know.” I can see her clearer now. Her hair is flattened and her make up is all over her face.

“You look like a zombie,” I say laughing.

“You look like Tarzan,” she says, laughing too.

I clench my fists together to fight out the cold, “Let's get out.”

Cami nods. I jump up on the dock and reach down to lift Cami up. She reaches up and looks at my chest and stomach for a long time. She scans my whole upper body, her eyes widening.

“Marcel?”

I don't say anything. I pull her out of the water and she sits next to me on the dock.

“Why do you have so many tattoos?” she asks, looking over at me.

“There's a lot you don't know about me.”

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Next chapter will be interesting. You'll learn something about Marcel!

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