Day Four
Inu-Yasha's Day
(Haven't you learned yet? No. We're not writing Kagome's day. Stop hassling us.)
It had been thundering nearly all night long. At every crash, the girls would all sit up in their beds and scream at the top of their lungs. Of course, I wasn't really trying to get any sleep since I was anticipating the sunrise and watching the window but it was still annoying.
Finally, the sun peeked over the horizon. I was relieved that I was finally back to my regular self as the horn was blown, signaling for us all to get up and come to breakfast.
I think…ten out of ten of the girls in my group felt they needed to tell me that I was back to normal, as if I would not have noticed by myself. And I guess I was just in a good mood at the time since I turned back because I didn't smite them all and leave right then and there. Plus, I was hungry too so I wanted to go to breakfast anyway.
All the girls got dressed at their own paces and then we were finally ready to go. Upon stepping outside of the cabin, we were quick to realize that it had been raining for a fair amount of time last night so now the ground was still very muddy and disgusting.
No, it didn't really bother me but it seemed to be…I don't know…something really really bad for most of the girls. There were a few of them who would step through it while just making comments on how gross it was but they wouldn't be crying like Emily, Rachel and Abigail.
I could see the main building that I had spent far too much time in off in the distance. We were nearly inside when all of a sudden, someone swooped out in front of me.
"Good morning Mr. I!" said Ms Keri.
"Are you stalking me?" I asked, raising my eyebrow.
"I didn't know whether to look for your black hair or your silver hair." Ms Keri said, completely ignoring my question. "I guess it's back to silver, huh?"
"I guess." I said, trying to push by her.
Miroku suddenly walked by with his group on his way to the main building. He was staring at me as if I didn't belong and not even trying to be discrete about the fact that he was staring at me. I would have given him the evil eye but it didn't really occur to me until after he was in the building so I ended up just being an idiot and staring right back at him.
"Mr. I, we're going to go inside so you can have some time with Ms Keri!" said Sarah as they all started laughing and then ran into the building.
I could really only be in a good mood for so long.
"They're so silly!" said Ms Keri as she turned bright red.
"Very." I said sarcastically. We stood in silence for a second and I could tell she was waiting for me to ask her to eat breakfast with me but I wasn't going to.
"So…is it okay if I eat breakfast with you?" she asked.
"I don't know…the table really only seats eleven…" I said as I walked past her and made my way inside. She followed after me.
"No, each table has enough room for fifteen people!" she called. I hoped that maybe if I ignored her, she would go away. But unfortunately, she didn't and just followed me to the table. I sat down in the empty seat between Julia and Sarah, figuring that Ms Keri wouldn't be able to attack me there but Sarah got up and offered her seat to Ms Keri while nearly collapsing in a fit of hysterics. I was about to wring her neck but then someone came around and passed out some eggs to everyone.
I was very careful about not allowing Ms Keri to see my schedule when Mr. Shawn had passed them out. Even though she was in charge of candle making, she would probably leave on one of her empty periods or get Ms April to watch the kids.
The conversation was dull at the table that morning. But then again, the conversation is rather dull at that table EVERY morning but this time, I had to deal with ANOTHER disgusting human female who had a crush on me. Finally, when breakfast was over it was time to go to mini-golf. Ms Keri could not follow us because she had group first thing in the morning.
I wasn't too thrilled about going to 'mini-golf'. I mean, it's bad enough that I have to go to something as dorky sounding as golf but I had to go to a small version of it. We walked around the corner of the nature building to see a plot of a random assortment of items spread across an area of land.
Mr. Martin, the man overseeing mini-golf, explained what we would be doing at this station. It sounded stupid and boring so I asked if perhaps we could do something else.
"No." said Mr. Martin plainly. I waited for him to continue but when he didn't, I felt a little insulted.
"Just no?" I asked.
"Correct." Said Mr. Martin as he reached into a bucket and pulled out a small, lime green ball and handed it to me. "I don't need someone who is as old as the amount of years that I have been working at this camp to be telling me what to do."
It took me a minute to figure that out because I thought that the small lime green ball had some kind of significance to what he was saying. But apparently it did not so he was only trying to confuse me.
I found mini-golf to be a lot more challenging than I had imagined. You had to hit the ball with a stick and get it into a hole. I know that sounds really stupid and easy but there were obstacles in the way of some of them or a pool of water or the ball would go over a hill or something and not to mention the fact that the holes were very tiny and hard to aim at. My patience was going to reach its end and I was about to bend the metal stick in half when I suddenly heard the bell ring off in the distance.
I bent the stick in half anyway.
Then I led the girls to the soccer field that was right next to the mini-golf area over to Mr. Carl. He stared at me for a second and then yawned. I wondered if perhaps he was trying to tell me something but I decided to drop it because I had just noticed that Miroku was there as well.
"Why are you here?" I demanded.
"Because I have soccer now." Miroku answered, showing me his schedule.
"Just get in the same teams that you were in last time and play a game." Mr. Carl instructed us as he went into a tiny building, tossed out a ball and then shut the door. He didn't come out. I didn't use too many of my precious brain cells pondering about Mr. Carl's current sanity because I simply had much more important things to think about.
