• Chapter 2:
    The Plan
    That night, in bed I thought about all of the different things we were going to do tomorrow. I sat up in bed and I hit my head on the top of the bed. I got out a flashlight and got out my schedule for tomorrow. The good thing was that Joe had every single thing with me tomorrow I don’t know about the next day though. The only problem was so did Grayson and Evan and so did Lilly.
    “UGH!” I screamed inside my head and rolled over to go back to sleep.
    The next morning I checked the digital clock above the door. It was six-thirty in the morning. I tried to go back to sleep. But I couldn’t so I got up and tiptoed over to the guys room. No one was awake. So I went outside in my slippers. I saw Joe over by the stables and he was taming a horse. “Aww!” I thought in my mind. Though glad no one could hear me.
    When I arrived at the stables Joe was saddling the horse and getting on it.
    “Hey.” I said my hands in my pockets from the cold.
    “Hey. Man!” he said getting off the horse.
    “You’ve caught me.”
    “You shouldn’t be on that horse at this time.” I said looking up at him in the barely lit sky.
    “Yeah I know.” he said.
    “It’s just horses are my favorite animals and I heard them this morning. They wanted food.”
    “Oh so you decided to ride one?” I asked with sarcasm in my voice.
    “No.” he argued getting off the horse.
    “I never even got on.” he winked at me. I looked at him, narrowed my eyes, then turned to go.
    “Wait!” He called.
    “You’re not going to tell anyone about this right?” His eyes were pleading.
    “Nope. Not a word out of me.” I said pretending to zip my lips.
    “Great that’s what I like to hear.” he said catching up and matching my pace.
    “Hey sorry I can’t chat with you right now. Your in the other room.” I pointed out.
    “That doesn’t mean I can’t come to your room.” he said smirking.
    “Yes I dose mean you can’t come to my room right now. Because every girl besides myself, is sleeping in their beds!” I said storming off towards the cabin.
    “Just leave me alone ok?”
    “Ok.” he said walking up beside me again. We both walked in silence all the way back to the cabin. When we both got back, everyone in our cabin’s were up and worried.
    “What’s wrong?” I asked Grayson.
    “Slick Spencer came in a sabotaged our room.” she said with a hand on her forehead. I went and asked Mary Alice for more information.
    “What happened here?” I asked again.
    “Slick Spencer came in here.“ Mary Alice shivered.
    “What will we do?” I asked her.
    “Lilly?”
    “I don’t know,” she said. “I have no clue when he was in here.”
    I gulped. I could feel someone’s eyes on the back of my neck. I turned around to find no one.
    “Is something wrong?” Mary Alice asked me, a worried

    look on her face.
    “No.” I said looking at my feet. “I’m fine.”
    “Ok well let me know if you need anything.” she said.
    Just then I had a brilliant idea. I stood on a chair, cupped my hands around my mouth, and screamed,
    “Who wants to get revenge on Slick Spencer once and for all?”
    “US!” They all screamed. The guys had obviously heard us and came over too.
    “I have a plan.” I said a little quieter.
    When I told them my plan, they all agreed to help out with it.
    “OK!,” I screamed, “My plan starts tomorrow at 9:00!”
    “YEA!” everyone screamed.
    I got down off the chair and lye on my bed to calm my heart down.
    * * *
    “Ok campers our first activity is swimming capture the flag. So everyone go back to your cabins and change into swim suits.” said Mr. Woodberry waving us away from the ashy bonfire. I obediently did so, and I was done in about five minutes.
    At the swimming pool, there were inflated inner tubes and water guns. The pool was crystal clear and about seventy degrees F.

    “All right campers, listen to Spanky and Gregory for instructions.” said Mary Alice gesturing us towards the pool.
    “This is going to be fun!” I whispered to Grayson as we both walked side by side to the pool. Lilly was behind us talking to a girl named Samantha, who was probably her new best friend.
    “Yeah. We can shoot your sister and her friend.” Grayson whispered back.
    As we walked, everyone was already getting in the pool.
    We both hurried to get in the warm water. When we were in, Gregory threw us inner tubes and squirt guns. Not sure what to do with them, we looked around at everybody getting in the tubes with their feet dangling out.
