Hey guys, I'm back this time with F-I-N-I-S-H-E-D story ! I know I've been so lazy lately and didn't post a thing, but hey everyone sometimes need bit of a break in order to improve some stuff.
And yeah, fellow readers I'm presenting you my own version of Parent Trap I'm sure everyone had already seen Disney's movie Parent Trap, but my version... let's say it's a bit different. It's still based on the story though, with a bit more comedy in it .
I also made a cover if you're interested, look at the photo bellow.
Okay here's the answer for cross-dress in title Yeah it is not two girls who switch places but twins of opposite genders. And if you haven't recognised them yet those two are my OCs from my story Power of Nature, Roxy and Os Hidelight. Of course other OCs appear too.
I think that be it for introduction. Oh, almost forgot. I couldn't write this story withouth my friend's help. Almost half of the story ( he was also the one who read that thing first, corrected mistakes and gave ideas for making this story better ) belongs to my penpal Replika 13
Like I said the story is already written, but I'm not posting all of it at once. I wanna re-read it and possibly add some new stuff in it
Enjoy the story!
Only warning: Hard-core humour sometimes.
Chapter One: Far Away
Usual summer day seemed just like all others. Burning sun was shining with extra high temperature, so most of people outside tried to wear as less as they could. Girls were wearing tiny dresses or miniskirts as boys wore light shirts and shorts with baseball hats. In fact all those people were mostly kids, dragging huge bags and saying good-byes to their parents.
If parents didn’t have a lot of money or time to afford nice family holidays, they sent their kids to summer camps. One of those was in central of North America which was also very popular. Which kid wouldn’t visit camp that had literally everything from usual board games like chess to all sorts of sports and trips around lakes where you could see rare animals? There were even kids from far away places such as California, Manhattan or even all the way from Europe.
And that’s where our story begins, in exactly this camp where two totally different, but also similar kids arrived. One came by car, having many bags with also one person helping him.
“Are you sure you didn’t forget anything? Tooth brush? Sun block? Enough socks?” older girl kept asking while taking bags from car.
“Sis! You’ve been asking me that since the airport! I double checked everything before I packed, during packing and after I packed.” younger boy sighed bit angrily “I’m twelve, not a baby anymore and you know that as well.”
“I know, I know... but you’re still my baby bro.” girl mumbled and hugged him in warm embrace “I just can’t believe I’ll leave you here for four weeks.”
“Nikki... it’s nice you care, but hey I can’t breathe.” boy managed to get out of her arms “Plus I will be away for three weeks, three days and twelve hours. That’s bit less.” he smiled.
Black haired girl by name Nikki only fixed his partly soaked locks of bright blond hair. That was first time for her little brother to spend summer vacation on his own. Otherwise he would probably be stuck in his room, playing video games or reading whole collection of his comic books. It was nice to see he would spend some more time outside and perhaps finding new friends.
Blonde wasn’t sure of what exactly he felt while saying good bye to his sister. Day seemed to come so suddenly, leaving him nervous as he took a look at all other kids there.
“Just promise me you won’t do anything stupid.” Nikki said motherly.
“Cut the worries, I’ll be fine.” he smiled “And I doubt I’ll be even bored here. Just looking at those forests feels awesome.”
“Glad to hear it, Os.” girl hugged him for the last time and went to her car. She was already seventeen, old enough for having driving licence. Her brother Os waved his good bye as she stepped on gas and went home.
That was it, he was alone. Os took deep breath and took all of his bags to get to the camp’s leader. Boys and girls around his age sure did long line in front of him. All of them waited for leader to record their arrival. Most of others kept themselves busy, by talking to others or bringing their handheld game consoles. Blonde regretted that he didn’t bring his, because neither of others wanted to chat with him. Only sentences he got from some boys there were harsh like “Don’t cut in the line.” or “This is not a baby camp.” He really got annoyed at the second sentence. True, he was short, but not that much to be mistook for eight year old kid. His fist almost reacted when he was on move.
“Name, age and place of residence please.” leader lazily prepared his pen. He seemed really old duo to his silvery white hair, but business card on his shirt told otherwise. His actual age was only thirty years old.
“Os Hidelight, I’m twelve and I came from London, that’s in United Kingdom.”
“Aha... so you’re from England. Pretty nasty weather you got there.” man laughed as he handed him nametag and S - sized shirt. Or at least what the label was saying. Camp’s shirt with bird’s signature came all the way to his thighs. If that was S size, how big XL size was supposed to be?
“Welcome to the White Eagle’s Camp. You’ll hear the rest in an hour or so.” man said to clear his wondering head.
“Where can I put my bags? It’s really hard to carry them all the time.”
“Boys have their cabins over there.” he pointed his finger “And please wait for further instructions before you start unpacking.”
“Right, thanks sir.” Os grabbed his bags to get them to had said place.
“What the well mannered kid... alright next.” leader turned to the next kid.
After finally get ridding of his luggage, Os sat to the bench. He wasn’t exactly sure what to do while waiting for leader to continue. Neither of others had interest in him, so he just decided to take a short nap after countless hours of driving with plane and car. Line of the kids was moving extremely slowly.
It was ten or twenty minutes later when boy’s head was hit by some sort of toy. Os sighed and picked partly broken plastic plane.
“Oh gosh, I’m so sorry!” young brunette rushed on the scene “I didn’t mean to throw it on your head. You see wind blew and that kid pushed me and...” boy couple of years younger than him talked without thinking of stopping.
“Don’t worry, my head is a lot more lasting than it looks.” blonde smiled while handing him his toy plane “I wouldn’t say same for your plane.”
“Ah, can’t believe I broke it again.” brunette sighed angrily and took duct tape from pocket “Good thing I brought this along.”
Brown haired kid started fixing his broken toy with bit help of Os. When they finally fixed it enough to be playable, brunette’s lips turned into cheerful smile.
