Everline Summer Camp

4

Author: Kaylee

A/N: And we continue to part four. Thank you to those who messaged me with feedback and ideas, they were all really great! To others, feel free to express your opinions and what you liked, didn't like, and things you think should happen! Overall, thank you for reading!

Thursday morning had come too quickly. After the low quality sleep Dan had received that night after the previous day's events, getting up at 7am was not on the agenda. In fact, getting up at all that day was not on the agenda. However, the camp had other expectations for him.

Today was something that the counselors had named, Day of Trust. The first time Dan had heard of it, he'd mistakenly thought it was called the Day of Thrust, which wouldn't have made any sense and he was corrected quickly.

Day of Trust was where you were to put all your trust into a randomly selected person and participate in mindless activities that seemed incredibly pointless.

Once Dan was assigned another camper and given the task of blindfolding one person and having the other person guide them around an obstacle course.

It was just his luck that his partner would chose him to be the blindfolded one. He didn't even get a say in the matter.

Dan's partner was Chris, a boy he'd known from previous camping experiences.

"Okay so Dan, just go straight... Faster.. Okay, now crawl right.. Sharp right! Sharp right! Cool.. Now how about we go, wait, stand up.. Jump up!"

Dan followed the instructions willingly, hoping for this game to be over soon, and silently cheering when the whistle blew to signal the end.

"Okay campers, nice job! Now we're going to switch up the partners and now you're not going to see them until the end of the exercise. How many of us go to church?" A counselor asked.

The majority of the kids raised their hands. Dan rolled his eyes. He wasn't really the church going type.

"Okay great, so what we're going to do is a like doing confessions."

The counselor listed off people on the right side with numbers, and their partners on the left side with numbers.

"Dan Howell, Right, 24" The lady yelled.

He sauntered over to his 'booth'. It was really not some impressive booth but a card table blocked in the middle with cardboard and some plastic netting so you could speak to the person on the other side.

"Um, hi." Dan started.

"Dan?" The voice on the other side asked.

Dan nodded before remembering the voice couldn't see him.

"Uh maybe.." He replied, deciding that he wanted his identity to remain secret.

"Okay well, Maybe Dan, I'm going to ask you for advice. My parents keep sending me letters saying really... Well parenty things. I can't have that keep happening! I'm too old for that." The voice complained.

"I think that you're never too old for that kind of thing. They send you letters because they love you and miss you and there's no need to feel ashamed for that." He tried.

"Wow, thanks. Now you."

Dan thought. Did he really want to be honest and frank with this complete stranger who might know who he is. This is using the term 'might' extremely loose. He decided to go halfway.

"So I have this friend.."

"Phil?" The voice interrupted.

"No, no, no, a different friend. My friend, he uh, he thinks he might be gay but doesn't know what to do about it."