Camp Counselor

Chapter 11

"Seriously what's the point of this?" I ask Kara in a quiet voice so that Cat wouldn't get her panties in a twist about talking when she's talking.

The entire camp is out here in the dead center of the wilderness and Cat has the Camp Counselors handing out sheets of paper. I don't get to participate in any of the actual Camp Counselors responsibility's such as handing out activities and help in setting them up since I'm only a CIT until half of the summers gone by. Something about me needing the training and experience, which in reality it doesn't seem that hard. At least Kara doesn't make it look that way.

Kara gave me a annoyed eye roll as she threw a sly smirk my way in attempt to shake me off. It didn't work. "No, seriously." I insist. "It's so easy, I mean 'Find 5 tree branches.' 'Collect seven orange colored leaves.' 'Find 3 bird feathers'" I read off in a presentation tone so that I could express the evidence to my statement. I then give her a shoulder shrug as I restate my question. "What's the point of it? I mean it's so easy. Where's the difficulty and the adventure?" I finish in an almost excited tone as lately that's been what's been getting my by.

Hanging out with Kara is such a new experience for me that I've begun to drive on the adventure of her company. Just this morning Kara took me on a whole new trail and although I got lost, and had no idea where I was going I had the most amazing time trying to find my way out of the situation. Unfortunately I just ended up deeper in the woods and Kara had to get a few other camp counselors to help her out on the secret "Find The Luthor." mission but by god, the experience, the adrenaline. Karas been a real influence on me lately, she's like a whole new experience to what I'm used to.

Kara gave me a knowing look as she knew this too. "You've been hanging out with me too much." She states jokingly which only causes me to huff and roll my eyes. The day that I'll admit that to her face will be the end of me.

"Seriously." I state seriously, in fact it was an almost whiney type of tone.

Kara cleared her facial expression from the joking one she once had, and by the time her eyes came back up to meet mine, I was almost paralyzed with how serious she looked. It's like she could kill someone with those eyes and so I make a mental note to not criticize what type of activities this camp does anymore. To her at least. Not that I have any other friends to vent to.

"It's for the kids Lena, they love it." She informs me with all seriousness to her tone but she also sounded calm. As if she knows exactly how it feels to be in the situation of the kids, and I'm not surprised that she did sound this way because she probably did. Kara and I have become pretty nice friends I'd say, but we've never got into too deep of a conversation, that being said I don't know much about her or how she grew up but there's one thing that I know for sure, this Camp is a part of Kara. She's knows this entire place like the back of her hand and she's crazy experienced in all of it. She's like a pro-camp counselor.

I don't really respond but in stead I soften my facial expression and I nod to show her that I understand what she's getting at. And I understand what she means. This caused Kara to ease her facial expressions too as she began to focus back to what Cat was saying, luckily the ear ache of a woman didn't notice us talking as she was more focused on the children than what we were doing. Somehow she expected us to just be a good influence as camp counselors and behave like them too, which everyone else was doing aside from me and Kara. I'm sure I Kara would have been listening just as well, had I not been distracting her.

Finally Cat shut her mouth and announced that the Treasure Hunt was to begin. I waited for my entire cabin crew to meet up with me and once I had all 5 of my crew, we headed out. We began off to the left end of the woods and I permitted the cabin members to spread out a little more as long as I could keep them all in my line of vision. It's only been two days that I've been able to be an actual CIT to my own group of campers as finally me and Kara were out of the Buddy Cabin. I must say I was a bit worried that maybe once we were out of the cabin, Kara would end up trying to depart from me as quick as she could, and I'm very warmed by the fact she hasn't.