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Camp Torture
Night One
Thought of the Day: What runs, but doesn't walk; Has a mouth, but doesn't talk? That's what Salima's dad asked us, apparently it's our clue to what we'll be doing tomorrow. Can't wait… Note that that was sarcastic.
All the girls, except Mariah, were very shocked when we came here. I guess they were excepting cabins, bathrooms and power lines. Nope. All that was here was trees, dirt, grass, bugs and more trees. Hilary's already freaking out because she saw a moth. I can't stand her.
For some odd reason Ray keeps glaring at me. What did I ever do to him!? Ever since we got off the bus he seems to be trying to let me know he doesn't like me in every way possible, but what did I do?
Tala… p.s. I love my hair.
I gingerly place my diary back into my bag and zip it up. I am currently sitting on a blanket with my knees pulled up to my chest and my arms around them. Smirking inwardly, I watched the rest of the kids struggle to put up their sorry excuse for a tent. Kai and I were the second one's to have our tent up, we had to go to wilderness camp in Biovolt.
The firsts were Mariah and Mariam… well, it was more like Mariah. I guessed she has experience with that type of stuff as well. During our one hour of being here, I have realized that Mariah is not the girly girl everyone has made her out to be, but more like the tomboy nobody ever took the time to notice.
Looking up at the night sky, I noticed all the stars. The big blue was a lot different in the forest than it was in the city. Not so many lights to damaged the sight of this big beautiful blanket of stars. I feel someone sitting beside me, I really hope it's Kai.
"Hey Sweetie!" anybody but her.
"Hey." I say boringly, looking at the flickering fire before me.
"Where's Kai?" Jou asked, trying to strike up a conversation with me, her son whom she didn't really know.
"Tent." I answer, not wanting to hold a conversation.
"Why you sittin' over here by yourself?" she figured she'd try again.
"Want to."
She put one of her hands on my cheek and smiled. Is she actually touching me? "Why don't you go over there and talk to Mariah. I know you like her." She teased.
"No! I don't like her." Finally a whole sentence! Even though it was a lie. So, I kind of have a thing for her, so what!
"You did when you were little." She said still looking at the pinkette on the other side of the fire laughing at Ming-Ming being freaked out by a cricket.
Normal POV"Well mom, I don't know if you've noticed, but I've grown up ever since you dumped me at Biovolt! You don't know me, so stop trying to!" after that Tala retreated into his tent with Kai. All traces of Jou's smile had faded. She knew she had messed up in the past and Tala had every right to be angry, but she was trying to make things better. Slowly, Jou got up and walked over to Moka.
"How'd it go?" the pinkette asked. Jou just shook her head with a sad expression. "What'd he say?" She shook her head again. "Don't worry about it. A few months ago Mariah hated me too. Now look how close we are." She smiled.
"Mariah! Stop scaring Hilary and Ming-Ming that (beeping) cricket! I already told you to put the (beeping) thing down!" Moka huffed before calming down and turning back to Jou. "See. We're so happy together."
"Well, you didn't leave her in some crazy facility that tried to make her an emotionless android!" Jou shouted.
"You didn't know they were going to do that. It's not your fault." Moka whispered. "Now let's go help the rest of the kids with their tents."
"Counselor Moka! Where do I plug my DVD player and where's the T.V.?" Hilary called after Tyson put her and Salima's tent up.
"Hilary, for the last time, there is no electricity!" the pinkette yelled. That was the fourteenth time the brunette had asked her about some electrical appliance.
"Well, then where are we going to bathe?" the brunette asked coming over to where the two ladies were.
"There's a bathroom about three miles from here." Moka stated.
"Are you serious!?" All the girls except Mariah and Salima yelled.
"Mariam, I had already told you that." Mariah laughed at the girl's shocked expression.
"Well, I didn't know you were serious!" the bluenette yelled at her laughing best friend.
After all the tents were up, everybody gathered around the flickering fire. Little fire particles flowed up into the air setting that camp mood. It was kind of cold that night so everyone got as close to the fire as the heat would allow… well, except Tala and Kai whom sat behind some people in the circle. The wind whispered to the trees, stirring up some fallen leaves. The full moon shined brightly over them, accompanied by thousands of twinkling stars.
Eleven tents stood in a circle around the teens and adults. The wild howl of a wolf was heard, fascinating some and scaring other's.
"Hey, um… Mr. Salima's dad… are there wolves out here?" Max asked from his position in the middle of Julia and Robert.
"Why yes." A red haired man answered. He was very muscular and looked like he at good for surviving in the wilderness. He also looked much like his daughter.
"Wolves!" Ming-Ming shouted scooting closer to Bryan. At sometimes this seemed like a bad idea, but right now, she was just worried about being eaten. The lavender haired boy looked over to Enrique with a look that mouthed, 'Oh, yeah'. The blond gave back a thumbs up.
"If wolves are out here, should we like, pee on the ground to mark our territory?" Enrique asked curiously from between Bryan, his tent buddy and Mariah.
