A Midnight Meeting

After rec, we headed to the lodge for snack. Taylor, Kelsi, Sharpay and I linked arms and skipped the whole way there, laughing all the way. The boys were giving us weird looks, but we didn't care. We were super hyper from running around for an hour and we were excited because tradition is that we get cinnamon buns for snack on the first night.

The smell as we entered the lodge was mouthwatering. It smelled so cinnamony and sweet yet doughy, like if someone had baked bread.

Taylor, Sharpay, Taylor and I sat down at a table. As soon as we sat down, Troy, Chad, and Ryan came and sat with us. Zeke was busy in the kitchen, because he had volunteered to be a part time cook as well as a camper.

After a couple of extremely suspenseful moments, we finally got to go to the front and get our snack. At Camp Goose Lake, meals are served buffet-style. We each selected a bun and returned to our seats to savour them. Mmmm.

Then I was interrupted from my pleasure by Taylor screeching.

"Chad," she exclaimed as she bopped him over the head, "What did you do that for?"

"What do you mean?" Chad whined.

"You drank my juice!" She shrieked.

"Sorry," he mumbled. Then he got up. A couple minutes later he returned with a glass of juice. He handed it to her. Taylor smiled, obviously pleased. I smiled at Chad's flirting attempts. It would take a little more than just that to win her over.

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I sighed and rolled over, the metal bunk creaking noisily. Across the cabin, glowing red numbers told me that it was 2:00. But I just couldn't fall asleep, no matter how hard I tried. Could've been from the heat. Could've been from the sugar high I was on because of the cinnamon buns. But I was pretty sure it was because of Troy. I was thinking about him all the time. He was in my thoughts all day and all night. I was pretty much obsessed with him. I wanted him to ask me out so badly, but he just thought of me as friends. I sighed again, and then decided to go for a walk to clear my mind.

I knew we weren't supposed to leave our cabins at night, but I'd only be gone for a moment or two. I grabbed my water bottle and silently crept towards the door. I turned the handle slowly then pushed. It made I loud noise. I froze.

Luckily no one stirred, so I crept out the door. I walked down the path towards the lodge, and then I kept going down towards the lake. It was a gorgeous night. I could hear the waves lapping at the shore, and the last gibbous moon shone bright and clear. I was walking past the rec field when I heard voices from near the archery range. I headed on over and was a little surprised to see that all the gang was already there.

"Hey Gabs!" Troy exclaimed.

"Took you long enough," muttered Sharpay.

"But… I didn't even know about this!" I exclaimed. "I just went for a walk! Why did you plan this and not invite me?"

Kelsi shot Taylor a dirty look. Taylor looked down guiltily. I glared at her.

"What?" he protested. "You looked so peaceful sleeping there!"

'Ya right,' I thought to myself.

We al sort of sat there in an awkward silence.

"So," Ryan said, "What exactly are we going to do?"

I had a great idea.

"Let's play truth dare double dare promise to repeat fire in a barn colors! I exclaimed.

"Gabi, that is sooooooo second grade," Sharpay commented. I shrugged. "There's nothing else to do." I commented. Everyone was forced to agree with me.

"We can spin my water bottle to choose who we are doing. And no, not that kind of doing," I added as Chad giggled. "I'll go first."

The bottle spun round and round, finally landing on Ryan, who chose fire in a barn.

"Ok Ryan, there is a fire in a barn and you can save one person, throw one person out the window, shoot one person so they die quickly and let one person burn to death. The people are Kelsi, Sharpay, Martha, and Emma."

"That's easy," Ryan scoffed. "I'd throw Kelsi out, rescue Sharpay, shoot Martha and let Emma burn. She is so annoying."

He spun it, and it landed on Taylor. She chose truth.

"What is your most embarrassing moment?" Ryan asked. Taylor turned beet red.

"Well, um, this one time I got to gym early and I went to the change room to change. I was in my bra and underwear and then the janitor walked in."

Everyone squealed, except for Chad who was looking pretty pissed.

"What did he do?" Kelsi wanted to know.

"He apologized and left." She answered. "Now I'll spin it."

She did and it landed on Troy. He chose dare. Grinning evilly, she thought for a minute. I felt a bit scared. Then she said it.

"Troy, I dare you to kiss Gabi."

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Last time I didn't do a cliffy so I thought I'd do one today! I'm so evil! And to all my loyal readers, I just want to let you know that updates will likely be about once a week now because the homework load is pretty heavy. PLEASE REVIEW!

-freakymathgirl