Chapter 7 – Lies To Truths
*Cam’s POV*
As the world of the living slowly returns to you, you start to groan. No later than you did that you hear, “CAMERON!!!” coming from around you. You fully open your eyes and look around at the worried faces of everyone, you turn and, look beside you and see Luna nuzzling your shoulder.
“Wow, didn’t think Luna actually liked me,” you think, “I’ve only known her for what… 4 days,” you continue to think, “I don’t want to have a relationship just yet,” you think, “I just want more time to figure out my feelings for everyone here,” you think as you look around the room.
Luna starts to stir, “*Yawn* I think Cam should *yawn* be fine,” Luna says while yawning, she look up at you after realising she’s been nuzzling you in her sleep, she instantly goes beet red and tries to go to the pool, but you grab her by the wrist, she looks at you and you give her a look that tells her “It’s fine, but we’ll talk about this very soon” and she relaxes a small amount but you can tell she’s still on guard by the way she has her shoulders.
“Are both of you okay?” Amber asks,
“I’m fine,” you tell them while looking at Luna with a “Don’t tell them” look, Celestia picks up on that,
“Are you sure,” Celestia teases, “By the way you’re looking at my sister, there’s something you need to tell us?” Celestia asks,
“Before you even try to tell them Luna,” you say to Luna without looking at her, “Let’s just say there are some things I still haven’t told you about myself, and I’d rather not let anyone know until I feel like opening up,” you tell everyone in room while scanning across all of them,
“Okay,” Twilight says, Celestia looks at her with minimal surprise in her eyes, “If you don’t feel like you can open up to us yet, then don’t. But when you’re ready, don’t be afraid to come and talk to us,” Twilight says which surprises Celestia even more, “What?” she says as she turns to Celestia, “I’ve picked up on a few of the tricks YOU,” points at Celestia, “use every day when doing your job,” Twilight says with a smile on her face.
“Okay, while that’s all and good,” Amber says, “How about we all get back in the pool and Cam can join us right now,” She says as she turns to you.
“Sorry, I just need to finish drying the last of these dishes,” you gesture to the drying rack and show them the plate and pan that still needed to be dried.
Everyone starts to head back outside, you grab Luna by the wrist, “I just need to speak with Luna for a bit,” you look at Celestia, “If you don’t mind,” you ask,
“I don’t mind at all Cam,” Celestia says as she heads out the back door, “But don’t be too forward with her,” she says as she goes out back leaving you and Luna red as tomato’s.
“Is she… are you…” Luna starts to ask,
“No, NO, it’s just…” you say as you grab another towel and start to dry, “In my head, you remember everything, right,” you ask Luna,
“Yes, we remember, we only got there when we heard that thing said, ‘You have no control in your mind’ and then we yelled what we yelled, saw the fight, and left,” Luna says
“Okay, I get that, but… were you there when… you know…” you say nervously,
“Know what?” Luna asks you,
“You don’t remember?” you ask Luna,
“Remember what?” Luna asks,
“You know what, never mind,” you say defeated, “Just go outside and join the others, and remember, have a good time,” you say as you force a smile,
“Okay, I will” Luna says
*Luna’s POV*
As you go to the back door you can’t help but think, “Was it wrong of us to lie to Cameron,” you think, “I know he was probably talking about the kiss, but, I…” you think as you open the back door, “think he forced that smile at the end there,” you walk to a beach chair set up in the backyard and sit down, “I think I should tell him the truth, I’ve seen some of his past, and I want to be there for him in the future,” you continue to think.
*Cam’s POV*
You head upstairs to get changed to go swimming with the others, you go to your drawer and pull out your swim trunks, “I don’t think they’re gonna like this,” you give your red and black swim trunks a good look, “Even if they don’t like it, oh well,” you say to yourself. “It sucks that Luna didn’t actually kiss me,” you touch your lips again, “It felt too real to be a dream, but even if she did kiss me, I still wouldn’t go out with her, I’ve only known her for 4 days,” you say as you get your towel from the closet and head back downstairs to the pool. “I do appreciate the gesture though,” you say as you re-enter the kitchen.
You step outside and see Cadence tanning on one of the beach chairs you got after you paid for the pool, you see Twilight on another beach chair reading one of the books from the bookshelf in the living room, you see both Luna and Celestia in the pool splashing each other like kids, and you see Amber sitting on the edge of the pool just dipping her legs in and not really swimming, “Okay,” they all turn and look at you, “Time to go swimming,” you say as you lift your hand and Amber suddenly falls into the pool, “All of us,” you say before Amber even has a chance to say something.