“Thank you for helping me... umm...” boy started searching blonde’s nametag.
“Os Hidelight, nice to meet you...”
“I’m Dimi, Dimi Stormfly.” brunette shook Os’ hand “So, did you come alone?”
“Yeah, my older sister and mom said I should be more social. Not spending all day in my room.”
“Same story here, ‘cept my brother came with me.” Dimi turned towards groups of some older kids “I think he won’t be with me much since his friends are here. It freaks me out being with Leo’s friends.”
Os looked in the direction Dimi showed. From what he could tell, brunette sure wasn’t kidding. Almost all of them looked like crazy football fans duo to their extremely colourful hair. One had spiky green hair when other had longer orange ones. For the short black haired teen, he suspected to be Leo.
“There’s no need to be alone you know. Why don’t we be friends?” Os changed subjected.
“You serious? No offense, but I got slap when I asked that,” Dimi said uncomfortably.
“You must have asked the biggest jerk. Don’t worry, I’m much friendlier.”
“It’s settled then, from this day forth we’re friends.” Dimi grinned while shaking hands with Os “Think we better go back. Leader just finished recording arrivals.”
Both boys got to the corner of larger group in front of the stage. On it was the leader with some other adults, preparing for speech. Before talking, he loudly clapped with his hands to quiet down chattering girls and complaining boys.
“To all of you down here I would like to say welcome!” he shouted through megaphone which quietened the crowd completely. His voice literally pierced even through the deafest ears. “Now that you can hear me.... Welcome to the White Eagle’s Camp!” some younger kids started jumping from excitement.
“For the ones who’re here for the first time, you mustn’t be afraid by me. My majestic name is Naiser. That’s Nai to you, otherwise I’ll get really mad.” leader joked “To see how angry I’m, I’ll wear this hat.”
One of the adults handed him colourful baseball cap with many badges on. Nai placed it on his head for everyone else to see it.
“See my hat? When it’s pointed like this, nicely straight I’m in very good mood.” leader then turned it, placing it askew “Hat at this rate means I’m mad, but not a lot. We can still talk problem out if you cooperate with me. Now this...” he turned hat backwards “Is really bad mood. You better stay away from me or I’ll eat you alive.” Nai started acting like a beast, scaring younger kids in the front.
“This dude rocks.” Os whispered to Dimi.
“Heh, I know. He’s even better than last year.” brunette smiled.
“Now that you know me well, I’ll tell you those itty bitty rules you need to know. First, if you didn’t notice there are girls and boys in this camp and to not get in some sort of perverted situations, we divided you in two parts. Young ladies will have cabins right here, hidden in forest and boys will have cabins beside lake. So dudes, if you’re feeling stressed just jump through window, this means directly in the lake to clear you mind.” whole crowd began to laugh at the first rule.
“Second, I know you’re all nearly grown up, but if you’re thinking about drinking alcohol, drugging or gambling, I advise you to choose some other place. Perhaps Las Vegas since it’s the nearest.” some older teens scowled at the second rule.
“Third, every day you’ll experience different activities. If anyone has wishes for new ones, just pull my shirt and I’ll try my best to make it true. Also if you’re having any kinds of medical problems or fears report to me before activity begins.” kids started chattering, forgetting he didn’t finish yet.
“Well those are our three rules. If you have any other questions, we walking encyclopaedias will definitely have the answers. Now, to move your legs and mostly arms a bit, it’s time for unpacking. Number of your cabin is on nametags and if you need any help at finding them just use direction arrows. Thank you for listening to my incredibly awesome speech.”
With those words Nai and adults left the stage, leaving crowd on their own. Blonde got back to his bags when he noticed Dimi again.
“In which room are you? I’m in WOLF3.” brunette almost reached for the nametag.
“Looks like I’m going to be your roommate.”Os smiled after taking a look on his card.
“You are kidding? That’s so awesome!” Dimi nearly started dancing “I was really afraid I’ll be stuck with some jerks.”
“That makes both of us. I would get creeps too. Now let’s unpack our stuff.”
Boys passed many cabins with interesting names. Some were called foxes, owls, weasels, bears or even dragons. The last one was mostly for older teens, much away from others. Os lastly found the right cabin, letting Dimi in himself in. Room was rather small with four beds and wardrobe for each. Dimi immediately jumped on one, relaxing his all four.
“Travelling from New York can surely tire you big time.” brunette sighed while closing his eyes.
“You’re from Manhattan? Wow, it sure is far, but not as far as my hometown.”
“Yeah... speaking of which where did you come from? Are you from Manhattan too? Florida? Canada maybe?”
“No, believe it or not, I flew all the way from London.”
“London? You mean Europe? Phew... why did you come all the way here just for a camp?”
“Don’t know for sure... my mom and sis wanted to send me somewhere for summer vacation since mom is busy all the time. Plus weather is sometimes so horrible during summer, so I ended up here in America.”
“Nice... wish I had time to travel around.” Dimi smiled.
Their conversation was interrupted by two more boys who came in the room. They introduced themselves as Austen and Piko, both bringing their giant bags. While unpacking they all chat, mostly about from where they came from, what are their interests and so on. Austen and Dimi talked the most, leaving shy Piko and Os in the corner. Blonde started conversation which didn’t end even after an hour when gathering bell filled all camp with trumpet like noise.
“Gee, we better get out or this Nai guy won’t stop.” Os covered his ears.
“I agree.” Piko nodded quietly.
Field in front of stage was totally different. Instead of mess of kids and bags, boxes of different sport gear were set. There were balls for football, volleyball, basketball, rugby, even normal beach balls. Then there were bats, rackets, nets, jumping ropes, colourful boules sets and many more. White haired leader appeared again, this time without megaphone.
