1000 Miles - Chandler Riggs // Austin Abrams

Chapter Thirty Seven

October 18

"Yano what's lame?" Kaylin asks through a mouth full of cereal. "What?" Elliot asks. "This ship. I mean, there's no Mr. Mosby, I've not found either of the Sprouse twins, it's really lame." She takes the last bite of cereal. It's not even breakfast time, more like noon, but she's still eating cereal. Everyone else is off doing their own thing while the five of us hang out like we used to with the exception of Nathan. 

"Poppy, can we go find Eric Allan Kramer again?" Karson grins. Kaylin jumps up, almost knocking her bowl over. "YES LET'S DO IT. PLEASE!" 

I nod. "Let's go." 

"Okay but none of the celebrities can come. We gotta have an adventure with the Knoxville squad." She tells me. I nod. 

It shouldn't be as hard to find him now that we're headed back to Florida. Apparently Brianna was flying back instead of taking the boat since she only came to be with Chandler. 

Before we walk out the door Kaylin stops us. "Hang on." She runs over to her suitcase which is somehow in my cabin room thing. She grabs a shirt out and rushes over to the bathroom. When she comes out she's wearing her "Bob Duncan is Love, Bob Duncan is life." T-Shirt. It's a shirt with a photoshopped bob duncan on shrek. We have matching ones, Elliot, Karson, Kaylin, and I, except we didn't think to bring them. They were our Christmas presents a year ago from Kaylin.

Kaylin grins as we tell dad what we're doing. He totally ignores the shirt and says the same thing he always does. "Be back before curfew." 

"So where did you all find him at last time?" Nathan asks. "Um..." I start, looking around. "He was somewhere on one of these floors I think." 

So for the next 3 and a half hours the five of us search on almost every floor until we find Eric Allan Kramer. We're just about to give up when we reach the pool but something catches my eye despite my poor vision.

Shooting out one of the giant slides is Eric Allan Kramer. He makes a big splash and resurfaces above the water. I nudge Kaylin and she lets out an excited squeal. 

"For the past two years, I've waited for this moment. It may be a joke, but it is still an honor to be within yelling distance to the one and only Bob Duncan." Kaylin whispers wiping nonexistent tears from her eyes.

"I'm going in." 

Kaylin then takes off in a jog to catch up the man who is drying off with a towel. "B-Bob Duncan?" She whispers, walking up to him with puppy dog eyes. 

Eric Allan Kramer turns around and smiles at her just as we catch up to them. He looks over at Karson and I and his smile widens. "I remember you two." 

We smile. Bob Duncan remembers me. "Can we get a photo?" Kaylin grins excitedly. He nods.

So the six of us take a picture. Kaylin must have posted it to Instagram because my phone dings.

@ Kaylin_E:  JUST MET BOB DUNCAN/ERIC ALLAN KRAMER. MY LIFE IS COMPLETE NOW

We talk with E.A.K for a few minutes and then he says he has to go so we let him leave. Kaylin's still grinning. "This has been the best day ever." 

~ Gonna do a timeskip because I don't know what else to write~

October 19

"Okay so there are 12 of us which means 6 on each team." Nat says counting on his fingers the number of people. Right now we're doing bowling

On one team is Karson, Nat, Kaylin, Chandler, Me, Sam. On the other team is Justice, Halston, Grayson, Cara, Elliot, and Nathan. Austin and Grace disappeared off somewhere I don't know where. None of us really cared to notice. Everyone was informed about the other day's events and haven't really spoken with them. They all agree Austin has changed since being with Grace, but I don't care. At least that's what I tell myself.

Kaylin goes up to bowl. I can hear her faintly say the right, left, tick, tock thing from elementary school. She releases the ball and it's sent hurtling down the lane. She ends up getting a spare. 

"YES POPPY. YES. MR C TAUGHT US WELL." She high fives me.

We spend the whole day bowling. I lost track of how many games we played after the first 4. Then we all gave up on teams because it got lame. 

Now Chandler and I are walking around the ship. We kind of ditched everyone to go off and be in our own little world.

"I can't believe there's only like two days left on the cruise." He mumbles, wrapping an arm around me. We're sitting on a bench outside looking at the sunset. 

I rest my head on his shoulder. "I know. Then everyone will be gone again." I sigh. He kisses the top of my head. "At least you'll have me." He whispers. 

"Right."

We stay like that for a good five minutes just enjoying each others company. I don't know how I feel about Chandler to be honest. I mean, I don't know how love for another person feels because I've never experienced it. 

I don't know if I love Chandler or if this is 'just a phase'. Who knows it probably is. 

Maybe I'm not even supposed to fall in love. Maybe I'm supposed to die an old maid with 600 cats to keep me company. 

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A/N:WHAT EVEN WAS THIS CHAPTER

it was crap and i'm sorry

we're writing essays in ELA and like

it's so confusing

it's like my mind won't grasp around any of it so i feel like i'm going to fail it

anyways

Almost 2k reads??? This is amazing. Y'all are amazing. ily and stuff

have a nice day/ night 

BTW

I CHANGED KAYLIN'S CHARACTER TO LAUREN BONNELL BUT LIKE BEA STILL WON'T EXIST IN THIS BUT OKAY IM JUST GONNA GO NOW BYE