A/N Expect many chapters as I am out of power (thank you Irene) for the next WEEK! (It started on Sat, and now will most likely be resolved on Sat). I am stuck with this cast of characters: Mom, the only normal one, but still Mom, Dad, angry for not buying a generator, and only able to borrow a cheap-ish one for showers and the microwave, (cable's out taking internet with it), Little Wii addicted brother- 4 years old, won't shut up, Grandmother, from Peru, light dependent, bothering me about hygiene (skipped a shower- AHHHHHH!) (you're not supposed to be squeaky-clean- that's bad for you too!), and grandfather, poor guy who has to get tests done. So yeah! Very fun!

I hope everyone's okay! I tried texting all of my friends but all of the cell towers in my area are down…except one, that is very far away, so the service is so spotty (blah).

Disclaimer: I don't own. And I don't own BOTDF. Or King Kong. Or any of the songs below. Or Westpoint. or Wii. (Can you tell that I just keep scrolling back up to this list and adding things as I go along? :)

Songs Listened To (usually affects story because I write as I go along): About A Girl (Nirvana), Boots and Boys (Ke$ha (lol), 3D (T3RROR-3RROR), Domination (T3RROR-3RROR)

Beth directed us on line, beside the big red building, next to the tetherball courts. There were stairs leading up to it, because it was on such a sloped little area. The front entrance, the one that you could get to directly from the trail, was closed off for leaving children only. The camp store was sort of inside and outside. It was a square with two counters, next to each other. One half was on the covered 'deck' which was more like a covered entrance. Most of the Oscadees and Seniors got their one snack and drink there each day. The younger kids went to the inside counter, only at designated times.

After waiting a while, Cabin 17 was let in.

The riding director, looked up and asked who was taking riding. All of us but Fang, Iggy, Brad and Lissa raised their hands. I had to say, I was excited to ride horses for the first time.

"Fang, want to teach again this summer?" she asked, is there anything he can't do at this camp?

He shrugged, a yes for her, and she said, "Okay I've got you for 4th period. How many beginners do we have?" Ella, Jenny and I raised our hands again. "Good, you have Fang to teach you. 4th period. Don't sign up for anything else."

I sighed and told her my name when she asked, to sign up.

"Onward!" yelled Abby, and ushered us to the tables. I avoided the first one, knowing that it was the 4th period one. I moved on the 3rd period table. I decided that soccer would be a fun activity to enjoy, and also decided that these two weeks would be my adventurous two weeks, all with physically exhausting activities. For second period, I took tennis, something I had always been meaning to try, but never got around to. I was stuck between ropes course and windsurfing, when Iggy came up behind me with an interpreter, just for the reading part.

"Take Farm with me. It's fun trust me, and you don't want to have to wind-surf in 3 degree water. Not fun."

I debated his argument, and decided to go with him for Farm. Making allies is very important, I reminded myself, still in the defensive. He was being honestly nice, so I trusted him, for the two weeks at least.

I was about to leave, when I spotted a t-shirt that caught my attention. 'BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR' the shirt said. I nearly ran to owner.

"BOTDF?" I asked, for they were a band I thoroughly enjoyed listening to.

"Uh, YEAH!" she yelled and laughed. It was the most ridiculous laugh I'd ever heard, but it was also the best. By far.

"Max," I said, holding my hand out.

"Gabby, but call me Autumn." she said.

"Why Autumn? It's kind of different from Gabby…?"

"Well, I'm in a band, and Autumn is my stage name, so I just go by it."

I nodded, impressed.

"And what about Max?" she started, "How did you end up with that name?

"Well, I'm adopted, so my mom let me name myself. I kept my last name- Ride, and named myself Maximum for, well, fun." I gave a rare smile, which she returned, much more openly, and probably much less rare than mine.

"Well, Max, see you around." she said, and walked out to meet up with the rest of her cabin.

Back at the cabin, Abby declared that shower time would be right after dinner on normal days. The exception being today, and a few other days, where shower time could be moved to allow special activities. We would be given 10 min. to shower, and the two shower areas would be sectioned off, by doors, guarded by counselors, to girls and boys. We have to go down to the light-house- epicenter to all of your personal hygiene needs- for showers and bathrooms, unless we are close to the other bathrooms, in the baking room, which, in my opinion, is an odd place to put bathrooms. Just sayin'.

"Now guys," Carter began, "we are going to do devotions and Fun Factors! Tonight we'll have me in the guy's room, Beth in the girl's room, and Abby and Adam outside, on the porch. Clear? Old campers explain to new ones." He then turned and walked into his and Adam's room, closest to the door. The guy's room was across from Carter and Adam's room, which was much smaller, seeing as they built four rooms and a entry-ish hall, and then split one, the one on the right when you walked in, in half, one for girl counselors and one for the guy's.

When you walked in, there were five doors. Two on the right wall, for the counselors, one on the right side of the far wall, for the girl's room, one on the left side of the far wall, the 'hangout lounge', and one on the left, for the guys. Each door had a giant sign, some symbol of the people who lived inside it. Adam and Carter, had posters of sport players, signaling that they were sport players, and guys. Abby and Beth's had a British and American flags, next to each other, and some pictures of the two. The girl's door just had a sign that said 'GIRL'S' but I assumed that we would change that eventually. The guys mirrored ours, except you know.

"Abby! Yuh is wit meh! I can't pull that off...can I ?" Abby sighed and skipped outside, and Adam took Kit. Beth grabbed Ella, and Carter stole Bill.

