Annabelle

Cam and I found a bench outside and sat down. It was the prettiest and clearest night ever, and you could see the stars twinkling. The moon was shining down, giving the practically vacant parking lot a nighttime glow. The street lamps were dimmed perfectly almost as if to not ruin the scenery that laid out in front of us. The Kroger was also on one of those in-the-middle-of-nowhere roads so there were no cars and just trees.

Cam broke the awkward silence. "Do you see that line of stars?" He asked, pointing into the sky.

"No," I replied, desperately searching the sky for a line of stars. All I saw were little white dots.

"Right there," He wrapped his arm around my shoulder so his pointing finger was in my line of sight. I finally spotted the star formation.

"Oh, I see it!" I exclaimed.

"That's Orion's Belt." Cam said proudly.

"Which is?" I asked, turning my head towards him.

"A constellation." He pushed my hair away from my face, which made me want to turn away, but instead I just kind of stood there, sure of the fact that my face was a tomato and getting hotter by the second.

Then, it happened. He leaned in closer to me. A lot closer than to anyone had ever come to me. A thousand different thoughts were running through my head, but I shushed them. Then, his lips were one mine. This must be what it's like to stop time. I thought to myself. I pulled away and opened my eyes, and saw Mack and Gabriella, mouths agape, standing in the distance. I shook them out of my head.

"Well," I whispered, biting my lip, as was a nervous habit. Cam just laughed. And then, someone who I vaguely remember from Cam's table popped up from behind the bench.

"What's going on here?" He asked, smirking. Cam sighed and rolled his eyes. "What, you're not gonna introduce me to your 'friend'?" He asked Cam, raising his eyebrows on the word 'friend'.

"Derrick, this is Annabelle. Annabelle, this is Derrick." Cam said with an exasperated tone.

"Hi, Derrick?" I asked, almost in question form.

"Excuse us for a minute," Derrick replied and grabbed Cam's hand, as he dragged my first kiss away from the bench.

Mack and Gabriella came out of no where and slid into Cam's spot on the bench, their mouths still ajar.

"What." Gabriella started.

"Was." Mack continued.

"That?!" They finished.

"Nothing?" I tried, attempting to escape an awkward conversation. But I know that they saw and and I know them too well to know that they weren't going to let me just get away.

"Yeah, okay." They said together. "Stop that! I said it first! Ugh." They also said in usion. Mack and Gabriella might be different, but they could be completely alike at times.

"So this is where you disappeared off to." Gabriella smirked.

"Maybe," I replied, trying to sound vague and mysterious. However I was a clutz in all ways and was going to start tripping over my own words at any minute.

"What happened? I need details! Details!" Mack exclaimed, pretending to shove

news reporter's microphone in my face. Instead she just knocked me off the bench.

"If you want information, you're going to need your interviewee alive." I said with a glare at Mack as I stood and dusted myself off.

"So, what was it like?" Mack asked,

"Nice?" I shrugged.

"We're not getting anything out of her." Mack whispered to Gabriella.

"She's right there," Gabriella whispered back to her, laughing.

"Yeah," I acted all fake annoyed and crossed my arms. Apparently, I'm not a very good actor.

"Annabelle Brite, give us one adjective to describe your 'moment' with the one and only, Cammmmmm Brimerrrrr!" Mack continued to press with her gameshow host gimmick, and lengthened the end of Cam's name for 'effect'.

"Warm?" I tried again. Mack and Gabriella rolled their eyes.

"We could've guessed that!" Gabriella giggled, and then we all just sort of dissolved into fits of laughter. I don't know about Mack and Gabriella, but I like laughing with them versus being interrogated by them.