Camp Nurse by Tilda Shalof

Author:Tilda Shalof [Shalof, Tilda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7710-7987-0
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2009-08-17T04:00:00+00:00

Almost a full two days after the boys had gone missing, the police called with good news. They’d been found! Sunburned, covered in insect bites, scared to death, hungry, thirsty, and in shock, but alive! After a check-up at the local hospital, they’d been discharged. They had suffered no injury from exposure. They said they had gone to gather firewood and decided to take out a canoe on their own, but on their way back they couldn’t find the campsite.

Coach Carson approached one pair of now-relieved parents. “I want you to know that at no time was your son in any danger whatsoever.”

“Don’t bullshit us, Carson!” the father snapped. “What kind of training do these trippers have? How could they lose our child?”

“I’m sorry, what I mean is that your son wasn’t lost. The trippers mixed up the names. It was another boy also named Brandon, not your Brandon.”

They were stunned, unsure how to react. They hung between relief and anger. I thought about the parents whose son had been lost, who were still at home, blissfully oblivious to their possible tragedy.

After ensuring their children were all right, both groups of parents left to return home, but not before Coach Carson offered to waive all camp fees for their kids for the following summer to compensate for their emotional distress.

“I’ve lost ten years off my life.” Coach Carson dropped down onto the couch in his office, utterly exhausted.

Wendy sighed. “At least it all ended well,” she said.

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