They walked back into the tent area and joined Nikki and the other campers. Neil had the biggest smile on his face, "Why did you climb the tree in the first place?" he said holding back a laugh.

"Huh" Max looked over to Neil and furrowed his brow, "What are you talking about?"

"Like, when do you climb trees? You should have just let Nikki do it you know… She's the tree climber."

Max thought about it and realized Neil was right… why did he climb that tree? "Shut up Neil."

"No, I'm right… you don't know how to climb trees" Neil was finally laughing, "and you call me the idiot, tragic."

"Okay, so what? I didn't cross my mind before, and thinking about it now won't make a fucking difference, so shhhhh" Max knew Neil had a point, but he wasn't gonna let him know that. "Also, I've never called you an idiot… more like 'nerd'." Max smirked.

Neil laughed, "HA! Exactly!"

"Shut up Neil."

"'sHuT uP nEiL' no no no," Neil imitated Max and continues laughing, "I'm so right!"

It was getting late, and all the campers began to head in for the night. Max went inside the tent and Neil followed. They each changed into their clothes and sat down. Max was smoothing out the blankets on his cot, making sure there weren't any bugs on it or anything. It's happened before and it scared the living shit out of him. Once he declared his cot safe, he sat down and removed his hoodie. He looked back up to see Neil staring at him, "What?"

"Huh?" Neil realized he was staring and looked away.

"Dude… you're staring… stop it."

"Oh, yeah no sorry… it's just…"

"Are you gay?" Max looked at him questionably. He always had a suspicion, but assuming is wrong and maybe Neil is just naturally… well, Neil.

"What no!" Neil was caught off guard

"Are you dying?" Max tilted his head and squinted his eyes

"Ummm no…"

"Then stop staring at me like you have something important to say, but are too pussy to say it."

Neil rolled his eyes, "fine…" He looked at Max, " do you not have pajamas?"

Max was expecting to hear something serious, something important, something beneficial… so he definitely was not expecting to hear the question that just came out of Neils' mouth. "Really? That's why you were staring at me? Because I don't have some fucking pajamas?" Max rolled his eyes, and sighed, "Neil… we have been sleeping together for the past month now… you just now noticed?"

"Well, I thought that maybe you were shy to change around other people or something."

"Nah, I just don't have any, All I have is the camp shirt and like, the 5 same exact sweaters my parents send me. I travel light." Max was lying… sure, his parents sent him sweaters every year, but he didn't really have a choice about light traveling. His parents just drop him off with whatever he has time to bring. Which isn't much.

"Oh."

Soon after that very awkward conversation, Nikki came in and made herself at home in the tent. "So hey guys, I'm sleeping here tonight." She came in the tent with a pillow and a jacket. She threw the pillow on the ground between the two beds and sat down. She looked at the two boys, "Oooo, I'm sensing some…. tension… you guys okay?"

"Yes, and gosh Nikki, you can't just walk in like that… what if we were changing?" Neil covered himself to prove a point but Nikki paid no attention.

"Nah, it doesn't matter to me." She laid down and placed her hands behind her head.

"Well, it matters to me!"

Nikki smiled and rolled her eyes, "Anyways, you guys might be wondering what I'm doing in your tent-"

"Yeah, we kinda fucking are" Max cut her off.

"I'm sleeping here because all the other girls are being lame. Also, I'm tired and goodnight."

Max looked over at Nikki, who threw herself onto the floor. That's what he liked about her, she had no filter and no problem being herself… it was refreshing. He looked down at her makeshift bed "Wait, you're just gonna sleep on the floor?"

"Where else am I supposed to sleep?"

Max looked over to Neil and Neil gave an approving glance, Neil turned towards Nikki, "Well, you can sleep with one of us if you like..."

"Yeah" Max added, "It beats the floor."

"Aw thank you guys, but I think I'll sleep on the floor, it's fine." Nikki covered herself with her jacket. She made herself comfortable and began to doze off.

They all slept peacefully through the night… except for Max.

The next morning couldn't come any sooner, it was Friday, a light day, they didn't really do much on Fridays or Saturday and Max was grateful. He had woken up with stomach pains and a slight dizziness. It wasn't something he couldn't handle, but it did bother him to the point where he didn't want to even get out of bed. He saw Nikki wake up.

"Good Morning Max." Nikki sat up and looked over at Max, who was laying down facing Nikki and Neil.

"Good Morning Nikki"

"Aw, look at little Neil… still sleeping like a baby" Nikki pointed over to Neil and smiled.

"A pretty ugly baby."

"Max! Don't be so mean!" Nikki laughed and got up. She straightened out her jacket and picked up her pillow from the ground. "Aw, my pillow has ants on it…. Maybe that's what was tickling down there."

Max didn't even want to know, he would have picked on Nikki's statements, but he wasn't in the mood. He just smiled.

"You look like you haven't slept in ages…" Nikki looked at max worriedly, "Did you even sleep last night?"

