Chapter 6-This One Weird Night, at Band Camp…

When the lights were turned off around midnight in our cabin, I was wide-awake. I didn't exactly know how to pass this hour along, so I listened to music on my CD player. Around 12:55 a.m., I put on all black, put eyeliner on my eyes, (there was a light on outside which enabled me to see), put a black beanie cap on, and made my way to the cafeteria. When I got down there, Ryan was already there. So, he and talked.

"Hi Ryan." I said

"Hey Nicole, what's up?" he asked

"Um, nothing really; just waiting to see if Cher or Lee was right, or if we all are just wasting the night spying on our teachers. Man, I wish that I had brought along my RENT or my Tick…Tick…BOOM, CDs with me so I could listen to them."

"WOW! I didn't know that you liked Broadway, and even that particular type of Broadway. So what are your favorite songs form the both of them? From RENT my favorite songs are 'Another Day,' and 'RENT.' From Tick…Tick…BOOM, I love 'Why' and 'Louder than Words."

"Well, I really can't tell you mine, because you already said my favorite songs. However, from RENT I also love 'La Vie Boehm.' So, what other things do you find interesting, books, computers, video games-"

"I love playing video games! They are so awesome. Some of my all time favorite games are all the Legend of Zelda series, World of Warcraft, which is sometimes called WOW, Halo 2, Evercrack, I mean Everquest…"

Hey, don't forget about the old school games like the Mario Brothers games. Those games are fun, have really bad graphics, and are sometimes challenging all at the same time."

By now, it was 1:00 a.m., and everyone was approaching Ryan and I. Every one of us had on black and all the girls had black eyeliner on, along with Ryan. Not stopping to think about why Ryan would ever want to wear black eyeliner, we all congregated ourselves so we could devise our 'attack strategy.'

"Ok," Lee began, "We need to devise our 'attack strategy.' Does anyone have a suggestion about how we should go about devising our strategy?"

"Well, a couple of the short people, or a couple of the fast runners could go up to the window of the teacher's cabin to see if there is any um, m-movement." Alysha proposed.

"That's a good idea. Are there any other suggestions for what our strategy should be? If there aren't any more suggestions, then Alysha's idea will be our strategy." Lee said professionally

"Hmm…I got an idea. Why don't we have Alysha go up to the window herself and see if there is any movement. While she is doing that, the rest of us can hide behind the cafeteria. That way, if she gets caught, she could pretend that she wanted to ask Stierman a question and it couldn't wait till tomorrow." I said

"That's another good suggestion that we could do, but are they any other ones that must be brought out into the open?" Lee asked.

None of us made a sound or any sudden movement, so Lee continued.

"Ok, now we should vote on whether to do Alysha's or Nicole's suggestion. Which idea do you guys prefer?"

After much confusion and arguing, our group had finally reached a decision. We were going to execute Alysha's plan, because the way we figured, if we were to be caught, then we rather have the majority of us fall than just one of us. Alysha, on the other hand, seemed rather angry at our decision.

"Hey! I think that Alysha, Nicole, and I should be the ones to check on the supposed 'love birds,' because it might be fun to see what actually happens late at night in band camp." Jim said

"That works. Good idea Jim!" exclaimed Alysha a little too excited.

Crap, I thought, what if I do find out that Stierman really is gay, or bisexual, whatever same thing. My life or rather, my emotional love life that is will be destroyed forever. Shit! This sucks if our group is right. Oh God, please don't let Stierman be gay, you can make Ryan really be gay, even though he probably is, but that is not the point. Just please, PLEASE, don't let Stierman actually be gay…

I was then pulled out of my musing rather harshly by the sound of Lee's voice.

"Ok, here is the plan. You three are going to check on the lovebirds, I mean our band directors by sneaking up to the window to see if you see anything. After you check, come back as quickly as possible. Cher, Ryan, and I will be waiting behind the cafeteria so we won't be seen if you guys are seen."

With that, the three of us left our safe zone to the gravel area of our teacher's cabin. When we got up to the wooden window frames we were met by slightly opened, steamed windows.

"Maybe someone took a shower in here." Alysha whispered

Jim and I looked at her and pointed towards the bathroom/shower house a few yards away.

"Oh, duh. Now I feel like a blonde." Alysha whispered thoroughly disgusted with herself

I took my hand up to the steamed windows to wipe some of the steam away when I was interrupted by a huge growl-like noise coming from inside.

"What was that?" asked Jim in barely a whisper

"I dunno. Maybe it is someone snoring, extremely loudly. I replied in a whisper

Then we heard the growl-like noise again, but this time in a much louder, deeper voice; a voice that seemed as though the person was in a great deal of pain.

"Um, Nicole, sorry to burst your bubble, but I really doubt that the noise was someone snoring." whispered Jim

With the last syllable of the word 'snoring,' someone within the cabin flipped on a light. Because it only helped us see a little better, we assumed that it was just a night light. After the night light was flipped, we heard the growl-like noise again. Only this time, you could tell it was a man's voice, and instead of being in pain, the man's voice sounded like it had just overcome something, something very, massive. For some odd reason, after the growl-like noise, we heard video game noises, like those you would hear in old games like Duck Hunt, or Pong. After this noise, we heard another male's voice whispering in a fairly an audible tone, "I love you…" We never heard the last word, thanks to Alysha's earth shattering scream. The people within the cabin heard the three of us and as a result, it started to come alive. The three of us ran as fast as we could back where Lee, Ryan, and Cher were. We all said "night" to each other and ran to our respective cabins. Alysha and I ran to ours, said "good night" to each other again, and went to sleep.

I, on the other hand, couldn't just go to sleep right after the night's experiences. Those two noises, the growl-like noise, and the man whispering "I love you…" played repeatedly in my mind; it almost seemed as though the two of them had teamed up and they were mocking me to drive me to insanity. I checked my watch that was on my windowsill near my bunk, 2:30 a.m. I officially had 4 hours and 15 minutes until the camp would be awake. Thinking about this, I fell into a very troubled, almost forced, sleep.

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Yep. I know that the last part of this chapter was a little weird, believe me I had troubles writing it. But it will make sense in due time. Chapter 7 will be up shortly, and I hope that you guys liked this chapter…if not feel free to give me criticism when you R&R…

Thanks for your comments by the way, I deeply appreciate the, oh, and by the way, in real life my two band directors really are not gay, at least that I know of. There really is a Stierman and there really is a Fritz, and Stierman really does have a kid and is married. So, yea, I just wanted to clear that up, this is a story that is loosely, and I stress that word to the extreme, based upon my 9th and 10th grade years at band camp. I apologize for any misunderstandings that you may have had reading this story up to this point.

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