A/N: So, let's start the summer with Elementary schoolers! Woo Hoo!

Chapter 5

After three rounds of truth or dare I every girl in our cabin knew my dilemma. Of course they all promised not to tell Edward and I believed them. Conley had given me a reassuring hug and told me that she'd help me tell him. She knew it was going to be hard on him.

Everyone else seemed ready to go to bed but I suddenly felt anxious and I wasn't use to the constant humidity in the air here. Everyone else plugged in their cell phones and said their goodnights. I grabbed my bag of toiletries and my clothes and headed toward the bathhouse.

I stepped in and immediately saw the spiders that Tootsie was talking about. I cringed at the thought and took a deep breath and stepped on them one by one as I headed toward the showers. I stopped in my tracks when I heard the voice of an archangel sing as steam rose to the ceiling.

I sat in awe as I listened to Edward's silky voice singing an older song that I hadn't heard in forever. I walked around into a shower stall two down from Edward and quietly placed my things on the rack. I unzipped my bag and put my shampoo and conditioner in the shower then stripped of my clothes. I stepped into the shower and pulled the curtain over the opening.

I let the hot water run over my sticky skin and grabbed my shampoo. Edward switched songs and I almost burst out laughing when I recognized what song it was. Elton John? Was he really serious?

"Don't go breaking my heart." He sang.

I smiled and decided to surprise him. "I couldn't if I tried."

He didn't answer back. "Honey if I get restless."

"Baby you're not that kind." I laughed.

There was a pause and I rinsed my hair of the shampoo. I heard his shower turn off. "I thought you were sleeping." He stated standing outside of my curtained cubical.

I sighed. "I couldn't get to sleep."

I turned off the water and opened the curtain to grab my towel. I stepped out too see the first curtain closed blocking Edward from seeing me. I stepped out of the shower and started to dry my hair.

"Do you want to go for a walk or something?" He asked.

I slipped on my short pajama shorts and tank top then gathering my stuff while opening the curtain. His eyes ran over my body and he grinned that perfect crooked grin.

"Sure!" I said my eyes lighting up.

We silently crept back to our cabins to put our stuff up and I met him once again in the cool summer night. He took my hand and led me to the hill so we could look out on the lake. The moonlight glittered off of the water and I couldn't help the thoughts that clouded my mind. Stanford, Edward, our future.

"What are you thinking about?" Edward asked as he pulled me into his lap.

I shrugged. "Our future." I said telling him the half truth. "And you."

He smiled and slowly lifted his hand to brush the wet hair from my face. "Don't worry Bella. We'll go to New York together and then once we finish college we'll get married and grow old together. You and me."

I leaned into his hand and thought about how wonderful that sounded. I sighed and rested my head on his shoulder. "It's hard to believe how far we've come."

Edward rocked us back and forth. "It's hard to believe how far you've come."

I scrunched my forehead. "What are you talking about?" I asked him.

His laugher was musical. "Well you use to be the scared girl that lived next door. You've changed so much for the better.

I poked his nose. "I have you to thank for that."

He paused. "Bella?" He asked me.

I looked at him. "Hum?"

He sighed. "Do you ever think about them? You're parents I mean."

I nodded and felt the tears welling in my eyes. "Of course I think about them. They weren't always so horrid. We use to be so close. Renee and Charlie were the opposites that attracted. Mom was bubbly and energetic while Dad was calm and quiet."

I shrugged it off. "We should probably get back to the cabins. We have a full day tomorrow."

He nodded and I stood reaching my hand out to pull him up. He helped guide me through the rocky clearing and walked me to my doorstep. "Goodnight my angel." He whispered leaning down to kiss me.

My lips met his softly, sweetly. The kiss wasn't rushed and it wasn't passion filled. It was like I said, sweet. He pulled away and smiled. "Goodnight Edward." I whispered.

I watched as he descended the stairs and walked back toward his cabin with a goofy grin plastered on his perfect face.

I woke the next day to the sound of six alarms going off at the same time. Alice burst out laughing while the rest of us groaned.

