AN: Sorry I have been MIA I have been super busy and tired with work and theater I hope you are still bearing with me while you wait for updates! I love you all
Kara's POV
Alex and I step through the banners welcoming all the kids into camp and I am already overwhelmed by the noise of everyone around us.
"Do I really have to stay the entire summer?" I ask Eliza
"Yes. This will be good for you Kara. You need to make friends the same age as you and this is the perfect way to do it." Eliza explains as she checks us in and starts walking us to our cabin. "Alex this is you.." I start walking in with her but Eliza clears her throat "Actually Kara you are in a different cabin."
"Seriously Eliza? I am barely literate in English and Alex is literally the only person I know-"
"That's the point time to make friends," Eliza says a little harshly before pointing at the cabin I am assuming is mine. I glare at her and feel my heat vision start to turn on so I shut my eyes and turn away from her as I walk to my cabin I hear her say "And no powers" under her breath.
"UGH," I yell as I gently slam the door hoping it doesn't come off the hinges or bring the entire building down.
"Not excited to be here?" I turn to the voice and see my roommate lying down on her bed. The room was pretty basic. Two beds two dressers a bathroom two desks and some space to walk around.
"Not particularly. Who actually enjoys being stuck out in the woods for two months"
"Every person besides you who is here. I am Lena."
A second later a loudspeaker announced that the camp's first all-camp gathering was about to start.
I just translated the words into Kryptonese in my brain when I realized I had no idea where I was going and my roommate had already left the cabin. I run after her having to use a bit of X-ray vision to actually find her in the forest.
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The noise was just too much. Kara was told by Eliza that the forest would be peaceful and quiet compared to the farm with all the animals.
That was a lie.
I nearly went deaf from the fucking dumbass cheers and now I am sitting by the lake trying to shut out all the noise.
The forest wasn't quiet every single animal's pulse and breathing were rushing into my ears as well as every single person in camp and all of their conversations.
It just was too much a bury my head in between my knees trying to smother the noise
Someone touches my arm and I react instinctively and shove the person away.
The only thing that knocks me out of my spiral of too many noises was the cry out of pain right in front of me.
I look up and see my bunkmate standing from the lake drenched in water and holding her eye as blood sleeps in between her fingers.
My eyes widen and I run away as I quietly say "I'm sorry!"
Once I am out of sight I disappear deep into the forest and hide up in a tree and just start to cry.
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Alex's POV
I am just sitting down for dinner when the doors are thrown up and I hear Lena's voice say "Need help!" Before a loud crash.
My eyes widen and I run over to her she is bleeding from a deep cut through her eyebrow and down through her eye.
I immediately grab someone's napkin and put pressure on her eye as I pray that she hasn't lost sight in her eye from the cut.
Thankfully Lena was conscious so I asked my childhood friend "What happened?" I saw her walk off in the direction of the lake and considering she was drenched in water a whole number of things could happen.
"Your fucking crazy sister pushed me!" Lena snapped. My eyes widen oh no Kara what did you do...
I lead Lena to the infirmary and thankfully because the camp is so isolated we have a full-time doctor who cleans the cut, stitches Lena up, and thankfully tells us that she will be able to see once the cut heals but she will have a nasty scar and a bandage for the next couple of weeks.
"Lena I am so sorry about Kara what happened exactly?" I say as I walk her back to her dorm. I insisted that we switch cabins but the counselors won't let that happen without knowing what happened and I begged Lena not to tell on Kara so she wouldn't get thrown out. of camp.
"I saw she walked off during the cheers and she looked super rattled so I followed her to make sure she was okay." The noise must have gotten to her I thought mom packed her her sound-canceling earplugs but apparently not. "She was sitting with her head between her knees and I thought she was crying so I wrested my hand on her arm and she shoved me before she even saw who it was and I wasn't expecting it so I fell into the lake and hit my head on a rock and it cut my eye. Thank god I can still see."
