-1CHAPTER TWO: "I'LL SHOW HIM WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS!"
As Lazlo walked to the showers several hours later, at which seemed to have calmed down drastically amongst almost everyone else, Raj followed suit; fruitlessly yet effortful to convince his cabin-mate that this "outing" with Patsy is a "date."
"…Well Lazlo," Raj said, "if this isn't a date then why are you going to get yourself clean then? Huh?!" Lazlo answered, "Well don't we shower every day?" Raj continued his argument with, "And I suppose you're gonna get dressed into a fresh uniform, am I correct?" "Yes…" Lazlo said in a tone saying "Your point is?" Raj tried to sum it up, "So you won't make a bad first date impression!" "No," Lazlo corrected his Indian friend, "because I don't like wearing the same, dirty clothes I was just wearing several minutes ago."
Lazlo then walked into the shower room with a towel at hand. Raj meanwhile stood outside for a minute, gave an agitated sigh and walked off. "I like that monkey," he thought to himself, "but why can't he just get through that furry cranium that this is a DATE?!" He then stopped right in his tracks, quickly smirked, ant ran off to Fava Cabin. He now had something up his sleeve…
It was now 4:45 PM, and Lazlo just walked into his cabin. What the naïve monkey didn't know was that Raj was hiding underneath the cabin, waiting for Lazlo to leave to the camp gate. Around his neck was a leather and cloth band, which in turn was connected to a camera that he managed to "borrow" from Dave, one of the loon brothers in charge of the camp newspaper The Bean! He heard two voices from above, one was obviously Lazlo, with the latter voice belonging to Clam.
"Hey Clam," Lazlo's voice said, "I was just- whoa! Were you painting that while Raj and I were gone?" Raj then heard Clam's voice. "Yeah, got bored. What were you saying?" Lazlo continued, "Oh yeah, I'm just getting ready for later. Patsy asked me to go with her to Prickly Pines and celebrate my medal." "That's nice of her." Clam stated. Hearing that really annoyed Raj. Clam, is a mix between Lazlo's naïve personality and Raj's over cautiousness, and for a good majority of the time, Clam usually sided with Lazlo.
"Okay Clam, I gotta get going, good luck with that rest of that painting, you young Michelangelo." Lazlo said as Clam giggled at what his friend just called him. The primate then stepped out of the cabin and headed to the camp gate, where the mongoose Squirrel Scout will later pick him up. Raj meanwhile got into the cabin and started to talk to Clam, "Clam I just want you to know that- SRI LANKA!!!"
Raj looked at where Clam was: tied to a rope near the ceiling of the cabin, with an artist hat on, and several buckets of paint and a paint brush along his side, also tied with rope. On the ceiling was a Jelly Cabin-sized version of the Sistine Chapel. Raj temporarily forgot about his grand scheme and stood there, jaw-dropped to the floor, and his eyes as large as tires on a car.
Clam simply looked down at him and said with a smile, "You like it?" Raj finally managed to regain his composure and replied, "Uh… yes I do Clam. Excellent artwork. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I'm going to follow Lazlo now." Clam now had a puzzled face on him, thus leading him to ask, "Why?" "Because, Lazlo is going on what he calls an "outing," while it is obviously a date! And I'm going to follow him around and take pictures of the whole thing. Then I'll be able to show him those snap-shots and compare them with photos of other dates. I'll show him what the difference is!" Raj said as he then laughed very eagerly.
However, just as he's about to walk out the door, he heard Clam hop down from the ceiling, and unbelievably managed to change into a clean Bean Scout uniform in under two seconds. Raj turned around, and saw that Clam was giving him the dreaded "sad-puppy face." It took about thirty seconds before Raj figured out what it meant: With Lazlo and Raj gone, Clam was going to be alone for quite some time. Raj sighed and asked in a bit of an unenthusiastic tone, "Clam, would you like to come with me?"
About a split second later, Clam had an excited face on him, picked up Raj as though he was a pillow, and ran out the door and towards his log car at the speed of light, with Raj screaming at the top of his lungs.
While all of this was going on, Lazlo was still waiting over by the camp gate, waiting for his partner to arrive. He was in the middle of whistling a very peculiar show tune (The Camp Lazlo intro song) when he heard a girl's voice calling to him. "Hey Lazlo, over here!" He turned around and saw Patsy coming up to him. "Oh hey Patsy!" Lazlo called back to her. "Well, now that you're here, what should we do first, I mean, after we get to town anyway?"
Patsy paused a minute, after staring dreamily at him, then perked up and said, "Oh uh… oh yeah, I thought a movie would sound good. But I can't decide on one of these three." Patsy pulled out a piece of newspaper that had movie listings on it, such as "Universe Conflict 2: The Doughnuts Strike Forward," or "Revenge of the Toilet Plungers." Lazlo looked at the listings for a while then said, "I don't know, we'll decide when we get there." "Oh, alright then, let's get going then." Patsy said while trying her very hardest to not squeal out loud. Then again, you can't really blame her for going out with the boy of her dreams.