The Camino Club by Kevin Craig

Author:Kevin Craig [Craig, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Interlude Press
Published: 2020-10-05T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 25 — Diego Nelson

We had to promise we wouldn’t get “into mischief” tonight before Gil and Meagan would let us go out. Easy. I just want to be out here holding Shania’s hand, stealing a few kisses, and thinking about home and my grandmother. Not interested in anything else.

“Where to?” Manny asks. We’re all standing around waiting for someone to make a suggestion. I can’t believe we all want to spend our free time walking around in the dark, when we already spent the entire day walking.

“How about this way?” Troy says. Not like it matters which way we go. He leads the way as we set off to explore the little village. I’m pretty sure we’ll cover the entire place in about two minutes.

Troy brought his new friend Kei with him. He seems nice enough.

“I know the plan was to escape the adults, but I kind of miss not spending time with Bastien tonight,” Shania says. I couldn’t agree more. I don’t know what I would have done without him last night. “I mean, it’s kind of lame walking around. Didn’t we already do this? Like, all day?”

“Get out of my head. That’s exactly what I was thinking.”

“Sure you were, Diego. Right.”

“No, really.” We’re holding hands, and it wasn’t even like it was a decision or anything. We just stepped outside, and I took her hand and that was it.

“So, you two an item now?” Manny tries to butt in between us. He’s skipping around like he’s on fire. Then he leans against my back like he’s trying to get a piggyback. Troy said Manny drank wine at dinner. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s a little lit. He’s sure acting like it.

“I don’t know. Mind getting off my back, dude? Don’t want you to take us with you when you fall flat on your face and break your neck.”

“No. I’m good,” he says. “Just a little shine.” He laughs this maniacal laugh, but he lets go. Shania shushes him, because this town is dead. It looks like everyone who lives here goes to bed at eight. Manny makes his way to Troy and Kei. New victims.

Claire and Greg walk together, staying far behind everyone else. This surprises me after what Shania told me about their fight, which I would have seen with my own two eyes had I not been upstairs waiting for things to calm down. Let them work things out themselves. Last thing we need is more drama on this trip.

“So, are we?” Shania says.

“Huh?”

“An item? Are we an item?” She looks down at our interlocked fingers and then gives me an overexaggerated inquisitive look and giggles.

I’m so bad with girls. Really. We all know how the Sabrina Vincent fiasco went down. I couldn’t even get that girl by lighting a celebratory fire in her honor. To be fair, though, that was probably not the best way to go about it.

Now here’s this girl who’s looking at me like I matter, and I didn’t do a single boneheaded thing to get her.

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