Indie and Coneflower were both down at the pool. It was near the perimiter of the Camp grounds. Indie was wearing a nice two piece black and red swimsuit with boy legs while Coneflower was wear a pale pink swimlet (Singlet's made of lyric swimming material) and a matching pair of bottom's.
Cone was in the pool swimming laps, while Indie was sitting beside the pool in a deck chair with her rayban sunglasses on reading, something on the ancient greeks. Finally after getting all pruny Cone got out of the water and sat beside Indie sun baking.
Suddenly the quite serenity was interrupted by 3 figures sneaking over the large fence of the pool. Indie and Cone dashed over to the changing shed's watching the boy's look around before stripping off and jumping into the pool.
Indie looked shocked. She knew they weren't in the camp yet her they were swimming around like they owned the joint. Indie turned slowly to Cone whispering, "Who the hell are they?" Only to find Cone staring open mouthed at the tallest boy.
Indie looked at Cone for a moment before looking back at the boy's and then again to Cone. "What is it? Have you found your long lost twin?" Cone just shook her head and dashed out from teh changing room walking calmly along the pool.
The 3 boy's in the pool froze as they watched the girl make her way down to length of the pool towards the diving board. Cone stepped up on the board pointed her arms and dove smoothly into the water. Indie gaped at Cone. 'What the hell does she think she's doing?' she thought to herself.
Cone swam under the water until she emerged in the middle of the circle of frozen boys. "Hi I'm Cone," she introduced her self friendly. "You're not staying here at camp so where are you from?" Cone asked floating on her back slowly looking at the tallest boy.
"I'm Jake, this is Bingles and Pyro. We live in the town here, and we kinda thought that we'd cut class and come for a swim. Lot's of kids do it, we just didn't know that anyone was here." The tallest one replied defencively.
"Ohh nice to meet you all, like I said I'm Coneflower everyone calls me Cone, and that's my friend Indie. She's kinda shy." Cone added grinning and pointing up to Indie who could be seen behind the change room's if you were looking for someone, and the three boy's were.
"So tell me a bit about yourself, and Indie why don't you come in and meet Pyro, Bingles and Jake?" Cone hollered to Indie who had emerged from the change rooms, and sat down on her recliner again picking up teh book she had dropped and then taking her sunglasses off and turning to grin at Cone before walking to the edge of the pool and jumping in.
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Meanwhile,Race, Spot who had returned from the lake, Spec's, Davey, Dutchy and Flex were at the basketball courts playing a 3 on 3 game while Crutchy sat and was ref and scorer. Spot, Race, Dutchy were on one team and Flex, Spec's and Davey were on the other.
"The score is 10 - 24 for Flex, Davey and Specs." Crutchy said smiling. Spot huffed up to Race and said scowlingly, "If you spent less time placing bet's on the damn game and started playing we might actually win." Race just glared at Spot and threw the ball at his chest hard.
Just then Shady, July, Dusk and Pixie walked into the courts wearing shorts and tight t-shirt all of them. The game stopped and the group got together before deciding to play five on five, Race, Spot, Dutchy, Dusk and July on one team, Flex, Davey, Spec's, Shady and Pixie on the other.
The game progressed pretty much normally until Shady was dribbling the ball down the court and Race suddenly appeared and stole the ball accidently shove Shady, who went crashing to the ground with a hard thump.
Race threw the ball away and ran down to Shady, followed quickly be the rest of the group. After Flex checked to make sure nothing was broken, having gotten her first aid training when she had studied to become a Gymnist Instructor, once she passed Flex's thorough scrutiny Flex then order her up to the main office to get some ice, a bandage, and just to get the knee fixed up.
All the group was going to take her up but, Shady wouldn't let them not wanting to ruin their game. "I'll take her." Race said lifting her up easily. Shady started to protest but Race was adamant, "Nope I caused it I'll fix it." Shady looked down at Race nodding slowly and smiling at the gentlemanly behaviour. No wonder she had been crushing on him for the last year, he was just so perfect. So what if people thought he had a gambling problem. None of that mattered to her.
