Hey I know it's been forever, I wrote the beginning of this story like a
year ago, and forgot, but I thought I'd try to work on it, I happened to be
looking back, and everyone had given me such nice reviews, I felt bad I
didn't continue. I dunno if you still care, but if so here ya go. Muchos
thanx to anyone who reviews!!
Catia awoke the next morning painfully aware of how early it was. All this early morning outdoorsy stuff was not her. What had her parents been thinking sending her here? That she'd become a whole new person? Fat chance. She finally opened her eyes. Juliette was fully dressed and fiddling with something on her desk, Shelby was standing in the bathroom doorway doing and redoing her hair, and Daisy was sitting on her bed reading a book, still clad in pajamas.
Cat sleepily pulled on her favorite jeans, and a hooded sweater, it looked chilly out. A couple minutes later, she had gotten herself together. She looked around nervously. The other girls had seemed busy and uninterested in what she was doing earlier, but they were going to have to talk to her so she could figure out what was going on. She turned to Juliette, the girl seemed incapable of being mean.
"Hey um, where's breakfast?"
"Huh? Oh right, you haven't been to the cafeteria yet, well, I'm already to go, we can walk together." Juliette pulled on her shoes, excited at the prospect of a new friend.
A cold wind blew across the lawn as the two girls crossed it. Nearing the lodge, Catia looked up, to see who she thought possibly might be the most gorgeous guy alive. Her eyes trailed the tall blonde up the stairs.
"Who's that?" Cat asked trying to play it cool.
"Ugh, don't mess with that." A dark look crossed Juliette's face.
"You all have a bad history?" Catia was hoping she hadn't opened up a can of worms, especially not so early in the morning.
"Oh, it's nothing,…he's with Shelby. Oh hey here's Peter, he can be really strict, but he's such a sweet guy." Juliette introduced the two. He seemed like an ok guy, definitely overstressed though. Catia thought she'd probably be stressed running a place like this too.
"So what do you think of the place so far? How are things going?" Peter genuinely seemed to care.
"Well, so far it kinda feels like summer camp." Cat replied with a shrug. She hadn't met anyone who seemed deranged or psychotic as she had worried about. Actually everyone seemed very normal. Maybe fitting in wouldn't end up being quite so hard.
After getting food, Catia followed Juliette over to a table with four guys sitting at it, one of them being Mr. Gorgeous. She gave one a quick kiss on the cheek, then introduced him as Auggie. Then going down the table she pointed to David, Scott, and Ezra, before introducing Catia as the new cabin-mate.
"Where's Shel?" Scott asked hopefully
"Attempting to do her hair." Juliette offered no other information, and concentrated on poking her food, leaving an awkward silence around the table. Ezra and Auggie spoke at the same time.
A: Where…
E: When… Go ahead…
A: Where are you from?
C: just outside D.C., I flew here yesterday
A: Damn! That's far!
Dv: You must have been really bad
E: you are such an ass!
D: Up yours!
S: will you two knock it off? Jesus! That gets old!
Catia wondered what the big feud between David and Ezra was. Daisy and Shelby arrived as breakfast was wrapping up and grabbed food to eat during group. Peter was leading group today.
P: I trust you've all met Catia, maybe if you all go around and share a little about yourselves, she'll want to do the same. What is some reason for your being here, or what is something you are currently working on?
Dv: my anger
J: I had a problem with hurting myself
Sh: my life was headed the wrong way
A: I was in gang trouble when I came here
Sc: I had some trouble with my family, and I had started using
E: drugs
Ds: I almost killed my father, then I got sent here to work on that
Catia looked nervously at Daisy, was she for real? "Well I guess…I…my parents just sent me here cause they found out about some stuff I was doing."
"Oh come on!" Shelby exclaimed. "That's all you're going to tell us?" Peter reprimanded her, and Scott shushed her slightly, but it was clear that everyone was curious for more information.
"Well, I mean, I dunno, I'm just embarrassed, I guess, I don't really know anything about you either.
"I say it's fair, she told us same amount we told her." Auggie defended her. She silently thanked him
Sophie was beckoning Peter from the door. "Um Auggie, you show Catia around, we'll end early today I know you all have those art projects to work on anyway"
~A while later~
"OK so now you know where all the buildings are, so you probably won't get lost." Auggie smiled, "I gotta go work on my art project, wanna come with?"
