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Chapter Four: Setting up camp
The trees roll past the window as I drum my fingers impatiently on the car door. We have been driving in the car for about a half hour and I was ready to just get out and set up camp. There's only so much car time I can take.
I think Lucas and Gabe are with me on the whole getting out of the car thing too, but my dad? Not so much.
He's having the time of his life. Singing along to songs, quite horribly might I add, and talking nonstop the past thirty minutes to the point where Lucas literally started banging his head onto the back of the passenger seat in front of him.
Once my dad starts talking, almost nothing can get him to stop. Trust me, I've learned a lot about the most random things in the past fifteen years. But I have to say, listening to his stories can be pretty entertaining. Unless you're stuck in a car and have no escape.
Like me right now.
"-And that's when I learned to never leave the cooler open at night! Ah, good times, good times." My dad finishes with a grin the size of Texas. Lucas, Gabe, and I sigh in relief. That wasn't the first time we had heard about the bear stealing all his hamburgers.
"Oh! Did I tell you guys about that time when-"
The three of us groan and my dad laughs. I glance over at Lucas just in time to see his face light up in excitement. Curious, I lean to the right and look over the console and out the windshield to see that the campground is just up ahead.
"Finally, we're here!" I exclaim. Lucas does a little dance involving a lot of arm flailing and jumping around. Well, as much jumping around as he can do with a seatbelt on.
Gabe turns around in his seat so he's facing us and holds out his fist for Lucas to bump. His face breaks out into a gigantic smile.
"You guys ready to have the time of your life?"
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"Well guys," my dad tugs on the tent bag and hauls it out from the trunk of the mustang. "This thing ain't gonna build itself." He walks away from the car a bit before setting the bag down and placing his hands on his hips. My dad looks from side to side and then shrugs. Bending down, he unzips the bag and then turns his head towards us with his butt in the air.
"Come on guys! What're you waiting for? Let's get this baby up!"
Lucas and I burst into a fit of giggles and Gabe groans then slumps down in his seat. The three of us were currently sitting at the wooden picnic table we had found at our campsite. We had just pulled up to the spot we'll be camping at the next few days and I realized that I really didn't feel like unpacking everything after I had seen the lake.
It doesn't help that it's already extremely hot out.
"The sooner you help, the sooner you can go swim-ming..." My dad bribes with a singsong voice. After hearing 'swimming' Lucas jumps out of his seat next to me with a whoop and jogs over to my dad with new found excitement.
"Alright! Let's go let's go let's go! The lake awaits." Lucas shouts over his shoulder to us. Laughing, I hop off the picnic table and head over to my dad and over-excited cousin, leaving a groaning Gabriel behind.
About forty minutes later, and a lot of curse words from my dad, the tent is finally up, along with the two air mattresses we brought with us. After taking a short break, and with short I mean like five seconds, we rush to the trunk of the car and grab all of the blankets, pillows, and sleeping bags and haul them all over to the tent.
Once we manage to get everything inside the tent, Lucas, Gabe, and I each take turns changing into our swimsuits. When Gabe finally steps out of the tent, him being the last one to change, we all grab our towels and head over to the picnic table where my dad is.
" 'Kay dad, we're ready to go. Need anything before we head up there?"
He shakes his head no then says, "I don't need anything, but you guys do." With a smug look on his face he holds up a bottle of sunscreen and Lucas gasps.
"Oh my goodness, how could we have forgotten that. We could have been sun burned to death! The horror!"
From beside me I hear Gabe whisper, "Roasted, toasted, burnt to a crisp." We both laugh and Lucas looks at us with wide eyes before grabbing the sunscreen out of my dad's hands and saying a rushed thanks. He then begins to frantically spray himself down with it. After he's done he hands the bottle to me and I spray Gabe first before myself then set the bottle down on the table.
I look up to see my dad smiling at us and I sheepishly smile back.
"Okay, now we are ready."
"Alright, just make sure you're back in time for lunch. Which is in like-" he glances down at his watch, "-two hours?"
"Will do!" I spin around to face the boys. "Grab your towels turds, it's swimming time."
"Let the Summer begin!" Lucas yells before running off across the grass and through other campsites. The people watch him in amusement as he runs past with his towel flying behind him, Gabe close on his heels.
I smile.
Let the Summer begin.
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Just One Day
Teen Fiction"You and I were probably never meant to be but I loved every single second that I spent with you." -Anon When Jade has the chance to go camping with her dad, brother, and cousin, she expects it to be like it always is. They find a campsite, they g...
