The next day, both girls were having fun at camp. Vanessa had been playing fencing, and she was winning.
"Touché! Excellent, girls!" Marva Jr. said. "The winner and still undefeated champ from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Miss Vanessa Montez!" Vanessa took a bow in mock accomplishment. "Do we have any challengers? Oh, come on ladies, let's not be damsels in distress, here."
Ashley, who had been playing tennis most of the morning with her friends from the Navajo hut, said, "I'll take a whack at it."
"Okay, we've got ourselves a challenger," Marva Jr. said. Vanessa and Ashley both got dressed in their fencing uniforms.
"Girls ready?" Marva Jr. asked.
"Ready!"
"All set!"
"En garde!" Marva Jr. declared, blowing her whistle, and the battle began.
Vanessa and Ashley dueled each other with the fencing swords all over the camp, even up the steps to the main building, until Vanessa was pushed over the railing and landed in a water trough below the deck.
"Sorry!" Ashley said. "Let me help you."
"No, let me help you!" Vanessa said, taking Ashley's outstretched hand and pulling her into the trough as well. Vanessa's friends roared with laughter. Both girls, thoroughly fed up with one another, climbed out of the trough and pulled off their masks, not even looking at each other.
"Well, it looks like we've got ourselves a new camp champ, Miss Ashley Bolton, from London, England!" Marva Jr. declared. "Girls, shake hands." Ashley and Vanessa, both very angry at this point, turn around and grudgingly shake each other's hand. There is some kind of weird energy between the two of them, not to mention it was like looking in a mirror.
"Why's everyone staring?" Vanessa asked.
"Don't you see it?" Ashley asked.
"See what?"
"The resemblance between us."
"Resemblance…between you and me?! Let me see, turn sideways…and now the other way…well…your eyes are much closer together than mine. Your ears, well don't worry, you'll grow into them, your teeth are a little crooked and that nose! Well, don't worry, dear, those things can be fixed," Vanessa scrutinized. Zoe and Nicole laughed. Ashley was not happy, and neither were her friends.
One friend, Danielle, said, "Want me to deck her for ya?"
"Wait, hold on, I'm not finished," Vanessa said. "You want to know the real difference between us?"
"Hmm," Ashley pondered. "I know how to fence and you don't? Or I have class and you don't? Take your pick."
"Why I oughtta…" Vanessa said, balling her hands into fists. Ashley did the same.
Fortunately, Marva Jr. stepped between the two of them. "Okay, ladies, time to break-up this little love fest. Ashley, Vanessa. I mean, Vanessa, Ashley…I mean…whoa." Marva Jr. was amazed at how much they looked alike. The lunch bell rang, and Jackie and Danielle pulled Ashley away, while Zoe and Nicole pulled Vanessa the other way.
"That girl is a major loser," Zoe said.
"Yeah," Nicole agreed. "Too bad you couldn't look like someone cooler." Vanessa sighed.
"Do we really look as much alike as I think we do?" Ashley asked.
"It's just a weird freak of nature," Danielle said. "Please accept my condolences."
That night, Ashley was having Poker Night in the Navajo hut. No one else really knew how to play, so she was beating everybody pretty easily."
"Sorry, ladies, two pair. Read 'em and weep," Annie said, taking all the loot in the middle of the table. "Is that it? No more takers?" She heard the door to the hut swing closed, as someone walked in. Vanessa. Ashley sighed.
"I'll take a whack at it," Vanessa said, dumping a small bag of quarters onto the table.
"Have a seat, Montez," Ashley said. The cards were dealt. Both girls thought they had the better hand, and they kept betting higher and higher and higher, until everything they had was in the middle.
"Tell you what I'm gonna do," Vanessa said. "I'll make you a little deal. Loser jumps into the lake after the game."
"Excellent," Ashley said.
"Butt naked," Vanessa added.
"Even more excellent," Ashley said. "Start unzipping Montez, a straight. In Diamonds." Vanessa faked being crestfallen.
"You're good, Bolton," Vanessa said. "But not quite good enough. In your honor, a royal flush." She smirked. Ashley turned white. They all went out to the lake (Ashley, Vanessa, Zoe, and Nicole, that is). Ashley stripped down to nothing, and dived in. While she was diving, the other three stole her clothes and ran off with them.
"All right," Ashley said, after she had gotten out of the lake and discovered this. "If that's how you want it, let the games begin!"
The next day, Vanessa and her friends were coming home after a hike. They were hot, sweaty, and tired.
"I'm so tired. I'm crawling back into bed and sleeping until lunch," Vanessa declared. At that moment, they walked up to their hut and Nicole stopped dead.
"That does not even seem like a possibility, babe," she said.
"Why not?" Vanessa asked, slipping off her back.
"That's why not," Nicole said, pointing to the roof of the Arapahoe hut, where every single bed in sitting. The British Union Jack is also flying triumphantly.
"No way," Vanessa said. She was angry now. She gathered her friends into a small huddle and explained what they were going to do in retaliation.
That night, the three girls snuck over into the Navajo hut, and basically destroyed the entire place. Honey is poured into shoes, shaving cream is on pillow cases, string is everywhere, chocolate sauce is put into a bucket for some unidentifiable purpose, and the floor is oiled down.
The next morning, Ashley was awoken from her sleep by a bugle playing Reveille very badly into a microphone. She was confused by the sight she sees. She got out of bed, and is not pleased. The other girls woke up and were not pleased either. There was a lot of screaming. Ashley triggered a string that caused a lot of water balloons to rain down beside her. She missed every single one of them, except the last one, which was the biggest.
"That girl is without a doubt the lowest, most awful creature to ever walk the planet!" she declared.
Outside, Vanessa and her friends were watching this. "Thank you, thank you very much," Vanessa said to Nicole and Zoe, who laughed. Just then, the Marvas walked by.
"Morning girls," Marva Sr. said in her megaphone.
"Morning Marvas," the three girls chorused. Then the realization hit them. "Marvas?!"
"Surprise inspection!" Marva Sr. declared through her megaphone. "Navajo!"
They walked up the steps, but Vanessa got there first. "No, no, Marva, do not go in there," Vanessa said, blocking the door. Ashley, seeing this from inside, looked out the window wondering what she was doing. "One of the girls got sick last night and it's a big mess. Save yourself the aggravation. It's really disgusting."
"Well, if someone's sick, dear, then I must go in…" Marva Sr. said. She starts to open the door, to which the bucket of chocolate sauce is connected to, but she didn't know that.
"No, really, let go of that door. I insist. She's highly contagious," Vanessa said, shutting the door even more firmly.
"Actually, we're all fine in here. Unless Vanessa Montez knows something we don't know," Ashley said from inside. Ashley sees the bucket as well and smirks. "Open the door and see for yourself, ma'am." Marva Sr. swung open the door, tipping the bucket over, and got covered in chocolate sauce, along with Marva Jr. Vanessa, having the sense to jump out of the way, just watched as the two grownups slid into the house, and accidentally pulled the string to which the fan was connected, covering themselves in feathers.
"I told you it was bad in here," Vanessa said, apologetically.
"She should know! She did it!" Ashley declared.
"You! And You!" Marva Sr. declared. "Pack your bags!" Both Vanessa and Ashley glared daggers at each other, thoroughly upset that the other has now gotten them into trouble. And also a little scared that they were being kicked out of camp.
A/N: So, if you've seen the movie, you know what comes next. Up until now, it's been pretty much the same, hasn't it? Well, it won't be. This will not bore you, I swear. I hope.
So, thanks for reading, and please leave me a review!
Samantha.