I don't know if any of you are camp counselors, but I am. And let me tell you, it can get to be pretty hard. I work at a Girl Scout camp, though, so they're all girls, but I work with third and fourth graders, you know right about the time they start getting an atittude. I've based the way the camp in the story is run, with kind of the way the camp I work, volunteer actually, at works. This one's kinda lame too, but it will pick up next chapter, I swear it!

Hopefully this puts the story back together and gets it back on track...Hope you like it!

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts.


I pulled up to the camp parking lot five minutes after 8:00. A whole five minutes after I was suppose to be there. And the director was there waiting for me.

"I believe, in order for your deal with Mrs. Keller to hold, you weren't allowed to cause any problems." The director barked. And I mean she literally barked it. She stood there, slightly overweight, wearing khaki shorts and a bandana tied around her chubby neck.

Rather than admit I had over slept, I lied. "My little sister's not feeling well, and my dad and brother had to go to work. I wanted to make sure she was okay before I headed over. I'm really sorry."

She glared at me as if she was analyzing what I had just said. "Okay, just call ahead of time if you know you're going to be late."

I nodded enthusiastically and she smiled. HA!

"Okay I have you working with the six and seven year olds. Now, since this is just a day camp, boys and girls are in groups together. There will be another counselor with you and she will be in charge of the girls and you the boys. You will get a schedule that will tell you what you are doing every day. There will be two schedules for each day, one for it it's sunny and one for if it's raining. Oh, and you will also have a swimming time everyday. The water has to be a certain temperature to swim, but you are to report to the pool every day, unless there is serious weather, and the lifeguard will have an activity for the kids to do."

"Um, Okay."

She pulled out a clipboard and ripped off a sheet of paper. "Here's your schedule. Go ahead and report to the flag pole. The other counselor will be able to help you."

"Okay." I said taking my schedule and heading to the flag pole.

Hundreds of repressed memories of my childhood flooded back. I had grown up here while my parents were at work. While all my friends were off playing with their parents or their older siblings and I was stuck at a day camp with a bunch of kids I'd never met.

I shouldered my backpack that Mrs. Keller had told me to bring. I was thrown slightly off balance by the weight, but managed to catch myself before I marched up to the flag pole.

I heard the kids before I reached the top of the hill.

"Oh. My. God." I looked across the field, my thoughts drowned out by the screaming kids.

I pulled the schedule out of my pocket and began to look for a clue to where I was supposed to be going.

"You're in the yellow group. They're on the far side of the field." A finger landed on my paper pointing to the colored box in the corner.

But the finger wasn't what startled me. It was the voice, the voice that had been scaring the crap out of me for years, the voice that had tortured Demyx since he was born.

"Larxene, what a, uh, pleasant surprise?" I said, er, asked.

"I work here, idiot." She said, "I'm the lifeguard, remember? You and Demyx spent all last summer coming up with jokes about how I was going to corrupt the kids?"

"Wow, you have an amazing memory! I'd forgotten about-"I stopped. "Oh, you heard those?"

She glared at me and walked away.

I made my way across the field, fighting through the kids attacking each other. To avoid the worst part I cut close to the pool. God, I hated that thing when I was little. My parents had always been too busy to teach me how to swim. So I was stuck playing in the shallow end. Then one day we went over to the diving well to watch the older kids jump in. While we were watching, an older kid came up behind us and pushed me and another kid in. The other kid knew how to swim. I sank.

"Axel?" A voice asked from behind me. I turned to see a girl that I recognized.

"You're Kairi, right?" I asked realizing that I knew her from when Namine had friends over.

"Yeah," She smiled. "I'm the other counselor with the yellow group."

"Oh, cool." I said. At least I knew the other counselor wouldn't tell about me being here. Kairi was the class president, and Namine's friend. She wouldn't tell, I don't think. But Larxene probably would. I'd have to think of something about that later.

"Have you ever done this before?" Kairi asked putting a highly decorated nametag around her neck.

"Nope, Nami and I came here when we were younger though." I said accepting the nametag that she was offering me.

"Well, we have an easy morning, so you'll have time to get a hold of everything and make your nametag." She said with a smile.

A horn bellowed across the field making me and Kairi jump.

"Campers! Are you ready for your first day of fun?" With a false cheerfulness in her voice, the director called to the little munchkins through a microphone.

Little kids scattered everyway, trying to find their groups and exchanging last goodbye to friends.

"Does everybody know where their groups are?" The director asked.

A little girl in a blue tank top stood in the middle of the field looking lost before a counselor ran out to get her.

"Okay, that looks like everyone." The director said. "Now we all know where we're supposed to be. We don't have anything special planned for this morning, but tomorrow we'll have lost and found, so if you get home tonight and aren't able to find something, check for it in the lost and found in the morning.

"Now, let's go out and have some fun!"

The little kids started cheering and the screaming began again.

"This is going to be a long day." I commented turning to Kairi.

"You have no idea." Kairi replied pointing down the slope to a kid taking a leak on a tree. "That'd be yours to deal with."

I glaring at the other counselor, I took a deep breath and started down the hill.

It was going to be a really, really, really, really, really, really, really, long day.


How did Kairi end up in here? I have no clue.

Well, I do, I need another counselor, a female one, that already existed, 'cause I don't want my story to have too many OCs. And Kairi seem to kinda fit, so I went with it, don't worry, she's not going to be in here a lot.

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