Camp Closeted novel Chapter 57

"You're too fast!" I whined, playfully laughing as I wiped the bed of sweat off my forehead.

Jesse continued to zoom pass me, successfully making the ball into the hoop which made me just slouch my shoulders to surrender. "But I thought you liked it fast?" He smugly let out, glistening sweat making his slightly dewy reddened face look like it was glowing.

I rolled my eyes, Keanu ignoring us as he  laughed quietly to himself, Benny's voice appearing from the bench he was sitting on. "Seeing you guys be so active is making me sweat inside my turtle neck, dear lord!" He whined, aggressively opening his large black fan towards his face. "When are you guys gonna be done?"

I began to walk towards him, already exhausted from just barely playing for 10 minutes.

"Where'd you get that?" I couldn't help but laugh as I watched him begin to fan himself, sitting myself next to him.

"You like it?" He posed regally, fanning me with him. "Even in cold places I bring a fan just to be extra."

"I love it." I quickly replied, nodding my head. "I like how the color matches with your outfit." I added.

"I know right! You already know I got one in every color! When we get back I'll give you one." He slowly slid his large sunglasses off his face, yawning as we kept our eyes on the boys fighting for the ball.

"I don't know how they can do this all day." I sighed, wiping the remaining sweat off my face. "I barely played and I'm here sitting with you, dying."

Benny just nodded his head in agreement. "You know, I would agree, but at the same time people are just different. I'm pretty sure if they watched my ass watch music videos all the time, they would ask how the hell I can do that all day, same with their basketball." Our heads followed Keanu as he dribbled the ball away from Jesse.

"Yea." I breathed. "You're right."

"Are you planning to come back here this summer?" Benny asked.

"Camp Closeted stays open the whole year?" I asked back, slight shock embedded in my tone.

"Hell no. That would be crazy." Benny anxiously laughed. "It opens for 3 months after winter then goes on until spring. After spring, they close it again and then reopen once summer comes.

"And how long is the summer camp?" I raised an eyebrow at him.

"2 months." He shrugged, my skin feeling the cool air coming from his fan.

"How come this camp is open and active for months instead of weeks just like other normal camps?"

"Because it's not like you can't leave whenever you want. People come in and out through those doors whenever they want. If someone wanted to stay here for 3 days instead of 3 months, they can." He shrugged, making me nod in response.

"Oh." I gently scratched my cheek. "Well, I don't think I'm ever coming back here again because I don't think you guys are gonna be here anymore. You and Keanu are going to Europe and I haven't asked Jesse about his plans for the future yet, so I don't know."

Benny just clicked his mouth as if I said something wrong. "Micah, tell me, how did you meet me?"

"By talking?"

"How did you meet Jesse?"

"B-by talking?" I asked, not knowing what he was trying to say.

Benny quickly closed his fan and pointed it at me. "Exactly! So why are you so afraid to meet new people! You just got the taste of being social and having friends and now you wanna stop?"

"Well I'm pretty close to all of you guys and if I come back here without having you guys to talk to, then what's the poin-" He quickly interrupted me.

"Fuck that! Fuck all of that!" Benny playfully let out. "That's why you gotta come back! You gotta make more friends and make more experiences for yourself! We ain't going nowhere, it won't hurt to make more friends!" He had a point.

"I gues-" He interrupted me again.

"Did you and Romeo do anything in that restroom?" Benny blurted out, making my eyes widen out at his bluntness, creating a momentary period of silence between us.

I just looked at him, my eyes uncontrollably shifting at him now as my lips pursed. I didn't even have to respond as it seemed like Benny had already understood what my facial expression meant. "Micah why are you hoeing around!?" He exclaimed out of frustration, Jesse being thankfully too far to even hear us.

A weak but sharp exhale left my mouth as my cheeks began to burn. "Benny I couldn't stop him from kissing me! I tried to, I really did! He's so much stronger than me."

"Micah." He deeply breathed my name out in foreign frustration. "What do you mean you couldn't stop him. You couldn't kick him in the dick or I don't know, push him away? Micah you got kissed against your will."

"I know, I know I, I just." I was speechless. I clearly couldn't even explain what happened without humiliating myself further. "Everything happened so fast. He followed me to the rest room and next thing I know it got intense and we almost fought each other and then he kissed me."

Benny buried his fingers against his temples out of stress, stopping himself from fanning any further. "Oh hell no if that was me I would have definitely beat the shit out of him." He tiredly laughed as I just slumped down on the bench. "Are you serious bitch?" He repeated what I said.

My arms crossed as if my body was wrinkling up together. "Should I tell Jesse?"

"No. Well, fuck, I don't know. Benny let out strongly. "You know what. hell no. That's the last thing you want to happen." He commandingly pointed his fan at me once again.

"Wouldn't I be lying though?" I fully turned my body towards him now, Benny not looking at me as he tried to remain calm, opening his fan once more.

"Lying about what? That shit was a horrible mistake and technically you can't be lying to someone that doesn't even know what you're lying about, so just shut your mouth from now on and make sure it doesn't happen again and stay far away from that boy. Now be quiet because your boy toy is coming." He spoke quietly as the boys began to walk towards us.

Sweat glistened against their dewy skins as I quickly fixed my posture, my eyes almost melting as Jesse ran his hand through his damp black hair.

"Keanu if your sweaty ass touch me I'll snap ya neck, take your water and sit far away from me." Benny amusingly let out, making everyone except for me since I got nervous all of a sudden.

"Aw babe, Let me hug you." Keanu's face glistened with sweat as he bit his lip at Benny, slowly moving his arms for a hug.

"Bitch!" Benny rapidly smacked his arm away with his fan. "Don't play with me!"

Keanu smiled to himself as he took his towel and drank out of his water bottle, then proceeding to throw his shirt off, the sunset beautifully defining his tanned golden skin.

All of a sudden, Jesse's hand gently moved my chin, upwards towards him, his figure towering over my seated self. "Come, I wanna show you something." He smirked, pulling onto my arms to follow him.

"O-okay." I softly coughed, getting up off the bench to follow him, Keanu and Benny beginning to talk behind us.

I observed Jesse's muscular arm continuing to pull me as I felt my cheeks begin to heat up, my eyes looking around the empty basketball court.

I wonder what Jesse wants to show me?

The second Jesse entered the locker room before me, he had already pulled me into him, making me sharply inhale in. "What did you wanna show me?" I softly asked, trying not to talk so loud just in case someone else was in the locker room with us.

"Nothing." He admitted, half laughing. "I just wanted you to come with me." He bit his lip at me as I watched my self from his dilated sapphire eyes.