Camp Confidential 16: Golden Girls by Morgan Melissa J

Author:Morgan, Melissa J. [Morgan, Melissa J.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Published: 2010-02-28T11:00:00+00:00

chapter EIGHT

Tori stood at the obstacle course with the rest of her team while the fourth-division boys ran, crawled, rode, and climbed their way through the various challenges. Once again, she was faced with making a decision on which team member should take on which event, but this time she wasn’t feeling so stressed about it. Now she knew she had the support of her teammates, and together they could take on anything.

“I think Alex should do the trike ride,” Gaby said, as the entire crowd cheered a blond boy’s successful scaling of the portable climbing wall. “She has the shortest legs.”

“Hey!” Alex protested.

“What? You’ll be able to work it better. My knees would hit the handlebars and tip me over,” Gaby said with a shrug.

Tori glanced at Alex. Gaby’s point did kind of make sense. “What do you think?”

“Fine. I’ll do it,” Alex said with a determined nod. “For the team.”

Tori grinned. “I think Candace should do the rock climbing, and Gaby—you’ve been killer at basketball this year. What do you guys think?”

“I’m in,” Gaby said.

“I don’t know. It’s really high,” Candace said, looking worriedly over Tori’s shoulder.

“Well, it’s either you, Grace, or Natalie,” Tori said.

She looked over at Nat, who was standing somewhat to the side, staring into space. The moment Tori said her name, she started twirling her hair around her finger like she wasn’t paying attention. Tori’s heart constricted. She couldn’t believe that in less than a week, she and Natalie had grown so far apart. Part of her wanted to ignore Natalie’s existence, just like Natalie was doing to her, but she was the captain here. She was supposed to be the bigger person. Tori took a deep breath and swallowed her pride.

“Natalie, what do you want to do?” she asked.

“Whatever,” Natalie said, not even bothering to look Tori in the eye. “I don’t care.”

Tori had to bite her tongue to keep from snapping at the girl. Why was she giving Tori attitude? Natalie was the one who had completely ditched Tori for someone else. Tori had a feeling that if Lainie were over here right now asking Natalie what she wanted to do in the obstacle course, Natalie would be volunteering for everything and being all super-positive. Anything to impress Queen Lainie.

“The one thing I don’t want to do is the dizzy run,” Grace put in. “I’ll do anything else.”

“Oh, yeah. Me too. Anything but the dizzy run,” Candace echoed, sticking her tongue out.

Over near the course, the crowd whipped into a cheering frenzy, which meant the fourth-division boys were entering the last leg. Tori had to make her final decisions now.

“Okay, then Candace, you’re on the wall. Grace, you do the egg run, and I’ll . . .”

For a split second, Tori thought about doing the dizzy run herself—taking one for the team as the captain. But didn’t she already do that with the pie-eating contest? When Natalie was basically nowhere to be found? She glanced again at Natalie, who was now casually inspecting her fingernails.

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