Riot Girl
I seriously could not sleep.
It was way after lights out, and I was just like, an insomniac.
It had to be at least midnight and I was gonna go insane if I didn't talk to somebody very, very soon.
"Peyton," I hissed.
"Peyton," I repeated, "You awake?"
Peyton mumbled something inaudible. In fact, I swear she said something about swimming with dolphins…
Anways, looks like Id have to find somebody else to satisfy my midnight gossip craving.
Craving, Hmm, that made me kind of hungry. I wonder if anybody has a stash….
"B?" Came a voice from below me.
"Hales…your awake?" I asked, rolling onto my stomach and swinging over the side of the bed to see her.
"Yeah, I cant sleep."
"Same."
"Yeah so…"
"Hey, you got any candy or anything? I am in desperate need of some sugar." I asked.
"No sorry. Oh! But I know somebody that does." She smiled, getting up.
"Who?" I asked following her and getting up.
She pointed to the bed, occupied by only a single person.
"Big-red?" I asked, surprised.
That bitch really didn't look like the kind of person who….well, ate.
"Yup, I found it when I was looking for her Strawberry Lip-gloss." Haley replied.
"Oh that is so good right!"
"I know!" She giggled.
"Shh!" I hushed her.
"Sorry, sorry. Look here," She grabbed a plastic lunchbox from under Rachel's bottom bunk.
"Yummy!" I smiled licking my lips.
She opened it up to reveal and array of chocolates and candies.
I laughed out-loud, but quietly, "Looks like she still really is the 'old' Rachel on the inside," I commented, collecting various items from the lunch box.
Haley nodded in agreement, also collecting her own little stash of food.
"All set?" She asked me, I nodded, and she closed the box, quietly sliding it back under the bed.
Okay, so maybe inducing our selves in a sugar coma at one in the morning was not the best idea we've ever had.
Because now, we were even more awake then ever.
And more hypo than ever.
Haley and I were sitting on my bunk, and assortment of empty food wrappers around us.
We were completely hyped up like a couple of five year olds on red-cordial.
We were both face down in our pillows, trying to stop the uncontrollable giggling, caused by Haley's ingenious idea, to have a screaming contest into our pillows.
I drew in a huge breathe and blew out, trying to calm my self down, but looking at a red-faced, hysterical Haley, just made me lose it again.
"Okay, okay shh!" She laughed, trying to calm herself down.
"Okay, Im trying" I said, breathing in and out, several times.
"Ok, God, we need to go like, work off our energy or something," Haley suggested.
"I have the best idea! Lets go see the guys!"
"You're a whore!" Haley exclaimed, causing us to both crack up laughing.
God she was thick sometimes.
"No, idiot, I don't mean that, I meant that running over there would burn some energy." I explained.
"Oh."
"And plus. Its so much fun waking people up," I smirked evilly.
We decided to take a torch with us, so there would be no repeat of the 'Bevin falling out the window incident.'
After helping a hyped, one-another out of the old window, we raced towards the boys dorms across the grass. Because according to Haley, last one there was a rotten egg.
I couldn't tell if she was being serious or not.
I hadn't heard that saying since fourth grade.
Maybe it was just the sugar. I bet it had her feeling all youthful and stuff.
I laughed to myself as I made a last mad dash towards the dorms, shooting past Haley in the process.
"Bitch!" She panted, as we both crouched by the boys porch, catching our breath.
"So, do you know which window is theirs?" She asked me.
"No, Ive never been in their dorm."
Haley looked at me surprised, "Really?"
"Why does that surprise you?" I defended.
"No, I just….thought you had is all."
"Right." I said, whilst mock death-glaring at her.
"Okay, well, we'll just have to find them right?"
"Sure, lets go," I whispered back, creeping onto the porch, trying to avoid any potentially squeaky floor boards.
There were only four windows, so it wouldn't take that long.
I pressed my face against the first window, looking for any sign of our boys.
"Nope, no blondes," I whispered to Haley, moving onto the next window.
