In Nick's car
Riley: Nick….Nick…NICK!!
Nick: huh!?, oh sorry
Riley: someone's lost in space, what were you thinking about?
Nick: it's nothing, you don’t have to worry about it
Riley: oh, you were thinking about joe again, weren't you?
Nick: ……
Riley: hey you know you can always talk to me, I’m here if you need me
Nick: I know Riley, you never let me forget, ( grabs his hand ) but really I’m okay
Riley: really?
Nick: Really, really, I’m fine, and isn’t this whole trip supposed to be about having fun and forgetting what happened
Riley: Yeah, I know that better than anyone, it’s just, I’m afraid you holding in your emotions and that’s not good, you’ve got to let it out…. I mean you haven’t even cried, you need to cry, no one's going to blame you for crying, just please don't hold it all in, I'm right here
Nick: Riley please, I'm fine, just you being here helps a lot, thank you
Riley: (starts to cry)
Nick: oh Riley please don't cry, everything going to be okay, I promise
Riley: ( continues to cry )
Nick: ( poles car over ) ( lenses over a hugs Riley )
Riley: I'm...so sorry… I'm...supposed to be helping you…..I'm really...really…sorry
Nick: Hey, it's okay, you take all the time you need okay
Riley: ( shack head wall still crying ) she's gone, Joes really gone
Nick: Yeah, yeah I know…. ( starts to silently cry )

At the campground
Adam: Hey, what took you guys some long?
Nick: What are you talking about? we're two hours earlier
Adam: Riley texted me that you two were 10 minutes away, that was like 30 minutes ago
Riley: that's on me, I kinda had an emotional breakdown in the car, so Nick poled over
Adam: oh, are you okay?
Riley: I'm okay now, Nick really helped
Adam: well, thanks man, and thanks for driving him, I know my little brother can be a handful
Riley: hey!
Nick: Adam, you're the handful
Adam: ( glairs at Nick )
Riley and Nick: ( starts to laugh )
Lily: hey you guys made it (starts to hug nick)
Nick: (hug Lily) hey sis
Lily: ( let's go of Nick) I was starting to think you weren't going to make it today (starts to hug Riley)
Riley: ( hugs lily) knowing Nick we wouldn't stop driving until we got here
Lily: that's true (let's go of Riley)
Riley: By the way, where's Sarah?
Lily: Sarah, Megan, and, John are down by the river, there supposed to be collecting firewood, but knowing then that's not happening
Nick: Then why did you send them?
Adam: We didn't, Lily scared them away
Riley makes sense
Lily: I did not, hey, ( glairs at Riley)
Riley: ( wears a cocky smile)
Lily: I was just telling then how to put up there tents and they were just goofing off, and I may have gotten a little mad, but I didn't scare them off
Nick: so just regular Lily
Riley: sounds about right
Adam: yup
Lily: 🖕
Riley, Nick, and Adam: (starts laughing)
Lily: dicks (starts to walk away)
Riley, Nick, Adam: (follows)
Riley: (hugs lily from behind) I'm sorry
Lily: don't mock me
Riley: (gives pouty faces)
Lily: (glairs at Riley) anyways, now that you two are here we can finally get some work done
Nick: wait you guys haven't even put up the tents yet?
Adam: we couldn't, the tents require 4 people to put up
Lily: yeah and with thoughts three that wasn't happening
Riley: well then let's just get started, I'm getting hungry and the faster we get this done the sooner we can guilt the others into making dinner
Nick: sounds fair to me

