Hello there! It's been a long time hasn't it? (almost a whole year O_O)

I AM SORRY! OTZ (I'll explain my absence at the end of the chapter so that people who do not want to read my author's note can skip it.)

I do not own anything other than my OCs.

Chapter 9

"You girls go back inside," the figure standing in the doorway said.

The other girls looked at each other nervously and walked back into the room where the other mysterious figure was. The rattle of cages filled the room as the animals sensed the tension in the air between us and the two mystery men. Someone turned on all of the lights in the room and we were able to see who these two people were. The man in the chair stood up and looked at us. It was Nightmare, and he didn't look happy to see us. I turned around and saw that the man in the doorway was Gray.

"So, what are you girls doing outside of your bunk without a counselor?" Gray asked us suspiciously.

"Well Gray, we saw that the door here was opened and we came to make sure a fox hadn't come and eaten the bunnies." Anita said walking over to the bunny cage and peering inside.

"You could see the nature cabin from the other side of camp?" Gray asked incredulously.

"Well… Um…." Anita began.

"You girls went to kissing rock?" Nightmare asked.

"O-of course not," Anita said.

Ellie smacked her forehead and muttered something that sounded like "She freaking stuttered! We are so screwed."

"You're lying Anita," Nightmare said. "And I heard what you said Ellie."

Debbie glared at Ellie and said "Nice going idiot." She then fell to her knees and held her hands in front of her and started to beg saying, "PLEASE ALMIGHTY CAMP DIRECTOR HAVE MERCY ON OUR SOULS!"

"Debbie… It's no use," Ellie said quietly.

"I realize that Ellie, but you can't let us go back to the bunk Nightmare!" Debbie said.

"Why?" Veronica asked.

"Because then Black Joker will kill us all!" Debbie said putting her head in her hands.

"Oh right, I forgot about him. Not that it matters because he will probably just kill you and ignore the rest of us. He does hate you the most out of all of us." Ellie said tauntingly.

"Well I'm bringing you down with me! It was your fault too!" Debbie said angrily.

"It's my fault? Anita was the one who wanted to come in here in the first place!" Ellie said taking a step towards Debbie with clenched fists.

"Break it up you two," Gray said stepping in between the two angry girls.

"Aw! Look at the bunny! Isn't he just the cutest bunny ever?" Anita said breaking the tension in the room.

"'I shall call him squishy and he shall me mine'" Ellie said walking over to the cage to look at the bunny.

"Haha, Actually I think we should name him Mister Snuffles. Look at how his nose is so twitchy it's adorable!" Anita exclaimed.

"He is cute isn't he?" Gray asked joining them by the rabbit's cage.

"Gray can we please name him Mister Snufffles?" Anita asked with a pout.

"I'm sorry Anita but the younger Kids already named him Cocoa," he said.

"Aw! No fair!" Anita said.

"Well you can name the mice if you want to," Gray replied.

"Really? Well then I think that the brown mouse should be named Pat, the white mouse should be named something like Izzy. Oh! And then that one with the white spot should be named Evan, and his little friend should be called Ryan, because he's red! And the last one should be named Clyde, just because I like that name! OH LOOK! Evan has a twin mousey! This mouse should be called Edith," Anita said excitedly looking at the mice in the cage eagerly.

"Just because you got to name the mice doesn't mean that you are off of the hook for what you did earlier, girls," Gray said taking on a serious demeanor.

Well there went my hopes of getting to leave with no punishment. Nightmare looked at me and then said "Why did you girls have to drag Alice into what you four were doing?"

"Well," Ellie began. "I think that we needed some bunk bonding time."

"Couldn't you have bonded in the bunk rather than a kissing rock?" Gray said sounding tired.

"Well it's a tradition. This year we decided to include Alice in this tradition because she's a pretty cool person," Ellie said cheerfully.

"Well I think that you girls need a fitting punishment for breaking the rules," Gray said. "Lord Nightmare what do you think?"

"What? Oh… Well," Nightmare began to say looking nervous. "You girls should be ashamed of yourselves for going and breaking the rules like that. You went out of bounds and broke curfew!"

"Technically it is morning so we didn't break curfew," Debbie muttered.

"Well you still went out of bounds. I hope that you feel bad about that, because you should," Nightmare said sternly.

"We feel very bad about it Nightmare," Veronica said solemnly.

"Good. Now get back to your bunk before the Jokers arrive there to wake you up," Nightmare said simply.

"What? Lord Nightmare that is a terrible punishment!" Gray protested as we quickly made our escape.

"HAHAHA! WOO! I love getting away with things!" Ellie said cheerfully leading the way back to the bunk.

"Who doesn't?" Debbie said with a smirk.

We walked to the rose garden and started to go around it when we a voice.

"Where could those girls possibly be?" the voice said.

"OH S***! It's White! Quickly follow my lead!" Debbie said walking to the head of our little group.

