Girl at Camp Green Lake

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Chapter One

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Camp Green Lake

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Kimi shifted her weight from her hiding spot under the cabinets. She had been there since her father had returned home from Charlie's Bar. He had been there all afternoon drinking the day away.

Kimi winced as the sound of flesh against flesh erupted. She could tell her momma was getting it bad tonight. Her mom had told her to go hide because she had gotten it last night from her dad and she still ached. He had been really mad because she had gotten a C on her report card.

She jumped when she heard the blow of a gun. It went off twice before all went quiet. Kimi waited about ten minutes before she left her hiding spot to find her mom and help her clean up.

Kimi slowly walked out of the kitchen and into the living room where her parents had been last seen fighting. She stopped and looked into a mirror on the wall. Her face was hollow and bruised, from all the beatings and not enough food. Her eye was turning black and blue and she had a small cut on the corner of her mouth. Disgusted, she turned away and looked around the living room. She didn't see either of her parents. She looked dreadfully at the ground to see two people toppled on the ground, pools of blood circling them both.

Kimi picked up the gun that her father had used to shot them both. She looked at it closely letting her hands run over it. A single tear escaped down her cheek. The gun fell from her hands as she dropped on her knees by her mother, sobbing. She could hear sirens in the distant getting closer and closer. She guessed one of the neighbors probably heard the shots and called the police.

Kimi didn't know how long she stayed like that, sprawled out on her mother. But she stayed like that till someone put a firm hand on her shoulder. She looked up into the gentle eyes of a young police man. The man arrested her thinking that she killed her parents seeing that the gun was next to her.

A few days later she was brought to her house and told to pack her things, and was sent off. After her parents died a few days before Kimi became scared and she refused to speak, making her look more guilty. The neighbor that had called said that she heard Kimi's mom and dad fighting then she heard the two gunshots. The police figured that Kimi couldn't take the fighting so she got her fathers gun aimed for him, but accidentally shot her mom. She then walked up to her dad, put the gun to his head and killed him, then feeling guilty, Kimi greave for her mother by laying on her for the last time. The only thing Kimi managed to say was, "I'm innocent."

Kimi had no idea where she was going. All she knew was that she was on a rusty old bus that was going somewhere for her to build character, whatever that meant.

"Hey mom," X-Ray called out as Dr. Pendanski walked in the small tent. Two men where following him carrying a cot very much like the other seven cots already in the tent. "What you got there?"

"What's it look like," Dr. Pendanski asked.

"I don't know mom, maybe it's a new water ski," he joked. "Or maybe you decided you want to sleep in our tent. Is that it mom?"

"Yeah, right, no actually today's your lucky day boys," said Dr. Pendanski as the two men left the cot that had a large crate on top of it in the middle of the room. "You fellow's are getting a new room mate. No not me. He'll be here any minute, so move your beds around to fit this one in."

He was about to leave when Armpit spoke up, "Why can't you give him to a different tent?"

"Because there all full, more full then this one," he answered truthfully leaving the boys alone to move the beds to their liking.

After the beds where moved, all the boys but Zero, Magnet, and Squid left the tent to play a game of pool.

The bus rattled to a hard stop. The sleeping Kimi was thrown against the seat in front of her, and then fell to the floor. She jumped up and brushed herself off as the guard in front of the bus called out, "Camp Green Lake, everybody off."

So, I'm at a camp. I thought I was being punished, not treated. She looked around the bus; she was the only one on it besides the guard and the bus driver. The guard and her were the only ones who got off after she grabbed her bags. I thought he said everybody off; there was hardly anybody on it. She rolled her eyes and followed the guard towards a run down building. "No funny business," The guard told her as they walked in the building.

Inside sat an over weight large, no offence, ugly man chewing on sunflower seed. She gritted her teeth as he spit the shells out on his desk. How terribly disgusting, she thought fighting the urge to turn and run.

He stared at her. "You're a girl," he stated.

No shit Sherlock.

He told her not to sit down as he stood up. Kimi saw the gun and became instantly scared. This isn't a camp, Camp Green Lake is just a name to divers you for the real reason you're here. He's going to execute me, she panicked.

He saw her starting to panic while looking at his gun. "This ain't for you," he growled. "It's for them yellow spotted lizards."

She sighed, so this is a camp.

"I am Mr. Sir," he growled at her coming around his desk and headed for the door. She figured since he's talking to her, she needs to follow, so she did. "Here at Camp Green Lake we try our best to turn bad boys into good boys, by diggin' holes. It builds character."

Great, just my luck to get stuck at a camp with a bunch of boys.

"But in your case," he continued, "We'll do our best to turn a bad girl into a good girl."

Mr. Sir led her into a door less room and handed her two bright orange jumpsuits. He grabbed her two bags that she was carrying and went though the bags as a short man came in. He had on long shorts, high socks, a sombrero looking hat, and white suntan lotion thickly on his nose. "I'm Dr. Pendanski," he informed Kimi. "I just want you to know that you may have done some bad things in your life, but that does not make you a bad kid." He pause shocked, "You're a girl."

You're just noticing?

"I didn't mean to sound so; surprised but only boys come here."

So I've heard.

Mr. Sir cut in handing her, her bags back, "You should see what she did, she deserves to be here."

"She does, does she," he asked more to himself studying her. "Does she get her own tent?" He asked confused.

"No," Mr. Sir said. "The warden said we can't shuffle the boys so that she gets her own tent. Besides, she did the crime; she gets to pay the time."

"Of course, besides I already put a cot on for her in D-tent. Right, well come on, uh." Dr. Pendanski looked from Mr. Sir to Kimi.

Kimi stared and Mr. Sir shrugged. Seeing that Kimi wasn't going to say anything, Mr. Sir sighed heavily and opened the file he was carrying "says here her name is Kimi. Kimi," He looked at Kimi, "What kind of name is that?"

What kind of name is Mr. Sir?

"Well," Dr. Pendanski said, "Come on."

"Looks like we have another Zero," Kimi heard Mr. Sir say to himself as they left.

I ain't no zero, I am somebody really I am.

They walked into one of the little green tents where three boys, all in the orange jumpsuit, lay scattered around on cots. One of the boys, a Mexican, sat up on one elbow and asked, "Hey mom, who's the chika?"

"This," he told the boys, "Is Kimi, your new room mate."

Two boys the Mexican and a boy with short brown hair stared, but the third by, a short fuzzy headed black boy, turned away. Kimi said nothing; she just took in her surroundings.