Big Bad Wolf

05

I frowned while looking at Dean because he turned his back to me and he was covering his nose like I was some disease he should avoid. I lift the collar of my shirt and smelled it.

It didn't smell bad at all. I looked back at Dean and he suddenly stood up when the bus stopped on a red light and walked to the other end of the bus and talked to one of his teammates.

I just didn't mind him and turned my attention outside the window and to the music playing on the earphones. I suddenly felt someone sat beside me and it was the guy who Dean talked to.

He smiled at me making me gave him a small smile too.

"What happened to your friend?" I asked because I was curious.

He chuckled. "Motion sickness. It's his first time riding a public transportation." He said making me nod my head.

Unbelievable. In his life, he never rode a bus!?

"Must be rich." I said and he nodded.

I didn't bother to ask why Dean suddenly decided to take this bus even though it was making me wonder why.

We arrived at the training camp site after almost an hour of traveling. I watched them noisily stood up from their seats, grabbing their bags and walked out of the bus.

"Are you going to stay here?" He guy who was beside me asked when I remained seated. I wanted them to leave the bus first because I didn't want to squash myself.

"You go ahead." I said and he nodded as he stood up and walked out together with his friends.

I unplugged the earphones and placed it inside the small pocket of my bag and I felt someone tapping my seat.

"Let's go." Ariel said as I stood up. "You know that guy?" He was referring to the one who sat beside me after Dean.

"No, he's nice." I said and Ariel nodded, throwing his arm around the back of my shoulders when we got out from the bus and I groaned.

My heavy bag was killing my right shoulder and his arm was another burden to carry. I tried to smacked it away but he tightened his arm on me and pulled me even closer as he chuckled.

"You're killing my shoulder." I said and looked ahead and I s

aw Dean looking at us but I looked away first and kicked Ariel's leg making him run away from me afraid that I might soil his khaki pants.

I pulled my gym bag and soothed my shirt as I glared at Ariel.

**

We build our tents first thing on the grass and I helped Kevin with his tent since I would share his tent. I didn't bring mine because he was the one who said that we'd share.

I was hammering the hook that steadies the edge of the tent on the ground with a rock when I felt someone was standing behind me.

"Need help?"

I turned my head around and saw Dean standing and looking down at me.

"Hey, Dean!" We both turned around when one of his teammates called him who was also busy assembling their tent. "How about you try helping us here instead of having some chit chat there or you'll be sleeping outside tonight." He said and I looked at Dean and he also looked at me.

"You should help your friend." I said and I watched him walked back to his friend.

"That's my s**t!" Dean said and he just smacked his friend's ass making him jump and tried to kick him back.

"Ass!"

I just shook my head. Why would he try helping me when they hadn't done building their own tent?

"You're close with the basketball guys?" Ariel asked me again and I threw the rock away when I was done and our tent was already standing still.

"No. I don't know why, they just suddenly start talking to me." I said and glanced back to Dean's group.

They were playing like kids.

**

After we were done building our tents in a circular formation, our coaches called and gathered us between the tents.

"Where's Connor?" The basketball coach asked.

"Here, sir!" Someone from the group of tall men exclaimed and raised his hand as he walk in front.

I just realized that everyone of them were tall. Only one of them were the same height as me, five-eight, and the rest were like colossal titans, including Dean which I think was six-one.

"We will group you into four groups and since my team has eleven members, Connor will serve as the backup member of all the groups. You can call him if you don't want to participate in a certain activity." He said and Connor just grinned as he nod his head.

"You can count on me." He said and his team booed him making us laugh.

Coach clapped his hand to get our attention back and the other coach was bringing with him a brown box.

"We have here a box as you can see and inside the box are four different colors of wrist bands and you have to get one and what color you'll get will be your team color." He explained and we nodded in understanding.

"It would we cool if we got to decide our members." Luke muttered who was beside me.

"Yeah." I agreed.

"Start lining up, gentlemen." Basketball coach said and I pulled Luke with me to line up.

I watched them slip their hand inside the box one by one and pulled deferent colors of wrist bands and Dean got a blue one and when it was my turn, I prayed as I slipped my hand inside the circle hole of the box not to get blue because I didn't want to be on the same team with Dean.

I pulled one of the remaining bands and I was relieved when I pulled a violet one and Luke got the green band and he growled as he walked out from the line and I chuckled.

**

"Go to your respective team colors." Coach said and I went to Kevin since we have the same color. We were the only volleyball member and the rest were from the other team and I could see the guy who sat beside me on the bus was my teammate too and he waved his hand as he and his friends approached us.

"Hey! Were on the same team!" He happily said and I smiled.

"Yeah. I'm Ned." I said and I looked at Kevin.

"I'm Kevin." He said.

"Dave and these handsome daddy's behind me are Garret and Michael." He introduced his friends. They both have the same build but the most interesting feature about Garret was his lips. I wasn't checking his lips like a p*****t, it was just noticeable that he had thin and red lips yet he still look manly while Michael have a light brown hair with those wild curls.

"Shut up, Dave." Michael said and Garret chuckled.

**

We need to work like a real team and we would do what we have for the benefit of the team too and that also includes making our own meals.

They prepared raw foods for us to cook.

"What is this? A cooking show?" Michael said and Kevin chuckled. They're both close already like they've known each other for years the way they teases each other.

"Leave that to me." Garret said and Dave exclaimed.

"Thank God Garret's in our team. He make good dishes." Dave said and I was relieved because I myself didn't know how to cook complicated foods.

We helped Garret gathered the ingredients he needed while Michael and Kevin was trying to build a fire.

"Garret's tent can fit five people, how about you join us so we could really act like a team even in our sleep." He chuckled. He really seems to enjoy our little activities.

Coach said we're going to start our team building and training tomorrow. They wanted us to get to know our teammates more and get some necessary things ready.

"I'll talk about it to my friend that I share the tent with." I said and he nodded, patting my back.

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