Tabitha followed her boyfriend as he showed her and their friends where everything was. EJ lets go of Tabitha's hand to walk in front of the group, setting his duffle bag down as he faces his girlfriend and friends with a smile. He then points out where everything was. "Boys' bunk, girls' bunk, mountains, ocean, and sometimes there's bears." Marc raised his eyebrows with surprise when EJ said the last part and he glanced around with slight, trying his best to show he wasn't nervous.

Tabitha's eyes widen, sharing a nervous look with Maeve. "Seriously?" She questioned in disbelief, looking at her boyfriend worriedly.

"Got it." Kourtney responded to EJ, looking around nervously.

EJ picks up his duffle bag, beginning to walk backwards. He points at his girlfriend and friends. "Okay, I will see you all tonight for the big announcement. Oh." He runs back over to Tabitha, who smiles at him with surprise as he smiles at her. He cups her chin, pulling her in for a sweet kiss. "Love you." EJ told her, smiling fondly at her when they pulled away.

Tabitha smiles softly, ignoring the blush appearing on her face and how her heart fluttered at the sweet gesture EJ did. "Love you too."

As EJ walks away, Carlos and Kourtney look at each other with sad eyes. "How many days has it been?" Carlos questioned.

"Ten minutes." Kourtney whined and Carlos groaned. Tabitha looked at them both with sympathetic smiles, feeling bad for them that they had to be away from their significant others.

****

The girls get to the Honeycomb and Kourtney is the one to walk in first. She chuckles nervously. "Oh! This is deeply round."

"Six sides is some next-level feng shui." Ashlyn commented as Gina closed the door since she was the last one in.

"And some zero-level privacy."

"It's honestly kinda cute." Maeve smiled and Tabitha nodded in agreement.

The walls of the cabin were a teal blue, bunk beds were set up across the room, there was even a swing in the corner, there was a bathroom, a window seat, and some chairs and small tables set up in the middle of the room. There was also a bookshelf off to one side of the room, bright colors and different decorations filled the room as well.

"Okay," Gina gathers all the girls together to huddle. "Should we spread out our bed assignments or do the new-girl cluster?"

"All for one and one for all!" Maeve grinned, quickly turning around and rushing to claim a bed.

"I kinda want the top bunk." Kourtney admitted.

GIna looks back at her with furrowed eyebrows. "Well, I want the top bunk."

Ashlyn points at herself. "I also want the top bunk."

"I want that one." Gina grinned, pointing at the top bunk in front of her and rushed over to it.

Tabitha laughs as the three girls playfully fought over each other to claim a bed. Tabitha went to claim the bottom bunk below the top bunk Maeve chose. Their bunk bed was next to the one where Ashlyn had claimed the top bunk. While Gina chose the top bunk of the bunk bed closer to the bathroom, Kourtney decided on going with the bottom bunk of that bunk bed.

"You know, I'm honestly surprised all of us went to camp." Tabitha admitted, turning to face her friends.

With her hands on her hips, Kourtney shakes her head with a small smile. "Yeah, I mean, your boy EJ talked a pretty big game." She chuckles nervously. "I was expecting, you know, more a Four Seasons-y vibe."

"He gets so excited when he describes camp." Ashlyn smiles. "And the only erason I never joined him is 'cause I spent the last six summers LARPing in Minnesota."

Everyone stares at her with confusion. "Live action roleplay?" Ashlyn explains in a questioning voice. Her smile fell when she realized no one knew what she was talking about. "Anyone?"

"Sorry, Ash." Maeve apologizes with a sheepish expression on her face. "We all have no clue what that is."

"We're gonna learn a lot about each other this summer, aren't we?" Kourtney asked her.

Ashlyn smiles, folding her hands in front of her. "My best character is a sewing wench from Gondor."

Tabitha glances over at Kourtney with an amused smile. "I think that's a yes." Kourtney nodded and chuckled.

"Okay," Kourtney claps her hands. "I'm gonna check out the restroom." She walks over to the bathroom and grimaces. "Ooh! And now I've done that."

Gina laughs. "Come on, Kourt. This is gonna be a great summer."

"Yeah," Tabitha smiles. She tilts her head to the side, raising her eyebrows at Kourtney. "You know how I know this is gonna be a great summer?" She grins. "This guy I know promised."

Everyone laughs. "I'm glad you and Gina got someone here," Kourtney frowns. "But Howie's off to college, Nini's on the road, my mom's a little too old for camp."