…
Like the fact that I was STILL mad at Miroku!! He thought he would get away with it!
"I'm still mad at you!" I declared, pointing at him as my group and his group ran off and started a soccer game.
"Still?" Miroku said, playing dumb, hoping that I would just let it slide. "I missed that one."
"You know very well what I'm talking about!!" I yelled since he did.
"I truly don't." Miroku lied. "…Is this because I was looking at your shirt this morning?"
"What?" I said, looking down at the shirt I was wearing. It said 'T is for Rowen' on it. I hadn't even been paying attention to what it said when I had put it on and only now realized that T was NOT for Rowen. "T is for Rowen?"
"That's what I was wondering." Miroku said. "What exactly is 'Rowen' anyway? Your shirt makes absolutely no sense. I am so puzzled."
"SHUT UP!!" I yelled, realizing that he was trying to avert the attention away from how I was mad at him. Then I stopped and wondered for a second, unable to remember why I was mad at him in the first place. I, of course, would not being telling him this. He should KNOW!
"Where exactly did you get a shirt that says T is for Rowen?"
"I don't know…it was in the drawer that the camp provided…"
"Why would anyone print on a shirt 'T is for Rowen'?"
"How am I supposed to know?!"
"It's so incorrect."
"I know. I'm not an idiot."
"Could have fooled me."
That was it. He crossed the line. "That's it! You've crossed the line!!" I yelled, grabbing a hold of a tree, uprooting it and then hurling it at Miroku. Stupid Miroku looked like he was just going to stand there and let the tree hit him but then he went and took advantage of his little air void that right then and there, I had completely forgotten about.
"Don't do that!" he said to me as if I were a child.
"YAY MR. I!!" cheered the girls in my group as they ran over.
"We saw the whole thing, Mr. I!" said Julia.
"Beat up that Mr. Miroku!" Sarah commanded as if I wasn't going to without her instruction. "I bet he can't uproot trees and throw them around as if they're nothing!"
"You're right. He can't." I had to agree.
"You are very childish, Inu-Yasha." Miroku called from his circle of campers.
"Come over here and say that, Miroku!!" I yelled back. I knew he wouldn't since he's too much of a coward.
"YEAH!! COME OVER HERE!!" screamed the girls.
"I would prefer not to engage in combat in front of my group." He said.
"Nice excuse." I said.
"YEAH!! NICE EXCUSE!!!" yelled all the girls. I felt as though I had an echo. Miroku sighed and turned his back on me. At that moment, I didn't know whether to feel triumphant or offended that he had just turned away but I decided to feel triumphant since I was in a reasonably good mood since I knew for a FACT that it would be an ENTIRE month before I would have to be a pathetic human like Miroku.
We spent the rest of the period being segregated and not interacting with each other with the exception of Jesse traveling back and forth. I finally decided that it was time to ask her why she had not yet spoken to me but speaks freely to other counselors.
Of course, she didn't answer me so I told Julia to go over and ask her. Julia then told me that Jesse is always talking about how mean and scary I was and trying to convince them that I was a bad guy. That's okay though. I'm over it. All the girls still worship me so Jesse had clearly not succeeded in manipulating them. I then placed Jesse into the group of campers that I disliked the most along with Rachel, Emily and Abigail.
Next up was swimming and when the bell down, we all walked down to the water and parted ways. I GUESS I didn't mind them…well…SOME of them were OKAY but I definitely wouldn't volunteer my free time to hang around with them… kind of like what I'm doing now.
As for my swim group, they're a completely different story. I hate them all. Well, except for maybe Miriam since she's kind of not annoying but Russell is just way too stupid and I can't even remember the names of the other two so screw them.
"Mr. I, we're all going in the water today!!" yelled Russell as I came over.
"NOOO!!" screamed one of the boys who I don't care enough to remember what his name is.
"YES!!!" Russell yelled in quite possibly the most annoying voice he could get his weak body to produce.
"I think that Russell, for the first and probably last time in his life, has come up with a good idea." I announced. "No matter how obvious it could possibly be."
"Yeah Mr. I!!" said Russell. "Thanks!! I think I DO like you better than Mr. Miroku after all! I couldn't decide before because he's my counselor but YOU'RE my swim counselor and you just said that I was REALLY smart so now my mind is completely changed!! You're my favorite!!!"
Anyway, enough about Russell and his stupidity. But then again, we ended up not going in the water even after Russell's suggestion of us all going in the water. In fact, RUSSELL didn't even go in the water!! What a freak!!
When the bell finally rang, I told them all to get away from me as I went back to my cabin to find the girls strutting around nude while looking for a change of clothes.
"Hey, if you guys are going to do this then you should say something before I just walk in!!" I yelled as I slammed the door shut. All the girls screamed, pretending as though it actually bothered them even though it clearly didn't since they only decided right now that it bothered them simply because it bothered me.
