Day Two
Miroku's Day
The next morning, I was awakened my the loud scream of Sango screaming 'HOSH-SAMA!!!' (Since that's what she calls me after all.) I opened my eyes to see that every single one of the kids in my group had somehow made their way over to my bed and made themselves comfortable either around me or on top of me without waking me up from my sleep.
I didn't have to worry about keeping the kids asleep since Sango had pretty much awakened them all with her scream. But since it was obviously earlier than we usual rise, it wasn't hard to get them back into their beds.
It was at that moment that I noticed that Mr. Shawn was standing there shaking his head. He then began to tell me that the kids were supposed to stay in their beds at night and whenever I tried to explain myself, he only hushed me so I ended up just making my way outside after his lecture to see Inu-Yasha standing there with his usual annoyed expression as if I had done something to him.
Mr. Shawn told us to follow him and I did, still not knowing why I was even there in the first place. As I walked, Sango grabbed my arm and then SHE started lecturing me on how I had let the kids climb into bed with me. I tried to explain myself but she must have been insisting herself that she was right even though that's not really true since she wasn't there. Just when I felt as though I would have to release my air void on Sango, we reached the main building where Mr. Shawn told us to come in and then make breakfast for the entire camp since it was our turn or something.
He then left and told us to have fun. I highly doubted that I was going to have fun making pancakes for the entire camp but I quickly devised a clever method where Sango would make the batter, I would pour it onto the griddle thing and then Inu-Yasha would flip them.
After I had filled up the griddle with pancakes, I noticed that Inu-Yasha was just going back and forth flipping the same pancakes around that were finished. I stopped to ponder why he wasn't putting them on the plates that were over in the corner but then I figured that he MUST have been planning SOMETHING. But whatever he was doing, it was taking a very long time and we didn't have nearly enough pancakes for the entire camp so I put little globs of batter in between the spaces where the finished pancakes were. When Inu-Yasha saw me do that, I suppose he became angry for I had messed SOMETHING up because he then began to hit me on the head numerous times. He wasn't going to be getting away with that so while his back was turned and was tending to the burnt pancakes, I flicked some batter at him and got a sufficient amount in his hair and I felt some what satisfied though he probably wouldn't notice and it would all wash out when he gets in the water.
Just then, Mr. Shawn came back in. He looked at us, seeming somewhat confused and then pointed out the plates that were in the corner. I guess he thought that we didn't notice them and then he left.
I assigned myself the job of setting the tables and that's what I did. I then noticed that Inu-Yasha was putting extra pancakes on the plates of the kids in his group. We hardly had enough pancakes to feed the entire camp let alone give his kids ten pancakes each so when he wasn't looking, I quickly distributed the pancakes a little more evenly.
Mr. Shawn then came back in and told us that we did a wonderful job and that we could now go back to the cabins, get dressed and then bring the kids to breakfast. I parted ways with Sango and Inu-Yasha and found myself back at the cabin labeled The Bunnies. I yawned and lied back in the bed just as I heard the horn ringing through the air.
I slapped my forehead and sat up. All of the kids were groaning and moaning as they pushed themselves out of bed and slowly got dressed. I then told all the kids that I had made breakfast especially for them and, surprisingly, that seemed to motivate them to hurry.
We then got to the tables and sat down. Each of the kids each ate about a bite of their pancake and then decided that they were done and it got me wondering why these kids didn't just wither away to nothing at all. Mr. Shawn interrupted me from my pondering when he came around, handed me a schedule and told me that he hoped that there would not be any mishaps like yesterday.
It was at this time that I realized that I was not one of Mr. Shawn's favorite counselors. But that was okay since he wasn't one of MY favorite either. He's actually on my top least favorite counselors, probably tied with Ms Kara's mother. Speaking of Ms Kara, I quickly scanned the schedule to see if I had Arts and Crafts but unfortunately, I did not. I hoped that she still wanted to talk to me since she said that she did. I saw that we had kickball first and when the bell rang, I took the kids to the field where we had had soccer but we would not be having soccer again, we would be having kickball. I didn't know how we could possibly play kickball with only six children, seven if you include myself and eight if you include whatever counselor will be there. But that still wasn't very much.
