Emma All Stirred Up! by Coco Simon

Author:Coco Simon
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Simon Spotlight

CHAPTER 9

Hotcakes and Cupcakes

Camp was out-of-control fun. For starters, because it was separated into boys’ and girls’ campuses, there wasn’t a lot of worrying what boys would think or even, for me, dealing with boys’ gross-out behaviors like I did at home. It was a complete break from burping and stinky socks and football. I was in all-girl heaven!

We sang all the time, whatever we were doing. Show tunes, Top 40 songs, camp songs—anything. We braided one another’s hair during free time, and one day Georgia brought in a manicure set and gave us all wild, decorative manicures, with tiny flower and star decals and stuff. We also made friendship bracelets like maniacs, taping the embroidery thread to any available surface and twisting, braiding, and tying it into rainbows to wear or give away. We had Tie-Dye Day, when we brought in anything from home that we wanted to tie-dye and made incredible designs with bright colors, like a kaleidoscope. (I brought white drawstring pj pants, plus, the camp gave us each a white cotton T-shirt.)

We had also started to seriously train for the Camp Olympics. There would be events in archery, swimming, diving, track and field, canoeing, not to mention soccer and softball games, four square, tetherball, and relay races (some of them funny, like potato-sack and egg-on-a-spoon races). Not everyone had to participate in every event; you just needed enough people from your team to do it. So Maryanne and Raoul were working on how to divide up everyone and play to their strengths.

Every morning we’d gather at our rally zone and chat about what had happened in the fifteen or so hours since we’d last been together (covering TV shows, celebrity gossip, family news—anything, really). Kira was always there first, her wet hair pulled back into a neat ponytail. Leslie dropped her off way early on her way to work. Alexis was a pretty early arrival too, and Georgia and Charlotte, so they’d all be up to speed by the time I arrived with the the rest of the bus crew.

I was not wild about canoeing or softball, so I didn’t plan to participate in those events, but Maryanne and Raoul felt they would have a pretty good team for softball even without me. I volunteered to be the water girl for that game. I was psyched for the running events, because I am fast, and I was feeling really good about the swimming and diving, which I knew I’d ace (not that I’d ever say it out loud). The only bummer was that the swim events required six-person teams, so we could only really field one team from the Hotcakes, with Kira being a noncompeter in that category. We were all really careful not to make her feel responsible, because we didn’t want her to feel bad. Alexis and Elle both said early on that they didn’t want to do the swim competition (I think they planned it for Kira’s sake, because they are both great

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