    Around the pool, was a mosaic pattern of tiles bordering it. At each end of the pool at the very bottom were two mosaic dolphins, looking to be all light blue and dark. At the top, above the dolphins, were two purple flags floating on tiny inner tubes, supporting their weight. As I looked all around, I saw that the pool wasn’t very far from the mess hall and that there were trees all around it. It was a perfect spot to have a poolside party. ‘Hmm’ I thought in my mind.
    “All right campers,” said Spanky, “The rules are you have to get in the inner tubes like Gregory is showing you right now,” Everybody looked at Gregory sitting in his inner tube and everyone tried to copy him. “Now that your all sitting like that,” he continued, “You have to use your squirt
    guns to squirt each other and try to get the flag from the other teams side. Now this round will be boys against girls. Girls you take the right half, boys the left. The object is to get the other teams flag and help your teammate who has the flag to get across to your side without getting pulled through the tube by the leg. Now let me explain penalties,” everyone groaned, “oh come on now, I’m almost finished. As I was saying, the penalties include hitting, pushing each other off the tubes, and squirting each other in the face. Now PLAY!” he yelled scaring us all.
    When I started paddling with my free hand it wasn’t as hard as I thought. I paddled my way down to the edge of the pool where the guys flag was and I grabbed it. All of the girls started cheering. As I was paddling back a guy named Jason came up under me out of his tube and pulled me under grabbing the flag and swimming away. All of the girls groaned. They didn’t realize that Joe had gone down and grabbed our flag. I ducked back up out of the water and started swimming towards Joe. I popped up under him and pulled him under grabbing our flag back and swimming back. I felt a tugging on my foot and was realizing that Joe had caught me in his free hand. He was dragging me across the line of buoys! Grayson ducked under and grabbed our flag out of my hand and swam back to replace it.
    When Joe had pulled me all the way across the line he brought me up to the surface and looked at my empty hand astonished. I was released and as I swam looking for my inner tube, Lilly and her friend had swam over, got the flag, and brought it back giving us a victory.
    “Oh yeah!” I said pumping my fist in the air.
    “Yes!” Grayson said doing the same.
    “Aww man! Joe why didn’t you look at her hand before you brought her back?” asked Derek getting angry.
    “I did.” Joe insisted looking glum.
    “Well you didn’t look hard enough!” Derek said. Swimming back to retrieve his inner tube.
    “Cut him some slack guys!” I said standing up on the bottom of the pool.
    “Hey looks like lover boy has a girlfriend.” Derek said kidding around.
    “She’s. Not. My. Girl. Friend!” he screamed at Derek, His words broken up.
    And then couldn’t control his anger, he swam up to Derek and punched him right in the nose.
    Spanky blew a whistle and told Derek and Joe to get out of the pool. Derek was sent to the nurses office, and Joe was sat on a bench for a penalty.
    The game continued…even though the two best guy players were out. The girls won twice and the guys won once.
    Back at the cabin, us girls had to pick up everything from when Slick Spencer sabotaged our room, but the guys room they left the way it was, (too lazy, I guessed) to pick it up.
    At lunch, the guys started a “We will Rock you” session and got the whole cafeteria started, and at art’s and crafts Mrs. Wheezy made us make clay fishes and painted them. Lilly seemed to enjoy it but I didn’t. I made something that looked like a crossing between a pig and a crocodile.
    At bedtime, I got ready for bed brushed my teeth and laid down in bed.
    “Psst!” said a voice from next to me. It was Grayson.
    “Yes?” I asked in a regular voice because everyone was still awake and the lights were on.
    “Wanna ask the girls if they wanna tell scary stories or do you want me to?” she asked me in a regular voice.
    “You can if you want to.” I said laying back down and covering my head with a pillow.
    “Ok,” she said, I could hear her sitting up in bed.
    “Hey you guys wanna hear a scary story?” she asked into the room.
    “Yeah totally.” said a bunch of girls.
    “Ok,” she said.
    “Once, in a big forest a pack of wolves were hungry and were ready to feast on a little girl named….Anna.” everyone gasped and looked at a girl with blue highlights in her brown hair.
    “No offence.” she said looking at the girl. “Anyway, Anna was very scared and started running, until she came to a road. The road had two paths one going on way and one the other….” her voice trailed off as I was thinking about how Joe had gotten so mad about when Derek had said he thought he was my girl friend. He just came up and rammed right into him with his fist. It was pure anger and embarrassment. I felt bad for Derek and Joe both at the same time. Derek for his nose and Joe… well because Joe was humiliated in front of the whole 7th grade camp because of Derek.