When we reached the kickball field, Mr. Carl was there bouncing a red rubbery ball up and down on a mound in the middle. All the kids ran ahead and greeted Mr. Carl enthusiastically.
I was just about inquire how we would play with only six, seven or eight when I suddenly turned around to see Sango running over to me and jumping into my arms while yelling 'HOSH-SAMA!!' I paused for a few seconds and realized that she must have come around and decided to bear my child when I suddenly heard her whispering to me to play along. I didn't know what she was talking about but then I saw her group coming up looking sad.
Sango then let go of me and then pointed to me, introducing me as Mr. Hosh-sama. (That's not my REAL name. I don't know why she's trying to get these kids to call me that.) She then started talking about how if any of them were to come near her then I would kill them and I was surprised that this kind of thing was coming from Sango but I just nodded, agreed and backed her up since she had told me to play along.
Then Mr. Carl came over and told us that it was REALLY unusual for the youngest kids in the camp to be paired up with the fourteen year old boys and that we'd have to split them up so that each team would have five older kids and three younger kids.
But then all of the boys started yelling and whining and declaring that they refused to play on the same team as the little kids. Just when I was about to punish them for putting my group down, all of my group said that it would be fun to play against the big kids. I figured that it wouldn't really affect me at all if they did it that way so I shrugged and agreed.
Sango then said that it would be more fair if she were to be on my team. I allowed it. I could tell that she was ambiguously telling me that she wanted to bear my child but didn't want to say it straight out in front of all the virgin eyes so I only nodded again.
Mr. Carl said that it didn't matter to him and that he would be pitching for both teams. Our team got to kick first since we had the disadvantage. Matthew decided, once again, to play tough guy as he ran out and said that he wanted to be the first kicker. Mr. Carl rolled the ball ever so slowly and Matthew ran up and kicked it as hard as he could and the ball rolled approximately four inches as he ran off to first base.
One of Sango's hideous demonic children ran over to the ball, picked it up and then whipped it into Matthew's general direction, hitting him in the back of the head, sending him to the ground and skidding across the dirt.
I stood up and rushed to his aid as he pushed himself up and erupted with waterfall tears. His face was scratched and his shirt was torn and he was covered in dirt from head to toe. Sango was up in a flash as well and was making sure that her violent group member was being punished as I picked Matthew up and carried him back to the bench where everyone else was. He sat over in the corner and sulked, obviously upset about losing his cool dude image in front of everyone else. Kelsey then told me that she didn't want to play after seeing what happened to Matthew and I told her that she could be a cheerleader. (Since that seems to be a popular pastime among my CPR group.)
Sango came back and told me, 'Hosh-sama, that will never happen again.' I think it has just started to bother me that she has been calling me Hosh-sama all this time. I think it's rather strange.
Mr. Carl seemed unfazed and rolled the ball to Russell who had decided that he was next in line. He got a big running start and yelled out a battle cry but when the ball came to him, he fell flat on his face. All of Sango's pubescent boys laughed maniacally at him as he stood up and brushed himself off and demanded another pitch.
He hit the next one and kicked it a little further than Matthew but not really a noticeable difference. I saw nearly a replay of what happened to Matthew only Russell was in place.
I then told Mr. Carl that this behavior was not acceptable and leaving the ball in the hands of immature boys was unforgivable. Mr. Carl suggested just switching so that we were in the outfield since we had two outs ANYWAY so I figured that that had to be safer than kicking so I told the kids who still wanted to play to come out to the field as all the boys ran over to the bench.
Our team consisted of Sango, myself, Cody, Madeline and Laura and that did not prove to be a good team considering the fact that on the next three kicks, every single one of the kids were hit as if they had targets painted on their faces. Sango looked horrified and tried to assure me that the boys were ALWAYS like this and we weren't getting special treatment and though I am a monk and forgiveness is one of my best qualities, I couldn't find myself to ever want to set eyes upon these boys ever again.
My group was saved when the bell finally rang.
All of the kids were in tears though I couldn't figure out why Kelsey was since she wasn't hurt so I refused her request to be carried. I only picked up both Laura and Madeline since they're my favorites.
