Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Danny Phantom. O.o
a/n: Well, back again and guess what? I got another review! That brings the grand total up to..let me think...carry the one...multiply by six...divide by three...TWO! Yay! I wanted to give a shout out toL'ange-Sans-Ailes! Yes, so make sure to check them out. By the way I noticed that I didn't mention that this is happening over spring break (there it is two weeks). And of course it was stricktly volunteer. Enjoy!
Dedication: To my little sister of course, and also to that wonderful person who got me in a good mood with their review!
Danny's POV:
Paulina and I (I am starting to like saying that) stepped off the bus and into the fresh spring air of Camp Berkensour. Just then Paulina did one of those random things that she had been doing that whole trip by grabbing my arm and yanking me to her still holding on. She stayed like that until we got to the crowd of kids that were gathering. After a few minutes of waiting and random Paulina acts Mr. Lancer stepped onto a makeshift stage in way to short shorts. I could almost feel everyone in the crowd give a collective shudder. I know I felt Paulina.
"Alright children, you will go to your assigned camp counselor according to last names. A-E will go with Ms. Pierce, F-J will go with me, K-O with..., P-T with..., and U-Z with... Alright let's have a groovy time." Mr. L called out through a microphone.
Sadly Paulina wasn't in my group, but at leased Ellie was. I made my way over to her. When I reached her Dash had already left to go and join his own group, so she was standing all alone.
"Hey. Um, do you want to sign up for some activities together?" I asked hopefully.
At first she showed no emotion, but then a smile blossomed and brightened up the day. She said, "Sure."
It was just like last week, joking around, talking, laughing. And when we reached our cabin with the rest of the group, we found out that this camp was so cheep that boys and girls had to all sleep in one cabin together. We entered set our stuff down on beds next to each other and left to go to the main cabin to sign up for activities.
Ellie's POV:
I had to forgive him. I mean, well, I was just being silly with the whole Paulina thing. When I looked back to where they were sitting I saw that he wasn't even paying the slightest bit of attention to her. She was just using him to get back at me! I am so stupid it's not even funny.
When we got into the centre cabin Danny took my hand. I blushed furiously, and we slowly manuvered our way through the crowd until we got to the activity sign up clipboards that were hanging on the wall. There was hiking, swimming, scientific exploration, and wildlife study. I told Danny to sign me up for everything, and so he signed both of our names up for them all. When we were leaving he took up my hand again, and this time I didn't blush, I just enjoyed it.
Time Jump! The next day. Danny's POV:
I woke up to the beautiful sounds of Mr. Lancer screaming into his microphone for every one to get there lazy bums out of bed, and to the grumblings of others waking up too. I groaned and opened my eyes. Ellie was still sleeping. We had chosen (since it's a co-ed cabin) beds right next to each other. I watched her breath for a few seconds before deciding that we both had to get up before we slept the day away.
"Ellie. Ellie you got to get up. Ellie!" I whispered into her ear shaking her slightly. She mumbled something that sounded pretty much like swear words, but I just kept on repeating myself until she finally opened up her eyes annoyed. But as soon as she saw that it was me her expression softened and she smiled.
"Come on let's get a head start on these guys for breakfast." I said pulling on a sweatshirt. When I was tying my tennis shoes she began attacking her hair quite rapidly with a brush. With that much hair, ammazingly it only took her about a minute to untangle it. And by the time I had fully gotten ready it looked perfect like it normally did. I waited for a few more minutes before she also had pulled on a sweatshirt and a pair of shoes, but when we were leaving the cabin I saw that everyone was still trying to wake up.
We ate breakfast and then headed back. We then found out that our activity today was swimming. It didn't occur to me that I would be watching her...in a bathing suit...right next to me. But insteadI just went down to the lake, saying that I would meet her down there. So I had been waiting for about ten minutes before I heard the tinkling of her voice.
"Hey Danny..."