Race carried her up to the main office, looking around for any of the teachers but none of them were there. So Race did the only thing he could and rummaged around for all the stuff Flex had said Shady needed then coming back and preparing to fix her knee.
Race finished the job quickly and it looked almost professional. He was gentle and thorough. His touch making Shady tingle all over. When he stepped back and asked Shady what she thought of it she replied, "It's wonderful thanks you so much Race." Then on impulse Shady reached up and placed a kiss on his cheek.
She looked up to thank him again and saw something in his eye's before his bent down and kissed her softly on the lips. Shady felt her arm's creep up his strong biceps and then hook together around Race's neck loosely.
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Filly was walking through the rain forest that was near her dorm's. She was fascinated by it all. She loved nature and animal's espically wild one's, that being part of the reason she had got her nick name, the other becuase she was jumping and skitterish like a new born foal.
Filly sat down gently on a stump of what looked as if it used to be a gum tree. As she sat there marvelling at the working's of the whole eco community like one well oiled machine, a tall figure snuck up behind her.
Skittery grinned evily and grabbed both of Filly's shoulder quickly making her jump up and spin around with her arm's in a postition that knocked Skittery's arms away and was about to step into an attack when she released who it was.
Filly stood steaming at Skittery. When she had calmed down enough to be able to use her vocal chords again she screamed and yelled at him, "You jerk. You moron, I can't believe that you could possible be that stupid. You scared me half to death you, you," Filly was at a lose for words so she said the first word that popped into her head, " You Diddledrop. I was afraid that you were some kind of criminal come to kill me or something."
Filly felt so mad she could have wrung his scrawny little neck easily. So being Filly she did the thing she always did when she was massively mad and burst into tears. Skittery looked at Filly in shock first she was yelling and now she was crying, he definately didn't get women, espically Filly.
Skittery akward pulled Filly into his arms hugging her, while she punched him weakly until she ws drained and inchorent, "I thought I was going to die that some one was going to hurt me," she gasped breathlessly.
Skittery wore a worried look as he rubbed her back gently, "don't worry Filly I won't let anyone hurt you ever. I promise." Filly looked up at him tiredly. He was a good friend, but she wanted more, something that he couldn't give her, and it was killing her to pretend but she did it anyway.
"Thanks Skittery that's real swell." Filly finished lamely just happy to be in his arms.
"Swell nuttin' I would go crazy if I lost you." Filly looked up at Skittery quickly. He had sounded so serious, like maybe he cared for her more then just a friend. Filly put her head down and rested it on Skittery's chest, trying to puzzle through her thoughts.
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Jack and Flame sat down by the lake both had their feet in the water and Flame was leaning against Cowboy. "This isn't actually that bad is it Flamey?" Cowboy asked as they looked around the quite little creek. Flame smiled slightly, "no dentures puts on a pretty good camp I guess." Flame said with a who-would-have-guessed shrug.
"Meanwhile what the hell is with Spot and that Dusk? I mean he walks in then walks out 5 minutes later Spot has a date with her, is he completely senseless? He's leading her on. She doesn't know that he is a womanizer and that he probably won't go out with her again. I should have stepped in." Flame muzed over her ex-boyfriend and new friends relationship.
Cowboy sat up and grinned, "Don't sweat it Flamey, it's Spot and Dusk's business not ours." Flame nodded slightly but couldn't stop worrying about it.
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The Basketball game between Dutchy, Specs, Flex, Spot, Davey, Pixie, Dusk, July had ended when Race and Shady had left. Specs and July had left hand in hand talking about the dance at the end of the 2 week.
Dutchy and Davey had challenged Pizie to a table tennis game the winner play's the 3rd so all 3 had gone off to the hall along the side to play. That left Flex, Spot and July who were messing around on the courts. Soon Flex left to find Bumlets. Leaving Spot and Dusk chatting in the middle of the basketball court.