"Sure." Did he think she would have something better to do? She followed him to the shed, where he stopped. "What exactly is your project?"
"I'm painting a mural on the other side of the shed, didn't you see it earlier?" He looked a little hurt as he carried his paints out from the shed.
"Sorry, I'm a little spacey sometimes, I just wasn't paying attention, wow! You just did this all freehand?" she exclaimed walking around to the other side of the shed. He had already drawn a nature mural on, and was painting it. The side of the shed looked like it was intended to be an ad for the cliffhangers. Their name was boldly painted down the side, and he even appeared to be drawing people to represent the group.
"So you like it?" she nodded " Wanna help?"
"Oh no, Cat is very not artistic," she said with a smile.
"It's easy I already drew the picture, think you can handle just painting in the lines?" He teased a little.
"I think I can handle that." The two worked in silence for a few minutes. "It's getting hot out!" Catia paused to pull off her sweater. "It was so cold last night and this morning, I was worried it was always that way."
"Nah, the weather's really not that bad, when it's cold, it's friggin cold, but it isn't like that all the time." Cat smiled
"Do you realize we're talking about the weather? How sad is this?" Auggie smiled and shook his head. "So you were in a gang?" she asked softly, not trying to pry.
"Yeah, man I'm glad to be through with that shit though, I was going nowhere with it." Cat nodded, listening intently.
Nearly 45 minutes later he had finished his story, he looked up at her with a shrug, "So what's your story? What did your rents find out you were doing?"
She had figured so much information about him would not be free. "Well, I had been cutting myself."
"Anyone could see that," he interrupted nodding towards her outstretched painting arm. She pulled it to her body on instinct, looking ashamed. "It's all good, don't be embarrassed,….. you know Jules had that problem too."
"Juliette?!" Cat was surprised. Juliette seemed happy, and she was so thin. "I used to not eat for a while."
"AH eating disorder, Jules again."
"I never had an eating disorder" Cat almost hissed, it had come out sounding nastier than she had planned. Auggie looked taken aback. "Look sorry, I hadn't meant to snap for no reason, I just didn't have an eating disorder, I hate when people say that."
"My bad." Auggie liked to maintain peace. He returned to his painting thinking to himself, man this girl is in denial.
Catia awoke the next morning painfully aware of how early it was. All this early morning outdoorsy stuff was not her. What had her parents been thinking sending her here? That she'd become a whole new person? Fat chance. She finally opened her eyes. Juliette was fully dressed and fiddling with something on her desk, Shelby was standing in the bathroom doorway doing and redoing her hair, and Daisy was sitting on her bed reading a book, still clad in pajamas.
Cat sleepily pulled on her favorite jeans, and a hooded sweater, it looked chilly out. A couple minutes later, she had gotten herself together. She looked around nervously. The other girls had seemed busy and uninterested in what she was doing earlier, but they were going to have to talk to her so she could figure out what was going on. She turned to Juliette, the girl seemed incapable of being mean.
"Hey um, where's breakfast?"
"Huh? Oh right, you haven't been to the cafeteria yet, well, I'm already to go, we can walk together." Juliette pulled on her shoes, excited at the prospect of a new friend.
A cold wind blew across the lawn as the two girls crossed it. Nearing the lodge, Catia looked up, to see who she thought possibly might be the most gorgeous guy alive. Her eyes trailed the tall blonde up the stairs.
"Who's that?" Cat asked trying to play it cool.
"Ugh, don't mess with that." A dark look crossed Juliette's face.
"You all have a bad history?" Catia was hoping she hadn't opened up a can of worms, especially not so early in the morning.
"Oh, it's nothing,…he's with Shelby. Oh hey here's Peter, he can be really strict, but he's such a sweet guy." Juliette introduced the two. He seemed like an ok guy, definitely overstressed though. Catia thought she'd probably be stressed running a place like this too.
"So what do you think of the place so far? How are things going?" Peter genuinely seemed to care.
"Well, so far it kinda feels like summer camp." Cat replied with a shrug. She hadn't met anyone who seemed deranged or psychotic as she had worried about. Actually everyone seemed very normal. Maybe fitting in wouldn't end up being quite so hard.
