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Camp Torture

After Noon

Hey, Tala's been writing about me in here! I feel so special! Mm… what should I write in Tala's diary. Oh, I'm Kai by the way. I stole Tala's diary while he wasn't looking. At the moment he's talking to Mariah… what's that all about? Oou-oou...-wink wink-

What does he mean Mariah's hot!? Is he just figuring that out!? I'm mean come on, we didn't even see her naked, she had on really short shorts and a tank top! I think love really hit him hard this time. -Chuckle chuckle- I feel like I'm in pre-school.

Oh man! Tala's spotted me! He just said, "Kai, you will not believe what I just learned!" I wanna know what, so I'm going to stop writing now.

"Kai, why are you writing in my diary?" Tala asked walking up to the two-toned haired Russian whom vainly attempted to hide the book behind his back.

"What won't I believe?" Kai asked changing the subject hoping Tala would just go along.

"Girls boobs are not only weapons of mass destruction or things for us guys to get distracted by, but they can also feed babies! How cool is that!?" Tala yelled excitedly.

All Kai could do was stare at his friend in disbelief. "Tala, don't tell me you just asked Mariah why girls had boobs."

"Yeah, why not?" his happy expression slowly faded away as he sat by his best friend.

"Tala..." he wanted to give Tala a lecture, but just couldn't find the words to express how he felt at the moment, so decided against it. "Never mind, there are bigger things to take care of. Your mom's over there telling baby stories." Kai said nodding his head toward the crowd of kids and the chaperones.

"Oh no." the redhead got up and started to walk over to the crowd. In doing so, he heard his mother talking.

"...So then, I wake up because I feel something warm and wet on my back, ya'll, Tala had took out his little wee-wee and was peeing on me, still fast asleep!" the crowd burst into laughter. Tala could have died right at that moment, his whole face went red. "He's always had a bed wetting problem and I could deal with that, but what I hated was, when he peed in the bed everything else but him gets wet!"

"Hey Tala!" Mariam looked up at him. "You still wanna be a mommy when you grow up?" she teased erecting new laugher in the crowd.

Tala had never felt his face get so hot before. This felt so unreal to him, it felt like he should be waking up or coming back down to earth or something. He wanted to run, but his feet wouldn't work. All he could do was stand there in complete embarrassment and stare at the ground.

"Jou, how could you!" the laughter stopped and everyone looked to the back of the crowd straight at Mariah.

"What is it, Mariah?" Jou asked completely calm.

"What is it? What is it?!" she yelled hysterically. "Don't you know the code of parent/chaperone? There will be no baby pictures, baby stories and most of all NO HOME VIDEOS!" the pinkette bellowed, saving Tala further embarrassment. "Parents!"

"But-"

"No buts! I'm pretty sure that everyone knows what it feels like to have their peers know their personal stuff and let me tell you... it ain't a good feelin'." she finished eyeing Jou.

"O.k. Mariah, no more baby stories." Jou said smiling widely, which left Mariah with a really bad feeling.

"Promise?" she asked, just to be safe.

"Promise." Jou vowed still smiling hard. Mariah eyed her for a couple more minutes. The black haired woman's smile never wavered. The pinkette kept her skeptical expression until she could no longer hold it.

"O.k., why are you smiling at me!?" she asked. The rest of the teens stayed attentive through this whole stare off praying that more embarrassment would come to surface.

"I just think it's really… sweet of you to take up for your boyfriend." She said smugly, getting some amused giggles from a few of the adolescents.

"Oh- WHAT!? Tala is not my boyfriend!" the pinkette defended trying to make it sound believable.

"Yeah right, Mariah! I saw you getting cozy with him in the canoe." Mariam entered the conversation raising and lowing her eyebrows.

"Yeah, I bet that's why you stayed back. You wanted to talk Tala into riding with you!" Ming-Ming accused her best friend. Mariah just stared, mortified, at her "best friends" in disbelief. "You wanted some alone time." She teased.

"That's not true!" Mariah folded her arms and tried hard not to blush, knowing Tala's gaze was on her. "Ya'll are so immature!" (Jash: Sorry, but that sentence needed 'ya'll'. It's not the country accent 'ya'll', it's the ghetto accent 'ya'll'.)

"You're the one with the crush and we're immature?" the bluenette walked up to her best friend.

"My little sister would never like someone like him! She has better standards." Lee jumped in, insulting Tala and not even realizing it.

"Lee…" Mariah sighed.

"What's that suppose to mean, ninja boy!?" the redhead yelled outraged, forgetting about the previous conversation. He really did have a one-track mind.

"It means, my sister needs someone worthy of her company, someone willing to protect her and give in to her needs, someone that is sane and has a brain that is bigger than an ant. In other words, not you." The Chinese teen may have gone over the top, but protective older brothers like to brag on their little "defenseless" sisters.

"Burn!" Bryan and Enrique yelled together.

"Come on, Tala! You're not going to let him bad mouth you, are you?!" the lavender haired teen prompted watching Tala proceed to walk up to the black haired teen.

