My Camp Counselor
This can't be happening. I can't be in love with my camp counselor.
Warnings:
G!P and camp counselor Santana
Chapter One – Yellow Jackets
Camp Triumph. I finally got in. After years of saving I was finally able to go to the most prestigious summer camp in the states. I'd been looking forward to it since I was six and I finally – after ten years of saving – got to go. But I didn't know that I was going to fall in love with my counselor.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. Maybe it's best if I go back; if I rewind. Let's go back to my very first day at Camp Triumph.
"It is so beautiful here." My mom said as she drove me into the camp. I smiled widely and looked out the window at the beautiful lake to my right. There was a long dock made out of wood and logs and, piled on it, there were four canoes and four paddle boats with paddles piled next to them – blue, green, red and yellow. Everything was so neat and tidy.
To the left were the cabins. There were two for each color and they were huge, "Look at those cabins." I mumbled and my mom gasped as she looked at them while she parked, "Apparently they each have four bedrooms with two beds per room."
"Well, it looks worth the money." My mom said, shutting off the car and turning to me with a smile, "I'll see you at the parent's day."
I smiled and exhaled a shaky breath, "Okay," I said, "Alright, I'm going in."
My mom chuckled and leaned across the center console to peck my cheek, "I love you and have fun." She said, wiping her lipstick from the apple of my cheek, "Call me if you need anything."
I nodded and took in a deep breath, opening the car door and giving my mom one last smile before climbing out and shutting the door, "I love you." I told her through the window after I grabbed my bags and she smiled, giving me a wave as she pulled out of her spot and drove away.
I sighed and looked up at the main building – which was made out of logs too – before walking up the stairs and into it. I approached a blonde girl in a green shirt – obviously the counselor for the green team – and she smiled at me, waving me over with a pen in her hand and a clipboard in her other. I shyly walked closer and she smiled happily.
"My first camper to check-in." She said, "Kurt's been here all morning so I finally get to check you guys in. You're my first one."
I raised my eyebrows in surprise at her cheeriness and smiled, "That's great."
"I know." She smiled, "Okay, name?"
"Brittany Pierce."
She nodded and began searching down the chart on her clipboard, tapping the paper when she got to my name, "I have you right here. Camper has arrived. Okay, there are only ten campers left to arrive so just head through to the hall down there and find somewhere to sit. As soon as everyone else is here we'll assign you to a team, give you a shirt and your counselor will take it from there." She said and I nodded, appreciative for her kindness, "If you need anything, I'm Quinn."
"Okay, Quinn. Thank you." I said, making my way to the hall in the way she pointed. I turned around the slope and saw a hall full of kids aged six to sixteen waiting to be assigned to a team. I cleared my throat and made my way in with my bags, finding an empty spot on the floor and sitting down, bags in my lap as I crossed my legs and looked around the room. I was sitting next to quite a tall Asian kid and a short brunette who was talking animatedly to the Asian who didn't appear to be interested in anything the brunette was saying. I cleared my throat and spoke, "Hi, I'm Brittany." I introduced myself and the Asian turned his head to me in relief. He smiled and stuck out his hand.
"I'm Mike." He told me and I shook his hand with a smile before holding out my hand to the brunette and watching her take it forcefully with a huge, excited smile.
"I'm Rachel Barbra Berry." She said and I chuckled.
"Uh, Brittany Susan Pierce. Nice to meet you, Rachel Barbra Berry." I said and Rachel nodded, letting go of my hand as three more kids arrived in the hall, "Have you guys been here before?"
"Yeah. Every year since I was six." Mike said and I nodded, impressed.
"This is my first time here." Rachel said.
"Mine too." I told her and she smiled.
"Well, I think we're gonna be great friends." She said and I smiled back, "I hope I'm in the red team. The counselor for the red team is so adorable. He looks like a fairy."
I nodded and looked to the door as four more campers walked in. Only three left and we'd be assigned. I couldn't wait. I just wanted to do everything the camp had to offer. I wanted to see everything the camp had to offer. This camp was my dream camp.
"…Brittany?" I heard and snapped out of my daydream.
"Yeah, what? Sorry, I didn't catch that?"
Mike chuckled, "What team do you wanna be in?"
"Uh, I don't mind. But my favorite color's blue." I told him and he nodded.
"I wanna be in the green team. The counselor's gorgeous." He said and Rachel scoffed.