“As you can see we have a lot of stuff for quiet beginning of the first day. Make sure you have a great time and don’t forget to meet as many new friends as you can. Enjoy!”
Kids immediately started grabbing stuff from boxes, talking who will play with whom. Dimi lost himself in group of kids who were heading towards basketball field. Thinking of what he should play, Os picked softball glove and started looking around. At first second there was no one, next second others rushed for playing.
Minutes later they were standing on grass field, prepared for game of softball. Since Os could run pretty fast, he decided for holding the bat. He offered glove to another boy who thankfully smiled. As game began everyone got full of excitement. It really didn’t matter who was winning, but how great all of them played. Blonde managed to do four perfect homeruns, giving his team motivation for further playing. After changing sides, Os got glove back, being put on catching field.
This position in game seemed good too, but after some time of catching ball, it just went too far. He ran backwards, blocking eyes from blinding sunlight. His gloved hand reached for the ball, hoping to catch it, not seeing steep slope in front of him. Blonde tripped and rolled down the sloop. He could feel sharp stones cutting into skin. Rolling would probably continue if he didn’t crash into something.
Or someone.
Boy whimpered while getting on his feet, seeing many cuts on his legs. He was about to go back when he realized in what he had crushed. It wasn’t a rock, plant or anything he had suspected. To take a better look he went closer seemingly nervous about whole situation. It was a person he crushed against after all. Girl about his age was getting up, fixing her thin whitely blue dress.
“Gosh are you alright? I didn’t mean to rush into you. I was trying to catch ball and...” he apologized.
“It’s not that big deal... gee where my cap and jacket went?” girl asked while looking around in panic.
“Jacket? In this heat?” Os got confused.
“Just help me find it!” girl almost unnoticeably mumbled while running towards the grassy field.
Os ran after the girl who was running in the direction of the wind. Perhaps wind blew those things away, but he couldn’t get it why she would wear the jacket in practically boiling weather. Either way he wanted to help her. He soon found her near the lake, picking white peaked cap with huge smiley badge on it. She put it on her head, fixing her hair tied into two ponytails. Os took a closer look on her face. For some reason she seemed familiar, but he couldn’t remember of whom. He was about to ask her some things when she ran towards lake again.
“Why do you need your jacket so urgently? Don’t tell me you’re freezing.” Os confusedly asked when he caught up with her.
“Of course not, silly! Oh, there it is.” she smiled while stepping towards pile of rocks.
“Why then? Is it expensive or was some kind of gift?” he asked while watching her climbing up the pile. Girl didn’t answer, just kept climbing up until she picked thin pink jacket with hood. She was climbing energetically, but going down was different story. Before jumping from higher rock she had seemed to have some problems about it.
“Come one, what’s the big deal?” Os made confused look.
“It looked differently when I was getting up.” she said almost trembling.
Boy sighed when he remembered about cat they used to have. It always climbed on the highest trees, but was never brave enough to come down by itself. Fear cat had, was the same as girls. Luckily he knew what to do. Carefully offering his hand to her, he tried to give her feeling of safety.
“Don’t worry. Just go down slowly in the same way you got up. If you start slipping, try to just lean on my hand.”
“Are you sure? Rocks are pretty sharp on some sides.” girl still didn’t want to jump.
“Come on, you can’t spend entire camp – time here. You’re on holiday!”
Wind blew into her ponytails when she finally decided to jump. Before jumping she had thrown her jacket to Os who caught it with slight disgust. Pink was never a colour he liked. It reminded him too much of those giggling girls with spoiled attitude. But the girl who was slowly coming down didn’t seem like one at all. Her movements couldn’t be attributed to spoiled childhood like pink jacket was telling. Maybe that was the reason why he wanted to help her and get to know her.
Minutes later she got down, staring into his face as wind breezed into shoulder – length ponytails. Girl still held her jacket and cap when Os decided to address her.
“I’m glad…” he started when girl had other idea.
“Thank you for helping me! What’s your name?” she rushed with flood of words. “I’m Roxy Hawkins, see?” she went showing off with her nametag.
“It says Roxana here…” Os took deeper look.
“I like Roxy better, don’t you too?” she smiled as he blushed. “Let’s see who you are mister… Osie Hidelighty!” Roxy grinned at just made up nickname.
Blonde really had hard time hiding his blushing. Girl sure knew just how to tease him in non–annoying way. Roxy went putting her jacket one when Os remembered about his fall. He quickly checked knees, which had been unnoticeably to him before, were largely covered by blood and kept spreading towards his calves. Boy was about to get some water to wash it off when he was pulled back to the main cabin.
“Let’s rather get you to infirmary. You’ll get your wounds infected otherwise.” Roxy’s tone changed into serious one.
“Oh come on it doesn’t look that bad.” he protested when she led him pass smaller groups of kids, who kept enjoying sport games.
“How do you know? Besides you will need bandages and your shirt looks a way too good to be turned into blood–absorbing material.”
Until reaching the right room they were both quiet. While moving girl managed to put her pink jacket on, hiding bare shoulders. Os was the first to enter when they finally reached infirmary. Nurse there just finished putting Band–Ads on two boys who seemed to play rugby in a bit roughrider way. Blonde nearly freaked her out when he showed his two badly cut knees.
“Just sit on the table while I find you bigger sticking plasters.” brown haired nurse began opening countless closets “I knew we should’ve bought more. First day of sporting activities and we already have six beat up kids.”
Os got on the table while Roxy waited next to him. Nurse then returned with sterile gauze to disinfect his cuts. Just before putting them on injured knees she noticed something to get tweezers. Pieces of sharp stones and broken glass still projected from his skin.
“I’ll try to be as gentle as I can, but it will hurt. Just grit your teeth, okay?” boy nodded at her instructions.