After setting up the tents
Lily, Riley, Nick, Adam: (sitting in lane chairs, tied from work)
Lily: FUCK YOU GUYS!!
Riley, Nick, Adam (surprised look)
Nick: god lily, what the hell
Riley: well jeans, what did we do?
Sarah: you didn't do anything, she's mad at us
John: I get that but still that was exsteam
Lily: WHAT!!?! (Very mad, about to explode)
Sarah: Alright, let's just all calm down, I'm sorry Lily, we did stay at the lake way too long and we haven't been much help, I apologize
Lily: w-well thank you, Sarah
John: I still think you she was exaggerating, we support to be having fun and you're not fun
Lily: ahhhh!! Oh my God, no wonder Joe never liked you, your a fucking dick!!
Everyone: . . . .
Lily: (regrets what she said) I…..i (walks away upset into her tent)
Sarah: Lily wait (follows Lily into their tent)
John: you know you could have stood up for me ( looks at Megan)
Megan: huh? oh I'm sorry, I was going to but I just did what to make things worse
John: best girlfriend ever (says sarcastically) ( walks off into their tent)
Megan: (follows John)
Riley: whoa
Nick: exactly, do you think I should go talk to Lily?
Riley: no don't, Sarahs already in there, just give her time to cool off
Adam: I know Lily can be a lot sometimes but that was shocking even for her
Riley: well you got to think about it, Joe was good at this, making plans getting everyone to help out, she was our glue, now Lily feels responsible to take her place, Lily is Joes, little sister
Adam: Yeah, speaking of which how have you been doing Nick
Nick: as good as I can be I guess, I did just lose my little sister
Riley: (gets up and walks over to Nick holds his hand and sits down next to him) we're here for you, all the way
Adam: yeah he's right, we're here if you need us
Nick: thanks guys, but I think we should all be a bit more worried about Lily right now than me, I'm okay
Riley: Okay, but just don't forget that you can always talk to me ( hugs arm)
Nick: thanks Riley

in the middle of the night
Lily: (wakes up for a drink, walks by Riley’s tent, hears laughing)
Riley: shush, someone’s going to hear you
Nick: stop worrying so much, everyone’s asleep, no one's going to hear us
Riley: Alright alright, just shut up and kiss me
Lily: (coves mouth and slowly walks but to her tent) (acts gently steps on a stick)
Riley: what was that!
Nick: it’s probably just an animal
Riley: but what if it was someone
Nick: hey it's going to be fine if it was well Handle it, we’ve done this before
Riley: yeah your right, sorry
Nick: it’s okay, now where were we
Riley: (giggles and kisses Nick)

in the morning
Adam: jeans, what is taking Nick and Riley so long
Sarah: well they're not exactly morning people
Adam: yeah neither am I, but I’m up
Lily: (sitting in a lane chair, uncounterable)
Sarah: lily you okay?
Lily: hah? oh yay I’m fine just a little tired still
Adam: alright that’s it if I can’t sleep in, nobody can
Sarah: what are you going to do?
Adam: I’m going to wake them up
Sarah: well good luck with that
Adam: (walks over to Riley's tent)
Lily: ( gets really nerves)
Adam: (starts to unzip the tent)
Lily: (is super nervous)
Sarah: Lily, are you sure you're okay?
Lily: yeah I’m okay
Adam: (about to go in the tent)
Lily: Adam wait!
Adam: what?
Nick: hey guys, what’s going on?
Riley: Jeans, you guys look so tense, is everything okay?
Lily: but you guys were, wait I’m confused
Adam: I thought you guys were still asleep
Riley: I slept a lot in the car yesterday so I wasn’t really tired
Nick: Yeah and I wake up pretty early because I had to use to the bathroom so we thought I’d be nice to hike up some rock and see the sunrise
Sarah: ah luck, if you guys ever do that again wake me up
Nick: Sure thing
Adam: oh wait, lily
Lily: hah?
Adam: What were you going to say
Lily: what?
Adam: I was about to wake up Riley but you told me to wait, what were you going to say?
Lily: oh uhh just that umm,... John and Megan aren’t here either
Sarah: oh yeah, that explains why it’s so much quieter than usual
Sarah,Lily,Nick,Riley,Adam: (starts laughing)
Adam: alright let me wake those two up, we’ll all get breakfast and pack up, then the hike begins
Sarah: sounds good

after breakfast
Adam: packing up his tent
John: packing up his and Megan’s tent
Lily: packing up her and Sarah’s tent
Megan, Riley: preparing the backpacks
Nick: packing up his and Riley’s tents
Sarah: packing up the food

