Boot Camp Blues by Megan Sparks

Author:Megan Sparks [Sparks, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Curious Fox
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

The next morning, Annie awoke to the sound of her phone alarm. She was momentarily disoriented, unable to place the bare breeze block walls and institutional furniture.

Then it all came crashing back to her – where she was and why she was there – and she sat up in bed, grinning.

“Wake up!” she called out to Holly. “Camp starts in half an hour.”

Holly groaned and rolled over, pulling the covers over her head.

It took some prodding, during which Holly begged for “five more minutes” of sleep, but finally Annie was able to rouse her room-mate.

She was glad to find Carrie Ann and the others waiting for them in the corridor to go to breakfast.

Again, Annie got a huge thrill out of dining with the college crowd. She noticed that many of them looked exhausted and bleary-eyed.

“I guess they were all up late studying,” Annie said.

“On a Saturday night?” Holly hooted with laughter. “I’m sure they were up late, but I doubt they were studying.”

Annie noticed that the girls were getting several curious looks from the university students. Well, of course they were. They were all decked out in their derby gear – hot pants, colourful tights, and T-shirts with their derby names and numbers emblazoned on the back.

“Do you think they think we look silly?” Charlotte asked, her hand going self-consciously to her mass of strawberry curls.

“Who cares?” asked Holly.

“Good point,” said Charlotte, laughing. She stared down a snooty-looking sorority girl and shook out her mane like an angry lion.

The girls had a quick breakfast, then hurried over to the gym, arriving right on time.

Annie scanned the group, and saw that, like herself and Holly, most of the girls had broken off into smaller groups.

All except for Dee. Dee stood alone.

For a moment, Annie almost felt sorry for her. But then Dee noticed her looking and shot her such a vicious look that Annie lost all sympathy. No wonder she was by herself. Frilly nightgown or no frilly nightgown, the girl was just too mean to make friends.

Cherry Bomb wasted no time getting things started. She assembled them all in the middle of the gym where there was a makeshift track marked out with electrician’s tape. Then she held up a pack of playing cards.

“Ooh,” joked Holly. “I love card tricks.”

“Our first warm-up,” said Cherry, smiling rather sinisterly, “is called Deck of Death. Each suit corresponds to a particular callisthenic. You’ll each draw a card and whatever suit you get will determine which exercise you’ll be expected to execute.”

“Hearts are sit-ups,” Mad Donna explained. “Diamonds are lunges, spades are jumping jacks, and clubs are squat thrusts.”

This elicited a groan from the campers.

“Who wants to be the first victim?” asked Cherry.

Annie wasn’t surprised to see Holly’s hand shoot into the air. “I’m game,” she said, stepping forward to join Cherry in the middle of the track.

Cherry spread the deck into a fan, and Holly plucked one from it.

“Ugh,” she said, waving the seven of clubs for her camp-mates to see. “Seven squat thrusts.

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