"welcome to camp!" came a cheery voice from behind me as the bus dropped me off. I turned and saw a man. He had a sun hat on, with a strap hanging under his chin. He had sunscreen on his nose, and a short mustache around his mouth. He was small and had a large grin on.
"I'm Mister Pendanski, The camp councilor." He shook my hand and beamed at me. "you know you're the first girl, besides the warden, to ever attend camp here? It's a pleasure to have someone with manors for once!" I frowned, and hitched my backpack up higher onto my shoulder.
"nice to meet you mister pendan-"
"call him mom." I looked out of the corner of my eye and saw a group of boys, they all wore the same dirty outfit of orange. Some wore rags on their heads and others wore hats, but they all looked the least bit shady from their head coverings.
"mom?" their eyes widened as I turned around fully.
"woah! A chick!" one with dark brown hair exclaimed, immediately he stepped forward and took my hand. He set his warm lips on its surface, making my eyes blow open to twice its size.
"my name's Rex," he said with a smirk.
"and why is that?"
"miss April," mister Pendanski cut in, "his real name is charlie. Just call him charlie"
"no mom, its Rex. Don't call me Charlie, babe." he snapped, stepping away, delivering the warning with so much intensity I knew immediately not to call him charlie.
"so there is Charlie, casey, William, and Michael." Then he stopped. But he skipped one of them. And he seemed to notice after a minute. "oh, and then there's thomas." He said it with scorn, I didn't understand why though. Thomas was just a tall skinny dude with brown hair and eyes to match. I liked him, how he was so calm, but his eyes never left me.
"man mom! You got ALL of our names wrong! What's da point in having names if you don't call us by them!" one snapped. He seemed like the leader, with his tan skin and weave flowing down the back of his head. he eyed me with a smirk, and crossed his arms. "I'm bruise." He nodded and made me frown a little. "this is Rex as you already know. The ladies man." He technically just scolded him. I smiled a little as one slapped him in the shoulder and they all laughed. "this here's sweat sock," he pointed to a rather chubby guy who nodded silently, a grin plastered on his dirty face. "and eyelash," the guy winked at me. "and this is peels." It was the guy named thomas. He had a peely nose that didn't look much like the aftermath of a sunburn. We stared at eachother for a while. I took each of them in as friends in my mind…for at least a while anyways.
"you boys show her where she will be staying, I have to go talk to the warden on this whole shower situation." They all laughed, it drew the smallest smile out of me too, but I was worried about this situation too.
"so come on," they all swarmed around me, and I crossed my arms over my chest silently. I followed them towards the tents that circled around the showers and mess hall.
"that's the showers and the mess hall, and that's-" bruise pointed at the last building that stood in the center of the camp, "-that's the wardens NEST!" they all laughed, and I couldn't help a small smile that trickled through my frown timidly.
"where do I stay again?" there was a small tent near the wardens place, I figured that that was mine. Mister Pendanski was in another house near the warden's original place, and I've been told that there is another man- who is a councilor- who stays in a real house too.
"we don't know exactly, the warden probably wants to talk to you," eyelash nodded at the wardens place, and I saw why they called him eyelash. He had the longest eyelashes I have ever seen! They looked about two centimeters long at the least.
"okay."
"and Mr. sir will probably give you some work clothes like these-" Rex said as he fingered his own pair of orange work clothes.
"okay." I repeated. And they waved me off towards the wardens house.
On the way there, I felt the hot sun burn into my pale skin. So I pulled my backpack off of my shoulder and grabbed some sunscreen. I slathered it onto my arms and face, being careful to rub it in good, I don't want to look like mister Pendanski with the lifeguard nose.
I rapped on the door, waiting for an answer quietly. She pushed through the curtain that hung on the door's window.
"yes?" her western drawl made me take a step back slightly.
"Im april?...the new GIRL..."
"yeah, okay, come in." and i did.
"so april...you know the rules?..."
"not exactly..."
"well learn them! and considering your the only girl here besides myself...shower times will be different...i'll let you use the one down the road in the private cabin so it isnt wierd for anyone... mister pendanski will assign you the small tent outside, and you'll need to know-" she paused. "that we dig out here...and whatever you did, you deserve to dig because of it..." thats when she shoved me out the door and nicked me with her nail. pain seared though me, but i hid it. she scowled as she slammed the door, and i didnt blame anyone for calling her the "glorious warden" either, because everyone here knew that she was in fact -in her own way- very glorious...
Bruise-william
Rex- charlie
Sweat sock- casey
Eyelash-michael
Peels-thomas
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