**Frank’s POV**
We left the girls and headed for our cabin to change into our swimming trunks. I was covered in clay, and I could feel little lumps of it sliding down my back. Thank god for swimming.
I dug through my messy suitcase and pulled out my black and red trunks.
“Bare balls!” someone, probably Pete or Brendon, yelled behind me. God, that’s annoying… Can’t you just change without telling the world you’re naked?
“You guys know there’s no glass in these windows, and we’re right across from the girls’ cabin, right?” I said without turning around. That shut them up, but started up a bunch of howls and wolf whistles.
We finally got into our trunks and down to the beach. The only difference in bathing suits for us was color: I had black and red, Gerard had black and green, Mikey had white and red, Bob had khaki and green, Ray had plain khaki, Patrick had black and white check, Pete had black and gray, Andy had bright orange, Joe had bright green, Brendon had yellow and black plaid, Jon had gray, Spencer had black and blue, and Ryan had black and white.
The girls were down a few minutes after we were. While we were waiting, we threw a beach ball around a bit. Our clay-coveredness attracted a bit of attention from other campers and counselors, but we acted like it was completely natural for us to be covered in red clay, and why was everyone staring? So they left us alone.
“Hey, they’re here!” Gerard cried excitedly, pointing up the beach.
“Jacey!” I screamed, throwing the beach ball up into the air wildly.
“That’s me name,” she said calmly, tossing her towel down on the sand. I stared. She was wearing the same trunks as me. With a black tank top, obviously, but the exact same red and black trunks.
“Creepy,” we both said. Crap, that’s the second time that’s happened today! It really is creepy!
We laughed it off, though. Eurydice was wearing boy trunks, too. Hers were black, white, and purple check, and she wore a black bikini top on top. Olivia was wearing some kind of monstrosity in pink and ruffles, Nat was wearing a plain blue racing one-piece, and Jasmine was wearing a brown one-piece.
The preps had deigned to come down, too, but they obviously weren’t going to swim. They were wearing these tiny little bikinis that were made out of straps and little squares of fabric. I tried not to look at them, it hurt my eyes.
"Urgh," Gerard groaned, "Too much skin..."
"Check this out," Pete said in a tone that I wasn’t sure I liked very much. Pete walked down the hill, casually swinging his arms to his side and slid his arm around one of the girls' shoulders. Maci..No..Kaci..Mindi? I don't know! The point is, he slid his arm around her neck and casually started talking to her. Maci/Kaci/Mindi went along with it, twirling her dyed high-lighted hair with a finger, and acting all sleazy and in a way that I'd probably kill her for if she acted around me.
"Ew," I muttered.
"Three," Jacey mumbled from next to me. Pete hugged the prep lightly and she looked up at him, "Two," Jacey continued.
"Will you go out with me?" Pete asked Maci/Kaci/Mindi.
"Yes!" Maci/Kaci/Mindi squealed and hugged Pete tightly, kissing him on the cheek. I took note of the slobbery pink lip-gloss (I think) on Pete's cheek.
"One," Jacey sighed.
"You're good," I laughed. Jacey looked at me from the side of her eye.
"It's not like you've never seen it before. Give'm...two days."
"Agreed," I sighed.
Just then, the swimming counselor came down the hill. He was a tall guy, with white, white teeth and had black hair, it was cut kind of like mine…in a way. He had icy blue eyes and was wearing black trunks. He couldn't have been older than eighteen.
"Oh my God," Jacey breathed from next to me.
"Eh?" I asked turning to look at her.
"That boy is gorgeous," she hissed. Eurydice had heard from next to her and nodded vigorously.
"He's not that gorgeous," I told her.
"Oh yes he is," Eurydice told me.
"No he ain't!" I laughed.
"Oh, and you would know because you check dudes out," Jacey smirked.
"No!" I defended myself.
"Mmhmm," Jacey and Eurydice said using a tone that told me they didn't believe a word of it. Okay, yes, I guess he's an okay looking guy. Honestly? I didn't like the fact that Jacey checked out guys. I mean, I guess she could if she wanted to but...I just didn't like it.
