Ch. 2 – Not So Happy Campers Pt. 1
The boat begins to slow down as it came to a complete stop at the dock of an island, a sign saying 'Camp Wawanakwa'. I made it. Maria said in full of relief as she stepped off the boat with her luggage and skateboard behind her back.
The host of the show, Chris McLean introduced her to campers. "Welcome to the island, Maria."
Maria gives everyone a slight wave before walking over to the other side of the dock where in between her was a girl wearing glasses with braces on, waving consistently at her and a raven black long hair and green booty shorts as she gave a scoff and looked away.
Maria crossed her arms and sighed. She has to deal with these types of people; it's like summer camp all over again.
Then the girl with the braces runs up to Maria, startling with an awkward and a robust hug. "HI! I'M BETH!" She squealed, Maria forcefully pulls her away and backs away slowly.
"Woah, that's too close to comfortable, okay? My name is Maria and do not ever hug me like that again, GOT IT?" She threatened, giving a dead stare as Beth backed away slowly.
The girl with the green shorts, stomped over to the other side of the island to grab her phone. "I am calling my parents; you cannot make me stay here!"
Chris smirks as he grabs a stack of a copy the fine print that they had to sign before the show.
Maria groaned before turning back her attention on more campers approaching the island. The next teen to appear on the island was a boy wearing a red track suit, water skiing down the lake heading towards the island. He was looking good so far before it went downhill when he slipped off his skis and leaped off the water and into the bag of luggage, making one falling into the water and splashed all over the Asian looking chick.
She grunts in despair as she gotten all wet. "Agh, my shoes!" One of the campers laughs as she walked back wet. Maria smirked herself before looking away again.
Then the next campers comes in, he was a redhead, also wearing glasses and holding on to an electric keyboard. He was breathing really loudly as he stood next to the host.
"Welcome to the camp Harold," the host greets.
"So you mean this show is on some crappy summer camp and not on some big stage or something?"
"Yup, you got it."
"YES, this is more favorable to my skills!"
He seems pretty creepy, Maria says to herself, hope he's not going to be on my team.
The next contestant was a boy who was holding on to a guitar case. "Contestant number 9 is Trent." The host announced, fist pumping the teen boy.
They started rambling on about how great Chris was on that skating competition and how one of the campers on the show fell on their head and got immunity that week.
Maria patience began to slim, though she was capable of sitting down and working on her graffiti sketches on her notebook. But then there was another contestant stepping onto the island. She had blonde hair with a ponytail and a surfboard on the side of her.
"Alright, our surfer chick Bridgette is here."
Maria was impressed for the first time at the surfer's skateboard. She was astonished at the fact that she brought a surf board at a summer camp, where there's no beach, and if there was, it's polluted.
Since Maria's is well skilled at skateboard, she has the ability to surf waves too, only when she's at the beach. When she walked over towards her, Maria managed to express a compliment to Bridgette.
"I like your surfboard." Maria said, smiling.
Bridgette smiles back and nods. "Thanks, I like your skateboard."
"Thanks."
"No problem!"
"Alright, we all met super girl, can we get on with the show please?" One of the teens said, impatiently.
The next contestant was a scrawny teen boy, with a red vest. Maria chuckled at the boy's appearance; he looks like a first grader on picture day.
"Our next camper is Noah," Maria chuckled at the name too, what a dork, she laughs to herself.
"You got my memo on my life threatening allergies?" The nerdy boy asked.
"Sure someone did," the host replies.
The nerd walks passed Chris as he walks towards the other campers. "Good, is where we're staying?"
"No, this is your grandmother's house and we're throwing a party." The punk boy said, cracking his fists. Feisty much?
"Cute, nice piercing original, do them yourself?" Noah asked sarcastically.
Then the punk boy got even more aggressive and grabbed a needle and pulls the nerdy boy's lip and asked if he wanted a piercing.
"Augh, no thanks, can I have my lip back please?" He flicked his lip loose.
"Thanks…"
Maria rolled her eyes, "Immature much?" She said softly. The punk looks over at Maria and scoffed.
"I don't see any piercing on your face…" The punk boy said, looking down at the 4'11" teen.
"I'm 14; I don't need piercings to be a bitch."
