Please remember, as with all my stories, should you be looking for 'Realism', just move on. I aim for 'Ridiculously Plausible'. All named characters in this story are eighteen or much older.
This is the third in a four-part series. I hope you like it.
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Elaine and I had a marvelous time fucking our way through the end of the second session of Camp Dickinger that summer. I mean, we didn't screw every day. I think we'd have both been up for it, but we couldn't both miss lunch together every day. We only stayed on the range and screwed, like, six more times over the remaining weeks. I even managed to take my shirt off before having sex a time or two...
But while we limited our actual sexcapades enough that no one knew that we were doing it, it still became clear from other indications that she and I were becoming 'an Item'." Couples among the counselors were not unheard of, but rare enough that we could both see everyone talking about how often we ate lunch together, how we mostly only danced with each other during Friday dances, that sort of thing. We talked a lot, just like good couples do, I thought. My world was great, and the only real hitch was that the second session was ending and we would no longer have the opportunities presented by working together on riflery the next session.
Then, on the way out to the last Campfire of the session, Elaine stopped me on the path in the dark.
"Listen, Caspar, I'm just going to say this," she spoke quickly. I might not have been that old, but I knew an ominous opening line when I heard it. "This has been great, but I think we should just call it quits now, here at the end of this session."
"What?" I almost cried. I was floored. "I thought... wait, I
know
that you have been having as much fun as I have. What gives?"
She looked around to make sure that all the nearby people were headed smoothly on toward the Campfire clearing and not eavesdropping. "It's just... we won't have the rifle range to go to any more."
"I know. It sucks. But we can still hang..."
"Casper," she interrupted. "Listen. You are a god damned amazing lay. Memories of fucking you will keep me warm at night all winter. But as for you and me, here, without the sex..." she said suddenly hesitant. "Without the sex, I just cannot stand one more of your dissertations on Batman, or the Avengers, or the fucking Green Bay Packers." She squeezed my hand. "If we ever have another opportunity for sex, believe me, I am down. But we just don't have enough in common to be together in an abstinence situation."
I was speechless and she was suddenly rescued by another of the counselors calling her name as they passed us toward Campfire. Elaine smiled sheepishly at me and strode off to join her.
The quick break between the second and third sessions was not much of an improvement. The prior break, I had been on Check-In prep, with it's low-energy stuffing of envelopes inside with the air-conditioning, along with the side benefit of checking out the camp director Carol's rack whenever she wasn't looking. I know it sounds like I was hung up on Carol, but I really wasn't. She was much older, married, and my boss. It was like she was an alien as far as I was concerned... an alien with really nice forty year-old tits and ass. But this break, I got a different special assignment. My cabin team-mate Van and I got detailed to work with Carol's husband Bob, the camp's facilities manager, on repairing screens. Bob is pretty cool, just like Carol, but screen work entails a lot of sweat, fairly long hours, and lots of pricked fingertips. And while none of us wore shirts while we worked, and Bob is every bit as good-looking as his wife, my interests do not swing in that direction. Still, Van was my buddy as well as my cabin-mate, and Bob is both cool and funny.
The upper half of all four walls of each cabin at Camp Dickinger are nothing but screen. That makes for a lot of screens which have to try to stand up to a camp full of rambunctious teenagers with no phones or other electronics. After every summer at camp with no electronics, I'm surprised anew that any building on Earth over fifty years old is still standing, since kids back then had no screens to tranquilize them. Shit gets thrown around the cabins every day, and the screens take a beating. We had more than enough stapling and nailing to keep us busy before the last session of the summer.
It is pretty mindless work though, once you get going, so the three of us had plenty of time to jaw the day away. Once Van and I had exhausted all our war stories about first and second sessions... that we were willing to share with Bob anyway, the next subject caught me off guard.
"So, Casper," Bob asked as he ripped loose a window frame so we could tighten up a screen torn almost completely free by a stray volleyball a sixteen year-old girl had hurled at her cabin-mate, "I understand that yours and Elaine's turned out not to be a romance destined to stand the test of time."
"No," I replied curtly. I was not wanting to talk about Elaine.
"Yeah," put in Van, the world-champion cocksucker, "she dumped his ass. I guess that without guns, the two maniacs had nothing in common."
"Oh yeah," Bob replied casually. "You two were working under Craig last session, weren't you? Don't take it too hard, kid. Camp romances never last."
"You and Carol do okay," I replied in attempt at humor.
"We are a
workplace
romance," replied Bob fondly, hammering the frame back into place. "Workplace romances are all fraught and forbidden and shit.
They
are awesome," he said firmly. He emphasized again, "You will be fine, Casper."
"Yeah, right."
"Aw, fuck Elaine," Van added sagely.
'Already did that,' I thought inwardly with grim but immense satisfaction. I had done that indeed. What I said out loud was, "Geez you two! Is it Swearapalooza with the worms gone?"
"Don't call the worms, 'worms', Casper," corrected Bob automatically, but with a grin. "And yes, while we have a brief break from teenagers around whom we can't swear, I like to fucking swear up a goddamned storm!"
Just then, Van missed with his hammer and started jumping around, indulging freely in the no repercussion swearing opportunity as he squeezed his outraged thumb. Bob and I laughed evilly at his expense.
When Van's little floor show was over, and we moved on to another cabin, I started thinking about Elaine some more.
Don't think with your mouth, kids.
"Still..." I mused out loud as Bob was cutting a new sheet of screen, "I do have all of this last session to see if I can fix things with Elaine."
"Oh for Christ's sake!" groaned Van. "Give it up already!"
"I have to agree with Van," sighed Bob. He hesitated. "Look, you know I'm always a big one for encouraging kids to
not