despite the sun beating fown, making the lake gisten, damian shivered. a cool breexe blew all ariond them, and damian found hismself glaring ar he camp counciller as his shivered in his swimsuit. everyone stood in two lines, the boys and girls facing wach other. most boys worre blue and most girls wore orange, with the exception of four kids; joel's swim trunks kept to a darker checked pattern, danian's a ploain black and bith wednestay and pugsley wore matching black swinsuts from the 1800's.

"life saving!" called the counciller, Gary. "one of you will be the victim and one of you will be te lifesaver!"

"I'll be the victim!" called Amanda.

"All your life."

amanda ignroed Wednesnday, her tone cocky and full of herself . "i'm going to be an actress!"

gary clapped enthusiasticly as wednesday, pugsley and damian rolled theyir eues. amanda jumped into the water and started to "drown".

Wednesday stared blankly. "I can't swim."

the next morning, at breakfast, pugsly sits with damian as he ate frosties with ocelott blood.

"What are you eating?" pugsly stareda t damian's bowl.

damina tenses. "i'ts ocelitt blood. i;m a vampite, remember?"

"i mwant the cewreal."

damian's face burned. "oh. it's frosites. like cornflakes but coated int sugar."

puglsey grinned. he pulled out a handfull of string and fisgeted with it, tying it into tiny nooses. "I'm going to see wednesday later. arie you cining?"

damian nodedd and after eatign his bnreakfast, damian folloiwed pugsley to the girls cabin that wednesday was staying in.

"MAIL CALL!" yelled Garry, as he and Becky walied into the camin. the to started listing off people in the cabin and handing out letters, one of which was handed to wednestay.

wednesday froze, jumping up form her bed. "Oh no."

"What?"

"this is the worst thing to happen in the histiry of himan events." said wednesdy. "uncle fester s gettign married."

garry griined, his dakr eues menacing. "a wedding? but that's great news!"

amanda perked uo. "to who?"

"the nanny."

"that's disgusting. i mean, i'd kill myself! the help?"

damian glared at her for her tactlessness as becky put on the fakest grin danoan had evrt seen in his lif.e. "I'm sire shes' a very lovely person."

amanda stood up, glaring at damian and the addams sibilings. "I think that's gdisgusting. i think the'r family's like a mad science expreniment. i think ther'ye like... circus people!"

"the only one around here acting like a circus act is you," daid dmian. he gritted his teeth and his eyes burned, reflecting amber on the widnw.

becky clapped obnoxiously loudly, and the normie campers all huddelded around into a group hug. damian, wednesdar and pugsley stayed still.

"wednesday? pugsley? smythe? will a hugg hurt us?" asked gary, in the most condiscending voice possinble.

"We don't hug."

becky pouted. "aww. they're hust shy."

"we're not shy, wer're contajous."

gary and becky tensesd. "i'm sensing some friction - sonething not vety chippewa. what they need is good friends, good fun and a little time in the harimony hut."

AN: my family and i are moving soon to England and therfore I won't be able to update regulary. also I have just been reading Salem's Lot. I think my copy is a misprint or smoething but the welsh translation only vaguely makes sense, like the grammar is all off.