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Catch me if you can

"You ok?" He asked whilst slowly rubbing my upper arm "sorry if we scared you too badly" he says with a slight smile holding back a laugh. I rolled my eyes with a smile.
"It's fine... I just don't like this forest... it's just-... never mind" I looked away and slowly felt him turn my head my holding my chin.

"Don't worry about it... I'm right here, ok? There's nothing to be scared about" he whispers reassuringly and kisses my temple. I watched Alex and Addie laugh as they were eating marshmallows, Elena and Jayden were taking selfies and Andrew and Aurora were talking whilst he was holding her in his arms and playing with her hair.

"It's all in your head... we're all here and we're all happy" he whispers with a smile and ruffles my hair making me laugh as I push him, making him fall off the beach. I bursted out laughing as I got off the bench. The boys started laughing as they saw Atlas lying on the ground. The girls started laughing too with me.

"That was a bad move Lex" Atlas groans as he stood up and looked at me with a smirk. I knew what was coming. He sprinted towards me. I squealed as I rapidly ran around the tents trying to get away from him. I could hear our laughs echoing through forest as everyone was laughing. The boys started getting in my way to stop me but I dodged them as I tried getting away. I felt Atlas gaining since he was more skilled than me. I try turning around one of the tents to hide myself but only crash into his arms. He had tricked me by going around. I laughed as I crashed in his arms. He laughed and threw me over his shoulder whilst flexing his victory with the other (he held me whilst showing the group 💪🏼 with the other haha)

I laughed once he put me down. I looked up at him before feeling his lips on mine. The group whistled and laughed as they saw Atlas kiss me. It was oddly sweet.

As the sunset slowly passed the boys had made the fire. It was now almost pitch black, my anxiety had risen due to my fear of the dark and I was paranoid. Atlas held me close to him as we all sat around the fire. That's when my "genius" brother got a "fabulous" idea.

"You know...this forest is huge... how about we play a game" he says with a huge smirk. Addie immediately nods her head, she was always down to do anything. The boys looked at one another confused yet intrigued, I couldn't help but feel my stomach churn with nerves. I knew my brother could get some crazy ideas.

"How does a game of tag sound?" He smirks whilst looking at me. He knew I hated these games in the dark... and this huge forest wasn't helping.

"YES!" Addie laughs
"I'm in" Jayden agrees
"Sure, why not" Elena adds and Aurora agrees
"Could be interesting " Andrew laughs

I looked at Atlas with a nervous expression as he looked down at me seeing how nervous I was, he knew how paranoid and nervous I was when it came to the dark and in large spaces.

"That doesn't really seem like the best idea dude" Atlas shakes his head.

"Atlas backing down? Come on! It'll be fun" Alex nudged Atlas who sighed and agreed "fine" was all he said.

I looked at the group, my hands went cold due to how anxious I was.

"I'm not playing" I mumble as I looked away.
I could feel Atlas's worried expression on me yet I ignored it.

"Lexie come on! I'll stay by your side, I promise, come one! You never back down!" Addie smiles as she comes over to me and wraps her arms around me. "You in?" She smiles.

I felt my heart race as I looked at the boys who had smirks in their faces, except Atlas who was concerned for my well-being.

I closed my eyes and sighed "I'm in" I whisper. My brother smiled and clapped his hands as he helped Atlas up.