David had planned out many different activities for today, he scheduled Archery and Hiking, in the morning, and in the afternoon, arts and crafts along with s'mores around the campfire. He was making sure they had all the materials ready for the day. "Hey Gwen, are the campers outside?"
Gwen nodded, "Yep, they're all waiting for you, they all finished eating."
"Good!" David walked outside and joined the other campers. They were all gathered around the front of the mess hall, each doing their own little thing. "GOOD MORNING HAPPY CAMPERS! I have something very excited planned for tonight and I just know you guys are gonna like it!"
"Are you sure about that David?" Max raised his hand and smiled, "cuz most of your surprises are ass"
"Max! Language! And of course, you guys are gonna love it! It used to be one of my favorite activities back when I was a kid! I promise it'll be great!"
"Sure David… So what is it?"
"Oh, I'm glad you asked Max! I'm going to take you all out to the archery range! We are gonna have some fun!"
"Wait… You're saying we are actually shooting THINGS and having fun today?" Nerf had a grin on his face and turned to Preston, "YES! FINALLY!"
"YES!" Preston nervously took a step away.
David walked them down to a shooting range, which wasn't that far. It was about a 15-minute walk in total and when they got there, the campers were astounded. David handed them each a bow, "Now before I give you the arrows, I need to explain the rules…"
As David went over the rules, Max actually completely zoned out of it. Max's headache has subsided but the pain in his stomach was still there. It wasn't a moment of constant pain, it was more like waves of nausea, some stronger than others. He looked over to David and saw that he was still explaining the rules, so he took it upon himself to speed up this process. The sooner they finish, the sooner he can go back to camp and sleep. He was kinda excited about the events, so he was a little disappointed to see that his health said otherwise. He walked over to Neil and Nikki, "Hey, you wanna go look for the arrows?"
"Sure, I wanna see how sharp they are!" Nikki followed Max onto the small shed in the back, "Come on Neil, before David sees us"
It was dark inside the shed, there weren't any light switches and it smelled like an old house… one that was unkempt and abandoned. It reminded Max of his own house, the one he'll be going back to in a couple of months. Shaking the thought and memory from his head, he walked towards the boxes sitting in the back.
"Max? What did you find?" Neil walked over to the boxes Max was standing by. "oh."
Max took an arrow and began to inspect it. "He seriously replaced the arrow tips… With sponges… He… He David-proofed them … FUCKING HELL… I honestly don't know what I expected! This is such a David thing to do."
Nikki stood outside and saw David look at her, "UMMM guys… David's coming."
Nikki ran inside and closed the door. She stood in front of Max and Neil and got down on all fours. David walked in and she began barking and acting like… Nikki. Max grabbed her by her overalls and pulled her back. "Jesus Nik"
"Can you three explain what's going on here?"
"No why don't you explain David?" Max held up the rip off arrows. He shoved the arrows into Davids' face, "explain?"
"Max, you three had no business being inside this shed! You could have ruined the surprise!" He grabbed the arrows out of Max's hands.
Maybe it was his headache, maybe it was the fact that David smacked the arrows out his hand, maybe it was the constant waves of nausea that washed over him or maybe it was the simple fact that he just wanted to go back to camp, but Max got angry. Something inside him snapped. "DAVID! GIVE THOSE ARROWS BACK!"
"Max, archery-"
"No FUCK your archery, David…. FUCK this entire camp, everything here sucks and it's not fun…
"Max you don't need-"
"WELL, APPARENTLY WE DO DAVID BECAUSE YOUR ADVENTURES NEVER FUCKING-" Max stopped talking… He felt his head pulsating and his stomach begged for him to stop. He felt like throwing up.
"Are you alright Max?" David walked closer towards Max but he just backed away.
Max proceed to vomit. Great.
"Ew." Neil looked away.
"Ohhh Vomit, this reminds me of that one time I was at preschool and I threw up some corn, but it wasn't really fully digested and everyone began to laugh at me and they had to call my mom… it sucked." Nikki smiled, "Don't worry Max, we won't tell anyone… your secret is safe with me! Oh and Neil"
"Nikki…"
"Yes, Neil?"
"Shush."
"Okay!"
Max just stood there. He didn't know what to do, so he just backed away and stared at his shoes. He felt tears of embarrassment fill his eyes.
