Day Two
Sango's Day
The next morning, I heard someone open the cabin door. It was definitely too early for someone coming in and telling me to get up. I looked around the corner, since I hadn't really been sleeping anyway since I had to keep my guard up, to see that Mr. Shawn was coming in. I was going to tell him that if he didn't change me out of my group right now then I was leaving but he told me to come outside and I did.
As soon as I stepped outside the cabin, only then did I realize how much it reeked on the inside. I took a deep breath of fresh air and then noticed Inu-Yasha. I was going to force him to trade back with me.
"Inu-Yasha, you had better give me my group back!" I threatened. He only looked at me blankly and nodded. I didn't expect him to agree so quickly so I assumed that he was just being sarcastic or something. Mr. Shawn told us to follow him and we did. I asked Inu-Yasha what was going on and where we were going but he only continued to nod so I knew right then and there that he was simply ignoring me. I was offended for a little while but then I decided not to let it bother me since Inu-Yasha was one of the few men who had enough decency not to hit on me.
I then found myself in front of a building with a sign that said 'The Bunnies'. Something about that was familiar and then I suddenly remembered that that was Hosh-sama's group so I decided to follow Mr. Shawn into the building. Inu-Yasha said that he didn't feel like going in.
Mr. Shawn opened the door and gasped. I gasped too when I saw Hosh-sama on his bed and all six of the kids in his group cuddled up next to him. I could hardly keep myself from slapping him so I only screamed his name. "HOSH-SAMA!!"
I could tell that Hosh-sama had not anticipated us coming into his cabin because he opened his eyes and looked very surprised. He tried to get them all of his bed in attempt to make himself look innocent but we had already seen what had happened. I felt bad for the poor little girls that were there as Hosh-sama tried to lie to Mr. Shawn and tell him that all the kids had just climbed in bed with him while he was asleep.
I, of course, did not believe him. I know Hosh-sama better than that! But I DID find it a little strange how he had brought even the little boys along with him but then I concluded that it was just him trying to throw us off and believe his story. Mr. Shawn lectured Hosh-sama and I'm glad he did and I noted all the points that he missed so I could bring them up to Hosh-sama as well once we got outside again.
We left the building and then Mr. Shawn told us to follow him. I thought at first that this was some kind of trickery that they did to the first year counselors and I felt pretty foolish that I was standing out there with my pajamas too. Then I remembered that I still had to lecture Hosh-sama.
"Hosh-sama, those girls are probably only a forth your age!" I started but Hosh-sama immediately began to defend himself.
"As I told you before, I allowed two girls to climb in and then…" he began.
I couldn't believe he had just said that. "So you admit it!" I said.
"No!" he replied. "Let me finish! Two girls wanted to climb in so I let them. Then we all went to sleep and I guess all the other got in too since they didn't want to wake me up!"
"Sure, Hosh-sama, sure." I said, rolling my eyes. That was the lamest excuse I had ever heard Hosh-sama come up with. Usually, he was at least a little bit truthful about his lechery. I could tell that Hosh-sama was getting frustrated because I wouldn't believe his story but we then arrived at the main building where Mr. Shawn dropped us off and told us to come in and then make breakfast for the entire camp since it was our turn.
Then he left.
"I'll…make the batter." I suggested, looking at the box with powdery white stuff in it since both Inu-Yasha and Hosh-sama were waiting for someone to say something.
"Very good." Said Hosh-sama. "I will make the pancakes and Inu-Yasha, you can flip them."
"Whatever." Said Inu-Yasha. I carefully followed the instructions on the back of the box the best I could as Hosh-sama and Inu-Yasha just stood there as if they couldn't be helping me. Finally, I finished a bowl and handed it to Hosh-sama and he began pouring some onto the griddle. After he ran out, I realized that we were going to need a whole lot more batter so I continued to make some more as Inu-Yasha just started to flip them. When the griddle was filled up, I motioned for Hosh-sama to go over and get the plates since Inu-Yasha had clearly not noticed them but Hosh-sama only watched Inu-Yasha continue to flip the pancakes since he didn't want them burnt.