After standing there for a few minutes, they finally emerged from the cabin fully clothed and declared that they were ready. I reminded them that I still had to change so I went inside the cabin and shut the door behind me. After I changed, I came back outside to see that no one was standing there anymore. The first thought that came to my mind was that they had walked off to lunch without me and I became so incredibly angry that I would have smote the first thing that I had stumbled across. But then it occurred to me that I could smell, see and hear every single one of them hiding behind the cabin ready to jump out and try and scare me. I wondered if maybe I should act surprised to humor them but then I decided against it as they jumped out and screamed at the top of their lungs for almost ten seconds and they probably would have continued if I didn't yell at them to stop.
By the time we reached the lunch building, everyone else was already there because the girls had just taken so much time. So when we got in, we got the disgusting leftovers that no one wanted but sometimes had to get if they were late. I, of course, knew nothing of these leftovers prior to right now considering I had always either made the food or we would have been one of the first ones there. Now, the REAL food was bad enough but the leftovers were, if possible, even worse and I didn't want ANYTHING to do with it.
"Beat up Mr. Miroku and take his lunch!!" Sarah yelled. "And take his group's lunches for us!!"
"Unfortunately, if you could count, you would see that Miroku has six kids in his group and we have ten." I said to her. "And that would mean that four of you would not be getting a lunch and would be stuck with the leftovers." Then I stopped to wonder…since when am I fair?! I didn't like Abigail, Jesse, Rachel or Emily and that was four so they could have the leftovers. They could eat dirt for all I care!!
So I walked over to Miroku's table, contemplating how exactly I should conduct this. Should I just take all the lunches and leave? Or maybe should I demand that he gives them to me so he can feel defeated? Perhaps I would really beat him up and then run off while cackling at his expense with the lunches as all of his stupid kids cried and whined and realized just what a loser he was. That way he'd feel REALLY defeated. Wow, I feel like my old self again!
I found myself standing over Miroku as he stared at me. I still wasn't sure what I should do so I only just stood there looming over him ominously.
"May I help you Inu-Yasha?" he said suddenly.
"Yes," I answered. "I'm hungry."
"Then why don't you consider eating?" he said.
I felt kind of foolish…
"I WOULD if there was anything to eat!" I said even though I knew very well that we did have something to eat but I just didn't really want to eat it.
"And how am I supposed to help you with that?" Miroku continued. I didn't say anything because I was trying to think of the right way to threaten his life and not get sucked up into the void within him. He cleared his throat but I wasn't ready quite yet. "Do you want my lunch?" he said suddenly.
"What?" I demanded. He wasn't supposed to OFFER it to me! I was supposed to STEAL it!!
"You can have it." Miroku said, picking up the plate and handing it to me.
I put it back on the table. "Well what are YOU supposed to eat?!" I yelled. He had to WANT it before I took it.
"Camp food is not too appealing to me." He answered. "I'd prefer to go without it."
"You can have my lunch, Mr. I." Said Russell.
"No!" said some random kid who was sitting next to Russell. "He is the enemy!! Let him suffer!!"
"Yeah Mr. I, I hate you!" said Russell.
"Mr. Miroku, pretend like you want your lunch so that Mr. I can't have it!" said some other kid.
"Now why would I do something like that?" said Miroku.
"Because he threw a tree at you this morning!!" yelled some one else.
Miroku paused for a moment. "Oh right." He said as if he had actually forgotten about it which he couldn't have possibly done unless some of Russell was rubbing off on him. "In that case, Inu-Yasha, you can not have my lunch."
I would have to pat the backs of the kids who contributed in that little conversation because now that Miroku wanted his lunch, I could take it. And I did. And then I walked away and didn't say anything to him.
I sat back down at the table with my group.
"Did you get lunches for us?!" asked Julie/Juliana.
"Um…I forgot." I confessed.
"That's okay, we ate the disgusting leftovers while you were gone." Said someone who I forgot who it was. I think it was Katie.
I didn't really end up eating Miroku's lunch since it was all smooshed and played with and pushed around. He had mixed half of the things around so I really didn't even want to look at it. So anyway, we had group time next and we would have to be working on our very creative skit. Not.
Well, yeah we would be working on the skit but what I meant that it wasn't creative.
"Mr. I, I don't want to be Ms Alice!!" said Emily as she ran up to me. "I want to be Ms Nicole!"
"Whatever." I said since I really didn't care all that much.
"And I want to be Ms Betty!" Abigail screamed as if she really had to scream since I was, after all, standing right next to her. I told her that if she screamed again then I would make her be Ms Keri but then Juliana reminded me that SHE was being Ms Keri.
"So what are you all doing for your parts?" I asked randomly even though now I regret that I asked because I then had to listen.
"I'm gonna go last and destroy the lawnmower!!" Julia declared. "I'm just gonna get really mad because I can't start it and then just kick it and beat it up until it's nothing but a heap on the ground!!"
"Don't REALLY!!!" said Rachel.
"I know!!" said Julia.
"Oh!! I want to be Ms Keri!!" said Sarah suddenly. "Juliana, will you trade counselors with me?!"
"I don't want to be Mr. Czhekov!" whined Juliana.
"You don't have to be him but I just have a really good idea for Ms Keri!!" Sarah said as she began to jump up and down. Juliana finally gave in and gave Ms Keri to Sarah and then chose to be Ms Carolyn. "But you can't watch us Mr. I because it has to be a surprise!!" Sarah declared.
