Once the campers were finally out of the water, the counselors had to rush them to their cabins, change, and be at the kickoff campfire in time. It was a sprint, but they made it there right on time.
"Smooth Chambers. Late for the first campfire." Joe smirked. Addison sent him an annoyed looked and told him "My watch says eight o'clock, sharp."
"Sharp eh? Just like you." Oh now he's bringing tuning into the mix. He's in for a sweet surprise that Jonas. When team Chambers wins the cup!
The kickoff campfire was always the same. Sing some songs, make some smores, get down tonight. Okay, maybe not 'getting down' or anything. But it was always fun. Addison's group was looking pretty tired as nine o'clock rolled around. And Addison thought now would be a good time to wrap it up, eh Jeff?
"Well, it's great to see all of your smiling faces, but I can see some faces looking sleepy. So let's all head on back to our cabins and get a good night's rest. Rehersals begin at nine am tomorrow! Start preparing for the year-end recital!" The campers gathered their things and began the walk back to their cabins.
"Okay team. I'll be knocking on your doors at seven forty-five. So you guys can get a good nights rest and digest the food you eat before blowing into your saxes. See you in the morning." The girls hugged Addison's legs and the both all muttered a 'goodnight' and ran into their cabin.
"Addie, will you tell us a story before we go to sleep?" Lisa asked, hugging Addison's leg tightly. Addison nodded and followed the into their cabin. They were all tucked into their bunks and were ready for a story. Addison found the nearest book and began to tell the story of Beauty and the Beast. It was well after nine o'clock, and lights out, before Addison headed back to her cabin.
Leanne and Madison were both awake in the room, preparing for bed after a long day when Addison heard something out of the ordinary. Snapping of twigs, whispering voices, swooshing of water. She decided to peek out of the cabin and Leanne and Madison followed. Once they stepped foot outside, a voice immediatly said 'Fire!'
Water balloons. Water balloons?! She thought. Someone was throwing water balloons at them! Jonas. She thought. She heard laughter and the rustling of grass.
"You'd better run Jonas! Before I come over there and throw a swift kick up your backside!" She shouted at the running brothers.
"See you in the morning Chambers! Sleep tight!" The voice of the middle Jonas called back. This means war.
"We have got to get the boys back tonight." Madison told her roommates angrily. They awoke at seven o'clock, after not getting the best sleep of their lives. They went to sleep grumpy from being soaked, and woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
"Ok, we'll brainstorm all day, and meet back at dinner with the plans. Deal?" Addison said. The girls nodded and left for their campers cabins. Addison was not about to let Jonas win.
She left her cabin ten minutes later then Leanne and Madison and began the walk to get the campers. "Sleep well last night?" A voice behind her asked.
"Stay away from me Jonas, I just might hurt you." She warned, keeping her distance. She couldn't be held responsible for the beheading of a counselor so early on in the summer.
"Oh, that was just a little welcoming gift from your favorite family." He smirked, trying to pry one a laugh out of her, but she wasnt falling for it. Thank goodness the cabins were five feet infront of her. She couldn't walk one more step with Joe.
"Okay, everyone's reeds good and moist? Ready to play? Zoey, don't do that with your neckstrap, you could choke yourself." It was nine ten and they still weren't playing. Addison tried to keep her group focused, but teaching children how to play the sax was difficult. Okay, so they weren't beginners, anyone who went to this camp was pretty advanced in their field. Keeping their focus was terrible though.
"Okay, lets start with a C concert scale. Half notes, Ready?" Addison lead her group in a C concert scale. "Peter, pull out. Push in Lisa. Less bite Zoey..." Good tuning for the first rehersal. Addison was impressed and it showed on her face. They ran through a couple major and minor scales for a warm up, added dynamics and all that jazz, and they were good to go.
"Okay, so this year, we're going to win the cup. Hands down!" Addison told her group.
"Yeah!" They chorused back.
"No more of the Jonases taking it! We're better then them!"
"Yeah!" Good to see that the group is motivated. Jonas is going down. They were in rehersal room D and right beside them, they could hear the screeches and bangs of a guitar group. Throughout Addison's rehersal, she could barely hear the squeaks of her own group, only those of the one next door. She got so frustrated that she almost sent her alto flying down on the hardwood floor.
