Lizzie and Miranda walked over to the mob of girls, waving goodbye to Gordo.

"We'll see you soon Gordo!" Lizzie and Miranda yelled to him.

"Yeah, hopefully," Gordo muttered.

"Girls! Girls! Settle down!" a voice commanded.

Lizzie and Miranda tugged at their bags impatiently, waiting for what seemed like forever. Finally a girl came up and said, "Hi, I'm Rachel! I'm the counselor for cabin eight! I'd like to welcome: Jessie Alasdair, Crystal Harris, Lizzie McGuire, Jenna Palmer, Charlotte Rizetto, and who else, oh, Miranda Sanchez!"

"Yes!!" Miranda and Lizzie squealed. The started jumping up and down hardly able to contain themselves. The other girls stared at them. "Ok, Lizzie, be cool," Miranda whispered. Rachel walked them over to cabin eight. It was set on a small hill filled with pine trees.

"OK, girls. How do you want to do this? Usually I pull names out of a hat to assign beds."

"Umm excuse me, but I am not sleeping on the top bunk. I need to be on the bottom. I reminds me of my canopy bed at home," one of the girls said.

"Alright then, aren't you a peach. You're Jessie, right?" Counselor Rachel said.

"I would have bet a thousand bucks it would be Kate," Lizzie whispered to Miranda. The girls started giggling.

"Excuse me, what's so funny little blond girl?" Jessie asked them as Lizzie and Miranda made a face. "Well anyway, yes, I am Jessie, and this is my friend Jenna, and we need to bunk together."

"Ok then, do we have any objections to that?" Rachel asked. "No? Alright then. How about Jessie and Jenna get the bunk-bed on the right, Lizzie and Miranda, you get the bunks on the left. And Charlotte and Crystal can have those bunk-beds on the back wall. Is that ok?"

"Sure!" Lizzie said and she dragged he stuff into the cabin. Miranda followed right behind her.

"Ew this place is so small!" Jessie exclaimed.

"Hey Jessie, is your last name Sanders by any chance?" Miranda asked.

"What? No. What are you talking about?" Jessie snapped back.

"Nothing!" Miranda and Lizzie giggled.

"Listen you two, I've had about enough of you. You better watch your backs," Jessie asserted to them.

"Come on girls! I don't want to hear this anymore. I'm not going to spend the entire summer listening to you all bickering!" Rachel shouted.

"Come on Jenna, we're gonna go get some fresh air. Who needs to unpack when we're going to be packing it up again in six weeks anyway!" Jessie said storming out.

"Wow, what a delight they are," Charlotte said as soon as the two girls left.

"Well the one girl doesn't even talk!" Crystal said laughing.

"Hey you're right," Lizzie said, "You guys seem pretty cool. I'm Lizzie, this is Miranda."

"I'm Charlotte, this is Crystal."

"Well I'm glad some of you are getting along! I didn't know what I was going to do! I've never had girls storm out like that, and I'm not even supposed to chase after them because you are 'big girls' now. I mean, I love working here so I can come to camp again, because I'm nineteen, too old to be a camper. Camp is just so much fun, you know, and I hate when one girl ruins it for the rest." Rachel said to the girls. Lizzie thought that Rachel seemed really cool. She was looking forward getting to know Rachel better through the summer.

"Well there's an ice cream social going on down near the main pavillion. Wanna get going?" Rachel asked.

The girls agreed and they started walking through the orange pine needles to the bottom of the hill. They looked at some of the other girls cabins around them that weren't too far away. The boys cabins were across the camp. Lizzie was getting anxious to see Gordo. She just wanted to see a friendly face.

"Gordo!" Lizzie shouted running toward him. "Hey, how are you liking it so far?"

"It's been pretty fun. My cabin has some cool guys in it. I thought they would be all losers or something, but they seem pretty normal," Gordo replied.

"Oh yeah, same here," Lizzie said, "Except for these two girls. Oh my god, they were so rude! They even left and didn't even unpack their stuff. But I like the counselor; she seems cool." The three friends walked to get some ice cream, they mingled a little with some of the kids they met from their cabins, but Lizzie felt a little awkward the whole time and stayed by Miranda's side.

"So who's your friend over there?" Charlotte asked. "He's kinda cute."

"Really? Cute? Huh. That's Gordo," Lizzie told her.

"Ok, cool, maybe I'll sit next to him at the campfire tonight." Charlotte said, walking away.

"Jeez, she's very quick," Miranda said.

"Yeah tell me about it," Lizzie said looking over at Gordo who was talking to some guys. Cute? Gordo? No, he was more endearing, she thought, finishing her ice cream.

"Come on, let's go find some sticks for marshmallows," Miranda said grabbing Lizzie's arm. Lizzie followed her, with her head turned back to Gordo. She still didn't get what Charlotte saw in him.