Nikki thought about Macy's question. "I guess not. But otherwise, you won't be able to swim all week, becasue today's the swim test. Why?"
Otis sat on the porch. He gave a small smile after hearing Nikki play a song on her guitar. Otis had brought his guitar, but it was still shoved under the bed.
“I hate the water..terrifies me..” She mumbled.
Thomas walked out onto the porch and leaned against the railing, thinking about the fact the Macy hated swimming.
"Oh. That stinks." Nikki said.
The cabins all went to the swimming pool. Nikki walked over to Macy. "Are you going to take the swimming test?" she asked, already knowing the answer.
Otis got in line for the swimming test, reading the sign that said that you had to swim across the short end of the pool and tread water for 10 seconds. If you didn't do that properly, or didn't take the test at all, you couldn't swim in the deep end.
"No.." She replied, sitting down and watching the others. Thomas noticed her and walked over to her. "You aren't taking it?" He asked. Macy shook her head. "You knew I wouldn't."
Otis took the test and passed. He sat on the edge of the pool until everyone was finished.
Nikki finished and sat with Otis.
Thomas finished and walked over to Macy, shaking his hair out and getting water all over her. She scowled up at him but scooted over to he could sit next to her.
They could all get into the pool. Otis slid in gently next to Nikki.
Thomas got up and went into the pool, waving goodbye at Macy as he disappeared under the water.
Annika sighed. She got up and out of the water, dried herself with her towel, and sat down on a chair next to Macy. "Sup." she said, super casually.
Otis shyly smiled at Thomas, who was now next to him in the water. Otis looked behind him and smiled at two little girls behind the fence, walking with their day camp group. The girls waved with adorable toothless smiles.
"Hi." Macy smiled at her. "How's the water?"
Thomas grinned back and ducked under the water. "This feels amazing." He smiled as he came back up, shaking his hair around.
"Not bad. It's fairly warm, actually." Nikki said. "How's the land?"
Otis smiled as Thomas flung water on him. "Yep."
Macy laughed a little. "Ah..earthy.."
"How long have you been here for?" Thomas asked Otis.
Nikki smiled. Then, she fidgeted a little, as if she didn't want to ask her next question. "Um…is there a reason that you don't like the water?" she asked.
Otis thought for a little bit. "Four years."
"It just…scares me..I guess.." She trailed off.
"Whoa, that's a long time. How old are you?"
"Oh." Nikki said, hating to ask for reason. "Is there something that triggered that?" she asked, gently putting an arm around Macy.
"Fourteen." Otis said.
"Well..not really…it just sort of happened one day..just the idea of drowning terrifies me.."
"Awesome me too." He smiled.
Otis smiled, his lips closed as always.
"Oh." Nikki said. "So,um, what do you think of camp?"
“For someone who sings you don’t open your mouth much.” Thomas wondered aloud.
“Seems fun so far, what else do we do here?”
Nikki beamed. "Well, we go on the Zipline, and go-karts, and we have a game room, and rest time, and stuff."
Otis shrugged. "Singing…it's-it's a hobby." he said quietly. "I'm not very good at it…" he said, his voice trailing off.
“Sounds great.” Macy smiled at her.
“I thought you sounded good.”
"I know, right. And honestly, we're lucky. We got Jackie as out counselor, thank gosh we didn't get Reggie or Ayanna."
"Th-thanks…" Otis said, blushing. He ducked underwater, and rose back up, his wet hair perfectly complimenting his impossibly green eyes.
“That’s good I guess?”
“No problem, you deserve it.” Thomas sighed and floated for a while.
"So, uh, where are ya from? Do you have any siblings?" Annika asked.
Otis just chilled around. Otis talked to a boy who looked surprisingly like him, only the boy had red hair. Then, Otis just chilled.
"I'm about four or five hours away from here and I have two older brothers."
Wow that's such a mood. Thomas chilled as well.
(in about 15 minutes I have to leave, and I wont be back till Monday :)
"That's weird. I'm fourteen or 15 minutes away and I have two younger sisters. What a coincidence!" she said.
It was time to get out of the pool. Nikki went and changed before walking back to the cabin.
(Awwww okay..)
Macy laughed a little. "Yeah, that's cool."
Macy and Thomas went back to their own cabins.
Nikki sat on the porch and began to play her guitar.
Otis smiled, hearing the tune that the two always played together.
Macy went and sat on the steps, drawing some landscapes and listening to distant guitar music.
Thomas joined Otis in the porch and read for a while, his fingers tapping along to the beat.
(i have returned)
(honestly, I dont think that the guitar music was THAT distant, it was on the porch that she was on…right?)
(i dont understand)
Nikki stopped playing. "Do you sing, Mace?"
Otis tapped his fingers before finally asking, "What'cha readin'?" quietly.
(Oh, oh. I'm stupid)
"Not really. I work better with my hands then my mouth." She smiled a little.
"Oh, it's a really good book.." Thomas went on explaining about the book he was reading very enthusiastically.