Gavin as planning his escape when the kid next to him said he had no idea what as going on, “Oh, have you not played capture the flag before?” He didn’t play the original version, there as one the coach had made up, but it as capture the football, and he randomly tossed it to someone and you had to run for a touchdown before getting tackled, but it wasn’t as fun. Gavin hated playing it when the ball was tossed to him, at least when it as tossed to another player, he could pretend to try and tackle them.

Gavin felt like Erick was busting with the energy his dad probably wanted him to have for football, and he couldn’t help the feeling of jealousy wash over him. He pushed it aside, knowing even if he had the same energy, he didn’t enjoy football at all. “Oh, I mean, we can try and steal it. I don’t know what the plan is actually.” He looked around with Erick, noticing the guy who had picked the teams as gathering them all up to do just that. “I guess we can see what they plan, but flag football was on the field, I think you can still make it.” He shrugged his shoulders, walking over to the group and listening in to the idea the counselor had. It wasn’t much of a plan, several students were picked to stay behind while the rest were sent out to scout for the other team or try and steal the flag. “Still want to stay?” He wouldn’t blame him if he went to find the flag football group.

Gavin knew Erick as right, there was a game at least twice a week and the last week as a tournament between teams. He told his dad he’d play, but he hadn’t done it yet, and didn’t really have a plan to. “Alright, I guess we’ll go try and steal the flag.” He shrugged his shoulders, watching as the rest of the group spread out, some in groups, as they headed over to the other team’s camp.

Gavin shrugged, “I was kind of forced into this, I would rather just play video games.” He admitted, feeling like most people now a days judged someone who wanted to play games all the time. “But I guess sunshine is good for me.” He smirked, seeing as they now entered the tree cover. He held out his hand to Erick and smiled. “Gavin.” He introduced himself.

Gavin shook Erick’s hand, “Alright Erick. Are you from around here?” he asked, having found a few of the campers were from the nearby town, but most weren’t. He also wondered if Erick was going to Mountain Ridge for Freshman year like him. He was slightly nervous about it, though knowing Sydney was too made him feel better that he at least knew one person.

“Nice, I’m from L.A., but um, my dad works in New York, and a few of his coworkers told him about this place.” Sure, it wasn’t the full truth, but Gavin wasn’t ready to tell anyone his dad played for the Giants. He wasn’t well known, and it used to shock him when people didn’t know, but now he liked the fact that he wasn’t a dead ringer for his dad. “To be fair to your brother, I’m not the best at making friends either.” Granted that might have been because he always had a video game in front of his face, but he was trying.

“Yeah, it definitely not normal,” Gavin chuckled, feeling like every time he visited home something was happening. He’d rather stay in a small town where he wasn’t reminded of who his dad was and his legacy he would one day continue. He raised an eyebrow when he said they could be friends, wondering how that was possibly the easiest friend he ever made, if he was being serious. “I mean, do you want to be stuck doing this?” he asked, spotting several campers from the other team run through the forest towards their own flag.

“It’s not all it’s cracked up to be,” Gavin did enjoy the city lights, and the proximity of things, but that was about it. He slowly nodded at Ericks idea, thinking they could at least give the game a chance. “Alright, well. I’m pretty sure those two came from the direction, so let’s see if we can find their flag.” He pointed in the direction he thought the flag might be and started heading through the trees, trying to keep hidden.

Gavin and Erick made their way through the trees, searching for the other team’s yellow flag. “So,” he said after a few minutes, “Why did your mom pick mountain ridge?” He asked, wondering if his dad had some say about it, though a sad thought entered his mind that his dad wasn’t around. Even though his dad and him didn’t see eye to eye on much, he couldn’t see not having him in his life.

Gavin nodded his head, finding it funny that this town wasn’t considered small, though it was smaller than L.A. and maybe bigger than where Erick was from. “My mom wanted me to get out of L.A. mostly, a family friend’s daughter is also attending, so they figured we’d be friends.” He shrugged his shoulders, still debating on how Sydney was even going to make it in life, but she was at least sweet and funny, and didn’t expect him to play football.

Gavin felt his neck heat up with embarrassment, realizing that was him, always studying or playing video games. He wondered if Erik liked them, though he wondered if his ADHD made it difficult. He wasn’t sure he was the adventurous type, but he knew he couldn’t hide in his dorm the entire time, because he knew people talked, and when people talked, rumors got started. “What do you like to do for fun then?” he asked.

Gavin perked up when he said he liked video games, already starting a list of games he enjoyed, and wondered if he did too. “I like video games too, do have some favorites?” he asked, hoping a few of them would match up with his own. “I’ve never surfed before, even though I lived right by the beach.” Practically lived right off the beach, but he wasn’t big on the beach scene, though he liked cruising on his family’s boat.

Gavin had the latest everything, his mom somehow knew what was the latest in gaming, though he had suspicions it was her assistant who did it all. “Oh, I love the Assassin Creed games, big fan of Fallout, just about every shooting game, and lots of others.” He didn’t want to brag about how much he had, noting Erick had said they didn’t have the newest stuff, but if they were roommates, he wouldn’t mind sharing,

Gavin chuckled, “But that’s the best part in Skyrim,” Well, any open world game like that, it was always fun to run around the map, only doing the main quest if it suited his needs. “Oh, it’s trippy alright, one of my friends back home has one, and it was hard to get used to at first.” He lied slightly, thinking it was true since his friend had one, and he tried it before he got his, “A lot of fun games though.”