I loked up and there she was in a teeny-weeny, itsy-bitsy, yellow-polka-dot-bikini. And it looked great. She looked great. I sat with the rest of the kids on the dock swiging our legs over the side, except me. I had completely been shocked into dumbfounded astonishment. She blushed, me immediatly following after. She then came over right next to me, and sat down. She smiled when she still saw me looking. Then I finally got enough sence to be embarassed, so I finally looked down.
"Alright, everyone had better get on the raft by the time I untie it or we're leaving without you!" Mr. Lancer called out as he was untying the raft. Everyone jumped up and rushed over to it, and the ones who were too slow, had to jump off the dock and swim out.
We went through our lesson pretty quickly, and I was surprised to learn that Ellie couldn't swim for the life of her. All she could really do was splutter and struggle to keep even her nose above the water line.
I was chuckling as I made it back onto the raft after my second lap around it, when Mr. L came up to me and said, "Danny will you PLEASE teach her how to do something other than drown. I don't really want a lawsuit on my hands."
I nodded and slid off into the icy water. I grabbed a styrafoam floaty so she could listen to me without getting water in her lungs. When I reached her she had at leased made a little more progress, she could keep her whole head up.
"Ellie! Ellie...here! Grab onto this!" I yelled thrusting the floaty at her. She pretty much collapsed on it, and I let her breathe for a few second before talking to her.
"You really don't know how to do this very well do you?" I said smiling.
She shook her head and I began the lesson. Mr. Lancer watched us carefuly, at leased that is until he lost interest. He then turned his attention to the kids on the other side.
"You think you can do it now?" I asked floating next to her.
"Yeah, okay...there! Like that?"
"Perfect!"
After about another hour Ellie and I had mastered the art of dog paddling! Hooray. But, when Mr. Lancer said that the lesson was over for today, she and I wanted to stay out a little longer. Everyone left for some food and rest, so about five minutes later the lake was left in an eerie calm. That is except for the ripples and occasional splashes that came from us.
"Let's move to the shallow end. Can you swim?" I asked floating backwards towards the beach.
"Yeah, watch me!"
I did. She had come a long ways. Very impressive. So when she reached me we stood on our toes in the shallow/deep water and embraced. We laughed and congratulated each other. Then we grew silent, and it took me a few seconds to realize that we were still hugging. I blushed hard, but I didn't want to let go. We starred at each other for a couple more seconds, and then the silence was broken by someone on the beach.
"Hey Ellie! What are you doing?" Dash called over to us, and we hurredly broke apart. She knew just as well as I did that he would pound my face in if he saw us doing something together, because just the day before the word was spread that he had a crush on Ellie...and NOT Paulina.
"Nothing Dash!" she said moving towards him and glancing back apologetically at me. Once they were gone I sighed and slowly waded out, and headed towards my bed for some sleep.
Time jump! Two days left of science camp. Ellie's POV:
Why did Dash or Paulina always have to ruin everything. They never miss a beat to come in between us. Every single frickin' time we had a momment they would come right on in saying, 'Danny come and help me with this experiment!', 'Ellie come with me, I found something, 'Danny!', 'Ellie!'. I was ready to burst with frustration!
Danny and I had found a plant on the list that we had between us, and as we checked it off I heard him.
"Ellie! I want to ask you something!" Dash said blundering up through the growth, while swatting away the bugs.
"What?" I asked half-heartedly. And amazingly his words got caught in his throat. For once he grew silent.
"Um...well, uh..." he stuttered shuffling around and gazing at his tennis shoes.
"Yes?" I asked, curious as to why he was acting so wierd.
"Willyoucometotheend-of-the-camppartywithme?" he said hurredly turning a bright pink.
"What?" I asked fully confused now. He repeated himself, slower this time, but stillglowing like a beat.
"I...don't know what to say..." I said, truely lost for words.
"Please?" and he gave me the most pathetic look that I had ever seen, I almost felt sorry for him.
"Alright, but only if Danny can come too." I finally replied taking a quick look at the stunned face of my comrad.