"And we'll be right beside you every day." Gina reassured her as Tabitha and Maeve walked over to the girls, taking ahold of Gina's and Ashlyn's hands as they both put their other hands on Kourtney's shoulders.

Kourtney smiles widely at her friends and they all giggle. They all move away from each other, going back to their separate beds as the door opens. "Yes, my ladies in the Honeycomb." Gadget smiles at everyone, walking in with two other girls following her. "Once again, I'm Maddox."

As Ashlyn, Kourtney, Tabitha, and Maeve wave and smile friendly at the other girls who walked in with Maddox, Gina furrows her eyebrows, looking at Maddox with confusion. "I thought your name was Gadget."

"Ooh! No, yeah, it is also Gadget." Maddox smiles. "Yeah, it's my camp name. Everyone gets one. It's super fun."

"That does sound fun." Tabitha smiled.

"Oh, um," Maddox points at the bed Kourtney sat on. "That is actually my bed." Kourtney raises her eyebrows, pointing at the bed. "Yeah, I made some deep memories in that one over the years." Maddox explains. She points at her two front teeth and chuckles. "I actually knocked out my two front teeth in that bulletin board during a massive pillow fight."

Waving her hands in front of her in a 'no' gesture, Kourtney laughs nervously and immediately stands up. "It is all yours. All good." She picks up her bags, moving them to the bed below Ashlyn's. "I am out."

"Oh, thanks." Maddox smiles, walking over to the bed to put her stuff on it. She sits down, smiling at everyone. "Lot of new faces." She points at the two girls who claimed the bunk bed beside the left side of the bunk bed Tabitha and Maeve were at. Maddox grins at everyone. "Who's got secrets?" Tabitha raised her eyebrows, sharing a surprised look with Maeve.

****

Meanwhile, Carlos opens the door to the boys' bunk and Marc follows him inside. The layout in the boys' bunk was similar to the girls' bunk, expect the style was made for boys. "New dudes, catch." One of the other boys in the cabin said to them, throwing the football in their direction.

While Carlos steps to the side, the football hits the frame and it falls to the floor, causing the glass to break. "Okay. Constant danger and we live here." Carlos said, looking at Marc worriedly.

Chuckling, Marc goes over to pick up the football. "I think we'll live." He then throws the football back to the other boy as EJ arrived.

"What's your name?" The boy who threw the football asked.

"I'm Carlos." Carlos points at Marc. "He's Marc." Mac waves at the boys. "We're friends of EJ's. I choreograph, and I just peed a little bit."

"Too much information, dude." Marc mutters with a look of disgust on his face. He shakes his head, glancing at the boy who they were talking to with a friendly smile. "So, who are you?"

"Johnny," Johnny smiles. "But everyone calls me Crash."

Marc glances at the broken frame on the floor nods. "Makes sense." He comments, looking back at Johnny with a small smile. "But its nice to meet you."

"I think we actually go to school together." A brunette-haired boy speaks to Marc. He was the other boy throwing the football around with the other two. He smiles friendly. "I'm Zander."

Marc's eyes widen in realization. "Oh, that's right! Yeah, we have a few classes together." He smiles. "Hey, dude, nice to see a familiar face here at camp."

"Yeah," Zander nods in agreement. "It is." 

"Hey!" EJ points at the broken frame as he chuckles. "First crash of the summer."

"Guilty, my dude." Crash said with a laugh.

"Guys, I'm so glad you found the bunk." EJ smiled at his friends.

"I'm so glad that you are glad." Carlos nervously commented and Marc chuckled.

"Just pick a bed, take a load off." EJ suggests, walking over to a bunk bed. Marc walks over to the bunk bed that didn't have the bottom bunk claimed yet. "I'm actually the CIT for this bunk, so...That's counselor in training. I'm gonna need everyone to follow all of the rules to the letter."

Marc looks at him with surprise. "Really?" He didn't expect EJ to be a rule follower.

"No." EJ laughs. "You guys should've seen your faces. I'm just kidding, you guys. I'm, like, six months older than some of you, and this is my last chance to be a kid. So, good vibes only this summer, okay?"

"Sounds good to me." Marc smiled. He looked over at the door when it suddenly opened.

A dark-skinned boy walks in and EJ smiles friendly at him. "New kid, right? You must be Jet."

Jet closes the door behind him, looking annoyed. "Okay."