"Yep"

"Then why do you look like death himself?"

Max shrugged, he laid back down and looked at the tent roof. He was beginning to feel a headache form but he just thought it was Nikki, her talking early in the morning was pretty annoying, in a good way. He finally sat up and threw a pillow over to Nikki, "Here, you can have this pillow since your other one has ant's or some shit."

"Nah, I like my new ants."

"What?"

"Yeah, they are my friends now." Nikki had ants crawling all over her arms, "haha They are biting me…" She carefully placed them back in the dirt and they both looked over at Neil.

Neil was still asleep, and they didn't know whether to wake him up or not. They didn't want to be late for breakfast, so Nikki thought it was a good idea to wake him up. She walked over to Neil, "PPPSSSTTTTTT Neil…. Wake up" She gently placed her arm on Neils back and shook him slightly.

"That's not gonna work…" Max hopped out of his bed and went over to Neils bed. He climbed on and gestured over for Nikki to pass him his pillow. Nikki grabbed it and tossed it over to Max, who had a small smirk on his face. He began beating the shit out of the still sleeping Neil. "Neil…. WAKE. UP. YOU. FUCKING. NERD." Hitting him between each word. Neil woke up and tackled Max, who was definitely not expecting that to be his reaction.

"THE FUCK MAX!" Neil had pinned down Max onto his bed.

"Jesus, get the fuck off me, you skinny geek." Max Pushed himself away and got off his bed.

"Wow, who would have thought you were strong Neil?" Nikki watched Max get out from underneath, laughing at the sight in front of her.

"Nah, he isn't strong, I just wasn't expecting that reaction. Anyways, we had to wake up before you sleep in and miss breakfast." Max kinda dragged himself onto the floor and stood back up, fixing his hair in the process.

"Oh shit, what time is it?" Neil looked over to his alarm, it read '7:30', "Oh good, we have some time."

"Yeah," Nikki ran out of the tent and came back with a small backpack. Inside, was her stash of honey and some clothes. "Oo look, guys, while I was walking out with David couple days ago, to hike, I saw a beehive, and I smashed it to bits for…" She held up a honeycomb filled with honey, "this!" She looked at it like it was her prized possession, and in a sense, it was. "I thought we could eat some before breakfast…"

Neil looked at the dripping goodness in Nikki's hands and his mouth watered. "Yeah, Let's change first so we won't get our PJ's messy"

"Oh yeah, good Idea!" Nikki began undressing and taking out her clothes from her backpack.

"Nikki… I would like to remind you that... ummmm... we are right here." Max looked over at Neil who was also looking at Max with an unamused face.

"Oh right… oh well, it doesn't really matter, I have nothing to show off anyways." She quickly pulled her shirt over her head and clipped on her overalls. Once they were changed, Nikki began passing around a piece of honeycomb to Neil and Max.

Max took it and tasted it, it was sweet… too sweet, he placed it down on a napkin he stole and placed it on the dresser. He watched as Nikki and Neil ate and sucked on the sweet. "So, what do you think we're gonna do today? Cuz I don't wanna fucking do anything."

"True, but we know David… he's gonna wanna do something…" Nikki said through mouthfuls of honey.

"True." Max laid back down on his bed and closed his eyes.

"Max, you aren't gonna eat any honey?" Neil watched as Max rested on the bed.

"Nah, I'm not hungry. I'll eat it later." In reality, Max was starving, but just the thought of food made him want to gag. He wasn't gonna risk it.

About an hour passed and they headed down to the Mess hall. The other campers grabbed their plates and sat down. The trio walked up to the counter and each picked up their plates, they sat down in their usual spot and began eating. Max took a couple bites, here and there, but didn't eat as much as he usually does.

Gwen was walking around the mess hall as usual and watched as the kids ate. Each and every one of them testing her patience so early in the morning. "SPACE KID NO! WE'VE BEEN OVER THIS, GET OFF THE DAMN CEILING FAN!" At this point in her life, she just stopped caring about finding a better job. She looked around the rest of the room and noticed Max picking at his food, "Max, you aren't eating." She walked over to his table.

"Yes, good job Gwen… you have eyes." Max spoke in his same monotone voice as always.

"Lose the attitude you little piece of garbage."

"Nah." Max continued picking at his food.

Gwen rolled her eyes, "Max, eat your food, it's Friday, so the food isn't that bad. Plus, you need to eat."

"I'm not hungry." Max pushed the plate away and gave it to Nikki, who happily ate it. He placed his hands on his head and shrugged.

Gwen looked at Max and frowned, but she didn't say anything else, she walked towards David with a concerned look on her face. "Hey David, somethings wrong with Max...he's not eating"

"Uh, okay I'll check on him a bit later, I'm planning activities for today!" David was practically bubbling with excitement

"Okay," Gwen glanced at Max trying to figure out what is wrong with him. "But I think you should take some time and check on Max, he doesn't look too good."

David looked over at Max's table and looked at Max. "Yeah, I'll talk to him"

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