SUMMARY: Sam Cooper is a sixteen year-old cynic who is reluctant to leave her public school in New York to attend Pacific Coast Academy. But, she agrees to leave for a year per her teacher's suggestion so she can "clean up her act". Mrs. Cooper suggests Sam go to the PCA Summer Camp so she can meet people. At camp, Sam meets the entire PCA gang we all know and love. Unfortunately, she doesn't exactly love all of them. In fact, she is constantly fighting with a certain Logan Reese. How will her summer play out?

Keep on reading to see…

WARNING: This is my first Zoey 101 Fanfic. So I'm probably gonna suck. I don't own PCA or any members of the gang we all know and love. Now where to begin this story….

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Meet Samantha Cooper. Scratch that, meet Sam Cooper. Sam is a sixteen year-old cynical music junkie from New York. She is just finishing up her sophomore year in high school. So we enter Sam's story at the breakfast table in the Cooper household. It's the last day of school, and Mrs. Cooper has just finished making eggs for herself, as Sam comes trudging in.

"Morning Mom," grumbled Sam, still mostly asleep.

"Good morning sweetie," replied Mrs. Cooper with a smile. "What can I get you for breakfast?"

Sam had already grabbed herself a piece of toast and stuffed it in her mouth. She then went over to the fridge and grabbed herself a full bottle of Sunny D. (A/N Like the bottles where you're supposed to pour it into a glass)

"Honey, what have I told you about drinking that…stuff…straight out of the bottle? It's disgusting!" scolded Mrs. Cooper. Sam rolled her eyes and pulled the cap off anyway.

"I gotta go Mom, or I'll be late," said Sam, getting up from the table.

"Are you okay, Samantha? You don't even seem upset about your last day," said Mrs. Cooper worriedly. Sam shrugged.

"Dude, it's not like I'm not gonna see all these losers again in September…what?" she asked as her mom gasped.

"Your father didn't tell you?"

"Tell me what?" asked Sam in a slightly less bored tone.

"Your teachers are fed up with your careless attitude towards school. They recommend sending you to a different school for your junior year. Therefore, we're sending you to a boarding school in California for one year," said Mrs. Cooper. Sam dropped her schoolbag to the floor.

"You're doing WHAT?" she shouted.

"We're sending you to a boarding school in California. I've seen the brochures, and it's beautiful. It's called Pacific Coast Academy, maybe you've heard-" Mrs. Cooper cut herself off when she noticed Sam was no longer listening. In fact, Sam had already grabbed her bag, skateboard, and bottle of Sunny D, and was on her way towards school.

"Just the reaction I didn't want," sighed Mrs. Cooper, and put Sam's dishes in the sink.

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"You're leaving?"

"Why would your parents do that?"

"What attitude?"

Sam laughed at her friends' reactions to her news.

"Guys, it's only for one year. I just wish I didn't have to go to school with so many stuck-up rich bitches. I hear PCA's campus is loaded," she said with a grimace. Erika, Sam's best girl friend engulfed her into a hug.

"But I'm gonna miss you," she whined. Sam, along with her four best guy friends, Dillon, Danny, Joey, and Seth, rolled her eyes.

"You don't even know the worst part. These freaks strongly suggest that all of PCA's newbies attend the school-sponsored hellhole they call a camp," she said miserably.

"I just can't believe that your have to leave the school you know and love-well, tolerate for a whole year. And you're gonna be gone all summer!" said Danny with a frown. Dillon, however, grinned at Sam.

"You're gonna be fine, dude. I mean, sure, we're gonna miss you, but it's not like you can't handle a year without us. And you can take on those snobs any day," he said, with an encouraging smile. Sam laughed and gave him a hug. Erika seemed to be fighting back tears.

"Erika, knock it off! I'm gonna be worse off than you are!" Sam said. Erika sniffed, and hugged her again.

"Let's make you last day your best, then," she said.

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I'm sorry it's so short, but I promise the chapters will get longer as I go along. Please Review so I know whether or not to waste my time continuing this. And the PCA gang will be in either the next chapter of the third, depending on the lengths.