An alternate universe in which Ruel and y/n meet at a summer camp

A/n: this is long luvs. Also don't think this is complete SJSJSKS I think you know what's coming

With a bag hanging on her shoulders and a suitcase gripped by her hand, y/n walks inside the camp. The camp began three days before, but due to a family wedding y/n ends up going three days late. Just as she walks inside, a girl, possibly in her twenties is standing there to greet her.

"Hello my name is Zoe and welcome Camp Aspen! I am a camp counsellor, and you are in my cabin." She smiles at y/n.

"Hello Zoe, nice to meet you." She smiles back at her.

"I'll have someone to show you around the camp and tell you where to keep your stuff," she then turns around and looks at all the teenagers in the lawn running around. Her eyes settle on one and she takes a few steps ahead. "Ruel come here and help y/n out!" She calls out to a boy. The boy runs up to Zoe.

"This is y/n, and y/n this is Ruel," She says, gesturing with her hands. "He is in the cabin next to ours. He will show you around."

"I have to show you around? I'd rather go and continue playing basketball." Ruel comments, rolling his eyes. Y/n stitches her eyebrows and looks at Zoe, who smacks Ruel's arm.

"Show her around for god's sake Ruel." She says sternly.

"All right." he groans. He begins walking and y/n follows him. They both walk out of the lawn and reach the array of the wooden cabins.

"That is your cabin," He says, pointing to the one with a red board saying 'Moonlight Ridge' in front of it, "and this ones mine." He shifts his finger to the cabin next to Moonlight Ridge which has a blue board in front of it saying 'Angler Rapids'. "You can go in and put in your stuff."

Y/n nods at him and walks inside her designated cabin. There is a bunk bed of two on the left and another one on the right; meaning four people are staying in the cabin. Y/n keeps her stuff next to the bunk beds on the left and comes back out.

"There isn't much to see here, but I'll show you the mess and everything else." Ruel says and y/n nods. They walk some distance away from the cabins and reach the mess. The mess is also shaped like a cabin; but bigger. They both enter inside to see long rows of tables set. "This is the mess, where we come to eat our breakfast, lunch and dinner."

"What is the food like?" Y/n asks, looking around the mess.

"It's... edible," Ruel replies, making y/n chuckle. They walk out of the mess and go the lawn where they met some time ago. "We have a volleyball court, a basketball court and a lake nearby where we go for swimming quite often."

Zoe comes up to Ruel and y/n. "I hope Ruel showed you everything."

"He did." Y/n smiles.

"That's great," Zoe replies, "anyways, we are nearing lunch time, so you can head up to the mess now." Y/n nods and turns around to look at Ruel, but her eyes can't seem to find him. She looks around to notice he's with three other boys and all of them are throwing a basketball among themselves.

With a sigh, y/n heads to the mess with no company with her.

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After the lunch, which y/n classified as 'average hamburgers', she heads back to her cabin. To her surprise, she sees two girls in there. Y/n wonders if they are her room mates for the camp.

"Hi I'm y/n," she says cheerfully, letting her hand out for them to shake, "I'm guessing we're staying in the same cabin?"

Both of the girls stare at y/n's hand as if it is caked with germs. As her smile slowly withering away, y/n pulls her hand back.

"Unfortunately, yes we are staying together." The first one says. She has long blonde hair, and the other one has shoulder length brown hair with blue eyes and stands at around 5'6. The first one has dark hazel eyes and is almost the same height as the second one.

"Anyways," the brown haired girl says, "this is your bunk. You'll be sharing it with Zoe. Never ever come close to our bunk or touch our stuff, got it?" She glares at y/n. Y/n swallows the lump in her throat and nods.

"What a loser." The blonde scoffs, intending to just be audible for the brown haired girl, but y/n evidently hears her. Or maybe she did intend for y/n to hear it, we'll never really know.

Y/n turns on her heels and walks out of the cabin. She hears the two girls snicker among themselves. Wanting not to spend any other minute with them, y/n runs to the lake Ruel told her about.

Just as she reaches there, she sits on the edge of the lake, watching the smooth water create soft ripples. Her eyebrows knit together with confusion enlightening every ounce of her body.

"Y/n is that you?"

Y/n turns around to see Ruel looking at her. She slightly nods at him and turns her head back around to look at the lake in front of her. She feels him sit next to her, both of them sitting with their legs crossed whilst looking at the horizon in front of them.

"Are you okay?" Ruel asks, turning his head to look at her.

"Yeah, I guess," Y/n mumbles, not willing to look at Ruel's face.

"Your facial expression says otherwise." Ruel places his hand gently on her shoulder. "What is it?"

Y/n takes in a deep breathe. The slight wind blowing makes her slightly shiver. "Who are those girls who are my cabin mates? One was a blonde and the other had brown hair, do you know-"

"It's Chanel and Maia. Chanel is the brown haired one and Maia is the blonde one. They both are bitches and treat people with utter disrespect." Ruel says, his teeth clenching. "What did they say to you?"

