Chapter 6

"So what do we need to bring with us for drama?" I asked once we were back in the bunk.

"Well this is the Jokers we are talking about. So don't bring anything that would distract you," Debbie said.

The door opened and Vivaldi walked in. The others all froze to look at her while I grabbed my water bottle.

"And where have you been missy?" Ellie asked with a grin on her face.

"If you must know, we were looking for Julius when one of our friends said that they needed someone to help them in art with their campers," Vivaldi replied.

"What did you make them do?" Ellie asked.

"That is a secret that we will tell you when you have art. Now hurry up, we are tired of waiting for you," Vivaldi said sitting down on her bed.

I was ready so I went to stand by the door. The other girls drifted over to the door within the next two minutes and we all went over to the drama cabin. It was on the other side of the art cabin and it had the comedy and tragedy masks painted on it.

The door was opened and we walked in. The boys weren't there yet so Ellie said, "Let's play a game."
"What kind of game?" Debbie asked annoyed.

"We're not playing games Ellie. We are going to have drama now," White said walking in.

"Never mind!" Ellie said.

"Shut the f*** up b****. No one wanted to play your f***** up game anyway," Black said.

Ellie looked like she had a reply on the tip of her tongue but she wasn't dumb enough to voice whatever response she had to what he said.

When all of the boys had found seats White said, "So this is drama class."

"No it's not! We aren't in school!" Debbie said.

"Shut up b****," Black said.

Ellie raised her hand. White looked confused and said, "I didn't even finish saying what we were going to do but what is it Ellie."

"Are we going to do a show this year?" she asked excitedly.

"Yes-,"White replied.

"Which show are we doing?" Ellie interrupted.

"Well-"

"Wicked?" Ellie interrupted again.

"Ellie-,"

"THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA?"

"Ellie shut up. You're over reacting, Debbie said.

"For once, Debbie is right," White said.

"What do mean sometimes? I'm always right!" Debbie replied.

"No you're not you f****** ingrate," Black said.

"No Ellie we are not doing Phantom of the Opera, Sorry," White said.

"Rats," Ellie said.

"Hahaha, she doesn't like you stupid rat," Boris said to Pierce.

Pierce immediately jumped in response to being addressed by Boris. "Did you mean it –chu?" he said looking at Ellie.

"No, Pierce. Boris, please don't go twist my words around. I said 'Darn' it just sounded like 'rats.'" Ellie said.

"Riiiight," Boris said.

"Boris shut up," Ellie replied.

Boris smiled mischievously. "No," he replied.

"Do they always do this?" I asked.

"No. Ellie is just a big fan of most musicals and gets worked up about stuff like this," Veronica said.

"Yeah when it comes to defending her favorite things, she becomes worse than Debbie without her coffee," Anita said.

Everybody had stopped talking at this moment and everybody heard this last comment.

"Worse than Debbie without her coffee?" Blood asked surprised. "Is that even possible?"

"I didn't know it was," Black said.

"Hey you didn't say a bad word," White said.

"Shut the f*** up you b******," Black said.

"Black's going soft," White teased.

"Shut up you b******," Black replied.

"It isn't possible," Ellie said. "Anita is lying."

"This is boring! Let's play a game!" Debbie said.

"A game?" White asked.

"Yeah like a drama game. Like 'freeze' or like 'party' or that game with the alphabet and everything you say has to start with the next letter in the alphabet you know?"

"Oh that game. Alright then, Julius and Alice you two are up first. Who wants to pick the scenario," White said.

"They should be a couple who are breaking up!" Debbie said as I stood up.

"So what are we supposed to do again?"

"We are supposed to talk to each other as though we have just broken up with each other and each sentence we use is supposed to start with a letter of the alphabet in order," I said.

"Um, Okay. Do you want to start?" he asked.

"Um sure…" I replied.

"That started with a 'u'" Debbie said.

I thought for a minute and said, "Asking me if you can stay when we just broke up is completely stupid."

Julius thought about how to respond and said, "But I thought that you wanted me to stay."

I thought about it for another minute and Debbie said "This is taking too long! Give them a time limit!"

"This is taking a long time. You have on minute to decide on what you are going to say," White said agreeing with Debbie.

"Can you just get over yourself? I want you to get out of here," I said.

Julius looked flustered as he thought of a response, he then said, "Don't start acting jealous."

Part of me wanted to kill Debbie for coming up with this scenario because I was starting to feel upset and I was taking it out on Julius. However I couldn't get out of this so I continued and said "Even though you prefer my sister over me?"

"F-forget whoever told you that and move on," Julius said.

"Get out of my house!" I responded automatically.

"How come you want me to do that?" Julius asked.

"I heard that you and my sister went to this party together and kissed," I responded.

"Scandalous!" Debbie snickered.

"J-just because you heard something doesn't make it true," Julius said.

"Katie told me about it, she was in the room when you two kissed," I responded getting more and more upset as this unfolded.

