Sarah

It's about 4:00. That means one more hour until camp ends and one more hour until Jared leaves and I'll never see him again.

I decided that I would give one of my pictures to him. I chose to give him the one of the two of us.

We were in the stables in the photo. I was on the inside of Buttons' stall and he was on the outside. He was holding the camera and I had my hand on Buttons.

All the campers were gathering their bags and getting ready to go home. I told Jared at the scavenger hunt to come see me at the house before he left. That's when I heard the doorbell ring.

No one else was in the house so I got the door. It was Jared. He was a lot earlier than I had expected.

"Why did you want me to come here?"

"Come on." I told him and brought him to my room. Ok now don't get the wrong idea of me and him alone in the house and I was brining him to my room. I wasn't thinking anything like that! I just wanted to give him a picture.

He had his duffel bag like he was ready to go home.

He sat down on my bed. I went to my grad the picture off my shelf. I heard the sound of a zipper. I realized Jared was digging in his duffel bag. He pulled something out but I couldn't see what.

"You remember those pictures we took the other day? I got them printed. I..uh.. Well I wanted you to have one. You know. To remember camp and....everything." I handed Jared the picture of the two of us. I only had only picture of both of us. I felt sort of sad give it away I remembered I still had the picture of Jared and Popcorn so I wasn't too sad.

He smiled and took it "Thanks." His smile grew when he looked at the picture longer.

"I have something for you actually." He said.

"Yeah?"

"Yeah." He turned and grabbed the thing he previously pulled out of his bag. I remembered once again that that bag, along with Jared, would be gone forever in about an hour.

I took it from his hands and looked at it. It was the DVD case for Life: it Sucks. It seemed so long ago that he took me to Walmart to convince me he was an actor. I felt a tear build in my eye as I looked at his gift. It may be a risk if someone saw him on the cover of a movie but I didn't care. Besides, it didn't really matter if my dad knew after Jared was gone.

I realized I hadn't spoken since he handed the case to me. Even after my realization I still didn't speak. What was I supposed to say?
Thank you so much for giving me the thing that actually might risk exposing your identity to the one place in the country that doesn't know who you are.

"What do you think?" He asked. He probably felt awkward from the silence.

"I love it but why would you give me something that would risk your identity?"

"I felt like it was worth it. I trust you and even if your parents did find out that I'm famous what would it matter? The rest of the country already knows." I guess he was right.

I looked at the clock in my room. It was 4:40. The bus leaves in twenty minutes.

"We should go. It's 4:40." I said.

"Yeah."

We walked out to the entrance/ exit of our little ranch. All the campers were spread around. They all had their bags and were ready to leave.

I've never really felt sad to see the campers go before. It's usually the opposite. I usually love it when the campers leave because it's just me and my parents again. Now I've made so many friends this year I hate to see them leave. Brooke and Kyle may come back next year because they live close but I know I'll never see Jared again.

He taught me so much this summer. He taught me about movies and the Internet. And something I had never heard of before: Instagram. We took a.... What did he call it? A selfie and posted it on there. He said a lot of people liked it. He told me a lot of people followed him but I thought that was weird. I guess it's something I'll never understand.

I helped the campers load up their bags. All of them were ready to get on the bus and it was 4:55. Tears were welling up in my eyes as I thought about their departure again. Five more minutes. Five minutes I'll have to cherish.

I stood with Jared as he waited to board the bus. I stayed behind as he got on. He was the last board.

I started to walk away sadly as all the campers were on board then I heard "Sarah!" I turned and I saw Jared was running toward me. I almost started to ask him what he was doing but before I could say even one word he came up to me and kissed me smack dab on the lips. My eyes widened with shock and surprise. I didn't have a negative reaction though.

I smiled and told him he had to go. Tears were streaming down my face at this point. I waved to the bus as I saw it depart. I knew that my last memory of Jared would probably be the kiss. That was the newest and most likely best memory of him.

AN

Guys this book isn't over yet. There are three more chapters at least.

I literally almost started crying while writing this chapter. Is that weird?

I love you guys so much and happy reading.