"Okay… Nikki, Neil, why don't you guys go back outside with the rest of the campers" David lead them out and pulled Neil to the side, "Neil, watch the campers for a sec, I'll be back soon"
Neil nodded and followed Nikki, they met up with the other campers who were running around the field
David turned back to Max, who still had his face down, he walked towards him and reached out his hand.
"Stop it."
"Stop what?"
"You're gonna say something and then expect me to feel better… well, it's not gonna fucking happen so don't even try."
David knew Max didn't really have ill intentions when he said that, so he just nodded. He gave him a washcloth and some water to rinse his mouth out, and lead him outside. He called Gwen to come to pick him up and sat with him until she arrived. They didn't speak, they sat in a comfortable silence. Once Gwen arrived, he walked to the car and explained what happened. He asked Gwen to tell Quartermaster to clean the shed and She nodded.
Max didn't react. He just sat in the car and waited for 'the adults to finish talking'. David walked off back towards the field and Gwen began to drive…
"So ya threw up Huh…" Gwen didn't take her eyes off the road but she could feel Max's embarrassment. "Ooooh not speaking are we… Okay, I don't need you throwing up in my car anyways."
"Fuck you, Gwen."
"And there he is." Gwen smiled, "You feeling better?"
Max shrugged, he had no idea how he was feeling, he just embarrassed himself in the middle of an anger spree… Yeah, no he wasn't feeling so hot. "I'm fine"
"If you were fine… You wouldn't be sitting in this car with me, with a dirty sweater and a doctors note." Gwen pulled up to the camp's driveway and shut off the car. She unbuckled her seatbelt and got out of the car. Max followed her inside and sat down on the chairs. Gwen went to the back and grabbed some medicine, and a glass of water and handed it over to Max. "Here, drink."
"Ew, no, that's nasty."
"Max, drink it, I got you some water so it goes down easier… I know, cherry flavor sucks."
"Don't you have like, I don't know some pill I can pop or something?"
"I don't have any pills for you to get high on Max… I have liquid medicine and we're gonna work with what we got. Also, give me your hoodie so I can wash it." Gwen sighed and pulled the dirty hoodie off Max, "Damn kid, your head is huge"
"Now is not the time bitch." Max pulled the hoodie off and handed it to Gwen.
Gwen took it into the laundry and placed it in the washing machine. She then sat down at her desk and began filing paperwork. "David and the rest of the little shits should be back in a couple of hours, in the meantime, you can stay here with me."
"Oh, goodie…" Max rolled his eyes and laid back in his chair
"If you want, you can go lay down on my bed. Sleep for a while."
"In the bed where you read all your shitty fanfics and write one-shots? Nah I'll pass"
"Fuck you, Max, My stories are great! So do you want to or no?"
He sighed, "Fine…." Max hopped off his chair, and headed toward Gwen's bed and hopped on. He just laid there.
"You want to read something or are you just going to watch me do some boring adult shit?"
"I guess I could use a book... as long as it is not your shitty fanfictions"
"Haha, very funny" Gwen gave him a random book, "Here, this one's not that bad."
Max opened the book and started to read. He didn't expect the book to be this interesting. He found himself inside the book, it was a whole new experience. He read until he got tired and he put the book down. He began drifting off to sleep.
Gwen was working on paperwork at the desk and noticed the comfortable silence, something that didn't go with Max. She looked back and saw Max fast asleep, " I thought you didn't want to sleep on my bed ya little shit." She walked over to Max and gently pulled the covers from under him and placed it on top of him. She tucked him in and saw Max instinctively curled up and grabbed onto the covers. Gwen smiled at the child in front of her. "Aw," She whispered to herself, "Sometimes it's easy to forget you're just a ten-year-old child…" She reached out and touched Max's forehead to check his temperature, "Good, not sick…"
"Gwen… Shut up, I'm trying to sleep"
Gwen pulled her hand back and smiled, "I thought you were already sleeping, good night asshole, even though it's still like...12 in the afternoon."
"Good night Gwen"
A/N: Cyfallist: Yes, Neil is amazing and he's so... Neil, like there is no other word that I can find that accurately describes my Boi XD
AND WE ARE BACK! Yes yes yes, I hope you didn't miss us too much... Jk Jk. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. It's been a little over a week since I've last posted on here but no worries, we have returned. I was gonna post yesterday but the power went out because of Hurricane Micheal, so I didn't really have an opportunity to. Speaking of Hurricane Micheal, for those of you that have been affected, STAY SAFE! Love you all my little shits! Happy Reads!