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The first few days of camp were always a little hectic. New campers were initiated and pranks ran rampant. If you weren't careful you could walk right into a wall of shrink wrap taped to a door or food would fly and miss its designated target leaving some poor soul with chocolate frosting in their hair or on their clothes. The pranks weren't too elaborate, no one had been injured since Bella's first year. Quil had taken a piece of plywood to the side of the head in a prank gone wrong that left him with a scar over his left eyebrow. James Rodart and Laurent Campbell hadn't been seen since. Bella was glad that James' girlfriend Victoria Lewis wasn't there that year.

The campers from this year were pretty creative when it came to pranking but so far she had skated through unscathed. She had more downtime than she was used to so she normally spent her days working in the kitchen while the kids went through their daily schedule. She saw the kids every morning from nine thirty to ten thirty; that gave the kitchen crew enough time to clean up after breakfast and prepare for lunch.

The kids could be heard in the mess hall so she finished up what she was working on. The main room was filling up and the kids were talking amongst themselves. Bella grabbed a basket filled with folded pieces of paper. She placed the basket on the table at the front of the room. The kids settled down and Bella smiled as her eyes scanned the room.

"Okay guys, it's time to find out what we'll be working on next week," she announced.

The kids focused all of their attention on her. This was something that they all looked forward to. The basket was brought out on Mondays so that they could write down what they wanted and again on Wednesdays to reveal who's idea's got picked. Bella had no idea what she was in for so she looked forward to it almost as much as the campers did. She placed a hand into the basket and drew out a piece of paper. She opened it then let out a small laugh.

"Seth, pizza? Again?"

"Yeah! We can make a different kind this time," he explained.

"All in favor?"

Naturally, everyone raised their hands. She would go through their files to see what kind of dietary restrictions that the newbies had. She pulled out another piece of paper.

"Okay, fish tacos. Come on guys, make this hard for me," she said with a laugh.

Everybody agreed except for Beth.

"I'm allergic to seafood," she explained.

"That's okay, you can be my sous chef that day," Bella reasoned.

In the next twenty minutes they had decided on spaghetti, fried chicken and mac n cheese. Bella led the way to the kitchen where she had set up everything to make blueberry muffins. The kids got to work and Bella walked through the room, helping when needed.

Jacob, Quil, and Embry came in while they were cleaning and eyed the trays of muffins.

"The three of you can wait until they have had their share," Bella warned.

Embry hopped onto the island in the center of the room to talk to Seth and Quil sought out Claire. Jacob leaned against the wall next to Bella, folding his arms over his chest. She looked at him out of the corner of her eye.

"You're free tonight, right?"

She and Leah alternated nights looking after the girls in their cabin. As long as Bella was back before midnight she was free to roam the camp.

"Tomorrow night," she said with a shake of her head.

"Do you wanna go swimming?"

"Night swimming sounds perfect," she said with a sigh.

The kids ate, talked and laughed and Bella was calmed by the scene. There was nothing better than a kitchen filled with talk and laughter to her. Bree brought over a plate of muffins for Bella and Jacob and he hugged her to him. They talked for a few minutes as the hour wound down.

Jacob took the kids down to the field for a pick up baseball game and Bella headed up to the main cabin to use Sue's laptop. If the kids wanted pizza and mac n cheese than she was going to get creative. She looked through the files that Sue and Harry kept on every camper before deciding on what recipes she wanted.

By the time she was finished it was lunch time so she hustled down to the mess hall. The kids were just getting there and she fell in line behind Leah. They sat at their assigned table and as usual, Bella sat back to back with Jacob.

Edward sat across from Jacob watching Bella. He didn't know what to make of the two friends. It was obvious that there was something going on between them. Edward hadn't given up on trying to get Bella's attention but he had backed off. He knew that he came off a little intense but Bella was the first girl to brush him off. What was it about wanting what you couldn't have? She had hardly said two words to him since the campers had arrived. He had noticed that Angela seemed to like him. She was a sweet girl, but she wasn't his type; technically neither was Bella. He tended to date girls like Rosalie; the hard to manage type who cared more about what they looked like than current events of the world.

Bella felt the tell tale feeling of someone watching her. She had a feeling about who it might be. She casually looked over her shoulder just in time to see Edward avert his eyes from her. She turned back around to see Colin pass something to Seth across the aisle at the end of the row of tables. Since that wasn't out of the normal she didn't think anything else about it. Lunch ended a few minutes later and Seth left with Harry to go into town.

Bella took the girls down to the beach so that Leah and Sam could have some alone time. The girls sat sun bathing on the sand bar, inconspicuously watching Embry from behind their sunglasses. Bella had to admit that there was something about seeing a guy in his lifeguard red swim trunks with a whistle dangling from his neck and glasses on that made girls lose their cool. If it were anybody other than Embry on the lifeguard stand she would be watching his every move too.

A little while later Jacob and Edward showed up with three of their boys. Where were Colin and Brady? It wasn't like them to miss a chance to show off for the girls. Jacob sat next to Bella silently and she pushed her sunglasses to her forehead.

"Where's the dynamic duo?"

"Brady claimed that he wasn't feeling well, Colin said he'd go back to the cabin with him."

"And you didn't think something was up with that?" she asked with a quirked eyebrow.

"Jasper said that he'd check on them," he explained with a shrug.

Bella let the conversation drop as the kids ran in a straight line down the dock and took flying leaps off the end one by one. Bella had learned to swim in the lake. It dropped a good ten feet where the dock ended. She couldn't count all the hours she spent playing Marco Polo, water volley ball or chicken in the water.

Jacob took hold of Bella's hand, lacing their fingers together. He was being more touchy feely than normal. She wasn't complaining, she knew that he was just testing the boundaries of their friendship. They needed to talk about what was going on, if he had feelings for her than she had a right to know. At least so that she could put words behind what was going on.

