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I walk to the west of our cabins with Pete, who has been silent all the way. I know what goes through his mind, he wonders what I am doing here, next to him, walking towards the same place as him.

"Emm..." He says, trying to address the subject.

"Do not ask."

"Okay..." He answers quickly, although I can see him he smiling sideways.

When we arrive at the engineering cabins, most of them are already packing, although we are leaving in the early hours of the morning and it is still late, nobody wants to pack their stuffs early in the morning but nobody seems to want to leave either, since everyone is packing reluctantly and admit that I am one of them.

"It's here." Pete says after we arrive at a small and rather neglected cabin.

When he knocks on the door, we are greeted by Ae with a big smile, which fades when he sees me behind Pete. He looks at Pete trying to find an answer but he only answers with the same doubt in his eyes.

"Where is Can?"

"He's not here, I haven't seen him since morning. I thought he would be with you." He says to Pete, completely ignoring me.

"He came to the cabin to get his clothes but then he disappeared and left his clothes lying in the room." Pete answers.

Seriously? That fool must have been so scared that he forgot to take his clothes with him.

"And what are you doing here?" Ae asks, addressing me in a bad way.

If there is something in me that has not changed, it is the way in which I don't care for others' comments or objections.

"He came to bring Can's clothes." Pete answers when he sees that they will not receive any answer from me.

"Was it necessary for him to bring it?" Ae asked.

"Yes." I answer and without saying more, I went to what I think is their shared room.

"Hey!" I hear Ae say from behind me but hecis held back by Pete.

When I enter the room, I see that there are six beds in it, which is something I'm not that surprised.

It doesn't take long for me to find the bed where he sleeps, which is all messy and with dirty clothes on top, I went over and put his clothes on the piece of furniture next to him.

And out of inertia or some reason that I cannot explain, I take his pillow and smell it, its aroma brings me to the memory of the first time I kissed him, the day he was scared and his body was shaking from the cold and fear, his lips were very soft and all his body emanated a scent of fruits...although everything was dirty...that same smell is what I feel now and it intoxicates me.

"Oh...sorry." I hear someone say and automatically throw the pillow on the bed in shock.

I see the boy that remember seeing him sometime, I think he's a friend of Ae and Can.

"I didn't see anything..." He says and walks away slowly.

Devils! What was I doing? This is too embarrassing, I feel my face burning and surely, it is red.

"There's a guy smelling Can's pillow in the room." I hear someone say from the hall.

It can't be...

I immediately leave the room and when I do, I find three people staring at me.

"I..." I try to say something and they seem to pay me more attention, I feel the pressure on me and I decide that I can't continue staying in this place.

"I'm going..." I say and start walking towards the door.

"Is he okay?" I listen from behind.

"I don't know..." I can hear Pete answer.

"That man was smelling Can's pillow! That's not normal!" The other boy mutters.

I step out of the cabin and take a deep breath.

"The things I do for this idiot"

***

When the sun goes down, there are only few people bordering the forest because everyone is gathered for what will be the last supper.

I entered our cabin and see that everything is dark.

I guess they must be in the room by now, I take a quick bath to get the dirt off of me so I can meet them and after that, I head to the bedroom with the frustration of knowing that I don't have anything to wear for today as I left my clothes thrown to Pete and Tin's cabin when I jumped out the window.

Although surely by this time, there would be nothing left of my clothes, with the fury that Tin must have felt at that moment because we invaded his room.

My clothes must be already in ashes, he will have burned them in fire or perhaps he will use them to curse me in some strange ritual.

I turn on the light with a single idea in my head, borrow clothes from my friends, the only solution I can think of, not until I notice clothes on the furniture that I have next to the bed.

It's my clothes...they're intact, I checked for scissor holes, but nothing.

My clothes are safe.

Then a single possible idea forms in my head, "Ai'Pete", he is always so good and considerate, surely he came here to give me my clothes.

I dress up happily and catch up with my friends in the main room, the room is already packed and I had a hard time locating them until I notice Pond in the crowd, sitting at a table near the middle of the room so I went to him, where I also think they must all be.

"Hey!" I tell them when I get close enough.

I smiled until my feet stop automatically at the sight of him, my smile freezes and I immediately step back but bump into someone.

A pair of arms hold my shoulders and prevented me from running away.

"Elder brother..." Lemon says smiling so sweetly, "Come on, sit at the table..." her tone changing to a no longer sweet one.

"Mmm, I forgot something..." I stutter.

"I said, sit down." Lemon answers in a very terrifying way and the blood drains from my body as I am pushed to the table.

"Where were you?" Ae asks when he sees me.

"Over there..." I mumble as I feel Tin's eyes on me.

Lemon pushes my shoulders down, forcing me to sit next to her and in front of Tin.

I swallowed hard and try not to make any eye contact, which is very difficult for me when I feel like I'm being watched.

I can't help but wonder what he's doing here, I thought he didn't like Ae, nor anyone in general and that he preferred to be alone...maybe Pete forced him to come, I observe Ae and see that he's not very happy to have Tin in here either, however, he says nothing about it, he just watched him.

"We save you a plate of food!" Good says handing me a tray of food.

Everything in it looks delicious but for one in the few times in my life, I am not hungry.

"Thank you..."

Almost as if forcing myself, I do not raise my head much and kept quiet, Tin does not speak either but if there is something he does besides eating, it is to observe me, yes...I have not stopped feeling his gaze on me after all this time.

"Can, take this." Good says, giving me the chocolate he have and placing it on my tray, because he doesn't like sweets very much.

