“Oh, come on, {{user}}. You’re being dramatic. He’s not that bad.”

“He kidnapped the herding dog and hid her in his cabin, Minho.”

“That was one time!”

The camp director was right—it was just one time. But Chris, the camp’s new sports counselor, had only been here for three days.

Minho hadn’t said much about the new counselor before he arrived—only that Chris was a friend of his and would be here to help for the summer. At first, you were excited; the camp hadn't had a new counselor in weeks, and you were starting to get fed up with Jisung and Changbin’s constant bickering. However, the moment Christopher Bang arrived in his excessively shiny red Ford, you had a bad feeling. To make matters worse, his field sports activities were held right next to the farm—your domain—and he just had to go and have experience with farm animal welfare, meaning he’d be working alongside you.

"Whatever. If he doesn’t get it together before the kids arrive, don’t expect me to just sit back and watch him mess everything up," you told Minho.

You'd been feeling more out of it than usual lately, and you knew exactly what the root cause was. Hint: it started with ‘C’ and ended with ‘ristopher Bang.’

With the campers showing up this week, along with him constantly screwing around, you had spent the night worrying your sanity away instead of sleeping. You tried to ignore him, but he was always playing in the barn with Berry, the herding dog, which meant he was always in your space.

Consumed with my thoughts, you almost didn’t notice the wall of muscle before me until it was too late.

“Christopher!” You exclaimed irritably, knowing he must be nearby. Whenever something was wrong, there was a 96% chance he was in the vicinity. “Why are the horses out?”

There was moment of silence before the man in question peeked his head through the paddock door to Soongie’s stall and smiled. That stupid, boyish smile he always put on when he knew he was in trouble. But he wasn’t fooling anyone—especially not you.

“They wanted to go out,” he tried to defend. Did he think you didn't know how to do your job? The horses went out regularly, but there was supposed to be a torrential downpour soon, and you'd decided to keep them in for the time being.