"Whatever." I found myself saying again as I turned around and sat down. It's not like I found watching them interesting or anything. They practiced the skit, or at least I think they did, but it just sounded like a lot of laughing, running around and screaming. When the bell rang a few minutes later, I was glad to leave and make my way over to the soccer field…AGAIN.
"Our skit is going to be the best Mr. I!" said Julia as she ran up to me and grabbed my hand. I was going to shake her off and punt her…but I didn't.
I approached with my group to see that Miroku and his stupid little group were already there. He was definitely EVERYWHERE. But then I saw Sango and her group coming up the soccer field and it took me a moment to process what exactly she was doing here.
She ran up to Miroku and greeted him and they talked for a minute or two and then Miroku ended up just turning away from her. Suddenly, the guy from nature…I think his name was…Mr. Rick? Anyway, Mr. Rick came out of nowhere with a gigantic bag of balls of many colors slung over his shoulder.
"I'll be filling in for Mr. Carl." Mr. Rick said. "Apparently, he has come down with chicken pox."
"With what?" said me, Sango and Miroku at the same time. Yeah. What ARE chicken pox?
"I know." Said Mr. Rick as if that really had anything to do with what we had just said. "Isn't that weird? I thought only kids got it. But I guess adults can too if they didn't get it when they were kids but it's extra bad. You don't have to worry though."
"And why is that?" asked Miroku.
"You've all got chicken pox before, right?" Mr. Rick said slowly. We all shook our heads. "Well…that's okay. Mr. Carl doesn't really talk or interact with anyone so as long as you didn't talk to him or touch him, you should be fine."
"I had soccer with Mr. Carl this morning but he just sat in the shed over there for the whole thing." I said, pointing to the shed.
"That's good." Said Mr. Rick. "BUT ENOUGH ABOUT THIS!! Let's split the teams up. Wow! It is just so ironic that you three NEW counselors would be put in all the same period even though your groups are no where near to the same age or skill level ESPECIALLY for a game such as bombardment!! That is just incredible."
He scanned our groups. "Okay, this is great." He said. "We could just split all your groups in half and put half of each group on one team."
Then he split up all the kids and put me on one team and Sango and Miroku on the other. I didn't really care because now I didn't have to deal with one of them trying to start conversation with me. So whatever, I got Julia, Rachel, Sarah, Abigail and Jesse from my group and five random boys from Sango's group. From Miroku's group was Russell, another boy and some disgusting hideous girl that surprisingly reminded me of Rachel.
"Mr. I, do you need us to explain the rules of bombardment to you?" Sarah asked me. I raised an eyebrow but before I could even answer, she launched into an explanation of bombardment. "Mainly, you just have to throw a ball at the other team and if it hits a person then they're out and have to sit down. Once they were all sitting down, we win. You're not allowed to throw at someone's head and if the other person catches the ball that you throw then YOU have to sit down. Get it, Mr. I?"
"I'll manage." I said.
"Get Mr. Miroku out!!" screamed Julia as she ran over to me with a ball and handed it to me.
"NO!!" yelled Russell. "Mr. Miroku is my favorite counselor!!"
"I thought you said that I was your favorite counselor." I reminded him. It's not like I cared or anything but I couldn't have Miroku triumphing over me.
"Oh right." Said Russell.
"Mr. I, can I have that ball?" asked a hideous pubescent boy.
"No, you can't." I replied. "There are plenty of other ones that you can help yourself to."
Then Mr. Rick yelled for us to begin. All the kids in Miroku's group really only picked up a ball, ran around in a few circles and then might have attempted to throw it but only succeeded in slamming it down on the ground and having it not even make it over the line. I thought that maybe the five boys from Sango's group would help me out a LITTLE but they turned out to me horrendously out of shape and terribly not athletic so they didn't prove to make my life any easier. As for my group…what can I say about female human children? I was glad that Miroku's side was having just as much trouble but they did have this kid who just seemed to appear out of nowhere who appeared to be athletic and helping them out a bit.
So it was mainly just me verses Miroku, Sango and that random kid. When both of our teams were eliminated so it was only just the four of us standing, the teams started chanting. Though it was a bit confusing because all the girls from The Dogs were cheering for me even if they were on the other team. The same thing went for Miroku's stupid group and Sango's stupid group so I didn't really see the point of splitting up the teams in the first place.
I only had a single ball left and I knew I had to use it wisely because if not then Miroku and Sango would have all of them on their side to do with what they pleased. I had originally planned to take out Miroku first but then at the last minute I decided to hit that stupid kid since he was, as of now, attempting to hit me and I just couldn't let that slide. I could easily get rid of the other two but, as I clarified earlier, all of the projectile instruments were on the other side.
Suddenly, Miroku approached the line with a ball in hand. He beckoned for me to come closer and I did since I wasn't worried that he was going to hit me. After all, he was only human and I could anticipate his throw in a split second and have it caught if he tried anything.
"Let's see your catching skills." Said Miroku almost as if he had read my mind.