Middle aged woman started removing smaller pieces when he felt slightly smarting pain. More pieces she removed, more smarting the pain was. His breaths started becoming panicking when he noticed his hand being hold. Roxy was trying her best to calm him down which actually had effect. It felt as comforting as his mother’s hold and when nurse finished it seemed as fast as bare seconds.
Boy stood up with now bandaged knees, waiting to go outside.
“What’s the matter with you dear?” Os turned around only to see nurse was talking to Roxy.
“Nothing, I just escorted him here since he already helped me once.” girl used her childish tone.
“That’s so sweet of you.” nurse ruffled Roxy’s hair “Though your skin appears to be a bit sensitive. Do you mind if I just check if you’re alright as well?”
Girl nodded for reply and removed her jacket to give better view at shoulders. Os now noticed how pale girl’s skin actually was. Nurse gasped a bit when she saw major part of Roxy’s shoulders, neck and face being covered by sunburns.
“Don’t tell me you’re Hawkins.” woman asked shockingly at which Roxy frightened nodded “Camp with over one hundred and fifty kids at which I forget to memorise the kid with sun allergy!” nurse slapped herself while looking for anti – sunburn lotion. Just when she was about to put some lotion on girl’s skin her walkie – talkie started ringing. Woman answered, talking for about a minute and then took quick aid kit.
“They need me outside for some assistance. Can you put lotion on her instead?” she asked boy who surprisingly nodded when she left.
Roxy just smiled and turned her back to him. Os felt a bit shy when he took lotion. He was about to touch the girl! And not just slight touch, he was actually going to rub lotion into her skin! Blonde already done this few times to his sister and mother, but that girl was totally different story. He had just met her and the way she talked to him made him blush in such annoying way.
“Don’t worry, that won’t meant anything.” Roxy said when she felt his embarrassment.
Boy felt comforting words when he began rubbing cold lotion into her red skin. He now understood why she was wearing cap in jacket in boiling heat. Fabric protected her sensitive skin from burning sunbeams as well as cap made a shade over her face. But it looked like wind blew away her protection just enough for sun to damage her skin.
“Does it hurt?” he asked while putting more lotion on.
“I’m pretty much used to it, so it isn’t much of a problem.” she said while sighing “Though it sucks you need to be careful all the time.”
“I get the picture.” he replied. “Say, where are you from?”
“Me? Tell me where you are from, so I’ll know if I need to keep it simple for you?” Roxy made her usual smile.
“Good point.” Os nearly finished rubbing. “I bet Englishman isn’t familiar with all States.”
“Wow, I knew there was something in your accent that wasn’t American.” she fixed locks from her face to put lotion on. “Oh and I’m from California. I’m not sure if you know the backwater hill where I live.”
“Looks like I’m the only European kid here.” he smiled.
“Don’t worry, it’s not like everyone is racist here and besides… there are a lot of kids to be friends with.” Roxy stood up when she felt Os hasn’t put lotion on her anymore.
Just before girl put jacket back on, blonde noticed small thing below her neck. It was very light coloured spot that doesn’t appear on everyone.
It was a mole. Same one his mother had.
Os was confusedly about to ask her more when another trumpet like noise was heard again. Sporting activities were over. It was time for boys and girls to return to their cabins and prepare for bed. Roxy swiftly put cap back when heading outside.
“You sure are a real English gentleman.” she giggled “Or are you just surprisingly nice?”
“Both I guess. Think we could be friends?” he stretched his arm for handshake.
“Why not? But that isn’t how friends say hi.” she put her hands around him for a hug.
Girl was practically a magnet for Os’ blushing. When she finally loosened her hug he stretched his head from embarrassment.
“So do you wanna meet up any time tomorrow?” was first thing thatgot into his head.
“Sure, unless you hate hawks?” she replied.
“What do hawks need to do with meeting up?” he asked.
“Nothing, it’s just we’re going to watch birds of prey and other animals tomorrow. Hawks are my favourite.”
“No wonder hawk is part of your last name.” he said when they were suddenly outside. “I’m in WOLF3 if you’re going to look for me.”
“WEASEL2” she showed her turned nametag. “It was nice meeting you. Say what you say we meet during breakfast? I’m sure no one will mind if we sit together.”
“Sounds like a plan.”
Kids waved their hands while heading towards their cabins. Roxy went up to hidden cabins in the woods while Os went down to cabins around the lake. When he opened the door his three roommates were chattering about the day.
“Os man, where were you? I haven’t seen you since the sports began.” Austen asked with his country accent.
“Um… with a girl…” blonde mumbled while thinking what to say.
“Really? Aww that must’ve been so awesome!” Dimi cheerfully patted Os’ shoulder.
“So, does she like you or she’s already deep in love with you?” black haired teased.
“It’s not like that! We just... umm... we’re friends.” Os tried to explain.
“Yeah right and the very next night we will find you in Nai’s perverted situation.” Austen laughed.
“Guys come on! If he said they’re friends, they’re friends. Quit mocking him.” Piko got into Os’ side.
Blonde gave brunette a grateful look while going towards his bed. Others quieted down while doing the same.
“If you won’t make fuzz about it, I’m going to introduce her to you during breakfast.” he smiled.
“Sounds okay, eh?” Austen gave him an apologizing look. “How come you became friends so fast? I’m not getting into your mind or anything, it’s just curiosity.”
“What of becoming friends with girl sounds weird?” blonde changed into his pyjamas.
“Nothing actually, it’s just that we’re hitting puberty and all.” Austen did the same.
“I’m not sure and for now I’ll just try to sleep okay. It’s been a though day.”
“No wonder, blush - boy.” black haired smiled.
Os no early than now looked into the window next to his bed. In it he saw reflection of his almost pulsing red cheeks.
He really gave his friends the wrong idea.
Especially because connection he felt with her was totally different.