"Thank yo---"

"Take this." Tin also leaves his chocolate on my tray, almost knocking the one Good gave me out of it.

When I looked up, I saw how he gives a horrible look at my friend, who ducks his head at the threat.

A chill runs down my spine and I can only think of one possibility, the dessert is poisoned.

"Thanks but I'm allergic," I tell him and Tin squints his eyes.

"You are not allergic to anything." Lemon who's still next to me, says.

"Yes I am." I answer, gritting my teeth at my sister.

"Since when?"

"Since now." I mumbled.

Tin's face does not express any emotion at my words but somehow, I feel that something is going through his head.

"I'll buy you a different dessert then," Tin says seriously.

What the hell is he's problem?

"No, thanks...I'm full." I answer and his gaze darkens.

"I would like that," Pond says when he hears it.

"Buy yours." Tin replies, then his eyes turn back to me, he's angry. Well, he always looks at me like he's angry, but this time he seems even more so.

The tension between all of us was cut when a girl comes to our table.

"Last bonfire after dinner, at the edge of the lake, in the southern area." She tells us and walks away to go to another table and say the same words to others.

"Let's go!" Says Pond enthusiastically.

"Yes, I like the idea." Says Pete

"I'll join." Agreed by Good.

I look at Tin and certain words that he said before come back to my mind "I don't like group games"...good, he is not going to join us.

"Me too." I answer.

"And I..." I hear him mutter gracefully.

Hearing this made me clench my teeth.

Weren't you supposed to not like these things?

What do you exactly want of me?

***

As soon as we reached the campfire, we formed a circle among many students.

I quickly sit between Pond and Good and again, I have Tin in sit front of me, a battle of strange looks rages between us.

I frown when he raises his eyebrow, we stayed like that for several minutes.

All of this just because I walked into your room? If you want to kill me, just do it at once!!

"This is the last game of the night everyone!" Says ChaAim, the girl with red hair from the first night, I know her name because Pond hasn't stopped mentioning her all these days.

"And what will it be this time?" Pond asks with a special sparkle in his eyes.

"Nothing better than "Truth or consequence" to end this trip!" She answers which made everyone is surprised and start gossiping among themselves, everyone seems to like the idea less but I really don't know what this game is about.

"How do I play that?" I ask and everyone sighs.

"The game is based on two options, you have the "Truth", which is a question that one person asks of another and he must answer with the truth. And then there is the "consequence", where you are given a challenge that you must complete." Says ChaAim.

I nod and decided to participate, it seems easy.

"Very good, let's start!" The girl says. "And since I am the hostess, I start...with you!" And she points to Pond. "Truth or consequence?"

"Women..." Pond says in resigned. "Truth."

"How many girlfriends have you had in your life?" Her tone is somewhat strange as she crosses her arms, waiting for an answer...is this still a game?

"Like...10!" He responds very defensively and the next thing I see is how ChaAim hits Pond with her fist on the head. "Okay! Okay! None..." He says softly and the woman smiles happily.

"Well it's your turn," She says and I can see how Pond smirks and glares at Ae.

"Ae...truth or consequence?"

"I knew you were going to go straight to me...truth."

"Well, have you already peeled the shrimp, my tender friend?"

Ae blushes just like Pete and the women starts screaming.

"Pond!" Yells Ae with his cheeks flushed, even in the dark, you can tell how embarrassed he is.

I don't understand why I should be ashamed to peel a shrimp, everyone peels shrimp...right?

"Answer!" Pond demands again.

Ae seems hesitant and looks at Pete all the time, but in the end he answers.

"Yes..." He answers softly that made my sister screams with excitement, almost making us all deaf.

"Ae...you continue." Says ChaAim

"Can...truth or consequence?" I think about it a bit until I make up my mind and chose what everyone else chose so far.

"Truth."

"Where have you been all afternoon?"

"Boring question." Hums Pond.

I get nervous, I am supposed to answer the truth but if I do...I look to my side and see Tin narrow his eyes at him.

I swallow with difficulty.

"Hiding ...." I say and feel myself being stabbed by his gaze.

"Hiding? Why?"

"Oh, no! It's only one question per person! So, it's your turn Can."

"Okay...Ae." I say because curiosity has won me over. "Truth or consequence?"

"Truth."

"Don't you know how to peel shrimp? Because if you don't, I can teach you, it is not very difficult..."

Laughter is heard all over the place from the other people in the circle.

What is funny? Maybe some people do not know how to peel shrimp...but there is no reason to laugh at them, so why are they laughing?

Ae is red as a tomato.

Oh, my poor friend doesn't want to admit it.

"I can peel shrimp, Can..."

"Ah...okay."

At the corner of my eyes, I can see Tin who seems to be laughing inside, what amuses him?

The round of questions continues, some choose consequence and end up doing strange things like jumping into the lake or having a whole glass of beer. When it is the turn of a really pretty girl, she points to Tin, whom until now, nobody had asked anything.

"P'Tin. Truth or consequence?"

"Truth."

"Is there someone in this round that you like?" She asks and I see how she looks at him, I think he likes him, like almost all the women here.

"Yes." I hear all the women squeal with joy at his answer.

"The ice king like someone? I can't believe it." Certain people murmur.

I don't know why it surprises me or why I even care, but somehow I feel upset.

You have someone you like and yet you kiss me? Really a devil.

"Can." He says and I glare at him, his answer still stuck in my head. "Truth or consequence?"

Why don't you bother someone else?

What do you else do you have me to do?

I look at him hard, however he doesn't seem to care, he just wants to annoy me, like always because I know, at the end of the day, I'm just a joke to him.

"Truth."

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