"You'll be out." I reminded him as I held out my hands. He shrugged and gave me a lofty throw of the ball. I wondered what he could possibly be planning but I even had time to smite Naraku before I had to catch it. And I did.
And as soon as I did, I realized just why Miroku had thrown it to me that way, making sure I would catch it. The ball was booby trapped with a demon ward on the side that he had been careful not to let me see. So I couldn't just stand there like a fool in immense pain so I had to drop the ball to the ground. Miroku and I watched as the ball rolled back to his feet.
"You dropped it." He stated though it was clearly obvious. "You're out. We win."
"That was a dirty trick!!" I yelled. "Why did you do that?!"
"You stole my lunch." Miroku replied stupidly.
"Congratulations this team!" said Mr. Rick as he ran over and said a few more things that I fail to remember and then all of a sudden, the bell rang. I was definitely going to dispose of Miroku the first chance I got.
"That Mr. Miroku is such a cheater!!" said Leah. "Who is being Mr. Miroku in the skit? I just got a really good idea on what we should make him do!!"
Then my whole group strayed behind me while talking and yelling and killing each other for all I knew or cared. The only thing I wanted to do was go to my next activity.
…
What WAS my next activity?
I took out my schedule and looked at what I had after bombardment and saw right there in big bold letters, 'DANCE'.
Of course Sarah snuck up behind me and looked at the schedule before I could hide it say that we had something else that was NOT dance.
"YAY!!" Sarah screamed. "I LOVE dance!!"
Unfortunately, I do not. But even though I would have rather done a lot more things than go to dance, I did anyway. I was quickly reminded of what happened last time at dance as soon as we reached the bottom of the humungous staircase that I could easily leap in a single bound. I decided not to bring anyone with me this time since I was in a bad mood because I lost bombardment even though I was over it, I like to pretend I'm still mad which eventually causes me to convince myself that I actually AM mad and take it out on people who don't deserve it. Like Miroku.
Speaking of Miroku, I am STILL mad at him.
Dance was…dance. Yeah.
In other words, it wasn't very fun…FOR ME. Sure, the girls had a fun time but who cares about THEM? What I'm concerned about is if I had a good time or not and I didn't. I hoped that the next period would be better.
So I waited for the girls to scale down the stairs as I stood at the bottom. However, Rachel claimed that she broke her ankle and made me go back up and carry her. I didn't though. I just yelled at her until she stood back up and went down the stairs HERSELF and wouldn't you know it? She seemed to have been magically cured of her broken ankle while the girls were playing tag on the way to canoeing.
The canoeing counselor seemed rather stoic about whether some of the girls were boaters or not. So we ended up just getting into groups of three and paddling out with life jackets. I got myself stuck with Julia and Sarah.
"I want to steer!!" Sarah yelled as she bounded into the back of the canoe. I didn't really care and decided to take the middle so that I could stop rowing if I felt like it. Julia jumped into the front seat and after sitting there for a few minutes and watching all the other groups paddle ahead of us, it occurred to us that we had to push ourselves off the shore.
"Mr. I, you're so silly!" said Julia.
"Now get out and push us!!" commanded Sarah. Now, I was GOING to until Sarah made that comment so I made her get out and push us off the shore. It took her a little while so I ended up getting out and helping anyway so I guess there was very little point to that but I DID prove my point so okay.
We paddled around for a few minutes. The others were all really far in front of us so the canoe ride WOULD have been relaxing if Sarah and Julia weren't singing The Mashos the whole time. The Mashos was a song that we had listened to in dance.
Suddenly, a boat came screaming around the corner. It made a sharp turn and the kid who was riding behind it in a standing up position (water skiing, I later gathered) went flying off and splashed into the water merely feet in front of our canoe while also splashing us all. I was ready to quickly dispose of the life of the child who had just gotten me wet when I suddenly spotted Sango from the boat with Mr. Darrin in it to. She was waving to me.
"Are you having fun?!" she called. I wondered why Sango was asking me something like this.
"Um…no." I replied.
"WHAT?!" she called.
"NO!!" I said more loudly.
"REALLY?!" Sango yelled back. "You SHOULD be! I would be considering that's MY group that you're canoeing with!!"
"Um…yeah." I said.
"WHAT?!" she yelled.
"NOTHING!!" I yelled back.
"What are you talking about, Ms Sango?!" screamed Sarah. "Mr. I is our counselor!!"
"What?!" Sango yelled from the boat.
"MR. I IS OUR COUNSELOR!!!" Sarah screeched.
But by this time, Mr. Darrin had collected the horrendous demonic child who had fallen in the water and gotten us wet and pulled him into the boat. And then he sped off since he was clearly annoyed with our hollering back and forth to each other.
I didn't really care since Sango was obviously in a bad mood and was taking it out on me just because SHE had wanted to trade. Or…was it ME who wanted to trade? No…it was definitely her.
Anyway, I could have gone the rest of my life without ever canoeing again. It WOULD have been fun by myself. Or it would be fun if I would just stand there and act look out while Miroku and Sango paddled, Kagome just sat there and told me how great I was and Shippo…well…he'd just do nothing as usual. But I had to paddle despite my earlier plot of NOT paddling since the girls were even weaker than I had originally assumed and gave up. So even though we were closest to the shore, we were last to make it back.