Hey guys, I'm back this time with F-I-N-I-S-H-E-D story
! I know I've been so lazy lately and didn't post a thing, but hey everyone sometimes need bit of a break in order to improve some stuff.
And yeah, fellow readers I'm presenting you my own version of Parent Trap
I'm sure everyone had already seen Disney's movie Parent Trap, but my version... let's say it's a bit different. It's still based on the story though, with a bit more comedy in it
.
I also made a cover if you're interested, look at the photo bellow.
Okay here's the answer for cross-dress in title
Yeah it is not two girls who switch places but twins of opposite genders. And if you haven't recognised them yet those two are my OCs from my story Power of Nature, Roxy and Os Hidelight. Of course other OCs appear too.
I think that be it for introduction. Oh, almost forgot. I couldn't write this story withouth my friend's help. Almost half of the story ( he was also the one who read that thing first, corrected mistakes and gave ideas for making this story better ) belongs to my penpal Replika 13
Like I said the story is already written, but I'm not posting all of it at once. I wanna re-read it and possibly add some new stuff in it
Enjoy the story!
Only warning: Hard-core humour sometimes.
Chapter One: Far Away
Usual summer day seemed just like all others. Burning sun was shining with extra high temperature, so most of people outside tried to wear as less as they could. Girls were wearing tiny dresses or miniskirts as boys wore light shirts and shorts with baseball hats. In fact all those people were mostly kids, dragging huge bags and saying good-byes to their parents.
If parents didn’t have a lot of money or time to afford nice family holidays, they sent their kids to summer camps. One of those was in central of North America which was also very popular. Which kid wouldn’t visit camp that had literally everything from usual board games like chess to all sorts of sports and trips around lakes where you could see rare animals? There were even kids from far away places such as California, Manhattan or even all the way from Europe.
And that’s where our story begins, in exactly this camp where two totally different, but also similar kids arrived. One came by car, having many bags with also one person helping him.
“Are you sure you didn’t forget anything? Tooth brush? Sun block? Enough socks?” older girl kept asking while taking bags from car.
“Sis! You’ve been asking me that since the airport! I double checked everything before I packed, during packing and after I packed.” younger boy sighed bit angrily “I’m twelve, not a baby anymore and you know that as well.”
“I know, I know... but you’re still my baby bro.” girl mumbled and hugged him in warm embrace “I just can’t believe I’ll leave you here for four weeks.”
“Nikki... it’s nice you care, but hey I can’t breathe.” boy managed to get out of her arms “Plus I will be away for three weeks, three days and twelve hours. That’s bit less.” he smiled.
Black haired girl by name Nikki only fixed his partly soaked locks of bright blond hair. That was first time for her little brother to spend summer vacation on his own. Otherwise he would probably be stuck in his room, playing video games or reading whole collection of his comic books. It was nice to see he would spend some more time outside and perhaps finding new friends.
Blonde wasn’t sure of what exactly he felt while saying good bye to his sister. Day seemed to come so suddenly, leaving him nervous as he took a look at all other kids there.
“Just promise me you won’t do anything stupid.” Nikki said motherly.
“Cut the worries, I’ll be fine.” he smiled “And I doubt I’ll be even bored here. Just looking at those forests feels awesome.”
“Glad to hear it, Os.” girl hugged him for the last time and went to her car. She was already seventeen, old enough for having driving licence. Her brother Os waved his good bye as she stepped on gas and went home.
That was it, he was alone. Os took deep breath and took all of his bags to get to the camp’s leader. Boys and girls around his age sure did long line in front of him. All of them waited for leader to record their arrival. Most of others kept themselves busy, by talking to others or bringing their handheld game consoles. Blonde regretted that he didn’t bring his, because neither of others wanted to chat with him. Only sentences he got from some boys there were harsh like “Don’t cut in the line.” or “This is not a baby camp.” He really got annoyed at the second sentence. True, he was short, but not that much to be mistook for eight year old kid. His fist almost reacted when he was on move.
“Name, age and place of residence please.” leader lazily prepared his pen. He seemed really old duo to his silvery white hair, but business card on his shirt told otherwise. His actual age was only thirty years old.
“Os Hidelight, I’m twelve and I came from London, that’s in United Kingdom.”
“Aha... so you’re from England. Pretty nasty weather you got there.” man laughed as he handed him nametag and S - sized shirt. Or at least what the label was saying. Camp’s shirt with bird’s signature came all the way to his thighs. If that was S size, how big XL size was supposed to be?
“Welcome to the White Eagle’s Camp. You’ll hear the rest in an hour or so.” man said to clear his wondering head.
“Where can I put my bags? It’s really hard to carry them all the time.”
“Boys have their cabins over there.” he pointed his finger “And please wait for further instructions before you start unpacking.”
“Right, thanks sir.” Os grabbed his bags to get them to had said place.
“What the well mannered kid... alright next.” leader turned to the next kid.
After finally get ridding of his luggage, Os sat to the bench. He wasn’t exactly sure what to do while waiting for leader to continue. Neither of others had interest in him, so he just decided to take a short nap after countless hours of driving with plane and car. Line of the kids was moving extremely slowly.
It was ten or twenty minutes later when boy’s head was hit by some sort of toy. Os sighed and picked partly broken plastic plane.
“Oh gosh, I’m so sorry!” young brunette rushed on the scene “I didn’t mean to throw it on your head. You see wind blew and that kid pushed me and...” boy couple of years younger than him talked without thinking of stopping.
“Don’t worry, my head is a lot more lasting than it looks.” blonde smiled while handing him his toy plane “I wouldn’t say same for your plane.”
“Ah, can’t believe I broke it again.” brunette sighed angrily and took duct tape from pocket “Good thing I brought this along.”
Brown haired kid started fixing his broken toy with bit help of Os. When they finally fixed it enough to be playable, brunette’s lips turned into cheerful smile.
