Author's Note: Only thing I want to say is that most everyone's the same age in this! I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist. I only own my Ocs because they're my imaginary friends.
I step on the bus and scan the faces for my best friend. I find her and smile when I realize she saved me the window seat. I sit next to her.
"Hey, Raelynne!" Caspia greets.
"Hi, Caspia!" I smile. I adjust my glasses quickly. "What do you think Camp Lake Moon will be like?"
"I hope not as stupid as its name." Caspia rolls her eyes. "What time is it?"
I take out a cool silver pocket watch my mom got me. She said it's from a TV show or something.
"It's noon."
"I hope we're in the same cabin."
"Yeah."
"Hey, Caspia!" a girl calls out to her. "Come sit with us!"
Caspia looks at me.
"Go ahead; I don't mind."
As Caspia moves, I turn and look out the window. The trees and bushes rush by in a green blur. We seem to be going up some sort of mountain, but at the same time, it doesn't seem that way. Where is this 'Camp Lake Moon', anyway? I pull the brochure out of my backpack. It doesn't say anything about the location, but the motto is weird. 'Dimensions of fun!'. How strange.
After a few more stops with more kids getting on and forty five minutes, we end up at Camp Lake Moon. I walk to the place where everyone else is gathering. Pinned on a wooden bulletin bored is a list of people's names and what cabin they're in. Everyone is given a map. It seems like this place is a bunch of islands connected by bridges. Wait a second...isn't the road over there? I look over my shoulder where the bus used to be. Nothing is there except for some water.
Weird...
I find out that I'm in cabin 3-A on island four, while Caspia is on 1-A on island five. I hug her and tell her that I'll see her later and start walking across the bridge to island four with all of my stuff. I open the door to see two other girls there. One has long, wavy black hair and is sitting cross-legged on a bottom bunk, texting someone uninterestedly. The other has long blonde hair and blue eyes. The blonde girl walks over to me.
"Hi! My name's Winry!" She leans in to whisper to me. "That's Solaris, but we all call her Lust. Just don't say it in front of her. Rumor has it her father runs this camp."
"I'm Raelynne," I say.
"That's a pretty name!"
"Thanks." I smile at her.
I heave one of my two bags onto the bunk above Solaris (or should I call her Lust?). I carry the other one to one of the empty trunks.
"Only two bags?" Lust scoffs. "How do you have all of your clothes in there?"
"Because I'm not a spoiled brat who insists on bringing her whole wardrobe to camp," I mutter under my breath. Thankfully, Lust doesn't hear me.
I stack my clothes inside the trunk neatly. Another girl walks into the cabin. Her hair looks cool. It looks like it spikes up in the back or something.
"I'm Winry!" Winry whispers something to the girl's ear and she cracks a smile.
"I'm Riza."
"I'm Raelynne," I say, sort of quietly.
"Riza, do you want to go to the little garden-type thing over there after you're done with your stuff? Raelynne, do you want to come, too?" Winry asks. "You can come if you want, Solaris."
"As if."
"Sure," Riza says. I agree with her.
About fifteen minutes later, Riza, Winry, and I are walking out the cabin door. Winry told me to lock my trunk in case Lust tries to sabotage our stuff. When I told her I didn't have a lock, she handed me one out of her pocket and whispered the combination to me.
What kind of person carries a lock in their pocket?
The summer sun is scorching. There are quite a few trees that provide shade, and the grass is extremely green. We talk about family, pets, friends, and other stuff while we walk the dirt path to the garden-ish place. There are a few flowers there, with the same green grass and big, tall trees. There are also wooden benches and an impressive fountain.
"You see those three?" Winry whispers to Riza and I. "That's Polaris, Selim, and Bob. They're related to Solaris. We call them Envy, Pride, and Gluttony."
"Do you know everyone here?" I ask.
"Pretty much." Winry nods. "You see those two boys?" She points to a short boy with his blonde hair in a braid and a taller boy with his brown hair in a ponytail. "That's Edward and his younger brother Alphonse." I notice Winry blushes slightly when she mentions Edward's name.
"Why is Alphonse getting so worked up over his height?" Riza asks.
"That's Ed. The taller one is Al. If you know what's good for you, you will never call Ed short," Winry adds the last part quickly. "Then that's Rose, Ling, Lan Fan, and Mei." She points to each of them in turn.
Riza speaks up. "I know them. That's Roy Mustang, Jean Havoc, Kain Fuery, Alex Armstrong, and Olivier Armstrong."
"Unfortunately, I know that boy." I point to a boy sitting near Envy, Pride, and Gluttony. He's obviously listening to their conversation. "That's Nat Ride. He goes to my school. I'd watch out for him. He's extremely rude."
