Calvin's mom shook him awake.
"Calvin!" she said.
"Uhhhg," Calvin moaned. "I hate it when you do that, even more so in summer."
"Live with it, and get up, you're going to day camp in two hours."
Calvin shuddered remembering yesterday as Mom walked out.
Calvin crawled out of bed to get dressed. Hobbes yawned.
"The time has come already?" Hobbes asked groggily.
"Apparently," Calvin said, slipping into his underwear, pants and shirt.
"So, we don't need to pack anything?" Hobbes said, now fully awake.
"I guess not," Calvin said, putting on his socks and shoes. "We can bring stuff from home if we're not entertained enough."
With that, he pulled his blood red Ipod Nano from a desk drawer.
"I need enough doses of my music to get through my day." Calvin said.
"Do you think they'll allow it?" Hobbes asked.
"No, but I don't think they'll be digging around our pockets," Calvin said. "If they do, we can still sue 'em."
It took about ten minutes to drive there. It was next to an indoor pool and was called, "Hugs and Snuggles Day Camp".
"How prophetic," Calvin mumbled.
They walked up to the front desk. A man in a clown costume was there.(A/N I'm too lazy to describe the clowns in detail, so I'm letting you have your own idea of what they look like for the story.)
"Hi, I'm here to sign in Calvin." Mom said.
"Oh, WONDERFUL!" the man screamed. "He's six, right? That's the age limit! In other words, JUST RIGHT! I assure you, ma'am, your son will have a DEE-LIGHTFUL time here!"
"Okay, I'll be back for you at five, Calvin, have a good day!" She kissed Calvin goodbye and left.
"Mom has left us in Auschwitz," Calvin whispered. Hobbes nodded.
"Well, come right this way, young man!" the clown guy said, pointing.
"What did he mean by, 'just right'?" Hobbes whispered.
"I dunno, probably just weird adult lingo." Calvin answered.
They were led into a gymnasium. There were ONLY kids under six there, playing "patty cake" in a big circle. They were supervised by four other people, all in clown costumes.
"I didn't know your mom sent us to clown camp." Hobbes said.
Calvin giggled. "Remind me to bring the video camera tomorrow."
"Okay, everyone, let's get in a circle!" the clown from the hall said. Everyone did as they were told. "Sheen, would you explain our activity?" he asked another clown.
"Sure thing, Jerome," Sheen said. "We are going to sing songs! You will be divided into groups, one with me, one with Jerome, one with Stu, one with Jackie, and one with A.J." he pointed to one of the other clowns. "Jackie, would you please place the groups?"
"ABSOLEUTELY!" she screamed. She began yelling random names.
Calvin and Hobbes were put in Jerome's group. He said, "Okay everyone, we are going to sing, 'Old Macdonald'."
Calvin sensed where the day was going. He put up his hand and said, "Jerome, may I please use the bathroom?" he said in his sweetest voice.
"Of course, Calvin! And for being so nice, you get a lollipop when you come back!"
"Of course," Calvin mumbled as he and Hobbes raced to the bathroom.
The bathroom didn't look like much. It had three stalls and three urinals, but it was unusually clean. VERY unusually clean. The walls were as white as Calvin's teeth, and the sinks shone in the light of the bulbs on the ceiling. Except on one of the stalls, a drawing of a skull was painted and circled in red paint. Calvin opened the door. Nothing except a toilet and a roll of toilet paper.
"Weird," Calvin thought.
Hobbes said, "Are you gonna take out that Ipod or what?"
"Oh, yeah!" Calvin said. He pulled out his Ipod and put an earphone in himself and Hobbes's ear. He turned it on. "How You Remind Me" by Nickelback started playing.
"Ooh, I LIKE this song!" Hobbes said.
"Me too." Calvin said. He and Hobbes sat against the wall, and enjoyed the music.
It wasn't long before Calvin smelled something funky. Like garbage mixed with a dead animal. It was coming from the stall with the painting of the skull on it.
He turned off the Ipod and motioned Hobbes to smell. Hobbes smelled it too.
"Woo hoo! What IS that smell?" Hobbes said, plugging his nose.
"C'mon," Calvin said.
They inched closer to the bathroom stall. They opened the door, but couldn't find the source of the awful smell, which by now was unbearable. The pair gagged as they searched the stall.
"I can't take it anymore," Calvin said. "Let's get out of..."
"Wait!" Hobbes said. Hobbes clawed the edge of a certain tile until, amazingly, it came out of the ground! The smell now seemed to radiate from under it.
"Cool!" Calvin said. "But what's down there? It's so dark, I can't see anything. Hey! Cats have night vision, right? Use that!"
"Fine," Hobbes said. He looked down, then doubled over and threw up.
"What? What is it?" Calvin asked frantically.
"See for yourself," Hobbes moaned, clutching his chest.
Calvin grabbed a light bulb overtop a stall, extended it, and shone it inside the hole.
It was filled with bodies.
