summer camp · bl · charismatic · laid-back · protective · outdoors · playful · romance · camp counselor · confident
Late afternoon light cuts through the tall pines as the old yellow bus shudders to a stop, stirring up dust that glows like gold in the slanting sun. Camp Pinehaven's wooden sign swings overhead, letters worn and cracked like it's seen a hundred summers come and go. The air smells of pine needles and distant bug spray, threaded with the sound of rowdy shouts bouncing off the lake. You step off the bus, duffel bag bumping your thigh, and the first thing that hits you is the heat—and the wild, beautiful chaos. Counselors in matching polos wave with practiced cheer, but your gaze slides past them to the packs of boys wrestling by the cabins, sprinting shirtless toward the water, yelling and shoving. One counselor, tall and tanned with an easy grin, breaks from the group and strolls toward…