"I'm not a bitch compared to you…"
"Heh it is Ms. Bitch…Check my criminal records if you want background information." She grabs out one of her criminal records from her recent crimes she committed.
"This is why I'm here."
The punk boy awed as he stared down at the written work from the paper. This is legit too!
"Woah, you went to adult jail?"
"Without any piercings to do it too!" Maria said, with a smirk. She doesn't let her pride go to the side that easily.
"Sorry if I ever doubted you." The boy said, smiling slightly. "The name's Duncan."
"Maria."
"Sweet."
Wow, she managed to meet a new friend within an instant. That was fast, he must be in the same position as she could be. Maybe she could form an alliance with him and take advantage throughout the game; part of her strategy into winning this competition.
Moments later…
After a couple of campers entered the island, Maria got bored. She sat down and started to draw in her sketchbook.
Then the host announced another camper onto the island. Geez, how many campers are going to be in this game anyway? This is too much teens for me to handle… Maria sighs as she kept focused on her drawings.
"Cody; the Codster, the Code-meister!" Another scrawny looking kid, brown hair and teal blue eyes with a gap tooth. He strolls over to the ladies as he "tries" to flirt with them.
"Psyched to be here man, see the ladies have already arrived, sweet…" He struts over and passed the ladies, and then he was heading towards Maria.
He was so focused on flirting with other girls, he wasn't' paying attention to where he was walking towards. When he walked towards Maria, he didn't noticed she was sitting on the ground and tripped over Maria's leg, making Maria's pen fall through the cracks of the dock.
"WHY?!" She roars out of anger and then glares over at the geek. Cody was on the ground, in a dog position looking around to see what or who tripped on. She saw Maria glaring down at him.
Face to face, Cody chuckled sheepishly. "Heheh, sorry. I didn't see yo—"
"Get out of my face, NOW."
"Oh, I-I'm sorry, I didn't mean to trip on you. Honest!" Maria then grabs his collar and pushes to edge of the dock.
"I lost my designer pen because of you. I was going to make you swim and get it but—"
She puts Cody down on the edge of the dock, as if he was a doll. Maria's strength is quite surreal and could lift maybe at least 50 pounds. Once she tried to lift a whole 60" inch TV from the garage to the living room without a sweat. Don't catch up with her in a fight though, she's tough.
Cody, who was as scared as a baby, sat on the dock before looking back at Maria who was stomping back to her spot. Other campers were scared, concerned or smirking a bit at Cody.
Cody wasn't going to let that stop him ruining his day as well as impressing her, maybe a couple other ladies around the camp.
Maria looked back and saw that the kid was looking back at her, smiling. What the hell? She looked back, confused. Why is he smiling at me? Isn't he scared? It doesn't seem like it.
After the final campers coming onto the island, Chris tells everyone to on the edge of the dock to take a cover photo for the show.
"Okay, 1…2…3…okay, I forgot the lens cap is still on, wait a second…" He takes off the cap lens from the camera. He tries again.
"Hold that pose, okay 1…2…3…wait, the cards full." Come on now Chris.
Maria grew impatience as well as an arching pain on her cheek as she was trying to grin. She doesn't smile, only when she's happy, right now…she is not happy, especially since she was sitting next to the kid that made her drop her pen into the lake.
"Come on, my face is starting to freeze…" One of the campers said.
"Okay, now say…Wawanakwa…" The campers, including Maria said Wawanakwa before falling into the cold lake from all that weight on that part of the dock.
Maria wasn't having a good day, now regretting the fact of deciding to apply for this dumb show. She's all wet, tired and hungry. Well, at least she found her pen when it fell into the water.
The host told them to meet them at the bonfire in 10 minutes. Maria, gets out of the water, and stomps over to the bonfire.
As she was walking, she went passed Cody who was walking in the same direction. He was trying to get to know her but in a really was doing his typical "ladies man" flirts that lamed horribly.
He went to her and tried to apologize in the flirtatious way possible.
"Hey, listen, I am really sorry that I hurt you."
"You didn't hurt me."
"Oh well I'm sorry I made you mad."
"You don't need to apologize, I'm over it." She's too petty for that, she was never getting over that. Especially since he didn't get scared after the altercation, unlike usual nerds/weaklings would be.
"So you're not mad at me?" He asked.
