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Chapter one
Sophie Walker had lived with her auntie and uncle ever since she could remember. The reason she didn't live with her mum was because her mum was the warden of a boys juvenile delinquent centre somewhere in Texas. And her mum lived there, all year round, Sophie only saw her mum at Christmas and on her birthday. She wasn't allowed to live with her mum because 'Camp Green Lake' as her mother called it, was no place for a little girl.
But Sophie was no longer a little girl, she was approaching her fifteenth birthday, (which was lucky enough to be in the school summer holidays) and as a 'treat' her mum said Sophie could go and stay at Camp Green Lake for the three months of her summer hols. This would be the first time Sophie would of ever have gone there. She wasn't looking forward to it. She didn't really like her mum and she didn't really want to go to a place which was full of bad boys.
She wasn't really used to boys, let alone ones that had been convicted for crimes. This was because she attended a posh all girls boarding school. Her mum had insisted she would go there, she wanted Sophie to have a good education and a life that her mum never had.
Sophie had just finished packing her suitcase, she had put in a few good books, some homework she'd have to do over the holidays and her sketch book in it. She liked to draw and people often told her she was quite talented at art.
She came to the conclusion that perhaps there was one good thing of going to Camp Green Lake, there may be a lot of things to sketch. Perhaps some lizards or snakes that might be around (as long as she didn't get too close)
But as the clock on her wall ticked ever closer to the time when the bus would come and pick her up, she kept finding herself getting more and more anxious.
Her mum had described the boys as total trouble- makers and scum of the earth. Sophie found that before she had even met them, she was sort of scared of them.
She looked in the mirror and brushed her long curly auburn hair into a side pony. She didn't think she looked that much like her mother. For one thing she didn't have any freckles and her face was a heart shaped, and it didn't really look like her mums at all. Her eyes were a deep brown and she had quite long eyelashes, that made her look like she was wearing mascara even though she weren't. She guessed her face must take after her dad a little bit, although she had no idea who he was. She'd often wonder what he was like but Sophie's mum never talked about him. Sophie had never actually asked before.
She put down her brush and smoothed down her clothes. She was wearing a navy t-shirt and a knee- length black skirt, with black sandals. She had decided to dress reasonably casual.
She heard her aunt calling her from downstairs that the bus was here.
Sophie took a deep breath and took hold of her suitcase and lugged it downstairs.
She gave her aunt and uncle a hug goodbye before leaving the house.
The bus driver was waiting outside.
"Shall I take your suitcase for you Miss Walker," he asked.
"Yes, thank you," she said, handing it to him. He carried it to the bus and opened the doors for her.
"We have had air conditioning temporarily installed, just for you, Miss Walker," the bus driver said, showing Sophie to the back of the bus.
"Well…um thank you," Sophie said again.
The bus ride to Camp Green Lake was very, very long and Sophie felt really hot even though the air conditioning was on full blast. The driver had said it was temporarily installed, hadn't he? Sophie thought. It felt like Sophie was trapped in a boiler room right now, so what must it feel like NOT to have air conditioning!
Sophie occupied herself by sketching some of the scenery she could see out of the window, she noticed how the environment changed to an empty wasteland, not much to sketch about really. She noticed all the holes that were all over the dry desert ground. She remembered her mum mentioning something about digging holes being the character- building labour at this camp.
Finally, Sophie could see the Camp Compound ahead of her, she felt another nervous jolt in her stomach as loads of dull looking tents and cabins came into view. As they approached closer she could see some boys, they were wearing orange jumpsuits or something. And they looked really worn- out and dusty. Sophie guessed that, that was because they had been digging holes all day. They all did look pretty tough, Sophie felt car-sick all of a sudden. She tucked her sketch pad back into her bag and bit her nails anxiously as she waited for the bus to stop.
The bus stopped outside a fairly big cabin. She guessed it was her mum's cabin from the car parked outside. Whenever her mum came to visit on Christmas or on her birthday, she'd always be in the car.
Some boys were washing the car, Sophie hoped they wouldn't see her.
