Chapter 134

Will

By the time we made it back to set most of the chaos had died down. Andrew was back, but he was still lurking in the corner, his eyes downcast but not as lost as when he'd first gotten to Seaside.

Alec and Demetri had started a bonfire down by the ocean.

All of us just followed, like we knew the fire was for us, like we were in need of the calm the heat would bring.

Even Andrew eventually ventured over after Jay said something.

Demetri had his ever-present guitar.

Alec had his.

And then Zane said something like, "Oh, look what I have here."

"Any other instruments we should know about?" I said casually.

"Don't!" Demetri waved his hands in the air. "Don't give him the perfect set up to take off his pants, not when he's finally wearing them."

Zane just shrugged.

I leaned back into the sand and closed my eyes for a few seconds.

Everything fell silent.

So I opened one eye and then another.

A guitar was being held over my head.

"Are you going to hit me with it?" I asked