We walked down to ceramics, both Kelsey and Cody grabbing onto my shirt no matter how many times I told them to let go of them. Matthew was still upset that he wasn't cool anymore but I told him that I still thought he was cool so he seemed to brighten up and tried to stop crying. Russell was skipping around since he seemed to forget that he had scrapes all over his knees and face. I walked in the door to see Inu-Yasha staring at me as if I didn't belong there.
Kelsey suddenly screamed that we had lost though we already knew that and I knew that Inu-Yasha would not care. I assumed right then and there that that was the reason why she was upset.
Russell said that he thought we had won.
I ignored Russell and averted my attention back to Kelsey. "Now Kelsey, what have I told you about screaming and touching me?" I said though I hadn't really ever told her any such thing. It was then that I noticed the ceramics teacher since she was coming over to me and asked me what I was doing here and that she was only supposed to have one group.
I pulled out my schedule and showed it to her. She looked at it, nodded and then beckoned me over to the table, saying that her name was Ms April. She wasn't too attractive so I decided not to even bother asking her to bear my child.
Inu-Yasha's group was painting bowls. I guess they had made them in a period earlier. Inu-Yasha abruptly asked me as if I had beat up my kids.
"No." I said. "We were at kickball in the period before this and SOMEHOW we got put in a group with Sango's kids which turned how to me more hideous than I remembered. It turned out that they are malicious as well and were hurling the ball at all my kids until they were all knocked over except for Kelsey since she sat out for the entire thing anyway."
Inu-Yasha nodded. I knew he didn't listen to a word I said.
Ms April handed out clay to each of my kids and they started making sculptures that looked much like just blobs but they must have been beautiful to my kids or maybe they just weren't finished quite yet.
Then, just as I was beginning to get bored, a young, highly attractive woman came over from next door to help Ms April since she didn't have a group at the moment. Maybe we were originally planned to go over to her event, which was candle making, as opposed to ceramics. She told everyone that her name was Ms Keri. I was ready to tell Ms Keri to come over and start a conversation would me that would eventually lead to me granting fatherly services to her but instead, she went over to Inu-Yasha and started talking to him.
Eventually he told her to go away and she affectionately flicked his ear. Right then and there, I became insanely jealous that she was flirting with HIM and not with ME. Inu-Yasha looked at me, then down and then back at me and then demanded to know why I was staring at him. To be completely truthful, I hadn't even realized that I was staring at him in the first place.
"It's just not fair that's all…" I replied as I averted my attention back at my sculpture that wasn't really a sculpture yet. He didn't say anything and just went back to painting. I'm surprised he didn't demand me to answer further.
Ms April told Inu-Yasha's group to put their bowls outside so that they could dry so they all went inside while we all stayed in. Matthew came over to me and said that he was bored with ceramics and wanted to play with the tetherball that he had seen outside.
I agreed to take him outside since I didn't really want to sculpt anymore either but upon reaching the door, we only witnessed Inu-Yasha walk right over to the tetherball and pop it,
"Oh…never mind." I said to Matthew as I took him back inside.
When the bell rang, I suggested to Inu-Yasha that we all walked together down to swimming since we were all going to the same place. He scoffed at me rudely and went off in another direction just so he wouldn't have to walk with me. I decided that he was mad about SOMETHING. Perhaps he was still angry about how I had put down the extra pancakes while he was trying to do something but whatever the reason being, I still had to go to swimming.
One girl that I didn't recognize came up to me and then began carrying on a conversation. I found myself talking to her for a while before suddenly realizing that she was part of Inu-Yasha's group and looked behind me to see that wasn't the ONLY one that had accidentally wandered in my direction. Since we were all going to the same place, I figured I would just meet up with Inu-Yasha there and I did. I saw that he had Russell too.
"It seems as though some of your kids accidentally went with me!" I told him as I approached him. "And I guess Russell followed you. But…you can keep him."
Inu-Yasha then looked as though he was going to start ranting about having Russell in his swim group and then I reminded him that I had Russell all day but I could tell he was ignoring me so I decided to just go over to my CPR group and pick up where we had left off the day before.
