"Hey! Watch it! You almost got my hair wet!" Shane glared at his brothers. They were all walking back to their cabin as the last of their classes had finished and Nate and Jason felt the need to have a water fight with their water bottles. Rosalie smiled to herself as she watched her dad and uncles arguing from her perch in an old spruce tree. From there, she was hoping to catch a glimpse of Ashlyn who was Gods know where. Suddenly she saw Ashlyn making her way through the trees about fifteen feet away from the path where Shane, Nate and Jason were walking. Rosalie made her way down the tree just as Ashlyn emerged from the bush and Amy came up the path behind them. They smiled at each other. This was going to be absolutely perfect.
It was about an hour later and Rosalie, Ashlyn and Amy were carrying a large container between them. Just then Mathew came up behind them.
"What are you guys doing? Are those-"
"Yes Matt they are. We are pulling a prank on my dad. So you want to help?" Matt smiled and nodded.
"Of course." Rosalie just sighed and rolled her eyes at her brother.
"Well if you are totally going to invade our plans you can help carry this. It's really heavy!" Matt laughed and picked up the container by himself and followed the girls down the path. When they could see their dad's cabin they stopped and Matt dropped the container.
"Hey watch it! Those are breakable, obviously! Well Rosalie, Amy? You know where to go right? Ok. Well Matt. You can throw far so you go hide behind those trees. Remember wait until I give the signal to start." The others nodded and the three of them split the contents of the container and went to hide in the bushes. Ashlyn climbed a tree and sat on a branch that extended right over the door to their dad's cabin. She smiled to herself as she steadied the bucket of water that she had put up here earlier today.
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Brown walked out of the store room and scratched his head. He really couldn't think of where half of the balloons they had stored here for theme nights could just disappear from a locked storage shed. He heard a noise behind him and he turned around. Seth Tyler was walking along the path outside the storage shed.
"Hey Seth!" Seth stopped and glared at Brown.
"What do you want?"
"I want to talk."
"About what?"
"About why you aren't participating in classes. When you show up that is." Seth leaned against a tree and shrugged, still glaring at Brown.
"I didn't want to be here in the first place."
"Well guess what? You are here, so make the best of it. Ok?" Seth nodded and started walking down the path again. After a while, he stopped and sat down on a log that was next to the shore of the lake. Suddenly he heard a stick snap behind him.
"Cant a guy get some peace!" Amberly came out of the bushes and sat on the log next to Seth.
"I'm sorry. I just thought you looked lonely."
"Just 'cause I'm alone doesn't mean I'm lonely. I'm not just some stuck up pop star that always needs to be around people you know. I'm sick and tired of everyone treating me like that. Sometimes I want to be alone!" Amberly stayed quiet through his rant.
"I know. I just thought that you would want to be around kids your age."
"Nah, all the kids here only want to get to know me because I'm famous."
"Ya that's how it is sometimes with me. I'm Amberly Gray. My dad is Jason from Connect 3. You must be tired from everybody trying to get to know 'The Seth Tylor'."
"Well everybody except these really cool girls I met today. Ashlyn, Amy and Rosalie I think their names were. Ashlyn was really cool." Amberly scowled but quickly covered it up. Instead she raised her eyebrows.
"Are you kidding me? I know those three. They have to be the biggest fakes at this camp." Amberly slid a bit closer to Seth. "They were just trying to string you along. I hope you didn't tell them anything... personal... it will be all over the tabloids by next week." Seth frowned and stared angrily into space and Amberly slid even closer to Seth. Their shoulders were almost touching. Amberly put her hand on his arm. "But you and me, we get each other Seth. We both know what it's like to have people act around us. I really think we can make this work. Don't you?" He turned his head to face her and smiled.
"You know what. I think we can." Amberly smiled too and leaned in closer to him their faces were inches apart.
"Yes I really think we can." Then Seth leaned in even closer.
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Ashlyn waited until the other three had gotten into positions and Amy had reappeared on the path. Ashlyn was about to give her the 'ok' sign when Jason and Nate came out of the cabin. Startled, Ashlyn started to lose her balance and grabbed onto the branch above her for support. Unfortunately, the branch she was sitting on shook and the bucket started to tip. Ashlyn grabbed it to steady it before it fell, but not before a bit of water spilled out. Nate stopped in his tracks as the water splashed down right where he was about to step. He and Jason looked up to see their niece sitting in a tree with a bucket of water.
"What the...?" Ashlyn shot them a pleading expression.
"Shush! I'm getting my dad back for the frog. Please don't tell him!" Jason just laughed as he shut the door.
"Oh my. This is going to be rich. Can we stay and watch?"
"Sure but you are going to have to get out of the way. You're in the line of fire." Nate just shrugged and they stepped forward a few steps. "No no no no. You're still in the line of fire. There are water balloons too." They backed up another couple of feet. Amberly nodded to them and gave the thumbs up to Amy. She gave her uncle's a puzzled look but she went up to the door and knocked.
"Who is it and what do you want?" Amy opened the door and took a step inside. "Oh hi Amy. What's up?"
"Uncle Brown wants to see you."
"Ok I will go in a bit. I just finished drying my hair."
"Well, umm.... He said he needs you right away. It's an emergency."
"Fine alright I will be right out." Amy turned around and bolted for the woods where her stash of water balloons was. Ashlyn made sure she was in the line of sight for all three of the others. The door opened and Shane took a step out. Ashlyn gave them the thumbs up and water balloons started flying. Each person who was throwing them had 7 balloons so when they were all out, Shane was soaked but miraculously his hair was perfectly dry.
"What the hell?" Shane spluttered. Ashlyn just smiled as he took a step forwards. Perfect. If they had drawn an X he would be standing on it.
"Hey! Up here!" Shane looked up at his daughter. She smiled at him and slowly tipped the bucket over. If there was any dry spot on him before, it was wet now. Shane wiped his face and frowned at his daughter.
"Ashlyn! Get down here." Ashlyn just smiled again. She could always tell when her dad was mad. He was just pretending to be now. On the other hand, Jason and Nate were killing themselves laughing. Shane rolled his eyes at them. "I mean it missy." Ashlyn dropped the bucket and stood up. She started to move across the branch towards the trunk. She put her foot down and the bark of the branch broke off. Her foot slipped and the rest of her body followed.
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