I wonder why they all gasp and then we all get out and they all find something they are interested in. Link looks at my black belt in karate and then finds the book on crypto zoology. Bob looks at my poster of 101 movie quotes in awe. Dr. Cockroach is inspecting my DDR items and then is flipping through the notes from my experiments with wide eyes. Susan is the only one who can t find something to look at and is sitting off to the side looking at everyone else.
I realize something Susan would like. I run over to my bookshelf and grab a photo album that I felt Susan would like. I run back over and get her attention.
Hey Susan, I say, I found something you would like I give her the photo album. She opens it and gasps.
Awww Paul Susan says calmly, These cats are so cute. What are their names?
I had given her a photo album of my cats I have back at home knowing from that poster in her cell that she was a cat person. Well, the short haired one is named, Tiger and the long haired one is named Dusty because whenever she gets out from under the couch, she is covered in dust like a feather duster!
She laughs at this and keeps looking through the pictures.
I go over to Link who is still looking through the crypto zoology book and say, Hey Link, do you know any of these guys in the book besides Mothman? You know from before you were frozen in ice?
Link responds, Yeah, the Loch Ness Monster and the Lake Champlain Monster owe me each five trout from a very old wager that I bet they would end up in land locked body of water and they said they wouldn t!
Then I approach Dr. Cockroach and ask him, Hey Dr. Cockroach, do you play DDR?
My good boy, Dr. Cockroach responds, My PhD is in dance!
We ll have to see about that later. I say chuckling that the dance off would be fun.
I go over to Bob and say to him quoting one of the movie quotes, This town ain t big enough for the both of us. (Westerner)
Bob replies, Then say hello to my little friend. (Scarface)
I respond, Of all the coffee shops in the town, you walk into mine. (Casablanca)
Bob replies with a zinger, We are the knights who say Ni! (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
I decide to pull out the tricky lines, Who are you gonna call? (Ghostbusters)
Bob finishers with the most unbeatable lines ever, So, Who is on First? (Abbott and Costello)
I say to him, My friend, you are a master of the movie quote off .
I then say to everyone, Uh, hey guys can you all come over here?
They all come over and Susan asks, What is it Paul?
I say, I wanted to thank you guys for making this place so great. You guys are awesome and I will find a way to repay you all for this.
Susan says, Thanks Paul, smiling and me blushing again, But you don t have to repay us.
Oh yes I do, I reply, I will and it shall happen.
We all go back into the elevator and down for Dinner. Insecto is in there and so we all go to our tables. But for some reason my pizza is dropped onto Susan table.
An intercom with Monger s voice says, Sorry Paulankey, but for health reasons, we will put your meal onto Susan table because the medics don t like your food touching garbage and raw fish.
Susan helps me up and then she gets a large pile of what seems to be mashed potatoes. Link gets a large sturgeon fully cooked. Dr. Cockroach gets a pile of pizza boxes with crusts and the cheese that sticks to the box. Bob gets a fully cooked turkey to the head by cannon shot. Insecto gets another Redwood Forest Tree for dinner.
We all eat and then we all just sit around and talk but I can t get a feeling that something is wrong.
What s wrong Paul, Susan asks noticing me acting differently than before dinner.
I reply, I can t get a feeling off of my chest that a place I used to go to during the summer since I was 9 to 15 is in trouble right now. The place was a summer camp called Camp Woodstock in Woodstock Connecticut. I wasn't going to go this year but that isn't it.
Don t worry Paul, Dr. Cockroach replies, If anything was wrong with a place associated with any of us they would tell us. I mean when Old Man Carl s was in bankrupt Bob was informed.
We all go into our rooms and then it is lights out.
I fall asleep thinking about camp and then the lights go out.
I think to my self, It s probably just some bad olives in the pizza, what could go wrong at Camp? Plus the counselers could probably handle it.
--End Chapter 9--