Pet School: The Biggest and The Boldest

Chapter 16: Camp

Monday Week 6
Bailey's POV
Everyone's lined up and getting ready to go onto the buses. I'm sitting with Elton, Atlas and Stewart are sitting together and Zane's sitting with Mishka. Everyone's stoked for camp! We're on bus 1 and sadly we couldn't get the back either way. "Alright, everyone fronted bus 1's here, get on." We all clambered on. We headed down near the back, in front of the back 5 seats. We sat in the second last row and Zane sat in the one in front. On the way back I'm sitting with Atlas. Elton and I were in front of Glitter and Layla's seats. Glitter put her foot up on our seats. "You're just going to let her do that?" He whispered to me. I shrugged. "Not like it's doing anything to me." I said. Artemis and Cindy were sitting in the seats in front of us. I leaned over Elton's side and kicked Cindy's chair. His jaw dropped at what I did. "Hey! Who kicked my seat?" Cindy pocked her head through the gap between the seats and shot Elton and I sneaky looks. The bus started to drive on. "Atlas!" I called over to him. "Yeah?" "How long is the bus ride?" Atlas thought for a second. "About 3 hours." He said and got back to his conversation with Stewart. "Three hours?! So long! Camp Blue Lake was only two hours and I though that was long!"Elton complained. Elton and I talked about a lot of things. "Do you want candy?" He asked me. "Candy?!" All of the girls at the back lit up. Elton and I exchanged wide eyed looks. He said it too loud. He had a whole bag of M&Ms. "Hey Elton, give us some." Aina told him. Elton did a quick shiver. "You don't want trouble, now do you?" Amber asked him. Elton sighed. He gave up. He started with Layla. "I'm good." She said. He gave some to Glitter, then Delilah, and so on. Finally he gave some to me and ate some himself. Reaching the 2 hour mark which seemed quick. We had a little stop. It was a big park for hanging out and running around. "Alright everyone! You've been sitting for 2 hours, time for a run around! Let's go! Gang up tag and Amber's it!" One of the teachers said loudly. "Wait what?" Amber said. We all started running from her and she started the chase. She got her dogs tagged first. Some cats flopped on the ground and sunbathed while they got tagged. The dogs were loving it and jumping up and down. My friends and I were figuring out a game plan. I hopped on Atlas' back and Elton got on Zane's. Suddenly Artemis came running at us. "GO GO GO!" I shouted at Atlas proceeded to run. So did Zane with Elton on his back. "WHAT ABOUT MEEEE!" He cried for help. "Oops." Atlas said. He got tagged by Artemis and was targeting us. He got Zane but Elton jumped quick but he was followed. "Close call." I said. "GOT YA!" Arthur exclaimed. I didn't feel nothing! Atlas must've got tagged. Atlas let me off his back but tagged me immediately. "Everyone! Game over! Come get your snacks!" One of the teachers called out. They were handing our mini packets of trail mix. It had nuts, raisins, chocolate, marshmallows and pretzels. mmm it's good! The raisins surprised me honestly, I liked them way more than I thought I would. "5 minutes left out here. Any unfinished snacks can be finished on bus but do not come to camp." VPF told everyone. "We should set Elton or Stewart up." Zane said. Atlas and I gave him looks. The majority of my friend group has a girlfriend, including me. Zane wants to set Elton or Stewart up with a girl at camp. "Let's think! Blueberry, Izzy, Esmerelda, Pearl is some suggestions... or maybe someone from another school!" Zane looked really excited. "Don't you guys think Skye and Stewart would look good together?" He asked us both. I almost choke on my pretzel when he said that. "They're siblings! No way!" Zane got hit with realization and felt embarrassed. Luckily Stewart wasn't around to hear that. I don't think we should set them up with anyone. It's tempting, but Zane's ideas are just.. I try not to get involved in them. "Let's just stop talking about it." I said as Elton and Stewart came over to us. Soon we were told to get back on the bus. "Be careful of Zane." Elton looked perplexed by what I said. "Why? What do you mean?" He asked me. "He wants to set you or Stewart up." Elton sighed as if he'd heard this one too many times. He didn't seem to care that much. An hour or two later - I'm starting to get bothered by Zane's endless 'are we there yet?'s. "Are we there yet?" "NO!" I finally yelled. "We're here!" Someone suddenly said. Everyone started peering out of their windows. A sign that read: "Brickwood Camp." We were actually here! Everyone started making excited shrieks. All of our buses stopped at a roundabout when you first enter the gates. We were instructed to get off safely and get our luggage and we'll be told of the cabin we're going to. "I really really really hope we're in the same cabin! Or at least Atlas, Stewart or Zane! But I hope I get all of you!" We got our bags and suitcases and all got into a big bunch before the teachers. "Cabin 1. Aina, Akira, Artemis, Blueberry, Riley, Skye and you have 3 students from another school in that cabin." They went to their cabin following Miss Cleo. "Cabin 2. Arthur, Atlas, Bailey, Butkus, Cosmo and you have 3 students from another school also in that cabin." Miss Nina led us to our cabin. I was happy I got Atlas! "So glad I got you!" He said to me. "Same! Imagine we had none of our friends in our cabins!" I said back to him. Let's evaluate the rest of my cabin. Arthur - he's okay, Butkus - don't know him that well all I know he's instagram famous and one of the AADGL dogs. It's becoming a mouthful seriously. Cosmo - okay I guess. Wonder if I know the 3 students from another school. We walked in and I spotted Charlie, Chief and Daniel all sitting together. "Hey! There's more!" Charlie exclaimed. Charlie and Daniel are from KPS and I know them both, Chief moved from DSP to St. Creeks. "Hello everyone!" Arthur greeted them all. "Shall we introduce each other?" Atlas asked. "I say we sort out the sleeping situations." I suggested. "Good point Bailey." Charlie said. In the end it was Arthur and Atlas sharing, Butkus and I, Charlie and Chief and finally, Cosmo and Daniel. I'm on the top bunk. We had our introductions and it was all good. I'm so excited about it all! "I think lunch is soon." Chief said.

