#shiloh.

this trip had taken forever to plan. shiloh was busy being some businessman in chicago and lil was all the way in spain with spencer doing her grad school program. she’d missed her best friend, obviously. shiloh was already scarce to get into contact with in the first place and not being able to go to his dorm room and force her way inside was a pain in the neck. but he was stuck with her the same way she was stuck with him - after all, traveling to a whole other country was pretty extreme. she was basically forcing him to take a vacation to come see her, but she was pretty sure he’d rather get frequent flyer miles and go somewhere new rather than lil take her ass home so they could do literally the same thing they always did the same place they always did it. they could take a train to france or italy or portugal if they wanted. they could pretty much go anywhere. so yeah, lil had convinced shiloh to come to spain. 

 ♡⠀ ⠀ ─── ⠀ ⠀ with shiloh    !   ❜  ( @strcngwilled​ )

the good thing about getting along with a bunch of frat boys was that they were all cool to be plugs for liquor. because even though lil had made the party byob sometimes people just really skimped out, but she knew the friends she had that were part of greek life weren’t the type to show up empty handed. having a couple kegs was probably worth it, and lil was buzzing from the kegstand they’d forced her into upon their early arrival to keep watch of the door. the trickle in was slow, but once it hit 11:30 it was like people were constantly walking through the door, and lil was trying to have fun. operative word: trying. her boyfriend was in spain without her since she wasn’t finished with school yet, and she wasn’t even entirely sure if her best friend was coming. if there was a party he was likely to show up, but it’d been more and more rare now that he had scouts looking out for him and he was living with his girlfriend. so she wasn’t upset about it per se, but she was feeling lonely in a party that was being thrown for her, even if people were needling her into shots every time they joined her in the kitchen and handing her way too much weed as a gift. she guessed that was her equivalent of candy, even though there was a shit ton of that too all over the house and it was slowly being mowed through. it was a halloween party, after all.

he’d told her specifically not to embarrass him, so obviously, that’s exactly what lil had to do when shiloh’s next game came up. it hadn’t taken much convincing to get a bad photo from galilea, who’d frowned in confusion at her request before digging through the trash folder of her laptop to find one - a mountain of deleted shots that the other girl hadn’t deemed worthy enough. the whole thing was completely and utterly extra, especially knowing how she was going to deal with the atrocity of a jersey afterward, but the only way to completely render shiloh fuming was to make it extra bad. managing a seat next to gali, near the front of the stands where she usually took her photos, made the entire ordeal that much better, and she sipped at her lemonade casually as she sat in the stands. a few people stopped to ask where she’d gotten her jersey as they filed in for the game, their questions dying on their tongues as they saw the blurry, horrible photo of shiloh on the front before bursting into laughter. lil was having a good time, even if it was at shiloh’s expense, but she had to be belligerent on purpose, find some sense of normalcy between them that wasn’t tense silence and vague later’s that didn’t even have eye contact. so showing up to his game to deliberately make him angry was her weird form of apology. she sucked absently at her straw, boredom written across her features as she sat next to gali, who was too engrossed in watching through her lens to be of any entertainment. shiloh was going to ream her when he noticed, but at least she’d get a laugh out of it.

lil hadn’t seen her dad in months, and it was awkward texting him to get the keys to his storage space so that she could dig out all of the old camping gear that hadn’t been used since she went camping with caroline forever ago. he’d met up with her so that they could move the boxes cluttering the space, perfectly packed boxes belonging to the new girlfriend lil hadn’t met but had moved into her dad’s place, but that was the usual. it’d happened in near-silence, and the fact that lil had already been feeling a little anxious hadn’t really helped. the whole situation felt weird, with her dad helping her pack up the old jeep that they used to take camping during the season and going off the grid with charlie for days at a time. now charlie wasn’t here, her dad and herself were hardly on speaking terms, and everything was different. worse; knowing she’d fought with spencer over this trip she wasn’t even sure she was ready to take anymore. but not going meant that she’d fought with him for nothing, so even though her dad sending her off put her in a weird mood she still pulled up to where shiloh was waiting for her with the bass of beyonce’s sorry making the windows shake.