Chapter 60
“So,” I start, glancing at Eliza. “Wanna talk about it?”
She looks up from the map in her hand, a little distracted. “Hmm?”
We’re in the woods surrounding Camp Aramoni, doing the scavenger hunt.
As soon as we dropped our luggage, Eliza was eager to get back out and take on Peter’s challenge.
June opted to stay back and sleep some more. After checking her insulin levels on the new pump and fussing over her for a minute to ensure she was fine, I reluctantly agreed to leave her alone, trusting she would be fine for a couple of hours.
“Talk about what?” Eliza asks as she reverts her focus to the map of the camp. Peter wasn’t joking when he said the counselors set up a mean scavenger hunt game.
It’s a combination of solving riddles that lead to little puzzles that then lead to the objects we need to find.
So far, we’ve found two items out of ten. Although I’m having a blast, Eliza seems a little intense, which is uncharacteristic for her.
“How seriously you’re taking this?”
She shrugs, then mumbles. “True north is false, and false is a lie. What the hell does that mean?”
“Eliza.” I nudge her.
She smiles sheepishly. “Sorry, I just…” She shrugs again. “If Peter wins, he’ll tease me forever.”
I raise a brow. “Forever? As in ‘till death do you part?“”
Her face instantly reddens. “I didn’t… I mean, I–we, he-”
I laugh, putting an arm around her shoulder. “You are literally the most adorable thing ever.”
She groans and rests her head on my shoulder. “I like him,” she admits with a sigh.
I grin widely. “Could’ve fooled me.”
She swats me weakly. “Don’t be sarcastic.”
She raises her head and shrugs. “It’s so weird. I only came here to please my dad, but…” She shrugs helplessly.
“The horse race was the most alive I’ve ever felt, and when we danced at the ball, it felt like something out of a fairytale. And when he looks at me…” She groans and plops to the floor.
I join her in the grass. “You poor, love–struck little thing,” I coo.
Eliza shoots me a weak glare, and I giggle. “If it’s any consolation, I’m pretty sure he likes you too.”
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Her eyebrows raise. “You think?”
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“You challenge him,” I say. “And if there’s one thing I know about Peter Ashford, it’s that he likes a challenge,”
She chuckles softly. “If you say so.”
I stroke her braided hair lovingly. “I say so.”
She looks up at me and smiles slyly. “So, now that I’ve spilled my guts about Peter, wanna return the favor?”
I retreat my hand. “About what?”
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She wiggles her brows. “Nathan.”
My face burns. “I have no idea what you mean.”
Eliza rolls her eyes. “Don’t play coy. You look at that boy like he hung the moon in the sky.”
“That is not true,” I laugh self–consciously.
“Oh yeah? Well, he was staring at you while you danced with Lucas during the ball,” she says. “Even Peter noticed. And the way he saved you at the horse race? You two are literally magnetic. And then he goes and does what he did for June.”
I narrow my eyes. “I shouldn’t have told you that.”
“What you shouldn’t do is deny reality.”
“Okay,” I stand, dusting my hands. “If we sit here yapping all day, Peter will win, and he’ll taunt you“-I smirk- “for the rest of your lives.”
Eliza giggles as she stands. “Fine, evade. I’ll let it slide for now.”
She turns back to the map. “Now, what the hell do you think this means?”
I glance over her shoulder. “If true north is false, and false is a lie…” I frown. “Doesn’t that mean true north is true?”
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