"YES!" he yelled. Like a kid in a candy store.
He bounded away whooping and hollering everytime he gave a little leap of joy. But then I was left all alone. With Danny.
"It is alright if I go with him right?" I asked timmidly placing a hand on his shoulder gently. And almost immediatly he shrugged it off, turning away from me.
I couldn't see his face, but I could hear the sadness in his voice as he mumbled, "No...it's not."
"But, I got you to come too."
"That doesn't matter!" he said turning around.
"You could go with Paulina. I've seen how she's all over you. You can't deny that you like it either."
"She doesn't mean anything! And what's with you and Dash? You could have said no, so why didn't you?" We were both yelling now.
"He doesn't mean anything either! And, well...I felt sorry for him."
"Oh, so do you feel sorry for me? Is that how it is?"
I glarred at him, "That is so typical of you Danny Fenton! Your just like him! Only caring about yourself! I've had it!"
I pushed past him, and began walking away to the cabin. But not fast enough I guess. The next thing I heard before I dissapeared behind a clump of trees was, "Paulina, will you go to the party with me?"
Time Jump! Party. Still angry at each other. Ellie's POV:
Earlier I had gone back to our cabin and cryed for quite a while. Then I pulled myself together thinking, Stop it! You can't show him that your weak! Hell no! You are going to make him so jealous that he'll explode! And how better to do it, then by his worst enemy.
So, I went into the bathroom and cleaned off my face. I then applied make-up like a mad woman. I had to be perfect, so I could show him what he was missing out on, and see what Dash was getting instead. I then rumaged around in my stuff for the dress that I had packed. I don't know why I did, but I guess my intuition was correct.
It was dark blue, almost like the sea at night. Almost black. Then I pulled out some hair clips and began on that. It took a while, but I managed to pin up the waves and waves of my hair. I had even managed to bring high-heels. So I slapped those babies on and checked my make-up once more before I headed out the door.
When I went in through the doors of the cafeteria, I saw that most of the kids had already arrived, and were already bumping and grinding. The bass of the music drummed through my chest, matching the beat of my heart. I finally found Dash after much weaving and sliding through the crowd. He was in the heart of all the rucass. Obviously.
I waved to him, and he broke away. He reached me panting, and smiling as though he had just won a marathon. I then caught a glimps of Paulina, and soon after Danny. They were also in the centre of everything. Paulina was facing away from Danny, but they were plastered together, and going to the beat of the music.
Jealousy shot through me like a stab to the heart. And before Dash had a chance to catch his breath and say hello, I had grabbed him and shoved my way through so we had a good space to dance in. He didn't seem to mind though, actually, I guess you could say that he was excited that I was finally showing interest in him.
We danced for what felt like hours, but really it was only about 45min., but still, it was a pretty long ass time. So I yelled in Dash's ear for him to come outside and take a break. He was relieved, and willingly followed. I took a step into the warm night air, and breathed deeply.
"Hey, come with me. I want to show you something." Dash said all of a sudden grabbing my elbow in a vice grip. Confusedly I followed him, but then I realized that I had forgotten some hair clips that I had taken out. I told him that I would be right back, and I headed back.
"Danny, stay with me! Why do you care so much about her?" I heard Paulina say as I rounded the corner. She was with Danny.
"She's my friend, and I don't think that I trust yours."
Just then I saw that Paulina had seen me. She smirked and Danny turned around to see who it was. Just as he caught a glimps of me, Paulina grabbed the back of his head and pulled him sharply towards herself. Time stopped. My heart stopped. And no breath escaped my lips. She was kissing him. I thought that I was going to die right then. Like as though my heart had been torn out, stomped on by a heard of cows, and then chopped up.
They broke apart, and Danny quickly turned back to me saying, "Ellie..."
But it was too late, I had already turned away and started running.
a/n: Alright! How about's that there peoples! Please give me some input and R&R. I love hearing from loyal readers! O.o