"Can you keep it down in here? I'm trying to practice next door and I can't hear my group!" She shouted upon entering rehersal room C. The kids and counselor looked up from their guitars and stared.
"Ah, Chambers. It's not like you're going to win anyways. Just let us have our fun." Joe Jonas smirked at her with the roaring of laughter from the campers scattered around his feet.
He though it was funny to humiliate her in front of his campers? "Can I talk to you in the hall?" She was angry. Actually, beyond angry.
"Yesssss?" He asked as she practicly yanked him into the hall.
"Okay Jonas, it's obvious that your cocky, and you think that you will win the cup. But stop antagonizing me and my group. Let's fight for it fair and square. You're teaching your kids that making fun of other people will get you what you want. Talk to me with respect and I'll give you some in return." He just looked at her. She waited. And waited. And waited for an answer. "Are you going to say anything?"
"Your cute when your mad." He turned on his heel and returned to rehersal. Addison went back into room D and resumed practice, using her anger to punch out the marcatos in the piece.
"Ok, good rehersal. Head out to lunch." Addison dismissed her group after practice. The last hour was great, they weren't too shabby. "I'll meet you guys there."
Addison exchanged her alto sax for a soprano and warmed it up. She pulled out the piecce she was thinking about for the counselor performance at the end of the year. It was the 'Supermario brother' theme song and it was meant for a saxophone quartet.
Joe pressed his ear against the door to room D and listen as the waves of sound rang throughout the hall. She was good. Real good.He thought. Maybe he was taking his jokes a little too far. Working up the courage to face the little ball of rage, he opened the door.
"You sound good Addison." He told her. She dropped the sax to her side and gave him a look that said 'are-you-seriously-coming-in-here-after-I-yelled-at-you-like-that?'
"Thanks."
"Look, I'm sorry for coming off a little rude. I really didn't mean too." He actually looked sincere. Is that really Joe Jonas?
"It's okay. I guess." She told him as she walked past him towards the door. "Just watch your back okay? We're not even yet."
"Should I be worried?"
"Maybe." She grinned before leaving. Addison was halfway down the hall when a thought came to Joe's mind.
"Wait! No one can know we had this conversation. I mean, I can't be seen talking to the enemy." Addison showed him that she agreed with a smirk and headed off to find her campers in the dining hall.
"I yelled at the enemy." Addison confessed to her best friends at lunch.
"Way to go!" Leanne smiled, giving her a friendly shove. Addison still didn't feel like it was the right thing to do.
"Anyways, any plans for revenge?" Madison asked. Madison and Leanne were deep in conversation when Addison got an idea.
"Here's what we'll do. Tonight, we'll sneek into the kitchens and..."
"Ready?" Madison chuckled. The girls tiptoed across the path to the brother's cabin and began to set up some revenge. They tried their hardest to keep quiet, but they were reassured numerous times that the boys were asleep. People in Japan could hear their snores.
Hours later, it was seven twenty-two am, and the girls were peeking through the blinds waiting for the brothers to leave their cabin to wake their campers. "This is going to be hilarious!" Madison squealed.
"Shh Madison! Here they come! I want to hear what they have to say." Addison hushed. The boys opened their front door and Joe was the first to step out. He had his neck turned, telling Nick something when a bucket tipped over and dumped flour all over his head. His mouth opened wide, almost as wide as his eyes and he looked straight up at the cabin in front of him. "Chambers."
Joe walked off the porch, with Nick and Kevin on his heels, trying to keep him from disrupting the girls. Though they were responsible for the dumping of flour on Joe, Nick and Kevin. For soon after, another bucket of flour fell ontop the remaining brothers when they left the cabin after Joe.
Joe marched right up to the door and tapped on it nonchalantly. Madison and Leanne ducked in their beds, leaving Addison to answer the door. "Hey Jonases. What's up?"
"I just came over here to spread the love." Joe smirked and Addison raised her eyebrow. What in the world was he talking about? Joe raised his arms and took Addison in a huge bear hug, lifting her off her feet and swung her around in circles.
"Joe! What are you doing?!" He set her down and turned to leave.
"Do you mind waking my cabin and taking them to breakfast? I have a hair emergency." He turned and left the girl's front porch and towards his cabin. Addison groaned and went to change her flour-y shirt into a clean one. Did he always have to come out on top? She wondered.