"No, like a said before if you were listening…" She was annoyed again, "Look, I'm trying to get to the bonfire before sundown, please just leave me alone alright?"
"Alright, sheesh…" And with that, Maria walks faster to the bonfire, leaving Cody standing in confusion. Sheesh, she's hard to get! He said to himself, before forming a soft smile. I like it…
"Okay campers, here's the deal," The host was about to announced the teams, he had a piece of paper where they have the list of the campers and their teams. "I call your name, stand over there." He points to the left side of the camp ground.
"Gwen, Trent, Heather, Cody, Lindsay, Beth, Katie, Maria, Owen, Lashawna, Justin, and Noah…" He pulls out a green, rolled up banner and threw over to the chubby kid who's named Owen. "From this moment on, you all are officially called, The Screaming Gophers!"
"The Screaming Gophers?" Maria asked him, surprised of how stupid that name sounds. As for Owen, he was excited that he was considered a gopher.
"Woah, I'm a gopher, Woo!" Great, now Maria has to be a named one of the lamest names in the whole show. Her friends are probably rolling on the floor laughing right now. Let's hope the other team has it worse than they do.
"Okay, as for the rest of you, go stay over there." He points over to the right hand side of the area. "Geoff, Bridgette, DJ, Tyler, Sadie, Izzy, Courtney, Ezekiel, Duncan…" So much for Maria trying to gain friendship from another rebel, now she has no one to advance into the final challenge with. "Eva and Harold…move…"
One of the campers cries about how she wanted to be a gopher because her friend Katie was considered a gopher.
Maria rolled her eyes as she was standing along watching the whole thing; she was astonished as to when she found out what the name of their team was.
"You guys are called, the Killer Bass!"
Maria slaps herself in face, bewildered. She cannot believe that that team has a better team name than hers.
"Great…just great!" She says to herself, flinging her heads in the air. She pretty much wants to go home now.
Now, Chris explains the situation with confessionals and how they could be able to express how they feel or to get something off their chest, letting everyone at home know what they're really thinking.
As for Maria, she managed to get into the confessional before everyone else to express how she felt so far.
Confessional: Maria: *sigh* I cannot believe I ever agreed to sign up for this! Like this is a ridiculous! I thought that this show was going to be mostly obstacle courses, one-on-one combat, survival, a highly furnished facility. Nope, not at all, this is some childlike shit! I'm not a kindergartener; I want some action, some obstacles, and real stuff! Well, hopefully—no—I am going to win this game…
Confessional: Gwen: *sigh* Okay…so far this sucks…
Confessional: Lindsay: *back facing the camera* I don't get it, where's the camera guy?
Confessional: A random duck: *puts lipstick on and stares at the camera, shockingly*
Confessional: Owen: Hey everyone, check this out. I have something very important to say *farts and laughs*
"Alright, if there aren't any questions," Chris pointed over at the where the cabin areas were located, "meet me at the cabins where you will be staying."
Everyone walked over to the cabins where Heather, the queen bee, looked inside and looked disgusted.
"Are these really cabins?" Heather asked in repulsion. Gwen, the Goth chick walked passed, bumping Heather with her luggage.
"That's what they are genius…" She says sarcastically.
"Agh shut up weird Goth girl!"
Maria walked passed, bumping Heather also as she rolled her eyes at her attitude.
"Quit complaining and deal with it. It's not like anything is going to change at this point…"
Heather glares at Maria and scoffed.
"No one ask you to comment you little brat!"
Maria drops her bags and glances quickly back at the drama queen. She doesn't have time for making enemies and getting her buttons pushed. She stuck here and there's no other way to change that.
"Oh I'm not the brat around here, missy. Now I don't have time to be getting petty with other people. We're stuck here and we just got to deal with it, got it?"
"Whatever, I'm going to unpack my things…"
Moments later, somehow Cody gotten inside the girls' cabin and was standing right in between Gwen and Maria.
"You two are so honest and down-the-earth, I like that." The geek says.
Gwen and Maria glanced at one another, in confusion before glaring back at him.
"Aren't supposed to be in the boys' cabin?" Gwen asked as Cody smiles sheepishly.
And with that, both girls threw Cody out of their cabin and onto the ground. Chris walked passed while one of the campers asked where the bathrooms were so that they could finish their hair.
