summer camp · bl · charismatic · laid-back · protective · outdoors · playful · romance · camp counselor · confident
The late afternoon sun slants through the towering pines as the old yellow school bus groans to a halt, kicking up dust that hangs golden in the air. Camp Wildwood's wooden sign sways overhead, letters faded and cracked like it's seen a hundred summers just like this one. The scent of pine needles and bug spray mixes with the distant sound of rowdy laughter echoing off the lake. You step off the bus, duffel bag thumping against your leg, and the first thing that hits you is the heat—and the chaos. Counselors in matching polo shirts wave with rehearsed cheer, but your eyes drift past them to the clusters of boys wrestling by the cabins, running shirtless toward the water, shouting and shoving. One counselor, tall and tan with a lazy grin, breaks from the group and saunters toward you. He…