-Its like Summer Just Threw Up In The Pond-
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Beep

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I groan as the alarm goes off alerting all of the CITS they have to get up, so yesterday all of the other campers and CITS arrived in the cabin, there's Fiona, K.C., Kaylee,  and the two other CITs, Anna and Rose.

Anna set an alarm last night so we all wake up.

As a CIT I actually was allowed to bring my phone but I didn't because I am a good child. And I had no idea I was allowed to bring a phone...

But whatever,

"Nautica," I hear Anna say as Im still laying in bed,

"Mhm," I groan,

"We gotta get up," I swing my arm up and lift my index finger up into the air, indicating she should just give me a minute. She sighs. I chuckle and sit up just a bit too quickly and my hid spins,

"Ugh," I only have shorts on from yesterday so I take them off and put on a pair of sweatpants. I throw my hair up in a messy bun and we all exit the door. I follow the others out into the field and towards the flag pole.

It smells really good this morning, like summer threw up in the pond and dandelions and sunflowers were all Summer ate this morning.

"You guys ready?" Colin asks with his arm around one of the other CITs, George. We all nod smiling as we go and get the trashcan lids, we go to each and every cabin screaming RISE AND SHINE ANS GIVE GOD YOUR GLORY GLORY.

Yes, it is a Christian camp, but it's not like "SELL YOURSELF TO GOD AND HE SHALL LOVE YOU." they are just very nice, and care about the environment and Gods creations and stuff like that, its actually really cool and nice to learn about.

After we scream/sing at the final cabin I go back into Hideaway two where Gracie is waiting for me. My bed is already made for me, I sit down and smile at her.

"Hi,"

"Hi!"

"How did you sleep?" I ask her and she nods,

"Pretty good." I reply with 'that's good,'

We get ready to go to breakfast and I don't really change, it was kinda cold this morning so I put on a sweatshirt,

"Come on," I say and Kaylee, Gracie and I climbed up the hill to go to breakfast,

"Hey, guys!" we hear from behind us and I see Colin walking up behind us he puts his arms around Kaylee and I, I feel tingles where his arm is around mine, I put my arm around him and Gracie. We are all laughing and joking and just having fun all on our way up to breakfast.

I smile.

This week is gonna be fun.

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The CITs sing one of the songs before breakfast and we sit down while the servers serve, today its Allison, Colin and Zander. Carl walks over and taps on our table indicating that we can go up and receive our food. I smile excitedly at Gracie and jump up and get in line.

This morning it's Pancakes, sausage and Tater Tots.

Although... I really hate pancakes... the texture, the taste, just about everything about pancakes make me wanna vomit. Maybe I can con Colin into giving me extra tater tots.

I look up at the breakfast line and see Colin looking at me. I feel the heat begin to rise to my cheeks and look back down so he can't see.

I know guys like Colin, they like to mess with you and leave you broken afterwards. Also a guy that looks like Colin would never like me. What about Kaylee, who actually looks like she should be on the front of a Covergirl magazine.

Allison said how he tried to ask her out last year. So obviously she is off the table, but from the way Kaylee is looking at him I'd say that she has a solid chance. But while she is looking at him, he's looking at me.

I look behind me and see no one there but George.

"Hey," He looks up at Colin "Looks like someone has taken an interest in you," I look up at Colin again, still staring at me, I don't know how to respond so I just chuckle and concentrate on how not to blush,

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"Any camper concerns," Madison asks at the CIT meeting. I look around and see everyone shaking their head, I'm not surprised, its only the first day. Nothing exciting happens on the first day.

"Alright then, you guys can go do Tidy Turtles."

Tidy turtles is basically a contest of who has the cleanest cabins, and everyday during activity A block CITs have to go and check to see which cabins win. The girl CITs go through all the girl cabins and see that Purple wins, Hideaway one is third and my cabin is the worst.

Because Gracie left a damn sweatshirt on the bed.

Once we are done, we go out and meet the boys by the flag pole.

"How'd you guys do?" Aiden, one of my fellow CIT's asks and I respond with 'meh' he chuckles,

"Yeah the boys don't really clean," I laugh at the correctness of his statement when Colin walks over,

"Hey!"

"Hey," Aiden and I both say at the same time, I push him and say 'Jinx! you owe me a coke' he just laughs, Colin smiles, Colin puts his arm around both of us and I am just purely concentrating on trying not to freaking blush.

Stupid hormones.

I walk past where the games activity and see Kaylee and Gracie. I stop next to them, Colin and Aiden keep going.

"Hey guys,"

"Hey,"

"Hey, what're you doing?" Gracie asks,

"Just did Tidy Turtles, now going to check out ropes to make sure they're safe. Wanna come?"

"Am I allowed?" She asks; I roll my eyes and tut,

"I'm a CIT, of course you are," we both laugh and she just follows anyways, Kaylee stays there and continues to take pictures.

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By the time I walk over to ropes Ashley and Zander are already done checking them out,

"We good?"

"Yeah."

