Marigold

Chapter 10

Now that we're all caught up, here's what happened next,
The three of us made our way back to the camp, Nicole was the only one who knew the way.
Though I was the one who suggested we go back, I thought something felt a little odd about that place.
Not just how it looked but the question of why it was even in the middle of some forest.
I know that bush animals and trees don't make a good audience,
Shout out to my dad for leaving me alone in a bush at nine.

Anyway,
The three of us got back to an empty cabin somehow unseen by the camp mistress which shocked me a little.
Ariana who told us she'd cover for us at our cabin in case someone comes to check on us was no longer there,
I felt for her but not too extreme but I promised myself to go and talk to her at dawn.
"Turn off the lights Lola" Emma commanded lazily from her bed which I obeyed without hesitation. After a night like that one would want to crash down on the bed and get up the day after the next, it was a solid plan I could easily follow if they weren't any complications so I fell lifelessly on my bed, thinking of the dreams I wished to have that day,
I never really end up having a dream related to what I have been thinking but I somewhat enjoy the ones I end up with.
Unfortunately for me and my roommates, the night only lasted for five minutes as Mrs Tola had started the morning roll call as I was about to doze off.
"Get up Quill, you have a long day ahead of you" she announced as she passed by our door.
At first, I thought she was royally delusional,
That she didn't know what time of the day it was,
But there the sunrise was with its painful rays on my wrinkled eyelids,
My mistake for picking the bunk in front of the window.
Waking up right then was impending for my roommates too,
Even Nicole sat up cursing under her breath,
Whether we liked it or not, none of us would be sleeping the way we wanted that morning.
After Mrs Tola talked to us campers for what seemed like two hours, she called my cabin to her office.
At least, I heard her, my roommates were busy mastering how to sleep and stand at the same time.
"Stop it you guys, you're going to get us caught" I cautioned them,
"Hmph,...I'm not even sleeping..." Nicole muttered slowly and started walking towards our cabin with her eyes closed!
"No, stop don't go there, we have to see what the camp mistress wants" I dragged her hand back so she would be at a standstill.
Emma on the other hand was way gone,
"Come on Emma, wake up" I tapped her cheek hoping to get her to wake up,
Which works better than I thought, maybe too good,
Because she completely loses her mind and started beating the crap out of me while Nicole just laughed softly at the corner,
"Emma, Emma stop it...",
She slowly stops wanking her palm at my face, she looked at me like she was confused but trying to cover it up with an alert face.
"Hey, what's going on?" She asks calmly,
I tell her that we had to get to the camp mistresses cabin and she just responds with "Oh" and goes on leaving me and a now awake Nicole.
I stood staring at her, My dark roommate passed me with a late warning "You shouldn't have woken her up." And catching up to Emma.

There I was,
At the mistresses cabin, looking around nervously, trying to avoid the gaze of the stern-faced Mrs Tola, our camp mistress.
The standing fan in the room helped to keep things less tense,
And my two remaining roommates seemed good at keeping a clueless face probably causing the camp mistress to question her motives.
To make matters worse, they were about six more people in her cabin all at different corners of the office so turning my gaze to a random spot wasn't an option.
I started to feel nervous, restless and heat despite the cold breeze from the fan in the room.
I was afraid either my behaviours at that moment would give me away or Mrs Tola would just stare at my eyes and watch the entirety of last night play like a Jurassic world movie which would lead to both foreseen and unforeseen circumstances all because of me!

"Congratulations Quill, you girls are getting your very own counsellor this morning" Mrs Tola announced.
A sigh of relief, something not as bad happened instead.
"Uh... Excuse me, can we clean all the gutters at the boys camp instead?
I mean we don't even require pay"
Emma ranted even though she wasn't supposed to TALK.
"What are you saying?" She asked sternly,
"What I'm saying is that we have stayed in this camp for three weeks without a counsellor and we haven't burnt down the place yet or started a riot, so why do we one of a sudden?"
Emma continued but Mrs Tola didn't seem to be paying attention to her (fortunately for us) and continued briefing on the main topic,
"This is Catherine, she will be taking over from your previous counsellor,
She will oversee your activities in this camp and represent you in various events and she will also tell me everything you suspicious girls do, isn't that right Catherine?"
Said Mrs Tola with her attention at a dark-skinned outgoing looking lady in her early 20s who had a confident smile spread across her face.
"Yes ma'am, you can count on me," said Catherine,
"I hope so, moving on, I hope you are ready for the games event this weekend yes?" Asked Mrs Tola with a little lightness in tone,
I didn't know what she was talking about,
"Yeah yeah we're ready" Emma answered without sounding concerned.
"Good, and remember to register on the games you're going to play with counsellor Jake so you can play in the event"
"Yes ma'am," the three of us said in unison.
Things were going to be different, I could tell.

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