I sigh and open the door for her and we walk into the cabin. I expected Kara somewhat to be in the cabin but she isn't. I set Lena up in a comfortable spot and once she was okay and asleep I walked out to the lake and deeper into the forest.
"Kara?" I say at a normal volume "I know you can hear me. Come back please I don't want to walk around a forest trying to find you all night."
It takes a second but Kara walks out from behind a tree looking like she had been crying for the last 2 hours.
"Am I in trouble?" she whispers.
"No not as of now, But you owe Lena a massive apology. It's a miracle she didn't lose sight in her eye and that she agreed not to rat on you."
"I am so sorry."
"I am not the person to say that too. Let's go it's late and you need to go to bed it's been a long day."
Kara follows me back to her dorm and I message my mom asking about Kara's earplugs.
My mother explained she put them in my bag for some reason. I roll my eyes and grab them to give to Kara tomorrow.
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I am standing in the doorway of the cabin after Alex left and shut the door
Lena sits up and glares at me.
A pit forms in the bottom of my stomach as I walk to my bed. Why bother apologizing she probably hates my guts to no end.
I flopped down and fell asleep despite not actually needing to sleep but everything was just too much. How am I gonna survive a whole summer of this?
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The summer crawls by Lena stays away and doesn't speak a word to me and I am stuck dealing with her entire friend group glaring and talking shit about me behind my back. And the worst part is I can hear it every time. She never says anything negative but I can feel her hatred every time she looks at me.
I ignore every one and just sit reading books by the lake as much as possible. Super speed definitely makes reading books easier but I slow down so I can enjoy each book.
Last week Lena got her bandage taken off and the scar could be way worse and thankfully it isn't.
God, she must hate my guts. Why didn't she rat me out?
I feel something thud against the back of my head and out of habit from Alex and Eliza telling me over and over again to react as if it hurt.
I lean forward as if it forced me forward and gasp as I put my hand over the spot it hit as if I was in pain.
I turn and see Lena's pose standing there glaring and the head girl Eve says "Now you know how it feels Fag-"
"Enough!" Lena walks through their group and stands in between them and me as she says "What happened with Kara was an accident. She hurt me and I got over it so why can't you guys and just leave her the fuck alone." They glare but leave As Lena turns to face me she walks up to me.
She walks up moves my hand out of the way and looks for any sort of cut as I start to protest knowing she won't find anything but I get caught up staring at her gorgeous green eyes as she fusses over me.
"Why are you doing this?" I whisper not wanting to break the bubble of her actually being nice to me and make her suddenly realize that she hates my guts.
"You could be hurt. Eve has a strong arm she plays softball. You may have a concussion even if you don't have a cut somehow..." Lena says still searching for a cut.
I reach up and grab her hands gently and say "I am okay Lena I promise..."
She raises an eyebrow at me "Your sister will kill me if I don't check you out"
"Is that why you aren't mad at me? Alex asked you?"
"No." She says sitting cross-legged next to me "Well yes and no. She told me it wasn't personal you just were super overwhelmed by the noise and just reacted without realizing what happened. I was super pissed at first but I am more annoyed that you never really checked on me or apologized."
Well.... I can't explain that I did check on her constantly with my x-ray vision and by listening to her heartbeat nearly all day every day.
"I- I thought you hated me so it wasn't even worth apologizing cause what I did was unforgivable."
"Kara I don't hate you but I probably should... Last summer Alex showed up to camp and all she talked about was how her family adopted someone and she finally had a sister. It was sad cause she cared a lot about you but she didn't know how to communicate with you. It's funny cause even if you aren't related by blood you still have the same tendencies" I laugh loudly cause she really isn't wrong. We sit in silence for a couple of minutes enjoying the sunset when Lena says "Can we start over?"
"Start what over?"
"Our friendship? I mean we are roommates and we have barely spoken more than 10 sentences to each other. And Alex is my good friend I don't want to not get along with her her sister"
I offer her my hand and say "Okay let's start over"
We shake and I just excuse the sparks that shoot up my arm as my powers being weird but who knows...
PT 2 coming if you want it