Coco's POV
"Cabin 3. Cindy, Cloud, Coco, Delilah, Emerald, Esmerelda, Flossie and you guys have 3 other students from another school in your cabin" I got none of my friends. This sucks. Akira didn't get anyone either! Ugh! That's 10 of us in total including the other students. I'm also in a cabin with Delilah. Like it's just soooo annoying! But Akira's with Aina and Amber so that's worse. We followed Miss Abby to cabin 3. The cabin looked big. It was made of spruce wood. She gave us the key and we went inside. 3 others were sitting in a circle on the carpet. They were all dogs. I recognized Daisy and Teddy. But I did not know who the other dog was. "Hey guys! So great to see you all!" Daisy greeted us. "Daisy!" Esmerelda exclaimed. She ran to Daisy and gave her a big hug. "I've missed you so so so much!" She said. "Same here, Esmeralda!" Daisy and Esmeralda were best friends at DSP, along with Millie and Nancy. We all reunited with Daisy. "Oh Daisy, fancy seeing you here." Delilah rolled her eyes. "Oh Delilah... you must go to DSP now?" She asked her. "Isn't it obvious?" She said annoyed. Ohhh I remember! Delilah used to go to Little Red. Bree told me. Hey! I wonder what cabin Bree's in! She's here too! Yay! We had introductions, the dog I didn't know was from KPS and her name's Softie. I thought I saw her on TV during the swimming internationals. She was on Team Australia. We sorted the bunks next. I'm on the top bunk and I'm sharing with Daisy! Daisy's really nice. "Guys, it's lunch time soon, we should maybe head off." Cindy said. "Good idea, let's go!" Cloud said. I was given the key to take care of. We left and locked our cabin.

Akira's POV
My cabin is well... it's okay. There's 3 others from Little Red. Alaine, Bree and Camera. Coco knows Bree and Camera because they're her neighbors and I think one of them is a good friend of hers. We're currently walking down to lunch. Aina's in charge of the key. For some reason I've got the bottom bunk and Aina is sharing a bunk with me. It's making me feel... I can't even explain. I hope lunch is good. Chef Diego is going to be cooking again! Which is so cool! We were served with what was called a salad roll. It was basically just a bread roll with veggies to me but I took a big bite. Decent, tastes like what you'd think it'd taste like. "You like your cabins?" I asked my friends. "Meh. There's nice cats and dogs  and not so nice cats and dogs. Wish one of you guys were with me." Coco said. "Well I like my cabin! I have Katerina, the only thing I don't like about it is Glitter and Layla. They're in my cabin." Izzy said. I'm happy for Izzy and Katerina - at least two of our best friends got each other. "Yeah it's so cool! Except for Glitter and Layla of course, they're big meanies." Katerina chimed in. We looked at Paisley for what she thought. "Oh me! My cabin's good. Except I have non of you guys, I have no one from another school in my cabin but the sisters are now fighting because I got all three of them in my cabin." She got Nala, Nancy and Nova in her cabin?! Gosh, that'd be chaos. I won't be stopping by Paisley's cabin any time soon that's for sure! Nala, Nancy and Nova are great when they're not around each other. I wonder how they all go home together each day. Last year they also shared a cabin together - that was chaos too! At the end of lunch I put my plate away at the same time as Nancy. "Hey Nancy." I casually said as we were putting them both away. "Oh hi Akira." She greeted me back. "Did you know Daisy's here? She's in Coco's cabin! Have you seen her yet?" "Yeah I know. Esmerelda told me. She's in her cabin as well." Nancy's mood suddenly changed. I get so confused with her. "Aren't you happy to know she's here? Or at least excited to see her again?" She looked at me as if I was crazy. "Yeah no, I'm not looking forward to seeing her again. Why should I? She just suddenly left last year when we had a strong bond and kept it a secret from me. Like how dare she." Wow, that was unexpected. I really thought Nancy would be excited to see Daisy again. "If you'll excuse me, I need to get back to my friends." She pushed past me. What's her problem? I understand now why Nala and Nova get so fired up with her.