#i looked up and i was caught in a staring contest with a possum

[fvedyetor]

possum tachihara

possum tachi!! ty for the request this was so fun :]

ref photos, from pinterest

[friiday-thirteenth]

right right right c a m p

ok. ok so it was very long and I'm unbelievably tired but also my head says write it down so uh

day one- five hour bus ride. it was fun, bc the person I was sitting beside slept the whole time and I got to joke around with the guys, who were surprisingly chill. they only brought up p*rn once, which is like.... good for them all things considered lmao

then we had the tramp in. the campsite where we were staying at the first night was the farthest from base, and one group biked in while the other tramped.

my groups tramp took s i x h o u r s. no other groups went over five. we had to keep stopping bc a) one kid was feeling sick, b) one kid rolled her ankle and c) we weren't allowed to sprint off into the Bush and potentially die without an instructor with us.

so there were like, four of us who were constantly at the front, and they were: me, my crush, my crushes best friend, bitch-who-bullied-me.

twas interesting.

we got the campsite in the dark, after a river crossing in which my socks got soaked, as did my shoes, and the tents and food were already sorted for us so that was great. food was shit, though. mince that was half brown water and cold pasta.kept us going, though, and as became my motto throughout camp, food is food.

that night was the only time I cried. kinda sad, tbh, but it was bc on the 'girls' side (as we all know that if the boys and girls tents were together, absolutely everyone would just be going at it, of course (jfc they have a low opinion of year tens (we sorta deserve it though, stuff happened with last years year tens...))) everyone else was paired up and even the people in three person tents didnt want me in there 🥰🥰🥰🥰 really felt the love there, guys.... jokes on them I slept by myself each night and was ready within five minutes each morning. actually really glad they showed how much they didnt care abt me bc it was really nice being alone in the wilderness, and that's not sarcasm.

anyway. day two.

woke up, was ready within ten minutes bc I woke with the leaders, who wake ten minutes before we're meant to and get themselves and breakfast ready before we're up. (I'm really fast at waking up, but take ages to go to sleep. like, everyone has to stfu before my body's able to start shutting down, and as soon as there's people moving around I'm up like a shot.)

anyway. I had eaten breakfast and was washing up before anyone else came out. next kid out was my crush, and we bitched about people taking forever for a while, which was fun.

then we waited for ages for everyone else to get sorted out, blah blah blah, and we had the bike ride back. 11.5 kilometers, I think,mostly downhill for us.

it was fun! I'm not a brilliant biker, but I kept near the middle-front of the group, and i just. let go of the brakes going downhill. and these hills were bloody steep and gravelly, plus the dips and river crossings.

I didnt fall off the bike, but one kid did lmao. there was this sharp turn before a metal gate, and He saw the gate and started pulling kn the brakes, but he hit the front brakes and just. flipped. the bike crashed into me and he went to the ground.

it was funny in the afterwards, but the kid got rather grazed lmao. he's not dead though, so that's good.

we were at the campsite that was, in my opinion, the coldest that night. also I slept in a three person instead of a two person, and by myself that meant more body heat was going into the tent. brrr. but we also did the nightline activity(hold onto a rope and follow it through the dark forest while blindfolded and with a helmet on. highly recommend it. go do it with friends u trust lmao)

I was behind this slow kid and he tripped at one point so I just. went ahead of him. then I spent around half an hour walking through the dark by myself (I walked into five trees. each time I took a step back, glared at it through the blindfold fifty five seconds and then continued around it with a muttered bitch. I'm nothing if not dramatic.) before I crashed into my crush hehe. it was near the end and we just got to the end at the same time, where two others already were. it was chill, we talked for a while. bullied people who were going through it by whacking trees they were near with sticks and shaking the line as they tried to use it. (we were allowed to, dw)

the next day, we went canyoning and holy frick frack fuckedy fuck fuck, that was c o l d. freezing. I jumped into the water and nearly died (exaggerated) but my crush jumped through a fricken waterfall and couldnt feel his hands or feet for ten minutes. another kid was walking funny bc he'd waited in the water for five minutes, and this shit was cold enough that we were wearing wet suits and thermals.

