Chapter 7
A few days later, Ellie ran into the bunk screaming before we left for art.
"GUESS WHAT?" she yelled at Debbie.
Debbie cringed back and said, "WHAT? WHAT? FOR CRYING OUT LOUD WILL YOU STOP YELLING?"
"Elliot's dead! Ace killed him!" Ellie said excitedly.
"I wonder what Blood will say," Anita said curiously.
"Well here's the thing. Apparently Elliot was supposed to kill Blood but of course he didn't." She began to say.
"FAIL," Debbie interrupted.
"Well yes it is a fail. Anyway, now Ace has to kill Blood," Ellie said.
"Blood is so dead," Veronica said.
"Who does Blood have to kill?" I asked as we all left the bunk.
"I have no idea. I bet it's me," Ellie said.
"Why does it have to be you? Why can't it be me or Alice?" Debbie asked.
"That's because Black already killed you Debbie. Anyway what do you think Vivaldi is going to make us do today?" Ellie said.
"My guess is something weird. Like making butterflies out of clothes pins or something," Debbie said.
"That's too childish, I think we are going to be painting something," Anita said eagerly.
"Yeah painting something seems within reason but I think that she might make us draw something first instead of just painting," Veronica said.
We had run into the boys bunk when Veronica said this and the Blood said. "You were right about painting things Anita. Vivaldi has wanted to do this ever since she watched that movie with the card-men."
"Out with it Blood!" Debbie said.
"We have to paint roses," he said sounding embarrassed at the mere thought.
Painting roses? I thought to myself. How weird is that?
"Painting roses?" Peter said sounding annoyed.
"Apparently, I wonder how we are supposed to do that," Anita said sounding very confused. "Are the roses going to be on paper?"
"I'm not allowed to say. You are going to have to see for yourself," Blood said.
"Aw, but that's not fair. You know all about this and we don't," Debbie complained.
"It's not like I had a choice in finding this out. I would have rather not known about it," Blood said sounding annoyed.
We walked into the art cabin just then to find Vivaldi happily placing what looked like white roses into vases in the middle of each table. She looked up at us when we walked in and said "Don't just stand there, come in and sit at one of the tables. "
I ended up at a table with Peter, Ace and Ellie. When I sat down, Peter, who had been looking sullen, perked up and smiled at me happily.
"Ha ha, Mr. Peter likes Alice," Ace said noticing Peter's reaction to me.
"Stupid knight," Peter muttered.
"We want to give you instructions so be quiet." Vivaldi said. "As you can see, we have set up some roses at each of your tables. You can paint these roses whatever color you like, however at least one of them has to be red for a bouquet of camper made flowers that will be shown to the parents on Parents Day."
She then let everybody get paints that she had set up on a different table. The Jokers were loafing in the corner looking really bored. Ellie brought back a tray of paint with a rainbow of colors on it for us to share.
"Thank you Ellie," I said picking up one of the roses in one hand and a brush in the other.
"Sure thing," she replied with a grin. She turned to Ace and they began to talk about some teacher that they both hated.
"So Alice, do you like camp so far?" Peter asked me excitedly.
"It's okay I guess," I said.
"You don't like it here?" he said looking slightly crestfallen.
"It's a bit different than what I am used to," I said.
Peter looked sympathetic, "Despite some of the people who go to camp here, I manage to have a fun time here every summer."
"You don't like a lot of the people here do you?" I asked.
"Not really. I find a lot of them annoying I guess," he said.
Ace seemed to pick up on this and said "Oh, Mr. Peter, are you flirting with Alice?"
"Shut up you idiot," Peter snapped.
"Oh, Mr. Peter is mean," Ace said.
Ellie smacked herself in the forehead and said, "Ace, can't you leave Peter alone?"
"Does Ellie have a crush on Mr. Peter?" Ace taunted with a grin on his face.
"NO! I mean, no. Stop suggesting these things Ace! This is how rumors get started!" Ellie said blushing.
"Oh, I think she does," Ace said.
"Ellie does what?" Debbie said from a table nearby.
"Tell her that lie and I swear you will-," Ellie threatened.
"Ellie has a crush on Mr. Peter," Ace said loudly.
The room was quiet while everyone thought about this statement. Ellie looked mortified. Peter looked annoyed. Ace still had that sort of stupid grin on his face.
