Instead Of Just Invisible

Chapter 1

First chapter of my new story! First time writer so please don't hate. Enjoy!

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Have you ever woken up the morning after a night that was so crazy you swear it must’ve been a dream? Well that would be today for me.

I woke up to the sun brightly shining in on me, a little too bright actually. I looked around only to find an empty cabin and me, lying on the floor with only a single pillow under my head to keep me comfortable.

The first thing I did was check my phone: one new message. “Oh my god” I said to myself. It was true.

I opened the text anxiously to read,

Meet me behind the tree with the tire swing at the lake ;-)

Without another minute to spare I sprung up from the floor, ran to my suitcase to put on a fresh pair of clothes and was out the door.

I couldn’t believe all this actually happened! I ran as fast as I could without trying to seem too desperate and right as I was about to run out of breath, there it was.

I ran over and before I could even make it around the tree, I felt large muscular arms wrap around my waist and knew exactly who it was.

I smiled up at that beautifully structured, heart shaped face as he leaned down to kiss me. It was perfect. Everything was finally working out for me and it was all thanks to one night.

Camp had always been the thing I looked forward to every summer. It was away from all the drama that came along with school, friends, boys and parents. I was a totally different person when I was here. I could actually be my true self without worrying whether people were judging me or not. Although kids from school did come to the same camp with me, I distanced myself from them.

That is until last night. We were having a big bonfire in the center of camp as a last hoorah since we would be leaving the next day. You could do whatever really. Some people stood around talking to other kids and some sat down by the fire to toast marshmallows.

My friends and I sat for a bit, but decided to get up and take a few pictures for Facebook. Cliché, I know but hey I’m a girl, it’s what we do.

Everything was going great until I saw over my friend’s shoulder, a tall familiar boy gesturing me over to him. A little freaked, I ignored him thinking he would stop.

He didn’t.

After about 5 minutes of non-stop hand motions, I finally walked over to him.

“Um hi. Can I help you or do you want to keep creepily waving at me to get my attention?” I asked confused, but finally recognizing who it was.

He laughed. “Sorry about that, but I couldn’t take my eyes off of you. Do I know you from somewhere?”

Yes he did. We both go to the same school and are in the same grade. Of course he didn’t know me by name. He was typical Mr. Captain of all things sports, get with all the girls, popular boy who goes by the name of Noah Adams.

“Yeah we kind of go to the same school, but obviously you wouldn’t know.” I snipped.

“Whoa, attitude…” He said. “I was just gonna say you look beautiful and you have all camp, but I never had the chance to say it. Sorry if that’s not what you want to hear from me.”

I couldn’t help but smile and blush like an idiot even though I still didn’t understand why he would randomly say this now.

"Thanks, but why are you saying this now on the last night of camp? You had plenty of opportunities." I asked him.

"Yeah I know. It sounds lame but whenever I saw you, you were busy with a bunch of other people laughing and stuff and I felt awkward." He answered bashfully.

Bullshit. I thought to myself. Noah Adams felt awkward coming up to me? In school it never seemed to be a problem with all the other girls. Something was definitely fishy and I was going to get to the bottom of it.

"C'mon let's be real. You were scared to talk to me? You're like the most confident guy at school. You coming up to a girl like me would be easier than counting to five in spanish." I interrogated.

He gave a little laugh and said, "Well I'm failing spanish so you could say it still wouldn't be easy. Look this is already hard enough, can you please save me the embarrassment of turning me down and I'll just be on my way?"

I studied his face for some sort of give-away that he was lying or trying to play a cruel joke, but all I could focus on were his sparkling blue eyes and the sincerity I found in them. Maybe he wasn't joking. Maybe I should give him a chance. You only live once right?

"Alright Noah I'll tell you what. I'll go along with whatever game you're trying to play whether it be real or not, but I swear if it's not real you'll be sorry somehow, someway." I gave a devilish smile and held out my hand.

He smiled a big toothy grin and grabbed my hand to pull me into him. "Deal." He said and wrapped his arm over my shoulder. I smiled up at him and in a way was happy I decided not to turn him down. Although honestly, in my heart I knew I never would say no to him. Hello it's Noah Adams!

After that we went away from everyone and talked a while. He turned out to be a pretty great, sweet, caring guy that no one would probably ever know behind his popular macho-man stereotype. Then let's just say we had a lot of fun when we got through with that. Call me a slut, but it just felt right.

That leads us to this: here under this tree. Me and the guy I can't believe would ever make a move on me. It sounded completely and utterly crazy and I'm still in shock it happened, but I'm so glad it did. I couldn't wait to get back home and tell my friends that I, Alexis Rose Taylor, had a boyfriend!

"Attention campers the buses will be leaving in about 15 minutes. Grab your stuff and let's go!" One of the counselors yelled through her bullhorn.

With that Noah and I kissed one last time and parted to go pack our things. I think this is the only time I was actually excited to go home. Here's to a new beginning!