"What's going on," I yelled towards the back of the van. "Michael is poking me," my little cousin yelled. I rolled my eyes and asked my mom if we were almost there. "Yes we are," she said, "just have to go down this little road and…" We pulled up to the camp and I let out a big sigh.
All of us (about 10 people) got out of the vans, and walked toward a large group of people gathering at the main cabin. "Hello," a man with long, blond hair said, "I am your camp counselor, director, and playwright, Chance. This is Ellie, she runs the bait tackle and doughnut shop." Ellie, as she was called, was an old woman. She seemed odd, plus she was holding a log. Weird.
"Shop's opened from 7:00 to 6:00 weekdays," she said, "and I specialize in granite airheads because Camp Everwood is haunted; cursed even." "Sis, what do you think," my brother asked, "Do you believe her." I just shrugged. "And this drink of creek water is Bean," Chance said. I saw two girls clasp their hands together and look at Bean dreamily.
I rolled my eyes and spotted a red head kid in front standing on his hands. I walked over to him and tapped is shoulder. "Hmm," he turned around and looked up at me. "Hi, I'm Jessica," I said, "I couldn't help but notice what you're doing; it's cool." The boy got on his feet and smiled. "I'm Dil," he said, "and thanks. People think I'm weird when I do that." I smiled, but I didn't get to answer him since Chance was hustling the group to the theatre. "Alright this is the theatre…" I blocked him out and turned my attention back to Dil. He was back to standing on his hands. I heard to girls and a weird guy saying something in the front.
The blond one looked like she was going to be a hand full. "So, how'd you get dragged down here," Dil asked as the group moved on. "My family hasn't gone camping in forever, so my brother went on the internet and found this camp. He picked it because he thought the picture looked cool." Dil laughed and I joined in. Michael came up to us, looking at Dil strangely. "Who is this," he asked still eyeing Dil. "This is Dil," I say as the group moved back toward the main cabin.
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Dil and I split up to our own cabins. In my cabin there were two girls, maybe a few years younger than myself. I had no problem with it of course; I got along with little kids. T guess that's why I make such a good babysitter. I wanted to get started with the activities. I wanted to hang out with Dil again. I've never met another person that stood out in the crowd. You might be thinking why I stand out. Well, for one I prefer to stay by myself.
Two, I love the unexplained; like ghosts and UFOs. Another reason is that I love to wear black, when no one else in the whole school does. Maybe Dil is someone I can relate to? I walked out of my cabin in time to see Dil and a few other boys walking toward the archery area. "Dil!"
He turned and waved for me to catch up. I ran toward them and as I caught up, the other red head was whining about not having any talent. "Who is this," a boy, who apparently seemed to be the leader, asked. "This is Jessica," Dil said walking backwards, "Jess, this is my bro Tommy, Chuckie, and Phil." I said 'Hi' to all of them and picked up a bow 'n arrow. They weren't real ones. Well, they were, but they had rubber as the point. Oh well. When we shot our arrows all of us but Chuckie hit the target. "Hey where'd mine go," he shouted. He turned around to walk off when Tommy gasped. We all followed his line of site and saw Chuckie's arrow in a bee hive. "Run!"
We took off at a fast speed; trying to beat the bees to the main cabin. Unfortunately, Chuckie wasn't fast enough and ended up getting stung all over his face. Next, everyone went down to the lake. Good thing Susie's mom is a doctor. She had just the right stuff for Chuckie.
I'm telling you, his face was red all over. Not a pretty site. "Hey Dil," I said, "Remember what that lady said about the camp being cursed? –he nodded- Well, I was thinking that we should check the place out tonight." He broke into a wide grin and agreed.
It was so cool that I could make that kind of suggestion to someone without them looking at me as if I was crazy. "Cool. We should make sure that everyone is asleep or we'll never get to go."
"Hey," Chuckie yelled. We turned to see him tugging on his fishing rod. But once again he didn't have much luck. "And here's….another thing to cross off my list." He pulled up an accordion. Well, at least he'll have something to do if he got bored. "Come on campers. Time to hike," Chance said with false enthusiasm. "
"Ugh," everyone groaned at once. Ellie passed out water bottles to everyone and we set out down the trail, or up if you want to be technical. About halfway through Dil had shouted that Bigfoot was there about three times. I didn't see him and neither did all the others that looked.
I didn't think Dil would lie about seeing him. We saw Susie's mom pass us and run right by all the other grownups. "Look! It's Bigfoot!"
"Dil, we were stupid enough to look the last three times, but if you think we're going to look again you're whack," Tommy said barely glancing back. On the other hand, I actually looked. I did just in time to see a fury creature walk into the trees. "Wow," I breathed. Dil looked at me in triumph. I guess he was happy someone actually tried to look again.
We continued walking forward up the hill. Well, Dil walked backwards. At the rest stop the grownups had barely noticed that Lucy was nowhere in sight. Wait 'till they found out that she was way in front. "I guess we lost Lucy on that last hill," one woman said as she sat on a log. Just then Lucy came down the other way. All the women gasped. "Wait 'till you see the view. It's amazing," Lucy said as she ran past.
It didn't seem like this hike was anything to her. We finally reached the top after much trouble with Chuckie. That guy really wasn't the luckiest guy in the world.
We walked back down and sat at the log square. This wasn't as boring as I thought.
