Chapter 11: First Activities

Soon after the rest of the campers got settled, their first activity was that all the campers get to do some archery and once they got into the sport, it was like nothing they've ever experienced before when they hit the target. Brutus, Diego and Jojo got into it almost immediately and they did it while playing some classic rock in the background to showcase their flexibility and both Brutus and Diego came off with the better hand while Jojo is still learning how to put the arrows on the target after missing a few tries. Jojo sighs in half exhaustion and said, "How do they do this?"

Brutus and Diego made a pretty good team when they did some archery and that they're both fast learners like a couple of pros. Both of them bumped their fists and high-fived each other in victory and exclaimed, "Score one!"

"How'd you guys get so good?" asked Jojo.

"We don't know." Brutus replied.

The next group was Dustin, Slade and Marcus as they took a shot at it and as they were going for it, Zeke stood from afar looking at Dustin and he just felt like cupid has struck him deep in the heart and is falling for Dustin, but isn't sure how Dustin will react to it. But Zeke finds Dustin locking eyes with Slade like he's interested in him...which kinda saddens him a little bit as if he's been replaced by someone else and that he will never get the chance to tell him how he feels about Dustin.

Marcus went first to aim at the plastic guitar with the arrow and made a very perfect shot and everyone pumped their fists for him, including Casey. One look at Marcus and for some reason...Casey became completely intrigued with him by the way he looks and by just talking with him earlier at the cabin, he seemed to have found his 'meant to be' soulmate, but didn't want things to do immediate right away.

As Marcus succeeded in archery, he pumped his fist high in the air and just exclaimed, "Nailed it!"

Slade and Dustin kept going on with the archery and for each glance, Dustin looks directly at Slade and gave out a very attractive look that might make him take notice and he smiled at him not knowing that he's distracted himself and when he let go of the arrow, he could hear a couple of birds tweeting as it aimed directly at a big bird and then when he looked up, he saw that the arrow narrowly missed at a few birds.

Dustin quickly realized his mistake and embarrassed himself in front of Slade and just said, "You didn't see that, did you?"

Slade chuckled in response and said, "Yes."

Zeke rolled his eyes in complete disbelief that Dustin's flirting with Slade and he just tried his best to keep his tongue in his mouth before he might say or do something to jeopardize his chance to tell Dustin how he feels about him. However, Slade looked ahead and just saw Seth coming by and motioned him to come over as Dustin walked away from the situation.

Zeke was concerned for Dustin as he walks over towards him and asked, "Nice aim."

"Zip it, Z. This was so embarrassing. I tried to impress this guy and I end up almost killing a bird." Dustin said, sitting down.

"Well...it could've gone worse. You could've aimed it at me." Zeke said, chuckling.

Dustin looks at Zeke for a while and he's still embarrassed about it as Zeke tried to lighten things up and Zeke stops for a while and said, "Maybe not."

"Do you know the feeling you get when you have a crush on someone and it's just the one you met?" asked Dustin.

"Yeah, I do have that feeling." Zeke replied.

"Really? Who's the crush?" asked Dustin.

Zeke was reluctant to reveal the person he's got a crush on with Dustin because he knows it's Dustin, but doesn't want to do that immediately and he said, "Well..let's just say he's thoughtful, kind, smart, shy and he's awesome and he goes to school with us. And he's one of us."

"What's his name?" asked Dustin.

Zeke was getting ready to say the name, but the camp chord guitar blares on the speakers and the announcer said, 'Time to hit the lakes! Everyone get your swimsuits and let's cool off because it's hot like a mother...'

"Um...I'll tell ya later." Zeke replied.