Day Three
Miroku's Day
I was not awakened early the next morning. Actually, I was, but not quite as early as the day before, just as early as the one before that one. It was then that I remembered that, yes, I had pushed all the beds together the night before but had specifically told everyone to stay in their own beds. Somehow, without my knowing, every single one of kids had once again ended up all sleeping in my one bed as if it held some sort of holy sanctuary. Yes, I am a monk, but I would hardly consider myself a holy sanctuary.
The kids wished me a good morning as they hopped out of bed, obviously not expecting me to lecture them. And I wasn't going to either. They all got dressed with smiles on their faces and informed me when they were ready to go to breakfast.
I opened the door of the cabin to see Sango standing there looking as though she was about to knock. She had on a rain jacket and was also carrying an umbrella. Sure enough, when I looked up, I saw that it was raining quite hard.
She asked me if I was going to breakfast now. I answered in the affirmative and then she launched into an explanation on how her group was away on an all day hike and she was not included so was allowed to go around to any group she desired and spend time with them. She then blushed and told me to get on a rain jacket.
All of the kids ran over to get their rain jackets and umbrellas and we all started trudging through the rain until we reached the main building in which we were going to have breakfast. Sango joined my group at our table and the kids seemed immediately taken with her as they asked her questions and indulged themselves in conversations with her. She laughed and seemed to be enjoying herself so I decided not to intervene. I didn't touch the breakfast meal that had been placed in front of me, though, since it looked revolting, smelled revolting and no doubt was revolting so I figured I would just avoid it all together.
Mr. Shawn handed out schedules to everyone and told Sango to have fun with her day off. First off we had drama, so I led everyone up the hill to the drama building.
Sango entertained us with clever anecdotes about how perverted and disgusting her group was and how they had refused to go to drama the first time around so she was excited to finally be able to. I was not excited, however, because the drama teacher, Ms Alice, was also the music teacher and I don't really like Ms Alice all that much.
Ms Alice told everyone that we would be playing 'Ghost in the Graveyard' which was one of the most pointless games that I could possibly fathom. The object of the game was to lie down and be the last one to move. What? How could that be enjoyable? I decided to sit it out so Sango and I started a friendly conversation. She certainly seemed less tense than the previous days in which I had spoken to her.
I knew that Russell would not be able to sit still long so he was the first one out within two minutes. He got up and started jumping around and ran over to Kelsey and yelled that he was going to jump over her. Kelsey screamed and curled up into the fetal position so Ms Alice deemed her out so she began to cry and ran over to the corner. I would have went to go and comfort her if she was Madeline. Or Laura. Or Russell. Or Matthew. Or Cody. Or Sango. Or anybody BUT Kelsey since I truly dislike Kelsey. Hey, I may have even comforted her if she was Ms Alice!
For a little while, nothing eventful happened. Russell lied down on the ground and started pretending that he was a 'steam roller' as he rolled around on top of Matthew in attempt to get him to move. He was making very loud noises that echoed off the walls until Matthew finally kicked him and yelled at him to stop.
Then Russell laughed and pointed at Matthew, ran over to Sango and told her that drama was his favorite subject. Then he skipped off over to Matthew and tried to get him to play with him.
I turned to Sango. "After this we have animal care." I said.
She rolled her eyes and nodded, saying something about how she didn't want to go to animal care, especially since it was raining. She commented about maybe going over to basket weaving with Inu-Yasha's group.
I immediately told her just how hard and excruciating basket weaving was. She laughed and said that she only wanted to try it more now and I told her that she was in for a lot of frustration. She laughed at me some more before finally clearing her throat and stopping when she realized that I wasn't laughing as well.
In the end, Cody ended up winning since he never really does anything anyway. Most of the time, if he were dead, I probably would never know. And that's the sad part since Cody has a lot of potential. I can just tell.
Sango told me, "Hosh-sama, I had a lot of fun. I promise I'll have lunch with you."
…
Why DOES she call me Hosh-sama?
I'm beginning to question her sanity.
So anyway, we said goodbye to Ms Alice and left the building, everyone congratulating Cody on his victory. He actually thanked them and cracked a joke about being good at sitting still for a very long time but then he turned red and looked down at the ground.
