Sunset Camp

Chapter 11: Disappointment

A light tapping and shaking wakes me up from my comfortable sleep.

"Wake up, Tim, wake up, we're going to be late." Joey was trying to wake me up.

"No, let me sleep." I put my head on the pillow and mumble the last two words.

"Tim we'll be late please, get ready, I'll wait for you." He sounded more serious than ever.

"Fine. Okay." I said while still laying in the bed.

"TIM!" He yells for the first time and it caught me off guard.

"Alright alright geez." I got out of bed, put on my slippers and headed in to the bathroom to wash my eyes with cold water, as well as to wash my teeth.

As I'm standing in front of the mirror facing the reflection of myself, I may have gone blank for some moments because the sudden taps on the other side of the bathroom door jumpscare me lightly.

"Tim, hurry! You've been in for 10 minutes already!" I swore to myself that I just got into the bathroom. 

I just washed my eyes quickly and went outside the bathroom to join Joey and go into the big group. Today was the day that we'd know which activity we would partake on from the choices we made yesterday.

As we walked in, we realized that we were the last to arrive as everyone's eyes were on us, like when that one teacher calls your name and your whole class turns around and looks at you.

Both of us literally froze in place, we didn't know if we should proceed to walk to them, stay there frozen or run away for our life.

"You two are in time, come join us quickly, we just began!" Liam invited us. 

Joey sits down near Ellie, as she waves at both of us to join her and sit down next to her. Joey sat in the middle of us and he was being joyful for someone who said they weren't a morning person previously.

"Weird." I thought to myself and I shifted my attention to the counselors. They were about to reveal which activities we got.

I got really nervous, was I in the drama club or the animation course? I couldn't give in a thought to calm my inner self.

"in 3..." My anxiety begins to kick in as my left leg starts shaking.

"2... 1..." This was it!! Drama club here we come!

"Ta-Da!!" They turned the board around. I was speechless.

I felt defeated. I got into Resilience and Power.

I really did not want to go there, I didn't expect that I would get into that. Not even a little bit.

I was so disappointed to the point I wondered if I did something to be placed on my last-choice activity, to where it was the least liked one.

"We all hope that you guys enjoy these activities to the fullest because each one of them is special and has it's own worth and impact when participating.

Also we're incredibly sorry if you did not get the activity you mostly wanted, but in another light, a new experience for you could be better than the one you chose, challenging yourself and stepping out of your comfort zone." 

"Yeah, sure." I said disappointingly in a lower volume. 

I was devastated. I wanted to do something to switch on the other ones, but of course that would not possible.

I was looking at the others, most of them were jumping out of joy, bouncing with their feet up in the air, while some of us were filled in with disappointment and defeat.