As Todd walked along, eventually Alex fell in beside him looking through his clipboard as if he had an assignment for the monkey, but he instead started up with a, "It looks like you and George are settling in well. Glad to see he didn't leave."
"Me, too." Todd said with a small smile.
"Hmm, the camp always does seem to know what's best for us. The kids.." Alex said as he watched a group of excited cubs, kits, and fledglings go running by, "They'll leave, go back to their lives with some strange memories and a feeling of being relaxed and happy. The ones the camp turns into counselors..." Alex looks at Todd then back ahead of them as they walked. "Usually they're the ones with problems the a weekend of fun isn't enough to fix. They're looking for do-overs, or new lives, or even just need to learn to be better people."
Todd nodded as he thought it over. "I guess that makes sense. I wasn't exactly happy. Don't get me wrong, I.. I think I loved my wife and kids.. my kids anyway. But I traveled so much I barely knew them. I missed out on having a family and now." He looked down with a bit of a blush.
"Trust me, I get it, I was in your shoes once. CEO of a big company but I wasn't happy." Alex admitted with a shrug.
"You remember it?" Todd asked with a tilt of his head.
"No. I mean, I can state it as a fact, I know about it. But the memories of it are gone. It's like I read my own biography, but I never lived it." Alex smiled and shrugged, the badger not seeming to care. "I like who I am now. I've even got a girlfriend and a kit of my own back home. And I get to work here, making people happy, helping people find themselves."
"Yeah, I guess that's how it's starting to feel." Todd rubbed at the back of his neck. "Kit? Alex.. what does happen after the weekend?"
"That's up to you." Alex stopped walking and a moment later so did Todd, turning to face him. "You can go back to your old life, but you'll be forever changed by this experience. I don't know how, that wasn't my choice, but I've seen one or two come back wanting to make the other choice feeling they chose wrong the first time. But.. they made their choice, no going back."
"And the other?" Todd asked, but he expected he knew the answer.
"You make this your new life. This place.. it overlaps two realities. That's how the magic works. If you chose this life, you leave camp the way you are and continue on. You'll have a family waiting for you, you might even start remembering them before you leave. Maybe a college you're already attending. You have a life in each world, you have to pick which one you want to continue in." Alex smiled.
Todd closed his eyes, trying to think. He could barely pull up an image of a family, parents, a sibling... more easy was the thought of driving back to college where he and George met. Their plans to be roommates next fall. Both of them bonding over wanting to be teachers which is why they came here to work with kids. Todd opened his eyes and met Alex's smiling face. "Some of it is coming to you, isn't it?" Todd nodded. "All you have to do... is get George to agree."
"How so?"
"Most people can make the choice on their own, no problem. But you two are linked, which happens sometimes. In that case both of you need to agree to stay, or you both have to go back. Your lives here wouldn't make sense without the other, so it's all or nothing." Alex shrugged. "Just another mystery of the camp. But if you do choose to stay, I could always use a couple of new senior counselors next summer. You two are really good with the kids."
The walkie talkie at Alex's hip buzzed to life calling him to come down to the lake to deal with something. "Running this place solo is hard." He grins before responding in the radio that he was on his way and trotting off.
Todd headed back to the cabin. He sat down on his bunk and pulled out his phone, there was no reception of course but he opened the photos app. Gone were all the photos of his old life and it was filled with photos of him at college, friends he could almost put names to, and a lot of him and George in different places, and a ton of George lifting weights which got his cock stirring in his pants again. He really did love that little muscle-bun. He smiled at one of George working out in the nude, and unzipped his shorts. A quick little jerk off wouldn't hurt.