Meeting again
"Shit," Max cursed under his breath. Of course everyone was there before him. The kid slowly examined the others, nothing changed pretty much. Ered was casually leaning against the wall of the Mess Hall, acting cool as always. Next to her was Nerris, probably rambling about that weird stick with a fake crystal, that she was holding in her hand. On her left side stood Harrison who played with the material of his black gloves, and, if Max didn't know better, he would say that the boy was acting suspicious. Next up was Nurf who was currently for no damn reason punching a tree until the weaker branches broke. Space Kid and Dolph were whispering to each other and together scribbling something down in probably Dolph's sketchbook. If Max had to guess, he would say that they were planning to fly to the moon and present the aliens young Hitler's 'masterpieces'. The kid examined them again and finally noticed that one person was missing. Preston.
"Hey, Nerd Kid!" he kicked his taller friend to get his attention.
"Ow! What was that for?!" he whimpered while checking on his ankle, to make sure it wasn't bruised yet.
" Where in the hell is the drama kid? " he asked while mentioning the others. Neil looked around in surprise.
" I- I'm not sure, he was talking to Harrison just before you arrived. I guess maybe he went to unpack his things or something. " he shrugged and went back to Nikki, who clearly didn't understand the difference between vampires and bats. It seemed that everybody was doing their own thing and they were too busy to notice him.
Perfect.
Max smiled devilishly, maybe he could get his plan to work out. Camp man and Gina were out of sight so the kid quietly sneaked in to the Mess Hall only to be met by his camp counselors, looking at him with surprise. Yet that didn't last long, David suddenly appeared just in front of him, squealing happily at the site of the boy.
" Max! It's so good to see you back! How has school been? Did you say hi to all the campers yet? Do you-"
" One more word camp man and I'll bang the door in your face. " the kid hissed at the man who just laughed at the threat.
"Now now Max. Don't be so aggressive. I just wanted to know, how have you been?"
"Aggressive? Oh, please David, if I was really aggressive I already would've fucking thrown 15 snowballs in your face. " The counselor grinned at him.
"Well, I'm glad you didn't do that, still.. it doesn't give you permission to cuss. " Max sighed, clearly irritated, but said nothing. He quickly looked David up and down, the only thing that changed were his clothes. The man was wearing a gray jacket, brown jeans and his normal, ugly yellow scarf.
'Why is he still wearing it? It's fucking winter not summer.'
Max didn't get to finish his internal monologue when David picked him up and walked out of the Mess Hall, smiling annoyingly.
"C'mon, it's time for our first Winter Activity kiddo! I'm sure you can't wait to have fun! "
Max bit his tongue just before he could say 'Fuck you David!', he would save that for later. Right now he had a bigger problem. It was called having fun.. and the kid didn't like it.