They all greeted me cheerfully, each wearing a different bathing suit than the one yesterday but all JUST as small. I asked them if they missed me and they told me that they had and that just made me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
"Okay, who remembers what CPR stands for?" I said, pretending to quiz them. They all stared at me absentmindedly and clearly didn't know the answer to this question. "That's all right. I'll ask you NEXT swim period."
Borris, the boy who was most unfortunately in my CPR group, started waving his arms around and asking me if I remembered him.
I cringed at the mere sight of the child. "Ah yes, my favorite group of kids going through puberty in all the wrong ways." I said. I really didn't like Sango's group since they had abused my kids so.
Borris told me that Sango had said that I would kill him if he did anything bad. I told him that I would and that if he stepped out of line just once then he would definitely meet his demise in the most painful and horrid way that I could think of off the top of my head. Borris lowered his head and avoided eye contact with me and I felt happy with myself though I really shouldn't have.
I could see Sango watching me from over at a dock that she was standing on so I felt a bit nervous when the girls asked to demonstrate CPR on me. Though I really wanted them to do it, I couldn't help but anticipate Sango's punishment for me afterwards even though I had so nicely kept up with her charade. Plus Borris was sitting there saying that he'd tell Ms Sango that I was kissing other girls and she would surely break up with me and go out with him. So, with nearly no event, the swim period passed rapidly until the bell rang.
We went to the main building and found the table with the PICTURE of the bunny and were served a random assortment of extremely nauseating looking and smelling sandwiches. I was hardly able to stomach one before I felt as though I was just going to hurl all over the table.
Group time was next. Mr. Shawn handed us an envelope and told us that on Friday, during the campfire time, we would be performing the skit idea that was enclosed. I opened it and saw that only the words 'I Wish I Were Five' was there. After staring at it for a few minutes and realizing that it wasn't going to change, I finally looked up and asked for suggestions from the kids.
Laura suddenly screamed and said that she knew what to do. She said that I would walk out and say that I wished I was five and then someone would come on pretending to be me only as a five-year-old and that we'd pretend to go through a day of camp only me being a five-year-old.
I thought it was the stupidest idea in the entire world but I told her that it was marvelous and that we'd do it. "All right, who wants to be me as at age five?" I asked.
Russell immediately started jumping up and down and screaming. I told him that he'd never be able to pull it off since I am a very complicated person with the intense mind that he lacked and he responded with 'Oh.' I knew Cody would just ruin our skit by not saying anything and I DEFINITELY didn't want to be a girl so I turned to Matthew.
"Matthew, you now have the honor of being me on Friday." I said. "Besides you look the most like me anyway." (That was a complete and utter lie but I just wanted to get him hyped up.) Matthew then did a happy dance while chanting that he got to be 'Mr. Miroku'. Before we could plan any further, the bell rang.
I knew that our next period would be very non enjoyable. Matthew asked me if we could go to tubing again since his cousin wanted to see him again but Mr. Shawn's words still echoed throughout my head and I told him no so we made our way to nature.
The man there said that his name was Mr. Rick and told us to all get boots on and that we would be tromping through mud. The girls started screaming and yelling, saying that they didn't want to but Matthew and Russell jumped up and down eagerly. Cody didn't move. I find him to be rather boring especially when it comes to deciding what we were going to do.
Everyone got on boots and we all went into the woods. Kelsey, Laura and Madeline shrieked when they saw the mud and clung to my legs as Matthew and Russell ran out and jumped into it, laughing loudly.
Russell bent down and picked up a blob of mud and then threw it at Matthew. Matthew gasped, said something about Russell ruining his shirt, and then retaliated with another mudsling. Russell demanded to know WHY Matthew had randomly thrown mud at him for no reason and then pushed Matthew over. Matthew grabbed onto Russell's shirt and pulled him down too so they were both in the mud while Mr. Rick frantically ran around trying to get them to stop.
It was around then that I concluded that Russell was only pretending to be stupid since there is no way that anyone could possibly be that dense. All of a sudden, I heard all the girls scream some more and I looked up to see Russell coming towards us while roaring and saying that he was 'Muddy Godzilla' or something to that extent.
