Prologue

One year ago, that's where it all happened. It never made sense for anyone to like me, let alone for someone to fall in love with me. It may sound like I'm being hard on myself, but I'm not. I'm just that quiet, skinny Asian kid in glee club, who was afraid to dance outside his room and got his rep from being on the football team.

Than that one summer changed it all.

Chapter 1: Asian Camp

Mike's POV

Just another day teaching kids about the performing arts and I swear I'm starting to dislike kids and the arts. Why did I let my mom talk me into this again? I mean I like being in Asian Camp, but that was when I did the annoying not when I'm the one being annoyed.

Two weeks ago, my mom gladly talked me into working at Asian Camp as a councillor. She said that it'll be good for me and she said I'll have nothing to do in Lima anyways. So I went for it and I thought it was just another year of being driven to an area full of cabins by the lake, meeting strangers, and watching little kids swim and do crafts.

But like they say, it's a small world. So it wasn't that much of a surprise when I bumped into Tina Cohen-Chang here, yet again I've never seen her here. To be honest, she was sort of my life saver. Ever since day one at camp, I had the other councillors flirting with me. This was weird to me because I don't really see what they saw. That's when I found Tina, just sitting by the dockside. We just got closer ever since and ever since the girls backed off a bit.

It was the end of the day, this is when Tina and I usually sit by the dock and just talk before they call us in for dinner in the mess hall. Yet again, Tina's complaining that the kids that we're teaching about the arts are just doing nothing but texting on their phones. I mean I can't blame her, I'm getting sick of it too.

"Ugh, what are we going to do about those kids?" Tina complained.

"Would you calm down? They're just kids and obviously they're going to be texting all day. They've been like vampires stuck indoors all the school year. So I'm surprised their parents even got them out of the house with all the technology they have these days."

"I hate it when you're right. But they're making me feel like I'm just wasting my time here." Tina complained again as she put her buried her head in her arms.

"Ouch, that's hurts." I said sarcastically. "Are you implying that the two weeks you spent with me was just a waste of your time? That hurts, T. It really hurts."

She playfully punched my arm.

"I didn't mean it like that! I loved all the time we spent together. I feel like that's all we accomplished these past two weeks instead of teaching those kids anything." She said as she put her head on my shoulders.

It wasn't usually like this when we started hanging out. In fact, all I expected for us was to get to know each other more since we didn't really talk at all back in McKinley. The closest I've ever gotten to her was when she asked me to be her partner for "Dream A Little Dream." Time passes by and things changed. As we got closer, I started liking her more and I started to crave her company more than I should. Considering, she's with Artie, at the moment. Than I don't know what happened exactly, but one morning I just realized I was in love with her.

"I know, Tina. I was just kidding." I laughed.

That's when an idea hit me. I know how to get everyone's attention in our cabin tomorrow. I don't know if it's going to work, but I better get something out of it in the end. At least, I hope.

"I know how to get the kids' attention." I said to Tina.

She raised her head up and looked at me, "How?" She asked.

"It's a surprise. You'll see tomorrow, don't worry." I answered.

She was about to object until the dinner bell rang which was a sign to go in the mess hall. She gave me one of her adorable angry looks as we stood up. I know she's not mad at me, she's just annoyed that I didn't tell her. But she'll just have to be patient and hopefully, this is worth it.