"That's completely out of line! We'll be smelling urine all night." The Robert protested.
"But it would be so cool!" Tyson jumped up excitedly, making Hilary and Salima have to lean over the opposite way so they wouldn't get hit.
"Tyson sit down! No one is peeing anywhere around where I'm sleeping!" Hilary pulled on the navy haired boy's pants leg.
"O.k. then, all in favor of marking our territory raise their hand!" he shouted. Bryan, Enrique, Max, Lee and Tyson raised their hands. "All opposed!" Mariam, Ming-Ming, Salima, Ray, Mariah, Hilary, Robert and Julia raised their hands.
"Looks like they'll be no peeing!" James, Salima's dad, announced.
"Oh come on! Kai and Tala didn't vote! Neither did the adults!" Enrique pointed out. "The only reason Ray voted 'no' is because Salima did!"
"O.k. Kai, Tala, your call." Jou decided to step into the situation, noting that they were voting on whether to pee on the ground or not. Sounds kind of dumb when you say it like that.
"Come one Kai. Say yes, be a man!" Bryan urged one of his good friends.
"No Kai, you're still a boy! Be young while you can!" Julia shouted from between Lee and Max.
Do these idiots really expect me to vote on whether they should urinate around my sleep place? How stupid can this get? O.k. I'll play. Kai thought.
"I vote no." he voted.
"Come on Kai, don't be such a pussy." Bryan said and then when he saw Jou glaring at him as if to say, 'Watch your mouth before I clean it out with lake water.' He said, "Cat, pussy cat." He then fixed his eyes on the ground. Kai would get him back for that comment later.
"But it would be so cool!" Enrique yelled in defeat.
Kai sat in Indian style with his eyes closed, while Tala sat with his legs crossed examining a strand of his hair.
"Why don't y'all come closer to the fire?" Hilary suggested wanting Kai to notice her.
"Why don't you go jump off a cliff." Kai said harshly in his cool Kai way.
"Kai don't be mean!" Moka shouted at him when she saw Hilary's hurt expression.
Tyson also saw this and said, "Forget him Hil, he's out to crush everyone in the world."
Tala looked away from his very important red strand of hair to see almost everyone watching him. He looked to Robert, then Max, Julia , Lee and finally… Ray. The raven-haired boy just glared dangerously at him. Tala, being a male, got offensive and completely ignored him by looking back to his very important strand of hair.
"Tala, just vote…" before Salima could even say 'no', everybody at the camp heard: Ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss. The sound of water pouring on leaves. After a couple more seconds they saw Enrique coming back from behind the buses.
"Sorry ladies and Robert and Ray, but when nature calls, you gotta answer." The blond apologized and sat down back between Bryan and Mariah.
"Well if he went then I can go too!" Max said getting agreeing "yeah's" from other males. A stampede of boys ran to the outside of the circle giving each other room.
"LET FREEDOM RING!" the boys yelled; even Ray and Robert joined in.
"Ew! You guys are disgusting!" Mariam yelled turning away from the multitude of pale and tan butts facing her.
"This is mentally scarring." Mariah stated with her head down.
"Hey you girls. Maybe the boys don't have such a bad idea." Ming-Ming said mimicking Mariah's position. "I really have to go now."
"Yeah, me too." Salima said, still mad at her boyfriend whom didn't stick with her. Tala and Kai were still sitting down though. They had scooted closer to the fire now, not wanting to be sprayed by anyone. They also didn't like the sight of pale, white and tan butts around them either.
"Where do we pee. If nobody's notice we don't have the right equipment to just pee anytime and anywhere we want." Hilary pointed out. "And I have to go bad."
"We could go down by the river." Jou suggested.
"Ever notice how long boys can pee?" Ming-Ming asked still listening to the sound of urine on dirt. About 20 seconds later all flies were zipped and the pale and tan butts were covered and on the ground.
"O.k. now the girls are about to go to the river." Moka announced getting up with the rest of the females.
"Wait! What if the boys try something sneaky?" Mariah questioned no female in particular.
Tala's POVNow all the girls have towels, soap, washrags and extra clothes in their hands, looks like their about to go bathe.
"James 'll make sure none of them get away." Moka answered Mariah's question.
"Why do y'all have towels and stuff?" Max asked. That dumb blond.
"None of your business!" Hilary huffed walking off with the rest of the girls. I really don't like her.
After about 1 minute, the girls had finally got out of sight. That's when Bryan caught on, "Oh dawg! They bout to go take a bath!" Enrique stood, finally understanding too.
"What are we waiting for!?" Ray asked getting up as well. Either Salima isn't the slut I thought she was, or Ray is totally crushing on another girl… or… he could just be thinking with his dick right now.
"Oh, no you don't!" Lee said before the boys could start walking. "My sister is one of those girls about to go." Why is he always so protective of Mariah? Do all brothers do that? If so, then how come Raul doesn't follow Julia around?