"I'm EJ. This is Carlos. And this is-"

"Yeah, I'm actually good without talking, but you do you." Jet interrupted EJ's introduction, putting his bag on the top bunk Carlos had put his bag on.

Carlos' eyes widen. "Oh, that's my bed."

"Okay." Jet repeated, going up the latter to get to the top bunk.

"Yeah, I don't think he cares." Zander chuckled.

Marc sympathetically smiles at Carlos as he laughs nervously. Carlos then looks at Marc and EJ with fear. "I'm scared."

Marc puts a hand on his shoulder. "You'll be fine."

****

Soon it was time to head to the stage where the big announcement was being revealed. When Tabitha noticed her boyfriend on the path to the stage by himself, she grinned and jogged over to him.

"Hi, Eej." Tabitha greeted, smiling widely at him as she looped her arm through his.

EJ smiles softly at her. "Tabitha Nelson from the Honeycomb, right?"

"That is correct." Tabitha grins. She tilts her head to the side. "You don't happen to be the CIT, EJ Caswell, right?"

EJ raises his eyebrows with surprise. "How'd you know I'm a CIT?"

"Word gets around." Tabitha shrugged.

EJ chuckles, shaking his head. "I still can't believe you're here." He took his hand out of the pocket of his sweats and she unlopped her arm from his as he wrapped his arm around her waist. She smiled fondly when he kissed her forehead.

"Me neither. But I'm glad I am." Tabitha confessed.

"And it's all about to get just a little bit more exciting." EJ commented.

"Okay," Carlos joins the couple, linking his arm with EJ's other arm while Kourtney join them, along with Maeve. Marc and Gina were walking slightly behind the group, holding hands. "Who is this famous person and why isn't it one of the Real Housewives?"

"Carlos, why on Earth would one of the Real Housewives come to a summer camp?" Maeve inquired with disbelief.

Carlos shrugs. "It could happen."

"You guys," EJ shrugs. "I don't wanna oversell it. To me, a celebrity is someone who gets a bunch of questions about their skincare regimen."

"And I just learned that I am a celebrity." Carlos laughed.

****

As Marc, Maeve, Gina, Carlos and Kourtney make it to the stage, they notice Jet was leaning against the railing of the steps to the loft part the stage was on.

"Hi, Jet." Carlos greets. Jet looks at the group and hums in response. "Are you planning to sit or..."

"Just taking in the view." Jet replied.

"The view of the tree?" Maeve questions, looking at Jet weirdly when she noticed Jet was staring at a tree. She narrows her eyes at him suspiciously after he didn't reply to her. "You don't talk a lot, do you?"

Marc glances in the direction Jet was looking at, looking back at Jet weirdly since Jet had been staring at a tree. Carlos, Kourtney, and Gina glance in the same direction before looking forward at Jet. "Okay." Carlos awkwardly said, quickly walking forward along with the others.

Kourtney looks at her friends with confusion. "He's staring at a tree, right?"

Carlos hums in response. "What was that?" Kourtney inquired.

"Maybe he's a tree hugger." Marc shrugged and Gina chuckled.

"I'm just glad you guys saw him too." Carlos admitted.

"Hold up," Maeve stops walking, causing the group to stop as well as she points in a direction with an awestruck look on her face. "Who's that hottie?" Everyone looks in the direction she pointed at, seeing none other than Zander O'Malley, sitting on the right side on the stage as he talked with his friends. 

"That's Zander." Marc replies. "We go to the same school." 

"He's a North High student?" Maeve whines. "Why do all the hot ones have to be from the rival school?"

Gina raises her eyebrows at her and chuckles a bit. "Are you calling my boyfriend hot?"

"I mean, yeah," Maeve points at him. "Look at him." Her friends laughed at her bluntness. 

The group joins Tabitha and EJ. Logs were lined up in front of the stage for people to sit on, and fairy lights were hung up to brighten up the place. There was also a 'Welcome to Shallow Lake' sign above the stage. Chatting filled the air as people talked with each other, waiting for the announcement to happen. As the couples sit beside each other, Ashlyn, Carlos, Kourtney, and Maeve sat behind them. Instead of having his arm wrapped around Tabitha's waist like before, EJ now was holding hands with her that rested on top of the blanket they both had got from a basket of blankets that were near the stage for people to use.

Maddox walks over to the microphone, now with an acoustic guitar. "What's up, new campers?" She gets loud cheering in response and even an 'i love you, gadget' was yelled by someone. She grins. "I thought I'd sing a little song. Maybe one or two of you wanna sing along."

