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The Maxwell Trap

by Dorothy Winner

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A few days after the skunk disaster, Heidi, Megan, Liane, and Julia were helping put canoes away, having just finished their canoeing activity, and not in any particular hurry to return to their cabin, which still had a slight skunk odor.

"They should kick those girls out of their cabin, make them go in ours," said Heidi. "They were the ones who put the skunk in our cabins; they practically admitted it. We should get their cabin; we were the victims."

"It is an injustice that they have escaped without punishment for doing such a thing," said Liane. "Those girls have no honor."

"I say, why get mad when you can get even?" said Julia.

"Oh, I definitely will be," said Heidi. "I'm just trying to figure out the best way how…"

"Girls, could you put that last canoe away for me, please?" their canoeing instructor, a counselor named Holly, asked them.

"Sure, no problem," said Heidi.

"Thanks. Just be sure to lock the shed, okay? Here's the lock… I've gotta run, I'm late for my next activity," said Holly, leaving the canoe docks.

Heidi looked at the canoe and suddenly had an idea. "You guys want to get back at Sydney and her friends, right?"

"Yeah," the other girls chorused.

"Well then, here's what we do…"

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"Man, that was boring," said Sydney as she, Gabrielle, and Alexandra were returning to their cabin after spending an hour identifying trees by their leaves.

"Why would I care about the different shapes of leaves, anyway?" said Alexandra. "What a huge waste of my time."

"Let's all get changed and then go down for lunch, okay?" said Sydney.

"Agreed." Sydney nearly tripped over a pair of canoe paddles as the three girls went up the steps to their cabin. "What are these doing here?" she asked irritably, kicking them out of the way.

"Hold on, there's a note," said Gabrielle, picking up a piece of paper and unfolding it. "The Great Outdoors… Indoors. Enjoy your stay."

"What kind of a stupid note is that?" asked Alexandra.

"Who cares?" Sydney opened the door. "Oh my god, there's a canoe in here!"

A full-size canoe went from one end of the cabin to the other, adrift in a floor completely covered with leaves. Gabrielle went over to her bed. "There are pine branches in my bed!" she exclaimed.

Alexandra found the contents of her duffel bag dumped all over her bed. "All my stuff is completely soaked!" she cried. "Aaaugh, it smells like egg water!"

"There's dirt in my shoes!" shouted Gabrielle. "All of them!"

Alexandra approached Sydney's bed with some trepidation, almost afraid of what might have been done to it. What she found was not a pretty sight. "Oh my god. Sydney, you'd better take a look at this."

"What?" Sydney went over to where Alexandra was standing and immediately saw, 'what.'

About thirty large, fat earthworms were crawling around on Sydney's bedsheets.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Sydney screamed at the top of her lungs. She leapt over the canoe and scrambled up onto the nearest chair, standing upon it. "Get them away from me! Get them away from me!!!" she screamed, high and panicky. "What the hell are they?! Don't let them touch me!"

Gabrielle peered at the writhing mass of worms. "Haven't you seen an earthworm before?"

"I'm from the colonies! Of course I haven't!"

"It's okay, they're extremely gross, but totally harmless," said Gabrielle. "Calm down, Sydney, they won't hurt you."

"Get them away from me!"

"Just come down from the chair," Alexandra said in a slow, calm voice. "We'll go outside, you can calm down; Gabrielle will get rid of the worms."

It took some convincing, but Sydney finally agreed to come off the chair if Gabrielle got rid of the worms. So Gabrielle bundled up the worms in the sheet, and after assuring Sydney that the bundle would not come undone, Sydney got off the chair and the three of them went outside.

The moment they stepped out of their cabin, the four girls sitting on the steps of the Deathscythe cabin burst into laughter.

"Get them away from me! Get them away from me!" Heidi mocked in the exact same voice as Sydney's. The other three girls laughed harder.

Sydney stomped off angrily, not saying a word. Alexandra and Gabrielle had to run to catch up to her. Sydney didn't stop until they were nearly at the main lodge. Her eyes were nearly black with fury.

"That's it," she said in a low, deadly voice. "Time to bring out the heavy artillery."

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Later that night…

Three figures, completely dressed in black, tiptoed stealthily up the steps to the Deathscythe cabin. One was carrying a large duffle bag, and another laden with two large buckets. The third crept up to the door and picked the lock open with a bobby pin. The lock clicked and the door opened, the three of them freezing momentarily when the door creaked.

When nobody seemed to stir, the three girls crept inside. The one with the duffel bag set it down without a sound and slowly unzipped it. She pulled out a can of shaving cream. "Which one?" Alexandra whispered.

"The blond," said Sydney, going over to the bag and pulling out a container of engine grease and several bottles of tempera paint. "Remember, just the four girls. We don't really have anything against the others. They shouldn't get hurt too much, provided they don't step out of their beds tomorrow… Gabrielle, you can start on the Chinese girl. Heidi…" she said, hovering evilly over Heidi's sleeping form, "is mine."

Gabrielle nodded and pulled a bottle of honey out of the duffel bag and proceeded to squirt its contents into Liane's Chinese slippers.

Sydney began to smear war paint designs all over Heidi's face with the engine grease. Alexandra emptied the can of shaving cream on Megan and went back to the duffel bag, pulled out a bottle of chocolate syrup, and began squeezing it all over Julia. Gabrielle put the empty bottle of honey back into the duffel bag and took out the container of itching powder, and, making sure to get none on herself, sprinkled some on Liane.

Sydney took her tempera paint bottles and began to squirt stripes on Heidi's pajamas. "Okay, Gabrielle, you've got good balance, you can grab the yarn and start stringing it all over the cabin. Alexandra, take the can of silly string and spray it all over the ceiling. Just don't hit Gabrielle."

"Right." Alexandra took the can of silly string and proceeded to coat the ceiling so that chunks of silly string dangled from it. Gabrielle took the rolls of yarn and started stringing them back and forth between the beds until she had made her way up to the front of the cabin.

The cabin now looked like a giant multicolored spider web, with four victims covered in various messy substances. "Got everything?" asked Sydney.

The two other girls nodded. "Good." Sydney grabbed the first bucket. "Here we go," she said, pouring vegetable oil all over the floor of the cabin.

The three girls then went back outside, bringing the duffel bag full of now-empty bottles and the second bucket. "Okay… up," whispered Sydney. Alexandra and Gabrielle each took one of her feet and hoisted Sydney up, cheerleader-style. Sydney took the second bucket and rigged it over the door so that it would dump its contents on the unlucky person who would open it the next morning.

"Whoever first opens this door," said Sydney as Alexandra and Gabrielle brought her down, "is going to be a different color for the next few days…"

The three girls fairly skipped with glee back to their cabin, thrilled with their achievement. They changed out of their black clothes into their pajamas and clambered into their beds.

"Good job, ladies," said Sydney. "Now all we have to do is wait until morning. Remember to wake up early, girls… I wanna be there when they wake up…"

Suppressed giggles echoed within the Wing Zero cabin.

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TBC…