Science of Owls

Bun Fights

Chapter 61 

The next week was normal I guess. We were talking.

All of us.

Amelia was soon part of our group. In fact our many groups seemed to merge...

There was me, Connie and Eve , joined with Amelia and one of her friends, Noodle and his gang of 8 plus Felix. So the 14 of us were now the big gang. And what's a group of friends without gossip? There were so many gossipy rumours about Noodle and his three girls... Most of them were painful on my behalf.

There had always been that one kid who thought me and Noodle were going out, even when he was dating Amelia. Not too many people knew about Eve, but when ever some dick head said " you two should kiss!" I felt disappointed.

I very much I wanted to ... but I wasn't game enough to go for his lips... neck was good for now. I made sure to stand especially close to him whenever we talked, or play with his hair, or even lick him when I felt like it. That , hopefully showed Eve and Amelia that I was still vaguely competing. I don't drag people of couches , or steal merchandise, or rip out peoples hair out!
whenever I felt down about the torment, Felix always seemed to be there for me.

He would give me one of his famous hugs, and his spiky hair would tickle my neck.
He always knew what to say to make me feel better... Except for when he tells me that Noodle and Amelia were snuggling in the library one afternoon after school... that actually made me cry on the spot... Fuck...

I had no idea how this was going to end.
I wanted to be friends with them all, especially Noodle, if I lost him I think I would go crazy for real!
But once he decides who he likes best... will we all stop talking? Who would it be? Why were we so serious about this one guy?
Maybe it was a badly written episode of keeping up with the Kardashians, high school style?

But none the less the writers of this show decided to throw in an end of season event.

Camp...

This was a special camp that happened once a year for grades 10, 11 and 12. Apparently it was pretty good , as long as your group had your friends in it...

The place we were going to was about 4 hours away and we were staying there for 5 days.

We had already organised our cabins , and who we were going to sit next to. Me and Noodle even had a plan to get picked up and dropped off my each-others parents.

The morning had finally come around. A 4am wakeup call was mandatory as we needed to be there by 5 am ... what a pain.

We picked Noodle up from his place, the radio blaring in the cold morning air. It was days like this when you think , global warming my ass!

The power of love was playing on the radio and we sang along all the way to school.

When we go the we huddled with everyone to keep our warmth.

To my horror, I found out Amelia was sitting next to him on the bus... all the way there, the whole four hours...

At that point my life was coming to an end... the beginning of this trip was like my world crashing down.

" hey... just remember that we have a whole week ahead of us... just try and do better than her " reassured Connie on the bus. Eve was next to Felix, he offered to sit next to her and watch movies all the way to the camp.

" yeah , I guess ill try ..."

" come , stop fucking sitting around and moping in the background , you need to actually get in there!" Connie was giving me one of her famous pep talks... it went on for a while. I eventually just stared down the bus isle to see Noodles head bobbing around. Laughing and I could hear that Amelia had taken his phone.

It was beyond obvious that she still liked him... she had recently denied it but... bloody hell. And people thought I was going out with him!?

In fact I often get the question these questions often

Are you jealous of them?

Is Amelia going out with Noodle?

What's their ship name?

What's your ship name?

Your cute together , why don't you go out?

And so much more bull shit questions, that for one I could hardly answer, and are too painful two answer .

Eventually 2 hours in and a maca's run we were all pretty settled in.

The maca's run also being painful... I mean I sat at the end of the table watching the other two fight over him... fuck I hate watching.

Felix and Eve were asleep on each-others shoulders. They had let Felix's lap top slide to the side and had several photos taken.

I had contracted a head ache and was listening to music while Connie read the Hunger Games for the millionth time.

I decided for the next hour to let my Panadol kick in, sit back and listen to screamo music while I tried not to concentrate on Noodles head in my direct line of vison.

Yonks later we finally arrived at the camp.

I was pleasantly surprised. I mean , I thought it would have been horrible! But it wasn't a bomb site like I had imagined.

They sat us down in the middle of the grounds. So we had a 360 degree view around us.

There were a large set of wooden cabins probably about 20to 40 or so. They were crammed into one side of my view. They were like a little town in themselves, winding around each other. They were painted in dull old colours , giving a sense of neglect or poor paint choices.

They explained to us that there was only one toilet block on the whole place and that was in the food hall, which was on my other side. That was a glassy looking building, my guess was that it had so many windows because so many people needed to breathe.

Rumour was it that the camp had been abandoned for years before this week and that was why they decided to take us here... so they could gas us all and no one would know... I highly doubted that was the reason, if it had been abandoned at all that is...

" Noodle, Felix, John and Mitch, you guys are in Cabin 15 over to the left" said the instructor. They were the last group of boys to be called out.

He soon moved onto the girls.

" Nazz, Connie, Eve and Amelia, cabin 24 to your right then left" he said and pointed.

Admittedly i wasn't happy about sharing a room with Eve and Amelia for a whole week... at all.

Welcome to the biggest bun fight of history...