“Thank you for helping me... umm...” boy started searching blonde’s nametag.
“Os Hidelight, nice to meet you...”
“I’m Dimi, Dimi Stormfly.” brunette shook Os’ hand “So, did you come alone?”
“Yeah, my older sister and mom said I should be more social. Not spending all day in my room.”
“Same story here, ‘cept my brother came with me.” Dimi turned towards groups of some older kids “I think he won’t be with me much since his friends are here. It freaks me out being with Leo’s friends.”
Os looked in the direction Dimi showed. From what he could tell, brunette sure wasn’t kidding. Almost all of them looked like crazy football fans duo to their extremely colourful hair. One had spiky green hair when other had longer orange ones. For the short black haired teen, he suspected to be Leo.
“There’s no need to be alone you know. Why don’t we be friends?” Os changed subjected.
“You serious? No offense, but I got slap when I asked that,” Dimi said uncomfortably.
“You must have asked the biggest jerk. Don’t worry, I’m much friendlier.”
“It’s settled then, from this day forth we’re friends.” Dimi grinned while shaking hands with Os “Think we better go back. Leader just finished recording arrivals.”
Both boys got to the corner of larger group in front of the stage. On it was the leader with some other adults, preparing for speech. Before talking, he loudly clapped with his hands to quiet down chattering girls and complaining boys.
“To all of you down here I would like to say welcome!” he shouted through megaphone which quietened the crowd completely. His voice literally pierced even through the deafest ears. “Now that you can hear me.... Welcome to the White Eagle’s Camp!” some younger kids started jumping from excitement.
“For the ones who’re here for the first time, you mustn’t be afraid by me. My majestic name is Naiser. That’s Nai to you, otherwise I’ll get really mad.” leader joked “To see how angry I’m, I’ll wear this hat.”
One of the adults handed him colourful baseball cap with many badges on. Nai placed it on his head for everyone else to see it.
“See my hat? When it’s pointed like this, nicely straight I’m in very good mood.” leader then turned it, placing it askew “Hat at this rate means I’m mad, but not a lot. We can still talk problem out if you cooperate with me. Now this...” he turned hat backwards “Is really bad mood. You better stay away from me or I’ll eat you alive.” Nai started acting like a beast, scaring younger kids in the front.
“This dude rocks.” Os whispered to Dimi.
“Heh, I know. He’s even better than last year.” brunette smiled.
“Now that you know me well, I’ll tell you those itty bitty rules you need to know. First, if you didn’t notice there are girls and boys in this camp and to not get in some sort of perverted situations, we divided you in two parts. Young ladies will have cabins right here, hidden in forest and boys will have cabins beside lake. So dudes, if you’re feeling stressed just jump through window, this means directly in the lake to clear you mind.” whole crowd began to laugh at the first rule.
“Second, I know you’re all nearly grown up, but if you’re thinking about drinking alcohol, drugging or gambling, I advise you to choose some other place. Perhaps Las Vegas since it’s the nearest.” some older teens scowled at the second rule.
“Third, every day you’ll experience different activities. If anyone has wishes for new ones, just pull my shirt and I’ll try my best to make it true. Also if you’re having any kinds of medical problems or fears report to me before activity begins.” kids started chattering, forgetting he didn’t finish yet.
“Well those are our three rules. If you have any other questions, we walking encyclopaedias will definitely have the answers. Now, to move your legs and mostly arms a bit, it’s time for unpacking. Number of your cabin is on nametags and if you need any help at finding them just use direction arrows. Thank you for listening to my incredibly awesome speech.”
With those words Nai and adults left the stage, leaving crowd on their own. Blonde got back to his bags when he noticed Dimi again.
“In which room are you? I’m in WOLF3.” brunette almost reached for the nametag.
“Looks like I’m going to be your roommate.”Os smiled after taking a look on his card.
“You are kidding? That’s so awesome!” Dimi nearly started dancing “I was really afraid I’ll be stuck with some jerks.”
“That makes both of us. I would get creeps too. Now let’s unpack our stuff.”
Boys passed many cabins with interesting names. Some were called foxes, owls, weasels, bears or even dragons. The last one was mostly for older teens, much away from others. Os lastly found the right cabin, letting Dimi in himself in. Room was rather small with four beds and wardrobe for each. Dimi immediately jumped on one, relaxing his all four.
“Travelling from New York can surely tire you big time.” brunette sighed while closing his eyes.
“You’re from Manhattan? Wow, it sure is far, but not as far as my hometown.”
“Yeah... speaking of which where did you come from? Are you from Manhattan too? Florida? Canada maybe?”
“No, believe it or not, I flew all the way from London.”
“London? You mean Europe? Phew... why did you come all the way here just for a camp?”
“Don’t know for sure... my mom and sis wanted to send me somewhere for summer vacation since mom is busy all the time. Plus weather is sometimes so horrible during summer, so I ended up here in America.”
“Nice... wish I had time to travel around.” Dimi smiled.
Their conversation was interrupted by two more boys who came in the room. They introduced themselves as Austen and Piko, both bringing their giant bags. While unpacking they all chat, mostly about from where they came from, what are their interests and so on. Austen and Dimi talked the most, leaving shy Piko and Os in the corner. Blonde started conversation which didn’t end even after an hour when gathering bell filled all camp with trumpet like noise.
“Gee, we better get out or this Nai guy won’t stop.” Os covered his ears.
“I agree.” Piko nodded quietly.
Field in front of stage was totally different. Instead of mess of kids and bags, boxes of different sport gear were set. There were balls for football, volleyball, basketball, rugby, even normal beach balls. Then there were bats, rackets, nets, jumping ropes, colourful boules sets and many more. White haired leader appeared again, this time without megaphone.