Tala had every intention of punching the living daylights out of Lee, but James stepped up. "Boys we talked about this the other night. No fighting! Tala, that's your second offense."

"What?! He started it!" Tala yelled in his defense.

"But you're the one walking up to him like you want to fight." The red haired man gave his reason.

"I did!… Because he insulted me!"

"Well, were any of the things he said true?"

"No." Tala said glaring at the triumphant looking Lee.

"O.k. then. Have a seat." James finished, pointing to the log Kai was sitting on. After Tala stepped back James continued. "Now, seeing as we all got here safely, I take it everyone knows how to use a canoe. Now, at the end of this month, you are all going to have a relay race using the skills you learn during your time at camp. The team with the most skill, wins." He announced.

"Oh, cool! Our team is going to wipe the floor with the other guys!" Enrique yelled, punching a fist into the air.

"Yeah!" Bryan agreed with his best buddy.

"Well, Bryan, it just so happens that you are on my team." Moka said walking up to the lavender haired boy.

"R-really?" Bryan blushed slightly from the attention the young woman was giving him.

"And you're on my team, Enrique." James walked up to him. Suddenly Bryan and Enrique's face expression was horrified.

"So, you mean we're… on different teams!?" both boys shouted together.

"That's not fair! If we get separated then Kai and Tala can't be together either!" Bryan wined. Tala and Kai gave him a quick glare, remembering that the redhead was on a thin rope.

"They aren't." Jou said happily. "Here are the teams. For my team it's Mariah, Salima, Tyson, Max and Tala." She smiled at her son, whom just rolled his eyes and looked away much to her dislike.

"For my team it's Ray, Bryan, Ming-Ming, Hilary and Kai." Moka said patting Bryan's head, making him turn red all over.

Man, why did Tala and Mariah have to have such hotties for moms? Bryan asked himself.

Great, we get the girly-girls on our team. Just super. Ray thought sarcastically. Now I'll never be able to beat Tala's team. Mariah's on his team too, dang it.

"And for my team, Lee, Enrique, Mariam, Julia and Robert." James announced the rest of the names. "And now we are going to walk through the forest and I'm going to tell you about the plants and animals that inhabit it." A loud groan came from everyone in the group.

"Oh come on! I loved this kind of stuff when I was your age." The mother pinkette said, walking alongside James and Jou.

"When was that? Ten minutes ago?" Hilary whispered to Salima who laughed. The brunette made sure she whispered it loud enough so the youngest pinkette could hear. "I bet she was like 14 when she had Mariah. I wonder where her daddy went." Mariah, Mariam and Ming-Ming also heard this and the pinkette wasn't about to let it go.

"Hilary, I'm sure my mama is glad you know she's so young. Maybe she could give your mom some beauty tips. I saw those bags under her eyes when she was saying goodbye to you. Not cute, sweet heart." Mariah countered while glaring at the brunette and redhead in front of her.

"What'd you say pinky!?" Hilary and Salima turned to face the three.

"Why are you getting so angry, I was offering your mother help." Mariah said walking up to her.

"At least my mother has a husband and a real job!" Hilary yelled back ready to fight, hoping she didn't bite off more than she could chew.

Bryan had now noticed the argument. "It's about to be a what?!"

"Girl fight!" Enrique finished.

"Girls!" Jou yelled walking up to them.

"I'm sorry girls, but if you keep arguing like this, I'm going to have to send you home." James said strongly. "Mariah, Hilary, first offence." The pinkette just shook her head, knowing there was no use fighting it. The rest of the day was pretty normal. James talked even though nobody was listening, Moka and Jou caught up on old times while also pretending to be attentive, Enrique and Bryan continued to try and wow the girls with their smooth talk and the girls stayed in their separate groups glaring at the other.

Kai and Tala dragged along in the back like usual, muttering to each other whenever they found a worthy topic.

"So, you and Mariah?" the two toned haired boy raised and eyebrow.

"So, you and Mariam." Tala countered.

All Kai could do was glare at the superior looking Tala. "You win, this time Ivanov, just wait until tomorrow."

"What, what's happening tomorrow?" the redhead asked, confused.

"You'll see." Kai said in his cool sly way.

"They only said we'd be identifying fish and sea weed. I don't get it." The blue eyed teen was now curious to see what Kai was talking about.

Torture Camp

Evening

Thought of the night: …

O.k. so there is no thought! I just can't figure out what Kai is planning for tomorrow! He makes it sound so evil! It has something to do with Mariah too. I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight because of this. He gave me no hint either. This sucks! Oh well, everyone is making smores and I have to stop Kai from "accidentally" dropping his flaming marshmallow on Tyson or "generously helping" Lee warm up by the fire… or in it.

And there's been something going on with him lately. I think I know what it is, but I'm really hoping that I'm wrong….

Tala.

O.k. I know it was short for such a long wait, but this story just doesn't seeming to have anything big about it. Tell me if I should continue or not.