It was a nice summer day, 18-year-old Ryan hopped out of the bus squinting at the sun. He scanned the surroundings taking in the fresh air and lush green trees, his eyes landed on the old building and suddenly a chill shot up his spine. The dark, dreary and gloomy building stood only a little far off from where Ryan did, slightly shrouded by mist. An old sign hung over the door reading 'WAVERLY HILLS'.

Ryan jumped when a hand landed on his shoulder, "Woah Ryan chill" his friend brent laughed. Ryan glared at brent and shook his hand off, he once again looked at the dreary camp and said: "This is it brent: the haunted Waverly hills camp..."

as expected brent only rolled his eyes and shook his head " Ryan-"

"Look it is haunted alright?!" Ryan said groaning

"Like the house of that poor old lady that you've been terrorizing for the past month?"

"That's completely differentthat was a hunch-"

Brent just laughed and shook his head "whatever you say man.." he glanced at the camp, shuddering " It is kinda creepy though.."

Ryan squinted at the camp " the most haunted place of the camp is supposed to be the oldest building, it was supposed to be old asylum and later a tuberculosis hospital..."

brent just 'hmmed' looking at the camp " you do know that we're here to have fun and supervise little children?"

"I know" Ryan sighed wistfully " it wouldn't hurt to go ghost hunting later though "

brent laughed " well keep me out of it dude, I am not going into another creepy old house with you-"

"pleaseeee brent?" Ryan whined " just this once? imagine if we caught any real evidence of the paranormal! that would be amazin-"

"No Ryan" Brent replied laughing "you're gonna have to go ghost hunting yourself"

"Hunting for ghouls little guy?" a disapproving laugh caused them to turn behind in search of the source. A tall teenager who was their age stood behind them. He was tall with shaggy brown hair and wore a cocky smile.

"fuck off madej"

"or what boogara?"

"its berga-"

"Come on you guys! can we just not have your believer vs skeptic showdown right now?" brent said exasperated

Shane throws his hands up conveying a silent 'fine' and Ryan just huffs angrily and looks away

" take care there short stuff, wouldn't want a demon to lock you up in an old cupboard " Shane laughs and walked towards the camp.

" GOD I hate him! " Ryan grumbles glaring at Shanes retreating figure

"I know you do... " brent rolls his eyes

"Why on earth did he want to spend his summer at this camp too?" Ryan pouted while brent just shook his head with a small smile

Ryan and Shane were not friends. It was common news for everyone who studied in Buzzvid college. Maybe it was because they had such conflicting opinions. Shane took any opportunities to ridicule Ryan for his belief in the supernatural and Ryan thought Shane was a bighead who was far too skeptical.

"We should head to the cabins," brent said glancing at his watch, Ryan nodded

shanes POV

Ryan Bergara was extremely curious about the paranormal and crime. he devotedly made case files about different paranormal cases and criminal acts that have baffled the whole world. he founded a club and a youtube channel called unsolved where he talked about bizarre and baffling cases

Brent usually helped him out. His channel had around 50 thousand subscribers and he was pretty proud of himself.

Shane madej was a very friendly guy, he was just very skeptical and didn't believe in theories that made no sense to him

He especially didn't believe in ghosts of all things

however, there is one thing he found intriguing :

... namely Ryan bergera

he loved annoying the hell out of Ryan, it was a great way for him get some laughs, but even he couldn't deny that Ryan was a nice guy even if he was obsessed with ghouls and demons

he just wanted to know Ryan better but they did not have a good first impression and Ryan couldn't stand the sight of him

So what better way than to join the Ryans little club...

Of course, Ryan went all slaw jacked and wide-eyed when he walked in the doors of the old music room that they used for the club

he had rolled his eyes at Ryans accusatory: 'what are youdoing here madej' and wrote his name on the almost blank sign up sheet

he then turned to Ryan with a smug grin and said ' joining the ghouligans of course'

That was the day before summer began...

He overheard that Ryan and brent had decided to come here has counselors and he decided that he had nothing better to do anyways

The look on Ryan's face when he saw Shane on the bus over to camp was

priceless and absolutely worth it

This was going to be one hell of summer vacation all right...

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Ryan and brent reached the more modern part of the camp, the part that was in use, the main Waverly hills building was in the center and there were may cabin surrounding it. Ryan looked around and spotted old dilapidated looking buildings slightly off the campsite...

"those are the old Waverly hills buildings" a voice cut through his thoughts and he jumped. a blonde man wearing a tee-shirt with 'camp Waverly hills'

he had a tired smile and a frazzled look. he shook their hands

"Richard steel, owner and director of this camp," he said with a beaming smile "you must be some the new counselors ?" Brent and Ryan nodded

"Great! let me show you kids, where you will be staying..." he said and motioned to them to follow him as they walked down a trail leading

to a cluster of treehouse-like cabins.

As they moved about many camp helpers and other people rushed about here and there trying to set up activities and other arrangements before the campers arrived tomorrow

Ryan and brent chatted with Richard who told them, their duties and assigned them to their camps. Ryan excitedly asked Richard about the history of the camp and he replied to Ryans questions with equal enthusiasm:

"The camp has been around for so many years, I used to come here when I was a kid," Richard said fondly " It may be all gloomy-looking but trust me it's one heck of a place boys.."

Richard stopped and gestured to the old Waverly hills buildings

"however no kid should allow near the old buildings, they are off-limits alright? it's unsafe and old, someone could end up needing tetanus" he said with a wry smile. Brent gave Ryan a warning look and Ryan responded with a shrug

"there will be two counselours bunking in each cabin with the campers,

there will 12 campers in each camp " Richard continued talking as he walked with the boys, they stopped in front of a cabin painted bright yellow. A teen with glasses and wild curly "Brent you will be bunking in cabin four with immaculately styled hair stood in the front smiling, he waved at the three, Richard turned to brent " Brent you will be the counselour of cabin 5 along with curly " Richard said patting brent on the back

"Come along Ryan," Richard said as he walked further. Ryan waved at brent and followed and followed Richard. He took a moment to see around the camp and he walked. Despite the gloomy atmosphere it was hustling and bustling with activity.

he scanned the various shrubbery and foliage too. The atmosphere was chilly despite it being was because the camp was surrounded by many mountains and hiking trails.

Despite it all the camp still looked old and creepy, constantly shrouded by mist, the mess hall was situated at the front of the camp, it was the first thing that everyone saw while approaching the campsite.

it was renovated but the old architecture was untouched, it was supposed to be used as a small storage area and office for the old Waverly hills buildings.

Ryan was shaken out of his thoughts when Richard abruptly stopped in front of him. they had stopped in front of a lilac-colored cabin

that said 13 on it

Richard looked at his notepad and spoke: "Well Ryan, you will be counselour for camp thirteen along with-"

"Hey Bergara"

Ryan silently cursed ' Oh no please not him-'

"-Shane Madej" Richard finished.

And that's when Ryan knew exactly that 13 was a very unlucky number...

This was going to be one hellof a summer...