I must admit that I had been looking forward to 'tie-dye' all day. Not because I knew what it was, but because I DIDN'T know what it was and it simply had an incredibly intriguing name. But what was I expecting?
Tie-dyeing was outside the arts and crafts building. The arts and crafts counselor whose name escapes me came out with squares of white cloth and many elastic bands and explained for an excruciatingly long time what we would have to do.
Like I said before, what WAS I expecting?
So we tied the rubber bands in various spots of the cloth and then dipped it in dye or paint or something. But even though that part was really stupid, when we took of the elastics, it was pretty cool. No, taking off the elastics wasn't cool, just seeing what it looked like was cool. There were all sorts of swirls of colors in spirals and stuff. The arts and crafts counselor told us to hang them up on the wall to dry and to come back and simply pick them up after swim. What I was going to do with a colored piece of cloth was beyond me but the girls were calling them bandanas so I assumed that that's what they were.
Swimming finally rolled around the corner and I could finally separate from the girls since I was growing tired of their company. I came across Russell, Miriam and one of the boys but the other was missing. When I inquired about his whereabouts, the boy who WAS there (not Russell) told me that he went home sick. That was okay with me.
I declared that this would be a swimming block instead of just a sit on the sand block so I booted them all into the water one by one whether they were still wrapped in their towels or not. Now, none of them were very pleased but did I care? Nooo…
"Mr. I, you're not my favorite counselor anymore!!!" yelled Russell but he seemed to get over it a second later once he remembered that he LIKED the water and then began jumping around and splashing that other boy. I am getting SO sick of that kid. I'm glad I didn't switch groups with Miroku or anything because then I'd have to spend the entire day with him.
This particular swimming period was a blast because whenever the kids in my group got to the shore, I would just toss them back into the water, kicking and screaming! I continued this until I noticed that I had an extra kid and was now throwing FOUR kicking and screaming kids as opposed to the three I was supposed to have.
"Mr. I!" yelled some random swim counselor. "Cease this at ONCE!! I told my group to get out of the water and here you are throwing them back in?!"
I felt slightly stupid so I apologized and before I realized it, my entire group was out and wrapped in their towels. I didn't mind because the bell rang a second later anyway.
Before I even was able to take a step toward the cabin to fetch my group (I didn't need to get changed because, by now, I've learned to just stay in my clothing during swimming because it's not like I'm going to go in the water anyway) I was ambushed by all ten of my girls demanding that we go directly to arts and crafts and retrieve our bandanas.
I didn't argue with them because I wanted to get mine. We also had tennis next and just by the sound of it, I could tell it was stupid so I didn't want to go anywhere near it.
"Mr. I, you have to put yours on!" Katie/Leah commanded as she tied her bandana on her head.
"I'd prefer just to own this as opposed to use it." I replied.
"You can't be a Dog without the official bandana!" said Sarah as she stood on a rock. I was about to inform her that I'm more of a dog than she could ever hope to be but I decided not to because I didn't want to have to deal with what would come after saying that.
"We have to cut ear holes in yours Mr. I!" announced Julia. "That way your cute little dog ears can stick through and you can hear!"
"I'd prefer not to ruin mine." I said as I folded up my bandana and put it in my pocket.
"Mr. I, you're no fun at all!!" whined one of the girls but I didn't really pay attention to find out which one. I walked around in circles for a little while since I really didn't want to go to tennis since it just SOUNDED stupid until the girls started complaining and pointing out the fact that I constantly missed the turn to tennis and pretended as though I didn't hear them. When the period was close to half over, I finally led them over to the tennis courts.
There was a guy there. He was playing "tennis" by himself. He would hit the ball, jump over a net, run to the other side of the court and then hit the ball back and continue this. And I must admit that he was doing a reasonably good job considering he is only a weak HUMAN but still, it looked kind of stupid.
"So you finally decided to come!!" he said, stomping over and making big footprints in the courts. Then he gasped, whipped out some cement and began to repair it right there while apologizing to the court. Of course, when he began making sure that everything was perfectly perfect in every way, I decided that it was a good time to leave.
My entire group formed together and made a plan. Their plan was so sinister that even I was caught off guard. They decided to ALL ask me why we left tennis at the SAME time as if they didn't just see how stupid the tennis guy was being!
"We're just going to walk around." I said while trying my absolute hardest not to sound too frustrated with all of them.
"That's BORING!!" complained Sarah. (Who else would it be?)
"Would you rather go to tennis and help smooth out cement?" I asked. Sarah shook her head and I felt satisfied. "How about we go to dinner early?"
"YEAH!!" screamed all the girls louder than they needed to right in my ears.
"That way, we can take all the good food and leave Mr. Miroku with all the BAD food!" Julia concocted.
"Let's put POISON in his food!" yelled Katie/Leah.
"Maybe we can give him a life threatening ailment through his food!!" said Sarah. Those words are FAR too big for her to have just said on her own. She's just not smart enough.
"No." I answered.
"Why not?!" everyone whined.
"Because he already has one." I answered.
