Tutoring Future Fuckups

We were expecting a nice day out on the boats to see the island in the middle of the bay and look at the different animals and plants that occupied the tide pools and why they differed from the ones the bay’s pools had.

Instead, we got rain.

It was one of those late spring/early summer rain storms that always fucked up plans and ruined the day for unsuspecting picnickers. Everyone in the boy's cabins were sitting on their bunk beds, staring out at the outside through the open door.

"So what do we do?" the orange one said, electing to wear his heavy camouflage jacket and matching hat instead of the general issue camp shirt.

"Dunno. This would be a good time if anyone snuck in a TV and a game console," Crimson said from his top bunk.

I looked over from my window to try and see what the girls were up to, but our window and theirs were too fogged up to see much.

"What if we go chill with the girls?" I asked.

Everyone looked at me as if I was some genius.

"That sounds better than just sitting around," someone finally spoke up.

"Well it’s decided. We are going to the girls cabins to be bored together." Crimson said as he hopped off of his bunk. Everyone got off their beds, put on their shoes, and walked to the porch of the cabin, which shielded us from the rain. Crimson led the charge in the pouring rain while the rest of us followed, trying not to slip on the wet grass. It felt refreshing to run in the cold rain with just shorts and a shirt.

It was then that the girls busted out of their door and began to run our way. We soon found out that they had the same idea.

"Head back!" I shouted as we all closed in on one another. They turned around and scrambled with us back to their cabin with the exception of Bubbly, who elected to jump on Crimson and let him carry her to the cabin. We entered the warm, dry sanctuary of their cabin in fits of laughter from everyone who ran out. The only one who didn’t join them was Twilight, who looked annoyed from her top bunk in the corner of the room from the increase of noise. I felt her give me a quick grimace. She was basically ignored by everyone, which made her slip into her blankets due to the fact she was in her modest white underwear.

Dayum.

The girls dried themselves off with their towels and handed them to us. They were damp but it did the job, which allowed us to sit with them. I layed on a random bed, but soon realized it was Mystral Serenity's bed. She seemed quite nervous to sit on the side of the bed, and even more so to place her hand next to my thighs to rest. She eyed me nervously.

"So, what do we do?" One of the girls asked.

"Orgy?" One of the guys answered. He was then pelted by a mass of pillows, and used one of them to shield himself from the onslaught.

"That would be a bad idea because the paperwork because of said orgy would be a pain in the ass," Slate Mind said as he entered the cabin. "I see you all are looking for something to do, and you are all just in luck! The younger classes still have their paperwork to do so you all in the final class, which don’t get paperwork, get to tutor them! Including you, Twilight! Besides! This will be a great team building exercise… While being separated and paired with ten students each. But! It’s still team building! Let’s go!"

"Shouldn't you get us some jackets?" Mystril asked in a soft voice. She had a beautiful voice, and it was too bad she seldom used it.

"Jackets? Nah, you can grow a pair and deal with it."

***

"So when the two plates slip, it releases energy, which makes the earthquake occur," I explained. We were in the main hall. All the kids were sitting on the floor in a semi-circle around their tutor which was everyone in the last and second-to-last class. The rest of the camp fucked off to do something. Most likely they were in the classrooms doing dissections since that's what they had planned on doing that day.

The kids were interested in what I had to say, the bigger one and probably the cooler in their mind… I hoped.

"Too bad earthquakes never happen where I live!" One kid said.

"Happens where I live. In fact, I was around for the great Applewood earthquake a few years ago." I said. I remembered that time: the fires, the looting, the streets flooded with water main breaks, my father driving armed to the teeth in his SUV to pick up my sister, my mother, and I from where we were and back to our house in the hills. It was as surreal of an event as it came.

"Don't you kids listen? I said the release of energy causes both the P-wave and S-wave! Don't you know what those are?! Wow. I'm so done here!" She bellowed, flaying her arms around like a inflatable tubeman.

Everyone in the hall saw Twilight's melt down as she stormed out. The kids still didn't have a clue what was happening. Slate went after Twilight to probably calm her down or something...

No amount of money from Celestia would make me keep her.

The kids waved Twilight's students over to join us.

"This guy is going to tell us about when he survived the Applewood earthquake!" One shouted. Not only did Twilight’s group hear, so did the rest of the hall. They immediately abandoned their tutors and circled around me. My classmates shrugged their shoulders and joined them as well.

When I told the story, both the kids and my classmates were enthralled by it. I never told the story much outside of Applewood because of everyone else seemed to have a better story, so it felt great that they liked it.

“It all started on the day I decided to break into my parent’s liquor cabinet that morning to take it to school and impress this one girl…”