Harper
My second year at Camp Okinawa but this time I’m a counselor. I’ve always been the sort of preppy girl in my school, cheerleader, you know what I’m talking about. Last year I had dated this girl, Dakota. She made the first bit of summer wonderful but she cheated on me, with a dude. But anyways, enough about that. I had a year to get over that treacherous bitch. This year though, there was this girl, Riley. She wore such cute outfits and her hair was gorgeous, about shoulder length and deep brown. Not to mention her eyes, they were a piercing gorgeous green.
“My names Riley and I guess a verb that would go with it is radical or something, I don’t know” She said, her voice was so masculine sounding and smooth, I wanted to hear her talk all the time. The rest of the icebreaker went as usual, I think at least, I was too focused on Riley. But so was Dakota. She was learning her prey like any other predator would.
We began a hike to a little spot in the woods, just for another bonding activity, and I saw Dakota and Riley talking, they looked like they were flirting and a fire raged within me. She’s not even mine. Why do I feel so, jealous?
“What’re you guys doing all the way back there, come on” I yelled, after I said that I saw a look in Rileys eyes that was just hatred and disgust, I felt my stomach churn and had to swallow it and turn back around.
I decided we could have a fire in front of the cabins, slightly hoping for a chance to talk to Riley. But no, Dakota sat next to her. She laid her head on her and Riley immediately laid her head down on hers, I wanted to go up there and just shove Dakota off of her. Why can’t she just go after someone else, why does it have to be the girl I like? Is she doing this on purpose?? I decided to call the fire off early due to it being “late”, I just didn’t wanna see anymore of Dakota even near her. But that backfired. I held the door to the cabin open for everyone to file in through, Riley came walking up, Dakota in her arms and I couldn’t help but stare with envy in my eyes. I decided to just lay down and try my best to sleep, but I couldn’t, I knew Dakota was on Riley’s bed with her, I felt them moving, god I wanted to rip Dakota off the bunk and climb up there myself. Just to hold Riley, see her up close, listen to her. Okay, Okay, I get that sounds crazy but you know when you just want, need, someone so bad, you just want them in your presence.
I woke up and decided to just sit in silence, I didn’t wanna get up yet. I didn’t sleep well last night. The anger was stirring inside me, why would Dakota go after her? Then I heard a familiar noise from last summer, Dakota. I began shaking with anger from it, why the fuck is she doing this, she knows I’m right under the both of them.
“Riley” I heard.
I felt a jolt above me, they had stopped, but I heard them talking, Riley didn’t even want to keep going, but Dakota just manipulated her, used her kissing to distract her. I got fed up and shot up off my bed.
“Ladies.” I seethed. Dakota said something stupid I don’t even care about, I turned slightly to see if Riley was listening and she was doing more than that, she was staring into my eyes, it seemed like she was trying to decode what I was feeling. I cleared my throat and told them to get ready so I could wake the other girls.
“Yes ma’am” Riley saluted, I don’t know why but that action made my stomach flutter, she and Dakota climbed down the ladder. Dakota, thank god, went to the bathroom to change whiled Riley started changing in the corner of the cabin like the rest of us had begun doing, god her stomach and her legs were just, perfect, I couldn’t help but stare at her. She caught me staring though, but she smiled at me, and winked. I turned as fast as I could. What was that? Was she trying to flirt with me or was she just being like, god, I don’t even know anymore.
“Alright ladies so today we have an early morning and are going to go on another hike to the lake, this ones a little closer so its just to get your blood pumping.” I said, trying to keep up the fake smile. My blood was already pumping faster than it should. The memory of them on top of each other and hearing Dakota say Riley’s name. I should be in Dakota’s position, not her.
I don’t even remember half the hike but I saw Dakota lean in to kiss Riley so I closed what distance I could and squeezed between them. I wrapped my arm around Riley, I wish I could say why but I don’t even know, I asked her if we could talk over on the side for a second and I told her what Dakota did.
“Is that why you’ve been glancing at me weird?” She asked. Should I say yes and just ignore my feelings or tell her the truth?
“Umm.. Yup that is totally the reason, theres no other reason at all” I rambled. She looked at me, but I couldn’t read anything in her eyes till she smirked at me.
“So there’s not another reason at all? You’re not still obsessed with her or you don’t like me?” She teased. Did she know? Was I obvious? I couldn’t do anything but just sit there, stunned. “It’s okay, tell you what, I’ll break things off with Dakota and we can see what she missed out on” She winked. I stood there while she walked off. How could she tell? Did she just move on that fast? Was she the same as Dakota?