"Sure, you can plug it right in the communal bathrooms over there." The host points over at the communal bathrooms that was further away from the cabins.
"Communal," Lindsay, the dumb blonde said, "but I'm not Catholic…"
"Not communion, communal…"
Gwen walks out of the cabin and sits on the upper steps and told Lindsay what communal bathrooms were in an offensive matter.
"That means we shower together, idiot."
Lindsay makes a pouted face and whines about the situation. While Maria was in her room, listening to the whines, she groans at the fact that she has to deal with this game.
Confessional: Maria: *facepalms* I can't do it with these types of people! So far, I have to sleep with a depressive Goth chick, a petty bitch, a loud ass, fat ass bitch, a dumb bitch, a crazy bitch and a nerdy bitch! I can't have all these bitches in one room with me…I'm bipolar and it will go down if my buttons are pushed!
Meanwhile, the rest of the campers went over to the eating lodge where they will be eating their lunch. Chef Hatchet, a black, scary looking guy with the white apron was their chef.
"Alright magnets, listen up! I will serve 3 times a day and you will be eating it 3 times a day!" He yelled as he was standing over the counter in the kitchen. "Now shut up, get your food and sit your butts down, NOW!"
All of the campers went and got their food. Some were having issues with acknowledging or even accepting the food. Asking about the food groups, how they can't eat certain foods, etc. As for Maria, she was obviously annoyed by the fact she has to eat slop, besides having to eat this junk for the next 8 weeks. She did not sign up for this; she certainly wasn't expecting any of this!
"Listen, Chef," Maria said as she was the last person to get her food. "I can't eat this…You want to know why, I'm allergic to one of the ingredients in this food." She lied as she puts her plate down.
Chef didn't ignore the comment; he was just annoyed by it. His face explains it all as his eye began to twist.
"Listen, kid, I am not here to serve you the best, divine meals on display. I am here to make sure I get my money in every week to this shit like this! If you want to starve than go ahead! More money, less problems sweetheart!"
Maria glares at the chef as she flips her meal over and pulled the middle finger out.
"That's how I feel about you and your shitty FOOD!" She shouts, causing other campers to stare up at her in shock or full of smirks. She stomps over to an empty seat, next to the punk, delinquent, Duncan and crosses her arms in irritation.
Duncan smirked. "Woah, I never seen you this mad before…ever really. You really don't like this food huh?" He asked.
Maria shook her head. "Hell no, I'm not eating and dying from food poisoning because of eating this shit!" She says, very aggravated. "I don't even care if I get kicked off the island because of this! I really don't!"
Duncan chuckles. "Wow, you must have anger issues if that pisses you off."
Maria shook her head, "Nah, I'm over it now," she lied as she slams her head down onto the table, "I'll starve but I'll be okay with it…"
As Maria slams her head onto the table, Duncan pats her back slowly as he kind of felt bad for her, and that is a first. He barely feels bad for anyone, maybe it's because he felt as if he shares so much with her. They're both pretty much criminals; more or less, both don't like this camp nor Chef's disgusting food, and they seem like they have no type of friends here due to the fact that they hate people.
Maybe he should warm up to her if he could, but…they're on different teams. He doesn't know for sure if that's even going to work out, will it? Well, he may be eliminated or arrested because of some crime he committed.
Well he'll see how it will go, and besides; he really likes Maria. She's like a role model to him.
Chris walks into the lodge after everyone finished their lunch. He told everyone to meet him to start the first challenge in 1 hour.
Maria looks over and sighed. Finally, she says to herself, filled with relief. She wondered what challenged they will have to do first. She hopes it is something interesting and easy for her to deal with since he loves…action and moving around. Surely, it will be a lot of moving, and jumping…
She made it this far, what could possibly go wrong at this point besides now?
TO BE CONTINUED…
Author's note: Well, I finished the second chapter within two days! I'm back baby…
Well summary to this story is that Maria is finally on the island and is already making friends and enemies. Cody is annoyed and weird asf, Gwen is depressing, Lindsay's a dumb bitch, and Heather is a real bitch and Duncan — seems to us that he is one of the coolest guys Maria met so far. Will their personalities are quite similar and Duncan seems interested. Maria on the other hand doesn't even know it.
Will their friendship blossom, even if they're on different teams?
Stay tuned to find out ~ Anna S.