Mining Camp Memories (MCSM)

Year One Day One

Lukas's POV

I woke up to the sound of Jim yelling throughout the camp. Telling everyone to get up. I should of known I was to be woken up early. It is Mining Camp the toughest yet easiest camp in all of the world. My dad warned me about not coming but if I wanted to build great things in the future I had to know how to get the material.

"Ugh what did I sign up for?!" Aiden, one of cabin mates threw the pillow over his head. "It's not even 5 yet!"

"The boys always wake up first on the first day." Gil, another cabin mate, told him.

"Why?" I looked at him.

"Because we're allowed to prank the girls." He smirked.

"Cool." Aiden stood up, getting interested.

"And we all get to choose any girl we saw yesterday. Even if she's the counselor's relative...at least that's what I've heard since this is the first year one of them comes."

"This should be fun then." We smirked.

"Alright who do you want to prank Lukas." Jim asked him a few minutes later.

"I don't know her last name but her name's Jesse. She has long black hair. Wears overalls." I told him. He looked at me surprised.

"Are you sure you want to do that?" He asked me.

"Yeah...why?"

"Alright fine." He sighed and gave me a cabin number with her name on it.

"So who are you pranking?" Gil asked.

"Jesse Cong." I read her last name.

"Ooo it was nice knowing you buddy." He laughed. "She knows this camp like we know how to build. She's the toughest of the tough in this camp."

"How do you know that?"

"She's Jim's niece. She came ever since she was young. She knows ever crook and cranny."

"Well where I come from. I'm the prank king. I can trick her easily."

Jesse's POV

*a couple of hours later*

"Oooo I swear I'll kill who ever did this!" I yelled coming out of my cabin. I was covered in syrup and cream cheese covered my hair. Luckily I wasn't wearing my hair clip to bed that night. "Uncle Jim!!" I called after him.

"What is it kiddo?" He walked out and his eyes widened seeing me. "Wow. One of the boys got you real good didn't he."

"Who picked me?" I glared. 

"You know I cannot say Jesse." He raised his arms in defense. "Not until tomorrow anyways."

"Tell me who did it Uncle Jim." I looked at him angrily but he didn't budge. "Fine. Don't tell me. I'll wait for tomorrow but I will make it even worst on that scum." I walked of to the shower rooms.

Luka's POV

"You got her good." Aiden laughed.

"Thanks." I smiled.

"Get ready for tomorrow." Gil laughed.

"What?"

"Don't you know?"

"The girls prank when they want to."

"At anytime in the day."

"When ever she wants in the 4 years."

"So we have to watch our backs for the rest of the camp?" I looked at him.

"Yup." Gil laughed. "But only once."

"Great." I rolled my eyes. "Now I'll be all paranoid all of camp." and it was true. I was. The rest of the day I watched out for her. She looked like the kind of girl that you didn't want to mess with but she was cool. When she walked up to me that day I would jump scared of what she might do. I discovered she was Jim's niece. No wonder he warned me about her.

"You seem jumpy." Maya, one of Jesse's cabin mates told me.

"Uh...yeah. I guess."

"You pranked Jesse didn't you?" She chuckled.

"I might of." 

"You better watch your back." She walked off. 

"Is she really THAT crazy!" I shouted.

"Who?" I jumped falling in a near by puddle at the sound of a female voice. I noticed the puddle was now mud and I was covered in it. "Sorry." I heard again. I looked up and saw Jesse. She offered me a hand and I took it but we both fell back. We landed beside each other, now covered in mud.

"Are you okay?" I asked her sitting up.

"Yeah I'm fine." She sat up and looked at me.

Jesse's POV

I looked at him with a simple smile before taking notice that my clip had fallen off. I looked around and found that it was gone.

"Oh no." I muttered digging through the mud.

"What's wrong?" He asked me.

"The hair clip." I didn't look at him. "It's gone."

"Hey, it's alright I got extra." He touched my shoulder making me shudder. I looked at him with a shocked expression and he moved his hand off. "Sorry." he reached in his pocket taking out a similar clip to the one he had given me. "Here."

"I can't take two from you."

"Hey its fine. I brought hundreds." He smiled. For some reason...his smile seemed to put me at ease.

"Thanks." I smiled back.

"Alright everyone! It's midday! Time to see what you all can do with such short time before sundown." My Uncle Jim announced.

"Whoa isn't he going to show us a few techniques?" Lukas said a bit surprised.

"No." I shook my head. "My Uncle believes in 'Hands on learning' or whatever he calls it." I took out my mother's pickaxe.

"Woah nice pickaxe. Did you make it?"  He looked at me surprised.

"No. It belonged to my mother." I looked at it. It was a stone pickaxe. It had a lot of durability. My mother loved this pickaxe but, according to my Aunt, she wanted me to have it...to keep me safe.

"It's a very nice one." He took out his own but it was wooden.

"We should get mining." I told him.

"Yeah." A lot of us headed to a mountain where we split up in different groups. Lukas, Maya, and Gil were in my group.

Luka's POV

I was still worried that she knew that I pranked her but she didn't seem to know. Her uncle did warn me but I hadn't listened. Now I was in her group along with Maya and Gil. At least Aiden wasn't with us. He would definitely give me away. I walked to one side of the cave and began breaking blocks with my pickaxe. Maya took the side with Jesse and Gil took mine. We mined for a couple of hours and we each had a stone pickaxe and a stone sword thanks to Jesse.

"Figured out who pranked you yet Jesse?" I heard Gil ask her. I looked over a bit worried.

"No." She shook her head. I sighed in relief but that didn't last long. "But when I do, I will tear him apart limb by limb." Her eyes narrowed. Maybe the honey was bit much. After a few minutes I heard her humming a very familiar tone.....it was my mom and dad's song.

"Hey I know that song." I looked at her.

"Really?" She looked surprised.

"Yeah." I smiled. "Say, won't you stay. We could talk about nothing at all." I slightly sang and she joined. Through out the rest of the mining day we sang and laughed. Maybe her prank won't be so bad right? She seemed nice.