"Cool." I walk into the dining hall and over towards the piano and sit there with Gracie for music,

Kaylee walks in and grabs her Ukulele, she starts playing a song that I recognize so I sing along with her,

Liz, the instructor of music and counselor of Hideaway one walks in and starts talking to Kaylee,

"Can you teach me?" I ask Kaylee and she nods and starts teaching me the cords to 'Stitches' by Shawn Mendes, Liz is teaching Gracie 'I'm not the only one by Sam Smith'.

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After a while Liz takes the Uke from me to play something else and I sit next to Gracie, "How's it going?"

"Good," she replies and looks at me and starts playing what she learned.

"Wow, that's really good!" I muse and she smiles,

"I really like piano,"

"That's great!" I exclaim; she gets up to do whatever and I just lay on the bench. Colin limps over, still injured from yesterday. But not using his crutches.

"Do you like blueberries?" I look up for a moment, looking into his deep blue eyes

Stop!

"No, sorry." he just nods and I think he gives the blueberries to Kaylee and Gracie. He comes back,

"Raspberry?" I laugh and sit up, looking at him.

"Of course," he hands the berry to me and I pop it in my mouth, we talk for a little bit, mostly about how camp is going so far and other little things like that,

"Cooking! Come clean up," Coin sighs and gets up and walks over there, I lay back on the bench.

Dear lord...

I'm actually going to die.

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After lunch, they announced the winners to Tidy Turtles which we got third to last, we go out to the snack shack and our cabin is just in front of Colin's.

Stop freaking thinking about Colin, Kierra! I talk with Kaylee and then I see Colin behind me, talking to a little boy, Mason I think his name is. Mason is probably one of the cutest kids in camp and he seems to have grown quite attached to Colin.

Stop freaking thinking about Colin!

"Hey," he says. I freeze a little but I recover quickly,

"Hey." I reply as casually as possible, he chuckles. DAMN he noticed my freeze!

"What's up?"

"Ya know, just waiting in line." he laughs. He has a nice laugh.

NO!

But yes!

God, this is going to be a long day.

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Later, Aiden walks over to me and hands me a coke.

"I owe you nothing now." I laugh and graciously accept the soda,
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"Hey, do you and Gracie wanna go canoeing with me?" Colin asks me as we walk down to the waterfront. I look at Gracie and she shrugs.

"Sure why not," he walks away, I immediately turn to Gracie,

"What did I just agree to?" she laughs and shrugs, "I didn't even change!" I look down and I'm in my leggings and a sweatshirt (it was kind of chilly today), "He's gonna tip us."

"He better not," she looks down and is also wearing a sweatshirt and leggings, the difference is: she is wearing her favorite sweatshirt.

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"Okay lets get the canoe out," Colin, also wearing pants and  a sweatshirt is trying to push the canoe out without getting his shoes wet, he jumps in and we are all trying to push ourselves off of the shore without getting wet, I groan,

"Hey want some help?" Zander walks over and Colin just rolls his eyes,

"Nope I got it," he says, groaning and still trying to push the canoe off of the shoreline in the canoe, afraid to get his shoes wet. I'm laughing and I think Gracie is as well. Finally we end up pushed off of the shoreline and I see everyone waving goodbye to us and Allison yells -

"GOODLUCK!"

"Thanks!" I shout back, "I'll need it," I look around at all the different areas of the lake, avoiding eye contact with Colin. Colin is paddling by himself, "Do you want help," he shakes his head, we stop in the middle of the lake, I am playing with my leggings when I overhear them talking.

I'm not eaves dropping, we're in the same canoe!

"Who do you like?" Gracie asks,

"Somone," I could hear the smile on his face,

"Is it a camper?" Kaylee,

"No," oh?

"A CIT?" my mind immediately goes to Allison, since he asked her out last year,

"Is it Allison?" Gracie asks, reading my mind. he chuckles and says no, I can feel the smirk from here.

"Kierra?" way throw a girl under the bus! Colin doesn't say anything, for a few moments,

"What about you? Who do you like?" He changes the subject, I decide this would be a nice time to join the conversation,

"Long story," I say and Gracie nods, agreeing with me.

"You never answered my question." I try to tune my mind out again, I absolutely hate conversations about feelings, they never end well. Now all I hear is mumbling,  I look behind us and I see that we are way too close to land,

"Err... Colin?" I manage to stammer our,

"What?"

"Are we about to crash?"

"No of course not," he says smirking, he takes the paddles and takes a super sharp turn, I nearly fall out.

"Jesus, Colin!" he laughs and I smirk at him, "You think that's funny?" I stand up and reach over Gracie who screeches a little and grab the other paddle next to Colin, he's laughing and so am I. I stick the paddle into the water and splash him as hard as I can, he looks at me evilly,

"No. Don't do what you're about to do," I can see his next move in his eyes, "I splashed you for revenge!" I scream as he splashes me,

"Okay, lovebirds!" Gracie yells sarcastically in the middle of us, "If your going to splash each other can I get out of this canoe. Please?" I laugh at her with Colin,

"Yes, your majesty," he says jokingly, she just scoffs,

"Whatever, just get me off of here,"

Colin and I are still laughing as we get back to shore, I don't even know what we are laughing about anymore but as I get out of the canoe I see everyone looking at us, Kaylee walks over.