“As you can see we have a lot of stuff for quiet beginning of the first day. Make sure you have a great time and don’t forget to meet as many new friends as you can. Enjoy!”
Kids immediately started grabbing stuff from boxes, talking who will play with whom. Dimi lost himself in group of kids who were heading towards basketball field. Thinking of what he should play, Os picked softball glove and started looking around. At first second there was no one, next second others rushed for playing.
Minutes later they were standing on grass field, prepared for game of softball. Since Os could run pretty fast, he decided for holding the bat. He offered glove to another boy who thankfully smiled. As game began everyone got full of excitement. It really didn’t matter who was winning, but how great all of them played. Blonde managed to do four perfect homeruns, giving his team motivation for further playing. After changing sides, Os got glove back, being put on catching field.
This position in game seemed good too, but after some time of catching ball, it just went too far. He ran backwards, blocking eyes from blinding sunlight. His gloved hand reached for the ball, hoping to catch it, not seeing steep slope in front of him. Blonde tripped and rolled down the sloop. He could feel sharp stones cutting into skin. Rolling would probably continue if he didn’t crash into something.
Or someone.
Boy whimpered while getting on his feet, seeing many cuts on his legs. He was about to go back when he realized in what he had crushed. It wasn’t a rock, plant or anything he had suspected. To take a better look he went closer seemingly nervous about whole situation. It was a person he crushed against after all. Girl about his age was getting up, fixing her thin whitely blue dress.
“Gosh are you alright? I didn’t mean to rush into you. I was trying to catch ball and...” he apologized.
“It’s not that big deal... gee where my cap and jacket went?” girl asked while looking around in panic.
“Jacket? In this heat?” Os got confused.
“Just help me find it!” girl almost unnoticeably mumbled while running towards the grassy field.
Os ran after the girl who was running in the direction of the wind. Perhaps wind blew those things away, but he couldn’t get it why she would wear the jacket in practically boiling weather. Either way he wanted to help her. He soon found her near the lake, picking white peaked cap with huge smiley badge on it. She put it on her head, fixing her hair tied into two ponytails. Os took a closer look on her face. For some reason she seemed familiar, but he couldn’t remember of whom. He was about to ask her some things when she ran towards lake again.
“Why do you need your jacket so urgently? Don’t tell me you’re freezing.” Os confusedly asked when he caught up with her.
“Of course not, silly! Oh, there it is.” she smiled while stepping towards pile of rocks.
“Why then? Is it expensive or was some kind of gift?” he asked while watching her climbing up the pile. Girl didn’t answer, just kept climbing up until she picked thin pink jacket with hood. She was climbing energetically, but going down was different story. Before jumping from higher rock she had seemed to have some problems about it.
“Come one, what’s the big deal?” Os made confused look.
“It looked differently when I was getting up.” she said almost trembling.
Boy sighed when he remembered about cat they used to have. It always climbed on the highest trees, but was never brave enough to come down by itself. Fear cat had, was the same as girls. Luckily he knew what to do. Carefully offering his hand to her, he tried to give her feeling of safety.
“Don’t worry. Just go down slowly in the same way you got up. If you start slipping, try to just lean on my hand.”
“Are you sure? Rocks are pretty sharp on some sides.” girl still didn’t want to jump.
“Come on, you can’t spend entire camp – time here. You’re on holiday!”
Wind blew into her ponytails when she finally decided to jump. Before jumping she had thrown her jacket to Os who caught it with slight disgust. Pink was never a colour he liked. It reminded him too much of those giggling girls with spoiled attitude. But the girl who was slowly coming down didn’t seem like one at all. Her movements couldn’t be attributed to spoiled childhood like pink jacket was telling. Maybe that was the reason why he wanted to help her and get to know her.
Minutes later she got down, staring into his face as wind breezed into shoulder – length ponytails. Girl still held her jacket and cap when Os decided to address her.
“I’m glad…” he started when girl had other idea.
“Thank you for helping me! What’s your name?” she rushed with flood of words. “I’m Roxy Hawkins, see?” she went showing off with her nametag.
“It says Roxana here…” Os took deeper look.
“I like Roxy better, don’t you too?” she smiled as he blushed. “Let’s see who you are mister… Osie Hidelighty!” Roxy grinned at just made up nickname.
Blonde really had hard time hiding his blushing. Girl sure knew just how to tease him in non–annoying way. Roxy went putting her jacket one when Os remembered about his fall. He quickly checked knees, which had been unnoticeably to him before, were largely covered by blood and kept spreading towards his calves. Boy was about to get some water to wash it off when he was pulled back to the main cabin.
“Let’s rather get you to infirmary. You’ll get your wounds infected otherwise.” Roxy’s tone changed into serious one.
“Oh come on it doesn’t look that bad.” he protested when she led him pass smaller groups of kids, who kept enjoying sport games.
“How do you know? Besides you will need bandages and your shirt looks a way too good to be turned into blood–absorbing material.”
Until reaching the right room they were both quiet. While moving girl managed to put her pink jacket on, hiding bare shoulders. Os was the first to enter when they finally reached infirmary. Nurse there just finished putting Band–Ads on two boys who seemed to play rugby in a bit roughrider way. Blonde nearly freaked her out when he showed his two badly cut knees.
“Just sit on the table while I find you bigger sticking plasters.” brown haired nurse began opening countless closets “I knew we should’ve bought more. First day of sporting activities and we already have six beat up kids.”
Os got on the table while Roxy waited next to him. Nurse then returned with sterile gauze to disinfect his cuts. Just before putting them on injured knees she noticed something to get tweezers. Pieces of sharp stones and broken glass still projected from his skin.
“I’ll try to be as gentle as I can, but it will hurt. Just grit your teeth, okay?” boy nodded at her instructions.
