"Listen up, everyone! Now that Kitty's back, we're going on holiday. Camping!" Mike said excitedly.
The kids sighed deeply.
"Do we have to go camping?" Kitty complained.
"Yeah, it's going to be really boring!" Carmen agreed.
"And it's really miserable out. It's going to rain soon." Liam added.
"Stop complaining and go back! We're going for 5 weeks." Gina said.
Everyone groaned loudly.
"But that's almost a month!" Harry said.
"Yes, it is Harry. Now guys, go pack!" Tracy said.
Everyone sighed and went off to pack.
Kitty, who was now sharing a room with Carmen, sighed as she began to pack stuff.
"It's not fair." Carmen complained. "Camping sucks."
"I know right." Kitty agreed. "It's okay, though, at least people won't be blinded by your pink any more. At least we managed to get you into other colors, as well as trainers." She added with a cheeky wink.
"Shut up." Carmen smiled, throwing a pillow at Kitty.
The girls packed as much as they could and then everybody went downstairs to put their stuff in the minibus. Soon enough, they were off.
"This is going to be…so boring…" Kitty groaned.
"No kidding." Liam said, looking over at Kitty.
"We're never going to make it out of this alive." Carmen said jokingly.
"Ya think?" Johnny said, rolling his eyes.
"You guys are so dramatic." Rick said, sighing.
"Are you saying you're going to enjoy this?" Tyler asked incredulously.
"No, I'm saying that you guys are overreacting." Rick said.
"I used to go camping a lot, so I'm used to it." Jody said.
"Ugghh. Our electric stuff isn't gonna last long!" Elektra complained.
"Shut it, all of you!" Gina shouted.
Everyone fell silent, and then eventually everyone fell asleep. Or at least, the girls did.
"Good mornin', sunshine." Liam said as Kitty woke up.
Kitty became aware that she was in Liam's lap. She blushed deeply and leaped up, embarrassed. She glanced over and noticed Carmen was curled up in Johnny's lap and Elektra had her head on Rick's shoulder.
The minibus finally slowed to a stop. Carmen and Elektra reacted the same way Kitty did, and they jumped up off of the boys, and before they could protest all three of them pushed past all the kids in the back and jumped out of the car.
They started putting up tents and getting settled in. Kitty was sharing with all the girls, and the boys were all in one big tent as well. Kitty, Carmen and Tee walked up to the nearest shop and bought tons and tons and TONS of sweets, before collapsing into the tent and hiding them carefully.
They stepped out of the tent. Mike was making dinner with all the boys…and they were all there except from Harry.
"Mike, where's Harry?" Carmen asked curiously.
Suddenly everyone started looking around, alarmed.
"He was 'ere a second ago!" Liam said.
Kitty, suddenly realizing what dangers the poor 7 year old could be in, went running towards the deeper bit of the forest, nearby.
"Kitty, come back!" she heard shouts and eventually footsteps following her, but Kitty was too busy looking around wildly, her eyes searching the place.
"Harry! Harry where are you?!" Kitty called.
"Harry!" Carmen called out.
"Where could he be?" Liam wondered.
"Maybe he's in the tent?" Johnny suggested.
"Don't be stupid, we would've heard him go in." Liam said.
Kitty slowed to a stop, staring at the sight in front of her. Her legs seemed to wobble and she collapsed to her knees, her hand reaching out and grabbing the object, before she got up again.
"Kitty? What is it?" Carmen walked over to Kitty and her eyes widened.
"Girls? Did ya find somethin'?" Liam asked.
Kitty slowly turned around, making the object in her hands visible, while Carmen ran ahead to keep on searching. Nobody noticed her go, though. The boys were staring at Kitty's hands.
In her arms, she held a dirty, yet unmistakable giraffe.
Jeff.