Debbie led us creeping quietly around the hedge. We could still hear White moving around on the other side of the garden. I was nervous. I had never done something like this before. It was exciting, but very nerve-wracking at the same time.

"Aha, Found you," White said from behind us.

"EVERY WOMAN FOR THEMSELVES!" Debbie screamed running away from us. The other girls quickly followed scattering in all directions.

I on the other hand began to run when White grabbed my arm and said, "And where do you think you are going Miss Alice?"

I had no answer for that. He seemed to realize because he then said in a kind voice, "They shouldn't have run away. That will only make me angrier."

He led me to the boys bunk and said, "Now you stay here Alice. Black and I are going to round up your bunkmates."

I really didn't want to know what would happen after that but judging from the look on the White's face it was something worth dreading. I sat down on the stairs like they told me to waiting for them to come back with the other girls.

"Psst! Alice!" A voice called behind me.

I turned around and saw Boris standing behind the screen door of his cabin.

"Hey Boris," I said turning to look at him.

"What did you girls do?" he asked me. Behind him I saw some shadows, which must have been the other boys, move around as he talked.

"Nothing," I replied.

"That doesn't explain why the Jokers are so angry with you girls," I heard Blood say.

"We went out," I replied.

"To kissing rock?" Ace asked with a mischievous hint to his words.

"Maybe," I replied.

"Oh! Alice and the other girls have crushes!" Ace sang tauntingly.

"I wonder who they wrote down on the rock," Elliot said quietly.

"Well Ellie probably wrote Ace's name because no matter how much she denies it, she is definitely crushing on him," Blood said matter-of-factly.

Despite that fact that I knew he was probably right, I still felt the need to defend her privacy. I mean it's a girl's business if she chooses to tell her friends who she is crushing on. It's not the business of a bunch of nosey boys.

"I don't think she did. I didn't see Ace's name on the rock at all," I said. This was the truth because I had written down the name of the boy I thought of before she took the marker from me.

"I still think that she wrote his name down," Blood muttered stubbornly.

Well since he wasn't going to give up on that I would just have to ignore him. The other boys were trying to guess whose name the other girls wrote. Boris thought that Debbie wrote down Black Joker because he thought that she liked being picked on by him deep down. Ace thought that Debbie wrote down Boris' name because she seemed to hate him so much. Boris protested and the two of them broke off in a fight. The other boys stopped what they had been doing and picked sides.

I saw White start walking back towards the bunk. He had lost his usual smile and was scowling. For a minute I thought it was Black Joker in White Joker's clothes, but Black Joker was walking right next to him with the same expression on his face. I was in plain sight of the Jokers so I couldn't warn the guys that they were coming. Not that they would listen to me if I tried to warn them, they were pretty involved in this fight of theirs.

I just watched as the Jokers walked closer and closer to the cabin. There was nothing I could do to help the boys now. All I could do was sit here and hope that one of them noticed their impending doom.

Unfortunately, none of them saw the Jokers. So there was nothing I could do when the Jokers walked past me and into the bunk. I could not avoid having to hear the Jokers yell at the boys who had been fighting with each other. After about five minutes of the Jokers (even White) yelling at the boys I saw someone in the distance.

This person walked closer and closer until I realized that it was Ellie. She waved at me but put a finger over her lips in a silent message to keep my mouth shut.

When she noticed that the Jokers were distracted she said, "Sorry for ditching you like that Alice. When the Jokers start chasing you, you really have to run. Or else…." She pointed at the door of the boy's cabin and shrugged.

"It doesn't matter. I would rather be here right now anyway. If the Jokers see you they might snap. Even White looked angry." I told her.

"He did? Crap, I should run then. Bye!" Ellie said cheerfully waving as she hurried away from the bunk.

"Who were you talking to?"

I turned, it was White and he did not look happy.

"N-no one," I said hastily.

"Oh really? Because it sounded a lot like you were talking with Ellie. Either that or you are a very talented ventriloquist," White said knowingly.

Well I was in trouble then. White sat on the stairs next to me and said, "Where did she go?"

"I don't know," I replied. "She heard you in the bunk and ran off."

"Did she now?" White said with a smile.

"Yes," I said leaving it simple.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes I am sure," I replied getting nervous. White had a really creepy smile when he wanted to scare you into something.

"Hmm…" White stood up and walked back into the bunk.

I relaxed. It's not every say that someone gets away with lying to the Jokers. At least from what I have heard, it is pretty hard to do.

"ALRIGHT YOU B*******! GET YOUR A**** IN GEAR!" Black yelled at the boys.

Slowly the boys began to leave their bunk. White didn't look half as irritated as Black did at the moment but he must have been angry because when he left the bunk, everybody else who had not come outside yet scrambled to get out first. It seemed like nobody wanted to face the wrath of the Jokers.

"We are going to sport, more precisely the archery course," White announced once all of the boys left the bunk.