Hosh-sama then began to put teeny little pancakes in between the ones he had previously made and that seemed to make Inu-Yasha angry so they engaged themselves in some kind of petty quarrel. Before I could scream, "HOSH-SAMA!! GET THE PLATES!!!" Mr. Shawn walked in and laughed at us and told us that the plates were over in the corner. He then left again. I wondered if Mr. Shawn had anything better to do then to just walk around making sure we were doing things right.
We set the tables and distributed the pancakes just as Mr. Shawn returned again (I guess my assumption was correct) and told us that we could go back to our cabins and get dressed since it was almost time for the campers to get up and come to breakfast.
I ended up walking back to my cabin alone since Inu-Yasha had left without me. When I entered the cabin, I thought it would be best to hurry up and change before the boys woke up so I wouldn't have to deal with them. I changed as fast as I could and gave a sigh of relief that I had fit my arms through my shirtsleeves just as I heard Mr. Shawn blow the horn that woke up all the boys.
"Good morning Ms Sango!" came the voice of a woman behind me. I turned around to see the woman who had been guiding Andrew around yesterday and she was beckoning for me to come over to her. When I did, she lowered her voice and whispered. "Andrew's parents have decided to pick him up early." She explained. "They decided that this wasn't a very good environment for him with his issues and all."
This didn't bother me, but I pretended as though it did. "That's too bad." I commented. "I know I speak for the rest of the group that we will miss Andrew."
The woman smiled and left with Andrew by her side.
I turned around to see the rest of the boys staring at me. "What are you staring at?!" I demanded.
"Nothing!" they all chimed as they quickly ran out the door of the cabin. I shrugged and followed them and we all made our way to the main building but it seemed as though they were almost avoiding me. I wondered if perhaps I smelled bad or something but this was a GOOD thing so if I did smell bad, I would have to make a point of smelling bad all the time.
We ate breakfast and then received our schedules. I left the building and waited outside since Bailey had gone off to go to the bathroom. Suddenly, Mr. Shawn came over to me and pulled me aside.
"Ms Sango, what you did this morning is intolerable." He told me. I didn't know what to say to that.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"I know it's a bit out of the ordinary that you were put in the same cabin as a bunch of teenage boys but this means that you have to recognize that some restrictions apply." Mr. Shawn continued. I could tell something bad was coming from this. "You can't just go changing in front of them!"
I gasped. "I did not!" I argued. "They were sleeping!"
Mr. Shawn gave me an evil glare and I wondered how he could have possibly found out that I had changed while they were sleeping. Then I realized that he must have been a peeping tom and just before I could slap him, I then concluded that the boys were all pretending to be asleep and watched me change without my knowing! I immediately turned a bright red color and felt myself burn up.
"Please don't let it happen again." Mr. Shawn told me as he left me in my stupefied state.
"MS SANGO!! WE HAVE TO GO TO KICKBALL!!" screamed Mario.
I kept my space from the boys and walked behind them. I could tell that they were whispering about me.
"You boys are disgusting!!" I finally yelled. "How could you do something so horrible and crush a girl like watch her change?!"
"It's FUN!!!" laughed Gordon.
"Well I'm going to get Mr. Hosh-sama to kill you!" I threatened.
"I bet Mr. Hosh-sama isn't even a real person!" said Dimitri. I gasped and before I could defend Hosh-sama, Borris butted in.
"No, Mr. Hosh-sama is my CPR teacher!" he said. "But he doesn't seem TOO tough! We could definitely take him on! And I bet that he doesn't even want to kill people!"
I looked up to see that we were at the kickball field. I saw Hosh-sama standing out on a mound speaking to a male counselor who was bouncing a red ball. I knew I would make myself look like a fool in front of Hosh-sama, but it was the only way.
