Acting Out by Katy Grant

Author:Katy Grant
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

Saturday, June 28

“Now’s your chance!” Courtney whispered to me as she brushed her hair.

“No! We’ll be late for assembly!” I whispered back. I was putting away my toothbrush after brushing my teeth in Solitary.

“You’re stalling!” she hissed at me.

“Okay, fine. I’ll try to talk to her, but don’t be surprised if she brushes me off.”

The bell had just rung for assembly on the hill. The whole camp was supposed to be there for the flag raising.

Courtney gave me a stern look as she walked out the door. Lauren and Mei had already left. Alex, Isabel, and I were the only ones still in the cabin.

“Uh, Alex?” I asked, walking over to Side B. “Could I please talk to you for a second?”

“Now? It’s time for assembly.” She was changing clothes after coming back from her Friday night leave. All the counselors got one night off every week. It was the first chance I’d had to talk to her since class yesterday.

“It’s really important,” I told her.

Alex glanced at Isabel tying her shoes. “You’d better go. You’re going to be late.”

Isabel rushed out the door and left us alone in the cabin.

“Let’s go. You can talk to me on the way,” she said. We walked out together. Alex walked fast, and I had to hurry to keep up.

“Um, I want to apologize for yesterday,” I started off. “I know I’ve caused a lot of trouble in class. And yesterday was really bad.” We turned by Middler Lodge, and we could see the whole camp already sitting in the grass out on the hill. The flag raising hadn’t started yet.

“I know CPR is really important. I shouldn’t have been goofing off and distracting everybody while you were trying to teach it.” There, that sounded pretty good. And it was even sincere.

“Okay,” said Alex. She’d slowed down, but she hadn’t really looked at me yet.

“I know I’ve been a real slacker. I’m sorry about that. You are a good teacher.” I hadn’t planned on saying that last part, but then I realized it was true. She was strict, and most of the time I didn’t like her, but she was doing a good job.

“I really have learned a lot in the class. We all have. You obviously really care about teaching us the right methods.”

Alex stopped walking and looked at me. “Yes, I do. And you’ve been one frustration after another for me, JD.”

“I know. I’m sorry.” Now I really did feel bad about being such a troublemaker. My number-one goal had been to get laughs and make everyone think I was this amazingly funny and popular person. I’d never really thought about how much harder I made her job.

Eda, the camp director, was walking up the hill with the CATs who were about to raise the flag. It was a good thing there wasn’t underwear up the flagpole like there had been a few days ago. When I saw it, I was so bummed I hadn’t thought of doing something funny like that.

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