There were some groans as people protested but they quickly quieted themselves as White glowered at them. The boys started to leave. I had a feeling that I was supposed to follow them, especially when I realized that Black Joker was waiting for me to leave.

I followed the other boys to the archery course. Even though I didn't really know them all that well, I could tell this was going to end in chaos.

I was right. This morning I learned that none of the boys can be trusted with something as dangerous as a bow and an arrow. It started when Ace pointed his bow at White while it was loaded. White of course made him face forward, but it got worse from there. Boris started to threaten Pierce with this bow and arrow and ended up chasing him around the archery range. Elliot was yelling at Dee and Dum who had threatened to hit him with an arrow for being a "blond chickie rabbit." Peter and Ace got into a fight over who got to use the bow that they had to share. Blood was ignoring everyone as was Julius. The Jokers were trying to keep the boys from shooting holes in each other.

I spotted Julius under a tree and went to go join him.

"This is insane," I said watching Boris abandon his bow and arrow for the same fork and knife set he had yesterday at the pool.

"It's too loud," he said also watching as the Jokers dragged Boris away from Pierce.

"Does this always happen?"

"Only with archery," he replied

Boris walked up to Dum and pulled him away from the others saying "I HAVE TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING AWESOME!"

"You think he's dead?" I asked.

"I would say so," Blood said walking around the tree.

"Poor Dum," I said watching Boris walk back to the group victorious.

He nodded as though he would consider that. Blood then said, "Why aren't you trying to get a bow Alice?"

"And join in that chaos? No thank you," I said. "I don't know how to shoot an arrow anyway."

"Oh? Would you like me to show you?" Blood asked offering me the bow he was still holding.

"Okay I guess," I said standing up.

He took me to the target on the far left of the archery field. The others were still messing around in front of the other four targets.

"So you need to stand like this, with that leg over here. And put the arrow here and hold it like this," he said while moving me into the right position.

He put one hand over mine on the bow and the other over the hand holding the arrow. "Now pull the string back, like this, aim, and let go," He said shooting the arrow with me.

The arrow hit the center of the target with a THUMP. I stared at the target in shock when I realized that there were no other holes in the target. There was only a hole in the center.

"Wow, who shot the arrow into the center of the target that many times?" I asked as Blood pulled the arrow out of the target.

"Me. I think we were the first group to come to the archery range this summer. How odd, this is usually a popular sport," He said handing me the arrow. "Do you think you can do it?"

"Sure," I said uncertainly. I had no illusions that I would hit the target so I was not surprised when the arrow fell short.

Blood went to go retrieve the arrow when the Jokers started calling everybody over. He handed me the arrow and said, "On Saturday there is a fireworks show. Would you like to go with me?"

I was taken aback. I did not expect Blood to ask me out. "Um, sure," I replied after a minute.

"Excellent," he said with a charming smile.

I started to walk towards the other boys but Blood grabbed my arm and said "Before I forget; Tell Ellie that White is supposed to kill her in the game."

I nodded and we walked over to the group together.

Julius stared as we walked over towards them and his eyes narrowed a bit. I was starting to wonder why he had done that when the Jokers announced that it was lunchtime and that after lunch we would all have to hunt down the other girls.

We all walked to the lunch room. The boys all talked about how annoying the girls were. Blood went to go talk with Elliot. Julius walked over to talk with me at some point during the walk up to the mess hall.

"I wouldn't trust him if I were you Alice," Julius said suddenly.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Just be careful around him," Julius said speeding up as the mess hall came into sight.

The boys walked into the mess hall. I followed and then I heard Black Joker yell, "THERE YOU ARE!"

I walked over to my cabin's table where Ellie, Veronica, Debbie and Anita were already seated. The Jokers were glaring at them from the boys table but were far enough away for us to have a quiet conversation.

"Ellie, White Joker is after you," I whispered.

She nodded and said "Thanks Alice, I had a hunch he was the one who was after me," Ellie said.

"Debbie, Veronica, Anita, Alice and Ellie please come with us," White said standing at the head of our table.

As we followed him out of the mess hall Black Joker called "You b****** better not go anywhere got it?" to the boys.

"We're in trouble," Ellie said quietly.

"You have no idea," White said with a menacing smile.

Cliffhanger~

Okay so I was gone for a long time mainly because of my computer getting a virus and slowly dying (taking all of of stuff with it). But also because the notes I had for the next few chapters got thrown away (by my mom who thought it was trash -_-)... I also had some personal issues that came up in the past few months where I really had no excuse not to write... But it's all okay now~ I have a new computer, a new outline for the lost chapters and a lot of free time (which I wasn't expecting.)

I would like to apologize again for being gone for so long.

As usual tell me if I got the characters wrong or if there is something that you want to see that I am not showing you.

Thank you to those who reviewed.

And finally: THANKS FOR READING~! :)