Hallie walked into the isolation cabin that she and Annie shared with a huge smile on her face, Annie who was writing into her journal on the bed looked up at her,
"What have you done now Hallie and will I have to lie about it?" Annie asked with exasperation in her voice. In the week that she and Hallie have known each other she had found out that her sister had a knack for getting into trouble.
"No, dear sister that I love, I have not done anything that will get us in trouble in camp" Hallie says with a smile, as she pulls out a manila folder from behind her back slowly from her back and shake it in front of Annie's face "but it may get us into trouble with our parents but I know you wouldn't mind that" she says with a smirk on her face as she places the folder on the bed next to Annie,
"What's this" Annie asks as she opens the folder and looks in "Are you kidding me how did you manage to do this in two days" Annie asked as she saw a boarding pass on the same flight as her to London as well as Hallie's passport, and she looks up at her sister "you know that you probably are going to get into huge trouble with this don't you and how did you get your passport that would be impossible to get without dad's permission."
Hallie look at her and shrugs "Maybe but to tell you the truth a don't really give a damn if they really didn't want this to happen they should have made sure that they didn't send us to the same camp or they should have told us about each other, and getting my passport was very easy because like 2 weeks ago dad and I went to Canada for a week because he had some business there so I went with him, I guess he forgot to take the passport back" as she picks up her documents and start looking through them "you know if the plane isn't crowded we can totally sit next to each other" she says as she looks at Annie who looks at her smirking and shaking her head "what?" Hallie asks.
"You have a very devious mind don't you Hallie, and you never did tell me how you managed to get this done in two days?" Annie laughs as Hallie nods to her first statement.
"Well we forgot that my passport was in my duffel so it works out in our favor. I also remembered dad credit card number and date of expiration so I was able to get my 1st class ticket to London, England in the same plane as you if we are lucky we will be able to sit side by side through the flight, or if it is then we will use our twin looks and beg whoever is seating by you to move so we will be able to seat together. I think it will work because who can resist twin who have the puppy dog pout on at full blast towards you" Hallie said with a huge smile on her face. Annie looked at her sister with an impressed look at how sneaking and cunning she was, and touched that she was willing to get into trouble to spend some time with her in her home town.
"So now how about we spend our last few hours at camp swimming a few laps around the lake" Hallie said with a huge smile as she grab her bathing suit and threw Annie's suit at her as Hallie walked into the bathroom to change, as Annie did the same in the main room of the cabin. As they walked out of the cabin and walk down the path towards the lake Hallie looked at Annie and nudged her with her shoulder,
"So sis any boyfriends in England that I am going to be able to meet during our trip there", as they walked towards the chairs by the lake and sat down,
"No not yet at least but hopefully soon I will have one what about you any boyfriends in California that you are prospecting" Annie ask with a smile as she saw Hallie start to blush as red as a tomato "ooh ohh what's his name" she ask as she started jumping up and down in front of Hallie as she walked backwards.
"No one Annie I just have a friend Adam and we are the same age that's it" Hallie said as walked a little faster to get to the lake and away from the conversation. However Annie kept up and she nudged Hallie's shoulder with her own,
"Come on sis, who is this Adam guy, I promise I won't tease you" Annie said smiling at Hallie "Is he cute, funny, drop dead gorgeous?" She said as she put around Hallie's shoulder "And the last and most important question of all does he have a good looking brother for you good looking sister" Annie looked Hallie in the eye as she asks walking backwards to the lake.