After getting food, Catia followed Juliette over to a table with four guys sitting at it, one of them being Mr. Gorgeous. She gave one a quick kiss on the cheek, then introduced him as Auggie. Then going down the table she pointed to David, Scott, and Ezra, before introducing Catia as the new cabin-mate.
"Where's Shel?" Scott asked hopefully
"Attempting to do her hair." Juliette offered no other information, and concentrated on poking her food, leaving an awkward silence around the table. Ezra and Auggie spoke at the same time.
A: Where…
E: When… Go ahead…
A: Where are you from?
C: just outside D.C., I flew here yesterday
A: Damn! That's far!
Dv: You must have been really bad
E: you are such an ass!
D: Up yours!
S: will you two knock it off? Jesus! That gets old!
Catia wondered what the big feud between David and Ezra was. Daisy and Shelby arrived as breakfast was wrapping up and grabbed food to eat during group. Peter was leading group today.
P: I trust you've all met Catia, maybe if you all go around and share a little about yourselves, she'll want to do the same. What is some reason for your being here, or what is something you are currently working on?
Dv: my anger
J: I had a problem with hurting myself
Sh: my life was headed the wrong way
A: I was in gang trouble when I came here
Sc: I had some trouble with my family, and I had started using
E: drugs
Ds: I almost killed my father, then I got sent here to work on that
Catia looked nervously at Daisy, was she for real? "Well I guess…I…my parents just sent me here cause they found out about some stuff I was doing."
"Oh come on!" Shelby exclaimed. "That's all you're going to tell us?" Peter reprimanded her, and Scott shushed her slightly, but it was clear that everyone was curious for more information.
"Well, I mean, I dunno, I'm just embarrassed, I guess, I don't really know anything about you either.
"I say it's fair, she told us same amount we told her." Auggie defended her. She silently thanked him
Sophie was beckoning Peter from the door. "Um Auggie, you show Catia around, we'll end early today I know you all have those art projects to work on anyway"
~A while later~
"OK so now you know where all the buildings are, so you probably won't get lost." Auggie smiled, "I gotta go work on my art project, wanna come with?"
"Sure." Did he think she would have something better to do? She followed him to the shed, where he stopped. "What exactly is your project?"
"I'm painting a mural on the other side of the shed, didn't you see it earlier?" He looked a little hurt as he carried his paints out from the shed.
"Sorry, I'm a little spacey sometimes, I just wasn't paying attention, wow! You just did this all freehand?" she exclaimed walking around to the other side of the shed. He had already drawn a nature mural on, and was painting it. The side of the shed looked like it was intended to be an ad for the cliffhangers. Their name was boldly painted down the side, and he even appeared to be drawing people to represent the group.
"So you like it?" she nodded " Wanna help?"
"Oh no, Cat is very not artistic," she said with a smile.
"It's easy I already drew the picture, think you can handle just painting in the lines?" He teased a little.
"I think I can handle that." The two worked in silence for a few minutes. "It's getting hot out!" Catia paused to pull off her sweater. "It was so cold last night and this morning, I was worried it was always that way."
"Nah, the weather's really not that bad, when it's cold, it's friggin cold, but it isn't like that all the time." Cat smiled
"Do you realize we're talking about the weather? How sad is this?" Auggie smiled and shook his head. "So you were in a gang?" she asked softly, not trying to pry.
"Yeah, man I'm glad to be through with that shit though, I was going nowhere with it." Cat nodded, listening intently.
Nearly 45 minutes later he had finished his story, he looked up at her with a shrug, "So what's your story? What did your rents find out you were doing?"
She had figured so much information about him would not be free. "Well, I had been cutting myself."
"Anyone could see that," he interrupted nodding towards her outstretched painting arm. She pulled it to her body on instinct, looking ashamed. "It's all good, don't be embarrassed,….. you know Jules had that problem too."
"Juliette?!" Cat was surprised. Juliette seemed happy, and she was so thin. "I used to not eat for a while."
"AH eating disorder, Jules again."
"I never had an eating disorder" Cat almost hissed, it had come out sounding nastier than she had planned. Auggie looked taken aback. "Look sorry, I hadn't meant to snap for no reason, I just didn't have an eating disorder, I hate when people say that."
"My bad." Auggie liked to maintain peace. He returned to his painting thinking to himself, man this girl is in denial.