"HOSH-SAMA!!" I screamed as I ran up to him and jumped into his arms. He didn't move for a few seconds so I quickly whispered for him to play along. I then pushed away from him and turned back to my group. "This is Mr. Hosh-sama. He is my boyfriend and we, in fact, plan on getting married someday so if any of you ever come near me or watch me change again then Mr. Hosh-sama will kill all of you! Is that understood?"
"Yes, this is true." Said Hosh-sama, nodding his head. I was glad that he had caught on.
Then the male counselor with the red ball came over. "It's really unusual for the youngest kids in the camp to be paired up with the fourteen year old boys so we're going to have to split them up so that each team will have five older kids and three younger kids."
"NO WAY!!!" yelled Raphael. "I refuse to play on the same team as a bunch of little kids!!" All the other boys agreed.
"That would be fun!!" said one of Miroku's kids.
"Yeah!" agreed another. "It'll be really fun to play against the big kids!!" Hosh-sama shrugged.
"I think, to even it out a little bit, I should be on this team." I volunteered as I stood next to Hosh-sama. He agreed once again and nodded.
"It doesn't matter to me." Said the counselor. "I'm going to be pitching first. The Bunnies can kick first since they have the disadvantage."
Hosh-sama's group and I went over to the bench and sat down as one of his kids got up to kick. I decided that I should probably thank him. "Hosh-sama…" I started but he put his hand up.
"Think nothing of it." He said. I nodded. Hosh-sama's kid kicked the ball and Bort ran over and picked it up since he had only kicked it about a foot in the first place. Bort then hurled the ball as hard as he could at the little five-year-old, sending him flying off into another direction.
I immediately stood up and went over to lecture Bort. I explained to him that these kids weren't as old and coordinated as he was and a hit like that could really hurt the kid. Bort said whatever and nodded and I hoped that it wouldn't happen again since Hosh-sama had been really nice to me. I went back and to Hosh-sama.
"Hosh-sama, that will never happen again." I assured him.
Mr. Carl seemed unfazed and rolled the ball to another boy 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 the pubescent boys laughed maniacally at him as he stood up and brushed himself off and demanded another pitch.
Once again, I found myself lecturing the boys on how these kids weren't as old and coordinated as they were after they had knocked down the second one along with the first. I didn't even want to look at Hosh-sama after my group got up to bat and knocked over all of his other kids as well. I was going to apologize to him but the bell rang and I didn't get the chance.
For one reason or another, all of our activities for a great portion of the day were down at the waterfront. I couldn't stand it! We went down to what was called 'Boogie boarding' and I really just wanted to know what that was. But when we got down to the water, the counselor there told us that they just ordered the boogie boards the day before and the shipment came late so they didn't have them so the boys could just go swimming. That kind of made me sad.
The counselor approached me. "I could watch them while you go off or something like that." She said.
My eyes lit up. "Really?" I said.
"Yes, but as long as you come back before it's over." the counselor began but I had hardly let her finish her sentence before I was already gone. I didn't know what I was going to do with my time so I wandered around by the shore so I wouldn't have too much of a walk back to the boogie boarding place.
Suddenly, I heard someone calling my name. When I turned around, I saw Kagome waving her arms around while standing atop a staircase that led into a building.
I yearned for female companionship so I hurried over to her. She told me to come into the building with her and we both sat down. "Where's your group?" I asked her. She frowned and gave a heavy sigh.
"It turned out that I was allergic to marshmallows." She said sadly. "I was supposed to go home but I want to stay here just in case I get better!"
I tried my best to cheer her up but I could tell that she just wanted to go out and take her campers to activities. She had seemed so excited to be a camp counselor here and now her excitement was completely shattered since she got sick by something stupid like marshmallows. We spent the majority of the period laughing and engaging ourselves in girl talk and finally Kagome told me that it was almost time for it to end.
"I hate to leave you here alone…" I started.
"Just come back to visit me whenever you can!" she said cheerfully. "And if you see Inu-Yasha, tell him to visit me too!"
"I will." I told her as I waved and left the building. I was glad to find Kagome in an easily accessible place where I could seek her out when I needed help or advice since this world is very foreign to me. I quickly made my way back to the boogie-boarding place just as I heard the bell rang and then I escorted the boys to the place where we went swimming.