"Well Adam and I were friends when we were younger we used to go to this riding school and we had this friendly competition with each other whenever we weren't on our horses, you know who could run faster, who could hold their breath the longest, you know things like that and well I really did like him and I was hoping that he would ask me out unfortunately his dad got a job offer in New York, so that kind of put a dagger into anything that could happen between us" Hallie said a little sadly as Annie nodded with sympathy as the got to the lake and lay down in the beach chair there "so yeah that is as far as I got romantically involved with anyone"
"That is too bad but you never know maybe you will be able to find a dishy English guy and you will be able to put all the thanks on me for dragging you to London, and helping you find the love of your life" Annie proclaimed with her hands claps together in a romantic pose and a longing sigh leaving her lips. Hallie took one look at Annie before bursting out in laughter
"Y-you do realize how idiotic you look and sound right now" as Hallie gripped her sides in laughter as she looked back up at her sister in that pose, after about a second Annie looked back and started to laugh as well as she realized how silly she must have looked. Annie looked back at Hallie before standing up and running towards the lake and jumping in,
"Come on Hallie let's go swimming" she called and she start to backstroke around the lake, as Hallie watched for a second and then jumped in after Annie, clothes and all, they started to splash each other and Annie screamed and started to swim away as she saw Hallie start to stalk towards her Annie know that Hallie was planning to dunk her but she had no intentions of being a sitting duck so she started to swim towards the other end of the lake "Leave me alone Hallie" she called back as her sister start to gain on her.
"Don't worry little sister you won't feel a thing" Hallie said laugh as she caught up with Annie and grab her by the wrist lightly with one hand and splashing her with the other for a few seconds,
"Hey stop that isn't fair you have long legs so you can cover more ground you need to give me a head start" Annie started to pout, as she said that Hallie stopped splashing her and looked at her with a huge grin on her face,
"So you finally admit that you are my little sister" Hallie said with a laugh, as Annie face filled with realization that that was what she just said
"No that is not what I meant and you know it Hal" Annie said angrily as she started to splash Hallie as she continued to back away from Hallie
"Whatever you say little sister" Hallie said as she stalked Annie and grabbed her and dunked her into the lake "now wasn't that fun" she asked as Annie came back up and glared at, "oh well let's try again" as Hallie dunks Annie again laughing, and after 3 seconds she let Annie back up to the surface, Annie looked at Hallie glaring and opened her mouth to yell at her, but before she could the dinner bell started to ring in the distance and both girls looked back at the mess hall before Annie looked back at Hallie a little red-faced,
"To be continued, and since we are leaving like right after lunch I guess this will be continued at home in London" Annie said as they both climbed out of the lake and wrapped themselves in towels and walked to the mess hall.
"So how do you think grandfather will react when I come into the house, I mean I want to surprise Ms. James, but I don't want to give grandfather a heart attack" Hallie said as she started to eat spaghetti.
"Grandfather will be find he has an iron constitution or so he always tell me when we both go to this amusement park by our house, and even at his age her goes on all the rides with me" Annie pauses for a second "well most of the ride he will not go on the viper with me" she says as she starts laughing at the image of her grandfather when he saw how the ride went for the first time. As they ate they saw Marva Sr. and Marva Jr. go to the stage and put out a megaphone, and the hall quieted down,
"Ok girls after lunch the counselors will help get your things to the buses so say your goodbye because the buses leave in thirty minutes" Mavra Sr. say in a sad voice "It was very nice to have each and every one of you at camp and we hope to see you all back her next year" as she step back down and the hall again filled up with noise. In no time at all everyone could see the buses pull up to take everyone their separate ways. As Hallie and Annie walked out of their cabin with their things they heard Mavra Jr. call
"Annie James your ride is here" Annie and Hallie looked up when they heard this and grab their stuff and walk towards to limo that their mom ordered for Annie. Mavra looked up surprised,
"you girls are going home together did your parents allow it" she asked in an uncertain voice as she remembered that these girls were bitter enemy at the start of camp and wonder what had changed in order for them to be so close.
"Yep my dad said it was fine to go with Annie, he even booked me a hotel" Hallie said never betraying that she was lying as Annie nodding next to her. Marva looked at the girls and then nodded as she open the door to the limo as the driver put their things in the trunk, and they hopped in as Marva closed the door.