Sango made her way down the hill while waving to me and we made our way across the street to animal care. The air smelled strangely foul as we got closer and closer. By this time, the grounds were wet and muddy and there were puddles everywhere. Russell jumped in every single puddle saying that puddles were his favorite things in the entire world.
There was a woman there with a blue rain jacket and brown curly hair. Her hood was down and she looked very nice with the mildly wet look so I decided right then and there that this would be the woman who would be bearing my child so I had to make a good impression on her.
I walked up and shook her hand. "Will you bear my child?" I asked her.
She laughed and said that her name was Ms Carolyn. I told her that I had not asked for her name, I had asked her to bear my child.
Then Russell asked Ms Carolyn to bear his child.
I slapped my forehead as Ms Carolyn gave an obvious forced laugh and told us all to follow her into a barn. Madeline grabbed my hand and told me that I was 'silly'.
I sighed and followed Ms Carolyn into the barn. She took off her rain jacket and shook it off and then told us that since it was raining that we'd just have to brush the horses.
The kids took off their rain jackets and grabbed some brushes and began to brush the horse's knees since that was as high as they could reach. Laura asked me to pick her up so she could brush the horse's hair so I put her on my shoulders as she giggled and began to brush.
Russell suddenly jumped up from behind me, grabbed my legs and said that my legs were his favorite legs in the entire world. I told him that he should try gravitating over to a more feminine set of legs to dub his favorite but he seemed to be ignoring me as he squeezed them tighter while humming some kind of unknown tune.
Ms Carolyn came over to me and asked me 'if I had heard about what happened yesterday'.
I replied that a lot of things had happened yesterday.
She told me that the camp was trying to stay 'hush hush' about the fact that one of the counselors had gotten dehydrated and had actually passed out since parents are led to believe that their children would be safe at the camp and if they found out that someone was dehydrated then they wouldn't send the kids to the camp anymore.
Or something like that.
I told her that I had heard and that I didn't think it was an issue since I would rather not discuss those kinds of issues. (I was also more than positive that Inu-Yasha had not collapsed of dehydration. What it was? I don't know. But it was definitely not dehydration.)
I did not know how much longer we would have to stand there and brush the horses. I was becoming quite bored and found myself asking Ms Carolyn very frequently how much longer it was until the bell rang. I could tell that she knew I didn't want to be here anymore but I assured her that it wasn't her I wanted to get away from, it was just the smell of the barn.
The bell rang. I didn't know whether to hope that I had animal care again so I could see Ms Carolyn or to hope that I DIDN'T have animal care again because it was boring.
I was brought at ease when I remembered that it was now the swimming period so I could spend time with my CPR group. (I like them.) Wouldn't it figure that animal care was just about as far away from the water as it could possibly get? By the time we all had our jackets on, had changed into our bathing suits and finally made it down, the block had already been going for a little while. I searched around for my CPR group as my regular group ran off.
When I couldn't find my CPR group, I was going to ask Mr. Shawn where they were when suddenly Sango ran up to me. She said that it wasn't only her group that had gone on the hike but all the older kids did as well which included my sixteen-year-old CPR group.
A building had been set up for all the counselors whose swim groups were away on the hike. Sango led me over and I took my rain jacket off and shook it off.
Sango then told me that basket making was a snap. I told her she was crazy but then she showed me her finished basket and the one she had started. I described the appearance of my basket to her and she began to laugh out loud and I found myself joining in since now that I go back and think about it, I am so pathetic.
Suddenly, Inu-Yasha seemed to come out of nowhere and yelled at us and demanded to know why we weren't outside in the rain. It was at that moment that I realized that that whole time, Inu-Yasha had been outside with Russell and the others since they were all YOUNG and not able to go on the hike like the older kids. So I laughed at him. Sango laughed too. I coughed and tried to cover it up when I realized that he was not amused.
"Our swimming groups are on hikes so we don't have to do anything!" I explained. "It turns out that it wasn't JUST Sango's group who left. It was everyone over the age of thirteen. Since my group was over the age, they left."
