A/N Yeah...I know I said 5 reviews but the 3 I got were so nice I just had to keep going(:
Disclaimer: I don't own anything...Literally...I only have 3 bucks in my wallet((:
"Girls..." Beth drawled into our room. The four of us had passed out in our bunks. "The other two girls are hereee!"
"Ug! Move!" A red-head girl pushed her way through with a purse and a bright pink suitcase. Her shiny lips were curled up in disgust. "Where are my sleeping quarters?" she demanded loudly.
"Right there. You have a choice of the top or bottom bunk," I started, "Room service is available...oh...I forgot this isn't a 5-star hotel..." Gabby stifled a laugh and the red-haired-wonder sneered.
"Give it a break loser! I hear that...um...sarcastictism is like the bestest, like way of flattery.'
"You mean imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?" Ella asked cheerily
"Yeah whatever. Jenny! Let's go!"
"Yes, Lissa." A poor little blond girl grabbed the Lissa's suitcase and purse and lugged it in, along with her own. I stood to help, but Lissa insisted, "No, she can handle it. I don't pretend to be friends with her for someone else to help her!"
I snorted and walked to the "hang out lounge" to find that same guy there. I sat on a beanbag next to him and picked up a magazine. I waited for him to say something- but he didn't. I glanced up a few times, he was just reading. And he wouldn't stop. So I, for like the first time ever, started conversation.
"Hi."
He looked up, "Hey." Then he looked back at his book and shifted his position slightly away from me.
"Um...I've never been here before...can you help me out?"
He sighed, and put a dog-ear on his page. "Just a sec." He got up, to put his book away I suppose, and then returned. "What do you need to know?"
"Um...who are these people? And how does this cabin thing work?"
"Well, once you're assigned a cabin, you stay at that one. Unless of course you leave, and someone takes your place. I'm sure you know Gabby and Abby," he gave a hint of a smirk. "And I'll get the guys to come out." He went to the door, and gave a bunch of knocks, like morse-code. The door slammed open and they all pushed to get out the door first. I wonder what those knocks meant...
"Yo, I'm Jeff," said a super light skinned, blond guy with almost clear blue eyes. "But most people call me Iggy."
"Maximum, but most people just call me Max." I put my hand out to shake but she just stared at a spot above my eyes a little and smiled. I smiled and turned to the other guys.
"Hey, Brad." He was dark-skinned, like chocolate, and had a short buzz-cut.
I went through the other three guys and tried to memorize their names. Jack, a scruffy dude with darker hair but not as dark as my original friend. Bill, another blond-ish boy who was looked really young to be in the oldest unit. And finally Kit, guy with an accent so bad I couldn't understand him. I just nodded and smiled while I shook his hand. When they went back to their section of the cabin, I turned around, and didn't realize that the boy was standing right behind me.
"Oh! Sorry." I gasped, embarassed.
"You forgot one you know."
"What?"
"Hi," he stuck his hand out, "I'm Nick. Call me Fang."
I smiled, "Maximum. Call me Max."
We shook.
~oOo~
"Okay campers!" Abby, our junior counselor, smiled, "Welcome to Sami!"
"All of our guys are returning!" This was met with a few whoops from them and Carter smiled. "But we also have four new girls joining us this summer so who's up for a tour of camp?"
"Anyone who wants to stay behind is welcome to with me!" said Beth over the movements of microbeads within that beanbags.
"Let's gooo!" Abby directed. Everyone went, except for Beth and Adam, who went outside to speak with Lucy, the unit leader, who was also British.
We trudged down the hill, and 'Big Abby", as everyone called her, waved to like everybody. And they all knew her too.
"Okay, on your left, we have the Mohican Unit. Then a little farther down we have the Lighthouse. It's name is very literal, as we leave the lights on all night, and all day." We went around a bend, and Abby proclaimed the unit on the left to be the Utes. "In front of us is the Dining Hall. Some people call it the Messy Hall because we are less than neat. Especially me." We all laughed and continued on our way.
Carter took the lead. "That path down there the one going towards the left, goes to the water front. After this I show you guys the Office, we're going to head back up and change for our swim tests!"
"Oh! I totally forgot! We should get up before-"
"Hey campers! I'm Patrick...shouldn't you be up at the cabin getting ready for the waterfront?" He asked almost teasingly. He had red hair and a walkie talkie. His boots were muddy and his clothes looked about the same but he was smiling, and I liked that. He laughed. "I'm only kidding you Abby. But I would head up soon! Happy testing campers!"
He walked by and Carter breathed a sigh of relief. "Let's go guys. I'm sure Fang and Iggy will finish the tour for us, right?"
"Sureee." said Iggy cooly, and Fang gave a slight nod.
We ran back up to the cabin and rummaged through our bags in search of bathing-suits.
When we finally got outside, Abby, who had seemingly been at Sami the longest, took us to a secret trail to gte to the Waterfront quicker. It went sraight through the Mohican Unit and right to a sandy beach. I had to jump over a pole that had fallen down near the end. The path was cool and I had to remember it in the future.
"Okay girls!" said Brad, who was already down at the beach with a whistle and swim trunks. "I need you to get in the watter here, in the shallow end. Do two laps freestyle and I'll see whether you can continue onto the red and green tests. He blew his whistle and we were off. I was very nervous. Not a very strong swimmer...actually I was a little afraid of it. But I plowed through, and managed to be a red swimmer.
Ella went on to be a green swimmer- her heart was set on windsurfing.
I climbed onto the dock, and my towel was in my face. I looked farther up, and Fang was holding it open. "Thanks, I said and wrapped it around my shivering body. He nodded, and poised to dive.
Lissa had failed the swim test, and was not allowed to swim. She walked by me and was murmuring to Jenny, "Look at Fang's abs! This might not be that bad of a summer!"
My eyebrows shot up- although I shouldn't have been surprised.
Turns out all of the guys but Brad and Kit passed into the green level- very heard to achieve. Or so it looked like.
~oOo~
We walked up back the trail barefoot, not wanting to put our shoes on. We were about to walk up regular trail, but Fang yelled, "No!" And Iggy finished: "That trail is all pebbles. This one's less painful." The trail was a lot more steep going up than down. I actually fell, but Iggy caught me, laughing at me. I gave him a friendly push and kept going. When we finally got back up tp the cabin, I was ready for bed.
After getting dressed, we all moped into the lounge and collapsed somewhere. Ella, Abby, Gabby, and I fell into beanbags, with Fang and Iggy. Beth and Carter fell into the one's for the counselors and the other sat on the couch with Abby and Adam.
"Okay, after this, we'll head down for dinner." My stomache growled. The food better be good. "Then we get to pick," Beth looked around at us dramatically, "your activities."
A/N Yeahh I know weird place to stop but I didn't want to make it too long for you guys. Anyone seen Titanic? I just saw it yesterday (which is sad because I'm a teenager). Here's my question:
What was you reaction to Titanic?
I'll tell you mine next chapter!
Thanks, Alessa
