It was Saturday the last day of staff training, everything was being cleaned. Support staff where moving into Wigwam, a two story building that has rooms that house four to five people. All the senior councilors were assigned junior councilors for the first week. Brandon had been put with Scott, a slightly overweight kid with a huge gap between his front teeth and a blonde white-man-afro, in the cabin: Chinook. Amanda and Madison’s cabins were beside each other, Amanda was with Tiffany in Challenger and Madison was in Black Tusk with Olivia. Everyone was cleaning their new cabins, making signs for the door, or just messing around with their friends. Finding an inflatable pool ring in his cabin, Kai put on his shoes. Seeing that the sign with the cabin name, Typhoon, hanging vertically from a single nail Kai pushed the other side back into the wood of the cabin front. Picking the pool ring up Kai began walking towards the waterfront to put it away. On the way he passed Devin who was videoing the clean up in a tree, and eating a pudding filled pastry. Not trying to disturb Devin’s work Kai walked on narrowly being missed by a pudding drop from Devin’s hand. Putting the ring around his neck like a necklace, Kai ran down to the waterfront. Reaching the lake front, that had been covered in sand that had been trucked in summer 1985, Kai looked around for a lifeguard; but none there were none present. Strolling over to boathouse, that held all the life jackets and other water toys, Kai tried his key in the front door. Opening the door only a crack so just his body could enter Kai walked to the back of the boathouse in the dark wishing he had brought a light or left the door open. Reaching the back door of the boathouse where he guessed the pool ring would go, he opened it thankful that there was some light filtering from a few small high mounted windows.
Kai walked into the backroom to find two shadowed figures. Kai automatically recognized the large man figure as Kevin, the large ex-soldier brother of Dannaya his crush. The other character was a woman, but Kai had no idea who it was. Kai would have greeted them except that they where passionately kissing. Kai, wasn’t sure what he should do, should he just drop the pool ring and leave without a word. Kai after a fraction of a second of thinking dropped the pool ring and ran as fast as he could through the open area of the dark boathouse. Kai didn’t know why he did this, but there he was running as fast as he could towards a closed door in the dark. Holding his hands out in front of him Kai saw the faint glare of sun under the massive door. Crashing into the door, Kai took a step back from the pain in his left shoulder that had bashed into the wooden door. Kai turned back to faintly see Kevin’s body standing in the door of the backroom.
“Who is that?” Kevin said, in his loud deep voice. Kai gave no answer, but wrenched the door open, exiting as fast as he could. Kai ran across the sand, going over a way to loss his pursuer. Kai looked back, to see Kevin coming out of the boathouse. Quickly hiding behind a tree, Kai whipped off his shirt and threw it into a tree thinking that way he couldn’t be recognized.
“Hey Kai!” Kevin’s voice echoed into the woods and over the water of the lake. Kai stood motionless behind the tree, hoping Kevin would just go away. “Dude I see you behind the tree.” Kai broke away from the tree and started jogging down the path in front of the water front.
“Oh hey, Kevin! It’s it a great day for a run eh?” Kai lied to make it look like that’s what he was doing.
“Dude you’re wearing slip-on shoes, who runs in slip-ons?”
“Well it’s way better,” Kai fumbled for words, “with my foot virus, I have to do this.”
“Dude I know you saw me in the boathouse.” Kevin said taking a step closer.
“Boathouse? We have a boathouse, like ‘toot toot!’ boats, like ferries and yachts, and stuff like that? I didn’t know we had some thing like that.” Kevin pointed at the large wooden building beside them with the words: Boathouse written in faded red paint. “Oh that boathouse! Oh no I was just running, great for your health, well you would know, cause you are healthy and fit. Not that I’m looking at how fit you are, it’s not like I’m saying how fit you are or anything like that just…wow that’s a nice sign for the boathouse really…” Kai had run out of words, “…awesome.” Kevin stood his face in a solid shape, suddenly his face erupted into a laugh.
“That was the best thing I’ve heard, in a long time.” Kevin stood smiling, which was actually the first of only five smiles, Kai would even see on Kevin’s face. “Dude, I don’t care if you saw me making out with her.” Kai stood shirtless covered in goose bumps, smiling but continually thinking that he was going to die for this. “But if you could not tell people that would be great, there is not really suppose to be dating at camp. It’s policy: no inter staff dating.”
“Well I guess I’ll just go back to my cabin,” Kai said, backing up towards the path back to the field. “See you later.” Kevin waved and went back to the boathouse. Kai turned relieved he had survived and headed back to his cabin; grabbing his shirt from the tree he had thrown it into. “Well guess I got something to black mail him with…” Kai said to himself, “well kind of. Who was that girl?”
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