"I'm sure him and the 'Sins', as we like to call them, will be good friends, then." Winry laughs. "Maybe they'll give him some sort of weird name, too."
"Hey, Winry! Over here!" Ed calls to her.
"Come on, guys. I'll actually introduce you to them." Winry leads us over to them.
"Ed, Al, this is Riza and Raelynne," Winry introduces.
"Hi!" Riza greets.
I wish I had a jacket or hoodie or something to hide behind. I don't usually feel comfortable talking to people I don't know. Instead, I blush and look at the ground. Quietly, I greet them. "Hi."
Just then, gravity decides to hate me as my glasses slide off of my nose and onto the grass. I blush harder, and I pick them up. "Uh, oops."
"Did you see the Sins?" Al asks. "It looks like they're planning something, with the way they're laughing every few minutes while looking at their phones."
"I hope we're not a part of it," Winry says.
"When are we not?" Ed glares toward the Sins. "Their targets are always us."
"Just fight back, then." Riza jumps into the conversation.
I just stand there awkwardly listening to them. They start talking about all of the possibilities of what the Sins could do to them and what they could do to the Sins as payback.
"Have you got any good ideas, Raelynne?" Al asks, noticing my awkwardness.
"Um, no..." I look at the brochure I stuffed in my pocket, trying to hide behind it somehow. It said that dinner is at six o'clock, and we have to be in our cabins by nine o'clock. It also said that breakfast is at nine in the morning. Usually, I wake up around noon during the summer, but I guess that isn't going to happen. I take out my pocket watch to check the time.
"Hey, are you a State Alchemist?" Edward asks.
"A what?" I'm confused.
"You have the watch! Are you a State Alchemist?" Edward asks again.
"Um...I don't know what that is, so I'm going to say no." The watch says it's already around three. Wow, time passes by so quickly. "I'm gonna go take a walk down to that dock over there, okay, guys?"
"Yeah, sure!" Winry says.
I start to walk over there. The dock looks like it's been used for years, but the brochure says the camp only opened last year.
"Hello, Raelynne."
I look over my shoulder. Envy and Pride are standing there, while Gluttony is trying to get apples out of a tree.
"Uh...hey," I say to them.
"What're you doing?" Envy walks over to me.
"Don't you have terrorizing to do or something?" I snap.
"Who? Us?" Pride asks innocently. "I guess you've heard those terrible rumors then, haven't you? We're not all that bad, really."
"Yeah, sure." This sudden burst of courage is weird. Maybe it means I should stand up for my self more...?
"How about you sit with us at dinner tonight?" Envy offers. "We've got a lot of friends, and I'm sure they'd love to meet you."
"How about you go crawl back into your pathetic little hole, Envy?" I counter, face to face with Envy. "I'm sure they all miss you. Oh, who am I kidding? Nobody's there except you."
Envy's eyes flare with rage, and he pushes me into the lake. I should have gone back on the beach part to be confident. I don't have the slightest clue how to swim.
"We know you can't swim," Pride laughs. "Come on, Polaris, Bob." They walk off laughing.
I splash to try to keep from going under. The pole of the dock is just out of my reach. If only I could just reach it...
"Raelynne! Are you okay?" I hear Al's voice before I go under.
They tell you to swim the way the bubbles are going when you're about to drown, but I couldn't tell where the bubbles are going. I see the direction they're going in, but I don't know how to get to the surface. I reach toward the bubbles, and I feel a hand grip mine. I'm pulled upwards (or maybe it's downwards? I can't tell) and onto the dock again. I cough and sputter for a few moments until I can talk and breathe again.
"How convenient," I say.
"I came over here when I saw that the Sins went in your direction, and you weren't back when they came back. They were also laughing, so I figured they did something," Al explained.
I reach in my pocket. No brochure.
"Oh, no! I lost the brochure thing!" I exclaim, leaping to my feet.
"What's so important about it?"
"I...um..." What is so important about it? "I wrote a lock combination in there, and I've forgotten it!" Believable enough.
"Well, I saw Envy holding something. I bet it was that." Al shrugs. "If you got the lock from Winry, just ask her for the combination again."
I shiver, the wind making my soaking clothes cold. "Yeah, I'll just ask her again. I'll just...um...be going, I guess." Wow, this is awkward!
"Do you want to sit with us at dinner tonight, Raelynne?" Al asks, following me as I start walking back. "Sure." I stick my hand in my other pocket. My watch is still there, so I check it. It's already five thirty! "Time seems to pass by quickly."
"Yeah, right? I thought I was the only one who noticed."
As we approach the others, Winry rushes over to me.
"Oh, my gosh! What happened, Raelynne?" she asks.
