Ray's Rainbow Camp

Chapter Four, Truths And Youths,

(Just going to to have a couple curse words in this one btw.)

Luke's POV

I wake up and the first thing I see is Oceanus. He's a few bunk beds away, getting dressed for the day. No one else is in the cabin, probably up and ready for the day, outside, having fun. Oceanus takes off his shirt and I see his abs. Holy shit, he's ripped. He's ripped, hot, and I am his next project. Oh my gosh, he is so hot. No, no, no, no! You can't fall for him! You can't let your heart be broken again! You can't let another guy stomp all over your heart! I look at him and realize I have already fallen for him. Darn it! Come on Luke you need to stop falling in love! You need to stop it! It will get you nowhere in life! Nowhere! I sit up quickly, grab my boots and put them on, and make a run for the door. Obviously, Oceanus sees this, puts on a new shirt, and runs after me. WHY DOES THIS CAMP HAVE TO TORTURE ME WITH HOT GUYS THAT WILL NEVER LOVE ME BACK? UGH! I run towards a trail in the woods behind our cabin. It's early morning and the morning breeze feels good on my skin.

As I run up the trail I see a something awful. My sister, my dear sister, on a stretcher, covered in mud, blood, and filth. A girl her age is standing next to her, talking to Ray, the leader of this whole camp. Two men are guiding the stretcher down the pathway while Ray and the girl talk. I run over to my sister, who appears to be unconscious on the stretcher.

"What happened to my sister?" I yell loudly.

The girl looks to Ray, then to me, as I stand in front of my sister's body on the stretcher, "She got thorns in her foot from last night, which infected her foot, and made her have a fever,"

"Who even are you?" I ask her, my hands balling up into fists.

"I'm Sirena's new friend, my name is Phoenix," She says, not breaking eye contact with me for a second.

I shake my head. This was too much in the early morning. First seeing how ridiculously hot Oceanus is, second seeing my sister unconscious, and now finding out my sister has a friend. When did she make a friend? She is not the friend making type at all, yet she wants to find her true love. I snarl and Phoenix steps backward. Ray gets between us before I can do anything else. Ray's face is calm and calculated, while Phoenix's face shows fear. The two men pushing my sister on the stretcher keep moving towards the infirmary.

"Calm down Luke, Phoenix is a kind girl and was simply looking out for her, she is the one that called for help so that we could save your sister," Ray says.

"Maybe that is true, but why did she even let my sister get hurt?" I growl.

"She didn't know about the wound until this morning alright? The first thing she did was call me for help, now please calm down and leave her alone" Ray says sternly.

"CALM DOWN?! YOU WANT ME TO CALM DOWN?! ILL SHOW YOU CALM!" I shout at Ray and make a move to punch her.

I don't know where all this sudden change of mood and thought comes from. It's been in me for awhile now, it's always there simmering beneath and below me. Irrational thoughts, paranoia, restlessness, depression, hostility, apathy, my mind has been going nuts. It's all because of my parents! They did this to me! They put something in my water, or maybe they put drugs in my food! Maybe my parents could predict the future and knew I was going to suffer here at camp, and in life, so they kept me alive! What if my parents were time travelers and my whole entire life is fucking with the cosmos by me just being alive.

Suddenly someone behind me grabs my arms. I struggle against whomever it is, I need to show that woman her lesson for making me angry. I need to punch her and make everything right with the world.

"Calm down, Luke, seriously," I hear Oceanus say over my shoulder.

"No!" I scream.

I feel his finger on my neck and start to feel woozy. I fall to the ground, hitting my head hard on the dirt road. As my conciseness fades out I see the look of disappointment on Oceanus's face as he stands over me.

Phoenix's POV

Sirena's brother falls to the ground, looking half dead like his sister. I look up at Ray and she looks at me. Together we then look at the man who made him pass out. He's a tall kid, with broad shoulders, a cleft chin, and messy hair. Not my type, but I guess he could be Luke's type.

I am very worried about Sirena. When I woke up on top of her in the woods, everything felt right with the world. Then I noticed how extremely hot she was, and not just her looks. I felt her forehead and she was burning up. I turned on my flashlight to look at her, checked her pulse, and found her foot torn up and infected. I called the emergency hotline number for the camp, not even caring that we weren't supposed to be out here so early in the morning. Ray and the guys with the stretcher came to get her, and I had to explain everything to Ray about us being out so late. SHE WAS TOTALLY FINE WITH IT! She said she ships us or whatever so we can do whatever we want as long as we don't get caught by the campus guards.

When I first saw Sirena's foot I was in shock. She was wearing shoes, but not ones that covered her entire feet. The flip-flops could not protect her from her fate. When I first saw it I cried. I thought she was already gone at first, but because I saw her breathing, I knew she wasn't.

I waste no time getting to know the guy who took Luke down. I run after the stretcher, down the long hill towards the infirmary. The infirmary is a part of the cabin we signed into camp in. It's the only two story cabin on campus, and the biggest too. I run after the stretcher as fast as I can, out of breath before I can even catch up to it. I should have more stamina for running since I am a dancer, but I really don't. I imagine Sirena in my mind, happy, awake, her beautiful self, and run faster than I ever have before.

By the time I make it to the infirmary, Sirena is already there. She is being put under anesthesia so she doesn't feel it when they take the thorns out of her foot. The nurse carefully unwraps the bandage on her foot, I look away. The room they are doing it in is tiny and claustrophobic but has one small stool next to the bed. The nurse isn't sitting in the stool, so I sit on it and watch her as she carefully takes thorns out of my friend's foot. I look around the room when I can't stand to watch it any longer, everything is made of wood. The walls, the bed, everything. The strangest thing is that there are no windows. The only light source is the huge light that takes up the entire ceiling. There is a small desk with a tray on it where the nurse sets her supplies, scalpels, needles, bandages, the thorns she has pulled out, and the thing attached to Sirena's arm that helps her administer the anesthesia.

The nurse pulls out the last thorn and places it on the tray.

"She is going to be out for awhile, you should probably go back to your cabin and relax," The nurse tells me.

"I'm not going to leave her," I say and look at my friend as the nurse rebandages her foot.

The nurse looks at me and nods her head, "When you get hungry for lunch, come to me, I'll have food for you because she might be out for a day or two, that infection is very dangerous to her health and has put her in a temporary coma, tell me if she wakes up"

I nod my own head, looking at my friend's gorgeous face, and sigh, "Okay......"

"Are you her girlfriend?" The nurse asks.

I snap my head to look at the nurse, "No no no no no no we are just friends, just friends,"

"Sure," The nurse says with a warm smile, "We'll see about that after she finds out you saved her life,"

The nurse then walks out of the room, and I am left alone with my comatose best friend. I take her hand, still burning with warmth. I rub the palm of her hand with my thumb and close my eyes. I have never been religious before in my life. I have always been too busy with dance to even pick up a bible because of my parents. Right then and there, I do my first prayer ever, praying to any god/goddess out there to please help my best friend stay alive.