"Mike, don't be such a guy." She said and he frowned.
"But I am a guy."
I giggled and looked to the door, watching as the last three campers walked in. A man in a red shirt that couldn't have been older than eighteen and just out of high school walked in behind them with a clipboard. He was followed in my Quinn who was holding hands with a man in a blue shirt who sported a mohawk. Mohawk-Man held a megaphone and spoke through it, causing the hall to be silent.
"Campers! Atteeenntion!" He called and sixty-four heads snapped in his direction, "Welcome, welcome to Camp Triumph!" We all clapped and Quinn rolled her eyes at Mohawk-Man as he flexed his muscles. I rolled my eyes as well with a chuckle. Quinn was wearing a pair of black, women's swim shorts and her green shirt as well as green sneakers and black socks while Fairy-Man sported a pair of black skinny jeans, red sneakers, hidden socks and his red camp shirt and Mohawk-Man was wearing his blue camp shirt, navy blue jeans, blue shoes and black socks. There was one counselor missing – the counselor for the yellow team, "As soon as Santana gets here we're going to assign you all to your teams. We each have sixteen shirts," Mohawk-Man said as Quinn unfolded a green shirt and turned it over so the back was facing us. On the back it read Camp Triumph in big, bold letters, "As you can see, on the back it says Camp Triumph and on the front," Quinn turned the shirt over again and on the front it read Epic Greens, "Is your team's name. Once you've received your shirt, you'll move to the colored mark on the floor over there. Leave your bags where they are for now, we'll come back and get them after the first challenge."
Everybody squealed and cheered and clapped and I decided Mohawk-Man was a very good public speaker, "There's the yellow team's counselor." Mike whispered as a very tan, very beautiful woman walked in sporting her yellow camp shirt, baggy black jeans, yellow sneakers and black socks. I felt my heart get goosebumps at the sight of her. I wanted to be on her team.
"Okay, everybody's here. Let's get to it." Mohawk-Man said, "Alright, the red team is going to be called out first." He handed the megaphone to Fairy-Man and the boy smiled, holding the megaphone to his mouth and clearing his throat, looking down at the list and speaking.
"Okay, we're gonna start with the younger kids and work our way up. Before we start, I'm Kurt and I'm the counselor for the Red Hot Chili Peppers." Everybody clapped and Rachel squealed to herself, holding her thumbs in her fists and smiling, "Alright, six year old Aaron Porter." A tiny little blonde boy stood up and a much taller blonde stood up, cheering for him – obviously his older brother. Kurt continued to call out the names of his team members before finally getting to the sixteen year olds, "Finn Hudson and Rachel Berry." Rachel squealed loudly and stood, skipping over to the amused counselors and accepting her shirt from Kurt while a tall, lanky boy – Finn – did so slowly and gave the counselors a polite smile when he took his shirt, "Okay, Red Hot Chili Peppers, follow me to the bathroom to put on your shirts." Kurt handed the megaphone to Quinn as he left the hall with his team following. Rachel threw Mike and I a wave and we chuckled, waving back as she left the hall, already talking to that Finn kid.
Quinn looked at her clipboard and held the megaphone to her mouth, "Okay, I'm Quinn." She said, "And I'm the captain of the Epic Greens." Everybody clapped, "Uh, the Epic Greens for this year are…" She proceeded to call out all the names of her team members, "…Mike Chang," she said and Mike stood up, moving over to Quinn and accepting his shirt before walking over to the green mark where the rest of the team stood and standing with the group, "…and Spencer Porter." The same blonde kid who'd stood up to cheer for his baby brother earlier stood and walked up to Quinn, accepting his shirt as the red team walked back in wearing their shirts and stood at their mark, "Epic Greens please follow me to the restroom." Quinn said, handing the megaphone back to Mohawk-Man and leaving the hall with the Epic Greens following.
"Alright, alright, alright." Mohawk-Man said like Matthew McConaughey before looking at his clipboard and clearing his throat, "My name is Noah Puckerman and you can all call me Puck. Now, the Deep Blues for this year are…" He called out the first thirteen names and finally got to the sixteen year olds, "Tina Cohen-Chang, Sam Evans and Roderick Meeks." The three teenagers stood and accepted their shirts just as the Epic Greens came back in. The blue team instinctively followed Puck to the restrooms while the yellow team's counselor took the megaphone.
