CHAPTER 1: Secrets
Mary Camden jogged down the basketball court, jumped up and made a perfect basket.
"Mary!" her younger sister Lucy yelled behind her, "Hey Mary, come on we're gonna miss dinner!"
"fine" Mary said Goody two shoes, she said to herself.
Mary and Lucy hopped into Mary's new small car and drove off, only a few minutes away from their home.
Simon Camden pushed his little sister Ruthie out of the way and flew down the stairs.
"Mary's Home!" he yelled
"Yea, " Ruthie said, " So what?"
" Ihave to talk to her!" Simon yelled back as he opened the door and grabbed Mary's arm.
"Hey!" She yelled, "Oh Simon it's you, what do you want?"
"I need to talk to you" Simon whispered, "After dinner meet me in the tree house out back, and don't tell anyone"
He rushed off in a hurry and sat quickly at the table, soon all the Camdens were filing in.
Mary and Lucy chatting, Ruthie playing with her new yo-yo, Matt talking on the phone to his
newest girlfriend Samantha, his mom Annie, holding his two youngest brothers Sam and Savid
and finally his father Rev. Camden. After grace everyone dug into a dinner of corn, potatos,
chicken and a dessert of homeade Chocolate pie.
When everyone was done, Simon ran up to his room and threw a blue sweatshirt on. He raced
down the stairs and almost out the back door but was stopped by Matt.
"Hey, Simon, it's mine and your night to clear the table so you better not be trying to get out of it" Matt said turning Simon back towards the table.
Mary sat in the small tree house waiting for Simon. After 20 minutes, it was starting to get cold. She finaly gave up and figured she could talk to him in his room later.