We knew for a fact that Nathan and Lucas shared a bunk, so there had to be my blondie in there somewhere.
"Bingo!" Haley whispered, high-fiving me.
The window was open a tiny little bit, so we quietly lifted it up slowly, opening the whole way.
"Now for the fun part!" I said in delight.
"But we have to be quiet!" Haley insisted, "If anybody else wakes up, were screwed, these guys are all jack asses."
"I know right?" They seriously were, Luke and Nate were the only decent guys at this camp.
And even they had soon learned the 'cool' guys, were jerks.
I looked around, not really sure what I was looking for. Just anything were could throw at the boys to wake them up, without annoying the other losers.
"Here!" Haley said, picking up a feather.
"You cant throw a feather loser." I dead-panned.
"Aw, thanks Sherlock. Its to tickle them, idiot." She quipped.
"That won't…reach," I said, eyeing a over hanging tree. I reach up, grabbing a tiny branch, before quietly snapping it off.
"Give me the feather," I instructed.
I held the feather to the end of the stick, while instructing Haley tie my hair tie around the two, binding them together.
Damn, I should be an inventor or something.
"Your good," Haley praised.
"I know," I joked, "So, Ill wake up Lucas, coz he's on the bottom bunk, and then he can wake, your man?" I teased.
"He's not 'my man,'" Haley retorted.
"Whatever you say,"
I stuck my arm in the window as far as I could, before reaching over, and tickling Lucas right on the nose. He reacted by scratching it. I tickled his nose again, but he just did the same thing.
We should have put toothpaste on his hand.
This was taking too long. I decided it would be easier to just stab him in the eye.
Softly, of course.
I jammed the feather into his eye lid, making him jump awake immediately.
"What the….Brooke?" He squinted at me, before a smile came across his face.
"Hi," I smiled sheepishly at him.
"You scared the crap outta me. What are you doing?"
"We couldn't sleep," I explained.
"We?" He raised an eyebrow.
"Hey Luke," Haley popped her head in the window, and waved.
"Here to see your man?" He asked.
"My God, what is with you people?" She exclaimed.
Lucas and I both laughed, before Lucas preceded to wake Nathan.
Just as he successfully woke his brother, the dorm door slammed open.
"Shit!" Haley and I both cursed, we didn't even have a chance to duck.
"Well, well, what do we have here? I knew I heard giggling." Said Jonno, walking over the window, eyeing Lucas in the process.
Haley froze on the spot.
Man she was lucky I did spontaneous improvisation in drama last year.
"Toothpaste." I stated.
"Excuse me?" Jonno raised an eyebrow.
"We ran out of toothpaste in the girls room."
"At one in the morning?" He still had his stupid eyebrow raised.
Why didn't he just super glue it in the spot already?
"Random right? Well see I went to brush my teeth before bed, and realized we had none left, so I was like, whatever, I'll just brush them in the morning. But then, I couldn't get to sleep, coz my teeth were like, all plaquey. So I came to borrow toothpaste."
I knew it was a pretty lame excuse, but it sounded a little feasible….didn't it?
"I heard laughter." He stated, like he was against all forms of happiness or something.
I laughed, "Haley kinda stacked it," I told him.
"Don't tease me," She pouted, playing along.
"Why is she here anyway?"
"As if I'd come all this way alone, I've heard the ghost stories about this camp, Jonno," I lied.
"Get your toothpaste, and Ill escort you both back to your room." He said, walking out the front door, and waiting for us.
"Im so sorry Luke!" I said, sincerely.
"Its fine, here." He said, shoving toothpaste into my hand.
"Are you pissed?" I asked, pouting.
"No," He replied.
"Promise?"
"Promise. Why would I be?" He asked.
I shrugged.
"Exactly, now go. Before he gets suss," He instructed me, before sticking his head out the window, and kissing me.
That kiss made this whole night worth it.
"Go!" He instructed.
"Ok!"
"Bye Hales,"
"Where's my kiss?" Haley asked, smirking.