Sango agreed and said that it was a very nice day. I was just about to inform her that the day was not nice, considering the fact that it was pouring outside, when Inu-Yasha said it for me. Then he randomly demanded to know where I had gotten the jacket and umbrella.
I decided to just go along with him since he was clearly agitated for some reason and I had already rudely laughed at him so I had to give him a break.
"They were in the cabin." I said.
Inu-Yasha commented that he had made the breakfast that morning so he didn't get any protective rain gear. I wondered why he was getting worked up over rain gear since he refused to wear it ANYWAY. I then thought about how revolting the breakfast smelled and looked that morning and now knew why but then I remembered that Inu-Yasha wasn't out watching Russell and I did not want another accident to happen.
"Shouldn't you be watching your swim group?" I asked as I pointed outside at Russell and three other kids who were just running around in circles following him.
Inu-Yasha made some kind of absurd comment about Sango and I laughing at him. Yes, I know that I HAD been laughing at him but not at the beginning.
"I don't know where you're getting that." I lied just to get my point across to him. "I just want to make sure there are no more mishaps like yesterday since those kids are all around the age of six."
Inu-Yasha suddenly smiled and informed me that Russell was five and not six.
"Well I knew THAT." I said. And it was true. After all, the kid was in my group, unfortunate as it may be. "I said AROUND six." I could tell he didn't believe me. Either that or he did believe me but just didn't want to show that he did since Inu-Yasha's strange that way.
"Just go out and make sure that they don't drown!" I said, standing up and trying to push him out the door.
As soon as I touched him, I remembered right then and there that he was a half demon and that I was only a human so even though my efforts to get him outside would go unnoted, I decided to try anyway. It was just then that I remembered that I had a large collection of demon wards so I pulled one out and put one on his shoulder. I could tell he was surprised, and I felt almost satisfied as he whined and whimpered for me to take it off.
"I'll take if off if you go out and watch Russell and the other three." I bargained with him.
He yelled 'FINE!!' and that was a deal so I took off the demon ward and pocketed it, figuring I could use it later. He stomped out of the building and I sat down in front of Sango who had not said a single word that entire time. Either that or I just wasn't listening. Ha!
She said something, but I was far too busy patting myself on the back to listen TOO carefully, but I did hear Inu-Yasha's name in it so I assumed that she had just said that he was a fool or something.
I could see Inu-Yasha sitting on the beach staring at us, watching our every move so I did feel a bit uncomfortable but the bell rang not long after that little episode. Sango and I put our rain jackets back on, opened our umbrellas and then made our way back to the cabin, 'The Bunnies'.
Russell ran up to me and said that swimming was his favorite period of the day. By this time, I was noticing a pattern that Russell had been saying that just about everything was his favorite thing in the world. Matthew came up from behind me and started talking about how he had gone into the deep end where he couldn't touch and I almost felt like telling him to stop explaining since I didn't really care but Russell jumped out and started growling ravenously at Matthew so they both ran off while pretending to claw at each other and growl.
Sango stared at me but I told her that it was normal.
We got back to our cabin and they changed their clothes. Just when we were about to go to lunch, there was a knock at the cabin door and when I opened it, a woman was standing there and she told us that we would be having lunch in the cabins today and gave us a bunch of plates with a gloppy mess on them. I decided not to touch this food.
This had made nearly an entire day that I had passed on the camp food and I tell you, by this time I was definitely getting hungry but I chose to wait for dinner and hoped that it would be something that at least LOOKED slightly appetizing. None of the kids really touched their food either.
Then it was group time. Matthew paraded around chanting, obviously just remembering that he got to be me in the skit. Russell said that if Matthew got to be me then he got to be Laura. Everyone laughed at that for a little longer than they needed to and I concluded that yes, it was rather random, but not random enough to laugh about for as long as they did. Matthew was me, Russell was Laura, Madeline wanted to be herself, Laura was Kelsey, Kelsey was Cody, Cody was Matthew and I was Russell.
Lucky me!
Madeline suddenly asked if Sango could be in our skit too, just being herself, and she could ask about how I was all small and stuff. Now, the skit itself was idiotic but if we threw in Sango I knew it would get even worse but since Madeline is my favorite, I told her that it was a good idea and Sango agreed since she seemed to WANT to.
