Chapter 2

The Walk

The walk was worse than any of the girls could have imagined. The sun beat down on them without any mercy, and Mr. rotten-smelly-redneck-too-fat-for-his-own-good-not-that-anyone-really-cared walked in front of them so they had to eat his dirt. Literally. He kicked up so much dirt you would of thought there was a stampede of wild horses. Finally, the girls caught sight of something looming in the distance. At first, they couldn't decide if it was a mirage or if it was real. At least, until they saw some people start crowding around each other and start yelling at them.

The boys' perspective

One boiling hot day someone from C tent starts yelling that there were four people coming towards us. Mr. Man came out from his "house" to look at what had caused all the commotion. As the little procession came closer would could tell that it was three girls and a guy who must have been the bus driver. The first girl was about 5' 9" and had brown-blonde hair. She also looked mad. Or at least annoyed. She was wearing short kaki shorts and a navy and purple shirt that said "Ya Think?" (I've always wanted one! ) The next girl was only about 5' 5" with thick, short, and dark, hair. She was wearing kaki Capri's and a weird gray shirt with a sort-of gang symbol on it. She too looked annoyed, but she didn't look like she was ready to throw something like the first girl. The last girl was 5' 7" and she had short brown hair that came down to about her chin. The thing that caught most of our attention about her were her eyes. She had gray-blue eyes that seemed like they could see right thought you. But at the same time make you want to look back. I'm not even going the describe the bus driver.

Back to the Girls

There had to be about 30 guys just staring. At them. To Katie it was exceedingly annoying and made her just want to go up to one of the guys and say "WHAT? Can't you look at something ELSE?" Then all the heads turned and looked at an incredibly skinny and tall man who was standing up on a deck like thing. He started walking down the steps toward them with his eyes glued on the bus driver.

"Is this some kind-of mix up? I was suppose to be getting three new BOYS to this camp today. NOT girls! Take them back with you. They can't stay here."

Mr. rotten-smelly-too-fat-for-his-own-good-not-that-anyone-really-cared just returned his glare and then turned and ran as fast as someone who weights over 200 lbs can.

"COME BACK HERE. YOU...you..." He looked at the girls. "Well, I guess you're stuck here until the next bus come then." He stomped up the wooden steps to his old wooden shack, and then reappeared with three bright orange jump-suits, which he threw to the girls.

"Mr. Pendanski, will you please take these girls to the empty tent...ummm...tent E, I believe. It's to be where they will stay until a bus comes."

The girls turned and for the first time noticed another man who was equally skinny, but much shorter. The top of his head was shaved so close it was almost bald, and his nose was badly sunburned.

"Sure thing Mr. Man."

The girls started snickering until Pendanski turned around and glared at them.

"I'm Mr. Pendanski, but you can call me Mom if you want. If it helps you feel better. I just want you girls to know, you might have done some bad things, otherwise, you wouldn't be here, but everyone makes mistakes."

Katie caught Mandy's eyes and both had to cover their mouths to keep from laughing out loud. Hannah just rolled her eyes.

Soon they came to a gray-green army looking tent that had a giant sewed on letter "e".

"Well, girls, this is where you'll be staying, at least for a while." He pulled the tent flap open for them. "Make yourselves at home." With these final words he left the girls standing outside the sad excuse for an army tent completely speechless.