"How was it?" I giggle,

Giggle?

"What?"

"The canoe ride! How was it?"

"Oh, well It was good." I know how she feels about Colin, so I fail to mention the part about Gracie and Colin's conversation.

Ya know, the liking me thing. Colin still never replied.

"Did you enjoy swimming?" I try to  change the subject. She goes on and on about how Grey pushed her into the water, then she pushed Grey in, then Allison (who is a life guard in training as well as a CIT) yelled at them about how they shouldn't push each other in but they didn't really care because it was so funny,

I laugh along when I should and respond appropriately at the correct times but I'm not really listening, I'm thinking about Colin and how I know that this whole liking me thing wont end well, and if I was Gracie I would tell her to back off because guys like Colin aren't good news but...

How would I be human if I listened to my own advice?

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After dinner is CIT games, which I had explained yesterday. Today, however, we learned we cant rally fifty odd kids, so we let them play whatever, Colin, Allison, Grey, Kaylee, Gracie and I are all sitting in a circle. Colin walked away for a second,

"So, I heard Colin likes you. That's cool and stuff but if you don't like him don't reject him in front of the whole camp like I did-" Colin walks up behind her as she is talking, I see him and my mouth hangs open for a second "And if you do like him well-"

"Allison..." I say and point behind her. Colin is standing there with 'hurt' written blankly on his forehead,

"Shit..." Allison says under her breath and I just look at her as Colin sulks away, "Why didn't you tell me?" she shouts and sighs, "whatever, he'll be fine, just give him a minute,"

I see George go after him,

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"Shit man!"

"Dude, are you okay?" George asks me, I just need to fucking punch something.

My mom died back in April and shit has just been so fucking hard since then. I basically live by myself since my dad is drunk all the time.

Kierra makes me feel like I can just let loose, and it just feels so nice being near her. But listening to Allison talk and Kierra listen so intently. She doesn't like me, that's that.

But... maybe I can get her to like me...

"No man, just go away."

"But-"

"Go." I say, we stand there for a few moments and I sigh, I agitatedly walk away, back towards them.

What the hell am I even going to say, God.

I walk over to their little circle and sit in between Kierra and Kaylee. I noticed Kaylee has taken an interest in me, and she is pretty and stuff, but I don't know, I  just don't like her that way.

"I don't... I don't know..." Kierra says frustratedly as I sit in between her and her friend and she just looks at me, Allison nods and they are all caught up in conversation. Once again she looks at me, I look up at her.

"Are you okay?" she whispers and I just nod and smile,

"Gracie, what about you. Whats your dating situation?" Allison asks and we all turn our head towards her, once again, like in the canoe, Gracie and Kierra look at each other, as if they are speaking telepathically. Kierra clears her throat, I smile.

"It's a long story..."

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"So, do you like Colin?" I'm caught off guard

"I don't... I don't know..." I have no idea how to respond because, do I like Colin?

I shouldn't, that's for sure. He's a bad boy, I mean come on.

I sigh and walk back to my cabin, I wonder if I am going to be able to stargaze tonight...

Last night they wouldn't let us because it was the first night at camp, but I'm hoping Maddison and Elizabeth wont be such sticks in the mud tonight.

"Can we stargaze?" I ask my counselors and they nod,

"Yeah, I'm gonna go out too." Elizabeth says, I nod in reply. I grab a towel to sit on since the ground is probably gonna be all wet from the condensation.

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I lay there on the ground looking up at the stars and thinking. George walks in front of me and says hi, "Hey," I reply back solemnly and he just stands there, waiting for someone I guess.

"Is Colin coming out?" He asks Aiden,

"Yeah, he just went in to get something," I sigh just continue to lay there looking up at the night sky,

"Who is that?" I hear come from in front of me and I look up, Its Colin,

"Kierra," I respond and he smiles,

"Hey,"

"Hey."

"Hey guys!" Beth says jumping over to us, "We should play a game."

"Never have I ever?" someone else says and I try not to laugh. Everyone else seems to agree though, so we start playing,

Colin is behind me, laying down. Im sitting up and he is gently rubbing my back. Its sending tingles up my spine, but I am not going to object getting a free back rub. So, I let him.

"Never have I ever... liked someone at camp." I immediately look at Colin who puts a finger down, I objectively put a finger down leaving me with three and Colin with... umm... negative four...

"You put a finger down?" Beth asks me, I nod, "Who did you like," I chuckle not knowing what to say for this question,

"Uh, it was last time I came..." I try to catch Colin's response but I think I just barely missed it, or he didn't hear me... or he didn't react.

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By the time I get back to my cabin I still have the tingling feeling up my spine. I get in bed but I see Gracie still awake,

"What are you doing up?"

"I wanted to make sure you were okay," I chuckle lightly and get into bed,

That night my best friend and I fall asleep holding each others hands,

This has been a long and eventful day.  With everything that happened I'm beginning to think that after camp, I might not be the same as when I arrived.

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Well that's this chapter, worked really hard on it, hope you enjoy it

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