They all started running around and rehearsing in a very unorganized fashion until the bell finally rang and it was time to take them to painting. Sango walked with us through the rain until we came to the arts and crafts building. I waved to Ms Kara and sat down at the table. Cody actually made a suggestion that we make signs for ourselves to wear during the skits so everyone would know who we were. Just when we were about to start, the door opened and Inu-Yasha walked in with his group.
"Wow, all three of us in the very same activity!" I said cheerfully since that had not happened yet. Wouldn't it just be great if Lady Kagome were here too? Inu-Yasha then ruined the whole moment for me by saying that he was mad at me for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Before I could reply, Ms Kara handed out paper and poured some paint in some bowls in front of us.
Russell declared that he was going to finger paint since he missed it yesterday. I was going to stop him but he had already submerged his hand in the green paint and was talking about how his favorite color was green. Then, before I could do anything else, his OTHER hand was in the yellow paint and he was saying how his OTHER favorite color was yellow. I suppose that Inu-Yasha didn't realize that I was a bit preoccupied at the moment as I cleaned of Russell's hands because Inu-Yasha was ranting about SOMETHING and saying that he was STILL mad at me. I nodded and politely hinted that I didn't really want to hear it but then he repeated it so I lost my temper right then and there and told him that I had heard him!
I don't know, I think Inu-Yasha just thrived on my anger because he continued and then threatened to kill me. I told him that I would like to see him try and he said that he could kill me easily and then I said I could kill him faster. (I didn't realize at the time that there were many small children around us.) Inu-Yasha threatened to kill me one more time and before I could threaten him right back, Sango screamed at me to stop. It was then that I realized that there were small children and nodded at her as Inu-Yasha just scoffed rudely.
Then the kids gathered around me and told me just how great I was. I was feeling a bit flattered even though the kids are practically brainwashed but I took it all in anyway. Sango looked annoyed for only SHE knew why and I told her that she needed to relax but that seemed to get her more tense.
While I basked in their compliments, I then noticed Russell splashing around in the paint and he was dumping it all over himself as if it belonged on his head. I yelled at him and told him to stop and he looked up at me and just said 'OKAY!!!' quite possibly as loud as he could but he didn't even look angry, in fact he was smiling.
It was unfortunate that swimming was BEFORE this period because now he couldn't wash off and we had rest hour next to top it all off. Sango told me that she had no interest in going to rest hour since it sounded really boring and she was right.
So when the bell rang, Inu-Yasha immediately sprang up out of his seat and practically sprinted out of the arts and crafts building. Sango called for him to wait but he didn't so she hastily said goodbye to me and followed after him. I led my group back over to our cabin so we could have rest hour! YAY!!
I tucked everyone into their beds and had hardly gone into a light period of meditation when I was suddenly awakened by someone hitting me atop of the head with something I would have preferred not to be hit with. Upon looking up, I saw Sango standing over me looking angry. I stood up and reminded her that she had said that she was going with Inu-Yasha for this activity but then she explained that she had walked into the building where Inu-Yasha was and then remembered just how 'irresponsible' I was during rest hour and she had to come and make sure I was watching them this time.
I told her not to trouble herself and to run off but then she only seemed to grow angrier with me. She sat down on the floor and crossed her arms so I joined her as we sat there for a moment or two before she repeated that I was just too irresponsible to be watching the little kids but I only ignored her.
She asked me what I had next. I pulled out my schedule and looked at it to see that I had 'playground'. Sango raised an eyebrow and told me that she would be seeing what Inu-Yasha had next. We sat there for a little while, both of us really just sighing and shifting around so that random appendages wouldn't fall asleep. I broke the silence and asked her if it would really be worth it to not let me meditate during this period of nothingness.
Sango said that she worried about tomorrow's rest hour.
Finally, the time came when I had to wake everyone up so they could get their rain jackets on and then we could press to the playground where we would be spending an entire hour.
