The boy's group had tennis the next morning. George watched John and Fin hit the tennis ball to each other on the court. John hit the ball up in the air, but it landed in his court. Fin started laughing while John picked up the ball.
"I love how you think that's funny" John said.
"I love how you play tennis" Fin said "You would think that I'm the one who wouldn't play the game right."
"Well, I know that I'm done playing with you .Why don't you play with Fin, George?"
"Sure"
John gave George the tennis racket that he was using and the tennis ball. John stood against the fence wall of the court while George stood in his court. Fin thought that this was going to be an easy game, since George was afraid that Fin would accidently smash the ball in his face.
"All right George, show me what you got" Fin shouted.
George served the ball and sent it over to Fin. Fin hit it back, but he did not expect George to smash the tennis ball to the other side. The ball bounced and ended up hitting Fin in the face. His nose started bleeding and looked at George. John started laughing.
"I'm sorry Fin!"George said.
"John, you better shut your sorry ass up!"Fin shouted, but John couldn't stop laughing. Fin started running after him with his tennis racket, until he started getting dizzy. George ran over to him and John ran back.
"Come on Fin, let's go to the nurse's office" George said.
Alex was watching the rest of the group out in the lake for awhile, but then she decided that she wanted to draw. She grabbed a pencil and her sketch pad, opened to a blank page, and started drawing. When she was in the middle of drawing, she saw Casey walk towards her from the corner of her eye. Casey sat down next to Alex, and while Alex was drawing she started getting confused. Why would someone who just threw water on her and yelled at her sit next to her?
"I'm sorry"
Alex looked up and turned to see sincerity in Casey's eyes; something that Alex hasn't seen.
"I shouldn't have been mean to you" Casey explained "And I shouldn't have done what I did last night. I'm sorry."
Alex was shocked, but didn't show it. She weakly smiled at Casey.
"Don't worry about it" Alex said quietly as she looked at her picture "I'm used to it."
Casey looked at the picture Alex drew and was interested in Alex's artwork.
"Did you draw that?" Casey asked.
"I did"
"Wow, that's amazing. You must have some talent" Casey said "I can't even draw a dog, and you can draw an entire lake."
Alex smiled, but didn't say anything as she continued to draw. Casey watched Alex draw and wondered how she could have possibly been mean to such a nice girl like Alex.
"I'm glad that you're getting along with Alex."
Olivia and Melinda walked with Casey after Free Swim to their cabin.
"I'm glad too" Casey said "I don't know what got into me..."
Olivia opened the door to the cabin and the three of them walked into the cabin. Olivia noticed that Casey felt guilty about being mean to Alex, and noticed that Casey looked depressed.
"The shower's mine!" Melinda said as she ran into the bathroom and shut the door. Casey sat down on her bed and looked to the floor. Olivia knew that there was something wrong with Casey.
"Hey, are you okay?" Olivia asked.
Casey looked up and weakly smiled at her friend.
"Yeah, I'm fine."
Olivia didn't believe it, but she didn't want to push the issue either.
"Well, you know where to find me if you want to talk" Olivia said "I'm right here."
"Thanks."
Olivia swam to the dock in the middle of the night and sat on the diving board. She needed some time to herself and she never got that time unless she broke some rules.
She looked at the sky and thought about how lucky she was to be here. She was glad that her mother got rid of Olivia so she could go to camp for 2 weeks. Two weeks away from her drunken mother and her broken home; it was better than nothing.
"Now why would you sit on this dock by yourself?"
She turned around and saw that Elliot joined her on the dock. She smiled at him as he sat down next to her on the diving board.
"I need time to myself" Olivia said.
"You need to get away, huh?" Elliot asked "Isn't that the reason why you came here for two weeks?"
"Yes, but sometimes you need to have time to yourself when you're sent away."
Elliot didn't get it, but he tried to.
"You must be hiding something from me Liv, because I don't get it."
"Maybe I am hiding something and just don't want to tell you about it" Olivia said "Or maybe it's the fact that
I'm talking to someone that I just met."
"You're going to have to deal with me for the next eight days. You might as well talk to someone."
Olivia smiled and looked at him. There was something about him that made her feel safe.
"Are you suggesting that I should talk to you?"
"Well, I'm the only other person who's sitting on this dock with you" Elliot said "If we were stranded here, you would talk to me, wouldn't you?"
"Of course" Olivia said "We would talk about everything; like the time that Casey pushed you off this dock and totally kicked your ass."
"The girls aren't letting that go, are they?" Elliot asked.
"Nope, and the last time I checked, the guys were making fun of you for that."
Olivia started laughing, and Elliot couldn't help but laugh with her. When they stopped laughing, they looked at each other and put their heads closer together. They kissed each other on the lips, and they both knew something was there. But Olivia pulled away and had a weird look on her face.
"What's wrong?"
"We kissed."
"Yeah, we did" Elliot said "Are you still in that phase where boys have cooties?"
Olivia laughed as she got up from the diving board.
"No, but I'm at that phase where the guy that kisses me has to catch me first!"
She jumped into the lake and started swimming away. Elliot started laughing and shook his head before he jumped into the lake and swam after her.
