2. Margo

"Ew! That's gross!" I've heard that all my life and needless to say, I'm getting pretty sick of it all.

'Pretty sick of it' is not a play on words. I have had airsickness, carsickness; you name it—as long as I can remember.

Hello, my name is Margo Elizabeth Pike. I am sixteen years old and am so close to the legal driving age, it's scary. I have two sisters. Claire Mariah Pike is the youngest sister and my only younger sister. Mallory Sarah: I don't know her middle name: Pike is my oldest sisters. My sisters are fourteen and twenty years old.

We are on the road to Shadow Lake in Massachusetts. I am in Karen's step mom, Elizabeth's car. Elizabeth's car was the one in the front, so when she pulled over in front of the Rosebud Café, they all pulled over. And the word spread----it was because of me Margo Pike, the Barf Bag.

It sucks having a bad or just gross reputation.

Anyway, my seating arrangement sucked really badly, too. There was Elizabeth, Melody, me, Mal, Jessi, David Michael and Buddy.

Of course, Mal and Jessi had to "catch up on things." The whole BSC came to our house for Thanksgiving, but that was the first time they had seen each other in a long while.

"For my 20th birthday, I got an SUV! Aren't my parents the greatest?" Jessi was saying.

Mal frowned She frowned a lot these days. "Comparing my parents to yours is unfair," she declared. "My parents are already dealing with Adam, Byron and Jordan's and my tuition. And this year she has to come up with Vanessa's…."

"I get it," Jessi was trying not to raise her voice. "I mean, Squirt is only eight, and Becca's seventeen……."

"Well, good," Mal said. "I'm glad you finally see my point of view in this situation." Jessi rolled her eyes. Mal has been wicked moody ever since her first book was rejected.

David Michael and Buddy are another story. I thought girls talked way more than boys….but I was wrong! "Did you get a new paint gun?"

"NO, did you?"

"Uh-uh, mom gave me a skateboard."

"An Element skateboard, right?"

"Ya, very high speed….."

I leaned forward. "Psst….Melody….who made this fricken' seating plan anyway?"

"Melody shrugged. "I don't know some loser……"

"Probably Karen!" I exclaimed.

Melody rolled her eyes. "Yeah, Karen always wants to do everything with this club!"

"Sounds like Kristy," Mallory added her input, nodding knowingly.

"Mmm-hmm, she'd get sooo mad if we were late by only a minute for a meeting," Jessi said.

"I'm sure Kristy doesn't say anything like that to Karen. Old memories----"I hinted.

"Right, like, 'Hey Karen, I was really bossy when I first started the BSC. Are you like that?' " Melody remarked.

Then we just went our separate ways. Moldy put on her headphones, which are actually a plain and simple piece of crap. The volume button was messed up. I could hear "1, 2 Step" blasting the whole ride, all fuzzy.

Dear Mom,

I'm in the car, on the way to Shadow Lake. I hear the cabin is huge.

XOXOXOX0,

Margo

"This is it!" it seemed like forever before Elizabeth said those fantastic words.

I looked out at the huge cabin right by the lake. "So, really? This is it, Mrs. Brewer?"

Elizabeth threw her hands in the air, as soon as she parked the car right next to her hubby. But she was smiling. "Yes. Now, call me Elizabeth."

I sighed and opened the car's sliding door. It took awhile but eventually everyone was dragging their belongings up to the cabin.

"Last year we built onto this place," Watson was explaining, "Two other large rooms were built, with four pairs of bunk beds in each" If the Brewers didn't have millions they wouldn't be able to do any of this.

Karen went and opened the screen door. "This is what Dad and I thought," she announced. "Only one room belongs to the guys in order for the girls to actually fit. So, boys, just stake out the room for yourselves."

I chose the room next to the boys. My roommates were Lucy, Claudia, Dawn Stacey and Maria. Maria and I were the only two that got a bunk to ourselves (I mean, out of the whole place.)

Lucy was whining and just in general blabbing. Claudia, Dawn and Stacey talked all night. Maria acted like the queen of the world. Some vacation……….