Tabitha had to admit she enjoyed the song. She thought it was fun and catchy, plus she liked how some of the other teens joined in on singing and the crowd wave thing they did at the end. She cheered and applauded Maddox along with everyone else.

"EJ," Ashlyn leans forward, smiling at her cousin. "That was really cute."

"Yeah, we sing it every night." EJ spoke.

"Please tell me you're joking." Maeve said, staring at him with surprise.

"I am." EJ laughs. "We don't."

Carlos didn't seem amused. "What's next, the blood sacrifice?"

"You're gonna regret saying that if that's true." Marc remarked and Carlos looked at him with a scared expression. Gina laughed a bit, lightly hitting Marc's shoulder as a way of scolding him for scaring Carlos. Mac chuckled, smiling sheepishly at her.

"Now, give it up for the Wood!" Maddox points at a man walking to the stage. "He loves some nosie! Yeah!" After fist bumping Maddox, the man walks up to the mic as the crowd cheers for him and some even chant 'dewey'. When no one listened to him telling them to settle down the first time, Dewey yelled at them to settle down the second time and they all finally listened to him.

"For those of you who don't know, I'm your camp director, Dewey Wood." Tabitha nodded and smiles. She figured by the badge on his jacket he might be the director.

Then suddenly EJ asks, "Dewey Wood?"

"Yes, he would." Some of the crowd responded.

"Dewey Wood?" EJ asked, pretending to be confused.

"Yes, he would!"

Dewey looks at everyone with annoyance and Tabitha couldn't help but giggle. Everyone must do that enough to make him be so annoyed with that inside joke. "I'm gonna keep this short and sweet. It's another summer. Let's have fun. Friendship is magic. Be careful what you flush. Okay? Now, I know the reason we have many new faces here is because of the exciting news. This summer, Camp Shallow lake has been selected for a very special opportunity and to tell you all about it, here comes a very familiar face."

EJ squeezes Tabitha's hand, smiling excitedly at her. "Are you ready, babe?"

Tabitha couldn't help the excited smile form on her own face because his excitement radiated off of him. "Ready for what?"

"Mr. Corbin Bleu."

Tabitha gasped, hitting EJ's arm out of shock when she saw the Corbin Bleu walk on stage with a cameraman following him. EJ laughed, smiling at his girlfriend with amusement. They both stood up like the rest of the crowd did, letting go of each other's hands to clap along with everyone else.

Everyone cheered loudly for the celebrity, lights flashed and music played when Corbin walked on stage. Corbin then told someone to light 'em up and thanks to Maddox, the confetti was shot out of confetti cannons and some other lights turned on to make things brighter. After the cheering died down, Corbin smiled at the crowd and spoke.

"Oh, I am so excited to be here at Camp Shallow Lake. You guys, I can't wait to tell you about what we've got planned this summer." Everyone sits down as he continues. "My pals at the House of Mouse has given us the keys to the magic kingdom. And that means that you guys are gonna be the first camp on the planet to premiere a global blockbuster which became a Broadway sensation." He pretends to shiver. "Does anyone have a jacket? It suddenly got cld in here."

Tabitha gasps excitedly, grinning because she thinks she knows what musical they're gonna put on. Dewey didn't seem to get the joke because he walks over as he goes to take his jacket off. "I suppose."

"We're gonna put on Frozen!" Corbin exclaimed and everyone cheered loudly. Tabitha grinned. She knew it was Frozen. Frozen was one of her favorite Disney Princess movies and she was so happy and excited that they were doing that play.

"Oh, it's a bit." Dewey mumbled, putting his jacket back on and walking back to where he stood before.

"Wait, really?" Gina questioned, grinning with excitement.

"Best summer ever." EJ responded with a grin on his face.

"I second that." Tabitha smiled from ear to ear.

"Very excited." Corbin commented.

"Are you telling me that I get to meet Corbin Bleu?" Carlos inquired, saying Corbin's last name wrong. He smiled at his friends and laughed excitedly. Tabitha giggled a bit when he said Corbin's last name wrong.

"And there's more." Corbin added. After he got a card out of his jacket, he read it out loud. On the card, it said that Camp Shallow Lake was chosen to do the first ever production of this Frozen script in advance of the release of high school rights to high schools everywhere. He also added how the camera his cameraman was holding was going to be following everyone around because they were also making a documentary about the show that's going to be aired on Disney+.