Everyone said, 'Ohhh…' and then started talking in a low murmur so I couldn't hear them. Actually, I could hear them quite well, I just chose not to care enough to listen.
We reached the main hall to be confronted by Mr. Shawn. When he asked why we weren't in tennis, I told him that the tennis teacher was fixing the court so he excused us.
"Well, how about you help us set-up for dinner!" he suggested stupidly.
"How about we don't?" I said.
"Come on!" Mr. Shawn said as he punched my shoulder. It's not like it hurt or anything but I couldn't have him PUNCHING me now could I?!
But I didn't do anything as I watched Mr. Shawn chuckle ever so freakishly warmly. I hate that chuckle. I hate that guy. I hate his hat. I hate his face. I hate his arms. I hate how he's always happy. I hate everything about him!
I clenched my fists so hard that I started bleeding. It's not like I felt it but Sarah started screaming and insisted that I go to the nurse.
"Inu-Yasha!!" came a voice from out of nowhere. I had to admit that I wasn't used to being called 'Inu-Yasha'. Curse these children calling me Mr. I!!
"Who's this?" whispered Sarah to me as Kagome started rambling in the background and pinching Sarah's cheeks and making all sorts of crazy noises.
Suddenly the door opened and Miroku walked in with some hideous spotted child. He talked with the nurse for a while and then left WITHOUT his hideous spotted child.
The nurse walked over to me, talked, laughed and then went to the telephone. I pretended to laugh but it might have been too late.
Why was I even here?
"Why am I even here?" I asked Sarah.
"You need a band-aid!" she screamed as she grabbed my 'injured' hand and pressed her finger down on my wound.
"Don't make it worse you stupid female!" I yelled at her. Suddenly, I plummeted to the ground and then noticed that Kagome had 'sat' me. "You know what?! I don't need a band-aid!"
I got up right then and there and strutted out the door leaving Kagome, Sarah, the nurse and hideous spotted child alone. Unfortunately, Sarah ran after me.
So I made my way back to the main building where it was time to eat dinner. My group had already set up the entire room and put all of the 'good' food on our plates.
Dinner was…uh yeah. It was dinner. Woo-hoo. Yeah, I think I had just about as much fun at THAT dinner that I've had at just about every OTHER dinner so in other words, it was really boring. After dinner we made our way over to the campfire are area where I would SURELY have tons of fun there. In case you're wondering, no, I hadn't been longing for campfire time yesterday…I kind of liked missing it. But then again, I had to go to some dumb dance so I don't know which one I like more. Maybe campfire time.
Mr. Shawn made a few announcements like he usually did and then declared that it was now time for the counselors to come down and make fools of themselves even though he didn't word it quite like that but that's pretty much what it was.
I decided not to include myself this time around because the mere sound of the activity 'Limbo' made it sound like a human game that they had to indulge themselves in to stay entertained. And you know what? Ironically enough, that's exactly what it was. So even though all the girls in my group attempted to push me out of my seat and make me go down to do the limbo, I made sure to not even flinch so it would get through to them that I had no intention of going down there.
So I decided to stare wistfully at the sky. I wondered what exactly Naraku was up to while we all frolicked around in Kagome's world acting as though we didn't have anything to do. Though, it was a little relaxing to not have to worry about things for a change, I can't help it. I mean, who's to say that everyone isn't dead right now? But what if he managed to kill Sessho-Maru? Hey, I'm not saying that that would be a BAD thing cause it's not since he would be dead and all but the thing is, I wanted to kill him. I also want to kill Naraku. I don't know why all these people tag along with me thinking that they're going to get a piece of him when everyone knows that it would just be me and him in the end if he ever got the nerve to face me. Ha! He's just too afraid of me to show is face, THAT'S why he keeps running away! How can he go around saying that he's great and powerful when he can't even very well prove it?! That's right, he CAN'T! I bet he's no more powerful than…um…Shippo! No, I bet Shippo could beat him. But I won't let Shippo beat him because I'M going to be the one to kill Naraku since he, after all, pissed me off first. Yes, out of everyone, I believe I'm the worst off with Naraku's stupid rein of terror. Yeah. I mean…I DIED!! Yeah. And then Kikyo. She's second worst off because she died too but I'm more unfortunate than her because she killed me as opposed to someone who looked like her killing me. Yeah. That is so not fair. But I guess Miroku has it pretty bad off considering he didn't even DO anything to annoy Naraku. I guess that's a little unfair. Sango… well, the only thing that really seems to upset her is the fact that Naraku's got her stupid little brother. I guess she's still in shock about the fact that everyone in her entire village is dead too and not just her brother. But still, Miroku and Sango didn't go and DIE. Come on. I DIED.
"MR. I!!!" I heard people screaming. I turned around to see my entire group standing in a circle around me. After a quick scan around, I realized that we were the only people in the entire campfire area. I looked back at the girls' curious eyes.
"FINALLY!!" yelled Sarah suddenly. "Geez, Mr. I! We've been screaming and poking you and stuff but you weren't even moving!!"
"It's time for the next activity!" said one of Julia's sisters.
"You're gonna make us be late!!" whined Abigail.