Sophie got off the bus, escorted by the bus- driver. One of the boys looked in her direction, he gave her a confused look before nudging the other guys to look. All of the boys just gawped as though Sophie was an alien from another planet. Sophie chose to ignore them altogether, she made sure she didn't look in their direction, just straight ahead, at the cabin before her. She felt truly sick in the stomach to be stuck with them for three months.
She saw her mum walking down the steps from the cabin, her curly red hair was tied up in a tight bun and Sophie thought that she may be more frecklier than the last time she saw her. Her mum was wearing a floaty, blue blouse, tight jeans with some cowboy boats with turquoise stones studded in them. Sophie felt shy all of a sudden, she decided to look at her mum's boots, rather than her face.
"Hello Sophie! Did you have a good ride here?" Sophie heard her mothers voice, she still stared at the ground.
"Yes, It was ok, thank you for asking," Sophie said quietly, she looked up slightly and noticed that her mum wasn't really paying much attention, she was looking at the boys who were sniggering and looking at Sophie.
"Beat it, you lot!" her mum, yelled at them, "Or else you'll be washing my car for the next month!" The boys were quick to get away.
Sophie breathed in a sigh of relief.
"Follow me, Sophie, I'll show you, your room," her mum said, turning her attention back to Sophie.
Sophie nodded slightly and began to follow her mum up the cabin steps.
Her mum took her into her cabin and led her to a room.
"This will be your room, I'll leave you here, I have some important things do," Her mum said.
"Ok," Sophie mumbled as she placed her stuff down on her bed.
Her mum gave her a curt nod before turning to leave.
Sophie began unpacking her stuff, she realised that she felt really thirsty so she decided to go and look for something to drink.
She went into the main room and noticed that there was a TV, running machine, loads of make up and stuff. She saw a fridge behind a desk at one end of the room. Opening she noticed some bottles of Diet Cola, she hoped her mum wouldn't notice if she took one. She opened it and thirstily gulped half of it down.
She peaked through the net curtains outside. She could only make out some orange blurs in the distance.
She flopped down on the sofa, bored, absentmindedly twiddiling a long strand of auburn hair around her finger.
She was rudely awakened out of her day dream when the door of the cabin swung open, she jumped up startled, worried in case one of the boys had broken into the cabin or something to steal stuff, that's the sort of stuff juvenile delinquents do, right?
Luckily, it was just her mum and she was accompanied by a man who was wearing a cowboy hat, a tight pink shirt and he had large side burns, he was chewing on some sunflower seeds or something.
She felt sort of silly thinking it was some of the boys, besides she was sort of surprised to see how intimidated the boys washing the car were of her mum, so if they were that intimidated by her, they wouldn't break into her cabin, would they?
"Sophie," her mum said, pointing towards the strange looking guy, "This is Mr Sir,"
"Um… hello Mr Sir," Sophie said uncertainly, she didn't like the look of this guy, plus anyone with the name like Mr Sir is bound to be a bit weird.
Mr Sir just nodded towards her in reply.
Sophie's mum gave him a sharp look, "I figured you'd be bored stuck in this cabin so I thought you could go out and help Mr Sir with some errands that are needed around the camp, he is to look after you and to treat you the way he treats me," She gave Mr Sir another stern look at this.
"Um...it's ok, I don't want to leave the cabin anyway, I'll be alright in here," Sophie pleaded, she didn't feel ready to go outside yet, she thought that perhaps she could go outside tomorrow or something and begin some new sketches.
"Excuse me?" he mum said.
"Well…ok then, I'll go outside," Sophie was quick to give in, she didn't like it when her mum took that tone.
"If I hear that Mr Sir hasn't been doing his job of looking after you properly I will have to take some serious action," her mother continued.
Mr Sir grumbled something at this, he had an annoyed look on his face.
"Mr Sir, show Sophie all she needs to know about Camp Green Lake, after all, she will inherit this place after I pass away," Her mum said.
Sophie mouth dropped open. Inherit this place? I don't want to inherit this place! It's hot and stuffy here. I don't want to have to spend my future looking after troubled youths.
So tell me what you think. Be honest now. I want to know if it's complete rubbish or if it's alright.