"Lies, I say," Julius said.

"Maybe that's what you want me to think but I have seen the way you look at my sister," I said.

"No, I would never do that,"

"Oh, that's what you want me to think isn't it?"

"Please listen to reason," Julius said.

"Quit your constant strings of lies, they are not fooling anybody," I said feeling myself slowly lose control over these pent up emotions.

"R-right well I still love you," Julius said.

"Shut up, it's over," I responded.

"T-That's not fair give me a chance," Julius said looking stressed out.

"Unless you could turn back the time and fix all of those times when you looked at my sister with lust filled eyes then no," I said.

"Violence won't make a point," Julius said.

"Where did she mention violence?" Debbie asked making Julius even more flustered.

"She didn't' now SHHH!" Ellie said.

"What does violence have to do with this? All I said was I wanted you to get out of my house," I said playing off of what Debbie said.

Julius looked at a loss for this one. After a minute I was calming down a bit and Debbie was coughing and waving her hand at him as though to say 'get a move on.'

"Xylophone, can I have it?" he said after a few minutes.

"LAME!" Debbie said after which about five different people shushed her.

"You can take it, I don't want anything of yours anyway," I replied.

"Zooming out of your life isn't something I am going to do, you know," Julius said.

We stood in front of everybody for a few minutes and then they started to applaud. It was embarrassing and I was sure that I was blushing.

Julius and I went back to our seats.

"Nice job Alice," Ellie said. "You looked like you knew what you were doing up there and that is always a good thing."

"Yeah unlike Mr. Flustered over there," Debbie said jabbing a thumb towards Julius.

He didn't seem to hear her so he didn't respond.

"Okay, so who's next?" White said standing in front of everyone.

Ellie stood up and then Black dragged Ace up and the whole thing started all over again except I zoned out so I missed the topic. After they went a few more people had to go. I was feeling a little upset about what had happened up there. I felt bad because I think that I may have scared Julius when I kind of lost my temper.

The Jokers then told us that we had run out of time and that we had to 'get the h*** out' as Black said.

"You have free time now so you may go and do as you wish," Vivaldi told us.

I asked Ellie to tell me where the library was so I could look for some new books to read. She took me to a long building across from the music cabin. She left when I told her that I could find my way back to the cabin on my own.

I walked into the library. It was cool and air-conditioned unlike some of the other places in camp. I started to look around on the shelves when I realized I wasn't alone.

"Well look who's here," a voice said.

I turned. It was Blood and Elliot. "I didn't know that you liked to read," Blood continued.

"I could say the same to you," I replied.

"I suppose," he said absently.

I turned back to the shelf I had been looking at before he interrupted me. Within a few minutes I had found about three books I could read in addition to the one and a half books I had yet to finish.

I started to look around for someone in charge to check the books out but I couldn't see anybody. Elliot noticed and asked, "Looking for a librarian?"

"Yes, Is there one?" I replied.

He walked over to me so he wouldn't bother Blood who had been looking at the books right next to him and said, "No there isn't. There is a sign out sheet over there and you have to write what day you took it out on. The adults at camp check on the sheet everyday and always watch those who take out books. You need to return the book in three weeks or else they get mad at you."

"How do you know this?" I asked him.

"It happened to Blood once, didn't it Blood?" Elliot said.

"Yes it did. All they really did though was ask for the book back," Blood replied.

"It was probably because of your family though, so I guess I don't know what they would do to you," Elliot said to me with a grin.

"His family? Are they famous or something?" I asked.

"Well yes, I'm surprised you don't know this. Blood's family is the head of the mafia," Elliot said.

I was stunned. Just across the room from me was the son of a Mafioso.

"Elliot, don't just tell people these things," Blood said sounding annoyed.

"Sorry Blood," Elliot said sheepishly.

Well that certainly explained his unusual name. I went to the place Elliot had showed me and located the sign out sheet. I wrote down my name and the books I had taken out and started to leave.

"Bye Alice!" Elliot said.

I put a smile on my face. It wasn't easy after all of the emotional pain and the surprises which were wearing me out. "See later Elliot. Bye Blood," I said.

I walked back to the bunk and sat down on my bed. If every day was going to be as emotionally painful as this one, I had no idea how I was going to survive from the rest of the summer.

I haven't updated in a while... sorry... it was the end of the trimester which means that a lot of work gets dumped on the students.

I hope that I had everyone in character this chapter. (I really feel like I got the Jokers wrong... ) If you notice any out of characterness at all please tell me. (Yes I know that 'characterness is not a word...sorry)

I also just realized that I haven't thanked any of the people who reviewed for reviewing so "THANK YOU PEOPLE WHO REVIEW!" reviews make my day.

There was more I had to say... but I forgot what it was... (*facepalm*) So I guess that's it...

I don't own anything but my OCs and the plot by the way... yeah (maybe I should have put this first...)

Thanks for reading! :D