Out of nowhere, Anita started to laugh. "T-t-t-t-t-that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard!" she said in between bursts of laughter. She was laughing so hard that she ended up falling out of her chair and onto the floor.
Ellie was smiling. "She is my best friend. She could probably write a book about all of the embarrassing things she knows about me," she said with a shrug dismissing Ace's comment.
"I think the b****** broke her," Black said to White as Anita continued to laugh.
"Anita," Vivaldi said looking annoyed, "We think that you should go outside."
Anita was still laughing but not as much as she was earlier. She got up and started to leave the room.
She was almost out of the door when Ellie said, "This is almost as funny as space aliens on motorcycles playing card games."
Anita burst into a new fit of laughter and left the room. Black looked from the door to Ellie and shook his head muttering something about 'crazy b******' as he left the room.
"I win," Ellie said with a grin.
Peter, Ace and I just stared at her. "Sometimes I don't know who I find more annoying, Ace or you," Peter said to Ellie.
"Whatever," Ellie said looking at the rose she was painting.
We sat in silence for a few minutes. The other tables were talking and I could hear snippets of conversation but I tuned them out and focused on painting this rose. When I finished it I put it in an empty vase on the side of the table and picked up a new rose to paint.
I looked over at Peter; he was focused on some little detail in the rose he was painting. If I didn't know any better I would have said he was trying to write a message on it. I looked at Ellie and Ace. Both of them had gotten new roses and were painting them red. Ace didn't look too happy with his rose. He kept stabbing it with his paintbrush.
"What are you trying to do? Make it look blood-splattered?" Ellie asked looking at his rose. "You're going about it the wrong way. Try doing this." She said taking the paintbrush from his hand. She flicked her wrist with the paintbrush in it to the rose and red paint splattered on the flower.
Ace took the paintbrush back from her and tried to mimic what she had done.
"ACE YOU IDIOT!" Peter yelled after Ace had gotten paint on his face.
"Oops, sorry Mr. Peter," Ace said.
"Now I have paint on my face," Peter complained.
"Aw it's not that bad Mr. Peter," Ace said.
"You idiot, do you know how many chemicals are in paint?" Peter said looking furious.
"I think these are non-toxic paints Mr. Peter," Ace said.
They continued to argue for about five minutes. No one seemed shocked by this so I assumed that this was normal. I looked around the room. No one seemed to care or have any response to the fighting except for Vivaldi who looked annoyed and kind of angry.
Anita walked in with Black close behind. She took one look at the scene in front of her and to sing a song about an 'angel of music' as she walked over to her chair. By the time she had finished singing, no one was talking in the room at all. She bowed and sat down after that.
There was shocked silence, and then Ellie stood up and said "That seems like something I would do, well then GO US!"
"I think the winner of that argument is Anita," Debbie said laughing.
"What the h*** does that have to do with anything?" Black asked.
"Um, it's an inside joke Black," Debbie said slowly.
"But it has everything to do with this," Ellie said nodding.
Debbie started to laugh again. Anita joined in. Veronica stood up then and said, "The three of you are completely insane. Unless you want the Jokers and Vivaldi to commit you three to a mental institution I suggest you shut up."
They stopped laughing and looked at Veronica, she looked really annoyed. "We all already knew you girls were crazy, there was nothing to hide," Blood said exasperatedly.
The four of them looked around the room and then sat down. Nothing else happened until the end of art class when we were cleaning up. Peter walked up to me with a rose in hand and a smile on his face.
"Here Alice," he said hold out the rose. "I made this for you."
I took the rose and looked at it. It was a red rose, on one of the petals it had a white rabbit and on another it had my name written in cursive. "Wow Peter," I said at a loss for words. "I like it. It's really pretty."
Peter looked ecstatic that I liked something that he had made. "You really like it?" he asked excitedly.
"Yes," I said thinking that I had just said that.
Peter smiled and before I knew it he had tackled me to the ground in a hug. "My Alice loves me!" he said.
"Get off of me!" I yelled.
Peter was pulled off of me. A hand appeared in front of my face and I took it. The hand pulled me up, that was when I realized that the hand belonged to Elliot.
"Thank you Elliot," I said.
"Sure," Elliot said blushing.
Peter glared at Elliot and said, "This is none of your business rabbit."
"How many times do I have to tell this to you people? I AM NOT A RABBIT! I just have long ears," Elliot said looking angry.