once we were dry and dressed (we got to have showers. h e a v e n (I only took 10 seconds bc like, why tf would you need a longer one? people took fifteen minutes, like wtf)) we went rock climbing! which was brilliant, honestly. I liked the belaying more (I've got this thing where I prefer people trust me than me trusting them, hmmm I wonder why) but also climbed the hardest one! it was really fun, and I only fell like fourteen time at one point (lmao,the rope caught me each time but I looked like a fuvking idiot hehe)

then we slept at a campsite which had a fire kn the beach!! if was so much fun. we also did a solo, which involved us sitting in the wild for twenty minutes and reflecting upon camp. I lay on the ground and stared at the moon. it was lovely and peaceful, until two kids started talking.

side note, guys voices are lovely and deep and rumbly and very nice (in general) but girls are generally higher pitched and ugh, it can be v e r y bloody annoying when ur trying to contemplate life.

possums visited camp that night. woke up in the middle of it to a possum crashing into the side if my tent, and I just. stopped breathing for a minute while I listened to it. a possum growling sounds terrifying. look it up!

also heard cows that night. cows are good.

day four, we abseiled. holy s h i t, it was fun. just... sitting there and watching the river and and rock and dangling in midair.... god, I loved it.

then we went to the high ropes course. this was b r i l l i a n t. we'd done low ropes st some point, but high ropes involved more belaying, which involved, and then at one point, we did a thing called the leap of faith, which was around eight meters high and you climbed to the top of this cylinder of wood before jumping for a trapeze. I knew I wouldn't get it, so I jumped on two when they counted down for me, and I missed lmao. but it was bloody brilliant.

then we had to do a whole shitton of cleanup,which they don't normally get groups to do, but we were s p e c i a l (as in our school gets to clean things we dont even use, sigh) before camping one last night. I had go share with someone, it was gell, packed up at least four tents in the morning bc I was very good at that for some reason,before we hot back to camp and went to the bus and oh, that was brilliant.

I finished my book, chatted with the guys, chatted with my crush for .5 of a second, had that thkng happen where people see you talking to a guy and are like ooOOooohhHHHHHhhh they're dAtiNG bc we're all stupid year tens and it was fucking hilarious (I've never dated anyone, so peopke bloody obsess over pairing me up with someone and I'm just like??? fuckers I'ma child how abt no (sidenote there was a couple on camp and they were cute but uh. year ten relationships dont really last, according to my year 13 camp leader (she was chill af, and basically showed me a whole new perspective on being friends with guys and so in conclusion she's bloody brilliant))) anyway they came up with a ship name for me and the guy and I nearly pissed myself laughing bc its best to laugh along with it and it was really funny tbh

anyway. we also for some reason talked abt sex and porn a lot and it was weird but also kinda chill bc most of the boys are relatively respectful of the girls,in the sense that we all make dirty jokes to each other but don't cross the line, so it was pretty funny and chill. also guys apparently never stop making dick jokes and that type of shit and it was kinda funny tbh

then we got home, grabbed our shit, and legged it away from there.

now I'm gonna rant abt my crush hehe

he was like, oh who's this? when we were walking to dinner in the dark one night (I was in front of him and his friend and he couldn't see my face) and then fucking knew who I was from the way that I walked like mate, why tf do you know how i walk and how to describe it, hmm?

I flipped him off after he said that though it was fucking funny

also!! he just. stared at my eyes and was like, are your eyes different colors? and I was like yeah. and he just nodded slowly and we maintained eye contact for a while. twas weird.

we have staring contests a lot too?? like, he'll look at me or I'll look at him and then at one point he was like, you just stare at people and then tilt ur head, dont you! and I was like wtf dude,but also I kept eye contact bc its a Thing.

also on the bus ride home he just mimicked my facial expressions and it was really bloody funny and j broke out laughed and he smiled

yeah basically I'm hopelessly crushing on him bc he's smart and sarcastic but it never gonna happen so I just wanna be friends type thing. sigh.

ANYWAY. camp was kinda great, at some points it left me feeling like I was so bloody alone and also I felt really shitty mentally but I kept going and i really enjoyed it! yeah! also i nearly cried when i said goodbye to my instructors bc they were brilliant and I'm gonna miss them so bloody much, I'm sad I'll never see them again.

yeah.

[ericsonclan]

A Pile of Autumn Fun

Summary: Brody, Mitch and Willy go to the park to have some fun with leaf piles.

Word Count:1760

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Notes: For @stop-breaking-my-heart-telltale‘s October challenge Day 25: Leaf piles

Garbage stared vacantly at the spot in front of her, her teeth crunching down on the crisp autumn leaves that were on the grass. A low, happy hissing sound emitted from the possum as she devoured the leaves only to be rudely interrupted when she heard a loud war cry approaching at a rapid pace.