I sat in the HOL with everyone else. Lissa sat on the couch, legs crossed, and checked out Fang, who was sitting with me Gabby and Iggy on the beanbags.

"So," I asked, "horseback riding?"

"Yep." said Iggy. I guess I looked very shocked, because Gabby said, "Fang taught him when he was little...he still rides, but just not at camp."

I looked at Fang for confirmation, although for some reason I almost fully trusted Gabby- even after less than a day. He nodded and looked away, so I asked, "What, don't talk?"

He shrugged and I rolled my eyes, actually slightly annoyed. Little Abby poked her head in and squeaked, "Max, you're up."

I groaned and got up. I walked out of the HOL, into the entry hall, and out the door.

I hadn't really payed attention to the outside of the cabin. We were farthest back int the wood by far, compared to the other cabins, but definitely not the highest up. A porch ran the whole length of the cabin. It was in-front, and was mostly railed off, except for in the middle, which had two steps to get in and out of the raised cabins. There was a small bench on one side, and you could see into the guy's room. On the other side, you can see into Carter and Adam's room.

Abby sat me down on the floor opposite Adam, and now Kit who had just walked outside.

Abby went through- asked how my day was, what activities I had chosen, and how I liked the cabin- and it's occupants. I answered only semi-honestly, not sure what to say. She then sent me back inside, to get Lissa.

After calling me a loser, she sent Jenny to get her bug-spray and set up her bug netting for the night. I felt bad for little Jenny, even though she just did it so Lissa would pretend to be her friend.

I sat on a red beanbag. After sinking into it's micro-beady goodness, I looked up to find Ella giggling, and whispering in Iggy's ear. He laughed, and looked in my direction. I glared, and asked what was going on.

"Just laughing at you, Miss Ride," laughed Iggy with a wave of his hand.

"Pajamas!" yelled Abby while she shook her arms in the air like she was at a sports arena, and her team had just scored. We all tripped over ourselves to get to our rooms, not because she was going all King Kong on us, but because joking around with her was so easy.

I opened my trunk, and searched through the bags, and bags, and bags (my mom really likes putting things in bags) of clothing, games, etc. for my pajamas. I finally found them, a tank and then my rainbow (ish) checkered sweats. The color that showed up the most was black, but there was also red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple on them. There was a row of black (going down), and a row of colors, every other square was a base color. They colors mixed vertically (blue and purple), and then mixed with the black (horizontally). It created a pretty cool effect, ind of dizzying. It was my favorite. My tank top was black as well.

Ella and I walked out to the HOL, and found almost everyone sitting in a circle. The guys were sitting on the floor, obviously letting the girls have the beanbags.

I sat back in my red one, and we waited for the rest of the crew to join. Fang came walking in, black sweats and a gray shirt that said WESTPOINT in gold. (This is most likely not an official shirt- I did look up their colors- gray, black, and gold, so it would be slightly accurate) He looked at me with an intensity that to this day I have no idea how he conjured it up. In response, I held his gaze, until he sat down, and Carter announced that tonight's devotion wouldn't be very serious- What is the funniest thing that's ever happened to you?

I thought of the time that my cousin came over, and played our Wii, beating all of us at every game we threw at him. Did I mention he was four? I put my hand up for the stuffed animal that was being passed around. After I shared my story, I passed it to Fang, wondering if his story would be longer than a sentence long.

He nodded at me in thanks, and took a deep breath as if he needed a lot of air for the story. "Well, once I was leading a horse to the rings, when it escaped and ran around camp wildly. I got on another horse bareback and chased it through the woods. Very fun."

It received a chuckle, but not as much as mine did. When we finished, all of us were allowed a half hour to do as we pleased. Suddenly the lights were turned off and someone yelled, "Taps!"

Taps played, and I recalled the story about the man whose son had died in war, and they refused to give him a burial, so he wrote this song for his late son. It was a sad story, and a sad song too.

~o0o~

We walked down the hill to the light-house to brush our teeth. There were so many people there, and we could hardly spit out the toothpaste, so we just spit in the woods.

Ella and I trudged up the hill back to Cabin 17.

"Bed, bed, bed, bed." Adam repeated, as each new camper walked in the door. I closed the door behind me, and steped on my trunk to the top bunk. I'd always liked being high up, my favorite place in the world was the sky. I, unlike many people, loved planes. Seeing the clouds was like a dream.

Ella, the more land-oriented girl, preferred the ground, and the bottom bunk- but that was a-okay with me. I rolled over in bed, and waited for sleep to take me.

A/N And...end chapter 4! Okay so right in the middle of writing this chapter, my power came back on and I was like HOLY !#$ POWER! So I did this whole victory dance because our power was supposed to come back on Saturday!

Last Chapter's Question: Kids who think their the smartest thing in the world?

My answer: AHHHH! KILL THEM! Haha just kidding. But I get all kiddish because not that I was that kid, but kids like that made me insane when I little so I get all 7 years old on them! lol

This chaper's question: Favorite movie of all time?

Anyway, it was really funny because we borrowed a generator from my cousin's for showers, and then we had all of these people over to take showers. I don't kow why this is so funny to me, but like 5 families came over for showers because the rescue center (the high school-middle school) was packed, and no one could get to the shower rooms. Because so many people have no power, my school opening is being post-poned and post-poned. Very annoying. Not that I'm mad that we don't have school... It's funny that being a writer, I wanted to be out of power for longer just so I would have a better story to tell. (: All of our food rotted so we had to throw it out): blech!

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