"We don't have time for this you f****** b*******," Black said stepping in between them.
They both started to argue with him and then they were interpreted by Vivaldi who said, "Will you three be quiet! We have to get to swim on time you know!"
"Why the h*** do you think I give a f****** d*** about getting to swim on time?" Black asked her.
"Because we will make sure that your pay is cut," Vivaldi said.
Black Joker looked at Vivaldi and said, "Fine then. Hey you b********, get your a***** back to the bunk."
Vivaldi led us girls back to the bunk while Ellie worried about the boys swimsuits. "Oh no, oh no, OOOOHHH NOOOO. I bet some of them are going to wear speedos, AAAHHHH! THE HORROR!"
"Ellie shut up. None of us want to see Blood in a speedo," Debbie said.
Ellie paled and then said, "WHY DID YOU HAVE TO GET THAT DISGUSTING IMAGE STUCK IN MY HEAD! UGH I SWEAR I AM GOING TO HAVE NIGHTMARES ABOUT THAT TONIGHT!"
"You are such a pervert Ellie," Debbie said.
"Not as perverted as you for coming up with that- that disgusting idea," Ellie retorted.
"Will you two please stop talking about our brother in such a manner. It is disgusting and vile and we do not want to be plagued by these images of our brother either," Vivaldi said turning around to glare at them.
I looked at Anita and Veronica, they were both blushing. I'm sure I was too, I couldn't help looking at Blood and thinking about my ex.
We walked the rest of the way back to the bunk in silence. We all then changed into our bathing suits. I was the only girl in a one piece I noticed as we grabbed towels and headed for the pool.
"Debbie when we get there tell me if the boys are wearing speedos or not," Ellie said covering her eyes with her hands.
"Sure thing," Debbie replied.
The boys had beaten us there, Black was probably worried what Vivaldi would do if they didn't show up to the pool on time.
"Ellie you can open your eyes now, no one is wearing any speedos." Debbie said poking Ellie in the face.
"Really?" she said moving her hands from her face and looking around. "They're not, oh thank goodness I was so worried."
"I was too don't worry," Debbie said. "We got really lucky this year I guess."
"What happens now? Do we swim?" I asked as we were all told to move over to the side.
"Um they test you. Then they place you in different groups depending on your skill level of swimming," Ellie said.
"It sucks because they always place me in the lowest group just because I'm a poor athlete and don't have enough stamina to do twelve freaking laps in five freaking minutes," Debbie said.
"Me too," Anita said. "Being in the lowest group is the worst because they treat you like you are five and they make you blow bubbles and stuff."
"Swim isn't that bad," Veronica said.
"Veronica you swim year round and are on like three different swim teams. Last year they gave you free time and you just did whatever you wanted," Ellie said.
"Ace," one of the lifeguards said.
"UGH! Why do the boys get to go first?" Debbie cried.
"Because we are better than you," Dee and Dum said in unison.
"And if you went first we would have to wait an hour just for Debbie to finish a single lap," Boris said.
"Shut the h*** up you stupid cat. You shouldn't even be able to swim." Debbie snapped.
"Blood," the same lifeguard said after Ace got out of the pool.
Dee, Dum, Boris and Debbie were all deep into their argument about who was than whoand others were joining them. Five long minutes later, Blood got out of the pool and ran over to Elliot.
"Boris," The life guard said.
This was going to take forever.
Mwahaha! CLIFFHANGERS ARE EVIL! :D I only stopped because the chapter was too long and I was too lazy to start a new one... (I have an excuse!... I have a cold and can't talk... SO THERE :P (As you can see... I am feeling a little... crazier than usual today...) )
I feel like I got someone out of character again... (PETER) If someone could tell me if I did I would appreciate it.
Speaking of Peter I was talking with my friend the other day after I updated this story about a week or two ago... and she said "Rose, where is Peter?" And I was like... O_O "Forgot about him" So this was a Peter chapter just because I forgot about him... yeah...
I'm going to make the rest of this quick before the Peter fans show up and kill me:
1. THANK YOU PEOPLE WHO REVIEWED!
2. THANK YOU ALL FOR READING!
(3. If anyone has a prefence as to who Alice ends up with, please tell me. (Because I don't care and it could go any way from here...) )
Bye now. *runs and hides*