Whirlwind

2. The Meeting

I was 15 at the time, little did I know what would happen, I wasn't prepared.

Every year there's this summer camp were we do all sorts of stuff: we play games, we hang out, we make friends. It lasts for a week and it's the best week of the year because you're away from your parents and your worries and you have no connection to the real world, no phones, no watches only you and your willingness to have the best time of your life!!

This camp is divided into two section: the first is a camp from when you're 12 to 14 years and the second is for when you're 15 until you're 17, there's 3 camps of the second section.

It was my very first year of the second section and I was nervous. Two weeks before it I was already panicking about it, but I was also really eager to good and meet new people.

I don't know what I have, if have anything, but sometime I get really overly anxious about stuff and I overthink stuff. My head is always wired to think:

"what will they think of me?!"

"will I fit in?!"

"will I make friends?!"

But there is also another side of me that's like:

You're being stupid, you know you are going to have a good time and screw them if they don't like you, it's their loss, not yours! ( I usually refer to this part of me as my true, inner self, or at least the person I would like to be!)

I'm really shy and it takes a while for me to open up to someone. That's because I've been hurt in the past, mocked by people who were supposed to be my friends... and it really got to me.

I was afraid that one week, 7 short days weren't going to be enough for me to have a good time , for me to make friends.

I was wrong though.

I didn't just make friends, I met people that I truly connected in unimaginable ways!

And I was being a little over dramatic because I wasn't going alone, I would have three of my closest friends with me! Mary, Sophie and Caroline.

Mary, Caroline and I have been friends since I can remember. We're not as close as we once were but I still thought of them as two of my BFF's.

I met Sophie on my first ever first section camp and we've been great friends ever since! I felt like I could trust her with my life and my inner most darkest secrets. And I was so wright!!!

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It was like 6 in the morning and I was already up and thinking about shit.

The bus for the camp would leave at half past eight and I was freaking my mind out!! I was so nervous that I looked like a little Chihuahua twitching!

Suddenly my phone beeped, taking me out of my thought bubble. It was a text from Sophie.