"Okay, guys, I'm Nick," the counselor began in a somewhat bored tone, "Assuming that you are like all kids," That's where you're wrong, my friend, "And judging by you lot," he motioned towards Pete and Kaci, Maci, Mindi, Bindi, Cindi, and all the other minions, "You all know how to swim, right?"
"No...I can't swim," Ray said embarrassedly. Nick stared at Ray, taking in the afro, then his eyes moved along the line.
"Okay, maybe not like all kids," he smiled, "But, yeah, somebody help him with the swimming, please. Don't let him go to the deep end."
"I will save you, Ray," Bob said solemnly, putting a hand to his heart, "On pain of death, I shall."
"Good!" Nick replied, somewhat amused.
"Um, Nickie," one of the clones began.
"Nick," he corrected.
"Um, can we maybe, just do what we want? Like...around the shore?" she asked, ignoring his last comment.
"I don't care," he shrugged "Just don't drown."
"Alright, then," Jacey grinned running into the water. "CANNON BALL!"
“WAIT FOR ME!” I wailed, racing after her. For someone who claims to hate running, she’s pretty damn fast.
I hit the water a split second after she did. “HOLY CRAP THIS IS COLD!” I screamed as soon as I surfaced.
Jacey came up next to me, spewing water and curses. “Damn,” she gasped, shivering.
“What’s with you guys?” Bob asked as he waded past us. “The water’s fine.”
“Yeah, you guys are such babies,” Gerard snorted, before ducking his head under the water. “OH MY GOD COLD!” he screamed, yanking his head out and falling over. He splashed to his feet while everyone laughed.
Brendon nudged Ryan as they walked in. Eurydice had run out onto the dock and was about to dive off. Brendon grinned at Ryan and raised his eyebrows. Ryan turned red and whacked Brendon on the arm. I stifled my laughter.
Jacey looked at me in confusion. “What?”
“Oh, nothing,” I snorted. Aaaw, Ryan’s got a cruuuuush!
Brendon ran away as Ryan splashed him, but I noticed that as soon as Brendon had turned away, Ryan turned around to stare at Eurydice. She dove off the dock, hit the water with barely a splash, and glided through the water… straight into Patrick, who was getting splashed by Joe.
“Sorry!” she gasped, surfacing.
“It’s fine,” Patrick panted, staggering and trying to regain his balance. Joe splashed him again, and he lost his balance completely and crashed sideways into the water.
“Not nice, Joe,” Eurydice said mock-angrily, splashing Joe. I glanced sideways and saw Ryan sigh and shake his head sadly. Aww, poor boy… he’ll get over it, I guess…
I took my attention off him and joined in the water fight between Joe and Eurydice. Jacey joined, too, and soon we had everyone in there.
“I declare us the Vampires!” Gerard announced, pointing to himself, Eurydice, Jacey, Patrick, Mikey, Spencer, Pete, Brendon, and Andy.
“We’re the Werewolves, then,” Joe shot back, pointing to himself, me, Olivia, Nat, Jasmine, Ryan, Jon, Bob, and Ray.
“You’re on!” Pete screamed, and the fight began. It was basically one group of people trying to get the other group as wet as possible. It was basically a lot of fun. The preps were tanning on the beach, getting skin cancer, and Nick was watching us in amusement.
By the end, everyone was thoroughly soaked and out of breath.
“Truce?” Gerard panted.
“Truce,” Joe gasped before falling over into the water and sinking down, bubbling gently. There were a few long moments before he came back up again.
“Urg, I’m tiiired,” I sighed, flipping over onto my back and floating.
“Ditto,” Jacey said, floating as well.
“Okay, guys, out of the water!” Nick yelled. “You have half an hour before dinner!”
We staggered out of the water, laughing and dripping water.
“See you at dinner, guys,” Eurydice and Jacey chorused before going into their cabin. Jasmine and Nat waved shyly before following them.
“Bye!” Olivia cried, skipping in. I shook my head, laughing a bit, and went into our cabin.