“And what if some of us don’t want to?” Cadence asks while looking at Twilight
“Actually, I was waiting for Cameron here before going in,” Twilight says as she places a magic bookmark on the page she was on
“Remember what I said about magic use in the house,” you say sternly to Twilight
“But we’re not inside the house, we’re outside,” she says with a confident smirk
“But we’re still in my homes property,” you tell her. She tries to make a come-back but decides to keep it shut because you have a point, “No come-back Twilight?” you say jokingly
“Oh, shut it Cam,” she says as she gets in the pool
“Now only Cadence here needs to get in,” you gesture to where she’s getting her tan, “Now before you say anything,” you say as she opens her mouth to speak before choosing to be quiet, “If you don’t get in here, I’ll drag you in here,” you say as you grin in her direction
“OH. Just try to Cam, you won’t even get that far with just the element of earth you CAN control,” she says with a mocking grin,
“Oh, I’ll definitely try,” you say as you wear a shit eating grin. As soon as you say that Cadence flies up to were you can’t reach her, you decide to surprise her, by making a gust of wind blow her into the pool. She gains a surprised look on her face but barely pulls up before hitting the water.
“That’s new,” she looks at you, “Since when did you learn to control air currents?” Cadence asks you
“Oh, I’ve known how,” you raise you hand behind your back, “for about…” you continue to distract her as you slowly have the air current pull her down to the water, “a few hours, specifically... when I passed out,” you tell her as you yank your arm down as you say that last part and Cadence gets trust into the water. You laugh as she resurfaces and glares daggers at you.
“That’s not very funny,” Cadence whines at you, your laughing dies down.
“Okay, it wasn’t THAT funny,” you say as you turn and glare at her, “BUT I said no wings during the day, I just have to hope no one saw you while you were flying,” you say like a parent telling their child they did something wrong, she suddenly looks embarrassed, “Just please don’t do it again,” you ask her nicely.
“Okay,” she says as she folds her wing in on her back.
Some time has passed and all of you are enjoying your time in the pool, you decide to have a little fun and you swim to the center of your pool, you then start to raise your hands out of the water, the water slowly rises at your command, you decide make thing interesting, you then start to make the water turn into a sphere, “HEY!” they all panickily yelled. You finish trapping them all in the water sphere, you then make air pockets for them to breathe.
“OKAY CAM!!! THAT WASN’T COOL!!!” Amber yells at you. You start to count and see that Luna’s missing from the bubble.
“Where’s Luna?” you ask the others, you then hear a big splash behind you and feel arms wrap around you from behind.
“SURPRISE!!!” Luna yells as she pulls herself closer to you. You then feel two soft pillows against your back, you also feel two nubs press against your back.
“LUNA!!!” you yell surprised, the bubble of water instantly returns to the pool with everyone, Celestia then swims/ walks over to you but stops once she sees something in the water, you turn and look at it, it’s Luna’s bikini top, you start to mentally freak out, but Luna just hugs you tighter, which pushes her breasts closer against you back, which in turn causes an infinite loop of the problem, until Celestia walks up with Luna’s bikini top and uses her magic to pull Luna off of you.
“LUNA ECPLIPSE!!!” Celestia yells at her sister, “YOU’RE IN BIG TROUBLE WHEN WE GET BACK HOME!” she continues to yell at her sister,
“But twas very funny, and Cam’s reaction tis priceless,” she says in a weak defensive tone as she you hear what you think is her putting her bikini top back on
“You do know that he probably didn’t appreciate that joke Luna,” Celestia says as you turn around and see that she did put her top back on
“While I do agree with Celestia on this one,” you say as you but into the conversation, “I don’t want you to do that again, and as punishment…” you say as you start to think of a punishment, you get an evil punishment, “you can’t play any of my games for exactly 24 hours,” you say as you start to smirk, Luna then looks petrified
“NOOOOOOOOO!!!” Luna yells loud enough to break the windows on just your house, which surprises you “Oops… sorry,” Luna embarrassingly says. You stare at your destroyed windows, you turn to Luna with a stern expression on your face,
“You do know you’re going to replace those, right?” you tell Luna
“Or we could use magic to repair them,” Luna says hopefully. You groan as you rub your eyes in annoyance.
“Fine. But you will not be touching the games for 24 hours after there repair,” you say to Luna
*Celestia’s POV*
The rest of the day was uneventful except for the window fixing all of us had to do thanks to my sister, but still, Cameron didn’t need to be THAT mischievous with her punishment, but it’s still his property. After we all finished, we all decided to break for lunch. After that everything was uneventful till dinner.
“So, who wants to do the dishes?” Cam asks nicely as he clears the table as we finish dinner. My sister raises her hand.
“Why would you do that Luna?” you think in your head. You decide to talk to her about it so you raise your hand.
“Okay, thanks you two,” Cam finishes putting away the condiments from dinner, “You two can do the dishes, I’ll be upstairs doing homework. If you need any help just come and get me, okay?” he says as he approaches the stairs. We both shake our heads to say “no” and he just nods and heads up to his room.
As everyone starts to clear out from the kitchen I decide to strike up a conversation with my sister, “So, how’ve you been?” you ask. You then turn and see your sister crying, you go and give her a hug as she sobs into your shoulder.
“Why did we have to lie to him?” she says in between sobs.
