Chapter 7: Chapter 7
Ezekiel and Stacie's apartment
They all sat down in the living room, making plans on how the holiday should be, since they had no plans to travel home to see their families. The idea of spending summer break together was Danielle's and they all agreed.
For a while, no one said anything, silence hung heavily in the living room, Patrick kept chewing on his nails and spitting it out, a bad habit that his dominant boyfriend Ivan, hated. A glare from Ivan told Patrick to stop chewing on his nails.
Jasper on the other hand, sat on the cushion with the heart shape, while his girlfriend Ruth, sat on the floor in front of him; she sent a text to her mother to let her know she won't be coming to Mumbai for the Buddhist festival.
After the text message had delivered, another message popped up. She clicked on it.
"Oh my poor Anjali, we're fine here and your brother said you should stay safe." The message said.
She felt guilty for lying to her mother, as she heaved a sigh, then put her phone on 'DO NOT DISTURB.’
There was a long silence ten minutes had passed and still no one said anything.
Stacie kept fidgeting, shrugging her shoulders, her breathing coming out harshly.
“Is it that we all are scared to go to the cabin at Lakewood? C'mon, it's just going to be us, alcohol, weeds, sex, music and food, and it's going to be fun," she stated matter-of-factly, raising a brow at Danielle.
Clasping her hand together, she cleared her throat, tapping her foot endlessly, and did it only when nervous or confused.
But right now she was nervous, getting the rest of her friends to go to Lakewood was like a huge task, especially when Louie kept staring at her, whilst she avoided making eye contact with him.
“Okay guys, the cabin, it's my grandfather's, I haven't been there since I was nine years old and I promise you there's everything we'd need there, and a lake. We can swim and do picnics. You guys will love it," she said.
She scrunched her face to give them a pleading look.
"Ok, fine, I'll go," Louie said in a surrendering tone.
“Me too," Patrick said in a flat tone. And so they all agreed to go.
“We leave on Friday by 10am. We'll get to Lakewood by midnight. It's going to be fun." She said.