I would have really liked to have just ditched them and go with my swim group but quite unfortunately for me, they WERE my swim group. So I took them out to the farthest dock and told them to get in and tread water until I told them to stop. I didn't take of my shirt and shorts or else they would be staring at my body and we'd get nothing done. My eyes wandered into Hosh-sama's direction and I watched him laugh and talk to his teenage girls. I could tell that he knew I was staring at him since he kept hesitantly looking back at me to check to see if I had stopped watching. The girls in his group didn't know any better and I had to protect them in any way that I could.
"MS SANGO!!!" yelled one of the boys. "We're getting very tired!" He swam over and grabbed onto the dock.
"If you were in the middle of the ocean, you would have to tread water until a ship found you!" I said as I stomped on his fingers. "There's no dock for you to grab onto so get out there and stick it out!"
"You're so hardcore Ms Sango!" he whined.
"I like hardcore women!" declared Dexter.
"Shut up!!" I yelled, throwing my floatation device at him and then pulling it back so he wouldn't be able to grab it and get a rest. I looked back over at Hosh-sama to see that he was still only talking and laughing with the girls. "All right boys, I want you to swim from that dock and back!" I declared. I felt powerful standing out there on the dock with my floatation device and my whistle and the ability to throw both of those things at the boys.
They all moaned and groaned. "If you complain, you'll have to do more laps!" I threatened.
I worked the boys harder and harder to pay them back for watching me change that morning. I knew I would have to find some other way to punish Borris since he wasn't there but I didn't let that bother me too much since I was having such a good time giving these boys their just deserts.
When swimming was over, all the boys were gasping for breath and I concluded that they would be too tired to hit on me. Next up was lunch and I hoped that it would be better than yesterday's. But it really wasn't. It was edible, I admit, but I certainly wouldn't choose to eat it over something else that tastes… better.
After lunch, it was group time. We all went to our designated spot and just when I was going to make sure that they still remembered that I was in charge when Mr. Shawn came over and handed me an envelope and then left. I opened up the envelope to see that it was a greeting telling us about how on Friday, during campfire time, each group would be presenting a skit and then the script when further to explain what skit we would be doing.
Ironically enough, we were to be doing a dating game.
"I CALL THE ONE WHO MS SANGO PICKS!!!" yelled Travis.
"AW MAN!!!" yelled all the others.
"Wait, who says that I'm going to be the one?!" I demanded.
"Cause you're the only girl!!" said Hubert. "That would be WEIRD if we were trying to get dates with each other!!" Then they all laughed heartily.
"I'm going to be the hostess." I said firmly. I wasn't going to bend on this one.
"Then what are we supposed to do?" whined Mario.
"Some of you can pretend to be girls." I suggested. "You could wear a sign around your neck that says 'I am a girl' or something like that. It would be better that way anyway…"
"I GOT AN IDEA!!!" yelled Raphael. "We can pretend to be the counselors!!"
"I WANT TO BE MR. HOSH-SAMA!!!!" declared Dimitri.
"Wait, I think BORRIS should be Mr. Hosh-sama!" said Dexter. "After all, he's the one who knows Mr. Hosh-sama the best besides Ms Sango but Ms Sango is going to be the hostess so SHE can't be Mr. Hosh-sama!!" Then they all laughed as if that was funny.
They spent the rest of group time arguing about who should be which counselor. But then the bell rang and we got absolutely no practicing on our skit done but that was okay since we still had three more days. Next on our schedule, we had dance. It took me a few seconds to figure out why a bunch of fourteen-year-old boys would like dance but I decided not to lose any sleep over it and just take them there all the way up a humungous flight of stairs and to a small building at the top.
I was relieved that the counselor was a woman. She seemed a little nice but also kind of paranoid. Her name was Ms Lauren.
"What type of music do you boys want to listen to?" she asked.
"RAP!!!!" bellowed all the hideous children.