Middle aged woman started removing smaller pieces when he felt slightly smarting pain. More pieces she removed, more smarting the pain was. His breaths started becoming panicking when he noticed his hand being hold. Roxy was trying her best to calm him down which actually had effect. It felt as comforting as his mother’s hold and when nurse finished it seemed as fast as bare seconds.
Boy stood up with now bandaged knees, waiting to go outside.
“What’s the matter with you dear?” Os turned around only to see nurse was talking to Roxy.
“Nothing, I just escorted him here since he already helped me once.” girl used her childish tone.
“That’s so sweet of you.” nurse ruffled Roxy’s hair “Though your skin appears to be a bit sensitive. Do you mind if I just check if you’re alright as well?”
Girl nodded for reply and removed her jacket to give better view at shoulders. Os now noticed how pale girl’s skin actually was. Nurse gasped a bit when she saw major part of Roxy’s shoulders, neck and face being covered by sunburns.
“Don’t tell me you’re Hawkins.” woman asked shockingly at which Roxy frightened nodded “Camp with over one hundred and fifty kids at which I forget to memorise the kid with sun allergy!” nurse slapped herself while looking for anti – sunburn lotion. Just when she was about to put some lotion on girl’s skin her walkie – talkie started ringing. Woman answered, talking for about a minute and then took quick aid kit.
“They need me outside for some assistance. Can you put lotion on her instead?” she asked boy who surprisingly nodded when she left.
Roxy just smiled and turned her back to him. Os felt a bit shy when he took lotion. He was about to touch the girl! And not just slight touch, he was actually going to rub lotion into her skin! Blonde already done this few times to his sister and mother, but that girl was totally different story. He had just met her and the way she talked to him made him blush in such annoying way.
“Don’t worry, that won’t meant anything.” Roxy said when she felt his embarrassment.
Boy felt comforting words when he began rubbing cold lotion into her red skin. He now understood why she was wearing cap in jacket in boiling heat. Fabric protected her sensitive skin from burning sunbeams as well as cap made a shade over her face. But it looked like wind blew away her protection just enough for sun to damage her skin.
“Does it hurt?” he asked while putting more lotion on.
“I’m pretty much used to it, so it isn’t much of a problem.” she said while sighing “Though it sucks you need to be careful all the time.”
“I get the picture.” he replied. “Say, where are you from?”
“Me? Tell me where you are from, so I’ll know if I need to keep it simple for you?” Roxy made her usual smile.
“Good point.” Os nearly finished rubbing. “I bet Englishman isn’t familiar with all States.”
“Wow, I knew there was something in your accent that wasn’t American.” she fixed locks from her face to put lotion on. “Oh and I’m from California. I’m not sure if you know the backwater hill where I live.”
“Looks like I’m the only European kid here.” he smiled.
“Don’t worry, it’s not like everyone is racist here and besides… there are a lot of kids to be friends with.” Roxy stood up when she felt Os hasn’t put lotion on her anymore.
Just before girl put jacket back on, blonde noticed small thing below her neck. It was very light coloured spot that doesn’t appear on everyone.
It was a mole. Same one his mother had.
Os was confusedly about to ask her more when another trumpet like noise was heard again. Sporting activities were over. It was time for boys and girls to return to their cabins and prepare for bed. Roxy swiftly put cap back when heading outside.
“You sure are a real English gentleman.” she giggled “Or are you just surprisingly nice?”
“Both I guess. Think we could be friends?” he stretched his arm for handshake.
“Why not? But that isn’t how friends say hi.” she put her hands around him for a hug.
Girl was practically a magnet for Os’ blushing. When she finally loosened her hug he stretched his head from embarrassment.
“So do you wanna meet up any time tomorrow?” was first thing thatgot into his head.
“Sure, unless you hate hawks?” she replied.
“What do hawks need to do with meeting up?” he asked.
“Nothing, it’s just we’re going to watch birds of prey and other animals tomorrow. Hawks are my favourite.”
“No wonder hawk is part of your last name.” he said when they were suddenly outside. “I’m in WOLF3 if you’re going to look for me.”
“WEASEL2” she showed her turned nametag. “It was nice meeting you. Say what you say we meet during breakfast? I’m sure no one will mind if we sit together.”
“Sounds like a plan.”
Kids waved their hands while heading towards their cabins. Roxy went up to hidden cabins in the woods while Os went down to cabins around the lake. When he opened the door his three roommates were chattering about the day.
“Os man, where were you? I haven’t seen you since the sports began.” Austen asked with his country accent.
“Um… with a girl…” blonde mumbled while thinking what to say.
“Really? Aww that must’ve been so awesome!” Dimi cheerfully patted Os’ shoulder.
“So, does she like you or she’s already deep in love with you?” black haired teased.
“It’s not like that! We just... umm... we’re friends.” Os tried to explain.
“Yeah right and the very next night we will find you in Nai’s perverted situation.” Austen laughed.
“Guys come on! If he said they’re friends, they’re friends. Quit mocking him.” Piko got into Os’ side.
Blonde gave brunette a grateful look while going towards his bed. Others quieted down while doing the same.
“If you won’t make fuzz about it, I’m going to introduce her to you during breakfast.” he smiled.
“Sounds okay, eh?” Austen gave him an apologizing look. “How come you became friends so fast? I’m not getting into your mind or anything, it’s just curiosity.”
“What of becoming friends with girl sounds weird?” blonde changed into his pyjamas.
“Nothing actually, it’s just that we’re hitting puberty and all.” Austen did the same.
“I’m not sure and for now I’ll just try to sleep okay. It’s been a though day.”
“No wonder, blush - boy.” black haired smiled.
Os no early than now looked into the window next to his bed. In it he saw reflection of his almost pulsing red cheeks.
He really gave his friends the wrong idea.
Especially because connection he felt with her was totally different.
Edited by Hunter Hawk