"Who's idea was it to set all the alarms?" I asked in disbelief. I sat up and saw that my camisole had ridden up as well as my shorts.

The door burst open and the guys plowed through the door somehow fitting in the tiny cabin. Edward hopped up on my bunk with one swift movement and kissed my cheek.

"Wakey wakey eggs and bakey!" Em laughed standing next to Rose.

"Sorry love, Jonathan's idea. He's quite the witty one." Edward laughed.

Nancy elbowed Jonathan and Conley slapped Jordan on the back of the head. "Hey, stop that. Girl I will cut you." Jordan threatened Conley.

Jacob's huge form slid next to Conley and wedged himself between them. "You were saying?" Jake asked Jordan.

"Um, nothing." Jordan corrected himself and went to stand by Rachel.

I laid back down so my head was in Edward's lap. "Do you forgive us?" He asked me batting his gorgeous eyes.

I nodded. "Sure, we'll just have to get revenge." I raised my eyebrows laughing.

I heard the conversation die around the room and could feel the tension in the room. Jasper was about to open his mouth – probably to sooth the situation- but I just heard Tootsie with her mega horn.

"Wake up counselors. Breakfast is in the mess hall and campers arrive starting at one." She paused. "Get your butts up and get dressed. We still have to clean the cabins."

That signaled more groaning. No one said anything about cleaning. I threw my hair up in a ponytail and pulled on some clothes when the guys left. The rest of the girls had to take showers along with most of the guys.

I stepped out into the warm summer day and twirled when the wind blew my hair in different directions. Edward stood next to the steps and held his arms out to me. I ran to him and jumped in his arms and he twirled me around gazing into my eyes.

"Hungry?" He asked.

My stomach growled answering for me. "Yup."

He laughed and sat me back down as we headed toward the main cabin. We entered through the front and weaved our way through the lobby in order to get the mess hall. It was empty which was expected since everyone was getting ready but us. Edward took my hand and pulled me toward the kitchen.

There was a note left on the counter:

When I say breakfast is in the mess hall I mean that you cook your own breakfast. I expect you to all have a schedule made out of kitchen duty.

-Tootsie

"She's great." I laughed glancing at Edward.

He nodded in agreement. "Well maybe if we cook we can get out of cabin cleaning!"

I laughed at his sudden excitement. He and I both knew that he couldn't cook anything but frozen pizzas and macaroni and cheese. Nonetheless he did what I instructed him as he moved around the kitchen.

I ransacked the over flowing kitchen and decided to fix scrambled eggs and bacon with grits. I started cooking the bacon while I put Edward on grits duty. Alice danced into the kitchen and flitted to a closet. She pulled out an old radio and plugged it into the outlet. Soon the local station was playing and I was dancing to Akon.

"I'm hungry." Emmett came in stretching.

"It's almost done. Why don't you get the plates out of the closet?" I suggested.

He shrugged and walked out the kitchen leaving Alice dancing like a maniac and Edward trying to get the grits to stop sticking. Conley flitted into the kitchen and grinned.

"Hey, this is my song!" She squealed turning the music up. She threw her hands up in the air and started shaking her hips back and forth.

"Hey ladies drop it down just want to see you touch the ground. Don't be shy girl go bonanza shake your body like a belly dancer." She twirled around and I could see the excitement on her face as she sung along to the song.

She picked up the bowl of grits and danced her way out of the kitchen grabbing a potholder on the way. Alice squealed and mimicked her actions. Conley and Alice were like twins.

Breakfast passed quickly and Edward and I got working on washing dishes while the others went to clean cabins. Our cleaning turned into a bubble fight and soon suds were covering the kitchen. Of course cleaning the kitchen gave us a way out of cabin cleaning.

Edward grabbed my hand and pulled me toward the door. "Come on Bella, they could use our help."

I frowned but followed. We were walking the short distance from the lodge when I ran and jumped on Edward's back. He laughed and spun me around.

"Hold on spider monkey." He laughed running with me on his back.

