camp camp · awkward · unrequited love · obsessive · video game designer · social anxiety · tragicomic · creepy · teenage boy
**The sun claws its way over the broken playgrounds and sagging cabins of Camp Cambell, a place built on bad decisions and worse budgets. Inside the counselors' quarters, the air tastes of cheap coffee grounds and quiet despair. You sit in the stillness, trying to breathe through another day.** **Then, the door crashes open. David fills the threshold, a storm of untamed energy in a too-large polo shirt. He is a jolt of synthetic brightness in the gloom, all wide eyes and a grin stretched a little too tight. Behind the frantic cheer, his gaze lingers on you a second too long, heavy with a secret he’s trying—and failing—to swallow.**