Chapter 3
The bus pulled in at the entrance to the camp.
CAMP BOILING ISLES
Strange name, I wonder why it's called that.
Everyone piles off the bus, then the camp directors that were waiting for us, try to make order as we shuffle to find our bags, suitcases and friends.
“Quiet!” One of them shouted.
“You will each be sorted into a bunk with four or five of your fellow campers” another stated, “These cabins you share shall each have a small living area, two rooms where you will sleep and an extra room where a camp director will be supervising you during the evenings!”
Everyone groaned. No midnight adventures I suppose.
“Now when you hear your name, come meet your cabin members and supervisors!”
With my luck I will be put straight with that “Amity” girl from earlier. The supervisors continue to read out names and take their respective groups down to their cabins until.
“Luz Noceda”
I start to walk up to the front, already dreading who I’m going to be put with when…
“Willow Park”
I turn to look, it’s the girl whom I sat with earlier, I smile at her. At least I’ll have one person who’s ok in my cabin.
“Gus Porter”
“King Clawthorne”
Two boys step up next to us, the first is medium height with dark brown spiky hair, He has a round face and bright brown eyes. He has a blue hoodie and beige trousers.
Willow runs towards him and hugs him,
“Luz, this is my friend Gus from school”
Gus reaches out to shake my hand, it’s nice to meet you, uh…
“Luz”
“Luz, nice to meet you” and smiles at me
Our attention turns to the other boy stood next to us; this must be king. King, I wonder if that’s really his name, what a strange name to have. He is much shorter than all of us in the group, he wears dark clothes and a black jacket. On his jacket I notice a pin, the shape of a crown saying, “burger king”. Around his neck is a large gold charm attached to a red chain.
He introduces himself and we start talking about all the things we brought- or forgot to bring in some cases- until we are quickly interrupted with a shout.
“Hello there and welcome to Team Owl!” She says staring at us all. She has thick long bright orange hair that seems to stand up on its own, large gold earrings that creep out from her nest of hair. She wears a jacket with the initial E stitched into it on one side, and a small grey skirt under her jacket. I guess that she must be around 2/3 years older than the rest of us in the group.
“My name is Eda, and I will be your director, before we start the tour are there any questions?”
We all raise our hands.
She ignores them and says “Good. Let’s get going!”
She hurries off before anyone of us can begin to protest, I start talking with Gus as he tells me all about this new video game that he can’t play whilst we’re here. King hearing our conversation interjects and tells us about all the shows and tv we can’t watch here because all devices other than phones are banned-There was no signal out here so it wouldn’t matter anyway.
The camp is in the middle of the Forrest, so buildings are built around the trees and it’s a maze to find your way through. The main area of the camp is cleared of woods so that you can see all the main buildings. The main three: Arts, Dining and The common area, they are all large wooden buildings facing each other. In the middle of them is a large seating area that was centred around a campfire.
“I really hope we don’t have to sing campfire songs together in the evenings!” Gus stated.
We all agreed with him.
“Although I wouldn’t mind some marshmallows” King said.
We all murmur are agreements towards getting some food.
As we hurry across the camp there are loads of signposts pointing towards different areas with things like “archery” and “track”
“I feel like I’m at camp-half blood” I said quietly to Gus.
He laughs and whispers back “Hopefully without the monsters though”
We pass the main staple of the camp- the lake. The sun shone on the water causing it to shine, the water rippled as if it were alive. Boats on the shore seemed to smile at us as we wondered. Sand covered the entire area of the lake.
“Dare you to Jump in“ Willow said to Gus.
“Absolutely no chance” He replied.
We continue following behind Eda, the four of us huddled together in whispers.
“How much further could it possibly be?”
“Maybe she’s lost?”
“My feet hurt”
Till we rounded around a corner and there our cabin was. Eda turned around to stare at us, smiling she shouted:
“Welcome to the Owl house”