After Viktor and Amir have crawled back into their sleeping bags, they whisper to each other for a while.
Amir suggests to Viktor that they teach Adrian a lesson. And now, when he screams and shouts sorry to Viktor, then they can conclude that that maniac has come up with better thoughts than to continue arguing with him.
They make a small plan not to forgive Adrian too soon. No, he should not have it so easy.
Although Amir asks Viktor if it’s okay for him if he forgives Adrian long before Viktor does.
And it’s going well.
Amir also says, if Viktor does not want to forgive Adrian, that’s okay too. Because you do not have to forgive. It’s entirely up to everyone.
And just because Adrian shouts forgiveness as many times as he wants – he should not think that this is exactly the word that is enough.
No, it takes much more than that – and that he, the idiot, takes action with his forgiveness. To say the least, he needs to show Viktor that he regrets and wants to be forgiven.
But what Adrian does not know, Amir is easy to forgive. Viktor too. It’s just that they have talked to each other and agreed that Adrian would have to fight hard to be forgiven.
It must cost him sweaty blood and tears, so to speak. Yes, he will probably have bloody abrasions in his knees from begging and apologizing.
But as I said, Viktor does not have a hard time forgiving anyone, not even Adrian. Although he likes that Adrian makes a fuss and shows great remorse. It’s even fun when Adrian beseechs and prays.
It also makes Viktor feel more seen than ever before. And now he feels enormously important and with enormous value.
No one just shrugs his shoulders and slips past.
And as I said: Viktor and Amir have decided that Adrian will be forgiven, but he will not get it so easy. No, it’s going to cost a lot of patience and will from him – that crap.
And Adrian shows Viktor an enormous will, patience, strength, self-confidence. Yes, Adrian has a lot that Viktor values.
Viktor is becoming more and more curious and interested in getting to know him – quite a tough and maybe even dangerous guy.
Adults and young people as leaders, camp
At the camp, employees are not just leaders. In everyday life, they all have different professional professions such as: doctor, nurse, psychologist, curator, carpenter, and scout leader.
And there are kitchen staff. However, they do not have time to be leaders, as they are busy cooking for sixty people.
And at night, there are only three leaders on the camp. They sleep there every other night. But the night they are not there, they are on call, in case something should happen, that a leader becomes ill or urgently needs to go home to his family.
And in addition to the leaders, Amir, Sten, and Charles are also leaders, while actively participating in everything that happens.
But they, and the adult leaders, do not go around bossing, controlling, and setting. No, they try to blend in with all the young people and children and with that become a support and help, if and when needed.
And it’s all about having fun, making new friends, supporting, helping, and pushing each other forward in a positive development.
Part of Adrian’s problem now may be that he has partially done away with
himself in front of the whole camp, when he chases Viktor up in a large birch, then he throws around everyone’s sleeping bags in a single big mess.
And as if this were not enough, he keeps everyone awake, shouting and screaming sorry to Viktor.
No, he has now become a major nuisance in many people’s ears and eyes.
And that he saves the life of a ten-year-old who more or less has time to drown, before he gets life in him again – this information with good deeds has almost not arrived yet. The fog has almost not had time to settle.
And the leaders may not really know how to handle everything, with Adrian.
How do you pay tribute to someone who has been so stupid and annoying?
But the leaders choose to lie low with the events until they know better how to handle everything with Adrian, and in the best way.
And now, when they are having the biggest award ceremony for Adrian – then he has stuck his way.
Adrian, out
Adrian sits on the gravel road and cries and cries. He cannot think of all the crying that stands in the way and wants out.
But after maybe ten minutes, this tsunami seems to retreat, and he gets more peace of mind to be able to figure out his way, where he wants to steer this ship. However, it is not a large ship. No, he feels more like a dinghy, an inflatable boat out on a stormy sea.
And the only thing he has on his body is his red swimming shorts.
But he feels no worries about it at all. Nor over the fact that he does not have a single penny to spend on either drink or food.
Although there are probably no shops or kiosks here far out in the woods – in the wilderness.
However, everything he needs and will need – he steals it from some store along the way.
But if there is no shop on the road, maybe he can look for a gas station that has food and drink.
And clothes, and somewhere to sleep? He also arranges this in some way.
But in which direction on the map should he go? Down, from Småland, it will be a maximum of twenty miles before it says stop in Skåne. But he can take the ferry over to Denmark.
But then he probably needs to have something more on his body than just a pair of swimming shorts.
But north, it feels safer and better. He is guaranteed to come two hundred miles before it says stop towards the border with Norway or Finland.
Yes, north, he will. Undoubtedly.
But in which direction is north? And is he going in the right direction now?
He thinks, gets up, and looks around.
But then he will think of the sun. It goes up in the east and down in the west.
It is late afternoon, and he can walk with the sun to his left. Then he must go up in the country. Towards Stockholm, the capital.
Yes, Stockholm sounds fun and exciting. However, there are probably no more than a hundred miles there. Maybe only a maximum of forty, but probably twice as far as down to Skåne and Malmö.
He picks up speed and starts walking again.