You never should’ve gone to those stupid bathrooms, you think frantically, heart racing in your chest as you run through the forest - in your panic, you hadn’t paid any attention to which way you had gone.

You and the other counsellors had all been sitting around the campfire, playing stupid games before the whole.. Emma and Nick thing— the thing that caused both Jacob and Abi to storm off in opposite directions.

Feeling the air go stale, you excused yourself to the bathrooms, the ones beside the cabins.

Everything was fine, well, apart from the awful smell - until something howls off in the distance just as you left the doors, a guttural and otherworldly noise that made your breath catch in your throat.

Whatever the hell happened, you found yourself getting chased through the forest, catching a glimpse of the thing and okay that was not a bear.

You think maybe you had lost it finally, glancing behind you only to ram straight into something solid and alive apparently, because the guy let out a startled yelp, the both of you stumbling backwards from the hit.

It was Jacob— in nothing but his boxers.

He had just gone swimming with Emma, but, well, you didn’t know that.