Tabitha's eyes widen and she gasps along with the rest of the crowd. She could feel nerves running through her veins. She was going to be on TV? She didn't sign up for that when she agreed to go to camp. "And it's gonna break the internet." Corbin said as he smiled at the crowd. Cheering and applause filled the air once again.

"It's very meta, you guys." Corbin commented.

"Hang on," Ashlyn points at the camera. "Is that camera gonna be here all summer?"

Tabitha bites her lower lip, nervously eying the camera. "Recording our every move for everyone in the world to see?"

"Well, not in the yurts." EJ shrugged.

"That didn't comfort me." Tabitha muttered.

EJ glances at her with concern when he saw her nervous gaze. He squeezes his hand, getting her attention back on him. "Hey," He speaks softly, smiling reassuringly at her. "Everything's gonna be fine, alright?" Tabitha nodded, smiling slightly at him.

"Wow," Carlos' eyes widen. "I just realized why that health form we filled out was, like, 20 pages long. I think I signed a lease." He spoke with worry. Tabitha's eyes widen in realization. If it really was a release, then it made a lot of sense why the health form everyone had to sign was so long.

Kourtney gasps worriedly, immediately fixing her hair. "I knew I should've read that thing."

"And hey I know there are some real live Wildcats out there." Corbin speaks up. The said Wildcats smile at each other and all but Marc of the friend group stood since he wasn't a Wildcat, but then they all sat back down after finding out Corbin didn't want them to stand. "And I look forward to signing headshots for you all later this summer." Corbin smiles at the group. He then smiles at the crowd. "'Cause it's all going down at Shallow Lake. So watch this space."

Everyone stood as they cheered and applauded for Corbin again. He smiled and thanked everyone. Ashlyn puts a hand over her chest with an excited expression on her face. "I don't remember how to breathe." 

"I don't remember how to worry." Kourtney grinned.

"I'll see all your beautiful faces later. Thank you." Corbin voiced. While some teens chanted his name, the couples turned to face the rest of their friends with a smile, looking at Carlos with worry when they all saw he was crying.

"Oh my gosh. Carlos, are you okay?" Gina asked him.

"It's better than Greta Gerwig." Carlos answered and his friends all laugh, smiling at him with amusement. 

When Gina looked back at the stage, she furrows her eyebrows. "Where did he go?" She questioned, confused when Corbin and his cameraman walked off stage.

"What do you mean?" Tabitha shot her a confused glance and then looked at the stage, growing more confused when she saw what Gina meant. If Corbin was directing the play, then why was he leaving? 

"I'm gonna go find out what happened." EJ announced, kissing his girlfriend on the cheek before he left the group.

After a few minutes, EJ still hadn't come back to the friend group yet so Tabitha decided on going after him. She found him standing at the entrance to the stage area, looking worriedly at the clipboard he held. She frowned, walking over to him with concern in her eyes.

"Eej," She calls out to him, causing him to look at her with a small smile. "You alright?"

"Yeah," EJ nods. "Just, uh, small change of plans in," He looks down at the clipboard nervously. "The celebrity arrangement." He looks back at Tabitha, noticing the concerned look on her face and he smiles at her to reassure her things were fine. "But nothing is gonna ruin our perfect summer together. I'm the guy who shows up, remember? Nothing's gonna get in our way." 

"Honey," Tabitha smiles teasingly at him, taking ahold one of his hands to intertwine them together. "Who said anybody would?" EJ smiled softly at her and she returned the smile. The couple then began leaning in for a kiss...That was sadly interrupted by a familiar voice that belonged to a curly-haired boy. 

"Excuse me?" 

The couple pulls away from each other, glancing over to where they heard the voice and both were equally shocked to see Ricky standing there with a duffle bag and his guitar case. "Do you have room for one more?" Ricky questioned, smiling awkwardly at the couple.

Tabitha and EJ look at each other with different expressions. EJ had more of an annoyed look on his face, annoyed because Ricky interrupted his kiss with Tabitha, while Tabitha had a small smile on her face since she was happy Ricky was able to go to camp after all, but she was still upset the kiss was interrupted.

Ricky outstretches his arms for a group hug with a nervous smile on his face as the couple looks back at him. "Group hug?"

A/N second chapter of season 3 lets go! buckle up wildcats cause i got some interesting things planned for this season, involving a specific couple :)