Filthy Rich by Atarah Yvaine (electronic reader txt) 📖

"You're being cheesy!" I protested trying to remove my embarrassment from the compliment. We spend our whole afternoon watching a random movie and talking about stuffs.

When the sun starts setting, we ask some of the man in the house to help us set up the tent. We decided to camp in the other side of the island. It's a little far from the mansion and it's the best spot for the sunrise. Our tent is facing the horizon where the sun will rise tomorrow. They also set us a bonfire ready to be light up and put a log around serving as a stool. We even brought mallows and hotdogs.

Ali and I are wearing a twinning comfortable shorts and oversized shirts. We don't have any plan to swim so we opted for these outfits.

When everything is okay, they left us here and go back to the mansion. They will come back here tomorrow before lunch to get us.

The darkness starts to envelop the surrounding. Ali and I is walking in the shore feeling the cool water hits our feet.

"This kind of experience is priceless. It's the thing that the city can't offer us. It feels like we don't have anything to worry about. I feel like a child again. Fearless of what tomorrow can bring." Ali stops from walking, close her eyes and do a breathing exercise.

"It's a great escape." I look around trying to keep everything in my head. I want to stay but life is offering me more than what I have in here. I need to face everything.

The darkness fully takes over and we are sitting on the blanket spread on the sand eating our food.

"I never been to a camp before. It's my first time hanging out with someone. It’s my first time experiencing this. Thank you" I can't help but to feeling grateful for her because she makes me experience the normal things that the world deprived me.

"Really? First time? Oh my gosh. I am glad this idea pops in my head. You can tell me more about the things you want to try. We will do all of that together. Let's make a bucket list." she run to the tent. She goes inside and comes out with her small bag. She returned on her spot and bring out the small notebook and a colorful pen. She quickly fixed her hair and pinned it up. She ready herself to jot down everything I'm going to say.

"I want to go to amusement park and try rides like roller coaster. I want to try trick or treat on a Halloween night. To play in a playground, to make and light up a tree during Christmas, to have my first ever birthday cake and have someone singing the happy birthday song that I've been singing by myself for years. I want to try the simple things that I am wishing to experience ever since I was a kid. I know It's a little late but it's better late than never." I smiled at her getting excited. Her eyes widened and looks so shocked with my bucket list.

"Ellie...." she’s like in the verge of crying. "Ok don't mind me. Go on. I want you to tell me all the things you want. I'll continue writing them down"

"I want to learn how to ride a bike and play hide seek. I want to play and bath in the rain and a lot more but that's on top of my list. I'll tell you more when I remember them all" I said and getting excited about everything. I got a lot of chances to some of them but sometimes I feel embarrassed to do it on my own.

"Ok, you can always update this whenever you want. Let's do these first." I saw her wiping the side of her eyes and sniffing.

"Are you okay?" I worriedly look at her. Did I say something wrong? I am trying to remember everything. I think I did not say anything bad or offensive.

"Yeah, something just got into my eyes. Maybe a sand but it's gone" she said still rubbing her eyes.

"Okay, then what about you? What do you want to do? I think you should create your bucket list to." I suggest and I am reaching for her notebook but she refused.

"I'm fine. I don't have anything on my mind now. Let us just do yours first then we'll do mine after we finished yours " she smiled

"Ok come on let’s cook the hotdogs on the fire. It's cool you know. I love doing it when I am a kid you should try it too.”

We spend the night stargazing, eating, laughing, watching movies while lying inside the tent. We are so occupied and enjoying that we didn't notice that time flies so fast. The next thing we knew we are sitting outside the tent with a warm blanket around us waiting for the sunrise.

We ready our cameras. We took several selfies and patiently wait for the sun to rise. When it does, it never fails to amaze me with how beautiful it is. The dark sky turned to a mix of scattered colors of purple, red, and orange. It looks like a masterpiece of a great artist.

I wish I can watch it again WITH HIM.