Lucas stuck his lips in a big smooch, before leaning over towards her.
"Ew! You wish!" She said, smacking him on the mouth.
"Come on!" I mock-sighed, before grabbing her hand and heading to meet Jonno.
Thank hell the next day was activity free, or else I would have been screwed.
I was quiet a big sleeper in general.
Out in the real world, I would seriously sleep until three in the after noon, when possible.
Haley and I finally came down from our sugar high around 2.30am and fell asleep.
I woke up around lunch time, to an empty dorm. Well that's what I thought.
I sat up and stretched, and that's when I noticed Peyton sitting on her bunk below Bevin's.
With a bottle of Vodka in her hand.
"Peyton?" I asked croakily. She looked up at me, "Are you drinking?"
"Thinking about it."
"Is everything okay?" I moved to sit next to her.
"Yeah everything's great, I just, felt like one," She shrugged.
"Well break it out girl!" I exclaimed, "I could use a drink too."
I know what your thinking, I just woke up. But so what? It was after mid-day. And besides, Ive done worse.
Forty-five minutes later, we had been joined by Bevin and Haley, who turned out to be an amusing combination when they were drunk.
We'd all done a couple of shots. Well more than a couple. The bottle was basically empty.
And we were all pretty much….wasted.
Okay, well Haley and Bevin were wasted.
We were also pretty much screwed if somebody came in our room right now.
It stunk of alcohol, and all that could be seen was hazy eyed teenager girls, laughing uncontrollably, and stumbling around.
"You know who's cute?" Haley hiccupped.
"Who?" I asked, clearly aware of the answer.
"Kermit the Frog." She said, smiling.
"What the hell. Random much? I thought you were gonna say…."
"Nathan!" She screamed, cutting me off, " I was, but then I tricked you," She smiled goofily.
"Oh, good one Hales," I gave her the thumbs up.
Bevin and Haley were considerably drunker than Peyton and myself. I was guessing we were like, more immune to the stuff.
Or something.
"I…one time, I stoled a lip-gloss!" Bevin announced.
Her eyes went wide, "Oh Haley, we can be twins!"
The two high-fived. "Yeahhh!" Yelled Haley.
"Lets play a game!" Instructed Bevin.
"Truth or Dare!" Suggested Haley
"That's only fun with boys," I said.
"True," nodded Haley.
I don't think she even knew what she was agreeing to.
"I know! Lets play, what are you scared of!"
"Clowns," Haley admitted instantly. Everyone laughed. "What, you cant tell me none of you are scared of clowns!"
"Sorry Hales, on ya own with that one," I told her.
"Oh yeah, well what are you scared of then, Miss…Un-Clown-Scarer…."
I shook my head at her, "Honestly?"
"Duh!"
"Of getting caught and getting kicked out." I said sheepishly.
"Your not gonna get caught B!" Peyton told me.
"Yeah, how are they gonna know its you?" Asked Bevin.
"My names, like, on the sign!"
"Yeah, spelled completely wrong. Seriously who is dumb enough to steal a street sign with their name spelled wrong on it?" Peyton said. "I tell ya who, you, and Bevin."
"Hey!" Bevin defended, before going back to chewing her hair.
"Seriously Brooke, nobody knows you stole that sign, except us. And we'd never dob you in."
"Promise?" I asked.
"Hell yeah, Hoes over Bros, right?" Haley said.
"That has nothing to do with anything," I told her, shaking my head, but punching her fist anyways.
Just then we were interrupted by a loud bang.
"What the hell?" I got up, and walked quickly to the direction of the sound, followed by Peyton.
We rounded the corner, to see the balcony door rebound of the wall, and click shut, as if it had been slammed.
"What the hell?" We both wondered aloud.
"What was that?" Asked Haley, as we came back into the bedroom.
"The balcony door, but nobody was there," Peyton explained, her brow furrowed.
"Probably just the wind," Said Bevin.
"Probably," I distractedly agreed.
But Peyton and I both knew it wasn't.
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