    “…and she was never seen again.” said Grayson. All the girls clapped. The only person who didn’t was Anna. I had totally zoned out and missed the whole story! Man!
    “That was a good story!” I told her giving her a high-five through the bed railings.
    “Yeah I thought so.” she said feeling proud of herself.
    “Ok girls lets all get into bed.” Tiffany was clapping her hands like we were four.
    I got into bed and snuggled into my pillow falling asleep thinking of all of the adventures the7th grade campers had had.
    I woke that morning, to the sound of screaming girls. I jolted upright in my bed again hitting my head on the top of the bed above me waking Lilly up.
    “What’s the matter? What’s happened?” I asked rubbing the sleep out of my eyes. Grayson had apparently woken up also.
    “Slick Spencer was at it again!” said Mary Alice.
    I sighed, “What did he do this time?” I looked around the room for the first time since I had woken up. There was stuff everywhere. Undergarments, tank tops, jeans, shorts, socks, stuffed animals, and even pillow’s were on the floor leaving some girls with sore necks.
    “Oh great!” I said getting out of bed to help pick up.
    For some apparent reason, the joker hadn’t touched my stuff.
    ‘Very odd.’ I thought in my mind.
    “What happened in here?” asked a voice at the door. I looked up to find the guys walking in to help pick up too.
    “Slick Spencer was at it again.” repeated Mary Alice.
    “Scott will you help me with the coutch?” Anna asked him.
    “Sure.” he said unwillingly.
    I stared at Joe, who was helping pick up. I sauntered over to chat.
    "Hey." I said.
    "Hey." said Joe laughing.
    "What's so funny?" I asked objectivly putting my hands on my hips.
    "You have a feather in your hair." he said pulling it out for me. I blushed madley.
    “Hey you know what's weird?.” I asked said.
    “What?” he asked surprised.
    “Two things. One that Slick Spencer didn’t touch my stuff, and two, that it’s my birthday tomorrow.” I said blushing even harder.
    “Cool.” he said looking down smiling at me.
    “Yeah I get to open my presents form my family tomorrow morning if you wanna come too.” It sounded like I was inviting him.
    “Sure I’d love to come.” he said walking towards the door.
    “Ok.” I said my face turning into a tomato.
    “Ok well see ya!” he said walking across the hallway.
    “See ya.” I said closing the door.
    It was 9:00 time to start the plan.
    I grabbed my bag full of the stuff we needed and so did everyone else. When we arrived at our place to set up, we all laid down a trap consisting of a net, some ropes, and a bunch of leaves. We used the leaves to cover the trap door to catch him in.
    “Ok Is everyone ready?” I asked whispering.
    “Yeah.” everyone whispered back.
    We got out old pillows and laid down on the ground pretending to sleep.
    “I hope I get a Barbie doll!” Grayson said pretending to close her eyes giggling.
    “Shut up!” I told her giggling back.
    Slick Spencer always came when we were sleeping, so if we pretended to be asleep then we could see who they were and probably catch him.
    The only problem was, that no one came.
    “Yeah great plan.” said Derek talking funny because of the bandage covering his nostrils.
    “Shh!” I hissed putting a finger to my lips.
    “Get DOWN!” He obeyed and that minute, Slick Spencer arrived with a partner. He came close enough to the trap to get caught, but then backed up and ran away, leaving only a trail through a patch of mud. Every step leaving a tiny bit more mud on his shoe.
    “Aww!” I said getting up and brushing the dirt out of my hair with my hand.
    “Great plan!” Derek said again getting up to walk back to the cabin.
    “Yeah.” everyone agreed.
    Then they all left.
    The only person who stayed was…
    Joe.
    “I thought that could have worked.” he said looking at me sorrowful.
    “Yeah me too.” I said looking at my feet.
    “Don’t worry,” he said, “We will catch him.”
    I looked up at him. He was smiling and looking at me. I punched him in the arm and ran away yelling,
    “Race ya!”
    He looked after me and yelled,
    “I bet I’ll beat ya!”
    He easily beat me back and he leaned up against the door frame, his hands folded across his chest.
    I was panting,
    “Great…..*huff*….. Race…..*huff*” I said.
    At that moment I collapsed from shortage of air.
    All I saw was black....

    CHAPTER 3 COMING SOON...