She cleared her throat after pulling a folded up piece of paper from her pocket, "Hi, I'm Santana." She said and her voice made me undeniably aroused… too much? I don't care, "You guys are the Yellow Jackets for this year but I just wanna make sure everyone's here. When I call your name, stand and move to the yellow mark next to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and I'll throw you a shirt. I hope you guys can catch." The sixteen of us chuckled and Santana smiled, clearing her throat again and squinting at her page. She began calling out everyone's names and gave all the little kids a high five when they stood, tossing them a shirt before they walked to the yellow mark, "…uh, Blaine Anderson. And Brittany Pierce." The boy next to me and I stood and caught a shirt as she threw them at us before joining our team while the Deep Blues came back in, "Yellow Jackets, you know what to do." Santana said, keeping the megaphone and leading us to the restrooms.
We changed into our shirts and Santana took the shirts we'd originally been wearing and put them in a yellow hamper by the restrooms. I stared down the hamper and saw it went down a shoot and the clothing landed in a big yellow laundry bin. Santana led us back to the hall and gave the megaphone back to Kurt who cleared his throat as we stood at our mark.
"Red Hot Chili Peppers, you guys better win this summer because our team has won for the past four years." He said and the Red Hot Chili Peppers cheered and high-fived each other while Santana shook her hand and mouthed We're gonna win to us. I chuckled and Kurt continued, "I want you guys to go to that red mark in the corner of the hall right down there."
The Red Hot Chili Peppers moved to the red mark in the far right corner of the hall as Kurt ripped the red tape off the floor in front of him, handing the megaphone to Quinn, "Epic Greens. We've come first three times and I want to make that a fourth so, let's win this one, okay?" The Epic Greens cheered and Quinn chuckled, "Okay, move to the opposite corner, far left, and stand behind the green mark."
The Epic Greens did as they were told while Quinn ripped the green tape from the floor as well and handed the megaphone to Puck, "Yo, yo, yo Deep Blues." Puck said and held his hand behind his ear to hear how loud his team could cheer. He was taken aback and chuckled, "We've only come first twice so, for the sake of my ego, win this year." They cheered again and some chuckled. He instructed them to the close left corner of the hall and they obeyed as he ripped the blue tape off the floor and handed the megaphone to Santana who had already ripped the yellow tape off the floor. She's so efficient.
"Yellow Jackets," She started, "Yellow jackets are hornets. And the hornets have never one a color war at Camp Triumph. So, this year thank god you have me as a counselor because we are going to kick some serious blue, green and red butt." We clapped and cheered and the little kids shouted happily, "Just move to the only remaining corner and we'll get started."
Quinn, Kurt and Puck were moving our bags toward the middle of the hall while we dodged them and moved to our mark in the close right corner. Santana licked her lips and bounced on her toes as she waited for the space to be a little clearer. She then hit a button on the megaphone and it made the sound of a siren, "I'm Blaine." The kid next to me introduced himself and I smiled, shaking his hand.
"Brittany." I whispered just loud enough for him to hear as the siren continued to go off.
"When you hear that sound," Santana said, earning everybody's attention, "You run back here and stand at your mark. If your entire team is not here in five minutes, you will be deducted five points." Quinn quieted her team as they began to chatter, "Every morning at eight an alarm will go off in your cabin. When you hear it, get dressed and into your team shirt and stand outside your cabin to wait for your counselor." We all nodded that we understood and Santana continued, "Please do not wander off alone. We are teams therefore we will be doing everything together. Except going to the bathroom. There are bathrooms in your cabins so you won't need any help in there." We all laughed and Quinn chuckled along with Puck and Kurt, "On the bedroom doors in your cabin are your names. On your bed you will find five shirts and a letter from your counselor. Please read it carefully and get together with your team to decipher it." I looked at Blaine and shrugged when he looked at me questioningly, "Behind your cabins are meeting cabins – that is where you'll meet as a team to figure out the letters we're going to give you over the duration of this summer. Now, nod if you understand." We all nodded and Santana smiled, "Alright, are you ready for your first challenge?" We all cheered as loud as we possibly could and Santana laughed, "Good. Your first challenge is a treasure hunt… a treasure hunt for the key to your meeting room. Once you've found a key with a scarf tied around the key ring that is the color of your team, go to your meeting room and hit the yellow, green, blue or red button on the table in the middle of the room. Is everybody understanding so far?" A series of nods, "Once you've hit that button, your teams flag will go up and the first team to hit the button will be awarded ten points." We cheered again, "The keys are hidden at the obstacle course through those doors." Santana pointed to the doors between the blue and green teams, "Once those doors have been opened, leave the hall nicely and quietly and wait outside the hall in your teams. When Quinn blows the whistle, race to the obstacle course to get your key. Once you've got your key, run past the obstacle course, turn left and run straight until you see your meeting cabin. Still understand?" Nods again, "Good. Puckerman, could you open the doors?" Puck moved to the doors and pulled them open, latching them to the wall and stepping to the side, "Everybody outside. Red Hot Chili Peppers first." The red team left the hall and stepped outside before the Epic Greens did the same followed by the Deep Blues and then us, the Yellow Jackets. We could see the obstacle course in the distance but no colors popped out at us from it, "Alright, three, two, one—"
The whistle blew and we all ran at full speed ahead to get to the course. It was the most complicated course I'd ever seen. But I saw the key. I saw the key, "We have to complete the course to get it." I told the Yellow Jackets, pointing to the yellow scarf tied to the ring hanging above the slide.
