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Rated: T
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Chapter 4 the Family Feud
Amelia raised her violin to her chin and played a few notes to see if it was tuned before launching into "Cheap Thrills" to warm up with before seamlessly sliding into a piece by Mozart. It wasn't the one she was supposed to be learning for her audition but it was one of her favorites to play.
She was interrupted by a slow clap. She lowered her violin and frowned when she saw her evil "twin" standing in the doorway, watching her with a smirk.
"What do you want?"
"Oh don't stop on my account," Victoria answered. "I was passing by and I wanted to see what all the noise was."
"Noise!? Amelia repeated, stamping her foot. "I will have you know that I am practicing for my audition."
Victoria feigned interest. "Audition? Really? Are you going to play for the school of the blind and deaf?"
"You're not very nice," Amelia informed her. "Now if you'd please leave me alone, I'm serious. I have a very important audition to prepare for."
She started to play again, getting frustrated when she realized Victoria was still watching her.
"You're touchy," Victoria said.
"Then why do you find pleasure in annoying me?"
"Um, because you're so easy to annoy! You really need to lighten up because you're boring!"
Amelia looked at her and sighed with exasperation. "Am not!"
"Honey, you're practicing the violin at summer camp. There's gotta be something better you could do," Victoria said.
"Honey, you're harassing me at summer camp! There's gotta be something better you could do! Like, oh I don't know, provoke a bear with a stick!" Amelia suggested. "Because I know you're not here to make friends. Not with me."
Victoria nods. "You would be right."
Amelia gritted her teeth. "Will you please leave now?"
"If I don't?" There was a silent challenge in her question but she was looking at Amelia like she knew she was so harmless, she wouldn't hurt a fly.
Amelia put her violin away and snapped the case shut. "I'm just going to have to tell the counselors that you're bothering me. I'm sure you'd hate for them to get involved."
"Only baby's tattle," Victoria said. "Are you a baby?"
"I guess you'll have to see for yourself," Amelia answered, walking away.
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Victoria was seething.
She had to help wash dishes after dinner for a week. The punishment seemed a little excessive for keeping Amelia from practicing her violin.
Who cared if Amelia was going to be a part of some hoity-toity youth orchestra in New York City? It wasn't like Victoria didn't have the same kind of opportunities. She was an accomplished piano player herself but she wasn't going around rubbing it in people's faces.
In that moment, Victoria quite literally hated Amelia Matthews.
There was talk of a poker game when she got back to her cabin. Amelia was hosting it for nail polish and cash and candy bars.
Victoria smiled and peeled off her sticky t-shirt. She was a fantastic poker player. It was time to start taking Amelia down a couple of notches. She grabbed all the money she had brought and stuffed it into the pocket of her shorts.
"Come on Nat, Suse. We're going to play some poker!" she announced.
Susan sighed and lowered her copy of Tiger Beat. "Why don't you just trash her cabin and be done with it, Vic? We all know you want to."
"No. We have to surprise her."
"Hon, I'm pretty sure it would be a surprise," Natasha said.
"I want to really shake her up. For starters, I'm going to beat her at poker. Revenge is a slow process, girls. Everybody knows that."
Susan rolled her eyes and shut her magazine. "I guess you want us to go with you, be your squad. All that good stuff."
Victoria beamed and pulled her highlighted hair into a high ponytail. "That would be amazing!" she answered.
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Amelia groaned inwardly when she saw "Vic" and her friends, Natasha and Susan coming towards her cabin, arm-in-arm in bright pink lip gloss and glittery halter-tops.
"Want to call it a night?" Her cabin mate, Maureen asked. "If you do, you don't have to deal with Vic."
Amelia shook her head. "No. I can't let her know I don't like her. Any sign of weakness will be my undoing! I've got to have the upper hand."
"The upper hand?" Maureen repeated. "Boo, you don't have the upper hand! All you've done is told the counselors she's been bothering you. It's safe to say she has everything on you."
Amelia tucked her hair behind her ears. "Well, then, I've got to beat her at poker."
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Amelia watched in amazement as Victoria beat her round after round, she'd never had anybody beat her at poker before.
"I win again!" Victoria crowed. "Pay up sweetie pie."
Amelia had quickly lost everything she had wagered, resulting in Victoria wheedling her into wagering a venture into the lake, completely naked.
Amelia had been so sure she would win, she had agreed. Victoria smirked at her over her royal flush.
"What? Are you a chicken, Amelia?" Victoria asked her voice full of malice.
"No. Of course not!" Amelia answered, standing up and squaring her shoulders. "I'll do it! I'm not one to welch on a bet."
"You don't have to do anything that makes you feel uncomfortable!" Maureen informed Amelia, jumping to her feet.
"You heard her! She never welches on a bet!" Victoria interjected gleefully. "Come on girls! Let's make sure she keeps her word!"
They all followed her down to the dock and Amelia nervously pulled her camp t-shirt over her head, looking back to make sure they weren't watching her too closely. She unbuttoned her shorts and wiggled out of them, wondering if she could get away jumping into the water with her bra and panties on.
"You have to be buck naked!" Victoria shouted like she had read her thoughts.
Amelia closed her eyes and unhooked her polka-dot bra before shimming out of her matching underwear. She kicked them aside, plugged her nose and made the plunge. When she surfaced, everybody was gone. Her clothes included.
She climbed up onto the dock and stood shivering in the New Hampshire breeze.
She was done playing nice and turning the other cheek or going to an authority figure like her mother had taught her. It didn't help at all, Victoria was still a bully.
