Mass Hysteria

8

It was sunset before we could all head back to our bunks.

I was the first one out of the test. Christian and Gloria had a clipboard in hand, both marking down who came out and what place they came in.

I think I was starting to get used to life at the camp. For the last day that I've been here, it's been crazy but I like it. Despite all of those years that I begged my mother not to let me go to a summer camp, I'm regretting it.

Especially the announcements part of the week.

After dinner, all of the campers went back to their cabins. The cabins were cheap, the beds made of old metal but at least the medical cabin had shots at the ready. Gina and I were on the same bunk, so I climbed up to mine and I heard her squeak into hers. The cabin didn't have its lights on so we didn't have to worry about "lights out".

I had just closed my eyes when I heard the sirens wailing.

I fell to the floor and yelled, "What the hell!" I looked around, kids were jumping out of their beds in a panic.

Gloria looked like she didn't bother getting into a bed. "Move the beds, get into the hatch!" She yelled over and over.

I looked around wildly. In the dead of night, I saw that the cabins had(wow, no surprise) green lights flashing. I saw kids scurrying to move the bunk beds aside, trying to get down this so called "hatch".

"Kaitie!" I heard Gina struggle and I immediately went over to help her. We couldn't lift the bunkbeds together so we had two guys with short green hair help us.

And low and behold, there was a hatch. I looked around the cabin, kids were throwing themselves down their hatches like their life depended on it.

I allowed Gina to go first and soon I was the last person in the cabin.

It was so quiet without everyone in here, it felt good.

Soon, I heard footsteps. Someone was looking over the cabins with a flashlight light making sure everyone had gone down their hatches.

I threw myself in the hatch that was underneath my bunk and smiled. It was a slide, that didn't last long. I landed on my face on dirt and I crashed into the backs of people's feets.

The people who I crashed into glared down at me and I shrunk back to where the slide is. A lot of people were down here, looks like the entire camp.

I squinted and blinked the dirt from my eyes, and soon, my eyes landed on almost a concert scene. There were lights overhead and they shone brilliant blues, purples and greens. I couldn't see if there was a stage but I heard a small portion of bass notes being played over and over.

All of the people had their hands up and were chanting "Billie, Billie, Billie, Billie.."

I was wowed. So this was what a concert was like. I'd never been to one but I always wanted to go to one, especially a Green Day concert.

Finally, the crowd went wild. The familiar voice of Billie Joe Armstrong filled my ears from overhead speakers.

"Haha, if you guys keep on doing that each time I do announcements we'll just have to turn it into a god damn concert now, dont we!?" Billie Joe screamed into his microphone.

The crowd of punk teenagers roared.

Billie rolled his eyes. "Anyway, here's the announcements." He took a deep breath and began speaking. "There are new medical shipments in the dumpyard, Brutals I need you to get on those.."

I looked around my standing self, I was impressed. I mean, I'm at a practically almost concert even though I'm blocked by thousands of teenagers I can still hear clearly even though I'm all the way in the back. The stereos must be new, because I can hear everything perfectly.

Schools, take note.

"American Idiot Squadron! You crazy fuckers had your first day of training, how screwed up was that!" Billie paused to listen to what the Idiots had to say. There wasn't much, just a few placed claps here and there.

Kaitlynn didn't clap or make any noise. Training was wild but she had to admit it was interesting.

Billie Joe smiled a knowing smile, as he came up with the tests and training techniques. "Well its about to get wilder."