It had been a long day. This time, things were different around camp. She could remember clearly how long it had taken her to film scenes when she had arrived last year as a newbie. This year? Three days in, and she had been working all of them, both as a mentor and an actress. And yet, she didn’t mind one bit. As nostalgic as the place made her, it carried a sense of freedom, excitement and home that she hadn’t found anywhere else. It was a little past midnight when the blonde walked quietly into the cabin, eager to throw herself into her bed. Her steps came into a halt though when her eyes caught a glimpse of a pair of shoes right outside of her room’s door. They were shoes that belonged to a guy.
“What the…” she murmured, her eyes staring at the shoes for much longer than normal. She knew those shoes… “No…” Her blue eyes widened in a mix of suspicion and disbelief. It couldn’t be. And yet, her heart pounded in her chest just at the possibility that her intruder could be one of her most favorite people on the planet. Trying to keep quiet for her roommates’ sake, she opened the door and turned on the light. Impatience was still evident in every move of hers.
“WWWHAT!!!!!!” she exclaimed, her hands coming up to cover a jaw that had fallen open – not because she was worried about waking up her roommates, but because she worried she’d break the windows from the volume of her shout if she hadn’t. “You’re not… You can’t… Ohhmygod!” What if he was sleeping? What if the entire camp was sleeping? There was not holding back in her reaction. She cheered, jumping on her spot before diving right into her bed, her fists hitting maniacally his thighs and hips and ribs and anything that she found. They weren’t angry punches, though — on the contrary. She couldn’t hold back her pure ecstasy over seeing there the guy who had grown to be one of her closest friends. “You little… You lied to me!”
The sound of the front door closing was enough to wake him up from the nap he’d taken to kill time. This was it, the moment of truth, time to see the golden reaction. Leo listened for every footstep, not even realizing he was holding his breath in anticipation. He wanted to jump out of bed and surprise her as she opened the door, but if his timing was off or he was too loud, he could have ruined the surprise!
Luckily he didn’t have to wait long, the door opening and the light flicking on to reveal the beautiful blonde’s surprise. Her shouting was earth shattering, so he wasn’t sure how believable it was that he was sleeping, but he stayed still and kept his eyes closed until he felt a barrage of punches, plenty of them dangerously close to putting him into an early retirement. Quiet chuckles escaped him until he opened his eyes. “Ow, -- ow!” he managed, in between his laughs.
Sitting up, he wrapped his arms around her and body-slammed her on to the bed, arms squeezing her into a tight embrace. “Yes. Yup. I lied. I’m a big fat liar.” As tight as he was holding her, he was sure he was probably crushing something, but he didn’t let up, instead squeezing tighter and pressing a friendly kiss to the side of her forehead. “But I had to, because your face was so worth it.”