It was time to orchestrate some good-old fashioned revenge. Give the other girl a taste of her own medicine and see how she liked it.
Victoria Friar so had it coming to her!
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Victoria screamed when she shut the blow drier off and saw the blonde streaks in her brunette hair. They hadn't been there when she had gone into the shower, she had no idea how they had gotten there either.
"Not so nice when it happens to you, is it?"
Victoria whirled around and saw Amelia looking at her with a smirk on her face.
"What did you do!?" Victoria shrieked.
Amelia waved a bottle of peroxide around. "I just added a little bit of this to your shampoo. Fair is fair. Do you really think you could torture me and get away with it?"
Victoria glared at her, her reply filled with venom. "Oh, you haven't seen the worst of it sweetie pie!"
Amelia shrugged. "Okay. Do your worst then!"
"You're going to wish you didn't say that!" Victoria yelled as Amelia walked away, slamming the bathroom screen door behind her.
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"The more I think about it, the more I don't think wrecking their cabin is going to be a good idea," Natasha said as they ran through the woods to Amelia's cabin with supplies in their hands that they'd taken from the kitchen. "What if we get kicked out? This summer was my last chance. I'm off to boarding school in England if I don't behave myself."
"Don't be such a mouth breather!" Victoria snapped. "We're not going to get caught!"
"Chances are, Amelia's going to know it was us," Susan said. "You were the only one who threatened to get revenge on her for the peroxide thing."
Victoria rolled her eyes. "Fine. If you want to, you can both turn back now."
Natasha and Susan exchanged looks. They both knew it would probably affect their friendship with Victoria and they definitely didn't want to be her bad side. They'd spent the better part of two weeks seeing exactly what her bad side looked like.
It wasn't pleasant at all.
They wrecked the cabin, getting into the spirit of things as they dumped honey around pillows and covered one girl in Gillette shaving cream and hid water balloons around the room. Finishing off with a bucket of chocolate fudge.
They completed the job in the wee small hours of the morning, congratulating themselves on a job well done while they settled in to see the other campers' reactions to their prank.
It was perfect, of course. They went absolutely nuts at the huge mess in their cabin, rushing around to clean it up before one of the counselors came in and discovered the disorganization.
Victoria was almost in hysterics when Lindsey Mills, one of the camp owners started up the dirt path with her business partner, Hayley Lohan at her heels.
"Surprise inspection!" Hayley sang, glancing at Susan, Victoria and Natasha. "Oh. Good morning ladies. What are you doing here?"
"Um. . ." Susan trailed off.
"You don't want to go in there!" Victoria interjected, stepping in front of the screen door to block them from getting inside. "One of the girls has food poisoning and there's a huge mess. Yuck."
"If one of the girls is sick it's our responsibility to make sure she's okay and gets the best care possible," Lindsey told them. "Please move, Miss Friar."
"I'm serious!" Victoria said. "It's highly contagious!"
"Victoria!" Hayley said her tone warning. "If you don't let us go in there right now, I'm afraid you're going to be on KP for the rest of your stay with us."
Victoria shook her head, she couldn't risk either of the counselors getting covered in fudge sauce or her punishment was going to be a lot worse than dirty pots and pans.
"We're all fine in here!" Amelia said, poking her head out the window, her dark hair was sticking to her head from getting doused with a water balloon. She smiled sweetly. "Unless there's something Vic knows that we don't."
"Victoria, please let us go inside!" Lindsey said, giving her a little push.
"NO!" Victoria cried as Hayley opened the door, causing the string they had rigged to trigger as it opened.
The chocolate sauce came pouring down, like a brown waterfall, covering Lindsey, Hayley, Victoria and Amelia to be spattered in sticky liquid.
Hayley and Lindsey shrieked at the same time, wiping it away from their eyes and mouth and fixing Victoria with a glare.
"That's it!" Lindsey said. "I've had about enough of you two! I want you both to clean this mess up and meet us in our office as soon as you're done. You both are in for it, big time!"
"Yes ma'am," Amelia murmured, having enough sense to duck her head in shame.
Victoria pressed her lips into a thin line and crossed her arms utterly defiant. "Fine. But I won't like it."
"I don't care!" Lindsey retorted. "The rest of you, get cleaned up and go have breakfast. That includes you two, Susan and Natasha. I can't imagine what your part to play in this mess was but trust me when I say, you will be punished accordingly!"
Natasha and Susan nodded, scrambling to their cabin to get changed out of their clothes from the day before. Maureen and Chessy both grabbed their toiletries and changes of wardrobe before leaving to go to the bathrooms to shower.
Victoria stomped into the cabin and Amelia followed her, pretending to be the picture of meekness as she did.
Both of them wondered if they'd be sent home after they were finished but neither of them said it aloud.
They would never give the other the satisfaction of knowing they'd given any cause for concern.
TBC. . .
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Author's Note:
This chapter took me to write. I have had so much trouble getting into two teenagers heads. It's been awhile since I've been one and even when I was a teenager, I was busy concocting theories about Ginny giving Harry a love potion on a Harry & Hermione website and writing Jack Sparrow and AnaMarie fan fiction to actually think about actual teenager things. I was kind of a geek. I still am but it was ten times worse 10-12 years ago.
Anyways. I hope my efforts in writing this turned out okay and I actually wrote a passable chapter. I would hate it if it didn't hold up to my normal standards of writing or even my own personal standards for myself. The next chapter will have Vic & Amelia actually becoming friends and discovering they're sisters. And the explanation to their middle names.
I hope you'll stick around for it.
Until Next Time!
Lots of Love,
Holly, 9/23/2016
