Brriiiiinnnngggg! Brriiiiinnnngggg! Quackers' alarm went off earlier than ever, 5:30 am. Band camp began that morning. The one week of the whole summer she dreads. Marching band is the best thing about school, but having to get up early, rain or shine, doesn't exactly thrill her.
She gets out of bed thinking, camp's not all that bad.
And it wasn't. Lights out was late at night, and you could stay up all night if wanted to. The part she hated was the marching part.
Quackers pulled on her favorite monkey shirt she got for her birthday and a pair of shorts. "Hmm, it still needs something" she said aloud. Finally, after rummaging through her closet she pulled out a blue Kwik-E-Mart sun visor and a pair of blue rimmed sunglasses. She put them on and admired herself in the mirror. "There! Now I am ready for camp"
Quackers, which isn't her real name by the way, left her room and went out to the living room where her mom was already sitting, watching the news.
"Mom, what are you doing? You didn't have to get to say good-bye to me, I would have come up to say good-bye to you"
"That ok, I just wanted to watch you drive off, I love you."
With that, she said bye, grabbed her suitcase and keys and walked out the door.
Quackers is a junior and plays the Flute. She is hoping to become either a section leader or a drum major.
She opened up the trunk of her car and threw her stuff in. It was about 6 in the morning by then and she stared at the sky and thought"I'm going to see the sun rise every day for a week, but today is the only day I am going to enjoy it."
As she jumped into her car, her cell phone rang. It was RexBob.
"Yo! Quackers! Where are ya? I have been waiting for you for about 2 minutes now"
"Sorry Rex, I didn't know I was running late"
She looked at her watch and it said 6:12. "I'm not late! You're early!"
"Just be here soon" and he hung up.
Quackers put the key in the ignition and turned it; the car didn't start not even the vrrrr-vrrrr! sound.
She stared at the steering wheel in amazement. She tried the key again. It still didn't start. Again Quackers tried the key, this time it started.
That was weird, she thought. It's almost like something does not want me to go to band camp. You're being crazy! She put the car in reverse and headed for RexBob's.