Summer Love

Chapter 36

****After breakfast****

We were walking to the cabin to put our toothbrushes away from doing our chore this morning which was sight sweep. Sight sweep is my favourite chore because all you have to do is go to each fire place and make sure there is wood for the next fire and water to put the fire out. We were going to the cabin to also get our running shoes on for Zip line.

My cabin has wanted to go to the zip line all week and we finally got a spot on the schedule where it's only my cabin doing it. I went to Ethan out side on the porch and poked him. He looked at me and I gave a look that told him I needed to go to the bathroom. He nodded and went up to Sirius. He came back and linked arms with me as we walked to the lodge.

Once we left the washroom we quickly crossed the Field of Dreams to the rock wall and zip line. The boys already had the equipment on and were waiting at the zip line pole. I put everything on with a little help from Ethan. We walked over there and I got told by Shea (another counselor who runs the rock wall) that I was going to be last.

I dragged Ethan over to the tree and we sat under it to get out of the sun.

"Riley, you doing okay?" He asked.

"Yeah, I'm so much better than last night. It just hurts now. I just don't want to be like I usually am when it's this time of the month. I usually close myself up and don't talk much. Tell me when I am closing myself off okay?" I ask. He nods.

I hear my name get called and I get up and walk over to the pole to get hooked up. Ethan walks up to the pole.

"Will you wait for me over there at the end?" I ask.

"Sure, Riley. The boys are going with Sirius to Harmony house because we are having arts and crafts." He explained.

"Can I make a sign for the cabin?" I asked hopeful. He nodded. He then started walking down to the end of the zipline as I started climbing to the top of the pole. When I got to the top of the pole another counselor that I forget the name to hooked me up to the zip line. When he was done he told me I could go when ever I was ready.

Here's the thing though. I have a fear of the zip line. Why am I doing it then? I've done it before but I was even more scared last time. I want to do it again but it's making me scared again. I take in a deep breath and jump off of the post on the pole. I feel this burst of adrenaline and start to panic just a little bit. I hate the feeling of adrenaline but I push through it to the end.

Once I get to the end the zip line goes back and forth bringing me with it and a staff member named Raindrop is waiting on a moveable staircase. He has a rope that he throws up at me for me to catch. When I catch it he pulls me over to the staircase and unhooks me. I walk down the staircase meeting Ethan at the end. He helps me take off the equipment I have on and we run over to the rock wall to put it away.

We then walk across the field of dreams and through cabin path.

"Last session of the week Riley. Are you excited to go back home?" Ethan asks while we are walking across cabin hill.

I thought about it. Am I excited to go home? I mean yeah I get to bring Ethan home with me because we are dating and we live next each other but on the other hand I love coming here. It's the place I go to, to get away from the world beyond this property. I don't have to bother with the problems with my family or with friends, or with school. It's like it's own little world and I love it here.

I look up to Ethan. "I'm not sure. I mean yeah I miss my parents and my friends but I love it here and there is barely any problems here like in Hamilton." He nods.

"Yeah. I love it here, it's like a small island that keeps you away from the drama of the world. But a good thing is we can hang next week and the time that I am here will go by fast. Maybe I can get you to come another week if I make a few words to people." He says. I smile.

"Thanks Ethan. I love you." I reply.

"I love you too Ri." He says back.

We get to Harmony House where the boys are and it starts to rain. We go inside the house to the boys talking to my old cabin. I sit over at the table in the room where Riley is painting. Ethan goes and grabs a wooden board and more paint and paint brushes. He comes back putting the board and the paint in front of me.

I take the black paint and paint the whole wooden board. I then wait for it to dry.

"Are you ready for the last camp wide game after down and out?" Riley asked me while I was waiting.

"Yea I hope its the jungle game." I replied.

"I think its prey and predators." Ethan piped up. I groaned. I didn't like that game much. It was based purely on stamina which I don't have. The other game was still kind of based on stamina but not as much. This game is not my thing.

"It's okay Riley. Just try to have fun. If you get out come around and look for me and we can hang out for the rest of the time." Ethan offered.

"No Quantum. You like running and this game so I am not going to take that away by getting you to spend most of the game with me when everybody knows I am going to get out really quickly." I say. I pick up another brush and dip it in white paint. I draw a few stars and one big one in the middle. I let that paint dry a bit.

"Are you sure Riley? I play this every other week, I don't have to play." Ethan says.

I shrug. "It's up to you then Quantum. I am not going to force you to hang with me instead of play with the boys.

I take black paint and write Pine k2 2017 in the big star in the middle of the board. I then take a silver marker and write my name in caps. I then call all the boys over to right their name on the board. Sirius writes his name last out of the group who got up to sign it. Ethan takes the board and the marker an writes his name.

I look on the board to see everyone's names and see that Quantum is written right underneath mine with a plus sign in I between. I look up to Ethan.

"Really Quantum?" I ask. He smiles and nods. I shake my head.

"Can I hang this up on top of my bed?" I ask him. He nods. Sirius then gets up telling us that we have to go to lunch. We get up and make our way there but Ethan and I head over to the cabin first to put the board on his bed.