No Good Deed by Goldy Moldavsky

Author:Goldy Moldavsky
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2017-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

I know that you guys never really

believed in this camp. You didn’t

understand it. You didn’t get the

whole activism angle. And you

definitely didn’t understand how/if it

would help me become a better

person.

I just wanted to let you know that I

see your side of things now.

P.S. Ashley Woodstone is an

amazing actress. I never should have

trusted her.

Anti-Robotics won the sit-in, and he didn’t even need to piss himself to do it. It shot him up to sixth place on the scoreboard, behind Win, Poe, Ashley, and Men’s Rights. That same night, Anti-Robotics was thrown into the lake. He held the distinction of being the first camper to be thrown in twice. The next few days saw Save the Trees and Anti-Globalization join the lake-throwings club. Jimmy’s response to the lake-throwings was to introduce pacifist activities to quell our violent tendencies. Arrowless archery was about as exciting as it sounds, though two people were still sent to Nurse Patrosian with bow-related injuries.

Throughout this time I avoided Ashley. Or tried to. But it was a small camp, and I knew our next meeting was inevitable. It happened when I went to see ILP’s mural. Before it’d been destroyed I’d liked to watch him paint. It had helped clear my head. Now that he was working on it again, it seemed like the perfect thing to do. I just didn’t know Ashley would be there helping him.

“Gregor Maravilla!” she said when she saw me. “What a nice surprise!”

She and Pika were helping ILP with the artwork. Ashley wore overalls that were splattered with an obscene amount of paint even though the paintbrush she held in her hand was smaller than a pencil. She was happy to see me, smiling big.

“What are you doing here?” I asked.

“Helping I Like Paint. I don’t know the first thing about painting, but I did win an art competition once in an episode of Smarty Pants, so I think I’ve got this. Plus, I find that painting works wonders to relieve stress. Isn’t that right, Pika?”

Pika nodded but did not look away from the intricate design of the flower he was painting. The tip of his tongue stuck out of the corner of his mouth as he concentrated. The world took over most of the wall, looking similar to how it had before, but now there were arrows that almost circled the globe. There was an arrow that started at a point in what looked like the Mediterranean and stretched all the way to New York. And there was another arrow that went from New York to California.

“What’s with the arrows?”

Ashley stepped back to contemplate them, biting down on the end of her brush. “I’m not sure,” she said. “It must have something to do with bringing the world together. Perhaps arrows have a special symbolic meaning where ILP’s from. I’m just going to embellish them a little.”

She began painting over one of the arrows, decorating it with her own flower designs. “How’s that look?” she asked ILP.

ILP looked at her flowers and frowned.

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