"Tough." Said Ms Lauren as she started the music and held out a long stick and instructed them to play The Number Limbo and told them if they didn't sing along with The Number Limbo song then she would kick them off the top of the hill. I decided that Ms Lauren clearly had issues.
"What?" Ms. Lauren asked. I must have made some sort of obvious hint that I was contemplating her sanity. "You HAVEN'T threatened to kill them?"
"Oh yeah, I definitely have!" I said.
"I've been working here for twelve years and if you don't show the Kazoom boys whose boss, they'll be really annoying."
The sad part is, I thought I WAS showing them who was boss but they were still really annoying.
"DANCE IS STUPID!!" yelled Gordon.
"WHY ARE WE EVEN HERE?!" demanded Hubert. That was actually a very good question that I couldn't answer.
"Can we at least NOT play the number limbo?" asked Raphael.
"Fine!" said Ms. Lauren as she put on a new song. "Do the Macarena for an hour!"
"YAY!!" screamed all the horrible boys as they started shaking their butts around. "Dance with us Ms. Sango!"
"NEVER!!" I yelled. After a few minutes, the boys got bored of the Macarena and decided that they wanted to do Cotton Eyed Joe and after that it was the Electric Slide and the Hand Jive and then various other dances that all of them seemed to know the moves to.
Dance didn't end soon enough and we finally had to go back down all those stairs and all the way back to the waterfront where we would have windsurfing. I didn't know what windsurfing was, but I assumed I would hate it because I would have to wear a bathing suit. But as it turned out, the windsurfer instructor didn't have enough windsurfing things and told them that only the campers would be allowed to go out and that I would have to find something else to do. I tried and tried to let this bother me but no matter what I did, I couldn't care.
The only thing I could do now was wander around aimlessly. I didn't want to go back to Kagome because I didn't want her to think that I was some kind of psychopathic stalker so I figured that I could just do a quick run through my day without the boys and get to know the counselors. As boring as that did sound, I didn't really have anything better to do.
I quickly decided to abandon that decision since, on my way to the next activity area, I saw Inu-Yasha sitting right across the street with two kids running circles around them.
At that point, I remembered that Hosh-sama had rest hour with his kids and I knew he would be bored since he explained it in length to be this morning. I maneuvered myself all the way to the cabin called 'The Bunnies' and quietly pushed the door open. I saw Hosh-sama sitting in the corner with his eyes closed as his six kids frolicked around the room laughing and giggling.
"Are you supposed to be doing that?" I inquired as I walked over to them.
"Hi Ms Sango!!" was all they said to me. I made my way over to Hosh-sama and waved my hand in front of his face a few times only after concluding that he was definitely in a deep state of meditation.
"He's not really doing anything." Said one of the kids as he pulled down on my shirt.
"Yeah, we weren't tired and we wanted to go out and play but we can't get him to wake up." Added another.
I poked Hosh-sama a few times but he didn't respond so I shrugged. He clearly was thinking about something very important and I didn't really NEED to speak to him so there was no reason to disturb him.
"How about you kids get back into bed?" I suggested.
They all groaned but I shooed them into their assorted beds. They wanted me to tell them a bedtime story and to tuck them in so I told them about Kohaku and Naraku and that whole mess that we were in. I could tell that they were a little frightened so I quickly added a happy ending in which I hoped would happen. They thanked me and then lied down in their beds.
I stopped to wonder why it couldn't have been ME who had gotten these kids. They were very appreciative and not to mention the fact that they weren't hormones teenage boys. I lightly shook Hosh-sama one more time and then left when he didn't wake up.
I slowly trudged around with no true destination until I found myself back at the windsurfing station. I watched the boys futilely attempt to ride the waves using the wind to push them. Most of them could hardly even stand on the board.
Finally, they all came back to shore just as the bell rang and left the counselor there to take care of cleanup. I didn't know whether I should have helped clean up or what but I didn't really want to so I just pretended as though I didn't notice and quickly hurried off in front of my group, keeping my distance from them.
