Chapter 2

"Here we are, Cabin Four." Spinner announced, kicking in the door.

"Spin, there's a handle!" Marco sighed.

The four boys moved into the small cabin. There were two bunk beds and two dressers.

"I call top bunk!" Jimmy called, easily lifting himself onto one of the bunks.

"Craig laughed, and took the bunk below Jimmy. He leaned back on his pillow and sighed.

"Do you want the top?" Marco asked Spinner.

"No way, dude! The last time I was on one of those, I fell off!" Spinner cried, diving onto the lower bunk.

Marco looked over and Jimmy and Craig. The three looked back over at Spinner and then burst out laughing. Marco stopped first and began to unpack. Jimmy leaned over the railing to face Craig.

"Her name is Kira." he told him.

"Who?" Craig asked.

"That girl that helped you up." Jimmy laughed.

"What about her?"

"Well, like I said, her name is Kira. She's our age, but she lives in North Dakota. She's an amazing singer. She's even made a demo cd!" Jimmy grinned, "She's rooming with Paige and Hazel. So if Spinner drags any of us over there, we'll have someone to talk to."

'So her name is Kira?' Craig thought, rolling onto his stomach, 'God! I must have looked like an idiot to her!'

Paige slowly opened the door to the small cabin.

"Hello? Is anyone in here?" she asked, walking into the small cabin.

She looked at the bunk beds to find the two other roommates. One was the blond haired girl that helped Craig up after his incident on the bus. The other was a darker hair blond with green streaks in her hair and a pierced nose.

"You must be Paige." The blond hair girl smiled.

"Yeah, and this is Hazel. And you are?" Paige asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I'm Kira." the girl smiled, "And that over there is Roxxy."

Paige noticed that Roxxy made no effort to say hello to them.

"Um, can I have the top bunk?" Paige asked Kira.

"Well... I was gonna claim it, but since you asked so nicely..." Kira grinned.

Paige smiled and climbed up onto the bunk. She noticed some of Kira's stuff all ready lying on the bunk. She leaned down and handed it to Kira.

"Oops! Sorry!" Kira laughed, blushing slightly.

"What's this book?" Paige asked, flipping through it.

"It's called Ceres. It's really good."

"I've never heard of it." Paige told her.

"Funny, never figured you for a reader." Roxxy muttered.

Paige was shocked. Her eyes narrowed. She was about to make a comeback, but then Kira laughed.

"Don't mind her. She's always like that. But I'm not surprised that you haven't heard of Ceres. It's a Japanese novel. It's about a girl, who is a descendant of a heavenly maiden, and her family is trying to kill her." Kira explained.

"And you like reading it!" Paige gasped.

"Read it, you might like it." she told Paige.

Paige stared down at Kira for a moment, before giving her a cute little smiled. Kira leaned back against the wall.

"So, who'd you come here with?" Hazel asked, finally saying something.

"No one," Kira replied, "But I know almost everyone here."

"So you come here alone?"

Kira said nothing for a moment. She just stared at the bunk.

"So?" Paige asked.

"Hey genius, can't ya tell that she doesn't want to talk bout it?" growled Roxxy.

Paige lifted her head to look at the pierced nose girl across the room from her. Roxxy's emerald green eyes flashed in anger.

"It's all right, Roxxy. She didn't mean any harm." Kira said, softly.

Kira flashed them a fake smile, and then headed for the door.

"Paige!" Spinner exclaimed, kicking the door in.

The door struck Kira in the chest and she fell to the ground.

"Oh my god!" Paige cried, jumping down from the bunk, "You killed her!"

"I'm... not ... dead!" wheezed Kira, sitting up.

"Don't you ever knock!" Hazel demanded.

"Sorry Kira. Spin's an idiot." Jimmy apologized, helping Kira up.

"I guessed that." she laughed.

Jimmy helped Kira move over to her bunk to sit down. She rubbed her chest, where the door had struck her.

"Sorry, nobody's usually behind the door when I kick it." explained Spinner.

" Guess there's a first time for everything." Craig laughed, walking into the cabin.

Kira looked up at Craig, and their eyes met. Within that instant, he forgot what he was going to say.

"I'm... um..." he studdered.

"Oh... um, Kira, this is Spinner, Marco, and Craig. Guys, this is Devyn, and um..." Jimmy introduced, looking over at Roxxy.

"The name's Roxxy." Roxxy smiled, sitting up.

"Right... Roxxy." Jimmy smiled back.

"Well, since we're all such good pals now, and today is just a day to get used to the place. Let's go swimming!" Paige suggested.

"Yeah!" exclaimed the boys.

Roxxy flashed a look of concern over at Kira. Kira sat tense for a moment, and then forced herself to say...

"All right, ladies first." she said, referring to the boys.

"Well, if you insist." Marco grinned, his dark eyes flashing playfully.