John: uh this is way too early to be doing anything
Lily: well get over it
John: well not all of us are sadistic control freaks
Lily: what did you just call me?!
John: a sadistic con-
Adam: Alright, enough no more talking, you two, just get everything packed up!!
Riley: whao adam doesn't ever yell, it's usually pretty hard to make him mad
Megan: I guess he just couldn’t take anymore arguing
Sarah: Yeah, I get it though, I mean I'm honestly scared that Lily and john are going to kill each other one day
Riley: they've never really gotten along have they?
Nick: Nope, they've hated each other since day one
Megan: Yeah and I've actually liked that, I mean one last girl after my man, but 3 months in the woods with thoughts two, we might not survive
Nick, Riley, Sarah, Megan: (are now terrified)

finished packing
Adam: alright is everything packed
Riley: I believe so
Sarah: all the food is packed equality between all of us just in case we get split up
Megan: yeah and every one of us has the tools for the type of food we have
Nick: and everyone has their partner clipped two them so we’ll be okay
Adam: umm about that, Riley I don’t want you to think I choices Sarah over you, it’s just there’s an odd number of people and the girls have to partner because they share a tent and if something happened to them I’d feel better if I was there, and I know that Nick can take care of you, so if they get lost I’m afraid they’ll run into some, not so friendly guys and I just can’t leave them alone I’m really sorry
Riley: ahahah,
Adam: why are you laughing?
Riley: I’m sorry, I’m sorry it’s just I alright know why you choices the girls and I don’t feel offended, and anyway I would've asked to be partners with Nick, your boring
Adam: hey
Nick: hahaha, hey Adam, take care of my little sister okay
Adam: of course
Nick: you be careful okay lilypad
Lily: god I told you to stop calling me that
Nick: not happening, lilypad
Megan: you do realize we're not splitting up
Nick: Yeah I know, I just wanted to say something, just in case
Lily: I'll be fine Nick, stop worrying
Nick: that’s my job as your big brother to worry about you (hugs lily with one arm)
Lily: Yeah, yeah okay
Adam: okay we should start walking if we want to get to the next campsite before dark
Nick: alright then let’s go

An hour on the trail
John: uhhh my feet hurt
Lily: (starts to get mad)
Sarah: (grabs Lily’s hand) then why did you agree to come?
John: because you guys are my friends, if you're going on a trip so am I, especially when it's to honor Joe
Lily: (starts to calm down) whoa that's actually rightly sweet john
John: Well I'm not a complete dick

with Sarah and Lily
Sarah: (whispering to Lily) that was really nice, I know you can’t stand him so if he's ever bugging you, tell me and I'll help, okay
Lily: ( whispering to Sarah) okay, thanks, Sarah that's really sweet
Sarah: ( whispering to Lily) no problem (squeezes Lily’s hand with a smile)
Lily: ( squeezes Sarah’s hand with a smile)

with Adam, Riley, Nick
Adam: (whispering to Riley, Nick) is it just me or was Lily acting weird before breakfast, you two don’t know anything do you?
Riley, Nick: (share a concerning look)
Adam: Did something happen?
Riley: I’m not really sure, I mean Nick and I was watching the sunrise so we didn’t really see her being any weirder than usually
Adam: right about that, when you guys got back the sun was already up for a few hours, so what were you two really doing?
Riley, Nick: (share another concerning look)
Nick: we got lost
Adam: what do you mean
Nick: on were way back for the sunrise we got a little lost
Adam: oh, god that must have been scary
Riley: it was, thank god Nick was in Boy Scouts or we’d probably still be out there
Adam: that's right, I always forget you were in Boy Scouts
Nick: yup, and it's definitely paying off now
Adam: that's good, I always wanted to go to Boy Scouts but our mom just couldn’t afford it
Riley: yay, I always thought I’d be fun to do
Nick: god now I feel bad
Riley: why's that?
Nick: because I didn’t want to go to Boy Scouts, and I also complained when I was there, I regret it now though, it was actually rightly fun but I just didn’t like that my parents made me
Riley: alright shut up
Nick: Riley
Riley: no, don’t you talk to me (crosses arms and looks away)
Nick: I’m sorry, Adam?
Adam: don’t talk to me either
Nick: your mad at me too, come on guys I’m sorry, really
Riley:.......
Adam:......
Nick: Oh come on you guys please talk to me
Riley:.......
Adam:......
Nick: Adam? Riley? please, say something
Riley:.......
Adam:......
Nick: ahhh (grabs Riley’s showers and shacks him) speak!!
Riley, Adam: (starts to laugh)
Nick: I hate you guys
Riley: uhh now I dizzy
Adam, Riley, Nick: (laughing)

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