"What do we have next, Ms Sango?" asked Borris.
"Drama." I told them.
"DRAMA?!" they all screamed. "FIRST DANCE AND THEN DRAMA?!"
"Don't yell at me!" I said. "That's what the schedule says!"
"Well we're not going!!" they all declared as they simultaneously ran off in different directions as if they had previously planned this. I waited a few seconds for them to come back and then I started yelling at them to come back but I wasn't being very productive at all so I knew that I would have to go off and find them one by one. I rounded the corner to see Mario on the ground kicking and screaming and crying.
"What is your problem?" I demanded as I walked over to him. He flipped over and showed me a skinned knee and said that he had tripped over a root. Before I could slap him for being a wimp, I noticed someone driving by in a golf cart. I hadn't seen a single one of those for my entire stay at the camp and I couldn't fathom why they were suddenly using it all of a sudden. Perhaps my curiosity got the best of my when I saw the cart pull into the nurse's office so I beckoned Mario to follow me to make it look like I was just taking him to the nurse's and not being nosey.
I pulled him over to the nurse's and casually walked in the door. There was a ring of people, including Kagome, bunched into one area of the room. I pushed my way through the crowd to see that they were huddled over Inu-Yasha who was seemingly unconscious on the couch. I turned to Kagome.
"What's going on?" I asked as she pulled me away.
"The nurse thinks it was dehydration." She replied, not sounding very upset at all and that confused me at first and I wasn't about to admit the fact that I didn't even know what dehydration was. I assumed, however, that it couldn't have been anything fatal. "But I wouldn't get too worried if I were you. We all know our Inu-Yasha better than that!"
I raised an eyebrow and nodded. I waited in the nurse's office for a few minutes before the nurse finally came out and shooed all the people out of her office saying that Inu-Yasha needed some breathing space. After they all left, she tended to Mario's skinned knee and then I waved to Kagome and left.
Mario led me halfway across the camp and showed me a hideout area that all the boys had planned to go to when they ran away. It turned out to only really be our cabin and I found that to be quite lame but sure enough, the other nine boys were all in the room acting as though they were supposed to be there. I then lectured them and explained that if they did that again then I would get Mr. Hosh-sama to kill them. I don't really know if they ever do believe me when I say that but it seems to temporarily get the point across so I'll keep using it until they say to my face that they don't believe it.
"It's pointless to go to drama NOW!!" complained Dexter. "Let's just right to our next period!!" All the other boys cheered and agreed and I was going to make them go to drama but then realized that there was only ten minutes left anyway so by the time we got to drama, it would be time to leave so I figured that we could just leisurely go to our next activity, the ropes course.
We followed a long and winding path through the woods where thousands of mosquitoes came out and had a buffet. We walked by archery and the wall climbing station until we finally came across this gigantic structure with ropes and wires weaved throughout the trees very high up. I couldn't help but be a little hesitant about going up there but once Mr. Ulysses explained that we would be wearing harnesses, I then felt excited.
He told us to partner up, and there were soon five groups of two with myself left out. Mr. Ulysses said that he would be my partner and asked me to demonstrate what we had to do. I told him that I had never done it before.
"But…all the counselors were required to go through the ropes course to be admitted into Camp Walawalabingbang." Mr. Ulysses said. I then explained to him that I had been walking by minding my own business when I was just pulled away and asked to be a counselor and foolishly accepted without thinking. He told me that I would have to sit out then.
So I convinced myself that the ropes course would not be fun at all as I watched all the boys up in the trees jumping around. I sat down on a stump, live bait for the mosquitoes. I yawned once and a mosquito flew right into my mouth so I gagged for a few minutes and tasted the insect in my mouth for longer than I ever would have wanted to.
I took my downtime to think of many things. First I thought on how I wished I had never traded groups with Inu-Yasha. Then, after I thought about Inu-Yasha, I then began to wonder if he was feeling better now. And that made me start wondering if Kagome was feeling better as well and then randomly, I started thinking about Hosh-sama but strangely enough, he had violated me in my fantasy so I got the sudden need to smite something. Luckily, there was a mosquito on my cheek at the time so I slapped it and got rid of my desire to smite something for no reason.