I put the hood up on my rain jacket and opened my umbrella. We walked a fair distance until we came across this lame structure that we would have to be entertaining ourselves with for a longer time than I wanted to be entertaining myself with.
Russell suddenly started screaming that his favorite thing in the entire world was playing on the playground as I sat down on the swing. He asked if he could give me a push and I responded that it was quite all right but he only said that giving pushes to people on swing was his favorite thing in the entire world.
Matthew suddenly ran up to him and asked if he wanted to be in his club. Russell gasped and jumped up and down and then ran in a few circles. With that, both Russell and Matthew ran off to find Cody since this was obviously an all-boys club. I knew this, of course, because Laura came up to me a few minutes later in tears saying that the boys weren't letting her play with them.
I told her to go and play with Madeline but not with Kelsey. Laura wiped her eyes though it proved nothing since her hands were wet too and then went off to find Madeline.
Kelsey was sitting on top of a slide, screaming for me to come over and stand at the bottom and catch her. I told her that she would be fine and that I would prefer not to venture over to her general direction. She began to cry though it sounded incredibly forced so I wandered off since I hadn't seen Madeline yet and I wanted to make sure she was okay. Of course, I didn't really worry about Cody since I never really see him ANYWAY.
I heard Matthew calling from above me. I looked up to see him standing on top of the highest point of the structure with Russell and Cody on either side of him. He yelled at me and asked if I wanted to be in his club. Russell told me that he loved clubs. Cody didn't say anything.
I politely told them that I would pass on their kind offer and then decided to further my search for Madeline. I found her a few minutes later underneath a part of the structure with Laura. They were sitting there staying dry while speaking to each other in very quiet voices. When I approached, I looked under the structure and asked them what they were doing. They told me that they were talking. I decided not to ask any more questions since their answers would probably be just as vague as the one they had just replied with previously.
For the rest of the period, I found myself sitting atop the highest point of the structure with Cody, Matthew and Russell. Their 'no girls allowed' policy held strong until I insisted that we let Laura and Madeline play with us. (Yes, Kelsey still was sitting on the slide screaming for me to come and catch her but I really didn't want to.) Once we had begun an organized game of tag, I heard the bell ring very faintly since we weren't in a building and the rain was creating quite a bit of noise.
Up next we had 'Various Constructive Teamwork Activities' so we all went over to the soccer field. I waited for a few moments for a beautiful, young, female Various Constructive Teamwork Activities counselor to show up but none did so I figured perhaps I was on my own once again. Suddenly, Sango came running up the field and waved to everyone as all the kids cheered and jumped up and down.
She told me that Inu-Yasha had recently violated her (I was a bit confused about that) so she would like to stay with me this period. Then she had to add that I was irresponsible and she had to watch me since there was not a counselor present.
This meant that I had to come up with a bunch of various constructive teamwork activities. I was only drawing a blank so I instructed the children to run off and retrieve long sticks. I was going to teach them how to defend themselves from horrendous demons.
After they had all returned, I showed them a demon ward. I tried to explain the uses of it and how it all worked but they all seemed very confused.
"Very well." I said, turning to Sango. "Let's all pretend that Ms Sango here is a demon. We all know that she's not, but we can just pretend."
Russell asked me if I meant a demon like Mr. I.
"He's not really a demon." I said. "He's only a half demon but these wards would work on him too. Okay, back to what I was saying. Saying that Ms Sango were a demon, if I were to place this demon ward upon her body then, depending on the type of ward or her amount of strength, she would either die, writhe in pain for a little while, be rendered helpless or just swat it aside."
I then gave them each a demon ward and told them to do with it as they pleased. They thanked me but then Russell asked me for two. I shrugged and handed him another but then the others whined that that wasn't fair so I gave them all two. It was okay, I wasn't going to miss ten wards.
I told them to go over to Sango and she would teach them how to throw a very large boomerang. Since Sango didn't have it with her, she only instructed them to use the sticks that they had collected earlier.
I took this time to glance quickly at my schedule to see what I had next. I should have remembered that I had swimming now. So now I got to sit with Sango and a bunch of other counselors in a building since our swim groups had not yet returned from their hikes.