He then chased the three girls around as all of them just ran in circles around me. When Russell ran in front of me, I grabbed him by the collar, picked him up and then dropped him back in the mud. He laughed and screamed with delight and asked me to do it again but Mr. Rick told me to stop.
Then Matthew came out of the mud saying that he was Muddy Godzilla too. Then Russell started arguing the fact that there could only be ONE Muddy Godzilla so they finally came to the conclusion that Matthew could be Muddy Godzilla and Russell could be Muddy Godzuki. I thought that Russell should be Muddy Godzilla since he had come up with the thing in the first place but he didn't seem to mind being Muddy Godzuki. I suggested that he could be Smelly Godzilla since the mud smelled bad and Russell said that that's what he wanted to be.
So then Muddy Godzilla and Smelly Godzilla began terrorizing all the girls. Mr. Rick came over to me and said that I should be trying to prevent it and not encourage it. I told him that I would never encourage it again though it was such an obvious lie.
Mr. Rick told us that it was time to go back to the nature building since we still had to hose everyone down. That's what we did. Mr. Rick told us that we could leave early since Russell and Matthew still had to get changed. And we did that too.
After Russell and Matthew got changed, we concluded that it wasn't necessary to leave since we had rest hour next. I informed the kids that I would be sitting on my bed meditating and that when they woke up, they were to come over to me a shake me vigorously until I came around as well and NOT to leave without me.
They saluted me and then climbed into bed. I tucked them all in and then sat down on my bed. No sooner had I closed my eyes did I feel myself being shaken again.
I saw everyone's faces looking at me, telling me that it was time to go to music.
"The hour's already over?" I asked. Sure enough, I heard the bell ring off in the distance just then as all the kids laughed at me. I had never meditated for such a short amount of time so I guess that's why it seemed to be EXTRA short.
We made our way up a hill to a building at the top. I noticed a huge group of people and across the way and concluded that it was far too many to just be a single group. I informed the group that it was my duty as a monk to go over and make sure everything was okay. They said that they wanted to go over anyway so we went across the street to investigate.
It turns out that most of the people who were swarmed there were counselors so I knew that something horrible had happened. I pushed my way to the front of the group to see Inu-Yasha on the ground with his entire group around him crying and sobbing. There were a few people checking his pulse with ice packs and such.
I asked a few counselors what had happened but they seemed far too preoccupied with just being worried so I grabbed the hand of one of the girls that I thought looked the most collected and pulled her away from the crowd. She told me that her name was Jesse.
"Okay, Jesse, could you tell me what happened?" I asked as he knelt down in front of her.
She then launched into an explanation of how they were on their way to horseback riding when all of a sudden, Mr. I just fell over right then and there and no matter what they did, they couldn't get him to wake up. At first, they thought he was just faking it so they had kicked him a few times but when he didn't even move then, a few of them went to get help a bunch of other people had come. She was quite the chatterbox.
Mr. Shawn and another woman then came over the hill in a golf cart and ran out, demanding everyone to move back and let the nurse work her magic. I told my group that it was now time to go. Russell said that he didn't want to leave because 'Mr. I was his swim instructor'. I told him that Mr. Shawn had told us to leave so he skipped off as if he wasn't bothered anymore. We went across the street to the building that we were originally headed for earlier and went inside. I wasn't too worried about Inu-Yasha's well being since he had been through a whole lot more than just collapsing.
There was no one in the building so I assumed that the counselor had gone across the street to see what was going on. Laura told me that she knew just where all the music stuff was since her sister had told her about it so she pulled a bunch of drums and other assorted instruments out of the closet and set them down. Then they started playing their instruments. No more than ten seconds after they had began, a very large woman walked in the door. She had clearly heard their 'music'.
She told them all to settle down and that they were doing a lovely job. I went over to her and decided to make small talk. (No, in case you're wondering, I did not have ANY plans on having this woman bear my child for me.)
Her name was Ms Alice. She asked me if I had seen what happened across the street. I told her I had. Then she continued to stand there and fret endlessly until I thought I would burst so I told her that Inu-Yasha would be JUST fine since I didn't want to listen to her whiny voice anymore. She then hugged me and cried into my shoulder. I didn't know what to do but pat her on the back and attempt to comfort her.
