Camp Nowhere by R. L. Stine

Author:R. L. Stine
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2001-10-26T16:00:00+00:00

16

“This is totally freaking me out,” Erin said. She crossed her arms tightly around herself. “We have to get out of here. Really.”

“But which way?” Charlotte asked.

“We know that all our stuff is upstream,” I said. “So we have to follow the river up.”

“But nothing looks familiar here,” Marty said.

“We can’t just stand here, talking about this!” Erin cried shrilly. “I’m really freaking here. No kidding. We have to go now!”

She was hugging herself tightly to stop her trembling. Charlotte put an arm around Erin’s shoulders. She led the way upstream, and we followed.

“Let’s just keep going,” Charlotte suggested softly. “We’ll come to something. We have to.”

“I am really starving,” David muttered. “Why did we leave all our stuff?”

“We thought we’d be back there by now,” Marty said. He handed David a stick of gum. “Here. Take it. It’s all I’ve got.”

As we followed the river upstream, low clouds rolled over the sky, blocking the sunlight. The sand and rocks gave way to mud.

“Yuck.” Erin made a face as her sneaker disappeared into wet mud. “It’s a swamp here.”

Charlotte helped tug Erin away from the shore. “Let’s try walking up there.” We followed her toward the woods.

But the ground was just as marshy away from the riverbank. We slogged through the mud for at least an hour. No one said a word.

The sky grew darker. The river curved to the right. The ground became rocky again.

“We should be very close to the campground,” I said.

Erin sighed. “If we’re heading the right way.”

“I think I remember those tall evergreen bushes,” I said, pointing.

David shook his head. “I never saw them before in my life.”

“No. I think I’m right,” I insisted. My heart started to pound. I began to feel hopeful. We were nearly there.

“Right around this bend,” I said. “I think we’ll see our stuff.”

Without another word, we all started to jog. We followed the curve, trotting in a tight group. Our mud-covered shoes thudded on the hard ground.

We made the turn and came out in a wide clearing of tall grass and swaying reeds. The river split in two here. Two narrow channels of water ran through the tall grass.

“Where are we?” Erin moaned. “You said—”

“I was wrong,” I said softly.

“Does the river end here? How come it gets so tiny?” David asked.

“This doesn’t look right at all. We’ve never been here before,” Charlotte said.

“So where should we go? What should we do?” Erin cried, her voice shrill with panic.

I dropped wearily onto the grass and crossed my legs in front of me. Then I rested my head on my hands. “We’re lost,” I said. “We’re totally lost.”

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