Summer Camp Fandom

Chapter 9

We are ordered to return to our cabins after the incident at the lake, but the chief stops Rylee and I and asks, "Will you two please come to my office?"
Without saying a word, we all head to the camp office and into the chief's main doors.
"Please, both of you take a seat," He says.
We sit down in the chairs not more than a few feet away from his desk.
"I know you've probably realized that half of your group members are not apart of your Fanbase anymore. So I have made my decision and I hate to tell you this, but you have no other choice than to leave camp," he announces almost harshly, but doesn't mean to.
His words hit me like a good Ellie Goulding song, but in this moment, in a bad way. He stares at Rylee and I for a while. I look down at my hands in my lap and try to tell myself not to cry. I've lost everything; my friends, this camp, a fandom. No one else would understand. On top of this all I still don't know if Nina is okay.
"Do you know what happened to Nina?" I ask.
"Well some information is confidential, but all I can tell you is that she's in the hospital with her family currently."
These words now hit me a little differently. They hit me like a song where everything is all over the place. You have no idea what's happening, the wrong rhythm, the lyrics...everything. It's all very confusing. I still don't have the necessary information to know whether or not Nina is alive.
"Do you know if I could see her?"
"Well I would have to call her parents to find out. I would hate to disturb them after what they all have gone through in the past couple days, but I will try. Now why don't you and Rylee head back to your cabin."
Ranger Elliot escorts Rylee and I to our cabin. We wait in silence for any news from the chief. He never comes back.
When Rylee and I head out to dinner time in the camp cafeteria, we walk slowly past the chief's office. I see him in there working on some sort of paper and documents and such.
I immediately feel a rage if anger rush through me. I don't why though, but I urge myself through his doors and let the words file out of my mouth one after the other.
I tell him how I feel about how he doesn't care for what others think. That he doesn't know how to run this camp. Then I got into more details, but most of it I don't even remember what they were about. There were tears and maybe some swearing, but the whole point was to find out what hospital Nina was located and maybe even change this camp up a bit.
I leave the room in silence, even leaving the chief in silence. I walk into the cafeteria in silence, everyone staring at me. Silence. I was waiting for someone to announce, "Preach!" or "Amen!" but it never came. I wonder if they had heard what just happened in the past few minutes here. It doesn't bother me, nothing bothers me anymore. I think i got everything I needed to say off my mind.
I decide to leave the cafeteria and skip dinner, go to bed hungry, maybe starve myself, maybe end up in the same position as Nina. No.
Rylee stays in the cafeteria alone. I start to feel slight pity for her, she didn't even know that I would rage at the chief like that. She didn't know I would leave her alone. I feel a little pity for her for this.
I know the chief might just call my parents to come pick me up in the morning, but I don't really care at this point.
I realize that I really may be leaving tomorrow, so I decide to pack up my things and maybe try and find a paper and pencil in one of the drawers in between the bunk beds. I begin to write a letter to Rylee first, and then Silvia. I've always liked writing, mostly short stories, but never letters. I rarely write emails anymore, everything is done by text, of course.
In my letter to Rylee, I mention that she, Jordan, and Nina were great friends to have for a short time. I thank her for all the times that she stuck up for us. I thank her for being someone I could relate to in this fandom.
I start to write a second letter to Silvia, but have second thoughts. I wonder if Jack will find this and maybe do something to Rylee. I wonder if what he did to Nina was related to the "incident" with Jack and I. I would never want Rylee to get hurt.
I decide not to write the letter to Silvia and wait till morning. Maybe the chief wont call my parents.
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I wake up the next morning and find that I had slept through breakfast. I don't even bother to hurry. I put on clothes that I wore a few days ago (another thing thing wrong about this camp: very few laundry days) and head to the camp cafeteria with weary eyes and an oily face. I can feel the circles under my eyes and as I walk into the cafeteria, everyone goes quiet. I sit down and notice Ranger Elliot approaching me.
"Hey, everything alright?" She asks.
I shake my head fatiguely. I think I maybe showing an expression on my face that's asks could I please go back to bed?
She nods her head gently and looks towards the cabins outside the windows as I leave.
I sheepishly walk to bed and sleep till midday. It's usually not like me to sleep this late. But it feels good. I get out of bed to use the bathroom.
I finally wash my face and stare at myself in the mirror. I don't know why though. I here someone come through the front door. I realize that it could be Rylee, but I notice no sound except for an occasional sniffle. I hear unusual high-pitched whimpers that follow the sniffles. Someone's crying.

I exit the bathroom expecting Rylee to be in the room. Instead, I'm presented with blonde fixed hair in a bun, a t-shirt with words that I can't make out, and denim short-shorts that were waayy too short. Her tears make clear of the eyeliner that runs down her cheeks. Her eyes are bloodshot and red from crying for what happened to be for a while.
One more tear slips from one of Silvia's eyes as she says, "So it was true?"