We didn't even react this way when Inu-Yasha was near death and this woman didn't even KNOW him and he had simply collapsed. That puzzled me for… seconds.
Then Ms Alice reported to me that Inu-Yasha was being taken to the nurse's office and they would decide what to do from there.
I grew tired of talking about him so I pretended as though I couldn't hear her over the drums. After a while, the bell rang and I was happy to finally get out of there since Ms Alice was rather gaseous and that room smelled horrible. I left the building and looked quickly over at the area in which the huge group had been to see that they had all cleared away.
Russell asked me if we could visit Mr. I in the nurse's office but I told him no since Mr. I probably needed his rest. I am a FIRM believer in rest!
Plus, the next thing on our schedule was 'Trampoline', about as far away from the nurse's office as we could possibly get. I was excited to find out what trampoline was since I had no idea what it was but I was hoping that I wouldn't be put down like mini-golf.
It turned out that trampoline was just a springy surface that you could jump on. But, since only one was allowed on at a time, it was incredibly boring. The placement of the trampoline, however, was perfect since it was very near the arts and crafts building and it turned out that Ms Kara's mother was the counselor for it, though she didn't do much but sit there.
Ms Kara came outside, waved and smiled at me. I waved to her as well. She walked over to her mother, whispered something and then looked back at me while her mother answered. I couldn't help but wonder helplessly what they were whispering about but I assumed that they were talking about me since they were both staring directly at me and her mother looked horribly disgusted. Maybe Ms Kara was asking her mother if it would be okay if she were to bear my child but then again, I hadn't asked Ms Kara quite yet so how would she know that I wanted her to?
But Ms Kara's mother continued to shake her head. Ms Kara frowned and stomped off. I sighed.
Everyone got a turn on the trampoline except for me since Ms Kara's mother insisted that I was far too large to jump on it. I wanted to point out the weight limit label on the tag but I decided against it at the last moment since I was trying to get on her GOOD side so she would allow Ms Kara and I to get to know each other.
After the bell rang, we walked down to the waterfront and I saw that Inu-Yasha was already up and about walking down with his group. I knew that something as lame as whatever happened wasn't going to keep him bedridden for TOO long.
I met back up with my CPR group. They were all, once again, wearing different bathing suits. I informed them that it was harder to learn their names if they changed their bathing suits every time I saw them because I couldn't think, 'The girl with the blue bathing suit is Hope' or something to that extent. They giggled and told me that they only had a FEW more bathing suits.
The first thing I did was ask them what CPR stood for since I had told them that I was going to ask them. Once again, they could not produce an answer so I decided to move on.
"Now, I want you to pretend that you have just pulled me from a pool and I have stopped breathing but I do have a pulse." I said to one of the more attractive girls as I lied down on the sand. "Now, what's the first thing you would do?" Though, before she could begin, I heard Mr. Shawn frantically yelling out for the CPR counselor, that being myself, so I hurried my group over to where he was calling and pushed my way through the crowd to see Russell on the ground.
He looked so lifeless and dead. "RUSSELL!!" I yelled. "Why Russell?! Why not Kelsey?!" I realized that I probably shouldn't have said that out loud, let alone yelled it as loud as I did.
Alyssa grabbed my shoulder and told me that Russell might not be dead quite yet. "All right," I said, standing up and trying not to look foolish. "Whoever brings Russell back to life will receive extra credit from my class!"
All of the girls immediately dived down and tried to bring Russell around. At that moment, I noticed Inu-Yasha just walking off. I suddenly became insanely angry that he would just walk away as if someone's life wasn't on the line and I think the swimming counselor noticed because she came over to me and told me that it had been Inu-Yasha who jumped into the water and SAVED Russell.
I pondered about that for a moment and then decided that maybe I would not be angry anymore. In fact, I was rather HAPPY with Inu-Yasha. Perhaps whatever had happened to him when he collapsed had screwed his brain up or something like that.
Then, I heard Russell coughing and gagging as he spewed up a lot of water from his mouth. I immediately ran over to him. "Russell, I am so glad that I don't have to make a tiny little grave for you right here." I said as I pointed to a spot in the sand. But then the nurse came over and told me that she had to take Russell to the nurse's office even though Russell insisted that he was fine. I told Russell that he should go over anyway just in case so he got up, grabbed the nurse's hand and the two of them walked off. In fact, Russell actually smiled and waved to me as if he hadn't just almost died.