When the bell DID ring, we all walked together down to the waterfront and then parted ways. Sango and I went into the building and sat down. Sango started telling a story about what happened to her earlier at candle making with Inu-Yasha, how he had asked her to pretend to be his girlfriend because he just wanted a certain girl to leave him alone. She had refused at the time and only now realized that she had been doing the very same thing with me the entire time so we began to laugh just as Inu-Yasha stomped over telling me that I was REAL funny. Sango gasped and turned red, thinking he had heard what she had just said but he only shook his head and told me how I had told Russell to put a demon ward on him.
This was clearly a misunderstanding so I told him that I did not tell Russell special instruction to put demon wards on him but I had given him demon wards. Sango pointed out that I had used Inu-Yasha as an example during my little demonstration. I had just remembered that so I admitted to that, but then added that I hadn't told them to put it on Inu-Yasha and Sango backed me up.
I went further to explain that Russell probably would have put the demon ward on the first person he saw since it was still fresh in his mind and then Inu-Yasha had to go and insult Russell by replying with 'What mind?' Now, I must agree with Inu-Yasha that Russell is not the sharpest tool in the shed but that boy most definitely does possess a mind, no matter how tiny it is and how little he actually uses it. So I reminded Inu-Yasha to go and watch his swim group since I still had more demon wards. He scoffed at me rudely and left.
I looked at Sango who shrugged. She said that Inu-Yasha must not be having a very good day and that she would ask him about it during the next period since she would rather go with him to tubing than with me to nature. I couldn't blame her for that.
We had barely engaged ourselves in conversation before Inu-Yasha was back.
"What do you want this time?" I said, trying not to sound frustrated. "We're just trying to enjoy our periods off. Tell me, what did I NOT do this time?"
Inu-Yasha yelled at me to shut up and demanded to know why I had given Russell two demon wards. I informed him that I had given ALL of them two demon wards. Well…except for Kelsey. I only gave her one and it was kind of ripped because I don't really like her all that much. Inu-Yasha replied with something that was most likely rude but I didn't have to threaten or harm him because the bell rang to I quickly left.
I went back to the cabin and found my entire group there with assorted plates of spaghetti on their plates. There was hardly enough for me to eat my fill but I ate every bite since I hadn't eaten for an entire day. I was still hungry afterwards and was going to swipe a bit of food from the kids in my group but realized that they had all finished theirs too.
The rain only seemed to worsen as the day progressed and I could see the sun coming closer to the horizon so it was getting colder as well. I took my group to nature when the bell rang. When we got there, Mr. Rick was sitting in the corner. I asked him what he was doing and he yelled at me to take my group and go, and never return. Kelsey immediately started crying so I opened my umbrella back up and shooed the kids out of the building. I had to wonder what had made Mr. Rick act so angry and violent so suddenly. Perhaps it was because he would normally take us into the woods to tromp around in the mud but at this point, just about everything was mud so maybe he was upset about THAT.
I didn't know what to do with my time so Matthew suggested that we could go to tubing with his cousin. I was going to reject his idea because Mr. Shawn seemed to get particularly angry at me but then again, it's not like he's following ME around! Not to mention the fact that Mr. Rick had given us permission to leave (in fact, he enforced it) so I'm sure it would be okay. Halfway there, I just then remembered that Inu-Yasha was at tubing and so was Sango so this wasn't THAT bad! Plus, I didn't have to go to nature.
When I reached the tubing area, I saw Sango standing at the dock. I walked up to her and she gasped, "HOSH-SAMA!!" as if she would NEVER run into me EVER. She asked me what I was doing and I told her that we had nothing better to do so we just came here.
There were a bunch of girls swimming around in the water and when they saw me, they all started scoffing at me and saying, "Oh, it's MR. MIROKU. Aren't WE happy?!" and other things like that so I knew that they were brainwashed already so there was no chance in getting through to them or getting one of them to bear my child in the future. I inquired on Inu-Yasha's whereabouts and the girls pointed at the boat that was going around the lake. I looked up just in time to see a figure fall off of the tube behind it, skid across the lake a little bit before finally coming to a stop. I raised an eyebrow and felt a tap on my shoulder. When I turned around, I saw Mr. Shawn standing there tapping his foot with an angry expression on his face.