"They called me a loser, nothing much. It's just, I don't think I will be able to handle them for the entire summer camp. Not to forget they also told me stay away from their stuff and bunks." Y/n tells Ruel.

Ruel scoffs at her words. "They are like the typical high school bitches. Just wanting popularity and everything along the same lines."

A silence falls over them, the only thing being audible the slight whistling of the wind. Almost suddenly, Ruel gets up from the ground. He slips his t-shirt off and lets his hand out for y/n.

"Want to swim?" He asks cheekily. Y/n puts her hand in his and gets up. She removes her own t-shirt, the sun shining against her skin. Ruel drops in the lake and so does y/n and both of them swim around.

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The sun slumps down and the sky becomes tinted with colors varying from a vibrant pink to a soothing orange. Y/n walks back to her cabin with Ruel, both of them soaking wet. Laughs keep on escaping their lips as Ruel continues to tell her the story about when he was seven.

"... and it was me who actually broke the lamp, but Coco got scolded for it." With that, Ruel breaks into another fit of giggles. "Perks of being the youngest, you never ever get scolded for anything, and your older siblings end up taking the blame. But Coco is Coco, and after that she scolded me, but I'll do anything for her to get punished instead of me. She had to clean the toilets."

Y/n's lips don't stop bubbling some laughter, as she thinks about the incident Ruel told her. Pretty soon they reach their cabins. Time flies fast when you're having fun.

"I'll see you at dinner," Y/n says. Ruel nods at her and he enters his own cabin, while y/n walks into hers. Inside the cabin Chanel and Maia are sitting on the lower bed of the right bunk and are scrolling through their phones. When they hear y/n come inside, they lift their heads up to look at her. At her sight, both of them grimace.

They don't say anything, they only watch her pull a towel from her bag and some fresh clothes as she goes inside the washroom. A few minutes later she comes out, now completely dry. Y/n sits on the lower bunk on the left and decides to go on her own phone.

"Where were you?" Maia asks and y/n looks up from her phone.

"I was swimming with a friend," she says before bending down to continue scrolling through her own phone.

"With who?" Chanel poses a question.

"I told you it was a friend. Can you go back to your own work now?"

"Bitc-"

Before Chanel could say anything, the door of the cabin opens to reveal Zoe.

"Come on girls lets go for the dinner. We also have to light a bonfire after that." Y/n switches her phone off and gets up from the bunk and walks out. Chanel and Maia come out a few seconds later. All the campers are walking to the mess. Y/n quickly spots Ruel's tall figure and runs up to him. She taps on his shoulder and he turns around. Upon seeing her, a smile graces Ruel's face.

"Come on let's go," Ruel beckons her and both of them walk to the mess together. They sit next to each other and eat some tacos as it is 'Taco Tuesday'. After all the campers fill themselves with tacos, they all file out on the lawn to sit around the bonfire.

A few camp counsellors begin to light the bonfire and collect marshmallows, graham crackers and chocolate to make s'mores. Ruel sits on a bench but just as y/n begins to sit next to him, Chanel and Maia occupy the spaces on each side of Ruel.

"Hey Ruel," They both say in unison with a flirtatious tone evident as they speak. Y/n scoffs at their behavior and goes to sit on another bench. From a distance she sees both of them flirting with Ruel. Y/n forces her gaze away from them and decides to help the camp counsellors with the bonfire and s'mores. But just before she can get up, she hears Ruel call her out.

"Y/n where are you going?" He asks, now standing next to her.

"I was gonna help the counsellors if they need a hand." Y/n explains. "What was going on there?" She nudges her chin to Maia and Chanel who are sitting with their faces slumped in their hands.

"They have been wanting to get with me since the camp began, and I hate their guts with passion so I had to talk my way out of coming here. Come sit, the counsellors can manage everything; they always have." Ruel and y/n sit on the bench, their legs slightly brushing.

Soon all the campers are sitting with huge skewers in hand, the end of the skewer pinned into a soft marshmallow. The marshmallows roast, a black layer forming on them. Y/n rotates her skewer in her hand, while Ruel makes a s'more for her.

"Here you go," he says cheekily, handing her a s'more. The chocolate is slightly dripping out of the graham crackers and the pillowy marshmallows are seeping out. Y/n takes it with a smile and devours it, enjoying the sweet and salty taste blend together in her mouth.

"This is so good," Y/n says, her voice slightly muffled due to the s'more in her mouth. Ruel laughs and mumbles a 'thank you'.

Camp will be fun, having Ruel around.

But happiness doesn't last forever now, does it?

To be continued...

Author's note

I know you prolly ✨hate✨ me but I just love torturing people like that

I do be weird like that ✌🏻😚

ALSO SOMEONE ASK RUEL TO RELEASE SOME MUSIC ISTG HE NEEDS TO RELEASE SUMN RN

N e ways, vote and comment to be swaggy

With love through health and sickness
Keziah