THE K E Y

"Hello I am Ella your camp counselor the girls' will sleep up stairs and the guys down stairs any questions?" Called out an older girl, about sixteen with long, brown hair.

Then, the butthead Jill raised he hand.

"Yes Jill" Ella asked

"Well can we hang out with the guys still?" Jill asked, her freckles specked out larger and brighter than usual.

Ella paused, and then slowly muttered, "O.K."

"Good!!!!!!!!" Jill laughed

She was quieted with a hard stare from Ella "Pick your room buddy" She ordered.

God willing, I picked Morgan.

"Morgan," said I, "look at the view."

OMG I turned around and then I saw beautiful eyes it was Mike he is so hot!!!

"Hi" I suppressed a smile

"Yo" was the return.

"Bye" with that, he turned and walked away.

"Why did you do that?!" Morgan demanded.

"I had no idea what to say he is in 9th grade and I am in 8th so—'" I trailed off.

"Let's go up stairs" She suggested

The only thing I could get out of my throat was, "Okay."

"Look at the room! Is this silk? Oh look a plasma-screen! Cool!" Morgan somehow said it all in one breath.

After we watched a marathon of spongebob, Morgan said, "Let's go outside"

"Look at the beach! Ooohhh" Morgan said when we were on the beach.

"A dolphin!" I screamed, "Its hurt! What's in its mouth?"

Morgan said, "I think it's a KEY!"

We stood there in a stony silence.

"Well……get it" I said

"No way!" Morgan seemed worried and snappy.

"Fine. Here dolphin, dolphin, dolphin!" I whispered.

Then I jumped in the water, jumped on the dolphin more likely. I touched around his face, frantically trying to get a grip of the key. Then, I felt it.

I yanked on the key.

It didn't budge.

I yanked harder and harder until it finally came out. Only then I flipped backwards.

I heard Morgan yell, "LILLY!" But I didn't hear it that well. Everything was dark and hazey.

She swam to me "Oh Lilly…." She whispered her voice cracked with emotion and regret. She picked me up and then……darkness. I didn't see anything, feel anything, smell anything; oh I was terrified in the dark place where my dreams took me.

OoOoOo

I woke up and saw a nurse "What happened?" I asked

"Well you almost cracked your skull open"

Thank the merciful God on high. He must have had had areason for me to live.

Then I felt something in my hand. It was the key. Morgan saw me looking at the key when Jill ran in the room.

"Oh the poor baby." Se uttered the word in honeyed poison. "Should I get a bottle?" She asked with a grin on her face.

"Shut up!" Morgan snarled.

"L-l-leave please. Leave everyone except Morgan." I pleaded.

When everyone left I let her see the key. "There's a name engraved on it what does it say?" I asked, puzzled.

Morgan exhaled violently "It says E-liz-a-beth oh! Elizabeth!"

"Who in the merciful world of God is Elizabeth?" I asked, angry and confused.

"IDK" Was Morgan's reply.

Someone knocked on the door.

"Quick! Hide the key!" Morgan hissed under her breath.

I slide it under the pillow. "Come in" I called sweetly.

When the person came in, I blushed.

The person was Mike holding 12 carnations "Well um..." He sounded as embarrassed as I felt. "I hope you will get better" he said. Then, he set the carnations down and ran away, out of the room.

There was a note on it asking if I felt better to meet him at the beach at 2:00 the next day. He also said in the note that Morgan could come… If she wanted to, of course. And of course, she wanted to go with us.