The Trip to the Center of Nowhere

Chapter 6- Hellos

"Here we are. Home sweet home." Sam said as she led Rory into an enormous wooden cabin. If you could call it a cabin. The front room, which Sam and Rory were standing in right now, was roughly the size of the bottom floor of her house with a really high ceiling. It had several window seats with plush pillows that looked like they would be perfect for hours of reading. There was a huge white fluffy rug covering a lot of the wooden floor. There were several leather couches, in various woodsy colors.

"Wow," Rory said softly. When she had heard she was going to camp and living in a cabin, she thought very old fashioned rough living. This just seemed a little over the top. Then again, it was probably an expensive camp considering her grandma picked it out. Emily didn't settle for anything less than the best.

"It is impressive," Sam commented, seeing Rory look around in awe. But wait till you see the bedrooms. Follow me." Sam led Rory into a hallway off the main room and entered into the second room on the right. In it were two wooden double beds, two enormous wood dressers and a wood desk. On each bed were green down blankets, and beside each bed was one of those fluffy rugs.

"I expected top notch but I didn't expect this," Rory said in amazement. It wasn't only the room itself it was the view. Outside the large window between the two beds was the most gorgeous view she had ever seen. Out it was mountains lined with trees and a glistening lake with deep blue water.

"That was my first reaction too. I'm surprised most girls just blew it off," Sam said behind Rory.

"Really? Somehow that doesn't surprise me. Most girls probably have seen much better sights with their bucket loads of money." Rory commented disgusted. By the sound of it there would most likely be a lot of spoiled mean kids like Chilton. Oh joy.

"Yeah. It seems like everyone here is filthy rich. I feel so out of place." Sam commented. "Except you. You don't seem like the rich girl type."

"Probably because I'm not. My grandparents are the rich ones, and they just came back into my life two years ago. Before my mom raised me all by myself. My grandma insisted on sending me here this summer." Rory explained. "How about you?"

"Well, actually I won a scholarship here. I wrote an essay for a contest and this was the prize." Sam said. "But it feels so weird not to have been raised with money. Everyone else here has. My mom is a struggling musician. She's in a band called The Deanna Jones Orchestra." Sam added, gesturing to her Deanna Jones shirt.

"Your mom is in a band? That is so cool. My friend Lane would freak if she knew that. She is the biggest music fanatic ever." Rory continued. This girl was so cool and so easy to talk to. They had only just met and already they were friends.

"So you said your mom raised you, what about your dad?" Sam asked.

"My mom had me when she was sixteen and she didn't marry my dad. He also just reentered my life, but I am still much loser to my mom. We are freakishly linked." Rory said.

"Really? My mom had me when she was nineteen. I don't even know who my father was." Sam sighed and looked slightly sad for the first time since she had picked Rory up.

"I don't know what to say." Rory said going over to hug the girl. She couldn't imagine what it would be like to not know who her father was at all.

"It's ok. It all happened a long time ago." Sam said. Just then there was a knock at the door.

Sam answered the door and in walked a girl with short brown curly hair. "Like hey Sam!" The girl greeted. Then she noticed Rory. "Oh my god! Rory! What are you doing here?"

"Madeline!" Rory said surprised. What were the chances of them both being here at the same camp? Just then two other girls walked into, both with blond hair one with her nose stuck in a book and one filing her nails.

"Come on Madeline, we've got to get ready to go to the X." Louise said not looking up from her nails.

"Hello, guys, look who I found," Madeline said. Both Paris and Louise looked up.

"Rory? What a surprise." Louise said.

"Yes someone actually sane. Thank god. I thought I was going to be the only one who actually came here, to reading camp, because they actually like to read." Paris said.

Sam just stood there looking slightly confused.

"So are we all going set?" Louise asked. "Oh yeah, Rory, Paris, Madeline and I had planned on going to this club a couple miles away, called the X. If you and your roommate want to come, you're welcome."

Rory glanced at Sam. "Why not?" Sam said.

"Just meet us out in the hall way in ten minutes," Louise said leaving the room. Paris followed.

"I'm so glad you're here Rory!" Madeline said grinning as she followed the other two leaving Sam and Rory alone.

"What was that about," Sam asked.

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A/N that chapter just came out, so I hope you liked it. I could not resist including the three Chiltonites.

Please R & R.

Kristie