"Oh come on Lee. We know how you feel about Julia. Don't you want to see that." Enrique tempted walking around the teen like a wolf to his prey. The Chinese boy looked thoughtful. "We promise we won't look at Mariah." The blond said, even though he had every intention to… but he better not! Not that I care or anything…
"Even though she does have the assiest ass out here." Max said which was very out of his character. I was very shocked, Kai even looked a little knocked. Even though it was clear that Mariah did have the… assiest ass, if you will.
The rest of the guys just stared at him. Silence covered the place. The only sound was that of the crickets. "Well, it's true!" Bryan said breaking the silence. Getting lots of agreeing laughs.
"Well, she's not as assy as Tala's mom!" Tyson said, but as soon as those words left his mouth he slapped his hand over it. What did he just say?!
"That's enough boys!" James decided to stop their perverted conversation, but he didn't stop it soon enough.
"What did you say about my mama!?" I got up from my position beside Kai. My very important strand of hair forgotten. I may not like my mother very much and she is very annoying at times, but no one calls my mama perverted things when I'm around! Every sound in the forest seemed to stop and there was complete silence as I continued to advance towards Tyson with fire in my eyes.
"What did you say, punk!?" I asked again. I can tell this idiot was thinking hard, but nothing came out so far. She may not have been around me my whole entire life, but that don't mean anybody can say something about my mama and not get knocked the (beep) out. No way, not with Tala Ivanov!
Kai's POVBefore the navy haired boy could even say anything we heard, "He said your mama had a nice ass." All the boys looked to the smirking raven-haired male behind them. I looked at Tala and could tell he was about to tear somebody up. I remembered when his mom came to visit and how mad he got when Bryan called her sexy. No amount of Biovolt training can take away your emotions when it comes to a boy and his mama.
Part of me wants to let them fight it out, but I don't want Tala to have to go back home for fighting. Then I'd have to go home too (one of the best friend rules), which meant spending the rest of the month with Voltaire... no way! This is my month off!
I slowly got up from my nice and comfortable spot on a hard rock and walked up to Tala whom was about to engage in a very violent, unrated, painful fight with Ray. "Tala…" I started.
"That's enough boys!" James stood trying to stop them.
"What then! What you gone do!?" Ray shouted over all the boys' yelling. The rest of the guys were really being supportive… of the fight, not stopping it. Just as Tala was about to strike…no… punch the living night lights out of Ray, I grabbed both of his arms and put them behind his back.
"He ain't worth it, Tal." I said leading the enraged redhead away from Salima's boyfriend. At first I kept Tala's hand behind his back, but when we were away from the camp sight I let go.
"Why'd you stop me?" the half Russian asked walking alongside me.
"Because, I wasn't about to go back to Russia and be bored by grandfather telling us to train while sitting in front of the wide screen t.v. with 1000 channels and nothing to watch." Surprisingly I didn't have to take a long breath after that. The wind blew making some leaves rustle and we sped up.
"You're not scared are you Tala? Do you want your mama?" I teased. I love getting to him. And I hate to admit it, but we're both 'fraidy cats' when it comes to the dark. Not stopping we looked behind us to see that we could no longer see the campfire and there was no path to follow. Without noticing we had been walking blindly into the woods. Neither of us were worried though, we'd simply wonder around until we found somewhere. Maybe if we weren't together we would be a little scared, yes, even the great Tala and Kai have fears.
"Wait Kai, let's stop for a second." Tala stopped walking grabbing me by the shoulder. I gave him the 'Why?' look. "I have to pee." The redhead said simply. I sighed as Tala walked over to a bush, but kind of followed him over to it. I didn't look though!
Tala's POV"You're not scared are you Kai?" I got Kai back from before. He knows he's afraid of the dark. I am now following Kai's eyes to see what he's looking at. He looks kind of scared… more than usual. Kai just glared at the darkness before him and looked up at a creepy tree. The forest seemed to be alive at night. He looked into a hole in the tree and saw two eyes glaring back at him. Our ears picked up the sound of something moving through the leaves on the other side of us and we looked down to see the shadow of some animal crawling away. We were trapped in a box of darkness.
The spot we were in only seemed to stretch to a certain extent after a couple of yards all you could see was darkness. Kai looked to the left of us and looked like he saw something really scary. I didn't want to look. "Tala, are you done yet?" he asked sounding impatient, but that wasn't the real reason he asked it and I knew.
I zipped up my pants and said, "Yeah." Then we kept walking in their same direction; away from the camp spot.
"When should we head back to camp?" Kai said looking at me looking at my very important strand of hair after about five minutes of walking.
"Wha- Whoa!" I said looking at something with his eyes wide. Oh my freakin' gosh! I can't believe what I'm seeing! Is this real or did I fall asleep walking!
"What are you-" Kai stopped when he saw what I was looking at.
"Kai, I think we found the river." I said amazed and not able to look away. Wow… no other words can express how I was feeling at the moment.
What do you think they see? To give you a hint, remember who was at river and why. Yeah… now you get.
Anyway, tell me what you thought of the chapter and Tala's very important strand of hair. Yeah… it's that important.
Happy Valentine's Day!