Free Wait (The Fast Series) by Ryan Ringbloom Page B

yells over to the two attached again in a lip lock as he carries me over his shoulder through the trees.
    Once we reach a clearing Sawyer stops. His hand reaches right for the front button of my shorts. As Sawyer’s lips meet mine and his hands touch me, I can’t stop thinking about Mark. I pretend I don’t even know why.
    Tessa
    “Tessa, are you asleep?” Cassie nudges me awake.
    I open my eyes slowly and sit up. The light in our room is on. Cassie stands in front of me completely disheveled.
    “Sorry to wake you up. I want to tell you what happened.” The back of the white shorts are covered in dirt and her hair has a few leaves sticking out of it. “Tucker said no. I asked him if he wanted to go to the hut, I told him about the no undies, I really played it up. He was not biting. He gave me the same speech about being interested in someone and not going to the hut anymore. It was a little weird. I think he might have been on to the fact that it was some kind of test. But still I offered him sex and he said no and he did say there was someone special.”
    He turned her down. Two people offered him sex and he turned them both down. I can’t help but smile.
    “I’m sorry about your shorts.” Cassie looks down at the ruined white cotton. “I’ll pay you back. They may not have worked on Tucker, but they certainly did on Sawyer. Not that I went to the hut or had sex or anything, but we still had fun.”
    “Don’t worry about the shorts, it’s fine.” I could care less about the shorts. “Cassie where was Tucker when you asked him?”
    “By that big rock, where you guys were the first night,” she says walking into the bathroom.
    I hoped she would say that. This was the best news, exactly what I hoped for. Still too early to let my guard down, but at least I can be a little hopeful.
    Cassie comes back wearing an old t-shirt and cut-off sweats. She flicks off the light, turns the fan on letting it oscillate and climbs into her bed.
    “Sharing your fan tonight?” My mood is better and I can’t resist saying it.
    Cassie laughs. The tension between us has lifted. Good timing, with the campers arriving tomorrow, we can’t be fighting.
    “Tessa, I’m sorry, I don’t hate you and I’m sorry I called you a whore. I know you’re not.”
    “It was the first night, it was a weird night. I’m over it.” As long as she never does it again .
    “This summer, I want to have fun and be a little crazy. This thing with Sawyer, it’s just a fling, a good time. I hope you don’t judge me.”
    “I don’t judge you. You can do whatever you want.”
    “I mean everyone else here is doing whatever the hell he wants, why shouldn’t I?”
    He? Who did she mean? That was strange. I don’t say anything and Cassie continues talking into the darkness.
    “Mark and Courtney went to the hut. She stayed in his cabin last night too. Tonight he kissed her right in front of me and then took her back to his cabin again. She’s probably still there right now. I don’t care though. He can do whatever he wants. It’s not like I’m with him.”
    “Your brother?” This is turning into such a creepy conversation. There’s something really weird between Cassie and Mark. Why is she talking like this?
    “Huh? My brother, yes, I meant it like of course I’m not with him, he’s my brother.” She laughs it off.
    Cassie goes quiet and I am freaked out. Do they have some twisted incestuous relationship? It was a strange comment to make. I think I need to keep an eye on Cassie just in case. This potentially could be a very bad situation.

CHAPTER SEVEN
    Cassie
    Everything about the weekdays is different at camp. It’s a whole new look and feel once the place is bustling with screaming kids scattered all over the grounds in assorted activities. The days are packed and zoom by leaving everyone exhausted.
    Tessa and I spent the week up to our eyeballs in moody twelve-year-old girls. The last night there the girls were up half the