#somcurityguard

[ Before dance night vs. After dance night ! ]

What an event!! I did have to leave Bean alone for a bit to take care of some business at some point...but then I came right back and we moshed the evening away to some hardcore jams~

As for what said business was...well, I really don’t want to spoil anything, so you’ll just have to find out for yourself:

SO MANY things! Stargazing, eating good food, hiking and exploring, swimming, discovering new animals, painting the scenery...just everything.

But I think what I’m most excited about is hanging out with friends. I still can’t believe it but when Bean and I arrived at the staff cabin I was reunited with a few more familiar faces. 🥺 They weren’t all from the same universe or timeline as I was, but they all remembered me in some way. Check out our group selfie!!

..Heh! Thanks for all the ammo. 😏 Heard they're having a water balloon fight over there, and there’s someone I've been really looking forward to saying hello to.

Rumour is, he’s a real scumbag.

[Art by @clarabellumsart​]

Auntie Miru threw a surprise birthday party for me this year!?? Som and Hudson had helped her to make 69 cakes for all who attended, and I received a lot of wonderful gifts, too…..

I’m,,..really not used to having so much attention on me, but…it was kind of nice! 🥺🧡

I still remember all the things I used to do when I was the resident zombie slayer at Som’s factory. These would include, but not be limited to, factory “sweeps” to make sure there weren’t any zombies in or around the factory, rooftop lookouts, digging hole traps, listening to the radio, making all kinds of soups, learning guitar, building pillow forts in the gaymes room, sleeping huddled up together on a giant Once-ler bed, and most of all, changing bandages.

Space and time are warped out there, though, so I don’t even know who all still remembers those times anymore, but I hope they’ll at least stay with me forever. I...wouldn’t be the same person without them.

And for the record, I know two Soms. The other Som is the one from my alternate beach life, whom I officially got reunited with shortly after I arrived at camp. He's also very dear to me, so at least I still have him.

What else was I going to say..oh yeah. Does anyone else ever get the jitters on certain days of the year, due to bad things having happened on those days in the past? I hope that’s a totally normal thing. For me, it’s unfortunately always when September the 16th approaches..

You know what I said earlier about deja vu? Yeah, Entre's not the only one who triggered that. There was this other guy at camp, Som.

Of course, I have met him before. He was at the beach last year. And that encounter went... great? ...Okay, no, thats a lie. I freaked out. Because... I know I knew him even before that, a long, long time ago. I just don't remember it.

But then I ran into him again at camp. And when you're both stuck in the same cabin, you have to at least try to get along, right?

Would you guys believe me if I told you that......I once got trapped inside a fancy beach resort’s hotel elevator, and plummeted sixteen floors down to my death? :S

Well. It happened in more of a past life. Or an alternate life..? I don’t feel like explaining all that right now. I was just lucky to have only kept vague memories of it—until very recently, when I was forced to relive it, and remember it in full.

It’s frightening, of course, but also really loud, and it’s like...like you’re floating for a while, except you can’t breathe—and then you’re slammed into the floor, but the walls and ceiling of the elevator are slammed down as well, on top of you..

Anyway. Thankfully it was just a clown prank, I think. I checked myself all over, because all my past injuries had come back for a split second, but it was only phantom pains. They're gone, now. I think.

I don't know. I don't know why it happened. Well, it's Camp Weehawken, so maybe I do know why. And maybe I deserved it for starting to take death so lightly at summer camp.

But I'm just glad that I'm not alone anymore like I was for most of that other life. I've got friends now who can catch me when I fall, and take me out for milkshakes and then carry me back to bed when I get tired. I'll continue to count my blessings, thanks. And thanks for letting me ramble for a bit. I needed it.

...I hope the other me is doing okay, out there.