“Aaaaah!” Willy exclaimed, jumping up in the air and landing in the pile of leaves with a fit of laughter while Garbage jumped around here and there, scurrying around the park with her little paws as she hissed.

“Fuckin’ A! That was awesome, Willy!” Mitch yelled over at his little brother whose head popped out from the decimated pile of leaves. A plethora of leaves were stuck in Willy’s hair as he hopped up and ran over to his brother.

“Bet you can’t beat that!” Willy smiled up at Mitch who had a smug expression on his face.

“Just you watch,” He ruffled his young sibling’s hair, causing orange and red leaves to tumble out and onto the ground. “Brody, pass me a rake.”

Brody looked over at her boyfriend with a warm smile. “Okay,” She tossed one of the rakes she held which Mitch caught with relative ease. Jogging over to the leaf pile, the couple worked to reform it while Willy picked up armfulls of leaves and tossed them in to join the pile. Snagging up a spare few, Willy offered them to his secret pet possum who looked less than impressed but accepted the treats anyway.

“You sure that shit’s okay for Garbage?” Mitch looked over at Willy who had placed Garbage on top of his head. The possum seemed fine with it as long as she got more leaves. Mitch had been unsure of Garbage when he had discovered Willy playing outside of Ericon’s Diner in the dumpster with it. But the little creature made Willy really happy and was rather fond of him.

“Yeah, it helps her tummy,” Willy scratched the possum’s head who let out a throaty hiss that showed that it was content. Mitch shook his head and returned to working on the leaf pile with Brody.

“Ever do this when you grew up?” Brody glanced over at Mitch.

“Eh, the trailer park wasn’t exactly the best place to make leaf piles.” Mitch’s rake brushed a few more leaves onto the pile. “But that didn’t stop me and Willy from making some until we were forced to go to a park instead. So not much has changed,” Mitch stopped and gestured around at Marsh Park. “What about you?”

“Yeah, Ruby and I made them all the time. In front of my house were these huge trees and they would create so many leaves. Ruby and I used to have a contest to see who could make the most leaves fly in the air.” Brody chuckled. “We sure made a mess.”

“Willy and I used to do the same thing.” Mitch took a step back, a proud smile at the giant leaf pile that he had made with his girlfriend.

“How about making it a contest?” Brody’s voice made Mitch glance over. “Whoever loses has to buy apple cider for everyone from that stand at the front of the park.”

“Hell yeah! That sounds fun! Willy, you down for a game?”

Willy looked over at the couple with a huge grin. “Yeah, sounds awesome!”

“Then it’s settled.” Brody smiled and moved back to where she deemed would be a good starting point. After a minute of discussion, the running order was set. Willy would go first, followed by Brody and last Mitch. They would have three turns each and whoever made the biggest mess of leaves won. Willy bounced excitedly on the balls on his feet as he waited for the go ahead.

“Ready…. Set… Go!” Brody called out, causing the fifteen year old to dash forward and with a mighty cannonball land into the leaf pile, causing a flurry of leaves to fly up. Brody and Mitch gave their applause and soon the three worked to build up the pile again for Brody. Brody ran forward with all her might and with a high jump landed in the leaves. Reds and oranges filled the air as leaves slowly fell to the ground.

“That was pretty badass,” Mitch strolled forward towards his girlfriend.

“Think you can beat that?” Brody smiled up at her boyfriend.

“Heh, of course!” Mitch had a smirk on his face until he noticed a few leaves in Brody’s hair. Without speaking he started to help her take out the leaves while Willy worked on rebuilding the pile. Brody soon joined in to help but paused when Mitch's hand brushed against her face as he reached for a leaf. The two paused and looked into each other’s eyes, Mitch’s hand hovering by Brody’s ear.

“Whatcha two doing? The leaf pile is done.” Willy’s voice snapped the couple back into reality, causing Mitch to pull back his hand as Brody backstepped. Both had bright blushes on their faces that they tried to hide while stumbling through some sentences.

“We should continue,” Brody whispered.

“Shit, yeah, umm, it’s my turn.” Mitch moved back with Willy and Brody to the starting point and waited for Willy to tell him when to go. As soon as he did, Mitch was off like a shot and threw his body into the pile of leaves causing the whole thing to explode on impact. He poked his head out from the pile, a proud smirk on his face.