After I thought about smiting, I couldn't help but be reminded on my ever-lasting desire to smite Naraku. But, not surprisingly, when I went and thought about Naraku, I thought about Kohaku and my father and the people in my village who were needlessly slaughtered.
I had to wipe a tear from my eye at that time just as Mr. Ulysses walked over and told me that it was time to go. I hurried myself down to swimming but then I remembered that the boys were my swim group too.
But I did see Inu-Yasha and he seemed okay. I waved to him but I don't think he noticed me.
I took the boys back out to the dock that I had taken them to earlier. I would have gone to the far raft where it was much deeper and the boys had a better likelihood of drowning but I didn't want to get my clothes wet so I only told them to swim to the raft and swim back a few times. I didn't give them enough time to say any perverted comments this time since they were far too busy gasping for air.
Suddenly, I heard some commotion back at the shore. I turned around and looked to see another crowd of people. Just when I was in the middle of guessing what could possibly be happening, I felt a hand on my ankle and then it pulled me into the water. I was so surprised that I didn't even have time to let out a scream before my head was completely submerged in the water. When I pulled myself to the surface, all the boys were laughing at me and I quickly deducted that they had thought that yanking me into the water while I was distracted would be a good idea. I, as you can imagine, was not amused.
I quickly climbed up the ladder and wrapped myself in my towel. I yelled at the boys for a few minutes and then remembered what was happening down at the shore. I hurried back over to the shore and made it just as the crowd was clearing and going back to what they were doing before. I asked as many people as I could what happened but none of them seemed to know the exact details so I decided that it must not have been anything too important.
But then I saw Mr. Shawn. I went over to him and inquired what had happened.
"A boy in the level one swimming group somehow got into the deep end where he couldn't touch and nearly drowned." Mr. Shawn answered.
"That's awful!" I gasped.
"Yes." Mr. Shawn replied. "Luckily for us, Mr. I had recovered from his dehydration spell earlier, seen the boy out in the water, went and retrieved him and then the CPR group came over and revived him."
"Wow…" I started but then noticed Inu-Yasha coming around the corner. I was about to say something to him when Mr. Shawn hurried over and started talking to him. I didn't want to interrupt their conversation so I decided that I should go back to the cabin and change.
I made sure that every curtain was closed and the door was locked before I conservatively changed my clothes into something dry. Then I looked at my schedule and ran down to the next activity since I had heard the bell ring a few minutes earlier. It turns out that we had snorkeling next, and even though I didn't know what it was, I knew I would hate it since it was at the waterfront like pretty much everything else. I started wondering whose idea it was to have a water activity while the sun was coming close to setting and it was getting colder and darker outside.
Ms Nicole was the snorkeling instructor as well since it was also right near the canoeing and kayaking area. She told us not to expect very much since this was really just a lake and there weren't very interesting fish or coral or anything exciting and that we'd just be looking at mud and murky water.
We all put on goggles and put long tubes in our mouths that would stay above the water while we were underneath. It took me a few moments to warm up with this way of breathing but when I finally did, I realized that it was just as Ms Nicole had explained. We were looking at mud if we could see that far since I could hardly see my hand in front of my face. This made me think of my own time when the water was clear and beautiful and how great these goggles and tube things would be if we had that water.
Another factor in snorkeling that made this even less fun is that Ms Nicole told us not to go by a certain point so we were just going around in circles looking at the very same sand that we had looked at two minutes earlier.
"How can you possibly stand doing this?" I asked Ms Nicole as I trudged over to her.
"The same way you stand being with these boys." Ms Nicole answered me as she kicked away one of the boys who was coming dangerously close to her. Then she smiled at me. "But I hardly have snorkeling. Mostly only once or twice a day. I usually just stick with canoeing and kayaking."
Then she looked at her wristwatch and frowned. "What is it?" I questioned.
