Chapter 15: Crushed by Volleyball

The next day comes and some of the campers' first activity was to play volleyball and half of the pack were on different teams on the volleyball net including most of their cabinmates and as one of the counselors served the volleyball, one of the cabinmates made the first serve and swiped it towards the othet team. Diego, Brutus and Jonah see their chances to get the ball, but Slade comes in and jumps in the air to hit the volleyball to the other side of the net. Most of the campers scramble to get the ball, but Marcus served it harder.

Several of the other campers were playing volleyball as many of them hit the ball in different positions on opposing sides, but it's all just for fun. Brutus took a few deep breaths as he got himself ready for his turn and at the same time he's doing so, he just looked at Koa on the other end of the net, putting on his sunglasses and takes off his shirt to get himself set up for the second round.

Brutus stared at a very shirtless Koa and it was very hard for him to turn away because he could not resist it all and he tried his best to keep the focus on the volleyball, but that was much easier said than done. One of the counselors blew the whistle as the second go around comes by and Mana made the first serve and throws it over towards Slade and punches the volleyball hard, much to the surprise of many, including Marcus and said, "Wow...you got good aim."

"I'm good at volleyball." Slade replied, with a chuckle.

Dustin couldn't seem to keep his focus off of Slade for a second and thought about flirting with him for a while and he went over to him and said, "Hey, we haven't been introduced. I'm Dustin."

"I'm Slade."

"Yeah, you new here?" asked Dustin.

Slade wasn't sure what to make of this kind of introduction and he lets out a soft chuckle and replied, "Nah, I've been here for a few years now."

"Wow...you must know your way around here." Dustin said, smiling.

Seeing Dustin flirt with Slade kinda made Zeke a little crazy and slightly jealous that he might fall for him and from a further distance, he needs to get his attention to show that he has feelings for him and once the ball started to serve, Zeke jumped up and slammed the ball straight harder, hoping to aim at Slade, but Slade is so quick with his serve that he made a grand slam and accidentally aims at Zeke instead.

Slade sees the mistake and he immediately comes over to his aid and said, "I'm sorry, dude. Are you okay?"

Zeke dusted himself off and replied in a very bitter tone, "I'm just fine."

Dustin was surprised to see Zeke in a very heated way and wondered what's going on with him, but decided to wait until the game is over to see what's the deal and said to Zeke, "Can I talk to you after the game?"

"Sure...that's if you're not gonna make the first move on this guy." Zeke replied, staring at Slade.

Slade was blindsided by that assumption as Zeke walked back to the base to cool himself off as he keeps playing and Slade looks at Dustin for a second and said, "Friend of yours?"

"Best friend." Dustin replied.

"He must've got a good hook." Slade responded.

As the game keeps playing, Seth and Slade paired themselves up to do some volleyball as they ran around shirtless, passing the volleyballs to the other teams and they looked like they're having the time of their lives and joining them are Marcus and Casey in which they've quickly developed a huge bromance already and it shows in their volleyball performance.

Brutus kept going with his volleyball skills, but staring at a shirtless Koa made him lose his focus a little bit and as he keeps looking, he didn't realize a volleyball is flying towards him and Jojo exclaimed, "Brutus, look out!"

Brutus looked up, but the volleyball had already knocked him in the head and laid down on the ground for a quick second. Most of the campers gathered around to make sure he's okay, including Koa. They were surrounding Brutus and try to wake him up and Koa comes over to his aid as he knelt in front of him, hoping to wake him up.

"Hey, Brutus. Brutus, wake up. Are you okay? Can you hear me?" Koa asked.

Brutus was laying there and he slowly opened his eyes to see Koa right in front of him and when he came to, he stared at Koa for a while as Koa asked, "You okay?"

"I am now that you're here..." Brutus replied, groggily.

Koa chuckled in response to that and suddenly...a huge reaction came when Brutus kissed Koa straight to the cheek and that alarmed both of them; mostly Brutus because he could not believe that he just did that and he got himself up and didn't know what to say or do now that he kissed Koa on the cheek in front of everyone and Brutus sheepishly walked away in embarrassment.

"Did you guys just see that?" asked one camper.

"He actually kissed that guy's cheek." another camper added.

Koa touched his cheek and felt Brutus' lips on it and it just kinda made him feel surprised, but also a little warmhearted to know that gesture meant something to him and wanted to know why he kissed Koa's cheek quickly.

'Did that just happen?' Koa thought.