“Whoa, that was awesome, Mitch!” Willy scampered over with Garbage who squirmed out of the teen’s arms and onto a small pile of leaves, immediately returning to her snack time and paying no attention to the humans.

“You better watch out, Brodes.” Mitch walked forward and stopped in front of his girlfriend. “Or you might end up being the one paying for apple ciders.”

“Hah! That was just round one,” Brody got on her tiptoes and flicked off a leaf from her boyfriend’s head. Mitch smiled down before gathering up the leaves and strolling back with the others to the starting point. The next two rounds were just as fierce. Fits of laughter and battle cries filled the air as the trio jumped into the pile of leaves, making the air dance with autumn colors. It was a close competition that was leaning in Mitch’s favor until a rocky ending when Garbage had stood in his way, causing him to fall flat on his butt. Luckily his two competitors were kind enough to give him a second chance. Brody and Willy were close behind, but with Mitch’s mighty final jump he had blown the competition away.

“Hell yeah!” Mitch pumped his fist. “I’m the winner!” He smiled over at Brody who was applauding her boyfriend’s victory. “Guess you’re buying apple cider.”

“I guess I am.” Brody helped her boyfriend up. “Wanna jump in a few more piles of leaves first?”

Mitch’s smile grew as he kneeled down and excitedly started scooping up leaves in his arms. Brody laughed and helped Mitch until the leaf pile was complete.

“So, who wants to go first? Or should we all jump in?” Brody dusted off her knees and looked up only to find that Mitch was no longer there.

“Surprise attack!” Mitch wrapped his arms around Brody and pulled her into the pile of leaves.

“Mitch!” Brody giggled as she playfully wrestled away from Mitch’s arms. The two rolled around in the pile of leaves, both trying their best to get the upper hand. Tumbling and giggling, they stopped when they realized that their lips were mere inches from each other. Both looked at each other and were leaning forward to capture the other’s lips when Willy’s war cry rang out from behind them. Mitch wrapped his arms around Brody and rolled out of the way of his little brother’s wild jump just in time.

“Willy! What the hell! You gotta watch out! Brody could’ve been hurt.”

Willy's face dropped for a second.

“It’s fine, Mitch,” Brody scooted up to a sitting position and placed a hand over her boyfriend’s. She looked over to Willy with a gentle smile. “Just be more careful next time and give a warning.”

“Okay.” Willy whispered, kicking his feet against some leaves.

They didn’t want to end on a sour note. Mitch had an idea of how to prevent that. “How about we make the biggest leaf pile and all jump in?’

Mitch’s suggestion made Willy look up with wide eyes, an excited joy dancing within them. “Yeah!”

The three worked hard to gather as many leaves as they could. Once they were satisfied with the large hill of leaves, they took their spots at the starting point.

“Ready… Set…. Go!” Mitch yelled and the three sprinted forward, jumping into the pile and giggling as they threw leaves up into the air. After a few minutes of rolling around they all rose to their feet and helped brush off the leaves in each other’s hair.

“Well, that was fun. You two ready for some apple cider?” Brody smiled over at the pair of brothers.

“Fuck yeah!” Mitch exclaimed high-fiving his younger brother.

“Oh, if they have hot chocolate can I have that instead?’ Willy asked, swaying back and forth nervously as he glanced up at Brody with hopeful eyes.

“Sure,”

Willy ran forward and gave Brody a quick hug. “You’re the best!”

“Hey, I thought I was the best!” Mitch called out to Willy who was already sprinting ahead holding Garbage and had only one thing on his mind.

“Come on,” Brody intertwined her fingers with Mitch’s. “Let’s go.”

“Alright,” Mitch smiled over at Brody while they made their way to catch up with the speedy teen. Mitch was so focused on getting to the apple cider stand that he didn’t notice that Brody had leaned over and placed a kiss on his cheek until it was over.

He looked over at her with a slight blush. “What was that for?”

“Just felt like it. Today was really fun.” Brody looked over at Mitch then back to Willy who was struggling to hold onto Garbage while he ran.

“Yeah it was.”

Mitch and Brody continued to walk through the park, taking their time as they enjoyed each other’s company and watched Willy in amusement as he jumped up and down, waving his arms animatedly when he saw that the stand indeed had hot chocolate. It really had been a fun autumn day.