Just when I thought my heart would stop beating right then and there, Mr. Shawn came up to me and complimented me on how well I had taught my CPR group in such a short amount of time and how he was glad that I had finally done something right for a change. I didn't know whether to be incredibly angry or incredibly flattered so I only nodded and told him that I appreciated him saying so.
My CPR group then ran over to me and we had a big ol' group hug except Borris. We kind of just pushed him away. We didn't want to touch him. He's disgusting.
I told them that they would all get extra credit except Corky would get extra extra credit since she had been the actual one who gave Russell his breath and Borris would get nothing since he gave his credit to Corky. Just then, I saw that Inu-Yasha had returned from where ever he had gone and was now calming down his group since they were all in tears. Just before I could go over and thank him for saving Russell from certain death, the bell rang and he was gone.
The walk to finger-painting was actually very quiet without Russell skipping and chanting something nonsensical to himself. I never actually thought that I would actually miss Russell but I guess you don't know just how precious something is until you lose it. But then again…Russell was kind of annoying.
Finger-painting was in the arts and crafts building and I was happy to see Ms Kara again. Her mother was outside in the back with another group as they jumped on the trampoline.
Madeline declared that she was going to make a get-well card for Russell while she finger-painted. All the other kids thought that was a good idea and joined in on it too. While they were engaging themselves in that, I decided that this was a good time to say hello to Ms Kara. I came over to her and waved, she waved too.
I began talking to her but she looked horribly nervous. In mid sentence, she interrupted me and told me that she wasn't supposed to talk to me. When I asked for a reason, she answered simply with the fact that her mother did not approve of me.
I was truly hurt for a span of about ten minutes as I sulked in the corner but then I remembered that there were other young, beautiful female counselors that were at this camp and were NOT accompanied by their mothers. As an added bonus, Sango seemed to have been showing mysterious interest in me in the past few days so I thought I'd keep riding on that. Matthew suddenly ran up to me and showed me the picture he had made.
He informed me that it was Sad Godzilla. He told me that it was sad because Russell was sick. It was also a Godzilla since Russell likes Godzilla. (I, however, thought Russell had made up the thing.)
All the other kids thought it would be a good time to show me theirs too. Madeline showed me Wet Godzilla since he was crying so much since Russell was sick. Kelsey said that hers was Wet Godzilla too since he was drowning. Madeline got mad at Kelsey for copying her. I sided with Madeline and made Kelsey change the name so she changed it to Drowning Godzilla. Laura showed me the Russell Godzilla. I thought that one was very sweet.
Then I looked over at Cody's which only said 'Get Well, from Cody'.
"Cody." I said. "There is no Godzilla on your card. You need a Godzilla. Come on, get that green paint out and make yourself a Godzilla."
Cody turned red and grabbed the green paint. He quickly made a Godzilla and in a very quiet voice he said, 'Happy Godzilla'. Those were the first words that Cody had said to me in the past two days.
"Why is your Godzilla happy, Cody?" I asked.
Cody told me that his Godzilla was happy because Russell didn't drown. I was amazed that he had said that much but I guess he's been around Russell for a long time so some of it has got to rub off.
Might I add that all of the Godzillas looked like green blobs?
Then the bell rang. I said goodbye to Ms Kara and we went off to the main building to have dinner. We went over to our table to see Russell sitting down. All the kids screamed and ran over to him showing him their cards. I thought he would at least thank them but he only burst out in tears since he had missed finger-painting. I told him to be quiet and he said okay.
Dinner consisted of cold, burnt slabs of meat in between two pieces of bread. Who makes this food?! Mr. Shawn then approached me and asked me to think very carefully about what I had wanted to be when I was a kid. It didn't take long for me to think of it as Mr. Shawn walked away. Ever since I was old enough to think for myself, I had wanted to be a monk but I already was one. I didn't know it that was going to make a difference or not but Mr. Shawn had already walked away so I couldn't tell him.