"Whatever." I said, standing up. One might feel foolish after something like this but I knew I would forget about it in about five minutes. So I led the way to the last activity before it was time for bed. It was dress up. Dress up? Um…all right. I'd be watching this activity from afar.
When I get activities like this, it reminds me that I was not supposed to be with this group, actually a female counselor, namely Sango, was supposed to be with this group. Oh well. Screw her.
But then again, if Sango had this group and I had her group then I never would have gone to candle making and then I never would have met Ms Keri. And that would be a good thing.
Speak of the devil; Ms Keri greeted us at the door.
"Mrs. Penny was originally in charge of this period but her kid came down with the chicken pox so I'm filling in for her since I had nothing to do during this time anyway." She explained. "Yeah, her kid goes to this camp, so she had to take him home. Everyone seems to be getting chicken pox! Has anyone in your group gotten chicken pox yet?"
I paused and then turned around. "Do any of you have chicken pox?" I asked.
"I do, Mr. I!!" said Sarah. All the girls burst out laughing.
"Sarah does." I told Ms Keri.
"Very funny Mr. I!" said Ms Keri. Obviously there was a joke circulating that I was definitely missing. So instead of questioning what the joke was, I decided that I would just stare at Ms Keri until she felt uncomfortable and walked away. But then she only started staring at me too and then it suddenly occurred to me that she thought that we were locked in a romantic gaze so I turned my head in the rudest fashion I could produce.
Ms Keri cleared her throat and led the girls over to a huge pile of a random assortment of clothing and jewelry and other random things that they needed to play dress up with. As Ms Keri tended to the dress up party, I stood far away but as she slowly started inching towards my general direction, I made my way over to the dress up party and pretended to be interested until Ms Keri would inch back over to the dress up party and then I would back away and when she would back away, I would come forward again. This continued throughout about half of the period and it got rather tiresome so I decided to call it quits and just sit down and face the wall.
My plan had kind of backfired on me because now Ms Keri had me cornered with conversation.
"So what's your last name anyway?" she asked me.
"My what?" I said with a raised eyebrow.
"Your last name." She repeated.
This did not answer my question. "My what?" I tried.
"I guess I was right then." She concluded as she sat down next to me. That did not answer my question either.
"My what?" I repeated.
"So your first name is Inu and your last name is Yasha?"
…I guess that made a bit of sense.
"I guess…" I said slowly.
"I figured that." Ms Keri said, nodding. We waited. "So…how old are you?"
"Frankly, I really don't keep track." I answered. "I find it pointless. I tried it once before and I went and died so it didn't even matter so from then on I decided to completely disregard it."
I hoped that would freak her out enough so that she would go away. But it didn't because she only laughed and pushed my shoulder. I told her not to do that but she only laughed again. I was definitely missing another joke that had something to do with the wall and pushing and asking someone not to push you because she was laughing at SOMETHING.
"How much longer is this stupid activity?" I asked.
"Why, you don't enjoy my company?" said Ms Keri.
"No." I answered. What? I didn't!
But Ms Keri told me I was silly. And she didn't even answer my question about when the activity ended. Ms Keri's not too good at answering questions.
The period ended not too much longer after that and Ms Keri requested that I walked her back to her cabin since it was dark outside and she didn't like walking alone in the dark. I reminded her that it had never bothered her before but she was quick to defend herself on that comment so I just told her that I didn't feel like it and pushed the girls out the door towards our cabin.
"We purposely didn't interrupt your conversation with Ms Keri because you two looked like you were having SO much fun just talking to each other!" Katie said, trying to keep herself from laughing.
"Well, next time Ms Keri starts talking to me, one of you come over and pretend as though you want to show me something really important." I instructed.
"Yeah, whatever Mr. I!" said Sarah. "We KNOW you want to hang out with Ms. Keri."
"I can't wait for you to see our skit!!" said Julia.
"SHHHHHH!!" yelled all the girls as they nearly dove on top of Julia to cover her mouth. I had a feeling that I knew what they had done but I decided not to say anything about it since it didn't really bother me all that much. They went inside and started changing while I stood out and waited for a few minutes. Suddenly, Ms Keri was running down the path towards the cabin.
"You left in such a hurry that you forgot your schedule!" said Ms Keri said, handing me the schedule.
"Like I need it." I reminded her. "The day is over."
"Oh…silly me!" she said.
"You just wanted an excuse to come down here." I said.
"Not true!" Ms Keri said with a smile. Abruptly, the door opened and Sarah was standing there looking as though she was going to die of laughter.
"Mr. I, we have something really important we have to show you!!" she managed to spit out.
"Excuse me." I said to Ms Keri as I walked in the door and slammed it behind me. All the girls were laughing. If they hadn't been, I would have commended them…or even THANKED them for rescuing me from Ms Keri but since they were laughing, I told them to get into bed or I would smite them in the most horrible way I could think of. Then I went into the bathroom and changed and just when I was about to sit down and go to sleep, I noticed that Ms Keri was still waiting outside as if she expected me to come out and give her a goodnight kiss.
Which I WASN'T going to do!
So I knocked on the closed window by the door until I got her attention. Then I mouthed to her to get lost. And with that, I turned off the lights.