Pack Trip by Bonnie Bryant

Author:Bonnie Bryant [Bryant, Bonnie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-82499-8
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2012-12-19T05:00:00+00:00

“I‘M NOT READY to stand up yet!” Amy whined. “Just wait a minute, will you?”

Stevie put her hands on her hips. It seemed to her that they had been waiting a lot of minutes for Amy.

“Just what is wrong with your ankle?” Stevie demanded.

“It’s hurt, that’s what’s wrong with it,” Amy retorted.

“Of course it’s hurt,” Stevie said. “You fell off that branch, where you had no business going in the first place. I told you there wasn’t any bird’s nest there. But what I want to know is, how hurt is it?”

“It’s hurt,” was all Amy would say.

Stevie growled, and Amy ignored her.

For the moment Stevie was alone with Amy. As soon as Amy had announced that she was injured, Lisa and Seth had been dispatched to get her some cool water for her ankle. She had given them her sweatshirt to soak in a stream, assuring them that she’d be warm enough without it. Now, however, she was shivering as the cool night settled in.

“Can you lend me your sweater?” Amy asked.

For an instant Stevie considered it. After all, it was becoming almost reflexive to do whatever Amy demanded. Then Stevie realized that it was Amy who had insisted that Lisa take her sweatshirt rather than something sensible like her socks. Stevie wasn’t going to freeze just to make up for Amy’s mistake.

“No,” Stevie said finally.

Amy seemed surprised. Stevie didn’t care.

“Here’s the water,” Seth announced, returning with Lisa. They carried a dripping wet sweatshirt.

Seth tried to follow his sister’s orders about her ankle.

“Not that way,” she said. “Use the arms to tie it around—no, not at my foot—my ankle!”

“It must hurt her an awful lot,” Lisa said.

Stevie thought that might be true. But she was quite sure that if she ever hurt that much, she’d be nicer to the people who were trying to help her than Amy was being to Seth.

When she stopped to think about it, she was pretty sure that she was always nicer to everybody than Amy was. Amy seemed to have a way of going through life, expecting everybody else to do exactly what she wanted them to do, even when what she did was dangerous. Some people thought that Stevie was a little wild and crazy. It was a characteristic that Stevie usually liked about herself. She wasn’t afraid to take risks. At first she’d thought that was true of Amy as well, and Stevie had liked that about her. Stevie could forgive a lot in a person who was as kookie as she was. But with Amy there was something more, and Stevie was beginning to realize how much she didn’t like it.

There they were, four of them, out in the wilderness on a mountainside with darkness coming fast. They didn’t have any flashlights, and they didn’t have any compasses. One of them had a sore ankle, and that one small sore ankle could end up being the cause of some very big problems for all of them.

“Stevie? Lisa!”

It was Eli!

“We’re over here!” Stevie called out.

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