“What is this?“ Tuukka complained, stepping back into the shade. “It burns us!”
“Goddammit, Tuukka. It’s just the sun!” Irritated, Shawn Thornton looked at him. They’d decided to go camping with a couple of the younger players, but Tuukka only stood by in the shade of the trees.
“IT BURNS US!” Tuukka yelled now, shrinking further back until his back hit one of the trees.
“We’re not in the fucking Lord of the Rings, and you look nothing like Gollum, so stop the crap and help me!”
“No. I’ll just get ice cream.” Tuukka adjusted the sunglasses on his nose and walked away.
Well, Shawn knew who’d be sleeping outside of his tent that night. The others were finished in no time, and now they waited for Tuukka. But instead of getting ice cream for everyone, Tuukka had only thought of himself. He sat down in front of the tent, making sure his skin wasn’t touched by the sun.
They spent the afternoon swimming, and leaving Tuukka alone. When anybody came near him, he started hissing and throwing things. Nobody would get him into the sun. They had fun and Tuukka spent his time eating ice cream and avoiding the sun.
When it was time to head to bed, Shawn allowed Tuukka inside the tent. There was a reason for this. In no time, Tuukka was asleep, so Shawn went up to the others and got them out of their tents. Because he hadn’t participated in the afternoon activities, he needed to be punished.
Carefully, slowly they got him out of the tent on top of his air mattress. He was snoring with his mouth wide open, which made some of the boys chuckle. Shawn silenced them with only a look. They managed to get him to the lake and carefully pushed him onto the water. They decided to sleep by the lake to be there when Tuukka woke up.
When the first stronger rays of sunlight filtered through the clouds in the morning, and touched Tuukka’s skin, he woke up immediately.
“It bur-“ he didn’t get further, because he fell off the mattress and into the water. He managed to hold onto the mattress and gasp for air. When he wasn’t panting anymore, he screamed from the top of his lungs: “SHAWN!”
At the beach, everyone who had gone on this trip was laughing.