“What did you lie to who about?” you ask trying to get your sister to talk so you can begin to help her.
“I lied to Cam,” you turn her head so your looking into each others eyes, “about a kiss I gave him in the realm of dreams,” she lightens up on the sobbing, “I lied when I said I didn’t kiss him,” Luna says as she starts to sniffle.
“Luna,” you say in your usual voice when talking to your subjects, “you don’t need to let this build up to a point where this could hurt you,” you start to stand both of you up, “just go and apologize to him now so you don’t hurt your relationship later,” you tell her.
“But…” she says before you cut her off.
“But nothing, I’ll do the rest of these dishes,” you look at Luna, “while you go and apologize to Cam,” you say as you turn back to do the dishes. You briefly feel someone’s arms wrap around you before you hear someone running up the stairs. You giggle as you continue to do the dishes.
*Luna’s POV*
You head up to Cam’s room in a hurry forgetting that you need to tell him the truth, it suddenly hits you as you finally get up the stairs. You slowly walk towards Cam’s door, and contemplate how your going to tell him the truth. “Should we just be blunt, or should we, as he says, “beat around the bush”, or should we just give him the hints to piece it together,” you think in your head as you walk towards Cam’s room.
You reach Cam’s room and you start to hesitate, “This COULD wait until tomorrow… but if we don’t do it now… but he’s doing homework… ARG why does this have to be so hard,” you think in your head. You steal your nerves and knock on his door; you wait a minute… no answer… you knock again… once again, no answer… “Should we just go in?” you think quietly to yourself. You decide to enter his room, but after knocking and informing him you’re entering his chambers.
You knock and open the door to Cam’s room and see that it has a dark green paint with the basic commodities and what looks like a portable computer and earmuffs on his head. “Um, Cam,” he turns in your direction and take his earmuffs off.
“Yeah,” he responds nonchalantly while turning his spinning chair to face you, and putting his elbows on his knees.
“I need to talk to you about some things,” you say as you turn your head so you don’t face him.
“Okay,” he turns to his computer and closes it, “What did you want to talk about?” he asks as he turns back to face you, he notices you standing and fidgeting with your hair, “You can take a seat on my bed if you want,” he says as he gestures to his bed. You take a seat on the bed as he turns the chair to follow you.
“I need to ask you first,” you ask,
“Okay,” he responds
“Why were you wearing earmuffs in your chambers? And what is that,” you point to the computer, “used for?” you ask.
“Oh, these,” he holds up the earmuffs, “these are my headphones, they make sure that the music I listen to can’t be heard by you guys when I work on my homework,” he tells you as he puts the headphones down.
“Can I listen to some of your music?” you ask
“No,” he says, and before you can ask why he starts to tell you, “The main reason is because you probably don’t have the same taste in music as I do,” he tells you. He then turns and grabs his computer, “And this is a laptop, it’s like a portable computer,” he says as he shows you his “laptop”
You look at it and you can tell it’s like the computer in the basement but t doesn’t seem as good as the one down there. He turns and puts back the laptop, and faces you again, “Now. What else did you want to talk to me about?” he asks while looking you in the eyes.
“Well… you remember the… thing… that tried to take you over?” you ask him while avoiding eye contact.
“Yeah? Why?” he asks while still trying to make eye contact.
“You remember what you asked me about after we got out right?” you respond with another question while still avoiding eye contact as to no just break down into tears.
“Yeah. I think I asked if you kissed me,” he brings his hand up to his chin and taps his cheek, “and you told me that it was just a figment of my imagination, right?” he says as he looks at you while returning his elbows to his knees.
“Well… I sorta… kinda… maybe…” you say trying to get it out, “lied to you,” you say as you look into his caring emerald green eyes hoping for forgiveness.
“You lied to me,” he says sternly to you.
“Yes,” you start to shrink at his gaze.
He rubs the bridge of his nose and sighs, “It was wrong of you to lie to me,” he tells you as he starts to stand up, you try to get up with him but he holds out his hand to signify you to stay seated, “Look, I’m willing to let this slide,” he starts to come towards you, “but even if you have a thing for me. I don’t know you enough to pursue a relationship with you right now. *sigh* Look, I’m disappointed in you for lying to me,” he says as he starts to take a seat next to you, “But to make it up to you I want everyone to get together after I finish this paper, and we’re ALL going to be revealing some truths,” he grabs your chin and makes you gently look into his eyes, “and I’ll answer some questions you may have about me. Okay?” he asks you as you get lost in his beautiful emerald green eyes. You snap out of your trance and nod your head in agreement. “Okay, good,” he gets up and returns to his chair, “You can go now,” he tells you. You start to leave his room but as you reach his door, “If you ever need anybody besides your sister to talk to,” you turn and look at him, “my door is always open,” he tells you with a genuine smile.
“Thank you, Cam,” you say as you close the door and walk downstairs to tell everyone to meet up in the living room.
-End of Chapter 7-