"The Sins happened." I roll my eyes. "They pushes me into the lake even though they knew I can't swim."
"You can't swim?"
"Nope. But it's no problem now. I'm fine now," I assured her. "I'll just go change and meet you guys back on the main island for dinner, okay?"
"Okay!"
I run over to our cabin and open the door. Lust is still there, but instead of texting, she's smiling in a way I can only describe as pure evil.
"Have a nice swim?" she asks. Since I feel like being over-dramatic, I'll add that her voice sounds as smooth as poisoned honey.
"Yes, I did! Thanks for asking! Maybe you should join me next time!" I say sarcastically, pulling out a change of clothes. I go to the bathroom and change, also brushing my hair quickly so it doesn't look like a mess. Still wet, but not a mess.
When I come out, Lust is gone. I shrug and go outside to walk across the bridge to the main island. The mess hall isn't too hard to find, and I step inside. I find the table Winry, Riza, and the others are sitting at. As I pass by the table the Sins are sitting at, Envy asks me something.
"Are you sure you don't want to sit with us?"
"Positive," I answer, not even slowing my pace (even though it wasn't very quick to begin with). Mentally, I wince. I have to pass by their table again after I grab my food.
And sure enough, when I do pass buy them again, one of them trips me. I'm smart enough to expect this, so I tried to toss my tray to the side as I fell. Apparently they were expecting this. I think it was Lust who did it, but water was poured on my head, and then this weird food that I assume is mashed potatoes makes its way into my hair.
The Sins and the rest of the mess hall (who had fallen silent) erupts into laughter. My cheeks flame red as I stand up, pick up my tray, and walk back to my table. I slide in the seat next to Winry, trying to block out the building's laughter. I start to pick pieces of food out of my hair.
"They're really out to get you," Riza comments.
"No. I had no idea," I reply sarcastically. Winry starts to help pick the things out of my hair. "I thought they were being quite friendly and welcoming."
When most of the stuff is gone, I start to eat. Most of my food was splattered on the ground, and since we aren't allowed to go back up after we've been once, all I have left is an apple, a bottled water, and a brownie. What would Mom think about me eating something so improper as this? I almost burst out laughing, but I don't as I see the rest of the people are staring at me.
"What?" I ask. "Is there something on my face?"
"No, it's in your hair." Ed reaches over to pull out a piece of paper.
"How could I miss that?" Winry and I question ourselves in unison.
"It says, 'Fine, don't hang out with us, but we'll be out to get you.'," Ed read aloud.
"Don't take it personal," Winry dismisses the note. "They're out to get everyone."
A paper ball lands on the table. I uncrumple it and read, "We're especially out to get you."
"How ironic," Al comments.
After dinner, we take our time walking back to our cabin. We're discussing what we should do tomorrow. Apparently, there's an obstacle course, a maze, a forest to explore in, a library, (to my surprise) an arts and crafts thing, sports...the list is almost endless.
Riza, Winry, and I get back to our cabin just in time. Lust is there, but she doesn't seem to be paying attention to us.
"Winry, do you like Edward?" I ask bluntly.
"Well, yeah, he's my friend."
I roll my eyes. "I mean, do you like like Edward?"
Winry blushes.
"I take that as a yes...?"
She nods.
"Aw, the two losers are in love. How sweet," Lust says icily. "I wonder what Edward would say about this sudden love confession?"
"Don't you dare say a word about this to him!" Winry shouts.
"Of course. That's be totally breaking the girl code." Lust pauses. "But I never said I wouldn't break the girl code, did I?"
I almost call her Lust, but I decide against it. "Solaris, tell Edward that Winry likes him, and I'll tell En-Polaris that you like him."
"But we're related! That's gross!"
I shrug. "In the olden days, they married their cousins, or siblings."
"You can't convince Envy of that, anyway."
"Yeah, I can. It'd be easy."
Lust ignores us for the rest of the night. Winry starts talking about Ed.
"Oh, but, Riza, didn't I see you gazing at Roy Mustang?" Winry grins as Riza blushes slightly.
"N-no..."
"I think Al likes you, Raelynne," Winry adds. "Maybe he fell in love with you after he saved you from almost drowning!"
"Probably not." I dismiss the idea.
"Can I call you Rae?"
"Why not?"
Later that night, when I lay in bed, I realize something. I haven't thought much about home today. I wonder what my little brother's doing. I usually read to him before he goes to bed because Mom usually is hosting some party or another, and Dad is right there with here. They probably called a babysitter for him or something. I promise myself that when I wake up in the morning, I'll write him a letter. And then, I drifted off to sleep.
Author's Note: Whew! That was probably the longest chapter I've ever written! I know...not impressive, but whatever! I hope you guys liked it! Review, I guess!