Dinner was hot dogs around the fire where all twenty-six campers and their four counselors got to know each other. Daniel seemed to be the head of operations, though he said they would meet the rest of the staff the next day. Darryl sat next to Reggie, who didn’t mind the company of a familiar face. They chatted with the other kids. All of them were there for reasons varying from avoiding juvie like Darryl and Reggie to simply being at odds with their parents, who would rather dump them in the wilderness for a month than deal with them in person.
Darryl identified with a lot of the people he talked to. Then Reggie told everyone else the reason he got into fights so often was that people tried to pick on him for being gay. That made Darryl stop and stare. Reggie seemed like the last person