"So Bangor International Airport correct?" the driver ask as he pulled out and after receiving a nod from Annie "we should be there in about 20 minutes" as he slide up the window that blocked the driver from the passengers and start to drive towards the airport as Annie smiled she looked back at Hallie who look a little pale "you nervous about meeting mom aren't you" she ask in a sympathetic voice as Hallie nodding knowing that Annie would see right through a lie right now,
"It's just what if we get there and she opens the door and she tells me to leave I-I don't think I would be able to handle that even though I am angry with her you know" Hallie admitted as tears pooled at the corner of her eyes. Annie looked at her sister and realized that even though she had a very hard exterior that made it seem that nothing could faze her underneath she was still vulnerable,
"If that happens then we both will leave and get a room somewhere cheap and then we will decide what to do from there" Annie said with certainty, as Hallie looked up at her in shock before shaking her head,
"No Ann if I can't stay at your house I will get a motel or something but you should stay please it would be hard enough to know that mom does not want me, it would be a lot harder to know that I made my sister be thrown out of her house so promise me right here that you won't follow me if I do get kicked out" Hallie said with pleading eyes.
"Fine but if that does happen I won't ever talk to mom again, and I promise we will figure out someway to be sisters even if that is the last thing our parents want" Annie said as she cross her arms in anger at the thought that her mom would accept Hallie, she just find her and would not let go of her just because her mom wanted it. The rest of the ride they decide to talk about makeup, boys, school, so they would not have to think about what could happen when they reached London because the outcome of the reunion between mother and daughters was so uncertain. As they looked out the window they realized that they were pulling into the airport drop off lane and got ready their carry-ons so they could get out and on board as quick as possible. The limo pulled into the lane and stop, so they both hopped out and waited for the drive to pull out their suitcases from the trunk, as they looked around the airport, Annie looked at the clock outside the terminal and in bright red numbers it said that it is 6pm local time.
"So the flight is leave gate 32b at 7:45 so do you want to go and get checked in and then wait in the airline's waiting room" Annie ask as Hallie looked at the clock as well "because I have something that could make the time go even faster and get my revenge on you" as she pull out the deck of cards her grandfather gave Martian to give her right before her flight to Maine, "but no outrageous bets just money nothing else ok?"
Hallie looked at her and smirk "fine but you are going down sucker, you sure you still have some money on you or do I need to lend you some for what I fleeced you for at camp?" Annie looked at her sister and shook her head and she pulled out some money from her pocket. "Annie where did you get that money, you said you were broke after the last game" Hallie said in surprise.
"I had only like 5 pounds still on me, so I went to the other girls in the other cabins and I fleeced them, I wasn't going to try and win back my money against you when I didn't have that much on my too much of a risk" Annie laughed "I tell you together we could totally take Vegas."
Hallie laughed with her, and shook her head "Well if you move to California then it is like ten hours, but it is still closer than from London, and we would still have to wait 10 years which stinks."
Annie chuckles for a few seconds before a large yawn "Sorry" Annie said with a blush "I didn't get a lot of sleep yesterday I was so excited and scared of going back how and how mom will react that it didn't let me fall asleep until late"
As they sat there they heard over the P.A system "British Airlines Flight 1152 non-stop to Heathrow now boarding at gate 34b all ticketed passengers please proceed to 34b"
Annie and Hallie both looked up at that announcement,
"That is us" Annie says as they stand up and start walking towards the gate and hand the stewardess their tickets and are lead them to the seat.
Annie was the first one following the stewardess and quickly got the window seat and looked back at Hallie with a smug look, while Hallie rolled her eyes at her sister shaking her hear. As they put their bags in the overhead compartment they hear over the intercom,
"This is your captain speaking we are 3rd in line for takeoff so we should be in the air in about 30 minutes, please make sure your tray tables are in their upright and locked positions thank you."
Annie looks at Hallie with a smile "This is it next stop home", as Hallie nods nervously.
A/N Guest I would like to thank you for your review. And thank you who ever favorite and put me on their alert list. And next chapter is England so it might be fun.
