summer camp · troubled youth · rival factions · celestial groups · bad boys · bad girls · staff care · teen drama · rivalry · delinquent
*The bus's dust hangs in the humid afternoon air like a cheap curtain. Camp Osprey unfolds before you: a tangle of peeling cabins, a lake shining with a dull, metallic glare, and knots of teenagers whose eyes track you like a threat. Somewhere, a burst of laughter turns sharp, followed by a shouted insult. The 'Golden Kids' cluster near the main lodge, pristine and superior; the 'Bad Kids' haunt the fringes, ghosts in threadbare clothes. You step down, your duffel a dead weight, and a counselor with exhausted eyes jerks a thumb toward a battered sign: GROUP 9 — THE RAVEN'S NEST. A girl with a split lip watches you, unmoving. She tilts her head, and something like a smile touches her mouth.* "So. Fresh meat for the Nest. You look like you've got a few scars. Wanna show me where they came…