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After spending a few hours at the beach Bella took the girls up to the cabins. They all migrated in Alice and Angela's because Alice was known for giving makeovers and letting the girls try on her clothes. She may have been from a small town but Alice had been all over the world. She was telling the girls about last years Paris fashion week and all of them gave her their full attention.

"So, do you know anyone famous?" Carrie asked.

"I sat next to Kourtney Kardashian on a flight to New York a few months ago," Alice said with a shrug like it was no big deal.

"I want to know how you met Jasper," Bella said to change the subject.

"My dad bought a summer house in Dallas a few years ago but I didn't meet Jazzy until last summer. I was playing volley ball with my friends and he was reading a little ways away. I noticed him and spent the next half an hour trying to get him to notice me. Finally Emmett made a wild serve and it nearly hit Jasper. He looked up as I was pleading with Emmett not to make me go and get it. Jasper brought it back, our eyes locked and we've been together ever since," she said with a smile.

"I'm gonna go change. Quil and I are going on a hike in a little while," Claire announced before leaving.

A shrill scream pierced the air less than a minute later. The girls rushed outside to see Claire standing on the porch. She was covered in some sticky substance and feathers. She was trying frantically to pull the fathers off of her as she cried.

"Claire chill, it'll come off with water," Beth said.

"No, you don't understand. I'm allergic to goose feathers. If I don't get these off now I'll break out in hives," she said panicked.

"Bree, go turn on the water and get the hose from around back. I'm gonna get some towels and try to wipe some of this off," Bella said, taking action.

By the time she came back outside Sue, Quil, and Leah were surrounding Claire. Sue hosed Claire off quickly while Quil tried to calm her down. Bella stood back with the girls hoping that Claire would be okay. Harry came out of the clearing, out of breath because he had ran up the trail.

"What's going on?" he asked once he had caught his breath.

"Another prank gone wrong. I need you to start questioning everybody. Poor thing, she's already starting to break out," Sue said regretfully.

Harry took Quil with him so that Quil wouldn't worry as much. He had a feeling that Seth was a part of this. The kid had ventured off on his own in town then wouldn't let Harry see what he had bought. Seth would be the first to be questioned.

Seth sat in his dad's office fifteen minutes later, his hands in his lap, his eyes shifting from one spot to the next.

"Do you want to tell me what you bought in town now? Because if you're honest your punishment won't be as harsh," Harry prodded.

Seth stayed quiet.

"Seth, come on. Claire was taken to the hospital a few minutes ago and she's probably going to be in the infirmary when she gets back."

"She's in the hospital?" Seth asked, his face crestfallen.

"It's standard procedure, son. She had an allergic reaction to the feathers. I'll be lucky if her parents don't come and get her and demand their money back," Harry said gravely.

"I'm sorry, dad. I didn't know," Seth mumbled.

"You're telling me that you acted alone?"

"Yes sir," he said, not meeting his dad's eyes.

"Look me in the eye and tell me that."

"We rigged it; he only went into town to get everything," Colin said from the door.

"Seth didn't want to do it," Brady pleaded Seth's case.

"I see," Harry said with a sigh.

He waved Colin and Brady in then Brady shut the door behind him. Jacob had caught Colin and Brady throwing away empty bottles of maple syrup in pillows that had formally been full of feathers. The two of them had thrown the evidence in the trash bin behind the kitchen and had been honest when had Jacob questioned them.

The door opened and the boys came out with their heads hung low. Jacob led them back to the cabins silently. Sam led Seth back to their cabin and Jacob looked between Colin and Brady in confusion.

"You two know better than to do something like that. Why'd you do it?"

"Beth, Carrie, and Nora kept dodging our pranks," Brady said quietly.

"No more pranks," Jacob said firmly.

"I better get up to the mess hall. I'm on dinner duty for the rest of the summer," Brady said with a sigh.

Jacob waited until Brady was gone before sitting on the bunk across from Colin. Brady was a good kid, he usually went along with what Seth and Colin wanted so they didn't haze him for it later.

"What's your punishment?"

"I have to clean the bathrooms once a week for the rest of the summer," Colin said in disgust.

"It's your own fault. That must mean that your were the genius who thought it was a good idea."

"You thought it was funny when we did it to Paul a few months ago," he reasoned.

"Paul isn't allergic to feathers and he can a douche bag sometimes. He had it coming to him, Claire has never been anything but nice to you."

Colin hung his head in shame knowing that Jacob was right. It was stupid and he never should have talked Seth and Brady into doing it.

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Harry held everyone after dinner to give them an update on Claire. She was fine but she had broken out in hives on over half of her body. The boys punishments were explained and Bella was shocked to find out that Seth was no longer a camper, he'd be spending the summer in the main cabin, only coming down to eat. Harry didn't like being played for a fool or lied to.

"There will be no more pranks. If there are, the counselor or counselors involved will be fired and the camper or campers involved will be sent home."

"Great," Beth and Carrie said in unison.

"What did the two of you do?" Leah asked accusingly.

"Come on, out with it," Harry prodded.

"Bella and Leah didn't know!" Carrie pleaded.

"If you come clean now you can stay and they'll keep their jobs," Harry promised.

"We TP'ed Colin and Brady's cabin and wrote a message in shaving cream on Seth's," Beth answered honestly.

"Dang," Colin said slowly.

Brady whistled in amazement.

"You two are gonna clean it up, go now before it starts raining," Sue ordered.

Everyone was dismissed and were told to go back to their cabins. Bella couldn't believe that the girls had been able to act so fast. Where had she been? Where had Leah been? She would keep a better watch on them from now on.