Sleepaway Girls by Jen Calonita

Author:Jen Calonita
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2009-04-30T21:00:00+00:00

13

Playing Games

The kitchen grill went up in flames. Sadly, I was secretly excited.

I had quickly learned that people did not come to camp for the food, especially when most nights it was burgers or hotdogs. The night of the grease fire (which was so bad the fire department showed up), Gabby was on kitchen duty. Rumor had it she was so busy flirting with Gavin that she forgot to take a few burgers off the grill. I had the feeling Beaver wanted to fry Gabby for supper.

Thankfully, the damage wasn’t that bad. Hitch said the kitchen would be open the next day. And on the upside, because of the fire, Hitch ordered the whole camp pizza. Real pizza. Not those little frozen ones that tasted like cardboard. While we waited, the younger campers were watching a movie in the auditorium and some of the off-duty older campers and counselors were playing games on the great lawn. The sun was finally lowering behind the trees, which made the weather much more bearable, and it wasn’t dark yet, so the mosquitos were still at bay. After Alexis reassured me that she didn’t need me to sit with the peeps in the auditorium, I decided to play Capture the Flag with my friends. The game was really growing on me, mostly because it didn’t require me to throw a ball or catch one. All I had to do was run.

Court somehow made sure Em, Grace, and I were part of the same game as Donovan, Dylan, Cole, and Tim.

Playing on Cole’s team sounded like a good idea at first, but once we started playing, I found it kind of distracting. Just the night before, Em and I were freaking out about the Guess the Counselor game again. Court told us we had to chill. “It’s so easy,” she said. “You walk up, tell them, and take off your mask for a kiss!” Great idea, if you had the guts, which I was starting to think I didn’t. If I did, I would have casually mentioned the camp-wide dance to Cole by now. I hadn’t. The problem was, I couldn’t just blurt out “Cole, I like you.” Just looking into his eyes made me dizzy.

“Court? Hello, Court?” Donovan waved a hand in front of Court’s face. Sweat was beading down his chest. Donovan and Hunter, who were also playing with us, had taken off their shirts about twenty minutes ago and wrapped their opposing team pinnies around their waists. “Heads up out there. You don’t want to get captured!”

“Captured is bad,” Court said in a trance. I’d never seen her like that. Grace stepped on Court’s foot and she yelped. “What was that for?”

“Will you get it together?” Grace whispered heatedly. “We’re getting killed out there because you’re too busy staring at Donovan’s abs.” She glared at Em. “And if you say, ‘It’s just a game’ one more time, I’m putting you in our own jail.”

“Look who’s all huffy,” Court pointed out. “Grace, remember: You don’t have to win every time.

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