The Fisher's Summer Home

Fire Island, NY

Saturday, June 30

5:45pm

Christina took a deep breath as she stood on the back patio beside her pool that overlooked the ocean, the smell of salt water was overpowering and she was glad to have a distraction to prevent her from thinking about what had been bothering her for the past 3 days.

Was this some sort of message from Gawd? To make her tougher when it came to dealing with LBRs at school? Was it supposed to show her how there were going to be people even worse than Trisha Neilson in the universe? Christina tried to wonder what possible reason there was for her to get Mavis the devil bitch from hell as her camp counselor.

Why couldn't it be Hailey? I mean come awn maybe if Hailey learned what a real LBR she was she'd leave her alone. At least that was Christina's logic but nonetheless deep down she knew that maybe she was the one in the wrong at the present moment.

Great now that she had thought about her troubles the power of distractions were soon gone.

"Christina! Hailey! Cam!" Claire called. "Dinner!"

The last thing she wanted to do now was sit at the table with her family, and discuss her first week of camp. Of course the acting classes she took when she was seven were bound to pay off now as she wasn't too sure that without proper experience she could fake her way through a whole meal.

She could hear the sound of her sister's footsteps scurrying from the front yard, where she had been ladybug searching to the kitchen and she could make out the sound of Claire putting plates on the table.

When did her ears become so sensitive? Lately everything else was actually starting to matter to her even the little things in life and she was beginning to wonder whether or not she was truly turning into an LBR.

After deciding that certain things weren't worth worrying over Christina went to the screen door and into the kitchen where Hailey, Cam, and Claire were already sitting down.

"There you are, Chrissy I was wondering where you were," Claire said.

"I was outside the entire time," Christina said in a 'duh' tone.

"Oh, I thought maybe you'd gone inside since you've been outside practically all day," Claire said.

"Well some of us would rather have a little color than being pale as a codfish."

Claire did a double take at her older daughter's tone, "alrighty then." And with that she silently got a plate and put some salmon and string beans on Christina's plate before setting it down and Christina silently started eating.

"So, I feel like I've barely gotten the chance to talk to you girls about camp. How is it so far?" Claire asked.

"Yeah I heard that they're shutting it down soon," Cam said.

"WHAT!" Hailey got up and looked as if she were about to cry.

"He's only kidding moron," Christina said and both Cam and Claire looked at her.

"Someone's in a mood today," Claire whistled.

"I'm just missing the girls that's all," Christina said.

Claire gave her a look which meant she didn't really believe what Christina had just said but would go along with it for the time being.

"I love my counselor she's sooo nice! And she says I'm the cutest little angel she's ever met in her life," Hailey said.

"She must be on drugs," Christina muttered.

"Why would she be on drugs?" Hailey asked.

"Christina said maybe she's on dogs not drugs," Claire said and she shot Christina a 'not in front of your sister' look.

Christina could only roll her eyes once again when would her mom learn that Hailey would eventually need to be exposed to the real world even if she was only 8.

"How are the girls in your group?" Claire asked.

"They're nice and I'm kind of like Christina where they all love me and all want to be my friend," Hailey said.

"Damn they must really have mental issues," Christina muttered under her breath. "How's your schedule?"

"Good we had dance twice!" Hailey said.

"Ugh we have stupid field like every day I mean yeah if we were B8-1 then I would be like 'yeah sports'" Christina said in a manly voice. "But it's like seriously we're 8th grade girls we do nawt want to roll around in the dirt like a bunch of LBRs all day," Christina said.

"Christina, what did I say about calling people LBRs," Claire warned.

"Not to judge them before I even meet them but seriously any person who likes that stuff is an LBR in my mind," Christina said.

"So you're saying that Tori and Aunt Kristen are LBRs?" Cam asked.

"No not them," Christina said realizing that she was trapped.

"How is your summer going so far?" Claire asked.

"Fantastic!" Christina lied. "Ehmagawd I have the best group ever they all are so dumb they just worship the ground I walk on."

"You're right they are dumb," Hailey said.

"Stop trying to be so cool because ahbviously it's not working!" Christina said.

"Girls, stop fighting now," Cam said.

"How are your counselors? Are they the kind that actually work or those who think that because you're older they don't have to do anything?" Claire asked.

Christina bit her lip before slightly smirking, she couldn't help it because the next words to come out of her mouth were definitely the farthest thing from the truth. "Ehmagawd yeah I have these two girls named Violet and Mavis and they're AHmazing a bit LBRish but I'll fix them up."

"I don't want to hear that you've been pulling smart-alek stuff though," Cam chuckled.

"Ehmagawd dad that was in like 5th grade when I had that dumb airhead as my counselor," Christina said.

"She was just trying to do her job Christina, besides I know how you can be a bit…aggressive at times," Claire said.

"Wow mom just wow I thought you're supposed to be on my side," Christina said.

"No one said anything about taking sides I was just pointing something out," Claire said.

Christina rolled her eyes, "Whatevs."

The Fishers continued to eat dinner and when they were done Claire and Cam cleared the table while Christina and Hailey went off to do their own thing.

Christina decided to go for a walk along the beach and maybe go into town. Part of her was feeling a sense of emptiness without the PC: 2.

It wasn't like she really had any friends on Fire Island anyway. Most of the kids were a lot older than her and the kids who were her age were mostly LBR girls or weird boys. Christina wondered if her whole life she would encounter crap like this.

The sun was setting and over the beach with the clouds slightly over it the sky looked slightly purple. Like purple smoke burning in the distance and the clouds looked like strawberry ice cream that hovered in the sky.

She wondered whether or not she would ever be able to look at a sunset and truly see the beauty in it all. She was surprised she didn't totally hate it now but she refused to let Mavis change her personality.

Seriously though who did they think they were to treat her like that? She was wayyy better than them and at least she knew how to apply a fake tan (well that was more towards Violet but still.)

Meanwhile Claire was downstairs cleaning the table with her husband and she began to think back to how they met. How hopeless she felt life had been back in the seventh grade and how much things had changed.

In a way she found it quite funny how at that age you rarely think to look to the future and how you think you're stuck in youth forever.

"Alone at last," Cam whispered in his wife's ear.

Claire smirked and turned around to give him a quick kiss. "I can't believe how big the girls are getting. I still turn around at Hailey and expect to see a three year old."

"I know somehow I wish that we could turn back time to have them young and actually liking us for one day," Cam laughed.

"Is it just me or did something seem off with Christina tonight? I mean yes she can be aggressive and sarcastic but something just didn't seem right."

Cam considered this, "I mean she seemed a bit annoyed but I wouldn't worry about it. Maybe it's just you girls get that when you're going through things."

Claire slightly laughed while shaking her head. She knew her husband was trying to sound like he knew what went on in the inner female brain but truth was he didn't know half of it. Most of the time boys didn't. It was usually like that. "I think I should talk to her later."

"Good idea. You know sometimes I feel as if I hardly know her anymore is that supposed to happen?"

"Partly like you said it's just how girls get when we go through things," Claire winked and turned back to doing the dishes.

Outside Christina thought about everything that went on and in her brain she made up a list of 100 ways she was better than Mavis. Though she couldn't think that behind every bitch there's a story…so what was her counselor's?

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