"Dinner time." She said as the bell rang. "I've been dreading this all day."
"Why?" I asked as we all got out of the water.
"Because one of the groups made dinner today." She said.
Then I understood why she had been dreading it. After all, the food was terrible even when counselors made it but to think that a bunch of kids made the food just made me feel nauseated.
The group, Ms Nicole and I walked down to the main building in which we would be eating dinner. We were presented with a slab of cold meat between two pieces of bread. I decided to pass on dinner that night and just stick it out until breakfast the next morning.
Mr. Shawn came over to me and told me to choose a profession that I had always wanted to be when I was a kid. I had always wanted to be a demon exterminator and carry out the family business so I shrugged and told him that I had one. He gave me the thumbs up and then frolicked off.
Mr. Shawn then announced that it was campfire time so the entire camp went down to the place that I was getting far too familiar with. He told all the counselors to come down to the center area and I was only too glad to separate myself from the boys. On the way down, I spotted Hosh-sama speaking with Inu-Yasha and decided that it was a good idea to ask him if he was okay and how good of him it was to save the drowning boy.
I was doing just that and before I could finish, Mr. Shawn instructed us all 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!!! All you new counselors will catch on soon enough. Just think of the professions I told you to think of at dinner."
A female counselor that I hadn't met just yet was first. She chanted: "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 knew I was going to embarrass myself and I found myself turning even red and then reminding myself that I hadn't done anything quite yet. So I thought quickly in my head for a little jingle that I could say after I declared that I had always wanted to be a demon exterminator. However, Hosh-sama was before me so I wanted to listen to what he had to say.
I could tell that he was hesitant and humiliated as he sang. "I'm glad I am a counselor, there's nothing I'd rather be! But if I weren't a counselor then a monk I would be!" He didn't say anything. I was about to lean over and remind him that he had to add a rhyme when he suddenly said: "Monks…don't rhyme." Then the crowd erupted with laughter. I slapped my forehead. Hosh-sama had the tendency of making a fool of himself without realizing it. I felt embarrassed just because I was standing next to him.
It was my turn next. "I'm glad I am a counselor, there's nothing I'd rather be! But if I weren't a counselor then a demon exterminator I would be!" I cleared my throat and had to quickly decide on what to do for a rhyme. "Hiraikotsu, I've exterminated you!" I could tell that the camp couldn't figure out what that was supposed to mean but Hosh-sama and Inu-Yasha and I knew what it meant and I guess that's all that was really important.
Inu-Yasha, at first, looked as though he wasn't going to say anything. But then, much to my surprise, he began. "It's unfortunate that I'm a counselor, there's a lot of things I'd rather be." He said, sounding more like he was yelling at someone as opposed to singing a song. "But if I weren't a counselor then I full demon I would be." He paused and I thought that I would have to tell him to add a jingle as well when he finally just said, "Um…roar."
I was glad when it was finally over and I could go back to my cabin. Once I got my cabin, however, I wished I was back at the campfire singing the stupid song once I realized that I would again have to spend a night with the boys in a dark room.
"OH BOY!!!" said Dexter. "TOMORROW'S MY BIRTHDAY!!! I'M GOING TO BE FIFTEEN!!"
"HURRAY FOR DEXTER!!!" cheered all the other boys. "TELL US WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE FIFTEEN!!!"
"I WILL!!" screamed Dexter.
"The schedule says that you're all supposed to be packing for the all day hike that's tomorrow." I said. But then it hit me. I didn't want to go on an all day hike tomorrow.
"We know!" said Borris. "But it's too bad that YOU'RE not going with us!!"
"I'm not?" I said happily. "Why am I always the last one to know?" Then they all started stuffing as much as they could into their backpacks, most of the stuff I was sure they weren't going to use and just end up having to carry it around all day. But I didn't say anything because I wanted them to suffer.
The bell rang, signaling that it was ten o'clock and time for everyone to go to bed. I told them to get in bed or else Mr. Hosh-sama would kill them and they did.