Chapter 2:
Girls will be Girls
The girls all walked out of their cabins the next morning and walked to the flag pole. "I pledge allegiance to the flag…" The girls recited the pledge as the counselor raised the flag up. At the end of all of the girls stood quietly. The counselor raised her whistle into her mouth and blew it loudly. All the girls screamed and started to run towards the activity that they wanted to do for the day. All the girls except Glimmer who walked slowly towards the lake, where she was going to tan.
Katniss went to the canoes with Foxface and Clove. "So I am confused about a few things, how the hell are you supposed to find a boy around here?" Clove asked as she put on her life vest. Katniss tossed her life vest aside and climbed into the canoe. "Seriously? There are only a few guys that work here and there all…old." Clove said with a grossed out look on her face.
"Don't worry her, there's camp Hard On across the lake, around the bend." Foxface said with a laugh. It wasn't really called camp 'Hard On' but it was the name a lot of the girls at Drywood would call it. A story that carries on its 20 year legacy reminds them all of a group of boys that came to the camp once and snuck around looking into the cabin windows. One of the boys was caught with a massive boner. The rest is history.
"Oh my gosh! You are right. How romantic, meeting half way like Romeo and Juliette…" Clove said with a smile, butterflies filled her stomach.
Katniss started to move around slowly in the water, "Let's not talk about that right now…I just want to have fun. Katniss than splashed water onto the girls on the dock with the paddle.
Bella and Jessica walked towards the trampolines. "I haven't been on one of these in years." Bella said as she took off her shoes. She climbed onto it and started to jump. Jessica climbed up with her and they both started to jump next to each other. "Woah…" Bella almost fell over. "We need to jump to gather.. synchronized." Jessica shrugged not exactly knowing what Bella was talking about.
"Okay so…are you really sure you want to…do the deed?" Jessica asked.
Bella looked at her almost forgetting about the bet, "Well…" Bella was very scared and truly not ready to have sex. She had hoped that they would all just forget about it and have a good summer. "Well you see, I have been wanting to do it for a while. Now I have a great reason to do it."
"Yeah…I would be…I mean…I was scared when I did it. For the first time." Jessica said. "I couldn't imagine doing it…on a dare or a bet." Jessica saw Rue running towards them.
"Guys! Cabin A is talking trash about us saying that we would lose at a game of softball against them!" Rue said out of breath. "They are saying you guys are losers! Meet at the field in 5 minutes!" Jessica and Bella looked at each other.
"Let's kick their ass."
All the girls walked onto the field. Katniss chewed wildly on her bubblegum, inflating a huge bubble. Glimmer grabbed a tube of black lipstick from the cabin and ran to the field. She put some under her eyes. All the other girls put some on their face like some sort of ritual.
"Hey! Ugly whores from Cabin B…ready to lose?" Rosalie, one of the girls from Cabin A said. She was a very tanned girl with slender legs that were very tanned. Glimmer stepped up to be the spokeswoman for cabin B.
Glimmers legs were very red from her sunburn, "Listen up loose cunt bitches, we are going to wreck you."
"What's going on here?" Vera, the camp director asked.
"Oh…uhh…just a friendly game of softball." Glimmer said and winked at Vera. "Right cuties?" She said calling over to the girls of Cabin A."
"Oh a game! Well I will supervise. All is fair in love and war, and in the game of softball." Vera said and walked over towards the center bleachers. Glimmer rolled her eyes. "Oh girls! I am doing a coin toss to see who is up first for the bat. Glimmer, heads or tails?"
"Head…s" Glimmer called out jokingly.
"Tails, Cabin A is up to bat."
Katniss took to the mound to be the pitcher. Rosalie walked up to the home plate with her baseball cap. She tossed her hair back with the small breeze that came through. "Knock it out the park." One of the girls called from the side. Rue came running up to the bleachers to watch. She had a bag of popcorn, a few candy bars, and a twizzler sticking out of her mouth. She also had a can of coke. Vera looked at her in shock.
"Come on Katniss! Ruin her face!" Rue said laughing, Vera stomped her foot. Rue looked up and saw her and gasped. "I mean, keep it clean out there!" Rue smiled and looked away with an eye roll.
Katniss tossed the ball rapidly, "Strike one!" Vera called from the sidelines.
"Come on, can you toss it a little straighter…oh wait that would be hard for you…you dyke." Rosalie said and laughed. The other girls joined in.
Katniss smiled and tossed the ball rapidly so where it bounced on the ground, it seemed to float up and hit Rosalie in the face. "Fuck!" Rosalie fell backwards, everyone on the field started to laugh. Katniss winked at her.
"Oh my! You okay over there?" Vera called out.
Rosalie spit out some blood, "Fine." The game continued, Katniss struck her out. The next girl was able to get to first base, but then was taken out. They managed to gather up around 8 points. A little bit later it was Cabin B's turn at the plate. Katniss was up first, and Rosalie was the pitcher. The game continued for about an hour. Cabin B was down by 2 points. It was down to Katniss who walked up to the plate, the bases were fully loaded.
"Strike her out Rosalie! Bring us that victory" One of the girls from the field screamed out.
Rosalie the pitcher now, spit on the ball and tossed it into the air. She threw it wildly at Katniss, "Strike one!" Vera called out. Katniss hit the bat on the home plate a few times, Clearing it up. She looked at clove who was stretching her leg on third base. Rosalie again tossed the ball rapidly. "Strike two!" Katniss could hear the girls on the side cheering her on. She didn't want to let them down. Rosalie tossed the final ball at her, it seemed to come at her in slow motion. She followed it closely with her eyes. She started to tip the bat up slowly.
The ball hit the bat with an echoing crack. The ball started to fly above the field. All the girls in the outfield looking at it. "Catch it!" Rosalie said. Alice, one of the girls lifted her glove and caught the ball. Everyone on the outfield started screaming, and Cheering. "Game over and YOU lose." Rosalie said as she was lifted up like in a cheesy baseball movie and carried a little.
"Damn! You should have just tapped it, get the girls out there home!" Glimmer said and pushed Katniss back a little. Katniss was really disappointed.
They all walked to the mess hall and started to eat. Katniss was still grabbing some food from the table. She than walked and sat down. She was still a little upset about the softball game. "Can you pass the bread, please!" Glimmer said very sarcastically to Katniss who was sitting next to the bowl of bread. Katniss lifted a few pieces and tossed it town the table rudely, hitting Glimmer's cup of milk.
A group of girls walked up to Cabin B's table "Hey, Cabin C bets a dollar on Bella." Glimmer grabbed the dollar and put it into her shirt.
"Yay Bella!" Jessica said and shook her hand. "You are going to totally win." Jessica said and started to drink some of her milk.
Katniss shrugged, while she chewed she said "No big deal." Clove and Foxface looked at each other with a worried face. They didn't want to loose and were feeling a little bit worried.
Jessica tossed a something into Bella's drink. She looked at her milk confused of what Jessica just did. "It's Ginseng. It will make you sexy…" Jessica said. "Drink up." Bella grabbed the cup and lifted it to her mouth and started to drink. She then put her cup down and smiled at the girls at the table. Katniss rolled her eyes at her.
Rue leaned over towards Katniss and pulled down her bottom lip. "Hey is my gums bleeding?" She asked immaturely. She also had a milk mustache. She truly was a child. A group of girls from one of the other Cabin walked by and started handing Glimmer Money, on their shirts it said 'Team Katniss.' Katniss smiled and shook hands with some of the girls. She felt a very comfortable.