"Only one person can do it, who should it be?" A fourteen year old boy asked and I shrugged.
"Brittany should do it. She got here first; she's fast. She saw the key; she's observant. She should do it." Blaine said and the Yellow Jackets nodded in agreement. I craned my neck and saw the other teams trying desperately to find their key. I inhaled a deep breath and nodded, moving to the beginning of the course as my team found a way around it and waited at the slide.
My heart was in my throat as I began jumping between the squared ropes toward the rectangular ditch of water where I dove in and swam to the other end, pulling myself out and crawling under the wooden platform with spikes on it. I got to the end of the tunnel and stood, looking to the left and seeing that the Red Hot Chili Peppers had caught on and were starting the course. I looked up and leaped onto the monkey bars, pulling myself toward the end and dropping off. I now stood before a huge net that I couldn't get around without climbing it. So I did. I climbed the net as fast as I could and leaped onto the rope on the other side, swinging to the slide, grabbing our key and sliding down the slide while my team screamed and cheered loudly for me. I got to the bottom and we raced forward, turning left and running as fast as we possibly could to the meeting cabins. Ours was the furthest one away and we were sprinting like cheetahs to get there. As soon as we got there, I scrambled to unlock the door with shaky hands and pushed them open, running in and leaping over an armchair to hit the yellow button on the cylindrical table in the center of the room. Once I'd hit the button, we heard shouts from one person just in front of our team's two cabins – Santana.
We were panting and exhausted and fell onto the circular couches in the room. I looked around the room and there were pictures of yellow hornets stuck to the walls and they were all painted a beautiful, sunny yellow as were the outside walls. The sixteen of us started laughing in glee that we won the first challenge as Santana appeared at the door, laughing happily.
"You guys! We've never won that challenge before!" She exclaimed, giving all of us high-fives, "Who ran the course?"
"Brittany." Blaine said, pointing at me and I raised my hand from where I was sitting on the floor so as not to get the couches wet. Santana smiled and moved up to me, pulling me up and giving me a tight hug.
"You just put the Yellow Jackets ten points closer to winning. Fantastic job, Brittany." She said before throwing her fists in the air in joy and clapping, "Okay, come on out to the front of the cabins."
We followed Santana to the front of the cabins and all took a seat on the grass. Quinn, Kurt and Puck all still stood waiting for their teams and no other flags had gone up. I admit I was really proud of myself.
"Who ran the course for your team?" Quinn asked and Santana pointed at me.
"Miss Brittany Pierce." Santana said and stuck her tongue out at the other counselors.
"Well done, Brittany. That's the fastest time this challenge has been completed in." Quinn said, giving me a proud smile and a thumbs up. I smiled back and leaned back into my hands which were placed firmly behind me on the grass.
Blaine gave me a pat on the back and scooted next to me, "That was crazy fast." He said and I chuckled, "I've been coming here for nine years this year and I've never seen this team win. We may just win this year." He threw me a wink and I smiled widely at his compliment.
"I hope we do." I told him and he gave my shoulder a rub. I liked Blaine; he was awesome.
I watched as the red team's flag went up and Kurt left to meet them at their meeting cabin. Santana was still smiling gleefully that we won this challenge and I wanted to win every challenge just to see that smile over and over again.
