When we arrived at camp, we were told that we were the only ones who could see the truth around us. The instructors of the camp were satyrs and centaurs. That was not the craziest thing I had seen. Being in the actual world was a real nightmare. I had seen a minotaur in 5th grade. They sorted the campers into groups of which Greek or Roman god they might follow. I was put into Poseidon’s follower's cabin. I thought Athena and Artemis were the best Greek goddesses or gods. My cabin mates were all the boys who loved to go surfing and play beach volleyball and the girls were the ones who would always post on Instagram about their everyday life. I was the complete opposite. Books are my whole life. I could spend all day in a library. I tried to tell the camp directors they put me into the wrong cabin, but they insisted they don’t make mistakes. The boys from my camp are currently in the lake being total dorks. The girls are sitting on the beach trying to look pretty and whatnot. I'm surprised they aren’t in the cabin for Aphrodite’s followers. I am in a tree that is hanging over the water, reading all about the Greek gods and goddesses of course. If my calculations are correct and nobody spotted me climbing up here, the camp directors will notice I am gone in about 10 minutes. The chaos will give me enough time to figure out a way to break the forcefield keeping us in here. That is if the Artemis kid and Athena kid weren’t put on duty to track me, again. I do this once a week so I don’t exhaust all my hiding places Otherwise I’m sure I would have exhausted them all without knowing everything I know about that shield. Every night the satyrs do a musical number that reinforces the shield. If I was to go and destroy all the magical flutes the satyrs use, the shield will go down. I flipped to the area of the book I have bookmarked. I had cut out 20-50 pages of the book so I could hide my notebook in it. It really hurt to do that to my favourite book but, it had to be done to keep my notebook a secret.
“How could you have done that to such a precious book!”
I jump with a startle and look upwards to where the voice came from. I relax when I see the fear-stricken face of the Athena kid, Shaylan. To his left, I hear someone burst out in laughter. It was the Artemis kid, Makya.
“You have to admit Shaylan, it is a smart way to hide notebooks that would get you into a lot of trouble,” Makya pointed out after a few slaps from Shaylan for laughing. “ Besides Deyanira, we will give you a 10-second head start before we try to take that notebook away.”
“ You guys are so annoying,” I rolled my eyes at them before jumping down into the water with my book and notebook in hand. I can hear Shaylan’s terrified shrieks even this far underwater. when my head broke the surface I could hear the Poseidon boys cheering me on. I look up to see Makya jumping into the water after me, leaving the terrified Shaylan in the tree. Swimming to shore was my only option since the forcefield was right next to me. The only problem was avoiding Makya. He is a great swimmer, or at least way better than me. I don’t stand a chance in the water. His body hit the water and created the biggest splash everyone had seen all summer. I have to start swimming away. Now! I stop treading water and head straight for the shore. I had my books in my left hand, making my right arm do all the work. I have gone maybe 10 feet from where I first hit the water. I look behind me and Makya is nowhere to be seen. I go to start swimming again when I felt something grab my left leg.
“ Hey, don-” I am cut off by my whole body being dragged under. Makya has a firm grip on my leg and is dragging me farther down. I can’t kick his arm to loosen his grip, my right leg doesn’t reach. I can’t bend down to use my hand to free myself, I will get kicked. I can kick him in the stomach. He might drown if I do that. That would be a very low chance though. I have to act fast, I don’t know how much longer I can hold my breath and I'm running very low on oxygen. I’m kicking him. My right foot hit his stomach quite hard. I didn’t mean to kick him that hard. I will say sorry after he says sorry for trying to drown me. I resurface after about what felt like 10 seconds of swimming upward. I stayed there just breathing for 3 seconds before I feel him grab my right wrist.
“What? you can’t hold your breath that long?” Makya taunted the moment he surfaced.
“ Of course not!” Is he really asking if I can hold my breath like a whale? “We are humans! We don’t have that kind of lung capacity.” I can not believe this kid.
“ Well sure but, wouldn’t a follower of Poseidon have some kind of,” he paused to try and find the right words. I know this cause he isn’t the brightest kid out there. “Well, you know privilege in water?” There is no way he said that.
“You are dead after that statement.” I can feel myself shooting daggers with my eyes narrowed. I am being pulled below the surface once again before I could have lunged at him. He stopped dragging me about 10 feet below the surface. He lunges for my books. I have to swim to the right to dodge him. He whipped around and grabbed my favourite book before swimming towards the shore. He clearly didn’t notice that I took my notebook out of that book. That is why Makya and Shaylan stick together. Makya is the brawns and Shaylan is the brains. Come to think of it, Makya probably carried Shaylan up the tree. I laugh at the thought and make my way toward the shore. It takes me 12 minutes to get to the shore. Half the time of Makya. The tallest Poseidon boy handed me a baby blue towel from the Poseidon cabin. His name is Long if I remember correctly. I think i'm done going in the water this summer.
featuring from top - bottom BRANDON SHARP @ click, AMANDA, HUNTER CHUNG @ wilhelmina, JAH JAH, SOPHIE, BO, JOE @ new pandemics, SHAYLAN @ red, and MALIK
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