I tried to explain but he told me that he didn't want to hear it and told me to just go to the dance. When I asked him what he was talking about, he thought I was being a 'wise guy' so he told me to hurry up. I shrugged and was on my way to the dance building that was up all those stairs when Laura suddenly said that we had to go into the main building for the dance. She said that her sister had told her about the dances previously so she knew exactly where to go. I trusted Laura and entered the main building where there were a few counselors scattered about setting up decorations and all kinds of other things.
I asked if they required my services. They told me that they were nearly finished so it was okay if I just hung out. Moments later, Mr. Shawn walked in and asked them if everything was ready just as a group entered the door. He turned off the lights and then the music started playing. Group after group filed in the building but I couldn't spot Inu-Yasha or Sango and by this time, the building was filled up as much as it would fit.
Madeline asked me to dance with her and I agreed since I had lost touch with the other five of them by this point anyway. So I grabbed her hands and we really only just jumped around foolishly until I saw Sango and Inu-Yasha standing at the door speaking to another counselor.
I firmly grabbed hold of Madeline's hand, not wanting to lose her, as we pushed our way through the crowd. I noticed that Lady Kagome had come over and I was glad that she was feeling well enough to come.
Finally, I reached them. "Isn't this just great?" I asked. "Aren't you having fun?! We finally get to stay up late." Then Madeline asked me to dance with her again and then Sango yelled at me. I assured her that I would find time to dance with her LATER and that she was not to worry but she turned red just as a hoard of hideous pubescent boys came running into the building and greeted Sango. Inu-Yasha, Lady Kagome and the other counselor, who was Ms Keri, decided to leave.
Sango leapt up into my arms while screaming 'HOSH-SAMA!!' All the boys started whining and complaining so I took my chance to hold her affectionately and tell her that everything would be all right but I heard her threatening my life so I cleared my throat and decided not to push it. Sango then requested that I stay with her the whole night. (Her excuse was that so the pubescent boy/ demons would leave her alone but I know what she REALLY meant) and I agreed only when the music stopped. I looked up to see Mr. Shawn standing on the stage. He stated that it was time for the Bunnies to go back to the cabin for the night. Before I knew what I was doing, I found myself bellowing 'NEVER!!' and Madeline (whom I had forgotten was there) followed and did the same. Scattered about the room, there came five more little 'NEVER!!'s.
Mr. Shawn went and lectured us in front of the entire camp before I finally admitted defeat and made my way outside, followed by the five campers. Sango ran after me and demanded to know what she was supposed to do now and I told her to go seek out Inu-Yasha since he was about as good a protector as one could get, if you're on his good side that is.
I could tell that some of the kids had no intention of staying up later than bedtime since they were all yawning and asking to be held. The rain was letting up by this time but there still was a light drizzle, so I was able to go without an umbrella and carry both Madeline and Laura.
We entered the cabin, Madeline and Laura both asleep. I didn't know whether to wake them up so they could get changed or not so I just put them in bed after taking their jackets off. Cody was easy to put to bed since he was nearly asleep anyway. Kelsey wanted to sleep with me but I told her that she had to sleep in her own bed tonight so she climbed in her own.
Matthew and Russell, however, were a completely different story. Russell was up and running around as if it was the middle of the day. I could tell that Matthew was tired but he was running around as well. Sometimes I just can't tell who is the leader and who is the follower of this duo because they were both just chasing each other in circles.
Russell suddenly ran over to me, screamed in my face and then dropped flat on his back. He whispered, "Pretend I'm dead," and lied motionless on the floor for a few moments. I could tell that he could do that for a very long time if he really wanted to but Matthew ran over and jumped on top of him.
I decided to let them tire themselves out. Sure enough, within five minutes both were dizzy and tired so they somehow wandered over to their beds and fell asleep within minutes. I waited a minute or two for someone to come over and ask to sleep with me but no one did so I turned off the lights and got into my own bed.
It was hard to get the sleep that night.
No, it wasn't because I wasn't tired. It was because of the booming music of the dance that I had been excluded from.