Meet Me Here

Chapter 1: Memory Walk

"Welcome to Camp ICBM!" The room burst into a round of applause to welcome another season of summer camp.

Ye Jin and Hyun Bin listened attentively to So Sook's short briefing before they were told they would be splitting into their groups. Ye Jin was in Team Pirates while Hyun Bin was in Team Ninjas and the close friends looked at each other sadly when they realised they weren't in the same group.

"Hey, we'll still see each other at meals and at night." Hyun Bin assured Ye Jin.

"You're right. Let's enjoy ourselves!" Ye Jin nodded with a grin.

With that, they joined their respective teams. Hyun Bin ended up with the squealers from the doorway and another trainee, Ji Yoo. Like him, he was one of the male trainees in the room full of facilitators and that was always a good starting point to make conversation. As the two boys conversed lightly, Hyun Bin was well aware of the two sets of eyes blinking at him expectedly.

"Annyeong, I am Kylie! What's your name?" The girl in the pink tank top seemed especially eager to get to know him.

She was the social butterfly after all.

"Um...I'm Hyun Bin." He responded a little awkwardly.

"That's the perfect name!" Kylie squealed as she grabbed onto her friend's wrist tightly.

"I'm Ji Yoo." The poor ignored boy made his presence known then.

"Don't mind Kylie, she gets like this sometimes. I'm Sasha."

Hyun Bin nodded awkwardly at Sasha and Kylie before his eyes instinctively searched for his childhood friend. It would appear her group was in a deep discussion for Ye Jin's brows were knitted together in full concentration. 

Yet, Hyun Bin could tell she was starting to get bored and even a tad bit stressed. While the other groups were chatting amiably, Ye Jin's group was the only quiet one as they listened to who he assumed was their Main I/C talk.

On the other side of the room, Ye Jin felt a reassuring wave of familiarity wash over her just as she was about to nod off. Her group's Main I/C, Suk Chin, a man in his 40s who was balding, was going on and on about the importance of professionalism as a facilitator. While the good student in Ye Jin was eager to learn, it doesn't mean she enjoyed a 30-minute lecture on professionalism.

Taking the chance while Suk Chin was asking the poor boy next to her, Ha Jun, to answer a question, Ye Jin sneaked a glance at her beloved friend. Their eyes met across the room and Ye Jin felt the exhaustion leave her when Hyun Bin smiled gently at her. With a slight yawn, Ye Jin smiled back at him before Suk Chin interrupted their little moment.

"Ye Jin, how do you define professionalism." Suk Chin looked at her expectantly.

Ye Jin was at a loss for words at being thrown the curveball and she was immensely grateful when Jasmine interrupted their discussion.

"Annyeong, here are your facilitator packages. The facilitator shirts are inside!" Jasmine smiled widely at the group.

Ye Jin thanked Jasmine for the package, and she watched as she strode over to Hyun Bin's team to do the same.

"Suk Chin ssi, perhaps we should wrap up this discussion. We will be doing clean-up soon." Dea, the volunteer facilitator in their group came to Ye Jin's rescue.

Dea has been running camps as a volunteer for over ten years now and she had the uncanny ability to tame Suk Chin's long-winded tendencies. Ye Jin was simply grateful that she didn't have to answer Suk Chin's question.

"Alrighty, it's time for clean-up! Pirates, I need you in the bunks, Ninjas, the canteen..." So Sook read off the assignments from the list Raven prepared.