After dinner, it was campfire time. We walked through the woods where the campfire was and Mr. Shawn was standing in front. I figured that Mr. Shawn just ran around going from lunch to campfire and all those other kinds of things since he didn't have anything better to do.
Mr. Shawn told all the counselors from each group to come down in front. I saw Inu-Yasha standing there in front when I reached the front. I knew that I should thank him so I came over.
I didn't know how to start the conversation since Inu-Yasha's a bit hard to talk to. So I just started out with saying thank you a few times and then explained to him that I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if I had let an innocent life come to an end. Inu-Yasha told me to think nothing of it and then quickly added a 'Feh' at the end.
Then Sango came over. I could tell that she heard me speaking to Inu-Yasha just then and she told Inu-Yasha just how great he was and I could tell it was definitely going to his head and just when he was about to say something, Mr. Shawn told everyone to be quiet.
"Now, I want all the counselors to stand in a line with the new ones at the end of course." Said Mr. Shawn. "If you've gone to this camp before, you will know what to do. If you haven't already figured it out, we're going to sing the COUSELOR SONG!!!" I couldn't help but lean over to the counselor I was standing next to and ask what the counselor song was. He told me that I would find out.
Mr. Shawn told us that we would catch on soon enough and to use the professions that we had thought of earlier at dinner.
So the first counselor, I believe it was Ms Keri, started singing: "I'm glad I am a counselor, there's nothing I'd rather be! But if I weren't a counselor then a birdwatcher I would be! Hark! A lark! Flying through the park! Splat! Hark! A lark! Flying through the park! Splat!"
I decided that that didn't look too hard. All I had to do was state that I was glad that I was a counselor and that there was nothing I would rather be and if I wasn't a counselor then I would be something else. And that would be a monk. As I continued to listen as carefully as I could, I noticed that all of the counselors were adding little rhyming jingles at the end of what they were saying. But I couldn't think of anything that rhymed with monk so when the counselor next to me finished saying that he had wanted to be a football player, it was suddenly my turn and I didn't have a jingle.
"I'm glad I am a counselor, there's nothing I'd rather be!" I sang hesitantly, not knowing what else to do. "But if I weren't a counselor then a monk I would be!" After a moment's silence while everyone stared at me, I gave a heavy sigh. "Monks…don't rhyme." Then the crowd erupted with laughter and I suddenly felt as though I had done something to make the world a better place so I did the one handed pray so everyone started laughing even HARDER! I just hope they were laughing WITH me and not AT me!
Sango was next. She did something similar to me only she said that she'd like to be a demon exterminator and her rhyme was 'Hiraikotsu, I've exterminated you!' I could tell that the camp couldn't figure out what that was supposed to mean but I knew what it meant and I guess that's all that was really important.
Then Inu-Yasha went and ruined the whole song by changing it saying that he hated being a counselor and that he wanted to be a full demon. I guess I could understand that but he didn't have to ruin the song.
Then it went down the line and all the counselors were saying their jingles at the same time until we finally finished. This song would probably be stuck in my head for a very long time and I knew that in about five minutes, I would think of a good jingle that I could have used.
We went back to the cabin since we had to go to bed NOW as opposed to having an activity and THEN bed like the rest of the camp. I kicked open the door and went in. All the kids ran off to get their pajamas on and then crawled into bed. Once again, I tucked them in and then climbed into my own bed. It wasn't long before Madeline was at the foot of my bed crying and saying that she missed her mom.
I didn't want Mr. Shawn to get angry at me so I explained to her that I wasn't allowed to let any of the campers sleep in the same bed as me. I tried to explain it all to her but I knew she didn't understand and I didn't want her to think that I just didn't want to sleep with her.
She then sniffled a few times and told me that she loved me. I barely kept my jaw from hanging open and regretted the fact that she wasn't ten years older. I knew I had to do something now.
"How about we push our beds next together?" I suggested. "We can sleep really close to the edges so that we're not really sleeping in the same bed but we kind of are. She nodded and we pushed our beds together. The sound of the beds across the floor got the attention of the other kids and then they all wanted their beds moved together. So I pushed them all next to each other and then tucked them all in AGAIN and told them to go to sleep. I got into my bed too.