She stood up in front of the judge with her head held high, but by her posture you would've thought that she wasn't afraid of anything but if she turned around, you could see the fear in her dark blue eyes.

"Marie Johnson, you have yourself a record?" The judge looked at her file then looked back at the dark haired girl. He took in her black skinny jeans with her dark purple shirt that was hanging off one shoulder.

"Yes sir." Marie nodded.

"You've stolen several cars, got caught selling 'drugs', and you went to a few clubs and you're only fifteen?!" He asked skeptically.

"Yes sir." Marie nodded once more.

"Now these 'drugs' what did you do with them?" He asked, his soft brown eyes looking down at her in wonder.

"They were Mary Jane but you see I don't approve of people doing drugs. So I got some and dumped it into the toilet and flushed it and I got my poppy seed plant leaves and ripped them and made them look like drug leaves and sold those on the street corner." Marie explained.

"These cars, what were those for?" He asked.

"Joy rides." She shrugged.

He rolled his eyes, "Let me guess, the clubs were a way for doing something like 'joy rides?'"

"No, as you can see I come from a middle class family," Marie waved her hand to her family who were sitting behind her, "considering the fact that my mom has sheltered my since I was little, I wanted to have some fun." Marie shrugged.

"So going to clubs is fun?" The judged said with a raised eyebrow.

"Hey, would you prefer to have prostitution on that record of mine?" Marie asked with a raised eyebrow at him.

He looked down at the file and then he shook his head, "No, I prefer not."

"See, even criminals have morals." He looked up at her with wide eyes as she looked back at him with a barely noticeable smirk.

"Okay but you're here now because…" He took a look at his file and squinted at it, "you tried stealing two kittens from the pet store?!"

"They were adorable, and plus it's just wrong that those poor animals are locked up. So I decided to help out two of them." Marie shrugged.

"You are probably the weirdest criminal I have ever met." He laughed.

"I know I know." Marie waved a hand while laughing too.

"Okay, well you're going to be given a choice; you can spend your time in jail, or at Camp Green Lake."

Marie turned to look at her parents and noted how they all looked at her. Her dad showed disappointment throughout his eyes, not a soft spot in those brown eyes. Her mom also had disappointment but there was love in her also brown eyes.

Marie turned to her eldest sister who looked at her in disgust. Her little brother clearly didn't know what to think about her, same with her little sister.

She sighed and turned to the judge, "Camp Green Lake."

"Eighteen months at Camp Green Lake it is then. The bus will get you at five o'clock sharp in the morning." The judge took his hammer and slammed it against the circle thing on his desk.

Marie nodded and she and her family left.

"Why did you choose camp?" Her dad growled.

"Would you prefer to tell everyone that your daughter went to jail or to camp?" She answered as she walked with her head held high.

He just glared at her.

They got to the car and they sat there in silence.

"Marie, what will the camp be like?" Her little sister asked from her booster seat.

"I don't know honestly." Marie shrugged as they pulled up to her house.

She lived in an apartment and she smiled as she saw her friend Stanley Yelants opening his door.

"Hi Stanley." She waved and he waved back.

"Marie!" Her dad snapped.

"Yes?" She turned around to face her six-foot father.

"Why did you do that stuff?" He asked.

"I got mom's personality, I'm a smart-alec, and love to talk back. You guys made to many rules and they ended up ruining half the fun that teenagers do around here." Marie shrugged and turned around and walked to her room.

She got to her room and flopped onto her bed that had a soft blanket with a gray wolf on it.

"Silver, what am I going to do?" She asked as she petted the wolf on her blanket.

"Marie, will you write?" She heard her brother ask quietly from her door.

"Come here dude." She sat up and patted the side of her bed.

He practically teleported to her side.

"I'm going to miss you." He whispered as he sat next to her.

"Listen here, I will write to you, and I demand that you respond with pictures every month. I want to know what goes on in your life. If you keep any secrets from me you will pay when I get back." Marie held her little brother but kept her voice light but still had a stern tone in it.

"Yes Marie." He nodded into her shoulder.

"Now get out of my room Josh." She playfully pushed him off her bed and smiled at him as he huffed to the door.

"Dinner will be ready in an hour." Josh said as walked out of the room.

"I'm going over to Stanley's after I pack so it won't matter." She said back as she got off her bed and went to get a duffel bag out from her closet.

She put in her much needed necessities, underwear and bras, and a lot of tank-tops and mini-shorts in the duffel bag. Next she put her Ihome in a pocket and placed her charged Itouch next to it. Then she put her red tankini, and black bikini that she swore she would fit into eventually, and her Pirates of the Caribbean towel in another pocket. She got flip-flops and managed to fit them in her bag and then got her shower toiletries into the same pocket as her swim stuff.

She checked the time and placed her bag under her bed and rushed out to the living-room.

"I'm going over to Stanley's!" She called out and shut the door quickly and rushed over to Stanley's apartment and walked on in.

"Marie!" Stanley's mom called and got off the couch and hugged her.

"Hi mom." She hugged the woman back with a smile.

She was over there so much that she began to think of the Yelants' as her own family.

"Marie, how was the court thing?" Her second dad asked as he fished out a sneaker out of a pot

"Well, I have to spend eighteen years at this place called Camp Green Lake, and I leave in the morning." She answered.

"All that time for two kittens?" Her second mom asked.

"Sadly, yes." Marie nodded.

"Hey Marie!" Stanley came out of his room with a big smile on his face.

"Hi Stanley how are you?" Marie smiled at her best friend and gave him a huge bear hug.

"I'm doing okay, you?" He asked hugging her back.

"Crappy." She answered and plopped down on the couch next to Stanley's grandfather.

"I bet especially after going to court." Grandfather put his arm around Marie's shoulder's and held her for the rest of the night.