There's a Thin Line Between Love and Hate

There's a Thin Line Between Love and Hate (43)

"The cabin looks just like it did when we first got here," Cindy assured her with a sigh, sitting down at her bed and looking around the room. "Everything's just how it was all those months ago..."

I had packed the night before, so I was finished before all the other girls. Usually I was always the last one, but things had changed since then. I knew that I was a different person, and I didn't know if it was for good or for worse. I didn't even think I wanted to know.

"It's going to be tough to leave," Emily sighed, resting her elbow on Yolanda's shoulder as they stood by the bathroom door. "We're all so attached to the place. Not to mention the people here."

I stared down at my feet, silently agreeing with her. It was going to be one of the toughest things ever to just leave this place like it didn't have any kind of effect on us at all.

When I got up from my bed, every head in the room turned toward me.

"Where are you going, Jordan?" Yolanda asked me timidly, and it caught me so off guard that I almost tripped over my shoes as I walked toward the door. Yolanda never talked unless she was spoken to... unless it was her friend. I couldn't help but smile when I turned toward her.

"Just going on a little walk," I told her with a smile.

I opened the door and shut it behind me before the girls could say anything more. I hopped down the steps and hurried all the way to Cabin B, where I knew who I was looking for would be.

When I knocked on the door, the person who I wanted to see opened it. I smiled at him, jumping forward and wrapping my arms around his neck in a hug.

"Well," Ryan grinned, obviously caught off guard. "Hello to you, too."

"It just seems like I haven't talked to you in a while," I told him, separating myself from him as I continued to smile. "We used to be best friends, even if it was so long ago. I've missed talking to you."

"I guess we both just got preoccupied with things," he shrugged wide a wide grin.

He had no idea...

"I thought that we could all walk over to where we're supposed to line up," I informed him, trying my best to grin as I slipped my hand into my pocket and fingered the stupid speech. "Since this is the last time we'll all really be together, I thought everyone from Cabin B and Cabin C could go together..."

Alex suddenly emerged from behind Ryan, wrapping his arms around my shoulders and hugging me so tightly that I almost fell down the steps. "Of course we'll go with you!"

I rolled my eyes at him, glancing over at Jesse's old friends that had come with us from California. They always thought I hated them, which was actually kind of true, but it wasn't like I was going to just leave them out on a day like this.

"You guys can come, too," I told them with a smile, turning away from them right afterwards and headed toward the door. Dalton and Adam were there as well, but I knew that they knew that they were invited. It was just Jesse's stupid old friends...

"Are you still going out with Emily?" I asked Ryan as we all made our way to Cabin C.

"Yep," he grinned, tugging on his gown before almost tripping over it. He gave me a sheepish look as he continued, "She's an amazing girl, you know."

I smiled right back at him, "It's good to hear you're happy."

I was glad that other people were happy, because I definitely wasn't. They all had someone to be with, and the love of my life was off somewhere for my own stupid protection. Wouldn't it be safer if he just stayed with me? Yeah, Hunter hadn't bothered me at all, but still... I'd rather have Jesse with me.