Chapter 21: Getting to Know Casey

At Marcus' cabin, Most of the campers were getting ready for sleep and Casey takes off his beanie and places it on his bed to let his spiky hair breathe for a while and Marcus asked, "So...how long have you been coming out?"

"It's been a while now. Not too long though. I always knew that I was bi, but I just never really told anyone about it because I don't want to be judged or like...be harrassed just for being bi, you know?" Casey answered.

"You have to own it. If it's what you are, why should it matter to anyone else?" asked Marcus.

"That's right. It's my life and I choose to be who I am and not what others think of me." Casey stated.

Jared nodded in agreement and sided with Casey and said, "It's who you are. I respect someone who feels that way that they're not ashamed of who they are on the inside."

"Well...there was a time when I started feeling ashamed of being bi before I came out. At the time, I had a girlfriend and I tried my best to be the perfect boyfriend...like be the way she wants me to be, but it gets really hard to keep our relationship flowing when it comes to us. After my boyfriend's death, I wanted to fill the void by having a girlfriend again, but she kinda manipulates and criticizes me a lot about who I am and what I wear." Casey replied.

Marcus chuckled at that notion and he said, "She must not have been secure with you."

"No, she was secure with herself. She kinda made me insecure, but I just didn't want to deal with her. About a few months into the relationship, she started going a little cray-cray. That's when she became possessive, obsessive, jealous, paranoid, controlling, manipulative and at one point...even violent." Casey explained.

"How violent are we talking about?" asked one cabinmate.

"Crazy ex-girlfriend violent from throwing things, punching me, slamming me to walls and all kinds of crazy stuff. She even said that she would slit my throat if I broke up with her by text or Whosebook." Casey answered.

"Snap..." replied another cabinmate.

"So...what did you do?" asked Jared.

"I broke up with her. But I did it the old-fashioned way; face to face." Casey replied.

"How did she take it?" asked Max.

Casey whistles in response to that and said, "At first, she took it well when I did it face to face. But less than 5 hours later, I got a lot of threatening text messages from her that she's gonna burn my house down, kill me in my sleep, run me over with my car, put poison on my soda or water and the worst...make a Whosebook group page called 'Ways to Kill After a Breakup with Your Boyfriend' and sent messages on Whosebook, Whitter and Whatsagram. I had to block her from my phone and my social media to avoid her, but all that does is add fuel to the fire."

"She must be one crazy chick." Manny added.

"Yeah. Thankfully, there was a GPS tracking device on her Whosebook page and on her phone so that whatever she does, the police will come over and find her. She got herself arrested on 112 counts of stalking, cyber stalking and about 12 counts of attempted murder, aggravated assault and making a terrorist threat...although there was no terrorist threat. So that charge got dropped, but it caused a huge stir around my school that she got arrested. She ended up getting permanently expelled after hearing about the whole thing. I was happy that we were done, but I didn't like the outcome from afterwards." Casey answered.

"I think you'll find someone soon." Max said.

"Yeah, I think after this...I'm done with girlfriends. From now on, I'll stick with boyfriends." Casey added.

Marcus got on his bunk and took off his sandals and took off his t-shirt and laid down on the bunk while Casey climbs up to his bunk and soon enough, Marcus saw Casey's shirt and pants fall down on the floor and is a little curious about that, but Casey pops his head to Marcus' bunk and said, "Just wanted to let you know that I always sleep with my underwear. Hope that's not a problem."

"Nah, not at all." Marcus answered.

"I sleep with pajamas." Max stated.

"I just sleep with my pajama bottoms." Manny added.

"Well...I sleep with just my shirt and underwear." Jared added.

"That's nothing. Half of us sleep in the nude, so don't be surprised to see everything hanging out in this cabin." one cabinmate added.

Marcus seemed like he didn't care about, whereas Manny and Jared felt a little awkward about that form of info spread across the cabin and Jared said, "Okay, I think I'm gonna go to sleep now."

Casey chuckled softly and said, "Doesn't bother me at all."