I tightened my hold around his neck as he increased speed. I had to admit that even with me on his back he was much faster than I was. His breathing became heavier and as we reached the cabins he dropped to his knees sliding me off his back. He fell back into the grass and pulled me on top of him.

"Let's not clean." He pleaded. "Let's just lay here and watch the clouds."

I sighed. "I wish. Come on Edward, they need our help. You know how Alice can be. She'll come looking for us."

I stood up with little difficulty and headed toward the cabins. "Sorry Edward, I don't want to face the wrath of Alice."

It wasn't long before he was following closely behind me. "Fine, but you owe me." He groaned.

We all sat at one of the mess hall cabins eating sandwiches and talking about our traumatizing cabin cleaning incident.

"Did you see that water bug?" Emmett asked. "That thing was the size of Alice's hand." He said in amazement.

I shivered at the memory. "Yeah, that was rather unpleasant. Who decided to leave a bag of unopened chips in there though?"

Conley shuddered. "I don't know. But that was disgusting. I would not be staying in there if I were the campers."

Rachel laughed. "Don't worry Conley, they're all clean now. We sanitized everything and put out Combats."

I sighed in content as I leaned back into Edward's chest. My eyes glanced around the table and rested on Jake. He had a huge grin across his face as he watched Conley. I wasn't the only one who saw this though. Alice's eyes flickered from Jake's to Conley and a huge grin crossed her face.

The door slammed and I looked up to see Tootsie jauntily entering the room. She was carrying a packet of papers and she seemed lost in thought.

"Okay people. The campers arrive in fifteen minutes. Some are already here." She flipped through the papers then pointed to Emmett and then Jordan. "Okay, the big one and the one who needs to shave have clean up duty."

They both shrugged and headed to the kitchen. She looked at Alice and Rosalie who were sitting next to each other. "Okay, the short one has cabin one duty and the blonde has cabin two duty. Help the girls find a good bunk and be nice."

She turned to Edward. "Okay you two need to separate and pool boy go find the pool and have it ready by tomorrow. Chemicals are in the shed."

She pointed to Jasper. "Um…" She paused. "Go direct traffic or something."

She pointed to Nancy and Rachel. "You two look nice, go greet people and tell them where to sign in."

She looked at Jake and studied him for a while. "Go look busy." She decided.

"Okay curly go, get the activities set up and Bella and Conley can come with me." She took a deep breath and marched past us in a frenzy.

Conley and I looked at each other and quickly got up heading after her. She pointed to two tables that were already lined up with papers on them. "Okay, people with last names A through M go to the left and people with N through Z last names go to the right. Sign them in and give them their cabin number and directions to that cabin. Get it, got it, good." She swiftly turned on her heel and headed back toward the kitchen where I heard a loud crash.

I had a feeling we wouldn't have many second and third graders. I would have been terrified to spend a week from my parents going into second grade. I glanced down at the papers and got everything in order.

There were six girl counselors, two cabins, and twenty girls in each cabin. Forty divided by six. It was weird though; the elementary schooled girls didn't scare me. The one thing that did scare me was when the high schoolers got here. I had a feeling that fights would start. Not to mention I still had to tell Edward about Stanford.

"Hi sweetie what's your name?" I looked up meeting the gaze of an innocent child.

"Janie Sage." She answered me politely.

I scanned the sheet until I found her name. "Ah, cabin two. Go back out the lodge door and turn to the right. A really pretty girl with blonde hair will be there to help you get settled in."

She smiled sweetly and her cheeks dimpled. "Thank you."

I nodded and waited for the next girl. "What's your name sweetie?" I asked her not looking up from the page."

"Tanya Walker." The girl said with an edge to her voice.

I almost got whiplash when I looked up. Standing in front of me was a child who was almost the exact replica of Tanya Denali. She had strawberry blonde hair that fell down her back and her features were flawless.

I had a feeling this would be a long two weeks.

A/N: Okay so I'm super tired writing this. I had a sleepover last night and we didn't get to sleep until like 5:30 in the morning. Don't ask me why.

Anyway Review!

Kayla

PS. Sorry if it sucks…