In short, the Yellow Jackets came first, the Red Hot Chili Peppers came second, the Deep Blues came third and the Epic Greens came last. And Santana was enormously happy that she got to put a 1 and an 0 under our team name on the large scoreboard outside our cabins. The Red Hot Chili Peppers got a 5 put under their name on the scoreboard while the Deep Blues and the Epic Greens got no points.
"Alright, you guys. Good job for the first challenge." Quinn said through the megaphone and the counselors clapped along with the campers, "We're gonna go back to the hall and get our bags and then we'll come back here and your counselors will put you in your cabins."
We all stood and moved slowly back to the hall to get our bags before moving back to the grass in front of the cabins and waiting for our counselor. Santana pointed to the cabin on the far end and allocated it the girls' cabin while allocating the one right next to it the boys' cabin. We made our way into our cabins and I was amazed by the beauty of it. There was a living room that seated eight right as you walked in the door and to the left, as you walked in was a door with a stickgirl on it, signaling it was the bathroom. We made our way to the rooms and I found my name on the door right at the end of the hall next to the name of a girl named Charlotte. I opened the door and walked in, finding my name on a letter on the bed next to the window. I put my stuff down next to the bed and picked up the letter, opening it and reading it over.
I breathe not air
I eat not soil
Down in the depths with the bubbles
I toil
You need to jiggle
You need to jive
You need to name all five
I frowned and reread it before a girl, who I assumed was Charlotte, entered the room and put her bags down on the bed closest to the door next to her shirts. She picked up the letter and read it over before sticking her hand across her bed to me and smiling, "I'm Charlotte." She said, "Greene."
I leaned over, shook her hand and smiled back, "Brittany Pierce."
"Oh, I know who you are. You're already famous in our team." She said with a chuckle, letting go of my hand and rereading the riddle, "We should probably head to the meeting cabin."
I nodded and held the riddle in my hand, walking out of the bedroom with Charlotte following, "Uh, ladies. We should head to the meeting cabin to figure out this riddle so, meet us there." I said politely as Charlotte and I left the cabin and began to head to the meeting cabin. We bumped into Blaine who threw his arm around my shoulder as we walked and bumped my hip with his.
"The boys are right behind me." He informed us and we nodded, pushing open the door to the meeting cabin and moving to the couches. The three of us sat down and Blaine stuck his hand across me toward Charlotte, "Blaine."
"Charlotte. Call me Charlie." She said, "It's great to meet you."
Blaine smiled and shook her hand as our team members filed in and sat down. I immediately began to count heads since our counselor was probably in a meeting with the other counselors before dinner. When I'd counted sixteen, I spoke.
"Uh, I assume you all have the riddle?" I asked and fifteen hands showed me little pieces of yellow paper. I smiled and took in a deep breath, "I think it has something to do with fish. And I think we have to name fish."
"So the challenge will take place at the lake?" The same fourteen year old from this afternoon asked and I nodded.
"I assume so." I said, "And we'll probably have to use the canoes so, who's got strong arms?"
A tiny six year old shot his hand into the air and I chuckled, "I do. I box." He said and I nodded. Two girls and another boy put their hands up and I smiled.
"Good. The canoes seat four so, you guys can paddle." Blaine said and I nodded in agreement, "I don't think you'll have to name them in the water. I think we'll have to name them once our team gets back from the water so you guys need to paddle as fast as you possibly can."
The four of them nodded and I was grateful – not to be horrible – that the other three campers were fourteen and fifteen. Little Oliver – what I found out before the second challenge – was such a cutie and the other three were strong enough to help him out. And we had to be fair and let the little ones compete too.
Once we moved back to our cabins, Santana was waiting outside for us with a smile, "Yellow Jackets, follow me to the dining room for dinner." She said and we all followed her, me handing her the key to the meeting cabin as soon as I'd caught up to her, "You found it, keep it. You're the team captain now so you should have it with you, Britt." She whispered and I nodded, tucking the key in the pocket of my drying sweats as we followed Santana to the dining room.
When we arrived, we found we were the first team there – first team to hopefully figure out the riddle. Whoop, whoop!
I couldn't have been happier on my first day at Camp Triumph however, I already had a huge crush on Santana.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed the first chapter. I'm very excited about this story so let me know if you want the next chapter. Thoughts?