"So anyway that's pretty much me in an nut shell." Dusk said smiling. Spot grinned back at her. "Yeah well all us have been friends for ages so my life pretty much invovles them in some way or other. You have the prettiest nose." Spot sidetrack amazingly swiftly before leaning over and kissing her nose gently, before moving back then forwrd agian this time kissing her gentle on the mouth.
Spot just as impulsively pulled back and said, "Dusk would you go to the dance with me at the end of camp?" Dusk simply grinned nodding before kissing him herself.
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Spec's and July sat together in a room in her side of the camp. They hadn't been assigned room's before so July had appointed herself one. They were both on the bed making out, when suddenly July pushed Spec's away and asked him curiously, "I wonder why FLame and Cowboy didn't tell us about them?"
Specs grinned and kissed her inquistive little nose before saying, "Don't worry July it is their life you know.No matter how much you poke and prodded, you will never know everything about everyone."
July pouted playfully, "But I can sure try." Specs grinned helplessly, "That's what I love about you Jul you don't give up and your definately not a quitter, but could we stopp talking about everyone else's love life and concentrate on ours?" Specs grinned pretending to beg her on his knee's.
July pretended to think a moment before regally nodding her assent and sticking out her slender arm for him to kiss, mockingly. Spec's just grinned and reached up to kiss her again.
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Mush sat alone in his dorm room, reading one of his many books peacefully, when Flex wandered in and jumped up and sat on his top bunk. "Have you seen Bumlets around anywhere? I've looked everywhere and I can't find him."
Mush sat up and frowned, "I thought he was looking for you? He said that he was off to meet someone privately." Mush frowned harder, yet, very little wrinkles were coming to his face, " Whenever he goes anywhere privately it's always to meet you."
Flex looked down at her watch it was 4:50, "What time was this?" Mush though a moment before saying, "Pretty much as soon as Dentures dismissed us." Flex frowned that was strange, where on earth could he be. "Well don't worry you'll see him in ten minute's or so. So if you wait until I get dressed again I'll come with you."
Flex nodded as Mush jumped off the bed and sauntered over to his little camp sized foot locker type thing. It wasn't until Mush had mentioned it that Flex had noticed that he was only wearing a pair of boxers. In fact Flex noticed so much that when Mush turned around to acommpany her to the hall she was still staring with her mouth hanging from her face, almost on the ground.
Mush looked around wondering what the hell had happened when he questioned her about it she just grinned slightly embrrassed and muttered something about the end of the world before jumping off the bed and walking and talking away with Mush as they headed to the hall.
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Mr Dentures was yabbering on about the reason for the camp, the pretty blonde, swedish accented teacher was talking to a pretty German and Dakota was stuck here with Dentures. At least he had ..... to help him through this boring camp.
He couldn't believe it. He had travelled all the way to Australia as had ..... to have some fun and see the site now they were stuck here with a fossil and a gorgeous blonde teacher. He wanted to find some good looking Aussie girls, now he was stuck here where all the girls probably were Brains, and they were probably all carrying around lap tops and a spare pair of glasses.
"So now that you understand where we are heading in history and what we are doing at camp I'll now take you all down to the hall and indtroduce you to my history class, and Miss Larkson's group."
Dakota smiled weakly and followed Mr Denton down to the hall. On the way he whispered to .......... "This is going to be a memorable 2 weeks. We get to do a play ohhh joy."
.........giggled and hit him lightly, "hey you never know it could be fun here. You're just sour 'cause you got a date with Misty 'cheerleader extrordinary' then got sent here. You know you didn't have to come, I would have been fine by myself."
Dakota grinend helplessly she was sooo pretty, caring nice, soo right, "Well it's true I had finally worked her around so that she would fall into my arms when the decided to pack us off a month early. Besides you know that Misty could never compare to you." Dakota said throwing an arm over her shoulder brotherly.
Strudel was walking a few steps behind the two American's. She was relieved that Miss Larkson, who insisted on being called Medda, was from Europe as well. It was also comforting to know that she was fluent in German so, it would be so much easier to talk to her. Of course Strudel knew the English language almost better then the English but speaking in her native language was so much easier.